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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 128 179
Rank change year-on-year -32 +51 -38
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,051 995 1,472
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.36% 2.43% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 2.60% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 688 759 1,126
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,867 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +6.27% -2.65%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £126,250 £120,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +6.15% -

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 59,772 38,266 76,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.27% 93.41% 86.72%
Number of salaries quoted 36,377 22,223 57,143
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.42%

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 March 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 March 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 -26 960 £70,932 -5.42% 465
UK excluding London -57 491 £62,500 -9.42% 350
London +7 451 £82,500 -2.94% 169
Work from Home -16 415 £70,000 -2.77% 214
North of England -40 178 £65,000 +4.00% 89
South East -6 109 £66,000 -0.38% 104
South West -25 109 £55,000 -24.14% 64
North West -25 88 £65,000 +8.33% 54
Yorkshire -59 56 £62,500 -8.09% 23
Midlands -58 50 £64,000 -1.54% 44
North East -4 34 £51,500 -25.69% 12
East Midlands -38 25 £60,000 - 18
East of England -16 24 £60,100 -10.96% 27
West Midlands -31 24 £70,079 +3.82% 26
Scotland -61 15 £59,283 -24.72% 9
Northern Ireland -35 8 £62,500 -9.82% 5
Wales -27 7 £70,079 +7.81% 13

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 36 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (2.66%) Apache
3 21 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.52%) Appian
5 8 (0.76%) Confluence
5 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.48%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.48%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (0.48%) CMS
7 5 (0.48%) IIS
8 4 (0.38%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.29%) Camunda
9 3 (0.29%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) nginx
11 1 (0.095%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (0.95%) Maya
2 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Weka
3 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Shopify
2 3 (0.29%) Endur
3 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.095%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 617 (58.71%) AWS
2 550 (52.33%) Azure
3 317 (30.16%) GCP
4 214 (20.36%) GitHub
5 158 (15.03%) Serverless
6 154 (14.65%) GitHub Actions
7 119 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
8 112 (10.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 93 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
10 91 (8.66%) OpenShift
11 90 (8.56%) Datadog
12 86 (8.18%) Amazon S3
13 78 (7.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 74 (7.04%) Azure AKS
15 61 (5.80%) SaaS
16 53 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
17 52 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
18 44 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
19 43 (4.09%) PaaS
20 36 (3.43%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (6.76%) Firewall
2 63 (5.99%) Broadband
3 44 (4.19%) DNS
4 27 (2.57%) Network Security
4 27 (2.57%) TCP/IP
5 26 (2.47%) HTTP
6 19 (1.81%) VPN
7 9 (0.86%) DHCP
8 8 (0.76%) AMQP
9 6 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.57%) DMZ
9 6 (0.57%) WAN
10 5 (0.48%) MQTT
10 5 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.38%) InfiniBand
11 4 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.38%) VSAN
12 3 (0.29%) RTP
12 3 (0.29%) VLAN
12 3 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (15.03%) NoSQL
2 104 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (8.37%) SQL Server
4 79 (7.52%) Relational Database
5 75 (7.14%) MongoDB
6 60 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
7 56 (5.33%) MySQL
8 38 (3.62%) DynamoDB
9 33 (3.14%) RDBMS
10 27 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (2.38%) Pinecone
12 19 (1.81%) Redis
13 17 (1.62%) Big Data
14 14 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
15 12 (1.14%) Metadata
16 10 (0.95%) Data Lake
16 10 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.86%) BigQuery
17 9 (0.86%) Power BI
18 8 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 183 (17.41%) Git
2 150 (14.27%) Jenkins
3 134 (12.75%) GitLab
4 36 (3.43%) CircleCI
5 34 (3.24%) JIRA
6 24 (2.28%) JUnit
7 22 (2.09%) Cucumber
7 22 (2.09%) MLflow
8 21 (2.00%) Bitbucket
9 19 (1.81%) Jaeger
10 16 (1.52%) Selenium
11 14 (1.33%) JMeter
12 13 (1.24%) Cypress.io
12 13 (1.24%) TeamCity
13 12 (1.14%) Locust
13 12 (1.14%) Mockito
14 11 (1.05%) Vite
15 10 (0.95%) Maven
16 9 (0.86%) SonarQube
17 8 (0.76%) Robot Framework
General
1 310 (29.50%) Social Skills
2 230 (21.88%) Finance
3 94 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (7.90%) Telecoms
5 77 (7.33%) Public Sector
6 70 (6.66%) Banking
7 67 (6.37%) Law
8 45 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (2.57%) Front Office
9 27 (2.57%) Games
10 17 (1.62%) Billing
11 15 (1.43%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.33%) Retail
13 13 (1.24%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.24%) Legal
13 13 (1.24%) Marketing
14 12 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.14%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.05%) Advertising
16 10 (0.95%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 261 (24.83%) Senior
2 233 (22.17%) Developer
3 129 (12.27%) Software Engineer
4 127 (12.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 124 (11.80%) Lead
6 80 (7.61%) Cloud Engineer
7 74 (7.04%) Architect
8 72 (6.85%) Senior Developer
9 48 (4.57%) Java Developer
10 47 (4.47%) Senior Software Engineer
11 43 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
12 40 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 38 (3.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 38 (3.62%) Platform Engineer
14 36 (3.43%) Full-Stack Developer
15 35 (3.33%) Data Engineer
16 32 (3.04%) AWS Engineer
17 30 (2.85%) Python Developer
18 29 (2.76%) .NET Software Engineer
19 28 (2.66%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (13.99%) React
2 143 (13.61%) .NET
3 139 (13.23%) RESTful
4 118 (11.23%) Spring
5 117 (11.13%) REST
6 109 (10.37%) Spring Boot
7 95 (9.04%) Kafka
8 88 (8.37%) Node.js
9 79 (7.52%) Elastic Stack
10 78 (7.42%) gRPC
11 68 (6.47%) .NET Core
12 61 (5.80%) AngularJS
13 56 (5.33%) Django
14 54 (5.14%) FastAPI
15 52 (4.95%) OAuth
16 49 (4.66%) Flask
17 44 (4.19%) RabbitMQ
18 35 (3.33%) Vue
19 33 (3.14%) WebSockets
20 32 (3.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 269 (25.59%) Cloud Native
2 130 (12.37%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (5.99%) Product Ownership
4 44 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (3.43%) Over-the-Top Content
5 36 (3.43%) Video\Live Streaming
6 31 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (2.76%) Blockchain
8 26 (2.47%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (2.28%) Fixed Income
10 22 (2.09%) Low-Code
11 20 (1.90%) AI Agents
11 20 (1.90%) Onboarding
11 20 (1.90%) PKI
12 19 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.62%) Algorithms
14 16 (1.52%) Management Information System
15 15 (1.43%) Web3
16 14 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 220 (20.93%) Linux
2 91 (8.66%) Windows
3 48 (4.57%) Unix
4 38 (3.62%) Ubuntu
5 26 (2.47%) CentOS
6 25 (2.38%) Windows Server
7 19 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.24%) Android
9 12 (1.14%) VMS
10 8 (0.76%) Debian
11 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.19%) zOS
14 1 (0.095%) Rocky
14 1 (0.095%) Solaris
14 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 694 (66.03%) CI/CD
2 545 (51.86%) DevOps
3 397 (37.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 394 (37.49%) Agile
5 370 (35.20%) Microservices
6 299 (28.45%) Problem-Solving
7 280 (26.64%) Software Engineering
8 236 (22.45%) AI
9 216 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 205 (19.51%) Mentoring
11 170 (16.18%) Test Automation
12 164 (15.60%) Machine Learning
13 161 (15.32%) Observability
14 134 (12.75%) High Availability
15 132 (12.56%) Full-Stack Development
16 124 (11.80%) Continuous Integration
17 118 (11.23%) Continuous Delivery
18 111 (10.56%) Analytics
19 107 (10.18%) Clean Code
20 100 (9.51%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 525 (49.95%) Python
2 250 (23.79%) Java
3 215 (20.46%) SQL
4 200 (19.03%) JavaScript
5 166 (15.79%) Bash
6 143 (13.61%) Go
7 120 (11.42%) C#
8 95 (9.04%) PowerShell
9 85 (8.09%) TypeScript
10 38 (3.62%) Scala
11 33 (3.14%) Bicep
12 31 (2.95%) C++
13 28 (2.66%) PHP
14 21 (2.00%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.14%) C
16 11 (1.05%) Ruby
17 9 (0.86%) Rust
18 8 (0.76%) Delphi
18 8 (0.76%) Shell Script
19 7 (0.67%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 186 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 127 (12.08%) Degree
3 105 (9.99%) SC Cleared
4 79 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (7.04%) DV Cleared
6 63 (5.99%) AWS Certification
7 36 (3.43%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
10 12 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.76%) CISSP
12 7 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.38%) CISM
16 3 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (7.61%) QA
2 44 (4.19%) GDPR
3 38 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (3.24%) PCI DSS
5 33 (3.14%) Accessibility
6 25 (2.38%) Data Quality
7 23 (2.19%) NIST
8 19 (1.81%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.24%) WCAG
10 12 (1.14%) GRC
11 11 (1.05%) NCSC
12 10 (0.95%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.38%) SLA
15 3 (0.29%) EMIR
15 3 (0.29%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.19%) ECSS
16 2 (0.19%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 690 (65.65%) Docker
2 35 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (2.95%) Active Directory
4 24 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.14%) vSphere
6 7 (0.67%) Firmware
6 7 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.67%) KVM
6 7 (0.67%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.38%) iptables
7 4 (0.38%) Lustre
7 4 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.29%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.19%) Ceph
9 2 (0.19%) GPFS
9 2 (0.19%) RACF
9 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 662 (62.99%) Kubernetes
2 402 (38.25%) Terraform
3 183 (17.41%) Ansible
4 179 (17.03%) Grafana
5 156 (14.84%) Prometheus
6 42 (4.00%) Argo
7 19 (1.81%) Kustomize
7 19 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (1.71%) Puppet
9 17 (1.62%) Istio
10 12 (1.14%) Nagios
11 10 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.76%) linkerd
12 8 (0.76%) Mesos
13 7 (0.67%) Podman
14 6 (0.57%) Control-M
14 6 (0.57%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.57%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.48%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 100 (9.51%) Google
2 91 (8.66%) Microsoft
3 50 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 43 (4.09%) Oracle
5 40 (3.81%) Splunk
6 36 (3.43%) Typelevel
7 30 (2.85%) OpenAI
7 30 (2.85%) VMware
8 21 (2.00%) Dynatrace
9 19 (1.81%) Palo Alto
10 18 (1.71%) Cisco
10 18 (1.71%) Salesforce
11 17 (1.62%) Databricks
12 15 (1.43%) SAP
13 14 (1.33%) Atlassian
14 13 (1.24%) Automation Anywhere
14 13 (1.24%) NVIDIA
14 13 (1.24%) UiPath
15 12 (1.14%) Dell
16 10 (0.95%) MuleSoft