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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 131 154
Rank change year-on-year -26 +23 -33
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,490 1,169 1,210
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.25% 2.38% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 2.67% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 922 593 744
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,677 £48,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £119,750 £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 87,229 43,738 58,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 88.90% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 59,718 24,553 31,325
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,925
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,243 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,600
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.70% -2.59%

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 15 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 15 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 -24 1,294 £72,500 -3.33% 302
UK excluding London -20 925 £67,500 +3.85% 217
Work from Home -43 458 £68,724 +0.33% 167
London -40 452 £80,000 -5.88% 123
North of England -17 276 £66,000 +1.54% 50
South West +6 218 £70,000 +7.69% 59
South East -7 169 £65,000 -13.33% 50
North West -36 147 £75,000 +15.38% 28
Midlands -59 97 £70,000 - 23
North East -10 78 £60,000 - 12
Northern Ireland -29 59 - - 3
West Midlands -54 58 £82,500 +17.86% 18
East of England -43 55 £72,500 +23.40% 12
Yorkshire -19 51 £70,000 +2.19% 13
Wales -35 50 £62,000 -17.33% 8
East Midlands -41 39 £70,000 +27.27% 5
Scotland -51 12 £90,000 +28.57% 14

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 56 (3.76%) Apache
2 43 (2.89%) Apache Spark
3 37 (2.48%) Confluence
4 30 (2.01%) 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%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.067%) Hedera
12 1 (0.067%) Oracle Coherence
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 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.067%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.067%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 846 (56.78%) AWS
2 767 (51.48%) Azure
3 339 (22.75%) GCP
4 247 (16.58%) GitHub
5 175 (11.74%) GitHub Actions
6 173 (11.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 139 (9.33%) Serverless
8 125 (8.39%) Cloud Computing
9 112 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
10 109 (7.32%) OpenShift
11 89 (5.97%) Azure AKS
12 88 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
13 85 (5.70%) Amazon S3
14 75 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
15 73 (4.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 73 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
16 69 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
17 54 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
18 53 (3.56%) Azure Service Bus
19 50 (3.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (4.97%) WAN
2 67 (4.50%) Firewall
2 67 (4.50%) LAN
3 61 (4.09%) DNS
4 53 (3.56%) Network Security
5 44 (2.95%) VPN
6 39 (2.62%) Internet
7 34 (2.28%) TCP/IP
8 31 (2.08%) MQTT
9 19 (1.28%) BGP
10 18 (1.21%) OSPF
11 17 (1.14%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.07%) VLAN
13 15 (1.01%) DMARC
14 12 (0.81%) Wireshark
15 9 (0.60%) AMQP
15 9 (0.60%) HTTP
16 8 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
16 8 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
16 8 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (5.77%) NoSQL
3 67 (4.50%) MongoDB
4 66 (4.43%) MySQL
5 47 (3.15%) Relational Database
6 41 (2.75%) DynamoDB
6 41 (2.75%) Redis
7 38 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
9 27 (1.81%) SQL Server
10 21 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
11 20 (1.34%) Big Data
12 18 (1.21%) Metadata
13 17 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (0.94%) Hadoop
15 13 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
15 13 (0.87%) Pinecone
16 12 (0.81%) Data Lake
17 10 (0.67%) DTS
Development Applications
1 322 (21.61%) Git
2 210 (14.09%) Jenkins
3 188 (12.62%) GitLab
4 35 (2.35%) JIRA
5 25 (1.68%) Bitbucket
5 25 (1.68%) JUnit
6 23 (1.54%) Maven
7 20 (1.34%) SonarQube
8 19 (1.28%) Claude Code
8 19 (1.28%) Selenium
9 18 (1.21%) Mockito
10 16 (1.07%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 11 (0.74%) MLflow
13 10 (0.67%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.60%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.60%) GDB
14 9 (0.60%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.60%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.60%) TestRail
General
1 474 (31.81%) Social Skills
2 350 (23.49%) Finance
3 207 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 132 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 91 (6.11%) Law
7 90 (6.04%) Banking
8 71 (4.77%) Presentation Skills
9 39 (2.62%) Aerospace
10 33 (2.21%) Legal
10 33 (2.21%) Retail
11 27 (1.81%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.34%) 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
1 321 (21.54%) Senior
2 270 (18.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 258 (17.32%) Developer
4 228 (15.30%) Architect
5 223 (14.97%) Software Engineer
6 178 (11.95%) Lead
7 97 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 86 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
9 78 (5.23%) Senior Developer
10 69 (4.63%) Java Developer
11 65 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
11 65 (4.36%) Systems Architect
12 59 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 50 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
14 47 (3.15%) Lead DevOps
14 47 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 46 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
16 45 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
17 41 (2.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 41 (2.75%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 543 (36.44%) Terraform
2 225 (15.10%) Spring
3 212 (14.23%) Spring Boot
4 206 (13.83%) RESTful
5 178 (11.95%) React
6 160 (10.74%) Kafka
7 143 (9.60%) Node.js
8 136 (9.13%) REST
9 112 (7.52%) .NET
10 86 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
11 66 (4.43%) AngularJS
12 53 (3.56%) FastAPI
12 53 (3.56%) OAuth
13 50 (3.36%) CSS
14 48 (3.22%) OpenAPI
15 43 (2.89%) Swagger
16 42 (2.82%) OAuth2
17 40 (2.68%) LangChain
18 39 (2.62%) GraphQL
19 38 (2.55%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 439 (29.46%) Cloud Native
2 168 (11.28%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 53 (3.56%) Linux Command Line
5 52 (3.49%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (2.55%) AI Agents
8 37 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (2.42%) Data Centre
10 32 (2.15%) Public Cloud
11 31 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 31 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.88%) Algorithms
12 28 (1.88%) PKI
13 27 (1.81%) Blog
14 26 (1.74%) Data Structures
15 25 (1.68%) Virtual Team
16 22 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
16 22 (1.48%) Security Posture
17 20 (1.34%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 347 (23.29%) Linux
2 85 (5.70%) Windows
3 44 (2.95%) Unix
4 31 (2.08%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.01%) CentOS
6 20 (1.34%) 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 1,008 (67.65%) CI/CD
2 771 (51.74%) DevOps
3 763 (51.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 525 (35.23%) Agile
5 466 (31.28%) Software Engineering
6 418 (28.05%) Microservices
7 375 (25.17%) Mentoring
8 337 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
9 326 (21.88%) AI
10 301 (20.20%) Observability
11 296 (19.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 274 (18.39%) Test Automation
13 269 (18.05%) Platform Engineering
14 260 (17.45%) Event-Driven
15 212 (14.23%) Roadmaps
16 185 (12.42%) Technical Leadership
17 182 (12.21%) DevSecOps
18 170 (11.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 155 (10.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 152 (10.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 668 (44.83%) Python
2 414 (27.79%) Java
3 201 (13.49%) JavaScript
4 198 (13.29%) Bash
5 176 (11.81%) TypeScript
6 175 (11.74%) SQL
7 130 (8.72%) C#
8 121 (8.12%) PowerShell
9 91 (6.11%) Go
10 61 (4.09%) C++
11 56 (3.76%) Bicep
12 51 (3.42%) Shell Script
13 37 (2.48%) Rust
14 35 (2.35%) Ruby
15 19 (1.28%) Groovy
16 16 (1.07%) Scala
17 15 (1.01%) Kotlin
17 15 (1.01%) PHP
18 14 (0.94%) PL/SQL
19 13 (0.87%) C
Qualifications
1 486 (32.62%) Security Cleared
2 235 (15.77%) SC Cleared
3 194 (13.02%) DV Cleared
4 160 (10.74%) Degree
5 95 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 69 (4.63%) AWS Certification
7 51 (3.42%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.88%) CISSP
10 26 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.07%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 13 (0.87%) CCNP
14 12 (0.81%) OSCP
15 11 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 10 (0.67%) CISM
17 9 (0.60%) ISTQB
17 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
18 8 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (8.79%) QA
2 74 (4.97%) GRC
3 63 (4.23%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.62%) Data Quality
5 33 (2.21%) NCSC
6 31 (2.08%) GDPR
7 29 (1.95%) NIST
8 23 (1.54%) PCI DSS
9 20 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (1.14%) WCAG
11 11 (0.74%) JSP 440
12 9 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.54%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 6 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.20%) SLA
17 2 (0.13%) COBIT
17 2 (0.13%) RMADS
17 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 840 (56.38%) Docker
2 44 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (2.68%) 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
1 853 (57.25%) Kubernetes
2 226 (15.17%) Ansible
3 145 (9.73%) Grafana
4 116 (7.79%) Prometheus
5 41 (2.75%) Puppet
6 40 (2.68%) Argo
7 33 (2.21%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.41%) Istio
9 17 (1.14%) Kibana
10 16 (1.07%) linkerd
11 15 (1.01%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.87%) Nagios
13 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (0.67%) Packer
15 9 (0.60%) logstash
15 9 (0.60%) ZABBIX
16 8 (0.54%) Rancher
17 7 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
18 6 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
18 6 (0.40%) Podman
Vendors
1 266 (17.85%) Microsoft
2 115 (7.72%) Google
3 66 (4.43%) Splunk
4 50 (3.36%) Red Hat
4 50 (3.36%) VMware
5 45 (3.02%) 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 11 (0.74%) Databricks
12 10 (0.67%) Cisco
12 10 (0.67%) Mistral
12 10 (0.67%) Okta
13 9 (0.60%) ForgeRock
13 9 (0.60%) Rapid7