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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 115 196
Rank change year-on-year -38 +81 -51
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,217 1,248 1,475
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 2.78% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 3.01% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 842 640 1,101
10th Percentile £45,524 £49,912 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,468 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 68,493 41,477 89,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 92.48% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,109 22,216 63,180
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -38 1,121 £72,500 -9.38% 301
UK excluding London -43 650 £62,500 -7.41% 224
London -23 476 £80,000 -11.11% 145
Work from Home -35 439 £70,000 -2.77% 158
North of England -46 195 £65,000 - 59
South East +24 163 £67,000 +3.08% 69
South West +1 154 £55,000 -26.67% 45
North West -35 99 £70,000 +16.67% 35
Midlands -77 61 £70,000 +7.69% 19
Yorkshire -46 58 £70,932 +1.33% 12
East of England -20 44 £60,000 -11.11% 11
North East -14 38 £55,000 -15.38% 12
West Midlands -50 33 £70,505 +8.47% 12
East Midlands -54 28 £64,000 +6.67% 7
Wales -32 26 £67,500 +12.50% 7
Scotland -65 7 £60,000 -25.00% 6
Northern Ireland -27 5 £62,500 +45.04% 14

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 33 (2.71%) Apache
2 27 (2.22%) Confluence
3 26 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (2.05%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.66%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.58%) Appian
7 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.33%) IIS
8 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.25%) Camunda
9 3 (0.25%) CMS
9 3 (0.25%) WordPress
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.082%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.082%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.082%) nginx
11 1 (0.082%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.082%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.25%) Blender
3 3 (0.25%) Maya
4 1 (0.082%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.082%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 726 (59.65%) AWS
2 612 (50.29%) Azure
3 322 (26.46%) GCP
4 203 (16.68%) GitHub
5 169 (13.89%) Serverless
6 139 (11.42%) GitHub Actions
7 132 (10.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 121 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (8.71%) Azure AKS
10 94 (7.72%) OpenShift
11 93 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
12 90 (7.40%) Amazon S3
13 79 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 76 (6.24%) Amazon EC2
15 73 (6.00%) Datadog
16 69 (5.67%) SaaS
17 57 (4.68%) Amazon ECS
18 56 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
19 52 (4.27%) IaaS
20 42 (3.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.33%) Broadband
2 72 (5.92%) Firewall
3 70 (5.75%) DNS
4 37 (3.04%) TCP/IP
5 34 (2.79%) Network Security
6 24 (1.97%) HTTP
7 23 (1.89%) VPN
8 15 (1.23%) MQTT
9 11 (0.90%) DMARC
9 11 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
9 11 (0.90%) VLAN
10 9 (0.74%) BGP
10 9 (0.74%) DHCP
10 9 (0.74%) OSPF
10 9 (0.74%) VXLAN
11 8 (0.66%) AMQP
11 8 (0.66%) IPv4
12 6 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.49%) DMZ
12 6 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (10.85%) NoSQL
2 113 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (6.57%) MongoDB
4 70 (5.75%) Relational Database
5 58 (4.77%) SQL Server
6 57 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (4.19%) MySQL
8 44 (3.62%) DynamoDB
9 36 (2.96%) Redis
10 29 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (2.22%) RDBMS
12 20 (1.64%) Pinecone
13 18 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (1.07%) Big Data
15 10 (0.82%) Metadata
16 9 (0.74%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.74%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.74%) Power BI
17 8 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
18 7 (0.58%) DTS
Development Applications
1 213 (17.50%) Git
2 190 (15.61%) Jenkins
3 170 (13.97%) GitLab
4 45 (3.70%) CircleCI
5 40 (3.29%) JIRA
6 25 (2.05%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.97%) JUnit
8 23 (1.89%) Cypress.io
9 22 (1.81%) Maven
10 21 (1.73%) Mockito
11 18 (1.48%) Jaeger
11 18 (1.48%) Vite
12 16 (1.31%) Selenium
13 15 (1.23%) SonarQube
14 14 (1.15%) Cucumber
14 14 (1.15%) MLflow
15 9 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 9 (0.74%) JMeter
16 8 (0.66%) Gatling
16 8 (0.66%) Robot Framework
General
1 332 (27.28%) Social Skills
2 230 (18.90%) Finance
3 95 (7.81%) Public Sector
4 87 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (6.49%) Banking
6 77 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (4.85%) Law
8 46 (3.78%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 25 (2.05%) Aerospace
11 19 (1.56%) Retail
12 14 (1.15%) Front Office
12 14 (1.15%) Games
13 13 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (0.90%) Legal
15 10 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.82%) Marketing
16 9 (0.74%) Advertising
16 9 (0.74%) Billing
16 9 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 266 (21.86%) Senior
2 254 (20.87%) Developer
3 178 (14.63%) Software Engineer
4 160 (13.15%) Lead
5 157 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 125 (10.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 104 (8.55%) Architect
8 72 (5.92%) Senior Developer
9 68 (5.59%) Azure Engineer
10 65 (5.34%) Java Developer
11 58 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
12 55 (4.52%) Platform Engineer
13 50 (4.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 48 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
15 47 (3.86%) Full-Stack Developer
16 44 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 35 (2.88%) AWS DevOps
17 35 (2.88%) Senior DevOps
18 34 (2.79%) Software Developer
19 33 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (14.63%) React
2 170 (13.97%) RESTful
3 147 (12.08%) .NET
4 146 (12.00%) Spring
5 137 (11.26%) Spring Boot
6 128 (10.52%) Node.js
7 125 (10.27%) REST
8 119 (9.78%) Kafka
9 80 (6.57%) gRPC
10 75 (6.16%) AngularJS
11 71 (5.83%) RabbitMQ
12 68 (5.59%) Elastic Stack
13 61 (5.01%) OAuth
14 52 (4.27%) .NET Core
15 44 (3.62%) FastAPI
16 43 (3.53%) JSON
17 41 (3.37%) OAuth2
18 39 (3.20%) CSS
19 37 (3.04%) YAML
20 36 (2.96%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 308 (25.31%) Cloud Native
2 150 (12.33%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (5.01%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.70%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.70%) Video\Live Streaming
5 31 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.30%) Onboarding
8 27 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (2.14%) Blockchain
10 25 (2.05%) Data Centre
10 25 (2.05%) Public Cloud
11 23 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.81%) PKI
13 21 (1.73%) Web3
14 19 (1.56%) Management Information System
15 18 (1.48%) Data Structures
16 17 (1.40%) AI Agents
17 16 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
18 15 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 240 (19.72%) Linux
2 88 (7.23%) Windows
3 38 (3.12%) Unix
4 36 (2.96%) Windows Server
5 34 (2.79%) Ubuntu
6 31 (2.55%) CentOS
7 20 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.74%) Debian
9 4 (0.33%) VMS
10 3 (0.25%) Android
11 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.082%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.082%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 828 (68.04%) CI/CD
2 593 (48.73%) DevOps
3 520 (42.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 469 (38.54%) Agile
5 397 (32.62%) Microservices
6 388 (31.88%) Software Engineering
7 314 (25.80%) Problem-Solving
8 241 (19.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 240 (19.72%) Mentoring
9 240 (19.72%) Test Automation
10 228 (18.73%) Observability
11 220 (18.08%) AI
12 175 (14.38%) Full-Stack Development
13 152 (12.49%) Event-Driven
14 150 (12.33%) Platform Engineering
15 140 (11.50%) High Availability
16 138 (11.34%) Machine Learning
17 134 (11.01%) Clean Code
17 134 (11.01%) Continuous Delivery
18 121 (9.94%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 577 (47.41%) Python
2 310 (25.47%) Java
3 242 (19.88%) JavaScript
4 192 (15.78%) SQL
5 187 (15.37%) Bash
6 151 (12.41%) C#
6 151 (12.41%) TypeScript
7 146 (12.00%) Go
8 135 (11.09%) PowerShell
9 52 (4.27%) Scala
10 49 (4.03%) Bicep
11 37 (3.04%) C++
12 27 (2.22%) Rust
13 25 (2.05%) PHP
14 24 (1.97%) Ruby
15 23 (1.89%) Kotlin
16 18 (1.48%) Groovy
17 16 (1.31%) C
18 12 (0.99%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 272 (22.35%) Security Cleared
2 147 (12.08%) SC Cleared
3 124 (10.19%) Degree
4 84 (6.90%) DV Cleared
5 71 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.60%) Azure Certification
7 53 (4.35%) AWS Certification
8 19 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.07%) CISSP
11 12 (0.99%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.90%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.66%) CCNA
13 8 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 8 (0.66%) OSCP
13 8 (0.66%) RHCE
13 8 (0.66%) RHCSA
14 7 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.58%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (8.13%) QA
2 37 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 36 (2.96%) GDPR
4 33 (2.71%) PCI DSS
5 29 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (2.30%) Data Quality
7 24 (1.97%) NIST
8 14 (1.15%) SOC 2
8 14 (1.15%) WCAG
9 12 (0.99%) GRC
9 12 (0.99%) JSP 440
9 12 (0.99%) NCSC
10 6 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.082%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.082%) DO-178B
System Software
1 748 (61.46%) Docker
2 37 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
3 35 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (2.63%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.82%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.82%) vSphere
6 9 (0.74%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.66%) Squid
8 7 (0.58%) KVM
9 6 (0.49%) Firmware
10 4 (0.33%) iptables
10 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.25%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.082%) QEMU
12 1 (0.082%) Xen
Systems Management
1 727 (59.74%) Kubernetes
2 469 (38.54%) Terraform
3 196 (16.11%) Ansible
4 166 (13.64%) Grafana
5 159 (13.06%) Prometheus
6 45 (3.70%) Argo
7 26 (2.14%) Puppet
8 23 (1.89%) Istio
9 22 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 22 (1.81%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.48%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.40%) Podman
12 16 (1.31%) Nagios
13 13 (1.07%) Packer
14 12 (0.99%) Kibana
14 12 (0.99%) linkerd
15 11 (0.90%) ZABBIX
16 9 (0.74%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
18 5 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 128 (10.52%) Microsoft
2 105 (8.63%) Google
3 59 (4.85%) Red Hat
4 46 (3.78%) Splunk
5 45 (3.70%) Typelevel
6 41 (3.37%) Oracle
7 39 (3.20%) VMware
8 27 (2.22%) OpenAI
9 24 (1.97%) Dynatrace
10 18 (1.48%) Cisco
11 15 (1.23%) Palo Alto
12 12 (0.99%) Fortinet
12 12 (0.99%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.90%) Databricks
13 11 (0.90%) SendGrid
13 11 (0.90%) Zscaler
14 10 (0.82%) Confluent
14 10 (0.82%) NVIDIA
14 10 (0.82%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.74%) IBM