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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 145 119
Rank change year-on-year -13 -26 +18
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 910 1,208 1,402
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.66% 1.91% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.21% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 620 772 1,035
10th Percentile £48,165 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% +0.82%
75th Percentile £90,313 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £109,875 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +3.85%

All Process and 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 46,039 54,754 46,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.81% 86.35% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,176 28,458 35,978
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.31% +4.37% -1.41%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 -5 842 £72,500 +3.57% 365
UK excluding London -14 434 £65,000 - 294
London +23 405 £85,000 - 135
Work from Home -8 318 £67,500 -3.57% 213
North of England +10 173 £65,000 +8.33% 93
North West +25 107 £65,000 +8.33% 56
South West -11 87 £60,000 -13.04% 57
South East -25 63 £75,000 +13.21% 97
Midlands +21 59 £68,750 +5.77% 28
Yorkshire -30 43 £68,500 +24.55% 28
West Midlands +18 38 £70,542 +8.53% 19
East of England +10 28 £57,500 -11.54% 12
Scotland -7 27 £70,000 - 7
North East +24 23 £57,600 -7.33% 9
East Midlands +13 20 £54,600 +28.47% 9
Wales +5 15 £80,000 +23.08% 9
Northern Ireland -9 4 £43,092 -33.35%

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 (5.38%) Apache Spark
2 43 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.75%) Apache
4 17 (1.87%) CMS
4 17 (1.87%) IIS
5 13 (1.43%) Apache Solr
6 8 (0.88%) Appian
7 6 (0.66%) Confluence
7 6 (0.66%) nginx
8 5 (0.55%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.22%) CICS
11 2 (0.22%) SAS
11 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.11%) FileNet
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (2.20%) Maya
2 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.22%) Sketch
3 2 (0.22%) Weka
4 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.66%) Shopify
2 4 (0.44%) Endur
3 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 528 (58.02%) AWS
2 507 (55.71%) Azure
3 232 (25.49%) GCP
4 177 (19.45%) GitHub
5 128 (14.07%) Azure DevOps
6 125 (13.74%) GitHub Actions
7 123 (13.52%) Serverless
8 74 (8.13%) Amazon S3
9 65 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
9 65 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
10 62 (6.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 62 (6.81%) SaaS
11 52 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 46 (5.05%) Datadog
13 45 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
13 45 (4.95%) OpenShift
14 39 (4.29%) Cloud Computing
15 35 (3.85%) Azure AKS
15 35 (3.85%) PaaS
16 32 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.71%) Firewall
2 31 (3.41%) DNS
3 21 (2.31%) VPN
4 19 (2.09%) DHCP
4 19 (2.09%) Network Security
5 17 (1.87%) WAN
6 16 (1.76%) TCP/IP
7 12 (1.32%) LAN
8 9 (0.99%) HTTP
8 9 (0.99%) IPsec
9 8 (0.88%) VLAN
10 7 (0.77%) AMQP
10 7 (0.77%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.66%) VoIP
11 6 (0.66%) Wireless
12 5 (0.55%) SAN
13 4 (0.44%) DMZ
13 4 (0.44%) InfiniBand
13 4 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (11.43%) NoSQL
2 97 (10.66%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (8.35%) SQL Server
4 62 (6.81%) MongoDB
5 52 (5.71%) MySQL
6 49 (5.38%) Relational Database
7 45 (4.95%) DynamoDB
8 43 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (3.19%) Big Data
10 26 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (2.64%) Metadata
12 20 (2.20%) Spark SQL
13 19 (2.09%) Delta Lake
14 16 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (1.43%) Hadoop
16 13 (1.43%) RDBMS
17 12 (1.32%) Tick Data
18 11 (1.21%) Data Lake
18 11 (1.21%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 169 (18.57%) Git
2 118 (12.97%) Jenkins
3 91 (10.00%) GitLab
4 35 (3.85%) MLflow
5 29 (3.19%) JIRA
6 19 (2.09%) Cucumber
6 19 (2.09%) TeamCity
7 18 (1.98%) CircleCI
7 18 (1.98%) JUnit
7 18 (1.98%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.65%) Bitbucket
9 13 (1.43%) Selenium
10 12 (1.32%) JMeter
11 11 (1.21%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (0.88%) Locust
13 7 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.44%) NeoLoad
14 4 (0.44%) Postman
14 4 (0.44%) SpecFlow
General
1 279 (30.66%) Social Skills
2 227 (24.95%) Finance
3 89 (9.78%) Law
4 77 (8.46%) Public Sector
5 74 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
6 71 (7.80%) Marketing
7 48 (5.27%) Telecoms
8 47 (5.16%) Banking
9 36 (3.96%) Games
10 35 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (3.08%) Manufacturing
12 27 (2.97%) Retail
13 24 (2.64%) Front Office
14 21 (2.31%) Electronics
15 14 (1.54%) French Language
16 13 (1.43%) Dutch Language
17 12 (1.32%) Legal
18 11 (1.21%) Advertising
18 11 (1.21%) Financial Institution
19 10 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 213 (23.41%) Developer
2 193 (21.21%) Senior
3 125 (13.74%) Lead
4 111 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 89 (9.78%) Software Engineer
6 59 (6.48%) Architect
7 56 (6.15%) Senior Developer
8 53 (5.82%) Platform Engineer
9 50 (5.49%) Python Developer
10 48 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 45 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
12 38 (4.18%) Data Engineer
12 38 (4.18%) Lead Developer
13 37 (4.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 36 (3.96%) Backend Developer
15 35 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (3.85%) Software Developer
16 34 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
16 34 (3.74%) Operations Engineer
17 33 (3.63%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (15.49%) React
2 133 (14.62%) .NET
3 129 (14.18%) RESTful
4 78 (8.57%) Spring
5 75 (8.24%) REST
6 74 (8.13%) Node.js
7 72 (7.91%) Spring Boot
8 70 (7.69%) Kafka
9 65 (7.14%) FastAPI
10 60 (6.59%) AngularJS
11 55 (6.04%) .NET Core
12 53 (5.82%) HTML
13 52 (5.71%) CSS
14 50 (5.49%) PyTorch
15 49 (5.38%) Flask
16 46 (5.05%) TensorFlow
17 42 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
18 41 (4.51%) scikit-learn
19 40 (4.40%) Pandas
19 40 (4.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 216 (23.74%) Cloud Native
2 104 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
4 35 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (3.63%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.63%) Onboarding
6 32 (3.52%) Linux Command Line
7 30 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 30 (3.30%) Product Ownership
8 28 (3.08%) Algorithms
9 25 (2.75%) Public Cloud
10 24 (2.64%) Fixed Income
11 23 (2.53%) Blockchain
11 23 (2.53%) Data Centre
12 17 (1.87%) AI Agents
13 13 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
14 12 (1.32%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.32%) PKI
15 11 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
15 11 (1.21%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 190 (20.88%) Linux
2 114 (12.53%) Windows
3 52 (5.71%) Windows Server
4 37 (4.07%) Unix
5 29 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (2.09%) VMS
7 17 (1.87%) Ubuntu
8 12 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (1.21%) CentOS
10 8 (0.88%) Android
10 8 (0.88%) Rocky
11 7 (0.77%) Debian
12 6 (0.66%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.22%) zOS
15 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.11%) Fedora
15 1 (0.11%) Solaris
15 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 580 (63.74%) CI/CD
2 475 (52.20%) DevOps
3 315 (34.62%) Agile
4 287 (31.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 263 (28.90%) Microservices
6 258 (28.35%) Problem-Solving
7 239 (26.26%) AI
8 183 (20.11%) Software Engineering
9 162 (17.80%) Mentoring
10 138 (15.16%) Machine Learning
11 128 (14.07%) Test Automation
12 127 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 117 (12.86%) Observability
14 108 (11.87%) Full-Stack Development
15 104 (11.43%) Computer Science
16 98 (10.77%) Analytics
17 91 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
18 90 (9.89%) Data Pipeline
19 86 (9.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 82 (9.01%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 443 (48.68%) Python
2 194 (21.32%) SQL
3 180 (19.78%) Java
4 154 (16.92%) JavaScript
5 135 (14.84%) C#
6 114 (12.53%) Bash
7 102 (11.21%) PowerShell
8 58 (6.37%) TypeScript
9 47 (5.16%) Go
10 29 (3.19%) Bicep
11 19 (2.09%) C++
12 17 (1.87%) PHP
13 12 (1.32%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.99%) Ruby
15 8 (0.88%) Delphi
16 7 (0.77%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.77%) Scala
17 6 (0.66%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.44%) Groovy
18 4 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 139 (15.27%) Degree
2 134 (14.73%) Security Cleared
3 86 (9.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 86 (9.45%) SC Cleared
4 64 (7.03%) AWS Certification
4 64 (7.03%) DV Cleared
5 47 (5.16%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (1.76%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
8 14 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.43%) CISSP
10 8 (0.88%) CISM
10 8 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
11 7 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (0.77%) PhD
11 7 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (0.66%) ACMT
12 6 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.01%) QA
2 41 (4.51%) GDPR
3 27 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.20%) NIST
6 15 (1.65%) PCI DSS
7 14 (1.54%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.32%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.99%) NCSC
10 8 (0.88%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.88%) WCAG
11 7 (0.77%) GRC
11 7 (0.77%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.44%) EMIR
14 4 (0.44%) SLA
15 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.22%) ECSS
15 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 606 (66.59%) Docker
2 49 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (4.84%) Active Directory
4 28 (3.08%) Hyper-V
5 20 (2.20%) vSphere
6 14 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.77%) NFS
9 5 (0.55%) KVM
9 5 (0.55%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.44%) Lustre
10 4 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.44%) vCloud
11 2 (0.22%) Ceph
11 2 (0.22%) GPFS
11 2 (0.22%) RACF
11 2 (0.22%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.11%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 584 (64.18%) Kubernetes
2 320 (35.16%) Terraform
3 135 (14.84%) Ansible
4 112 (12.31%) Grafana
5 91 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.64%) Kubeflow
7 14 (1.54%) Argo
8 12 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (1.10%) Control-M
10 10 (1.10%) Puppet
11 8 (0.88%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.88%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 6 (0.66%) Autotask
13 6 (0.66%) SCCM
13 6 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.55%) Rancher
14 5 (0.55%) SCOM
14 5 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 120 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.59%) Oracle
3 59 (6.48%) VMware
4 52 (5.71%) Google
5 40 (4.40%) Databricks
6 36 (3.96%) Red Hat
7 31 (3.41%) Splunk
8 27 (2.97%) SAP
9 23 (2.53%) Cisco
10 22 (2.42%) Palo Alto
11 21 (2.31%) OpenAI
12 20 (2.20%) Dell
13 12 (1.32%) Atlassian
14 11 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
14 11 (1.21%) Fortinet
15 10 (1.10%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.99%) Dynatrace
16 9 (0.99%) Pure Storage
17 8 (0.88%) Commvault
17 8 (0.88%) Salesforce