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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 117 190
Rank change year-on-year -28 +73 -53
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,399 1,297 1,217
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.36% 2.62% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.93% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 930 663 840
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,175
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,148 £96,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £120,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 76,038 44,320 69,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 89.51% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52,466 25,228 46,329
10th Percentile £30,603 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -29 1,233 £72,500 -6.45% 769
UK excluding London -24 832 £65,000 -3.70% 425
Work from Home -37 502 £70,000 -2.77% 383
London -28 478 £80,000 -11.11% 430
North of England -32 232 £65,000 - 109
South East +26 196 £65,000 -1.89% 94
South West -3 190 £60,500 -19.33% 89
North West -34 123 £73,401 +22.33% 69
Midlands -74 74 £70,000 +7.69% 47
Yorkshire -30 57 £70,000 +2.19% 23
Northern Ireland -23 56 £73,801 +71.27% 23
North East -11 52 £55,000 -15.38% 17
West Midlands -58 47 £71,289 +5.61% 36
Wales -33 44 £67,500 +3.85% 19
East of England -24 42 £60,000 -2.83% 20
East Midlands -55 27 £62,500 +8.69% 11
Scotland -66 7 £60,000 -17.24% 25

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 45 (3.22%) Apache
2 34 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (2.43%) Apache Spark
2 34 (2.43%) Confluence
3 12 (0.86%) Jupyter
4 6 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.21%) Camunda
6 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.21%) IIS
6 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.21%) WordPress
7 2 (0.14%) nginx
7 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.071%) CMS
8 1 (0.071%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.071%) JBoss
8 1 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.071%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 805 (57.54%) AWS
2 721 (51.54%) Azure
3 346 (24.73%) GCP
4 216 (15.44%) GitHub
5 177 (12.65%) Serverless
6 163 (11.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 147 (10.51%) GitHub Actions
8 115 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
9 111 (7.93%) OpenShift
10 101 (7.22%) Azure AKS
11 95 (6.79%) AWS Lambda
12 94 (6.72%) Amazon S3
13 93 (6.65%) Cloud Computing
14 90 (6.43%) Amazon ECS
15 84 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 77 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
17 69 (4.93%) Datadog
18 67 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
19 63 (4.50%) SaaS
20 56 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 72 (5.15%) Firewall
2 70 (5.00%) WAN
3 67 (4.79%) DNS
4 63 (4.50%) LAN
5 51 (3.65%) Broadband
6 46 (3.29%) Network Security
7 40 (2.86%) TCP/IP
8 35 (2.50%) VPN
9 21 (1.50%) MQTT
10 18 (1.29%) BGP
10 18 (1.29%) OSPF
11 17 (1.22%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.14%) VLAN
13 14 (1.00%) HTTP
14 13 (0.93%) DMARC
14 13 (0.93%) Wireshark
15 10 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
16 8 (0.57%) IPv4
16 8 (0.57%) LTE
17 7 (0.50%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (10.22%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (7.93%) NoSQL
3 71 (5.08%) MongoDB
4 57 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (4.07%) MySQL
5 51 (3.65%) Relational Database
6 50 (3.57%) DynamoDB
7 43 (3.07%) Redis
8 40 (2.86%) SQL Server
9 29 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
10 24 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (1.07%) Big Data
12 12 (0.86%) Pinecone
13 11 (0.79%) DTS
14 10 (0.71%) Data Lake
14 10 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.71%) Db2
14 10 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
15 9 (0.64%) InfluxDB
15 9 (0.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 261 (18.66%) Git
2 207 (14.80%) Jenkins
3 188 (13.44%) GitLab
4 42 (3.00%) JIRA
5 36 (2.57%) CircleCI
6 27 (1.93%) Bitbucket
7 25 (1.79%) Cypress.io
8 23 (1.64%) JUnit
9 21 (1.50%) Maven
10 19 (1.36%) Mockito
11 16 (1.14%) SonarQube
12 15 (1.07%) Cucumber
12 15 (1.07%) Selenium
13 14 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 12 (0.86%) Vite
15 11 (0.79%) Claude Code
16 8 (0.57%) JMeter
16 8 (0.57%) MLflow
16 8 (0.57%) Postman
16 8 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 431 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 326 (23.30%) Finance
3 125 (8.93%) Public Sector
4 113 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
5 102 (7.29%) Law
6 96 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 84 (6.00%) Banking
8 62 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
9 36 (2.57%) Telecoms
10 29 (2.07%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.72%) Aerospace
11 24 (1.72%) Legal
12 20 (1.43%) Retail
13 18 (1.29%) Games
14 14 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (0.86%) Front Office
15 12 (0.86%) Marketing
16 11 (0.79%) Electronics
16 11 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 266 (19.01%) Senior
2 254 (18.16%) Developer
3 208 (14.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 202 (14.44%) Software Engineer
5 193 (13.80%) Architect
6 180 (12.87%) Lead
7 123 (8.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 75 (5.36%) Senior Developer
9 67 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
10 64 (4.57%) Java Developer
11 63 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
11 63 (4.50%) Systems Architect
12 53 (3.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 52 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 50 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
15 48 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
16 47 (3.36%) Senior Software Engineer
17 43 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
18 40 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
19 39 (2.79%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (13.51%) Spring
2 183 (13.08%) RESTful
3 177 (12.65%) Spring Boot
4 174 (12.44%) React
5 145 (10.36%) Kafka
6 139 (9.94%) Node.js
7 135 (9.65%) .NET
8 125 (8.93%) REST
9 79 (5.65%) AngularJS
10 78 (5.58%) RabbitMQ
11 64 (4.57%) gRPC
12 57 (4.07%) OAuth
13 51 (3.65%) JSON
14 49 (3.50%) CSS
15 46 (3.29%) Elastic Stack
16 44 (3.15%) OAuth2
17 43 (3.07%) .NET Core
17 43 (3.07%) YAML
18 41 (2.93%) HTML
19 38 (2.72%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 363 (25.95%) Cloud Native
2 175 (12.51%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 47 (3.36%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.64%) Data Centre
6 36 (2.57%) Over-the-Top Content
6 36 (2.57%) Video\Live Streaming
7 33 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 30 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
10 25 (1.79%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.64%) Algorithms
11 23 (1.64%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
12 20 (1.43%) PKI
12 20 (1.43%) Virtual Team
13 18 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (1.29%) Blockchain
14 17 (1.22%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 280 (20.01%) Linux
2 92 (6.58%) Windows
3 35 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.29%) CentOS
5 31 (2.22%) Unix
6 26 (1.86%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.57%) Debian
9 6 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.21%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.071%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.071%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 936 (66.90%) CI/CD
2 676 (48.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 672 (48.03%) DevOps
4 494 (35.31%) Agile
5 437 (31.24%) Software Engineering
6 430 (30.74%) Microservices
7 347 (24.80%) Problem-Solving
8 272 (19.44%) Observability
9 267 (19.09%) Test Automation
10 266 (19.01%) Mentoring
11 263 (18.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 253 (18.08%) AI
13 204 (14.58%) Event-Driven
14 192 (13.72%) Platform Engineering
15 176 (12.58%) Full-Stack Development
16 167 (11.94%) Roadmaps
17 142 (10.15%) Machine Learning
17 142 (10.15%) Technical Leadership
18 140 (10.01%) Clean Code
19 138 (9.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 646 (46.18%) Python
2 349 (24.95%) Java
3 244 (17.44%) JavaScript
4 182 (13.01%) Bash
5 172 (12.29%) SQL
6 153 (10.94%) TypeScript
7 150 (10.72%) C#
8 139 (9.94%) PowerShell
9 126 (9.01%) Go
10 58 (4.15%) Bicep
11 52 (3.72%) C++
12 48 (3.43%) Scala
13 38 (2.72%) Ruby
14 30 (2.14%) Rust
15 23 (1.64%) PHP
16 21 (1.50%) Kotlin
17 17 (1.22%) Groovy
18 12 (0.86%) C
18 12 (0.86%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 375 (26.80%) Security Cleared
2 191 (13.65%) SC Cleared
3 157 (11.22%) Degree
4 141 (10.08%) DV Cleared
5 86 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 59 (4.22%) Azure Certification
7 50 (3.57%) AWS Certification
8 27 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (1.57%) CISSP
10 16 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (0.86%) CCNP
12 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 8 (0.57%) CCNA
15 8 (0.57%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.57%) RHCE
15 8 (0.57%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (8.51%) QA
2 68 (4.86%) GRC
3 48 (3.43%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.22%) Data Quality
5 29 (2.07%) GDPR
6 28 (2.00%) PCI DSS
7 24 (1.72%) NIST
8 22 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (1.57%) WCAG
9 20 (1.43%) NCSC
10 12 (0.86%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.71%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.071%) SEPA
15 1 (0.071%) SLA
System Software
1 812 (58.04%) Docker
2 43 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (2.72%) Active Directory
5 11 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.64%) KVM
6 9 (0.64%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.64%) vSphere
7 8 (0.57%) Squid
8 6 (0.43%) Firmware
8 6 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.14%) iptables
9 2 (0.14%) NDS
9 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.071%) Kamailio
10 1 (0.071%) QEMU
10 1 (0.071%) Xen
Systems Management
1 809 (57.83%) Kubernetes
2 530 (37.88%) Terraform
3 209 (14.94%) Ansible
4 167 (11.94%) Grafana
5 138 (9.86%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.36%) Puppet
7 32 (2.29%) Argo
8 28 (2.00%) Progress Chef
9 23 (1.64%) Istio
10 20 (1.43%) Nagios
11 18 (1.29%) Podman
12 17 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (1.14%) Kibana
14 15 (1.07%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.93%) linkerd
16 11 (0.79%) Packer
16 11 (0.79%) ZABBIX
17 7 (0.50%) logstash
18 6 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
18 6 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 196 (14.01%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.79%) Google
3 63 (4.50%) Red Hat
4 53 (3.79%) Splunk
5 48 (3.43%) Oracle
6 46 (3.29%) VMware
7 36 (2.57%) Typelevel
8 27 (1.93%) Dynatrace
9 24 (1.72%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.57%) Cisco
11 21 (1.50%) OpenAI
12 19 (1.36%) Fortinet
13 18 (1.29%) Zscaler
14 15 (1.07%) IBM
15 13 (0.93%) SendGrid
16 11 (0.79%) Rapid7
16 11 (0.79%) ServiceNow
17 10 (0.71%) Atlassian
17 10 (0.71%) Confluent
18 9 (0.64%) NVIDIA