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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 127 169
Rank change year-on-year -25 +42 -41
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,419 1,217 1,252
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 2.44% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 2.76% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 920 608 815
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £87,625 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,375 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

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 80,408 44,155 65,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.60% 80.85%
Number of salaries quoted 55,868 25,145 40,215
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,075
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.92% -6.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -6.58%

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 2 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 2 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 -24 1,250 £72,500 -6.45% 1,490
UK excluding London -3 858 £65,000 - 771
Work from Home -41 478 £68,724 -1.82% 684
London -30 467 £80,000 -5.88% 919
North of England -25 239 £65,576 +0.89% 179
South West +9 201 £67,500 -10.00% 149
South East +18 188 £65,000 -5.45% 153
North West -41 126 £75,000 +17.65% 104
Midlands -73 83 £70,000 +3.70% 85
North East -5 61 £55,000 -8.33% 24
Northern Ireland -34 59 - - 48
West Midlands -46 54 £72,500 +3.57% 54
Yorkshire -35 52 £71,716 +10.33% 52
Wales -38 47 £60,000 -17.24% 20
East of England -28 46 £60,000 +4.35% 54
East Midlands -52 29 £64,500 +17.27% 30
Scotland -72 7 £60,000 -7.69% 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 49 (3.45%) Apache
2 38 (2.68%) Confluence
3 36 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.49%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.28%) Camunda
7 4 (0.28%) IIS
7 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.28%) nginx
8 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.21%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) CMS
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.070%) JBoss
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.070%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 825 (58.14%) AWS
2 742 (52.29%) Azure
3 339 (23.89%) GCP
4 218 (15.36%) GitHub
5 172 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 166 (11.70%) Serverless
7 148 (10.43%) GitHub Actions
8 119 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
9 112 (7.89%) OpenShift
10 99 (6.98%) Azure AKS
11 92 (6.48%) Cloud Computing
12 89 (6.27%) Amazon S3
13 84 (5.92%) AWS Lambda
14 83 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
15 78 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
16 77 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 77 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
17 56 (3.95%) Datadog
18 55 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
18 55 (3.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.21%) WAN
2 69 (4.86%) Firewall
3 67 (4.72%) LAN
4 62 (4.37%) DNS
5 47 (3.31%) Network Security
6 38 (2.68%) VPN
7 33 (2.33%) Broadband
7 33 (2.33%) TCP/IP
8 22 (1.55%) MQTT
9 19 (1.34%) BGP
10 18 (1.27%) OSPF
11 17 (1.20%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.13%) VLAN
13 13 (0.92%) DMARC
14 12 (0.85%) Wireshark
15 10 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
16 8 (0.56%) DHCP
16 8 (0.56%) HTTP
16 8 (0.56%) IPv4
17 7 (0.49%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (10.01%) PostgreSQL
2 102 (7.19%) NoSQL
3 71 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 61 (4.30%) MySQL
5 48 (3.38%) DynamoDB
5 48 (3.38%) Relational Database
6 46 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
7 37 (2.61%) SQL Server
8 35 (2.47%) Redis
9 26 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (1.20%) Big Data
12 15 (1.06%) Pinecone
13 13 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.92%) Hadoop
14 12 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.85%) InfluxDB
15 11 (0.78%) Data Lake
15 11 (0.78%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 277 (19.52%) Git
2 215 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 181 (12.76%) GitLab
4 41 (2.89%) JIRA
5 30 (2.11%) Cypress.io
6 29 (2.04%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.97%) CircleCI
7 28 (1.97%) JUnit
8 24 (1.69%) Maven
9 22 (1.55%) SonarQube
10 21 (1.48%) Mockito
11 19 (1.34%) Selenium
12 18 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 14 (0.99%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.78%) Claude Code
14 11 (0.78%) Vite
15 10 (0.70%) Robot Framework
15 10 (0.70%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.70%) TestRail
16 9 (0.63%) Postman
General
1 445 (31.36%) Social Skills
2 339 (23.89%) Finance
3 163 (11.49%) Public Sector
4 105 (7.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 103 (7.26%) Law
6 99 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
7 93 (6.55%) Banking
8 69 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (2.40%) Legal
10 29 (2.04%) Aerospace
11 28 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.62%) Retail
13 22 (1.55%) Games
14 21 (1.48%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.99%) Marketing
16 12 (0.85%) Electronics
17 11 (0.78%) Financial Institution
18 10 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
19 9 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
19 9 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 270 (19.03%) Senior
2 244 (17.20%) Developer
3 217 (15.29%) Architect
4 213 (15.01%) Software Engineer
5 211 (14.87%) DevOps Engineer
6 175 (12.33%) Lead
7 117 (8.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 78 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
9 67 (4.72%) Systems Architect
10 65 (4.58%) Senior Developer
11 63 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
11 63 (4.44%) Java Developer
12 60 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 52 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
14 47 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
15 46 (3.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 46 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
16 44 (3.10%) Senior DevOps
17 42 (2.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 41 (2.89%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 550 (38.76%) Terraform
2 193 (13.60%) RESTful
3 192 (13.53%) Spring
4 185 (13.04%) React
5 177 (12.47%) Spring Boot
6 150 (10.57%) Node.js
7 147 (10.36%) Kafka
8 132 (9.30%) .NET
9 128 (9.02%) REST
10 80 (5.64%) RabbitMQ
11 72 (5.07%) AngularJS
12 55 (3.88%) OAuth
13 54 (3.81%) CSS
14 45 (3.17%) JSON
15 43 (3.03%) OAuth2
16 42 (2.96%) gRPC
17 40 (2.82%) .NET Core
17 40 (2.82%) HTML
18 39 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
18 39 (2.75%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 389 (27.41%) Cloud Native
2 171 (12.05%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 34 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 34 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (2.33%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 33 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.83%) Algorithms
8 26 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 26 (1.83%) Public Cloud
9 25 (1.76%) PKI
10 23 (1.62%) Blog
10 23 (1.62%) Virtual Team
11 20 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
11 20 (1.41%) Private Cloud
12 18 (1.27%) Over-the-Top Content
12 18 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 296 (20.86%) Linux
2 99 (6.98%) Windows
3 38 (2.68%) Unix
4 37 (2.61%) Windows Server
5 32 (2.26%) CentOS
6 20 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.34%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.63%) Debian
9 8 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.21%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.070%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.070%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.070%) Rocky
12 1 (0.070%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 954 (67.23%) CI/CD
2 715 (50.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 691 (48.70%) DevOps
4 504 (35.52%) Agile
5 453 (31.92%) Software Engineering
6 406 (28.61%) Microservices
7 330 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
8 289 (20.37%) Observability
9 281 (19.80%) Mentoring
10 277 (19.52%) Test Automation
11 272 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 266 (18.75%) AI
13 227 (16.00%) Event-Driven
14 210 (14.80%) Platform Engineering
15 181 (12.76%) Roadmaps
16 166 (11.70%) Full-Stack Development
17 157 (11.06%) Technical Leadership
18 143 (10.08%) Scrum
19 139 (9.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 138 (9.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 643 (45.31%) Python
2 365 (25.72%) Java
3 236 (16.63%) JavaScript
4 187 (13.18%) Bash
5 161 (11.35%) TypeScript
6 160 (11.28%) SQL
7 146 (10.29%) C#
8 135 (9.51%) PowerShell
9 107 (7.54%) Go
10 65 (4.58%) Bicep
11 56 (3.95%) C++
12 39 (2.75%) Ruby
13 35 (2.47%) Scala
14 34 (2.40%) Rust
15 21 (1.48%) Groovy
16 18 (1.27%) PHP
17 17 (1.20%) Kotlin
18 15 (1.06%) C
18 15 (1.06%) PL/SQL
19 11 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 434 (30.58%) Security Cleared
2 213 (15.01%) SC Cleared
3 164 (11.56%) DV Cleared
4 161 (11.35%) Degree
5 90 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 59 (4.16%) AWS Certification
6 59 (4.16%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (1.62%) CISSP
10 14 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (0.85%) CCNP
12 11 (0.78%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.70%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.70%) OSCP
14 9 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.60%) QA
2 72 (5.07%) GRC
3 59 (4.16%) Accessibility
4 37 (2.61%) Data Quality
5 27 (1.90%) NCSC
6 25 (1.76%) GDPR
7 23 (1.62%) NIST
7 23 (1.62%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.41%) WCAG
9 18 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.70%) JSP 440
11 8 (0.56%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.21%) SLA
16 1 (0.070%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.070%) PSD2
System Software
1 803 (56.59%) Docker
2 49 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (3.03%) Active Directory
4 42 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.70%) KVM
7 9 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.63%) vSphere
8 8 (0.56%) Squid
9 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.28%) Firmware
12 3 (0.21%) NDS
13 2 (0.14%) Lustre
13 2 (0.14%) QEMU
14 1 (0.070%) iptables
14 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.070%) Xen
Systems Management
1 818 (57.65%) Kubernetes
2 217 (15.29%) Ansible
3 145 (10.22%) Grafana
4 115 (8.10%) Prometheus
5 37 (2.61%) Argo
5 37 (2.61%) Puppet
6 33 (2.33%) Progress Chef
7 28 (1.97%) Istio
8 17 (1.20%) Nagios
8 17 (1.20%) Podman
9 16 (1.13%) Kibana
10 15 (1.06%) FortiGate
10 15 (1.06%) linkerd
11 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.78%) Packer
12 11 (0.78%) ZABBIX
13 8 (0.56%) logstash
14 7 (0.49%) vCenter Server
15 6 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.35%) Mesos
Vendors
1 224 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.48%) Google
3 62 (4.37%) Red Hat
4 55 (3.88%) Splunk
4 55 (3.88%) VMware
5 53 (3.74%) Oracle
6 26 (1.83%) OpenAI
7 22 (1.55%) Dynatrace
8 21 (1.48%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.27%) Fortinet
9 18 (1.27%) Typelevel
9 18 (1.27%) Zscaler
10 16 (1.13%) Cisco
11 15 (1.06%) IBM
12 13 (0.92%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.85%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.85%) Mistral
14 11 (0.78%) Databricks
14 11 (0.78%) Rapid7
15 10 (0.70%) ServiceNow