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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 113 199
Rank change year-on-year -49 +86 -55
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,186 1,215 1,448
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 2.84% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 3.05% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 794 632 1,099
10th Percentile £45,895 £48,688 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £105,000
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 68,898 39,816 83,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.92% 93.23% 83.93%
Number of salaries quoted 44,884 20,923 60,289
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,000 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,324 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.29% +2.65% -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 28 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 28 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 -44 1,090 £72,500 -7.94% 473
UK excluding London -53 623 £62,500 -7.41% 305
London -18 471 £80,000 -11.11% 215
Work from Home -30 440 £70,505 -2.06% 240
North of England -60 194 £65,000 -3.70% 83
South East +17 161 £70,000 +7.69% 80
South West -2 139 £55,000 -23.87% 65
North West -47 97 £70,466 +8.41% 49
Yorkshire -55 62 £65,000 -7.14% 15
Midlands -95 60 £70,000 +16.67% 27
East of England -36 39 £60,000 -11.11% 18
North East -21 35 £52,000 -22.43% 19
West Midlands -68 32 £70,505 +8.47% 16
East Midlands -59 28 £64,000 +6.67% 11
Wales -28 20 £57,500 -4.17% 11
Scotland -71 11 £60,000 -31.43% 19
Northern Ireland - 5 £62,500 - 4

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 (2.61%) Apache
2 22 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.60%) Confluence
5 10 (0.84%) Appian
6 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.42%) IIS
8 5 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.34%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.25%) Camunda
10 3 (0.25%) CMS
10 3 (0.25%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Qpid
12 1 (0.084%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.084%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.084%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.084%) nginx
12 1 (0.084%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.084%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.51%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.42%) Maya
4 4 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.17%) Blender
6 1 (0.084%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.084%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
2 3 (0.25%) Shopify
3 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 698 (58.85%) AWS
2 604 (50.93%) Azure
3 328 (27.66%) GCP
4 194 (16.36%) GitHub
5 172 (14.50%) Serverless
6 138 (11.64%) GitHub Actions
7 129 (10.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 125 (10.54%) Azure DevOps
9 103 (8.68%) Azure AKS
10 97 (8.18%) AWS Lambda
11 93 (7.84%) Amazon S3
12 86 (7.25%) OpenShift
13 81 (6.83%) Datadog
14 75 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 71 (5.99%) Amazon EC2
16 65 (5.48%) SaaS
17 50 (4.22%) Amazon ECS
18 49 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
19 48 (4.05%) IaaS
20 39 (3.29%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 76 (6.41%) Broadband
2 71 (5.99%) Firewall
3 63 (5.31%) DNS
4 36 (3.04%) TCP/IP
5 30 (2.53%) Network Security
6 25 (2.11%) HTTP
7 17 (1.43%) VPN
8 12 (1.01%) MQTT
9 11 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
10 8 (0.67%) AMQP
11 7 (0.59%) DHCP
11 7 (0.59%) DMARC
11 7 (0.59%) IPv4
12 6 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.51%) DMZ
12 6 (0.51%) Wireshark
13 5 (0.42%) VLAN
14 4 (0.34%) BGP
14 4 (0.34%) OSPF
14 4 (0.34%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (11.97%) NoSQL
2 103 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
3 75 (6.32%) MongoDB
4 74 (6.24%) Relational Database
5 68 (5.73%) SQL Server
6 62 (5.23%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (4.22%) MySQL
8 47 (3.96%) DynamoDB
9 31 (2.61%) RDBMS
9 31 (2.61%) Redis
10 30 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (1.85%) Pinecone
12 13 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.01%) Big Data
14 10 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (0.84%) Metadata
15 9 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.76%) InfluxDB
15 9 (0.76%) Power BI
16 8 (0.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 216 (18.21%) Git
2 179 (15.09%) Jenkins
3 154 (12.98%) GitLab
4 48 (4.05%) CircleCI
5 35 (2.95%) JIRA
6 26 (2.19%) Bitbucket
6 26 (2.19%) JUnit
7 22 (1.85%) Cypress.io
8 21 (1.77%) Maven
8 21 (1.77%) Mockito
9 18 (1.52%) Jaeger
10 17 (1.43%) MLflow
11 16 (1.35%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.35%) Vite
12 13 (1.10%) Cucumber
13 12 (1.01%) Selenium
14 10 (0.84%) JMeter
15 8 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 8 (0.67%) Robot Framework
15 8 (0.67%) TestRail
General
1 328 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 235 (19.81%) Finance
3 88 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (7.08%) Public Sector
5 75 (6.32%) Banking
6 63 (5.31%) Law
7 62 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (4.64%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.19%) Aerospace
10 22 (1.85%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.60%) Retail
12 18 (1.52%) Front Office
13 14 (1.18%) Games
14 13 (1.10%) Billing
14 13 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (0.93%) Legal
15 11 (0.93%) Marketing
16 10 (0.84%) Electronics
16 10 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 276 (23.27%) Senior
2 256 (21.59%) Developer
3 178 (15.01%) Software Engineer
4 155 (13.07%) Lead
5 148 (12.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 117 (9.87%) Cloud Engineer
7 90 (7.59%) Architect
8 77 (6.49%) Senior Developer
9 69 (5.82%) Java Developer
10 67 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
11 58 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
12 46 (3.88%) Full-Stack Developer
13 44 (3.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 43 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
15 41 (3.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 40 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
17 35 (2.95%) Senior DevOps
18 33 (2.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 31 (2.61%) AWS DevOps
20 30 (2.53%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (15.09%) React
2 166 (14.00%) RESTful
3 154 (12.98%) .NET
4 141 (11.89%) Spring
5 129 (10.88%) REST
6 128 (10.79%) Spring Boot
7 116 (9.78%) Node.js
8 114 (9.61%) Kafka
9 87 (7.34%) gRPC
10 73 (6.16%) AngularJS
11 65 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
12 64 (5.40%) Elastic Stack
13 61 (5.14%) OAuth
14 58 (4.89%) .NET Core
15 44 (3.71%) FastAPI
16 41 (3.46%) JSON
17 39 (3.29%) OAuth2
18 36 (3.04%) Django
18 36 (3.04%) JWT
19 34 (2.87%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 278 (23.44%) Cloud Native
2 148 (12.48%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (5.82%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.79%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.79%) Video\Live Streaming
5 32 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (2.53%) Blockchain
7 29 (2.45%) Public Cloud
7 29 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 23 (1.94%) Onboarding
10 22 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.85%) PKI
10 22 (1.85%) Web3
11 19 (1.60%) Management Information System
12 18 (1.52%) AI Agents
13 16 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (1.26%) Algorithms
14 15 (1.26%) Data Centre
14 15 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 234 (19.73%) Linux
2 82 (6.91%) Windows
3 39 (3.29%) Unix
4 38 (3.20%) Ubuntu
5 32 (2.70%) Windows Server
6 30 (2.53%) CentOS
7 21 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.76%) Debian
9 8 (0.67%) Android
10 7 (0.59%) VMS
11 4 (0.34%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.084%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (67.96%) CI/CD
2 579 (48.82%) DevOps
3 487 (41.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 459 (38.70%) Agile
5 393 (33.14%) Microservices
6 367 (30.94%) Software Engineering
7 304 (25.63%) Problem-Solving
8 242 (20.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 237 (19.98%) Test Automation
10 233 (19.65%) Mentoring
11 222 (18.72%) AI
12 210 (17.71%) Observability
13 160 (13.49%) Full-Stack Development
14 148 (12.48%) Machine Learning
15 143 (12.06%) High Availability
16 136 (11.47%) Platform Engineering
17 133 (11.21%) Event-Driven
18 132 (11.13%) Continuous Delivery
19 131 (11.05%) Clean Code
20 129 (10.88%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 550 (46.37%) Python
2 294 (24.79%) Java
3 245 (20.66%) JavaScript
4 198 (16.69%) SQL
5 179 (15.09%) Bash
6 148 (12.48%) Go
7 143 (12.06%) C#
8 137 (11.55%) TypeScript
9 132 (11.13%) PowerShell
10 50 (4.22%) Scala
11 37 (3.12%) Bicep
12 36 (3.04%) C++
13 27 (2.28%) PHP
14 24 (2.02%) Rust
15 21 (1.77%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.35%) C
16 16 (1.35%) Ruby
17 15 (1.26%) Groovy
18 12 (1.01%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 251 (21.16%) Security Cleared
2 130 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 124 (10.46%) Degree
4 85 (7.17%) DV Cleared
5 71 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.72%) AWS Certification
7 54 (4.55%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (0.93%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (0.76%) CISSP
12 8 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 7 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.59%) CCNA
13 7 (0.59%) CISM
13 7 (0.59%) OSCP
13 7 (0.59%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (7.84%) QA
2 38 (3.20%) GDPR
3 32 (2.70%) PCI DSS
4 31 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (2.19%) Data Quality
7 23 (1.94%) NIST
8 16 (1.35%) SOC 2
9 12 (1.01%) GRC
9 12 (1.01%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.67%) WCAG
11 7 (0.59%) NCSC
12 6 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.17%) SLA
16 1 (0.084%) Actionable Recommendations
16 1 (0.084%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 741 (62.48%) Docker
2 36 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (2.45%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.84%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.84%) vSphere
6 7 (0.59%) Firmware
6 7 (0.59%) KVM
6 7 (0.59%) Squid
7 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.34%) iptables
8 3 (0.25%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.084%) QEMU
10 1 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.084%) Xen
Systems Management
1 707 (59.61%) Kubernetes
2 453 (38.20%) Terraform
3 193 (16.27%) Ansible
4 162 (13.66%) Grafana
5 154 (12.98%) Prometheus
6 44 (3.71%) Argo
7 26 (2.19%) Puppet
8 21 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.69%) Istio
10 18 (1.52%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.43%) Podman
11 17 (1.43%) Progress Chef
12 15 (1.26%) Nagios
13 11 (0.93%) Packer
14 10 (0.84%) Kibana
15 9 (0.76%) linkerd
16 8 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
16 8 (0.67%) ZABBIX
17 7 (0.59%) Mesos
18 6 (0.51%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 116 (9.78%) Microsoft
2 105 (8.85%) Google
3 57 (4.81%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.79%) Typelevel
5 41 (3.46%) Splunk
6 39 (3.29%) Oracle
7 35 (2.95%) VMware
8 29 (2.45%) OpenAI
9 25 (2.11%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.26%) Cisco
11 13 (1.10%) NVIDIA
11 13 (1.10%) Salesforce
12 11 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 11 (0.93%) Databricks
12 11 (0.93%) Palo Alto
13 10 (0.84%) Automation Anywhere
13 10 (0.84%) UiPath
14 9 (0.76%) Confluent
14 9 (0.76%) Fortinet
15 8 (0.67%) ServiceNow