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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 135 159
Rank change year-on-year -22 +24 -40
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,486 1,160 1,197
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 2.36% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 2.66% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 919 587 729
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,496 £48,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 86,825 43,614 58,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.38% 88.89% 82.21%
Number of salaries quoted 59,360 24,460 31,261
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -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 13 October 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 13 October 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 1,291 £72,500 -3.33% 1,449
UK excluding London -15 923 £67,500 +3.85% 746
Work from Home -46 460 £68,724 +1.06% 656
London -36 451 £80,000 -5.88% 808
North of England -17 273 £66,000 +1.54% 180
South West +10 218 £70,000 +7.69% 116
South East +8 169 £65,000 -13.33% 156
North West -41 145 £75,000 +15.38% 100
Midlands -62 97 £70,000 - 76
North East -14 78 £60,000 - 32
Northern Ireland -27 59 - - 39
West Midlands -50 58 £82,500 +17.86% 46
East of England -34 55 £72,500 +26.09% 71
Wales -40 51 £62,000 -17.33% 22
Yorkshire -18 50 £70,000 +2.56% 51
East Midlands -45 39 £70,000 +27.27% 30
Scotland -59 12 £90,000 +28.57% 88

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 57 (3.84%) Apache
2 44 (2.96%) Apache Spark
3 37 (2.49%) Confluence
4 31 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.14%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.40%) nginx
9 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.20%) Camunda
10 3 (0.20%) CMS
10 3 (0.20%) IIS
10 3 (0.20%) WordPress
11 2 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.067%) JBoss
12 1 (0.067%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.067%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.067%) SAS
12 1 (0.067%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.20%) Blender
3 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.20%) Maya
4 2 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 6 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.067%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 1 (0.067%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.067%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 845 (56.86%) AWS
2 771 (51.88%) Azure
3 341 (22.95%) GCP
4 246 (16.55%) GitHub
5 176 (11.84%) GitHub Actions
6 173 (11.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 140 (9.42%) Serverless
8 125 (8.41%) Cloud Computing
9 113 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
10 109 (7.34%) OpenShift
11 88 (5.92%) Azure AKS
12 87 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
13 85 (5.72%) Amazon S3
14 75 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
15 73 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 72 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
17 70 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
18 54 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
19 53 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
20 49 (3.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (4.98%) WAN
2 67 (4.51%) LAN
3 66 (4.44%) Firewall
4 61 (4.10%) DNS
5 52 (3.50%) Network Security
6 44 (2.96%) VPN
7 39 (2.62%) Internet
8 34 (2.29%) TCP/IP
9 31 (2.09%) MQTT
10 19 (1.28%) BGP
11 18 (1.21%) OSPF
12 17 (1.14%) VXLAN
13 16 (1.08%) VLAN
14 15 (1.01%) DMARC
15 12 (0.81%) Wireshark
16 9 (0.61%) AMQP
16 9 (0.61%) HTTP
17 8 (0.54%) 3GPP
17 8 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
17 8 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (9.96%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 72 (4.85%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.37%) MySQL
5 47 (3.16%) Relational Database
6 41 (2.76%) DynamoDB
6 41 (2.76%) Redis
7 38 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (1.88%) SQL Server
10 21 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
11 20 (1.35%) Big Data
12 17 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (1.14%) Metadata
13 14 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
13 14 (0.94%) Hadoop
14 13 (0.87%) Data Lake
14 13 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
14 13 (0.87%) Pinecone
15 10 (0.67%) DTS
Development Applications
1 320 (21.53%) Git
2 210 (14.13%) Jenkins
3 188 (12.65%) GitLab
4 35 (2.36%) JIRA
5 25 (1.68%) Bitbucket
5 25 (1.68%) JUnit
6 23 (1.55%) Maven
7 20 (1.35%) Cypress.io
7 20 (1.35%) SonarQube
8 19 (1.28%) Claude Code
8 19 (1.28%) Selenium
9 18 (1.21%) Mockito
10 13 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 13 (0.87%) CircleCI
11 11 (0.74%) MLflow
12 10 (0.67%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.61%) Robot Framework
13 9 (0.61%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.61%) TestRail
13 9 (0.61%) Vite
General
1 471 (31.70%) Social Skills
2 348 (23.42%) Finance
3 206 (13.86%) Public Sector
4 133 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 91 (6.12%) Law
7 90 (6.06%) Banking
8 71 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
9 39 (2.62%) Aerospace
10 33 (2.22%) Legal
10 33 (2.22%) Retail
11 27 (1.82%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.35%) Games
13 15 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 13 (0.87%) Marketing
14 13 (0.87%) Publishing
15 11 (0.74%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.67%) Electronics
16 10 (0.67%) Front Office
17 8 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 315 (21.20%) Senior
2 267 (17.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 257 (17.29%) Developer
4 229 (15.41%) Architect
5 224 (15.07%) Software Engineer
6 179 (12.05%) Lead
7 98 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 85 (5.72%) Platform Engineer
9 76 (5.11%) Senior Developer
10 69 (4.64%) Java Developer
11 66 (4.44%) Systems Architect
12 64 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
13 59 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 49 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
15 48 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
16 47 (3.16%) Lead DevOps
17 46 (3.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 45 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
19 42 (2.83%) Software Developer
20 41 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 540 (36.34%) Terraform
2 224 (15.07%) Spring
3 211 (14.20%) Spring Boot
4 206 (13.86%) RESTful
5 181 (12.18%) React
6 160 (10.77%) Kafka
7 146 (9.83%) Node.js
8 134 (9.02%) REST
9 115 (7.74%) .NET
10 86 (5.79%) RabbitMQ
11 68 (4.58%) AngularJS
12 54 (3.63%) FastAPI
13 53 (3.57%) OAuth
14 50 (3.36%) CSS
15 48 (3.23%) OpenAPI
16 43 (2.89%) Swagger
17 42 (2.83%) OAuth2
18 40 (2.69%) LangChain
19 38 (2.56%) HTML
20 37 (2.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 435 (29.27%) Cloud Native
2 166 (11.17%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 53 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
5 52 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (2.56%) AI Agents
8 37 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
9 35 (2.36%) Data Centre
10 32 (2.15%) Public Cloud
11 31 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 31 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (1.82%) PKI
13 26 (1.75%) Algorithms
13 26 (1.75%) Blog
13 26 (1.75%) Data Structures
13 26 (1.75%) Virtual Team
14 22 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
15 20 (1.35%) Security Posture
16 19 (1.28%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 343 (23.08%) Linux
2 84 (5.65%) Windows
3 44 (2.96%) Unix
4 31 (2.09%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.02%) CentOS
6 20 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (1.21%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.81%) Debian
9 8 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
10 5 (0.34%) Rocky
11 4 (0.27%) VMS
12 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
13 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.13%) Android
13 2 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.067%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.067%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.067%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,011 (68.03%) CI/CD
2 766 (51.55%) DevOps
3 761 (51.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 529 (35.60%) Agile
5 467 (31.43%) Software Engineering
6 417 (28.06%) Microservices
7 371 (24.97%) Mentoring
8 332 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
9 317 (21.33%) AI
10 300 (20.19%) Observability
11 299 (20.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 273 (18.37%) Test Automation
13 266 (17.90%) Platform Engineering
14 258 (17.36%) Event-Driven
15 213 (14.33%) Roadmaps
16 184 (12.38%) Technical Leadership
17 181 (12.18%) DevSecOps
18 169 (11.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 154 (10.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 151 (10.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 667 (44.89%) Python
2 413 (27.79%) Java
3 205 (13.80%) JavaScript
4 197 (13.26%) Bash
5 174 (11.71%) TypeScript
6 172 (11.57%) SQL
7 134 (9.02%) C#
8 122 (8.21%) PowerShell
9 91 (6.12%) Go
10 60 (4.04%) C++
11 58 (3.90%) Bicep
12 49 (3.30%) Shell Script
13 37 (2.49%) Rust
14 35 (2.36%) Ruby
15 19 (1.28%) Groovy
16 16 (1.08%) Scala
17 15 (1.01%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.94%) PHP
18 14 (0.94%) PL/SQL
19 13 (0.87%) C
Qualifications
1 484 (32.57%) Security Cleared
2 234 (15.75%) SC Cleared
3 192 (12.92%) DV Cleared
4 161 (10.83%) Degree
5 96 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 69 (4.64%) AWS Certification
7 52 (3.50%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.82%) CISSP
10 25 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.08%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 13 (0.87%) CCNP
14 11 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 11 (0.74%) OSCP
15 9 (0.61%) CISM
15 9 (0.61%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (8.55%) QA
2 73 (4.91%) GRC
3 61 (4.10%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.69%) Data Quality
5 32 (2.15%) NCSC
6 30 (2.02%) GDPR
7 27 (1.82%) NIST
8 21 (1.41%) PCI DSS
9 19 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (1.14%) WCAG
11 10 (0.67%) JSP 440
12 9 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.54%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 4 (0.27%) SLA
17 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
17 2 (0.13%) RMADS
17 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 842 (56.66%) Docker
2 44 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (2.76%) Active Directory
4 32 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.81%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.54%) KVM
7 6 (0.40%) Squid
7 6 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (0.40%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.40%) vSphere
8 5 (0.34%) NDS
8 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.13%) Firmware
9 2 (0.13%) Lustre
10 1 (0.067%) LXC
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.067%) QEMU
10 1 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 848 (57.07%) Kubernetes
2 224 (15.07%) Ansible
3 144 (9.69%) Grafana
4 115 (7.74%) Prometheus
5 41 (2.76%) Puppet
6 40 (2.69%) Argo
7 33 (2.22%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.41%) Istio
9 17 (1.14%) Kibana
10 16 (1.08%) linkerd
11 15 (1.01%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.87%) Nagios
13 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (0.67%) Packer
14 10 (0.67%) Podman
15 9 (0.61%) logstash
15 9 (0.61%) ZABBIX
16 8 (0.54%) Rancher
17 7 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
18 6 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 267 (17.97%) Microsoft
2 118 (7.94%) Google
3 66 (4.44%) Splunk
4 50 (3.36%) Red Hat
4 50 (3.36%) VMware
5 45 (3.03%) Oracle
6 29 (1.95%) OpenAI
7 21 (1.41%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.21%) Fortinet
8 18 (1.21%) Palo Alto
8 18 (1.21%) Zscaler
9 15 (1.01%) SendGrid
10 13 (0.87%) Atlassian
10 13 (0.87%) IBM
11 12 (0.81%) Databricks
12 10 (0.67%) Cisco
12 10 (0.67%) Mistral
12 10 (0.67%) Okta
13 9 (0.61%) ForgeRock
13 9 (0.61%) Rapid7