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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 138 149
Rank change year-on-year -23 +11 -10
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 941 1,098 1,484
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.45% 2.15% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.34% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 622 746 1,168
10th Percentile £46,500 £48,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,813 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.09% +8.80% -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 51,996 46,880 64,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.99% 91.87% 88.55%
Number of salaries quoted 30,799 22,693 50,451
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £80,100 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -13 860 £70,932 -4.47% 482
UK excluding London -52 422 £62,500 -8.09% 351
London +12 418 £84,625 -0.44% 194
Work from Home -21 345 £67,500 -3.57% 262
North of England -17 170 £65,000 +4.00% 102
North West +16 98 £65,000 +8.33% 62
South West -22 95 £55,000 -23.60% 79
South East -36 62 £72,500 +3.57% 91
Midlands -31 46 £70,000 +7.69% 41
Yorkshire -50 41 £67,500 -0.74% 34
North East +4 31 £55,200 -17.66% 6
East of England +5 26 £60,100 -7.54% 11
West Midlands -19 25 £70,932 +5.08% 26
East Midlands -19 20 £64,500 +7.50% 15
Scotland -38 19 £60,000 -14.89% 17
Northern Ireland -21 7 £62,500 -3.33% 4
Wales -7 6 £67,539 +3.91% 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 37 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (3.19%) Apache
3 22 (2.34%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.70%) Appian
5 10 (1.06%) CMS
5 10 (1.06%) IIS
6 7 (0.74%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.64%) Confluence
7 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.64%) nginx
7 6 (0.64%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.53%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.32%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Qpid
11 2 (0.21%) Camunda
11 2 (0.21%) CICS
11 2 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 20 (2.13%) Maya
2 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.21%) Weka
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.85%) Shopify
2 4 (0.43%) Endur
3 2 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 528 (56.11%) AWS
2 507 (53.88%) Azure
3 254 (26.99%) GCP
4 204 (21.68%) GitHub
5 150 (15.94%) GitHub Actions
6 135 (14.35%) Azure DevOps
7 132 (14.03%) Serverless
8 87 (9.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 76 (8.08%) AWS Lambda
10 67 (7.12%) Amazon S3
11 61 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 60 (6.38%) Datadog
13 59 (6.27%) OpenShift
14 54 (5.74%) SaaS
15 52 (5.53%) Azure AKS
16 46 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
17 41 (4.36%) Amazon EC2
18 39 (4.14%) Cloud Computing
19 38 (4.04%) Amazon SQS
20 37 (3.93%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (6.48%) Firewall
2 35 (3.72%) DNS
3 29 (3.08%) Broadband
4 27 (2.87%) Network Security
5 24 (2.55%) VPN
6 21 (2.23%) HTTP
7 17 (1.81%) TCP/IP
8 12 (1.28%) DHCP
9 11 (1.17%) WAN
10 9 (0.96%) AMQP
11 7 (0.74%) DMZ
12 5 (0.53%) LAN
12 5 (0.53%) Software-Defined Networking
13 4 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (0.43%) InfiniBand
13 4 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.43%) IPsec
13 4 (0.43%) VLAN
13 4 (0.43%) VoIP
13 4 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (13.71%) NoSQL
2 92 (9.78%) SQL Server
3 91 (9.67%) PostgreSQL
4 74 (7.86%) MongoDB
5 73 (7.76%) Relational Database
6 50 (5.31%) MySQL
7 41 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (3.29%) DynamoDB
9 30 (3.19%) RDBMS
10 24 (2.55%) Big Data
10 24 (2.55%) Pinecone
11 18 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (1.59%) Hadoop
13 14 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (1.49%) Metadata
14 10 (1.06%) BigQuery
14 10 (1.06%) Data Lake
15 8 (0.85%) InfluxDB
16 7 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 164 (17.43%) Git
2 137 (14.56%) Jenkins
3 94 (9.99%) GitLab
4 27 (2.87%) JIRA
5 21 (2.23%) MLflow
6 20 (2.13%) CircleCI
6 20 (2.13%) JUnit
7 19 (2.02%) Bitbucket
7 19 (2.02%) Jaeger
8 17 (1.81%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.81%) Selenium
9 13 (1.38%) TeamCity
10 12 (1.28%) JMeter
11 10 (1.06%) Vite
12 9 (0.96%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.96%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.85%) Locust
14 7 (0.74%) Maven
14 7 (0.74%) Mockito
14 7 (0.74%) Robot Framework
General
1 263 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 218 (23.17%) Finance
3 79 (8.40%) Public Sector
4 72 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (6.91%) Law
6 64 (6.80%) Telecoms
7 51 (5.42%) Banking
8 37 (3.93%) Games
9 30 (3.19%) Front Office
10 27 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (1.91%) Manufacturing
11 18 (1.91%) Marketing
12 17 (1.81%) Retail
13 14 (1.49%) Aerospace
13 14 (1.49%) Electronics
14 13 (1.38%) French Language
15 12 (1.28%) Billing
15 12 (1.28%) Dutch Language
15 12 (1.28%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.17%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 218 (23.17%) Developer
2 217 (23.06%) Senior
3 114 (12.11%) Lead
4 101 (10.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 97 (10.31%) Software Engineer
6 71 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 70 (7.44%) Architect
8 55 (5.84%) Senior Developer
9 45 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
10 42 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
11 40 (4.25%) Data Engineer
12 39 (4.14%) Java Developer
13 37 (3.93%) Full-Stack Developer
13 37 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 35 (3.72%) Python Developer
15 33 (3.51%) Backend Developer
16 32 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
17 29 (3.08%) Software Developer
18 28 (2.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 24 (2.55%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (14.88%) React
2 132 (14.03%) .NET
3 126 (13.39%) RESTful
4 98 (10.41%) REST
5 94 (9.99%) Spring
6 87 (9.25%) Spring Boot
7 82 (8.71%) Node.js
8 71 (7.55%) Kafka
9 69 (7.33%) Elastic Stack
10 63 (6.70%) FastAPI
11 60 (6.38%) .NET Core
12 56 (5.95%) AngularJS
13 53 (5.63%) Flask
14 48 (5.10%) Django
15 45 (4.78%) gRPC
16 40 (4.25%) OAuth
17 35 (3.72%) HTML
18 33 (3.51%) CSS
19 32 (3.40%) WebSockets
20 31 (3.29%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 240 (25.50%) Cloud Native
2 105 (11.16%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.78%) Enterprise Software
5 44 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (3.51%) Public Cloud
7 31 (3.29%) Blockchain
8 27 (2.87%) Fixed Income
9 24 (2.55%) Onboarding
10 22 (2.34%) PKI
11 21 (2.23%) Management Information System
12 20 (2.13%) AI Agents
12 20 (2.13%) Algorithms
12 20 (2.13%) Low-Code
13 18 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
14 16 (1.70%) Data Centre
15 15 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
16 13 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
17 12 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
18 11 (1.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 203 (21.57%) Linux
2 90 (9.56%) Windows
3 37 (3.93%) Unix
4 29 (3.08%) Ubuntu
5 27 (2.87%) Windows Server
6 20 (2.13%) VMS
7 17 (1.81%) CentOS
7 17 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.38%) Android
9 8 (0.85%) Debian
10 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.21%) Rocky
12 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.21%) zOS
13 1 (0.11%) Fedora
13 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.11%) Solaris
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 600 (63.76%) CI/CD
2 490 (52.07%) DevOps
3 341 (36.24%) Agile
4 333 (35.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 311 (33.05%) Microservices
6 261 (27.74%) Problem-Solving
7 241 (25.61%) AI
8 210 (22.32%) Software Engineering
9 184 (19.55%) Mentoring
10 166 (17.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 139 (14.77%) Machine Learning
12 134 (14.24%) Test Automation
13 128 (13.60%) Observability
14 112 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
15 107 (11.37%) Analytics
16 102 (10.84%) Continuous Integration
17 97 (10.31%) Platform Engineering
18 96 (10.20%) Performance Optimisation
19 92 (9.78%) Computer Science
19 92 (9.78%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 449 (47.72%) Python
2 212 (22.53%) Java
3 191 (20.30%) SQL
4 174 (18.49%) JavaScript
5 141 (14.98%) Bash
6 116 (12.33%) C#
7 92 (9.78%) Go
8 84 (8.93%) PowerShell
9 75 (7.97%) TypeScript
10 32 (3.40%) Bicep
11 28 (2.98%) C++
12 24 (2.55%) PHP
13 14 (1.49%) Scala
14 13 (1.38%) C
15 12 (1.28%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.85%) Delphi
16 8 (0.85%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.74%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.64%) Google Apps Script
18 6 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 170 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 121 (12.86%) Degree
3 97 (10.31%) SC Cleared
4 75 (7.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (7.44%) AWS Certification
6 69 (7.33%) DV Cleared
7 31 (3.29%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.59%) AWS Certified Developer
10 14 (1.49%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.96%) CISSP
12 7 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.53%) CISM
14 5 (0.53%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.43%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (6.80%) QA
2 39 (4.14%) GDPR
3 37 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 29 (3.08%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.98%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.44%) Accessibility
7 21 (2.23%) NIST
8 14 (1.49%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.38%) NCSC
10 10 (1.06%) GRC
10 10 (1.06%) JSP 440
11 8 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 8 (0.85%) WCAG
12 4 (0.43%) EMIR
12 4 (0.43%) SLA
13 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.21%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.21%) ECSS
13 2 (0.21%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 611 (64.93%) Docker
2 37 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.59%) vSphere
6 9 (0.96%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.74%) KVM
8 6 (0.64%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.43%) Lustre
9 4 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.32%) Firmware
10 3 (0.32%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.32%) NFS
11 2 (0.21%) Ceph
11 2 (0.21%) GPFS
11 2 (0.21%) iptables
11 2 (0.21%) RACF
11 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 603 (64.08%) Kubernetes
2 356 (37.83%) Terraform
3 171 (18.17%) Ansible
4 142 (15.09%) Grafana
5 133 (14.13%) Prometheus
6 40 (4.25%) Argo
7 19 (2.02%) Kustomize
8 18 (1.91%) Puppet
9 16 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (0.96%) Control-M
12 8 (0.85%) Istio
13 7 (0.74%) linkerd
13 7 (0.74%) Mesos
13 7 (0.74%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.64%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.64%) Rancher
15 5 (0.53%) Nagios
16 4 (0.43%) Cilium
16 4 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 87 (9.25%) Google
3 50 (5.31%) Oracle
4 42 (4.46%) VMware
5 34 (3.61%) Splunk
6 33 (3.51%) OpenAI
7 31 (3.29%) Red Hat
8 23 (2.44%) Palo Alto
9 19 (2.02%) SAP
10 17 (1.81%) Databricks
11 16 (1.70%) Atlassian
11 16 (1.70%) Fortinet
12 15 (1.59%) Cisco
13 13 (1.38%) Automation Anywhere
13 13 (1.38%) UiPath
14 12 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
14 12 (1.28%) Dell
14 12 (1.28%) Dynatrace
14 12 (1.28%) Salesforce
15 10 (1.06%) MuleSoft