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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 116 194
Rank change year-on-year -32 +78 -51
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,349 1,303 1,444
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.38% 2.67% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 2.95% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 922 669 1,070
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,688 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £126,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -7.69%

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 72,161 44,144 84,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.58% 82.41%
Number of salaries quoted 49,802 24,628 59,539
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -32 1,204 £72,500 -9.38% 572
UK excluding London -37 757 £65,000 -3.70% 418
Work from Home -34 489 £70,000 -2.77% 219
London -18 484 £80,000 -11.11% 251
North of England -36 224 £65,000 - 101
South East +24 184 £66,000 +1.54% 92
South West -9 172 £57,500 -23.33% 137
North West -39 119 £70,932 +18.22% 66
Midlands -77 65 £70,000 +7.69% 36
Yorkshire -33 63 £70,466 +2.87% 16
East of England -22 44 £60,000 -11.11% 16
North East -13 42 £55,000 -12.00% 19
West Midlands -60 38 £70,505 +4.45% 25
Northern Ireland -28 35 £62,500 +45.04% 17
Wales -31 34 £67,500 +3.85% 10
East Midlands -55 27 £64,000 +6.67% 11
Scotland -74 7 £60,000 -25.00% 13

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 38 (2.82%) Apache
2 31 (2.30%) Confluence
3 28 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (2.00%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.67%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.30%) Appian
7 4 (0.30%) IIS
7 4 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.22%) Camunda
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.22%) WordPress
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Qpid
9 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.074%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.074%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.074%) nginx
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.22%) Blender
4 3 (0.22%) Maya
5 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle Retail
2 5 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 793 (58.78%) AWS
2 684 (50.70%) Azure
3 349 (25.87%) GCP
4 221 (16.38%) GitHub
5 187 (13.86%) Serverless
6 160 (11.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 156 (11.56%) GitHub Actions
8 123 (9.12%) Azure DevOps
9 113 (8.38%) OpenShift
10 105 (7.78%) Azure AKS
11 98 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
12 97 (7.19%) Amazon S3
13 81 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 81 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
14 76 (5.63%) Datadog
15 73 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
16 71 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
17 68 (5.04%) SaaS
18 63 (4.67%) Cloud Computing
19 57 (4.23%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (5.63%) Firewall
2 73 (5.41%) DNS
3 72 (5.34%) Broadband
4 43 (3.19%) TCP/IP
5 41 (3.04%) Network Security
6 40 (2.97%) WAN
7 35 (2.59%) VPN
8 33 (2.45%) LAN
9 23 (1.70%) HTTP
10 19 (1.41%) MQTT
11 16 (1.19%) VLAN
12 15 (1.11%) BGP
12 15 (1.11%) OSPF
13 14 (1.04%) VXLAN
14 13 (0.96%) DMARC
15 12 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
16 10 (0.74%) Wireshark
17 8 (0.59%) AMQP
17 8 (0.59%) IPv4
18 7 (0.52%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (9.71%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (9.41%) NoSQL
3 80 (5.93%) MongoDB
4 64 (4.74%) Relational Database
5 59 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
5 59 (4.37%) MySQL
6 50 (3.71%) SQL Server
7 48 (3.56%) DynamoDB
8 38 (2.82%) Redis
9 29 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (1.56%) RDBMS
11 20 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (1.19%) Pinecone
13 14 (1.04%) Big Data
14 11 (0.82%) DTS
14 11 (0.82%) InfluxDB
14 11 (0.82%) Metadata
15 10 (0.74%) Db2
16 9 (0.67%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 236 (17.49%) Git
2 204 (15.12%) Jenkins
3 180 (13.34%) GitLab
4 44 (3.26%) CircleCI
5 39 (2.89%) JIRA
6 29 (2.15%) Bitbucket
7 23 (1.70%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.33%) JUnit
8 18 (1.33%) Maven
9 17 (1.26%) Selenium
10 16 (1.19%) Mockito
10 16 (1.19%) Vite
11 15 (1.11%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.11%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.89%) Jaeger
13 11 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 11 (0.82%) MLflow
14 10 (0.74%) Robot Framework
14 10 (0.74%) TestRail
15 9 (0.67%) Claude Code
General
1 382 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 279 (20.68%) Finance
3 114 (8.45%) Public Sector
4 100 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (6.67%) Law
6 80 (5.93%) Banking
7 78 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 42 (3.11%) Telecoms
9 32 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (2.00%) Aerospace
11 26 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.41%) Retail
13 17 (1.26%) Games
13 17 (1.26%) Legal
14 13 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (0.89%) Front Office
16 10 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.67%) Advertising
17 9 (0.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 281 (20.83%) Senior
2 256 (18.98%) Developer
3 192 (14.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 189 (14.01%) Software Engineer
5 176 (13.05%) Lead
6 161 (11.93%) Architect
7 131 (9.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (5.34%) Senior Developer
9 69 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
10 67 (4.97%) Java Developer
11 60 (4.45%) Platform Engineer
12 55 (4.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 55 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
13 54 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 53 (3.93%) AWS Engineer
15 45 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
16 44 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
17 39 (2.89%) Senior DevOps
18 37 (2.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 36 (2.67%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (13.27%) React
2 175 (12.97%) RESTful
3 173 (12.82%) Spring
4 167 (12.38%) Spring Boot
5 146 (10.82%) .NET
6 143 (10.60%) Node.js
7 128 (9.49%) Kafka
8 125 (9.27%) REST
9 83 (6.15%) AngularJS
10 80 (5.93%) gRPC
11 74 (5.49%) RabbitMQ
12 64 (4.74%) Elastic Stack
13 61 (4.52%) OAuth
14 49 (3.63%) .NET Core
15 47 (3.48%) JSON
16 44 (3.26%) OAuth2
17 42 (3.11%) YAML
18 41 (3.04%) FastAPI
19 38 (2.82%) CSS
19 38 (2.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 353 (26.17%) Cloud Native
2 167 (12.38%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (4.60%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.34%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.34%) Video\Live Streaming
5 35 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 33 (2.45%) Data Centre
7 32 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 28 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (2.00%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.78%) PKI
12 23 (1.70%) Blockchain
13 20 (1.48%) AI Agents
14 19 (1.41%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
14 19 (1.41%) Web3
15 18 (1.33%) Virtual Team
16 16 (1.19%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 272 (20.16%) Linux
2 95 (7.04%) Windows
3 37 (2.74%) Unix
4 36 (2.67%) Ubuntu
5 35 (2.59%) CentOS
5 35 (2.59%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.74%) Debian
8 5 (0.37%) VMS
9 4 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.15%) Rocky
11 1 (0.074%) Android
11 1 (0.074%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 906 (67.16%) CI/CD
2 652 (48.33%) DevOps
3 621 (46.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 504 (37.36%) Agile
5 435 (32.25%) Microservices
6 416 (30.84%) Software Engineering
7 348 (25.80%) Problem-Solving
8 272 (20.16%) Mentoring
9 263 (19.50%) Test Automation
10 257 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 247 (18.31%) Observability
12 227 (16.83%) AI
13 183 (13.57%) Event-Driven
14 176 (13.05%) Platform Engineering
15 174 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
16 142 (10.53%) Clean Code
17 141 (10.45%) Continuous Delivery
18 139 (10.30%) Machine Learning
18 139 (10.30%) Roadmaps
19 135 (10.01%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 633 (46.92%) Python
2 339 (25.13%) Java
3 251 (18.61%) JavaScript
4 193 (14.31%) Bash
5 177 (13.12%) SQL
6 156 (11.56%) C#
7 152 (11.27%) TypeScript
8 147 (10.90%) PowerShell
9 144 (10.67%) Go
10 53 (3.93%) Bicep
10 53 (3.93%) Scala
11 46 (3.41%) C++
12 32 (2.37%) Ruby
13 30 (2.22%) Rust
14 27 (2.00%) PHP
15 24 (1.78%) Kotlin
16 17 (1.26%) Groovy
17 13 (0.96%) C
18 10 (0.74%) RPG
19 9 (0.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 339 (25.13%) Security Cleared
2 167 (12.38%) SC Cleared
3 142 (10.53%) Degree
4 120 (8.90%) DV Cleared
5 79 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (4.30%) Azure Certification
7 52 (3.85%) AWS Certification
8 24 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.33%) CISSP
11 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.82%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.74%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 9 (0.67%) CCNP
15 8 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.59%) CCNA
15 8 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 8 (0.59%) RHCE
15 8 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (8.08%) QA
2 42 (3.11%) GRC
3 37 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 34 (2.52%) GDPR
4 34 (2.52%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.08%) Data Quality
6 27 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (1.85%) NIST
8 17 (1.26%) WCAG
9 15 (1.11%) NCSC
10 14 (1.04%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.82%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.074%) SEPA
16 1 (0.074%) SLA
System Software
1 795 (58.93%) Docker
2 43 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
4 35 (2.59%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.74%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.74%) vSphere
6 9 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.59%) KVM
7 8 (0.59%) Squid
8 6 (0.44%) Firmware
9 5 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.30%) iptables
11 3 (0.22%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.074%) QEMU
12 1 (0.074%) Xen
Systems Management
1 793 (58.78%) Kubernetes
2 525 (38.92%) Terraform
3 225 (16.68%) Ansible
4 177 (13.12%) Grafana
5 157 (11.64%) Prometheus
6 44 (3.26%) Argo
7 32 (2.37%) Puppet
8 27 (2.00%) Progress Chef
9 24 (1.78%) Istio
10 21 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 19 (1.41%) Nagios
12 17 (1.26%) Podman
13 14 (1.04%) Kibana
14 13 (0.96%) linkerd
14 13 (0.96%) Packer
15 12 (0.89%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.89%) Kustomize
16 11 (0.82%) ZABBIX
17 7 (0.52%) logstash
17 7 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 170 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 98 (7.26%) Google
3 64 (4.74%) Red Hat
4 51 (3.78%) Splunk
5 45 (3.34%) Typelevel
5 45 (3.34%) VMware
6 37 (2.74%) Oracle
7 27 (2.00%) Dynatrace
8 26 (1.93%) OpenAI
9 21 (1.56%) Palo Alto
10 19 (1.41%) Cisco
11 18 (1.33%) Fortinet
12 15 (1.11%) Zscaler
13 13 (0.96%) IBM
13 13 (0.96%) SendGrid
14 11 (0.82%) Databricks
14 11 (0.82%) Salesforce
14 11 (0.82%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.74%) Confluent
15 10 (0.74%) NVIDIA