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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 110 194
Rank change year-on-year -37 +84 -56
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,352 1,311 1,304
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 2.66% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.96% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 922 670 942
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,688 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,148 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £126,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -5.19% +9.76% -6.76%

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 73,631 44,290 76,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.59% 90.03% 81.87%
Number of salaries quoted 50,962 24,903 52,597
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -32 1,191 £72,500 -6.45% 522
UK excluding London -30 784 £64,000 -5.19% 279
Work from Home -35 496 £70,000 -2.77% 234
London -17 474 £80,000 -11.11% 298
North of England -29 219 £65,000 - 77
South East +17 188 £65,000 - 74
South West -2 175 £57,500 -23.33% 53
North West -35 119 £72,500 +20.83% 49
Midlands -84 67 £70,000 +7.69% 42
Yorkshire -37 59 £65,000 -5.11% 17
Northern Ireland -17 54 £73,801 +71.27% 10
Wales -30 43 £67,500 +3.85% 4
North East -16 41 £53,565 -14.30% 11
East of England -19 40 £60,000 -7.69% 11
West Midlands -55 40 £70,079 +3.82% 28
East Midlands -50 27 £63,250 +10.00% 14
Scotland -69 7 £60,000 -19.46% 12

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 (2.74%) Apache
2 31 (2.29%) Confluence
3 29 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.07%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.74%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.30%) IIS
8 3 (0.22%) Camunda
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.22%) WordPress
9 2 (0.15%) Appian
9 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.074%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.074%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.074%) nginx
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.22%) Blender
4 3 (0.22%) Maya
5 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 772 (57.10%) AWS
2 693 (51.26%) Azure
3 345 (25.52%) GCP
4 217 (16.05%) GitHub
5 181 (13.39%) Serverless
6 156 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 153 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
8 118 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
9 109 (8.06%) OpenShift
10 104 (7.69%) Azure AKS
11 95 (7.03%) AWS Lambda
12 93 (6.88%) Amazon S3
13 87 (6.43%) Cloud Computing
14 80 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 80 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
15 76 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
16 72 (5.33%) Datadog
17 68 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
18 65 (4.81%) SaaS
19 57 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 73 (5.40%) Firewall
2 70 (5.18%) DNS
3 66 (4.88%) WAN
4 60 (4.44%) Broadband
5 59 (4.36%) LAN
6 42 (3.11%) Network Security
6 42 (3.11%) TCP/IP
7 36 (2.66%) VPN
8 20 (1.48%) HTTP
8 20 (1.48%) MQTT
9 17 (1.26%) BGP
9 17 (1.26%) OSPF
10 16 (1.18%) VLAN
10 16 (1.18%) VXLAN
11 13 (0.96%) DMARC
12 11 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
12 11 (0.81%) Wireshark
13 8 (0.59%) IPv4
14 7 (0.52%) DHCP
15 6 (0.44%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (8.14%) NoSQL
3 72 (5.33%) MongoDB
4 58 (4.29%) MySQL
5 57 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
6 54 (3.99%) Relational Database
7 46 (3.40%) DynamoDB
8 45 (3.33%) SQL Server
9 40 (2.96%) Redis
10 30 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (0.96%) Big Data
13 12 (0.89%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.81%) DTS
15 10 (0.74%) Data Lake
15 10 (0.74%) Db2
16 9 (0.67%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.67%) Power BI
17 8 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 244 (18.05%) Git
2 202 (14.94%) Jenkins
3 186 (13.76%) GitLab
4 41 (3.03%) CircleCI
5 39 (2.88%) JIRA
6 25 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.78%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.33%) JUnit
8 18 (1.33%) Maven
9 16 (1.18%) Mockito
10 15 (1.11%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.04%) Selenium
11 14 (1.04%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.96%) Vite
13 12 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (0.67%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.59%) Gatling
15 8 (0.59%) JMeter
15 8 (0.59%) MLflow
15 8 (0.59%) TestRail
General
1 406 (30.03%) Social Skills
2 303 (22.41%) Finance
3 114 (8.43%) Public Sector
4 105 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (6.73%) Law
6 82 (6.07%) Banking
7 75 (5.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (3.03%) Telecoms
10 26 (1.92%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.70%) Aerospace
12 19 (1.41%) Legal
12 19 (1.41%) Retail
13 18 (1.33%) Games
14 14 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (0.81%) Front Office
16 10 (0.74%) Electronics
17 9 (0.67%) Billing
17 9 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 266 (19.67%) Senior
2 256 (18.93%) Developer
3 198 (14.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 188 (13.91%) Software Engineer
5 187 (13.83%) Architect
6 166 (12.28%) Lead
7 123 (9.10%) Cloud Engineer
8 71 (5.25%) Senior Developer
9 67 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
10 64 (4.73%) Java Developer
11 62 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
12 60 (4.44%) Systems Architect
13 53 (3.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 53 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 52 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
15 49 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
16 48 (3.55%) Senior Software Engineer
17 41 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
18 39 (2.88%) Senior DevOps
19 37 (2.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (12.94%) RESTful
2 173 (12.80%) Spring
3 170 (12.57%) React
4 166 (12.28%) Spring Boot
5 138 (10.21%) Node.js
6 136 (10.06%) .NET
7 133 (9.84%) Kafka
8 122 (9.02%) REST
9 78 (5.77%) AngularJS
10 76 (5.62%) RabbitMQ
11 75 (5.55%) gRPC
12 59 (4.36%) OAuth
13 50 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
14 49 (3.62%) JSON
15 44 (3.25%) OAuth2
16 43 (3.18%) .NET Core
16 43 (3.18%) CSS
16 43 (3.18%) YAML
17 39 (2.88%) Vue
18 38 (2.81%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 343 (25.37%) Cloud Native
2 174 (12.87%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.33%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
5 40 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.66%) Data Centre
7 29 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 28 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.55%) PKI
12 20 (1.48%) Blockchain
12 20 (1.48%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
13 19 (1.41%) Algorithms
14 18 (1.33%) Virtual Team
15 17 (1.26%) AI Agents
15 17 (1.26%) Web3
16 16 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 267 (19.75%) Linux
2 88 (6.51%) Windows
3 34 (2.51%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.37%) CentOS
5 30 (2.22%) Ubuntu
6 27 (2.00%) Unix
7 17 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.67%) Debian
9 5 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.30%) VMS
11 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.074%) Android
12 1 (0.074%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.074%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 896 (66.27%) CI/CD
2 638 (47.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 636 (47.04%) DevOps
4 469 (34.69%) Agile
5 422 (31.21%) Microservices
5 422 (31.21%) Software Engineering
6 341 (25.22%) Problem-Solving
7 259 (19.16%) Test Automation
8 257 (19.01%) Mentoring
9 251 (18.57%) Observability
10 247 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 220 (16.27%) AI
12 189 (13.98%) Event-Driven
13 182 (13.46%) Platform Engineering
14 168 (12.43%) Full-Stack Development
15 157 (11.61%) Roadmaps
16 142 (10.50%) Clean Code
17 135 (9.99%) Machine Learning
18 133 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
19 127 (9.39%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 619 (45.78%) Python
2 319 (23.59%) Java
3 237 (17.53%) JavaScript
4 180 (13.31%) Bash
5 170 (12.57%) SQL
6 150 (11.09%) C#
7 147 (10.87%) TypeScript
8 139 (10.28%) PowerShell
9 132 (9.76%) Go
10 55 (4.07%) Scala
11 54 (3.99%) Bicep
12 46 (3.40%) C++
13 36 (2.66%) Ruby
14 30 (2.22%) Rust
15 26 (1.92%) PHP
16 21 (1.55%) Kotlin
17 17 (1.26%) Groovy
18 12 (0.89%) C
19 10 (0.74%) RPG
19 10 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 334 (24.70%) Security Cleared
2 168 (12.43%) SC Cleared
3 148 (10.95%) Degree
4 123 (9.10%) DV Cleared
5 80 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (4.22%) Azure Certification
7 39 (2.88%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (1.55%) CISSP
10 18 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.81%) CCNP
11 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.74%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.67%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.59%) CCNA
14 8 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.59%) OSCP
14 8 (0.59%) RHCE
14 8 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (8.36%) QA
2 65 (4.81%) GRC
3 42 (3.11%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.29%) GDPR
5 30 (2.22%) PCI DSS
6 28 (2.07%) Data Quality
7 23 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (1.63%) NIST
9 20 (1.48%) WCAG
10 16 (1.18%) NCSC
11 14 (1.04%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.74%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.074%) PSD2
16 1 (0.074%) SLA
System Software
1 782 (57.84%) Docker
2 41 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 40 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.74%) Active Directory
5 9 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.67%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.67%) vSphere
6 8 (0.59%) Squid
7 7 (0.52%) KVM
8 6 (0.44%) Firmware
8 6 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.22%) iptables
10 2 (0.15%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.15%) NDS
11 1 (0.074%) QEMU
11 1 (0.074%) Xen
Systems Management
1 775 (57.32%) Kubernetes
2 514 (38.02%) Terraform
3 208 (15.38%) Ansible
4 173 (12.80%) Grafana
5 144 (10.65%) Prometheus
6 32 (2.37%) Argo
7 31 (2.29%) Puppet
8 27 (2.00%) Progress Chef
9 22 (1.63%) Istio
10 19 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (1.41%) Nagios
11 18 (1.33%) Podman
12 15 (1.11%) Kibana
13 14 (1.04%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.89%) linkerd
15 11 (0.81%) Packer
15 11 (0.81%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.52%) logstash
17 6 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 189 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 78 (5.77%) Google
3 60 (4.44%) Red Hat
4 51 (3.77%) Splunk
5 45 (3.33%) Typelevel
6 42 (3.11%) VMware
7 41 (3.03%) Oracle
8 25 (1.85%) Dynatrace
9 23 (1.70%) Palo Alto
10 21 (1.55%) Cisco
10 21 (1.55%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.41%) Fortinet
12 17 (1.26%) Zscaler
13 14 (1.04%) IBM
14 13 (0.96%) SendGrid
15 11 (0.81%) Rapid7
15 11 (0.81%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.74%) Confluent
16 10 (0.74%) Databricks
16 10 (0.74%) NVIDIA