Containerisation Job Trends

Containerization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Containerisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 133 158
Rank change year-on-year -24 +25 -36
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,464 1,170 1,225
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 2.38% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 2.68% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 904 579 747
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,125 £91,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Containerisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,023 43,711 61,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.11% 89.05% 81.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,242 24,267 33,446
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,880 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £79,688 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Containerisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Containerisation job vacancy trend in the UK

Containerisation
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Containerisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 29 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the UK over the 6 months to 29 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -27 1,276 £72,500 -3.33% 1,416
UK excluding London -8 908 £67,500 +3.85% 765
London -40 451 £80,000 -5.88% 772
Work from Home -47 447 £68,724 +0.29% 640
North of England -20 268 £66,000 +1.54% 200
South West +4 216 £68,750 +5.77% 141
South East -9 171 £67,500 -6.90% 132
North West -38 145 £75,000 +15.38% 114
Midlands -65 95 £70,000 +1.82% 88
North East -13 71 £60,000 - 36
West Midlands -53 60 £72,500 +3.57% 56
Northern Ireland -34 59 - - 45
Yorkshire -18 52 £71,716 +5.46% 51
Wales -36 52 £61,000 -15.86% 21
East of England -37 48 £72,500 +23.40% 62
East Midlands -59 35 £70,000 +27.27% 32
Scotland -57 11 £90,000 +33.33% 78

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 55 (3.76%) Apache
2 43 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 41 (2.80%) Confluence
4 29 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.02%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.34%) nginx
9 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.20%) Camunda
10 3 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.20%) CMS
10 3 (0.20%) IIS
10 3 (0.20%) WordPress
11 1 (0.068%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.068%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Blender
4 3 (0.20%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 843 (57.58%) AWS
2 769 (52.53%) Azure
3 344 (23.50%) GCP
4 237 (16.19%) GitHub
5 171 (11.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 168 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
7 151 (10.31%) Serverless
8 125 (8.54%) Cloud Computing
9 119 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
10 105 (7.17%) OpenShift
11 91 (6.22%) Azure AKS
12 86 (5.87%) Amazon ECS
13 84 (5.74%) Amazon S3
14 76 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
14 76 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
15 75 (5.12%) Amazon EKS
16 72 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 55 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
18 54 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
19 51 (3.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (5.12%) WAN
2 68 (4.64%) LAN
3 65 (4.44%) Firewall
4 57 (3.89%) DNS
5 51 (3.48%) Network Security
6 40 (2.73%) Internet
6 40 (2.73%) VPN
7 33 (2.25%) TCP/IP
8 27 (1.84%) MQTT
9 19 (1.30%) BGP
10 18 (1.23%) OSPF
11 17 (1.16%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.09%) VLAN
13 15 (1.02%) DMARC
14 12 (0.82%) Wireshark
15 10 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
16 9 (0.61%) Broadband
17 8 (0.55%) 3GPP
17 8 (0.55%) HTTP
17 8 (0.55%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (10.25%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (6.08%) NoSQL
3 72 (4.92%) MongoDB
4 62 (4.23%) MySQL
5 48 (3.28%) Relational Database
6 44 (3.01%) DynamoDB
7 40 (2.73%) Redis
8 39 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (2.05%) SQL Server
10 27 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
11 20 (1.37%) Big Data
12 18 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (1.02%) Hadoop
13 15 (1.02%) Pinecone
14 14 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
15 13 (0.89%) Data Lake
15 13 (0.89%) Metadata
16 11 (0.75%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 322 (21.99%) Git
2 217 (14.82%) Jenkins
3 180 (12.30%) GitLab
4 41 (2.80%) JIRA
5 29 (1.98%) Bitbucket
6 24 (1.64%) JUnit
6 24 (1.64%) Maven
7 22 (1.50%) Cypress.io
8 21 (1.43%) SonarQube
9 19 (1.30%) Selenium
10 17 (1.16%) Mockito
11 16 (1.09%) CircleCI
11 16 (1.09%) Claude Code
12 15 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 14 (0.96%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.75%) Vite
15 10 (0.68%) MLflow
16 9 (0.61%) Gatling
16 9 (0.61%) Robot Framework
16 9 (0.61%) TestRail
General
1 459 (31.35%) Social Skills
2 342 (23.36%) Finance
3 194 (13.25%) Public Sector
4 128 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (7.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 91 (6.22%) Law
7 88 (6.01%) Banking
8 71 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
9 43 (2.94%) Aerospace
10 34 (2.32%) Legal
11 32 (2.19%) Retail
12 30 (2.05%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.43%) Games
14 15 (1.02%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.96%) Marketing
16 13 (0.89%) Publishing
17 12 (0.82%) Electronics
18 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
18 11 (0.75%) Front Office
19 9 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 294 (20.08%) Senior
2 254 (17.35%) Developer
3 249 (17.01%) DevOps Engineer
4 231 (15.78%) Architect
5 210 (14.34%) Software Engineer
6 184 (12.57%) Lead
7 105 (7.17%) Cloud Engineer
8 83 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
9 73 (4.99%) Senior Developer
10 67 (4.58%) Systems Architect
11 66 (4.51%) Java Developer
12 62 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 57 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
14 50 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
15 45 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
15 45 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
16 44 (3.01%) Lead DevOps
16 44 (3.01%) Senior DevOps
17 42 (2.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 42 (2.87%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 544 (37.16%) Terraform
2 215 (14.69%) Spring
3 204 (13.93%) RESTful
4 201 (13.73%) Spring Boot
5 190 (12.98%) React
6 154 (10.52%) Kafka
7 151 (10.31%) Node.js
8 130 (8.88%) REST
9 118 (8.06%) .NET
10 85 (5.81%) RabbitMQ
11 70 (4.78%) AngularJS
12 54 (3.69%) OAuth
13 50 (3.42%) CSS
14 49 (3.35%) FastAPI
15 43 (2.94%) OAuth2
15 43 (2.94%) OpenAPI
16 39 (2.66%) LangChain
17 38 (2.60%) Swagger
18 37 (2.53%) HTML
18 37 (2.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 418 (28.55%) Cloud Native
2 168 (11.48%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 53 (3.62%) Onboarding
5 51 (3.48%) Linux Command Line
6 43 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 36 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (2.32%) Data Centre
9 33 (2.25%) AI Agents
9 33 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
10 29 (1.98%) PKI
10 29 (1.98%) Public Cloud
10 29 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
10 29 (1.98%) Virtual Team
11 27 (1.84%) Algorithms
12 26 (1.78%) Blog
12 26 (1.78%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
14 19 (1.30%) Management Information System
15 18 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 340 (23.22%) Linux
2 89 (6.08%) Windows
3 44 (3.01%) Unix
4 35 (2.39%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.91%) CentOS
6 20 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.82%) Debian
8 8 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
9 3 (0.20%) VMS
10 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.14%) Android
10 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.14%) Rocky
11 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.068%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.068%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (68.31%) CI/CD
2 760 (51.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 749 (51.16%) DevOps
4 523 (35.72%) Agile
5 451 (30.81%) Software Engineering
6 416 (28.42%) Microservices
7 346 (23.63%) Mentoring
8 326 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
9 298 (20.36%) Observability
10 295 (20.15%) AI
11 286 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 273 (18.65%) Test Automation
13 261 (17.83%) Platform Engineering
14 250 (17.08%) Event-Driven
15 204 (13.93%) Roadmaps
16 177 (12.09%) DevSecOps
17 176 (12.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 172 (11.75%) Technical Leadership
19 152 (10.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 151 (10.31%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 641 (43.78%) Python
2 404 (27.60%) Java
3 212 (14.48%) JavaScript
4 192 (13.11%) Bash
5 170 (11.61%) TypeScript
6 167 (11.41%) SQL
7 139 (9.49%) C#
8 126 (8.61%) PowerShell
9 86 (5.87%) Go
10 62 (4.23%) C++
11 60 (4.10%) Bicep
12 49 (3.35%) Shell Script
13 37 (2.53%) Ruby
14 35 (2.39%) Rust
15 22 (1.50%) Groovy
16 17 (1.16%) Scala
17 15 (1.02%) Kotlin
17 15 (1.02%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.96%) C
19 13 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 474 (32.38%) Security Cleared
2 234 (15.98%) SC Cleared
3 186 (12.70%) DV Cleared
4 161 (11.00%) Degree
5 96 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 67 (4.58%) AWS Certification
7 52 (3.55%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.84%) CISSP
10 14 (0.96%) Master's Degree
11 13 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (0.89%) CCNP
11 13 (0.89%) OSCP
11 13 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
12 11 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.68%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.61%) CISM
14 9 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (8.40%) QA
2 72 (4.92%) GRC
3 59 (4.03%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.73%) Data Quality
5 31 (2.12%) NCSC
6 29 (1.98%) GDPR
7 26 (1.78%) NIST
8 20 (1.37%) PCI DSS
9 19 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (1.16%) WCAG
11 10 (0.68%) JSP 440
12 9 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.48%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 4 (0.27%) SLA
16 2 (0.14%) EU AI Act
16 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 825 (56.35%) Docker
2 47 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (3.07%) Active Directory
4 32 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.61%) KVM
7 8 (0.55%) Squid
7 8 (0.55%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.55%) vSphere
8 6 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.34%) NDS
9 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.14%) Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Lustre
10 2 (0.14%) QEMU
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.068%) Xen
Systems Management
1 834 (56.97%) Kubernetes
2 220 (15.03%) Ansible
3 141 (9.63%) Grafana
4 116 (7.92%) Prometheus
5 41 (2.80%) Puppet
6 38 (2.60%) Argo
7 33 (2.25%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.50%) Istio
9 16 (1.09%) Kibana
9 16 (1.09%) linkerd
10 15 (1.02%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.96%) Nagios
12 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.82%) Packer
12 12 (0.82%) Podman
13 11 (0.75%) ZABBIX
14 9 (0.61%) logstash
15 8 (0.55%) Rancher
16 7 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
17 6 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 269 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 125 (8.54%) Google
3 61 (4.17%) Splunk
4 53 (3.62%) VMware
5 51 (3.48%) Oracle
5 51 (3.48%) Red Hat
6 26 (1.78%) OpenAI
7 19 (1.30%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.23%) Fortinet
8 18 (1.23%) Palo Alto
8 18 (1.23%) Zscaler
9 16 (1.09%) IBM
10 15 (1.02%) SendGrid
11 12 (0.82%) Mistral
12 11 (0.75%) Atlassian
12 11 (0.75%) Databricks
13 10 (0.68%) Cisco
13 10 (0.68%) Okta
14 9 (0.61%) ForgeRock
14 9 (0.61%) Rapid7