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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 147 120
Rank change year-on-year -12 -27 +19
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 906 1,210 1,439
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.67% 1.83% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.14% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 619 770 1,056
10th Percentile £48,165 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,590 £57,416
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% +0.82%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,395
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and 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 45,730 56,495 47,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.51% 85.27% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 27,916 29,477 36,918
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% -0.94%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 +2 836 £72,500 +3.57% 410
UK excluding London -26 434 £65,000 - 344
London +32 403 £85,000 - 171
Work from Home -16 318 £67,500 -3.57% 203
North of England +9 171 £65,000 +8.33% 76
North West +31 104 £65,000 +8.33% 47
South West -7 88 £60,000 -13.04% 65
South East -23 61 £75,000 +15.38% 128
Midlands +25 58 £67,500 +3.85% 39
Yorkshire -32 43 £68,500 +31.10% 20
West Midlands +28 38 £70,542 +8.53% 26
Scotland -24 31 £70,000 - 13
East of England +20 27 £57,500 -8.00% 15
North East +25 24 £60,000 +9.09% 9
East Midlands +20 19 £54,500 +29.76% 12
Wales +4 15 £80,000 +23.08% 10
Northern Ireland -5 4 £43,092 -33.35% 2

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 52 (5.74%) Apache Spark
2 43 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.76%) Apache
4 17 (1.88%) CMS
5 16 (1.77%) IIS
6 13 (1.43%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.66%) Appian
7 6 (0.66%) Confluence
7 6 (0.66%) nginx
8 5 (0.55%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.22%) CICS
11 2 (0.22%) SAS
11 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.11%) FileNet
12 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (1.99%) Maya
2 4 (0.44%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.33%) Sketch
4 2 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Shopify
2 4 (0.44%) Endur
3 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 526 (58.06%) AWS
2 500 (55.19%) Azure
3 228 (25.17%) GCP
4 177 (19.54%) GitHub
5 127 (14.02%) Azure DevOps
6 124 (13.69%) GitHub Actions
7 122 (13.47%) Serverless
8 73 (8.06%) Amazon S3
9 69 (7.62%) Amazon EKS
10 66 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
11 62 (6.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 62 (6.84%) SaaS
12 52 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 46 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
13 46 (5.08%) OpenShift
14 42 (4.64%) Datadog
15 36 (3.97%) Cloud Computing
16 35 (3.86%) PaaS
17 34 (3.75%) Azure AKS
18 33 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.52%) Firewall
2 31 (3.42%) DNS
3 19 (2.10%) DHCP
3 19 (2.10%) VPN
4 18 (1.99%) Network Security
5 16 (1.77%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.77%) WAN
6 12 (1.32%) LAN
7 9 (0.99%) IPsec
8 8 (0.88%) HTTP
8 8 (0.88%) VLAN
9 7 (0.77%) AMQP
9 7 (0.77%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (0.66%) SAN
10 6 (0.66%) VoIP
10 6 (0.66%) Wireless
11 4 (0.44%) DMZ
11 4 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.44%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (11.26%) NoSQL
2 99 (10.93%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (8.39%) SQL Server
4 62 (6.84%) MongoDB
5 52 (5.74%) MySQL
6 51 (5.63%) Relational Database
7 45 (4.97%) DynamoDB
8 42 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
9 31 (3.42%) Big Data
10 25 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (2.65%) Metadata
12 20 (2.21%) Spark SQL
13 19 (2.10%) Delta Lake
14 15 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (1.55%) RDBMS
16 13 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (1.43%) Hadoop
17 12 (1.32%) Tick Data
18 11 (1.21%) Data Lake
19 8 (0.88%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 166 (18.32%) Git
2 119 (13.13%) Jenkins
3 93 (10.26%) GitLab
4 32 (3.53%) MLflow
5 29 (3.20%) JIRA
6 20 (2.21%) TeamCity
7 19 (2.10%) Cucumber
7 19 (2.10%) SonarQube
8 17 (1.88%) JUnit
9 16 (1.77%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.77%) CircleCI
10 13 (1.43%) Selenium
11 12 (1.32%) Cypress.io
11 12 (1.32%) JMeter
11 12 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (0.88%) Locust
13 7 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.44%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.44%) NeoLoad
14 4 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 276 (30.46%) Social Skills
2 229 (25.28%) Finance
3 95 (10.49%) Law
4 78 (8.61%) Marketing
5 75 (8.28%) Public Sector
6 71 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
7 47 (5.19%) Banking
7 47 (5.19%) Telecoms
8 43 (4.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (3.75%) Games
10 28 (3.09%) Manufacturing
11 27 (2.98%) Retail
12 23 (2.54%) Front Office
13 21 (2.32%) Electronics
14 13 (1.43%) French Language
15 12 (1.32%) Dutch Language
15 12 (1.32%) Legal
16 11 (1.21%) Advertising
16 11 (1.21%) Financial Institution
17 10 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (23.29%) Developer
2 190 (20.97%) Senior
3 129 (14.24%) Lead
4 112 (12.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 96 (10.60%) Software Engineer
6 59 (6.51%) Architect
7 57 (6.29%) Senior Developer
8 50 (5.52%) Platform Engineer
8 50 (5.52%) Python Developer
9 48 (5.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 45 (4.97%) Full-Stack Developer
11 39 (4.30%) Data Engineer
12 38 (4.19%) Lead Developer
13 37 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
14 36 (3.97%) Backend Developer
14 36 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 35 (3.86%) Python Engineer
15 35 (3.86%) Software Developer
16 34 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
17 33 (3.64%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (16.11%) React
2 135 (14.90%) .NET
3 130 (14.35%) RESTful
4 77 (8.50%) Spring
5 72 (7.95%) Node.js
5 72 (7.95%) Spring Boot
6 71 (7.84%) REST
7 70 (7.73%) Kafka
8 63 (6.95%) FastAPI
9 62 (6.84%) AngularJS
10 56 (6.18%) .NET Core
11 54 (5.96%) HTML
12 53 (5.85%) CSS
13 48 (5.30%) PyTorch
14 47 (5.19%) Flask
15 44 (4.86%) Elastic Stack
16 43 (4.75%) TensorFlow
17 39 (4.30%) Pandas
18 38 (4.19%) scikit-learn
18 38 (4.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 217 (23.95%) Cloud Native
2 103 (11.37%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 32 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
7 30 (3.31%) Algorithms
7 30 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 30 (3.31%) Product Ownership
8 26 (2.87%) Public Cloud
9 23 (2.54%) Data Centre
9 23 (2.54%) Fixed Income
10 20 (2.21%) Blockchain
11 15 (1.66%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.43%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
13 12 (1.32%) PKI
14 10 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (1.10%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 188 (20.75%) Linux
2 112 (12.36%) Windows
3 52 (5.74%) Windows Server
4 37 (4.08%) Unix
5 30 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (1.77%) Ubuntu
6 16 (1.77%) VMS
7 12 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (1.21%) CentOS
9 8 (0.88%) Debian
9 8 (0.88%) Rocky
10 6 (0.66%) Android
10 6 (0.66%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.22%) zOS
13 1 (0.11%) Fedora
13 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.11%) Solaris
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (63.36%) CI/CD
2 471 (51.99%) DevOps
3 313 (34.55%) Agile
4 287 (31.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 259 (28.59%) Microservices
6 254 (28.04%) Problem-Solving
7 234 (25.83%) AI
8 187 (20.64%) Software Engineering
9 159 (17.55%) Mentoring
10 135 (14.90%) Machine Learning
11 126 (13.91%) Test Automation
12 124 (13.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 117 (12.91%) Observability
14 109 (12.03%) Full-Stack Development
15 103 (11.37%) Computer Science
16 96 (10.60%) Analytics
17 89 (9.82%) Data Pipeline
18 87 (9.60%) Platform Engineering
19 84 (9.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 80 (8.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 441 (48.68%) Python
2 194 (21.41%) SQL
3 180 (19.87%) Java
4 151 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 138 (15.23%) C#
6 110 (12.14%) Bash
7 98 (10.82%) PowerShell
8 56 (6.18%) TypeScript
9 44 (4.86%) Go
10 29 (3.20%) Bicep
11 18 (1.99%) C++
12 17 (1.88%) PHP
13 13 (1.43%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.99%) Ruby
15 8 (0.88%) Delphi
15 8 (0.88%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.77%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.77%) Scala
17 4 (0.44%) Groovy
17 4 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 136 (15.01%) Degree
2 130 (14.35%) Security Cleared
3 85 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 84 (9.27%) SC Cleared
5 63 (6.95%) AWS Certification
5 63 (6.95%) DV Cleared
6 46 (5.08%) Azure Certification
7 24 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (1.55%) AWS Certified Developer
8 14 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.43%) CISSP
10 8 (0.88%) CISM
10 8 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
11 7 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (0.77%) PhD
11 7 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (0.66%) ACMT
12 6 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (9.16%) QA
2 40 (4.42%) GDPR
3 26 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.54%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.21%) NIST
6 16 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 15 (1.66%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.21%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.99%) NCSC
10 8 (0.88%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.88%) WCAG
11 7 (0.77%) GRC
11 7 (0.77%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.44%) EMIR
15 3 (0.33%) SLA
16 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.22%) ECSS
16 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 600 (66.23%) Docker
2 51 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (4.64%) Active Directory
4 28 (3.09%) Hyper-V
5 20 (2.21%) vSphere
6 13 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.77%) NFS
9 5 (0.55%) KVM
10 4 (0.44%) Lustre
10 4 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.44%) vCloud
10 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.22%) Ceph
11 2 (0.22%) GPFS
11 2 (0.22%) RACF
11 2 (0.22%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.11%) Firmware
12 1 (0.11%) iptables
Systems Management
1 581 (64.13%) Kubernetes
2 317 (34.99%) Terraform
3 133 (14.68%) Ansible
4 114 (12.58%) Grafana
5 93 (10.26%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.65%) Kubeflow
7 13 (1.43%) Argo
8 12 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (1.21%) Control-M
9 11 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.99%) Puppet
11 8 (0.88%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.88%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 7 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.66%) Autotask
13 6 (0.66%) SCCM
14 5 (0.55%) Rancher
14 5 (0.55%) SCOM
14 5 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 120 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.62%) Oracle
2 60 (6.62%) VMware
3 53 (5.85%) Google
4 39 (4.30%) Databricks
5 36 (3.97%) Red Hat
6 33 (3.64%) Splunk
7 27 (2.98%) SAP
8 24 (2.65%) Cisco
9 21 (2.32%) Palo Alto
10 20 (2.21%) Dell
10 20 (2.21%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.43%) Atlassian
12 11 (1.21%) Fortinet
13 10 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
13 10 (1.10%) MuleSoft
13 10 (1.10%) Pure Storage
14 9 (0.99%) Commvault
14 9 (0.99%) Dynatrace
15 8 (0.88%) IBM