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 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 161 119
Rank change year-on-year 0 -42 +21
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 914 1,125 1,500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.76% 1.68% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 2.02% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 609 707 1,088
10th Percentile £48,165 £48,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 45,079 55,610 50,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.73% 82.82% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 26,713 28,851 38,354
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,425
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.96% +2.86% -

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 11 November 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 11 November 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 -1 840 £72,500 +3.57% 891
UK excluding London 0 447 £65,000 - 458
London +22 401 £85,000 -5.56% 473
Work from Home +11 318 £67,500 -3.57% 496
North of England +4 164 £65,000 +8.33% 144
North West +16 106 £65,000 +8.33% 95
South West +3 92 £60,000 -11.11% 74
South East -9 72 £75,000 +11.11% 126
Midlands +30 60 £67,500 +3.85% 57
West Midlands +28 41 £70,000 +7.69% 44
Yorkshire -32 37 £68,500 +24.55% 32
Scotland -10 32 £70,000 - 18
East of England +4 24 £58,750 -6.00% 28
North East +18 21 £60,000 +14.29% 17
East Midlands +21 19 £55,000 +32.53% 13
Wales +5 17 £77,500 +19.23% 2
Northern Ireland -3 5 £43,092 -33.35% 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 52 (5.69%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (2.84%) Apache
4 17 (1.86%) CMS
5 16 (1.75%) Confluence
6 15 (1.64%) IIS
7 13 (1.42%) Apache Solr
8 7 (0.77%) nginx
9 5 (0.55%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.22%) CICS
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.11%) FileNet
12 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (1.53%) Maya
2 4 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.44%) Sketch
3 2 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Shopify
2 3 (0.33%) Endur
3 2 (0.22%) Magento
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 538 (58.86%) AWS
2 469 (51.31%) Azure
3 231 (25.27%) GCP
4 166 (18.16%) GitHub
5 125 (13.68%) Serverless
6 115 (12.58%) Azure DevOps
7 109 (11.93%) GitHub Actions
8 79 (8.64%) Amazon S3
9 74 (8.10%) AWS Lambda
10 71 (7.77%) Amazon EKS
11 65 (7.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 59 (6.46%) Amazon EC2
12 59 (6.46%) SaaS
13 58 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 37 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
14 37 (4.05%) OpenShift
15 36 (3.94%) Amazon SQS
16 34 (3.72%) PaaS
17 32 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
17 32 (3.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.03%) Firewall
2 28 (3.06%) DNS
3 19 (2.08%) DHCP
4 17 (1.86%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.75%) VPN
5 16 (1.75%) WAN
6 15 (1.64%) LAN
7 14 (1.53%) Network Security
8 10 (1.09%) Fibre Channel
9 9 (0.98%) IPsec
10 8 (0.88%) VLAN
11 7 (0.77%) AMQP
12 6 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.66%) SAN
12 6 (0.66%) VoIP
12 6 (0.66%) Wireless
13 5 (0.55%) HTTP
14 4 (0.44%) Broadband
14 4 (0.44%) Internet
14 4 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (11.05%) NoSQL
3 69 (7.55%) SQL Server
4 68 (7.44%) MongoDB
5 53 (5.80%) DynamoDB
6 52 (5.69%) Amazon RDS
7 49 (5.36%) Relational Database
8 47 (5.14%) MySQL
9 35 (3.83%) Big Data
10 25 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
11 23 (2.52%) Metadata
12 20 (2.19%) Spark SQL
13 19 (2.08%) Delta Lake
14 18 (1.97%) RDBMS
15 16 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
16 14 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (1.53%) Tick Data
17 13 (1.42%) Hadoop
18 10 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
18 10 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 168 (18.38%) Git
2 120 (13.13%) Jenkins
3 102 (11.16%) GitLab
4 36 (3.94%) JIRA
5 29 (3.17%) MLflow
6 28 (3.06%) SonarQube
7 24 (2.63%) Cucumber
8 22 (2.41%) TeamCity
9 21 (2.30%) JUnit
10 20 (2.19%) CircleCI
11 18 (1.97%) Selenium
12 14 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
13 13 (1.42%) Bitbucket
14 11 (1.20%) JMeter
15 10 (1.09%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.98%) Maven
16 9 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
17 8 (0.88%) Mockito
18 7 (0.77%) DbUnit
18 7 (0.77%) jMock
General
1 273 (29.87%) Social Skills
2 238 (26.04%) Finance
3 101 (11.05%) Law
4 96 (10.50%) Public Sector
5 93 (10.18%) Marketing
6 79 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
8 52 (5.69%) Banking
9 38 (4.16%) Telecoms
10 31 (3.39%) Manufacturing
11 30 (3.28%) Retail
12 28 (3.06%) Games
13 24 (2.63%) Electronics
14 21 (2.30%) Front Office
15 13 (1.42%) Legal
16 11 (1.20%) Advertising
16 11 (1.20%) French Language
16 11 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (1.09%) Dutch Language
17 10 (1.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 215 (23.52%) Developer
2 185 (20.24%) Senior
3 136 (14.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 135 (14.77%) Lead
5 111 (12.14%) Software Engineer
6 60 (6.56%) Architect
6 60 (6.56%) Senior Developer
7 58 (6.35%) Python Developer
8 47 (5.14%) Python Engineer
9 45 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
10 44 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
11 41 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
11 41 (4.49%) Lead Developer
12 40 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
13 38 (4.16%) Software Developer
14 36 (3.94%) Backend Developer
14 36 (3.94%) Data Engineer
14 36 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 33 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
16 31 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (15.43%) React
2 131 (14.33%) .NET
3 130 (14.22%) RESTful
4 93 (10.18%) Spring
5 85 (9.30%) Spring Boot
6 73 (7.99%) Kafka
7 68 (7.44%) REST
8 66 (7.22%) Node.js
9 65 (7.11%) AngularJS
10 63 (6.89%) FastAPI
11 55 (6.02%) .NET Core
12 54 (5.91%) HTML
13 52 (5.69%) CSS
14 47 (5.14%) Flask
15 42 (4.60%) PyTorch
16 39 (4.27%) Elastic Stack
16 39 (4.27%) Pandas
17 36 (3.94%) TensorFlow
17 36 (3.94%) YAML
18 35 (3.83%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 208 (22.76%) Cloud Native
2 93 (10.18%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (4.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 36 (3.94%) Management Information System
5 32 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (3.50%) Linux Command Line
6 30 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (3.17%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.06%) Algorithms
9 27 (2.95%) Public Cloud
10 25 (2.74%) Product Ownership
11 23 (2.52%) Data Centre
12 21 (2.30%) Fixed Income
13 19 (2.08%) e-Learning
14 18 (1.97%) Blockchain
15 16 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
16 14 (1.53%) Data Structures
17 10 (1.09%) AI Agents
18 9 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
18 9 (0.98%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 189 (20.68%) Linux
2 105 (11.49%) Windows
3 50 (5.47%) Windows Server
4 37 (4.05%) Unix
5 33 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (1.64%) Ubuntu
7 13 (1.42%) VMS
8 11 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (1.09%) CentOS
10 9 (0.98%) Debian
11 8 (0.88%) Rocky
12 6 (0.66%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.22%) Android
14 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.22%) zOS
15 1 (0.11%) Fedora
15 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
15 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (60.83%) CI/CD
2 483 (52.84%) DevOps
3 342 (37.42%) Agile
4 287 (31.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 254 (27.79%) Microservices
6 243 (26.59%) Problem-Solving
7 216 (23.63%) AI
8 213 (23.30%) Software Engineering
9 175 (19.15%) Mentoring
10 152 (16.63%) Test Automation
11 123 (13.46%) Machine Learning
12 112 (12.25%) Observability
13 107 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 104 (11.38%) Full-Stack Development
15 95 (10.39%) Computer Science
16 86 (9.41%) Analytics
17 84 (9.19%) Data Science
17 84 (9.19%) Platform Engineering
18 80 (8.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 77 (8.42%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 438 (47.92%) Python
2 195 (21.33%) Java
3 180 (19.69%) SQL
4 143 (15.65%) JavaScript
5 137 (14.99%) C#
6 106 (11.60%) Bash
7 92 (10.07%) PowerShell
8 50 (5.47%) TypeScript
9 40 (4.38%) Go
10 29 (3.17%) Bicep
11 21 (2.30%) PHP
12 16 (1.75%) C++
13 12 (1.31%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.88%) Delphi
14 8 (0.88%) Scala
14 8 (0.88%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.77%) Ruby
15 7 (0.77%) Rust
16 6 (0.66%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 127 (13.89%) Degree
2 123 (13.46%) Security Cleared
3 77 (8.42%) SC Cleared
4 75 (8.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (7.11%) AWS Certification
6 61 (6.67%) DV Cleared
7 44 (4.81%) Azure Certification
8 29 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (1.75%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.31%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (0.98%) CISSP
13 8 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
14 7 (0.77%) CISM
14 7 (0.77%) PhD
14 7 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (0.66%) ACMT
15 6 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 6 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (9.08%) QA
2 36 (3.94%) GDPR
3 20 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.86%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.86%) NIST
5 13 (1.42%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.20%) HIPAA
7 9 (0.98%) SOC 2
8 8 (0.88%) WCAG
9 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.55%) GRC
11 3 (0.33%) EMIR
11 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.33%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.33%) NCSC
12 2 (0.22%) ECSS
12 2 (0.22%) PSD2
13 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.11%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 593 (64.88%) Docker
2 56 (6.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (4.16%) Active Directory
4 29 (3.17%) Hyper-V
5 22 (2.41%) vSphere
6 11 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.09%) NFS
8 9 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.44%) KVM
9 4 (0.44%) vCloud
9 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.22%) Ceph
10 2 (0.22%) Lustre
10 2 (0.22%) Postfix
10 2 (0.22%) RACF
10 2 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.22%) Terminal Server
10 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.11%) HDFS
11 1 (0.11%) iptables
Systems Management
1 573 (62.69%) Kubernetes
2 312 (34.14%) Terraform
3 124 (13.57%) Ansible
4 106 (11.60%) Grafana
5 89 (9.74%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.63%) Kubeflow
7 11 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (1.09%) Argo
8 10 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.98%) Control-M
9 9 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.98%) Puppet
10 8 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.88%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 6 (0.66%) Autotask
12 6 (0.66%) SCCM
13 5 (0.55%) SCOM
13 5 (0.55%) WSUS
14 4 (0.44%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 112 (12.25%) Microsoft
2 66 (7.22%) Oracle
3 64 (7.00%) VMware
4 59 (6.46%) Google
5 49 (5.36%) Red Hat
6 39 (4.27%) Databricks
7 32 (3.50%) Splunk
8 31 (3.39%) SAP
9 29 (3.17%) Cisco
10 23 (2.52%) IBM
11 19 (2.08%) Dell
12 18 (1.97%) Atlassian
12 18 (1.97%) Palo Alto
13 15 (1.64%) Pure Storage
14 14 (1.53%) Commvault
15 12 (1.31%) OpenAI
16 11 (1.20%) Fortinet
17 10 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
18 8 (0.88%) MuleSoft
19 7 (0.77%) Salesforce