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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 131 174
Rank change year-on-year -22 +43 -46
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,409 1,225 1,250
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.28% 2.44% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 2.76% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 917 614 814
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £88,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,750 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

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 80,366 44,460 65,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.73% 80.84%
Number of salaries quoted 55,743 25,365 40,240
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -7.07%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 1,240 £72,500 -6.45% 870
UK excluding London -19 852 £65,000 - 507
Work from Home -40 481 £68,724 -1.82% 430
London -32 466 £80,000 -5.88% 501
North of England -35 236 £65,288 +0.44% 120
South West +9 200 £66,250 -11.67% 117
South East +23 188 £65,000 -5.45% 111
North West -44 120 £75,000 +20.00% 68
Midlands -66 81 £70,000 +3.70% 56
North East -7 60 £55,000 -8.33% 22
Northern Ireland -32 59 - - 16
Yorkshire -23 56 £70,466 +8.41% 31
West Midlands -49 53 £72,500 +3.57% 37
Wales -37 47 £60,000 -17.24% 16
East of England -20 46 £60,000 +4.35% 27
East Midlands -51 28 £64,000 +16.36% 18
Scotland -74 7 £60,000 -7.69% 50

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 48 (3.41%) Apache
2 38 (2.70%) Confluence
3 36 (2.56%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.28%) Camunda
7 4 (0.28%) IIS
7 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.28%) nginx
8 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.21%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) CMS
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.071%) JBoss
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.071%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 817 (57.98%) AWS
2 734 (52.09%) Azure
3 335 (23.78%) GCP
4 217 (15.40%) GitHub
5 171 (12.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 168 (11.92%) Serverless
7 146 (10.36%) GitHub Actions
8 116 (8.23%) Azure DevOps
9 111 (7.88%) OpenShift
10 95 (6.74%) Azure AKS
11 92 (6.53%) Cloud Computing
12 91 (6.46%) Amazon S3
13 88 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
14 85 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
15 79 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
16 78 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 76 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
18 57 (4.05%) SaaS
19 56 (3.97%) Datadog
20 54 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.25%) WAN
2 69 (4.90%) Firewall
3 67 (4.76%) LAN
4 62 (4.40%) DNS
5 47 (3.34%) Network Security
6 38 (2.70%) VPN
7 35 (2.48%) TCP/IP
8 33 (2.34%) Broadband
9 22 (1.56%) MQTT
10 19 (1.35%) BGP
11 18 (1.28%) OSPF
12 17 (1.21%) VXLAN
13 16 (1.14%) VLAN
14 13 (0.92%) DMARC
15 12 (0.85%) Wireshark
16 10 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.57%) DHCP
17 8 (0.57%) HTTP
17 8 (0.57%) IPv4
18 7 (0.50%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (7.45%) NoSQL
3 72 (5.11%) MongoDB
4 61 (4.33%) MySQL
5 49 (3.48%) DynamoDB
6 48 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
6 48 (3.41%) Relational Database
7 36 (2.56%) SQL Server
8 35 (2.48%) Redis
9 27 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
10 22 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (1.21%) Big Data
12 15 (1.06%) Pinecone
13 13 (0.92%) Data Lake
13 13 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.92%) Hadoop
14 12 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (0.78%) InfluxDB
16 10 (0.71%) Flink
Development Applications
1 275 (19.52%) Git
2 214 (15.19%) Jenkins
3 177 (12.56%) GitLab
4 41 (2.91%) JIRA
5 29 (2.06%) Bitbucket
5 29 (2.06%) Cypress.io
6 28 (1.99%) CircleCI
6 28 (1.99%) JUnit
7 23 (1.63%) Maven
8 22 (1.56%) SonarQube
9 21 (1.49%) Mockito
10 18 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 18 (1.28%) Selenium
11 14 (0.99%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.78%) Claude Code
12 11 (0.78%) Vite
13 10 (0.71%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.64%) Postman
14 9 (0.64%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.64%) TestRail
General
1 440 (31.23%) Social Skills
2 338 (23.99%) Finance
3 155 (11.00%) Public Sector
4 104 (7.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 104 (7.38%) Law
5 100 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
6 93 (6.60%) Banking
7 69 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
8 34 (2.41%) Legal
9 30 (2.13%) Manufacturing
10 29 (2.06%) Aerospace
11 23 (1.63%) Retail
12 21 (1.49%) Games
12 21 (1.49%) Telecoms
13 14 (0.99%) Marketing
14 12 (0.85%) Electronics
15 11 (0.78%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.71%) Front Office
16 10 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 263 (18.67%) Senior
2 244 (17.32%) Developer
3 215 (15.26%) Architect
4 210 (14.90%) Software Engineer
5 208 (14.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 171 (12.14%) Lead
7 117 (8.30%) Cloud Engineer
8 77 (5.46%) Platform Engineer
9 67 (4.76%) Systems Architect
10 65 (4.61%) Senior Developer
11 62 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
11 62 (4.40%) Java Developer
12 58 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 50 (3.55%) Senior Software Engineer
14 48 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
15 46 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
16 45 (3.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 43 (3.05%) Senior DevOps
18 42 (2.98%) Full-Stack Developer
19 41 (2.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 542 (38.47%) Terraform
2 193 (13.70%) RESTful
3 189 (13.41%) Spring
4 181 (12.85%) React
5 174 (12.35%) Spring Boot
6 150 (10.65%) Node.js
7 144 (10.22%) Kafka
8 133 (9.44%) .NET
9 129 (9.16%) REST
10 79 (5.61%) RabbitMQ
11 72 (5.11%) AngularJS
12 55 (3.90%) OAuth
13 54 (3.83%) CSS
14 45 (3.19%) JSON
15 44 (3.12%) gRPC
16 43 (3.05%) OAuth2
17 42 (2.98%) .NET Core
18 40 (2.84%) HTML
19 39 (2.77%) FastAPI
20 38 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 386 (27.40%) Cloud Native
2 172 (12.21%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (4.33%) Product Ownership
4 48 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.63%) Data Centre
6 35 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 33 (2.34%) AI Agents
8 33 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.85%) Algorithms
9 26 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 26 (1.85%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.77%) PKI
11 23 (1.63%) Blog
11 23 (1.63%) Virtual Team
12 20 (1.42%) Private Cloud
13 19 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
14 18 (1.28%) Over-the-Top Content
14 18 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 294 (20.87%) Linux
2 98 (6.96%) Windows
3 37 (2.63%) Unix
3 37 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 31 (2.20%) CentOS
5 20 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.35%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.64%) Debian
8 8 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.21%) VMS
10 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.14%) Android
10 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.071%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.071%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.071%) Rocky
11 1 (0.071%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 943 (66.93%) CI/CD
2 707 (50.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 683 (48.47%) DevOps
4 495 (35.13%) Agile
5 452 (32.08%) Software Engineering
6 407 (28.89%) Microservices
7 327 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
8 281 (19.94%) Observability
9 274 (19.45%) Mentoring
10 272 (19.30%) Test Automation
11 266 (18.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 265 (18.81%) AI
13 226 (16.04%) Event-Driven
14 207 (14.69%) Platform Engineering
15 179 (12.70%) Roadmaps
16 165 (11.71%) Full-Stack Development
17 152 (10.79%) Technical Leadership
18 141 (10.01%) Scrum
19 140 (9.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 136 (9.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 639 (45.35%) Python
2 360 (25.55%) Java
3 235 (16.68%) JavaScript
4 185 (13.13%) Bash
5 161 (11.43%) SQL
6 158 (11.21%) TypeScript
7 147 (10.43%) C#
8 132 (9.37%) PowerShell
9 107 (7.59%) Go
10 63 (4.47%) Bicep
11 56 (3.97%) C++
12 39 (2.77%) Ruby
13 35 (2.48%) Scala
14 33 (2.34%) Rust
15 21 (1.49%) Groovy
15 21 (1.49%) PHP
16 18 (1.28%) Kotlin
17 15 (1.06%) C
18 14 (0.99%) PL/SQL
19 11 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 427 (30.31%) Security Cleared
2 210 (14.90%) SC Cleared
3 161 (11.43%) Degree
3 161 (11.43%) DV Cleared
4 90 (6.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (4.12%) AWS Certification
5 58 (4.12%) Azure Certification
6 26 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
7 25 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (1.63%) CISSP
9 14 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (0.85%) CCNP
11 11 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 11 (0.78%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (0.71%) ISTQB
12 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.71%) OSCP
13 9 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.57%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.66%) QA
2 72 (5.11%) GRC
3 57 (4.05%) Accessibility
4 35 (2.48%) Data Quality
5 26 (1.85%) NCSC
6 25 (1.77%) GDPR
7 23 (1.63%) NIST
7 23 (1.63%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.42%) WCAG
9 10 (0.71%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.57%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.21%) SLA
15 1 (0.071%) SEPA
System Software
1 797 (56.56%) Docker
2 48 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.98%) Active Directory
4 40 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.71%) KVM
7 9 (0.64%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.64%) vSphere
8 8 (0.57%) Squid
9 6 (0.43%) Firmware
9 6 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 2 (0.14%) NDS
11 2 (0.14%) QEMU
12 1 (0.071%) iptables
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.071%) Xen
Systems Management
1 808 (57.35%) Kubernetes
2 214 (15.19%) Ansible
3 143 (10.15%) Grafana
4 114 (8.09%) Prometheus
5 37 (2.63%) Puppet
6 36 (2.56%) Argo
7 33 (2.34%) Progress Chef
8 26 (1.85%) Istio
9 17 (1.21%) Nagios
9 17 (1.21%) Podman
10 15 (1.06%) FortiGate
10 15 (1.06%) Kibana
11 14 (0.99%) linkerd
11 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.78%) Packer
12 11 (0.78%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.50%) logstash
14 6 (0.43%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.35%) Rancher
15 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 219 (15.54%) Microsoft
2 91 (6.46%) Google
3 61 (4.33%) Red Hat
4 54 (3.83%) Splunk
4 54 (3.83%) VMware
5 52 (3.69%) Oracle
6 26 (1.85%) OpenAI
7 22 (1.56%) Dynatrace
8 21 (1.49%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.28%) Fortinet
9 18 (1.28%) Typelevel
9 18 (1.28%) Zscaler
10 16 (1.14%) Cisco
11 15 (1.06%) IBM
12 13 (0.92%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.85%) Mistral
14 11 (0.78%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.78%) Databricks
14 11 (0.78%) Rapid7
15 10 (0.71%) ServiceNow