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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 115 198
Rank change year-on-year -38 +83 -54
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,241 1,255 1,447
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.31% 2.76% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 3.00% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 863 650 1,082
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,081 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.34% +14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.42% +9.20% -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 69,702 41,872 87,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.38% 92.19% 82.13%
Number of salaries quoted 48,070 22,602 61,776
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,681 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% - -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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -34 1,136 £72,500 -9.38% 362
UK excluding London -39 664 £62,500 -8.42% 250
London -15 479 £80,000 -11.11% 179
Work from Home -38 437 £70,039 -2.72% 172
North of England -42 201 £65,000 - 62
South East +16 167 £65,000 - 84
South West -1 158 £55,000 -26.67% 45
North West -39 103 £70,000 +16.67% 33
Midlands -77 61 £70,000 +7.69% 29
Yorkshire -45 59 £70,932 +1.33% 14
East of England -19 43 £60,000 -11.11% 11
North East -14 39 £55,000 -15.38% 15
West Midlands -53 34 £70,505 +4.45% 19
Wales -32 29 £67,500 +12.50% 7
East Midlands -50 27 £64,000 +6.67% 10
Scotland -68 6 £60,000 -25.00% 12
Northern Ireland -32 5 £62,500 +45.04% 7

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 34 (2.74%) Apache
2 28 (2.26%) Confluence
3 27 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (2.10%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.73%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.48%) Appian
6 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.32%) IIS
9 3 (0.24%) Camunda
9 3 (0.24%) CMS
9 3 (0.24%) WordPress
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.081%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.081%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.081%) nginx
11 1 (0.081%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.081%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.24%) Blender
4 3 (0.24%) Maya
5 1 (0.081%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 743 (59.87%) AWS
2 624 (50.28%) Azure
3 326 (26.27%) GCP
4 211 (17.00%) GitHub
5 178 (14.34%) Serverless
6 146 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
7 143 (11.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 120 (9.67%) Azure DevOps
9 107 (8.62%) Azure AKS
10 100 (8.06%) OpenShift
11 98 (7.90%) AWS Lambda
12 97 (7.82%) Amazon S3
13 82 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 80 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
15 73 (5.88%) Datadog
16 70 (5.64%) SaaS
17 64 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
18 63 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
19 53 (4.27%) IaaS
20 44 (3.55%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 72 (5.80%) Broadband
2 71 (5.72%) Firewall
3 70 (5.64%) DNS
4 38 (3.06%) TCP/IP
5 35 (2.82%) Network Security
6 26 (2.10%) VPN
7 22 (1.77%) HTTP
8 17 (1.37%) MQTT
9 13 (1.05%) DMARC
9 13 (1.05%) VLAN
10 11 (0.89%) BGP
10 11 (0.89%) OSPF
10 11 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
10 11 (0.89%) VXLAN
11 8 (0.64%) AMQP
11 8 (0.64%) DHCP
11 8 (0.64%) IPv4
11 8 (0.64%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (10.48%) NoSQL
2 123 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (6.61%) MongoDB
4 65 (5.24%) Relational Database
5 59 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
6 57 (4.59%) SQL Server
7 55 (4.43%) MySQL
8 50 (4.03%) DynamoDB
9 37 (2.98%) Redis
10 30 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (1.69%) RDBMS
12 19 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
12 19 (1.53%) Pinecone
13 13 (1.05%) Big Data
14 11 (0.89%) Metadata
15 10 (0.81%) InfluxDB
15 10 (0.81%) Power BI
16 9 (0.73%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (0.64%) DTS
Development Applications
1 224 (18.05%) Git
2 195 (15.71%) Jenkins
3 174 (14.02%) GitLab
4 46 (3.71%) CircleCI
5 40 (3.22%) JIRA
6 28 (2.26%) Bitbucket
7 23 (1.85%) Cypress.io
8 21 (1.69%) JUnit
9 20 (1.61%) Maven
10 19 (1.53%) Mockito
11 17 (1.37%) Selenium
11 17 (1.37%) Vite
12 14 (1.13%) Cucumber
12 14 (1.13%) SonarQube
13 13 (1.05%) MLflow
14 12 (0.97%) Jaeger
15 10 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (0.73%) Robot Framework
16 9 (0.73%) TestRail
17 8 (0.64%) Gatling
General
1 341 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 241 (19.42%) Finance
3 101 (8.14%) Public Sector
4 91 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.69%) Banking
6 74 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (4.75%) Law
8 44 (3.55%) Telecoms
9 27 (2.18%) Manufacturing
10 26 (2.10%) Aerospace
11 18 (1.45%) Retail
12 16 (1.29%) Games
13 15 (1.21%) Legal
14 13 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.05%) Front Office
15 9 (0.73%) Advertising
15 9 (0.73%) Electronics
15 9 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.73%) Marketing
15 9 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 271 (21.84%) Senior
2 259 (20.87%) Developer
3 183 (14.75%) Software Engineer
4 162 (13.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 160 (12.89%) Lead
6 125 (10.07%) Cloud Engineer
7 112 (9.02%) Architect
8 72 (5.80%) Senior Developer
9 68 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
9 68 (5.48%) Java Developer
10 58 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
10 58 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
11 51 (4.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 50 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
13 48 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 47 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
15 36 (2.90%) AWS DevOps
15 36 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
16 35 (2.82%) Software Developer
17 34 (2.74%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (14.59%) React
2 179 (14.42%) RESTful
3 153 (12.33%) Spring
4 150 (12.09%) .NET
5 146 (11.76%) Spring Boot
6 134 (10.80%) Node.js
7 130 (10.48%) REST
8 126 (10.15%) Kafka
9 80 (6.45%) gRPC
10 78 (6.29%) AngularJS
11 76 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
12 63 (5.08%) OAuth
13 61 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
14 53 (4.27%) .NET Core
15 44 (3.55%) JSON
15 44 (3.55%) OAuth2
16 43 (3.46%) FastAPI
17 40 (3.22%) YAML
18 37 (2.98%) CSS
18 37 (2.98%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 323 (26.03%) Cloud Native
2 158 (12.73%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.63%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.63%) Video\Live Streaming
5 31 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.26%) Onboarding
8 27 (2.18%) Data Centre
8 27 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (2.18%) Public Cloud
9 26 (2.10%) Blockchain
10 24 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.77%) PKI
12 21 (1.69%) Web3
13 19 (1.53%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.45%) AI Agents
14 18 (1.45%) Management Information System
15 17 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 246 (19.82%) Linux
2 89 (7.17%) Windows
3 36 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.74%) Ubuntu
5 33 (2.66%) CentOS
5 33 (2.66%) Unix
6 20 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.73%) Debian
8 4 (0.32%) VMS
9 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.16%) Android
9 2 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.16%) Rocky
10 1 (0.081%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.081%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 850 (68.49%) CI/CD
2 601 (48.43%) DevOps
3 534 (43.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 481 (38.76%) Agile
5 412 (33.20%) Microservices
6 408 (32.88%) Software Engineering
7 323 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
8 252 (20.31%) Test Automation
9 247 (19.90%) Mentoring
10 245 (19.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 235 (18.94%) Observability
12 224 (18.05%) AI
13 176 (14.18%) Full-Stack Development
14 171 (13.78%) Event-Driven
15 161 (12.97%) Platform Engineering
16 141 (11.36%) Clean Code
17 139 (11.20%) Continuous Delivery
18 137 (11.04%) High Availability
18 137 (11.04%) Machine Learning
19 122 (9.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 581 (46.82%) Python
2 313 (25.22%) Java
3 236 (19.02%) JavaScript
4 188 (15.15%) SQL
5 184 (14.83%) Bash
6 156 (12.57%) C#
7 154 (12.41%) TypeScript
8 139 (11.20%) Go
9 138 (11.12%) PowerShell
10 53 (4.27%) Scala
11 49 (3.95%) Bicep
12 42 (3.38%) C++
13 28 (2.26%) Ruby
13 28 (2.26%) Rust
14 25 (2.01%) PHP
15 24 (1.93%) Kotlin
16 18 (1.45%) Groovy
17 15 (1.21%) C
18 11 (0.89%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 287 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 156 (12.57%) SC Cleared
3 128 (10.31%) Degree
4 84 (6.77%) DV Cleared
5 73 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (4.59%) Azure Certification
7 50 (4.03%) AWS Certification
8 20 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.13%) CISSP
11 12 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.89%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.81%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.64%) CCNA
14 8 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.64%) OSCP
14 8 (0.64%) RHCE
14 8 (0.64%) RHCSA
15 7 (0.56%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (8.22%) QA
2 36 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 34 (2.74%) GDPR
4 31 (2.50%) PCI DSS
5 29 (2.34%) Data Quality
6 27 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (1.77%) NIST
8 15 (1.21%) WCAG
9 14 (1.13%) SOC 2
10 13 (1.05%) NCSC
11 11 (0.89%) GRC
11 11 (0.89%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.24%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.081%) DO-178B
16 1 (0.081%) SLA
System Software
1 758 (61.08%) Docker
2 40 (3.22%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (2.66%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.81%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.81%) vSphere
6 9 (0.73%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.64%) Squid
8 7 (0.56%) KVM
9 6 (0.48%) Firmware
10 4 (0.32%) iptables
10 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.24%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.081%) QEMU
12 1 (0.081%) Xen
Systems Management
1 739 (59.55%) Kubernetes
2 478 (38.52%) Terraform
3 196 (15.79%) Ansible
4 167 (13.46%) Grafana
5 152 (12.25%) Prometheus
6 40 (3.22%) Argo
7 27 (2.18%) Puppet
8 23 (1.85%) Istio
8 23 (1.85%) Progress Chef
9 21 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (1.37%) Nagios
10 17 (1.37%) Podman
11 13 (1.05%) Packer
12 12 (0.97%) Kibana
12 12 (0.97%) Kustomize
12 12 (0.97%) linkerd
13 11 (0.89%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.81%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.48%) logstash
Vendors
1 132 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 96 (7.74%) Google
3 62 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 48 (3.87%) Splunk
5 45 (3.63%) Typelevel
6 40 (3.22%) VMware
7 38 (3.06%) Oracle
8 28 (2.26%) OpenAI
9 25 (2.01%) Dynatrace
10 18 (1.45%) Cisco
11 17 (1.37%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.13%) Fortinet
13 13 (1.05%) SendGrid
14 12 (0.97%) Zscaler
15 11 (0.89%) Databricks
15 11 (0.89%) Salesforce
16 10 (0.81%) Confluent
16 10 (0.81%) IBM
16 10 (0.81%) NVIDIA
16 10 (0.81%) ServiceNow