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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 132 161
Rank change year-on-year -25 +29 -34
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,477 1,180 1,240
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 2.38% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 2.69% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 915 586 762
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £108,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -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 85,853 43,932 62,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.75% 81.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,280 24,639 34,370
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 September 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 September 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 -24 1,290 £72,500 -3.33% 1,704
UK excluding London -9 915 £67,500 +3.85% 928
London -37 459 £80,000 -5.88% 957
Work from Home -51 454 £68,724 +0.29% 754
North of England -19 267 £66,000 +1.54% 225
South West +8 218 £67,500 +3.85% 165
South East +6 173 £67,500 -6.90% 190
North West -41 144 £75,000 +15.38% 125
Midlands -62 95 £70,000 +1.82% 103
North East -8 70 £60,000 -6.61% 37
Northern Ireland -36 59 - - 48
West Midlands -47 59 £72,500 +3.57% 62
Yorkshire -27 53 £72,500 +6.62% 64
Wales -28 53 £60,000 -17.24% 22
East of England -33 51 £72,500 +23.93% 75
East Midlands -46 36 £70,000 +27.27% 41
Scotland -58 11 £90,000 +33.33% 102

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 55 (3.72%) Apache
2 43 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.71%) Confluence
4 29 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.02%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.34%) nginx
8 3 (0.20%) Camunda
8 3 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.20%) CMS
8 3 (0.20%) IIS
8 3 (0.20%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.20%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.068%) JBoss
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.068%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Blender
4 3 (0.20%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 852 (57.68%) AWS
2 770 (52.13%) Azure
3 352 (23.83%) GCP
4 236 (15.98%) GitHub
5 170 (11.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 168 (11.37%) GitHub Actions
7 152 (10.29%) Serverless
8 126 (8.53%) Cloud Computing
9 119 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
10 104 (7.04%) OpenShift
11 92 (6.23%) Azure AKS
12 86 (5.82%) Amazon ECS
13 83 (5.62%) Amazon S3
14 76 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
15 75 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
15 75 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
16 71 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 56 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
18 54 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
19 52 (3.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (5.08%) WAN
2 68 (4.60%) LAN
3 64 (4.33%) Firewall
4 58 (3.93%) DNS
5 51 (3.45%) Network Security
6 41 (2.78%) Internet
7 40 (2.71%) VPN
8 33 (2.23%) TCP/IP
9 27 (1.83%) MQTT
10 19 (1.29%) BGP
11 18 (1.22%) Broadband
11 18 (1.22%) OSPF
12 17 (1.15%) VXLAN
13 16 (1.08%) VLAN
14 15 (1.02%) DMARC
15 12 (0.81%) Wireshark
16 10 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.54%) AMQP
17 8 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
17 8 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.09%) NoSQL
3 72 (4.87%) MongoDB
4 62 (4.20%) MySQL
5 47 (3.18%) Relational Database
6 44 (2.98%) DynamoDB
7 40 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
7 40 (2.71%) Redis
8 30 (2.03%) SQL Server
9 28 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
11 19 (1.29%) Big Data
12 17 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (1.02%) Hadoop
13 15 (1.02%) Pinecone
14 14 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
15 13 (0.88%) Data Lake
15 13 (0.88%) Metadata
16 11 (0.74%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 324 (21.94%) Git
2 216 (14.62%) Jenkins
3 179 (12.12%) GitLab
4 40 (2.71%) JIRA
5 29 (1.96%) Bitbucket
6 24 (1.62%) JUnit
6 24 (1.62%) Maven
7 22 (1.49%) Cypress.io
8 21 (1.42%) SonarQube
9 19 (1.29%) Selenium
10 17 (1.15%) Mockito
11 16 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 16 (1.08%) CircleCI
11 16 (1.08%) Claude Code
12 15 (1.02%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.74%) Vite
14 9 (0.61%) Gatling
14 9 (0.61%) MLflow
14 9 (0.61%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.61%) TestRail
General
1 462 (31.28%) Social Skills
2 338 (22.88%) Finance
3 193 (13.07%) Public Sector
4 128 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (7.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 93 (6.30%) Law
7 88 (5.96%) Banking
8 70 (4.74%) Presentation Skills
9 40 (2.71%) Aerospace
10 33 (2.23%) Legal
11 32 (2.17%) Retail
12 28 (1.90%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.42%) Games
14 14 (0.95%) Marketing
14 14 (0.95%) Telecoms
15 13 (0.88%) Publishing
16 12 (0.81%) Electronics
17 11 (0.74%) Financial Institution
18 10 (0.68%) Front Office
18 10 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 290 (19.63%) Senior
2 259 (17.54%) Developer
3 249 (16.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 229 (15.50%) Architect
5 214 (14.49%) Software Engineer
6 185 (12.53%) Lead
7 107 (7.24%) Cloud Engineer
8 83 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
9 72 (4.87%) Senior Developer
10 67 (4.54%) Systems Architect
11 66 (4.47%) Java Developer
12 62 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 57 (3.86%) Senior Software Engineer
14 53 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
15 46 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
16 45 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
17 44 (2.98%) Lead DevOps
17 44 (2.98%) Senior DevOps
17 44 (2.98%) Software Developer
18 42 (2.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 541 (36.63%) Terraform
2 215 (14.56%) Spring
3 208 (14.08%) RESTful
4 201 (13.61%) Spring Boot
5 191 (12.93%) React
6 154 (10.43%) Kafka
7 153 (10.36%) Node.js
8 128 (8.67%) REST
9 120 (8.12%) .NET
10 85 (5.75%) RabbitMQ
11 71 (4.81%) AngularJS
12 53 (3.59%) OAuth
13 52 (3.52%) CSS
14 48 (3.25%) FastAPI
15 43 (2.91%) OAuth2
15 43 (2.91%) OpenAPI
16 39 (2.64%) HTML
16 39 (2.64%) LangChain
17 38 (2.57%) Swagger
18 36 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 414 (28.03%) Cloud Native
2 175 (11.85%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 54 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 51 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
6 42 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
7 35 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (2.30%) Data Centre
9 33 (2.23%) AI Agents
9 33 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 29 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 29 (1.96%) Virtual Team
11 28 (1.90%) PKI
11 28 (1.90%) Public Cloud
12 27 (1.83%) Algorithms
13 26 (1.76%) Blog
13 26 (1.76%) Data Structures
14 23 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
15 19 (1.29%) Management Information System
16 18 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 338 (22.88%) Linux
2 90 (6.09%) Windows
3 42 (2.84%) Unix
4 35 (2.37%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.96%) CentOS
6 20 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (1.35%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.81%) Debian
8 8 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
9 3 (0.20%) VMS
10 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.14%) Android
10 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.14%) Rocky
11 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.068%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.068%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,010 (68.38%) CI/CD
2 760 (51.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 747 (50.58%) DevOps
4 522 (35.34%) Agile
5 459 (31.08%) Software Engineering
6 419 (28.37%) Microservices
7 344 (23.29%) Mentoring
8 335 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
9 301 (20.38%) Observability
10 295 (19.97%) AI
11 286 (19.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 275 (18.62%) Test Automation
13 261 (17.67%) Platform Engineering
14 248 (16.79%) Event-Driven
15 202 (13.68%) Roadmaps
16 177 (11.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 176 (11.92%) DevSecOps
18 171 (11.58%) Technical Leadership
19 154 (10.43%) Full-Stack Development
20 152 (10.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 647 (43.81%) Python
2 402 (27.22%) Java
3 216 (14.62%) JavaScript
4 190 (12.86%) Bash
5 170 (11.51%) TypeScript
6 166 (11.24%) SQL
7 140 (9.48%) C#
8 127 (8.60%) PowerShell
9 94 (6.36%) Go
10 62 (4.20%) C++
11 59 (3.99%) Bicep
12 49 (3.32%) Shell Script
13 37 (2.51%) Ruby
14 35 (2.37%) Rust
15 26 (1.76%) Scala
16 22 (1.49%) Groovy
17 15 (1.02%) Kotlin
17 15 (1.02%) PHP
17 15 (1.02%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.95%) C
Qualifications
1 475 (32.16%) Security Cleared
2 235 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 185 (12.53%) DV Cleared
4 162 (10.97%) Degree
5 96 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 66 (4.47%) AWS Certification
7 54 (3.66%) Azure Certification
8 29 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.76%) CISSP
11 13 (0.88%) CCNP
11 13 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 13 (0.88%) OSCP
11 13 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.68%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.61%) CISM
15 9 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (8.33%) QA
2 72 (4.87%) GRC
3 59 (3.99%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.71%) Data Quality
5 31 (2.10%) NCSC
6 28 (1.90%) GDPR
7 25 (1.69%) NIST
8 20 (1.35%) PCI DSS
9 19 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 18 (1.22%) WCAG
11 10 (0.68%) JSP 440
12 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.54%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
13 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.27%) SLA
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.068%) SEPA
System Software
1 835 (56.53%) Docker
2 47 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.98%) Active Directory
4 31 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.81%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.61%) KVM
7 8 (0.54%) Squid
7 8 (0.54%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.54%) vSphere
8 6 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.34%) NDS
9 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.14%) Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Lustre
10 2 (0.14%) QEMU
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.068%) Xen
Systems Management
1 837 (56.67%) Kubernetes
2 219 (14.83%) Ansible
3 142 (9.61%) Grafana
4 116 (7.85%) Prometheus
5 41 (2.78%) Puppet
6 39 (2.64%) Argo
7 33 (2.23%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.49%) Istio
9 16 (1.08%) Kibana
9 16 (1.08%) linkerd
10 15 (1.02%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.95%) Nagios
12 13 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
13 12 (0.81%) Packer
13 12 (0.81%) Podman
14 11 (0.74%) ZABBIX
15 9 (0.61%) logstash
16 8 (0.54%) Rancher
17 7 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
18 6 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 269 (18.21%) Microsoft
2 125 (8.46%) Google
3 60 (4.06%) Splunk
4 53 (3.59%) VMware
5 51 (3.45%) Oracle
5 51 (3.45%) Red Hat
6 26 (1.76%) OpenAI
7 19 (1.29%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.22%) Fortinet
8 18 (1.22%) Palo Alto
8 18 (1.22%) Zscaler
9 16 (1.08%) IBM
10 15 (1.02%) SendGrid
11 12 (0.81%) Mistral
12 11 (0.74%) Atlassian
12 11 (0.74%) Databricks
13 10 (0.68%) Cisco
13 10 (0.68%) Okta
14 9 (0.61%) ForgeRock
14 9 (0.61%) Rapid7