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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 110 191
Rank change year-on-year -55 +81 -47
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,124 1,238 1,485
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.23% 2.83% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 3.05% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 719 717 1,122
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £88,449 £97,528 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £127,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 68,096 40,631 82,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.48% 93.01% 85.54%
Number of salaries quoted 42,564 22,679 59,766
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -9.09%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -46 1,029 £72,500 -6.22% 437
UK excluding London -78 550 £62,500 -7.41% 296
London -9 472 £82,500 -8.33% 171
Work from Home -46 414 £72,250 +4.13% 186
North of England -73 175 £65,000 - 83
South East -6 134 £70,000 +16.67% 87
South West -27 123 £55,000 -23.60% 53
North West -53 89 £67,500 +8.51% 42
Midlands -83 60 £70,000 +16.67% 38
Yorkshire -68 57 £63,750 -6.25% 21
West Midlands -58 32 £70,505 +8.47% 20
East of England -38 30 £60,000 -7.69% 18
North East -10 29 £48,445 -26.62% 20
East Midlands -65 27 £65,000 +8.33% 18
Wales -19 16 £61,496 -5.39% 7
Scotland -86 14 £60,000 -29.41% 10
Northern Ireland -33 6 £62,500 - 2

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 31 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (2.40%) Apache
3 17 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.42%) Appian
5 12 (1.07%) Confluence
6 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.36%) IIS
8 4 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Camunda
9 3 (0.27%) CMS
9 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
11 1 (0.089%) CICS
11 1 (0.089%) JBoss
11 1 (0.089%) nginx
11 1 (0.089%) SAS
11 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.089%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.62%) Maya
2 6 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.27%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.089%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.089%) Endur
3 1 (0.089%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 657 (58.45%) AWS
2 581 (51.69%) Azure
3 331 (29.45%) GCP
4 198 (17.62%) GitHub
5 162 (14.41%) Serverless
6 139 (12.37%) GitHub Actions
7 132 (11.74%) Azure DevOps
8 125 (11.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 98 (8.72%) Azure AKS
10 92 (8.19%) OpenShift
11 91 (8.10%) AWS Lambda
12 90 (8.01%) Datadog
13 84 (7.47%) Amazon S3
14 71 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 59 (5.25%) SaaS
16 58 (5.16%) Amazon EC2
17 48 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
18 44 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
19 42 (3.74%) IaaS
20 41 (3.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.85%) Broadband
2 75 (6.67%) Firewall
3 55 (4.89%) DNS
4 32 (2.85%) TCP/IP
5 29 (2.58%) HTTP
5 29 (2.58%) Network Security
6 17 (1.51%) VPN
7 8 (0.71%) AMQP
7 8 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (0.62%) DHCP
9 6 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.53%) DMZ
9 6 (0.53%) MQTT
9 6 (0.53%) WAN
10 4 (0.36%) IPv4
10 4 (0.36%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.27%) RTP
11 3 (0.27%) SCCP
11 3 (0.27%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (14.32%) NoSQL
2 100 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (7.12%) MongoDB
4 75 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 71 (6.32%) Relational Database
6 63 (5.60%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (4.54%) MySQL
8 44 (3.91%) DynamoDB
9 32 (2.85%) RDBMS
10 30 (2.67%) Pinecone
11 29 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
12 23 (2.05%) Redis
13 14 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (1.07%) InfluxDB
15 11 (0.98%) Big Data
15 11 (0.98%) Data Lake
15 11 (0.98%) Metadata
15 11 (0.98%) Power BI
16 9 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 201 (17.88%) Git
2 172 (15.30%) Jenkins
3 141 (12.54%) GitLab
4 46 (4.09%) CircleCI
5 35 (3.11%) JIRA
6 25 (2.22%) Bitbucket
7 23 (2.05%) JUnit
8 21 (1.87%) Cypress.io
8 21 (1.87%) MLflow
9 19 (1.69%) Jaeger
10 18 (1.60%) Vite
11 17 (1.51%) Maven
12 16 (1.42%) Cucumber
12 16 (1.42%) Mockito
13 15 (1.33%) SonarQube
14 13 (1.16%) Selenium
15 11 (0.98%) TeamCity
16 10 (0.89%) Robot Framework
17 9 (0.80%) TestRail
18 8 (0.71%) Storybook
General
1 309 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 237 (21.09%) Finance
3 92 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (7.12%) Public Sector
5 74 (6.58%) Banking
6 69 (6.14%) Telecoms
7 62 (5.52%) Law
8 59 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (1.78%) Aerospace
9 20 (1.78%) Front Office
9 20 (1.78%) Games
9 20 (1.78%) Manufacturing
10 16 (1.42%) Retail
11 15 (1.33%) Billing
11 15 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (0.98%) Legal
12 11 (0.98%) Marketing
13 10 (0.89%) Electronics
14 8 (0.71%) Advertising
14 8 (0.71%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 267 (23.75%) Senior
2 232 (20.64%) Developer
3 151 (13.43%) Software Engineer
4 140 (12.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 140 (12.46%) Lead
5 103 (9.16%) Cloud Engineer
6 81 (7.21%) Architect
7 66 (5.87%) Senior Developer
8 63 (5.60%) Azure Engineer
9 55 (4.89%) Java Developer
10 50 (4.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 46 (4.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 45 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 40 (3.56%) Full-Stack Developer
14 37 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
15 36 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
16 30 (2.67%) Scala Engineer
16 30 (2.67%) Senior DevOps
17 29 (2.58%) Data Engineer
18 28 (2.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (14.68%) React
2 159 (14.15%) RESTful
3 152 (13.52%) .NET
4 127 (11.30%) REST
5 116 (10.32%) Spring
6 110 (9.79%) Kafka
7 107 (9.52%) Spring Boot
8 100 (8.90%) Node.js
9 91 (8.10%) gRPC
10 72 (6.41%) Elastic Stack
11 67 (5.96%) AngularJS
12 63 (5.60%) .NET Core
13 59 (5.25%) RabbitMQ
14 57 (5.07%) OAuth
15 50 (4.45%) FastAPI
16 41 (3.65%) Django
17 34 (3.02%) CSS
17 34 (3.02%) JWT
17 34 (3.02%) Vue
17 34 (3.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 275 (24.47%) Cloud Native
2 154 (13.70%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (6.49%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.00%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (4.00%) Video\Live Streaming
5 34 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.94%) Blockchain
7 31 (2.76%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (2.22%) AI Agents
9 25 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (2.05%) Onboarding
11 22 (1.96%) PKI
12 21 (1.87%) Web3
13 19 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.60%) Management Information System
15 17 (1.51%) Low-Code
16 16 (1.42%) Algorithms
17 14 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 224 (19.93%) Linux
2 84 (7.47%) Windows
3 40 (3.56%) Ubuntu
4 39 (3.47%) Unix
5 33 (2.94%) CentOS
6 24 (2.14%) Windows Server
7 22 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (1.07%) Android
9 10 (0.89%) VMS
10 9 (0.80%) Debian
11 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.089%) Rocky
13 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.089%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 765 (68.06%) CI/CD
2 564 (50.18%) DevOps
3 460 (40.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 423 (37.63%) Agile
5 389 (34.61%) Microservices
6 329 (29.27%) Software Engineering
7 301 (26.78%) Problem-Solving
8 235 (20.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 232 (20.64%) AI
10 208 (18.51%) Test Automation
11 207 (18.42%) Mentoring
12 198 (17.62%) Observability
13 160 (14.23%) Machine Learning
14 154 (13.70%) Full-Stack Development
15 146 (12.99%) High Availability
16 137 (12.19%) Continuous Integration
17 132 (11.74%) Continuous Delivery
18 123 (10.94%) Clean Code
19 119 (10.59%) Event-Driven
20 118 (10.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 535 (47.60%) Python
2 263 (23.40%) Java
3 223 (19.84%) JavaScript
4 211 (18.77%) SQL
5 172 (15.30%) Bash
6 158 (14.06%) Go
7 134 (11.92%) C#
8 120 (10.68%) PowerShell
9 114 (10.14%) TypeScript
10 49 (4.36%) Scala
11 36 (3.20%) C++
12 34 (3.02%) Bicep
13 25 (2.22%) PHP
14 21 (1.87%) Kotlin
15 16 (1.42%) C
16 15 (1.33%) Rust
17 14 (1.25%) Ruby
18 12 (1.07%) Groovy
19 8 (0.71%) Google Apps Script
19 8 (0.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 227 (20.20%) Security Cleared
2 119 (10.59%) SC Cleared
3 117 (10.41%) Degree
4 82 (7.30%) DV Cleared
5 73 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (5.34%) AWS Certification
7 47 (4.18%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.07%) AWS Certified Developer
9 12 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 9 (0.80%) CISSP
10 9 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.53%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.53%) OSCP
14 5 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.44%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (7.47%) QA
2 37 (3.29%) GDPR
3 32 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.67%) PCI DSS
5 29 (2.58%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.05%) NIST
7 20 (1.78%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.98%) JSP 440
8 11 (0.98%) NCSC
9 10 (0.89%) GRC
10 6 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 6 (0.53%) WCAG
11 5 (0.44%) SLA
12 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.089%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 723 (64.32%) Docker
2 38 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (2.67%) Active Directory
4 28 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.80%) KVM
5 9 (0.80%) vSphere
6 7 (0.62%) Firmware
6 7 (0.62%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.36%) iptables
7 4 (0.36%) Squid
8 3 (0.27%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.18%) GPFS
9 2 (0.18%) Lustre
9 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.089%) QEMU
10 1 (0.089%) RACF
10 1 (0.089%) Xen
Systems Management
1 695 (61.83%) Kubernetes
2 440 (39.15%) Terraform
3 193 (17.17%) Ansible
4 170 (15.12%) Grafana
5 155 (13.79%) Prometheus
6 42 (3.74%) Argo
7 23 (2.05%) Puppet
8 22 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (1.69%) Kustomize
10 18 (1.60%) Istio
11 15 (1.33%) Nagios
12 14 (1.25%) Podman
12 14 (1.25%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.71%) Packer
15 7 (0.62%) Kibana
15 7 (0.62%) linkerd
15 7 (0.62%) Mesos
16 5 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
16 5 (0.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 110 (9.79%) Microsoft
2 109 (9.70%) Google
3 58 (5.16%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.00%) Typelevel
5 41 (3.65%) Splunk
6 38 (3.38%) OpenAI
7 32 (2.85%) VMware
8 31 (2.76%) Oracle
9 23 (2.05%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.42%) Salesforce
11 15 (1.33%) Cisco
11 15 (1.33%) Databricks
12 14 (1.25%) NVIDIA
13 13 (1.16%) Automation Anywhere
13 13 (1.16%) UiPath
14 12 (1.07%) Atlassian
14 12 (1.07%) Palo Alto
15 11 (0.98%) Confluent
16 7 (0.62%) Rapid7
16 7 (0.62%) Zscaler