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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 118 192
Rank change year-on-year -28 +74 -53
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,378 1,296 1,229
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 2.63% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.93% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 919 661 845
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £47,800
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,449 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £122,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 74,889 44,229 70,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.64% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 51,640 25,065 47,390
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 29 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 29 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 -29 1,212 £72,500 -6.45% 636
UK excluding London -25 815 £65,000 -3.70% 347
Work from Home -42 496 £70,000 -2.77% 296
London -25 473 £80,000 -11.11% 355
North of England -33 230 £65,000 - 99
South East +19 192 £65,000 -3.70% 84
South West -3 182 £60,000 -20.00% 72
North West -40 122 £74,301 +23.84% 60
Midlands -85 71 £70,000 +7.69% 44
Yorkshire -26 59 £65,000 -5.11% 19
Northern Ireland -19 56 £73,801 +71.27% 12
North East -11 49 £55,000 -15.38% 20
West Midlands -62 45 £70,079 +3.82% 33
Wales -28 44 £67,500 +3.85% 5
East of England -31 42 £60,000 -2.83% 16
East Midlands -55 26 £62,500 +8.69% 11
Scotland -70 7 £60,000 -17.24% 18

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 41 (2.98%) Apache
2 33 (2.39%) Confluence
3 30 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.18%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.80%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.22%) Camunda
6 3 (0.22%) IIS
6 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.22%) WordPress
7 2 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.15%) nginx
7 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.073%) Appian
8 1 (0.073%) CMS
8 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.073%) JBoss
8 1 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.073%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.73%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.22%) Blender
4 3 (0.22%) Maya
5 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 791 (57.40%) AWS
2 715 (51.89%) Azure
3 342 (24.82%) GCP
4 215 (15.60%) GitHub
5 178 (12.92%) Serverless
6 164 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 147 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
8 116 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
9 111 (8.06%) OpenShift
10 102 (7.40%) Azure AKS
11 94 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
12 93 (6.75%) Amazon S3
13 92 (6.68%) Cloud Computing
14 86 (6.24%) Amazon ECS
15 80 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 76 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
17 70 (5.08%) Datadog
18 67 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
19 62 (4.50%) SaaS
20 56 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 72 (5.22%) Firewall
2 70 (5.08%) WAN
3 68 (4.93%) DNS
4 63 (4.57%) LAN
5 51 (3.70%) Broadband
6 44 (3.19%) Network Security
7 41 (2.98%) TCP/IP
8 36 (2.61%) VPN
9 22 (1.60%) MQTT
10 18 (1.31%) BGP
10 18 (1.31%) OSPF
11 17 (1.23%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.16%) HTTP
12 16 (1.16%) VLAN
13 13 (0.94%) DMARC
13 13 (0.94%) Wireshark
14 10 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
15 8 (0.58%) IPv4
15 8 (0.58%) LTE
16 7 (0.51%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (10.16%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (7.98%) NoSQL
3 71 (5.15%) MongoDB
4 56 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
5 55 (3.99%) MySQL
6 51 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 48 (3.48%) DynamoDB
8 42 (3.05%) Redis
9 41 (2.98%) SQL Server
10 29 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.02%) Big Data
13 13 (0.94%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.80%) DTS
15 10 (0.73%) Db2
16 9 (0.65%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
16 9 (0.65%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 257 (18.65%) Git
2 209 (15.17%) Jenkins
3 186 (13.50%) GitLab
4 41 (2.98%) JIRA
5 36 (2.61%) CircleCI
6 27 (1.96%) Bitbucket
7 25 (1.81%) Cypress.io
8 22 (1.60%) JUnit
9 20 (1.45%) Maven
10 18 (1.31%) Mockito
11 16 (1.16%) SonarQube
12 15 (1.09%) Cucumber
12 15 (1.09%) Selenium
13 14 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 12 (0.87%) Vite
15 10 (0.73%) Claude Code
16 8 (0.58%) Gatling
16 8 (0.58%) MLflow
16 8 (0.58%) Postman
16 8 (0.58%) Robot Framework
General
1 421 (30.55%) Social Skills
2 323 (23.44%) Finance
3 120 (8.71%) Public Sector
4 110 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
5 102 (7.40%) Law
6 90 (6.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 85 (6.17%) Banking
8 61 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
9 39 (2.83%) Telecoms
10 28 (2.03%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.74%) Legal
12 23 (1.67%) Aerospace
13 19 (1.38%) Retail
14 18 (1.31%) Games
15 14 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.87%) Front Office
17 11 (0.80%) Electronics
17 11 (0.80%) Marketing
17 11 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
18 9 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 263 (19.09%) Senior
2 252 (18.29%) Developer
3 204 (14.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 198 (14.37%) Software Engineer
5 192 (13.93%) Architect
6 176 (12.77%) Lead
7 121 (8.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 74 (5.37%) Senior Developer
9 67 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
10 64 (4.64%) Java Developer
11 63 (4.57%) Platform Engineer
11 63 (4.57%) Systems Architect
12 53 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 51 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
13 51 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 48 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
15 46 (3.34%) Senior Software Engineer
16 42 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
17 40 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
18 38 (2.76%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (13.50%) Spring
2 180 (13.06%) RESTful
3 176 (12.77%) Spring Boot
4 173 (12.55%) React
5 141 (10.23%) Kafka
6 139 (10.09%) Node.js
7 132 (9.58%) .NET
8 122 (8.85%) REST
9 80 (5.81%) AngularJS
10 78 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
11 64 (4.64%) gRPC
12 58 (4.21%) OAuth
13 50 (3.63%) JSON
14 48 (3.48%) CSS
14 48 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
15 44 (3.19%) OAuth2
16 43 (3.12%) YAML
17 41 (2.98%) .NET Core
18 40 (2.90%) HTML
19 38 (2.76%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 357 (25.91%) Cloud Native
2 173 (12.55%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 44 (3.19%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.69%) Data Centre
6 36 (2.61%) Over-the-Top Content
6 36 (2.61%) Video\Live Streaming
7 31 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 29 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 26 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.67%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.67%) Algorithms
12 21 (1.52%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
13 20 (1.45%) PKI
13 20 (1.45%) Virtual Team
14 18 (1.31%) Blockchain
15 17 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (1.23%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 272 (19.74%) Linux
2 91 (6.60%) Windows
3 35 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 31 (2.25%) CentOS
5 30 (2.18%) Unix
6 26 (1.89%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.58%) Debian
9 6 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.22%) VMS
11 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.073%) Android
12 1 (0.073%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.073%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 921 (66.84%) CI/CD
2 662 (48.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 657 (47.68%) DevOps
4 489 (35.49%) Agile
5 429 (31.13%) Software Engineering
6 425 (30.84%) Microservices
7 335 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
8 267 (19.38%) Test Automation
9 265 (19.23%) Observability
10 262 (19.01%) Mentoring
11 258 (18.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 245 (17.78%) AI
13 199 (14.44%) Event-Driven
14 190 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
15 174 (12.63%) Full-Stack Development
16 165 (11.97%) Roadmaps
17 140 (10.16%) Clean Code
18 139 (10.09%) Technical Leadership
19 138 (10.01%) Scrum
20 136 (9.87%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 636 (46.15%) Python
2 342 (24.82%) Java
3 245 (17.78%) JavaScript
4 179 (12.99%) Bash
5 167 (12.12%) SQL
6 150 (10.89%) TypeScript
7 146 (10.60%) C#
8 138 (10.01%) PowerShell
9 124 (9.00%) Go
10 57 (4.14%) Bicep
11 51 (3.70%) C++
12 47 (3.41%) Scala
13 37 (2.69%) Ruby
14 29 (2.10%) Rust
15 24 (1.74%) PHP
16 20 (1.45%) Kotlin
17 17 (1.23%) Groovy
18 12 (0.87%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.80%) C
19 11 (0.80%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 363 (26.34%) Security Cleared
2 184 (13.35%) SC Cleared
3 154 (11.18%) Degree
4 136 (9.87%) DV Cleared
5 84 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (4.14%) Azure Certification
7 46 (3.34%) AWS Certification
8 27 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (1.60%) CISSP
10 16 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.87%) CCNP
13 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.73%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 8 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.58%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.58%) OSCP
16 8 (0.58%) RHCSA
16 8 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (8.71%) QA
2 68 (4.93%) GRC
3 46 (3.34%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.10%) Data Quality
4 29 (2.10%) GDPR
5 28 (2.03%) PCI DSS
6 24 (1.74%) NIST
7 22 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (1.52%) WCAG
9 18 (1.31%) NCSC
10 12 (0.87%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.73%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.073%) PSD2
15 1 (0.073%) SLA
System Software
1 796 (57.76%) Docker
2 42 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (2.76%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.73%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.65%) vSphere
7 8 (0.58%) KVM
7 8 (0.58%) Squid
8 6 (0.44%) Firmware
8 6 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.15%) iptables
9 2 (0.15%) NDS
9 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.073%) Kamailio
10 1 (0.073%) QEMU
10 1 (0.073%) Xen
Systems Management
1 797 (57.84%) Kubernetes
2 525 (38.10%) Terraform
3 208 (15.09%) Ansible
4 168 (12.19%) Grafana
5 141 (10.23%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.39%) Puppet
7 32 (2.32%) Argo
8 28 (2.03%) Progress Chef
9 23 (1.67%) Istio
10 19 (1.38%) Nagios
11 18 (1.31%) Podman
12 17 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (1.16%) Kibana
14 15 (1.09%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.94%) linkerd
16 11 (0.80%) Packer
16 11 (0.80%) ZABBIX
17 7 (0.51%) logstash
18 6 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
18 6 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 194 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 79 (5.73%) Google
3 62 (4.50%) Red Hat
4 52 (3.77%) Splunk
5 46 (3.34%) Oracle
6 44 (3.19%) VMware
7 36 (2.61%) Typelevel
8 26 (1.89%) Dynatrace
9 24 (1.74%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.60%) Cisco
10 22 (1.60%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.38%) Fortinet
12 18 (1.31%) Zscaler
13 15 (1.09%) IBM
14 13 (0.94%) SendGrid
15 10 (0.73%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.73%) Confluent
15 10 (0.73%) Rapid7
15 10 (0.73%) ServiceNow
16 9 (0.65%) Salesforce