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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 126 187
Rank change year-on-year -43 +61 -42
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,092 985 1,473
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 2.39% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 2.57% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 697 732 1,136
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £71,188
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +5.36% -1.13%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,500 £122,250 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -

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 64,151 38,285 80,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.65% 92.95% 86.03%
Number of salaries quoted 39,600 22,564 59,023
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -7.94%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -36 1,003 £72,500 -3.33% 452
UK excluding London -59 522 £62,500 -8.09% 333
London 0 465 £82,500 -2.94% 168
Work from Home -13 432 £70,932 +1.33% 209
North of England -42 180 £65,000 - 80
South West -23 120 £55,000 -24.14% 68
South East -9 118 £70,000 +9.80% 93
North West -18 93 £65,000 +4.49% 46
Midlands -53 56 £70,000 +7.69% 32
Yorkshire -76 56 £65,000 -4.41% 23
North East -14 31 £50,000 -26.66% 11
West Midlands -38 28 £70,079 +3.82% 18
East Midlands -47 27 £64,000 +6.67% 14
East of England -29 25 £60,100 -7.54% 33
Scotland -50 15 £59,283 -30.26% 14
Wales -26 10 £61,496 -5.39% 12
Northern Ireland -42 8 £62,500 -9.82% 6

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 34 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (2.75%) Apache
3 20 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.47%) Appian
5 11 (1.01%) Confluence
6 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.55%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.46%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.37%) CMS
9 4 (0.37%) IIS
9 4 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.27%) Camunda
10 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) nginx
12 1 (0.092%) JBoss
12 1 (0.092%) SAS
12 1 (0.092%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.64%) Maya
2 4 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Weka
4 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.73%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.092%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.092%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.092%) Endur
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 640 (58.61%) AWS
2 552 (50.55%) Azure
3 335 (30.68%) GCP
4 214 (19.60%) GitHub
5 164 (15.02%) Serverless
6 150 (13.74%) GitHub Actions
7 126 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
8 119 (10.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 99 (9.07%) Datadog
10 96 (8.79%) OpenShift
11 93 (8.52%) AWS Lambda
12 85 (7.78%) Amazon S3
13 81 (7.42%) Azure AKS
14 76 (6.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 63 (5.77%) SaaS
16 53 (4.85%) Amazon EC2
16 53 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
17 46 (4.21%) PaaS
18 42 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
19 38 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (7.14%) Broadband
2 73 (6.68%) Firewall
3 44 (4.03%) DNS
4 28 (2.56%) TCP/IP
5 26 (2.38%) HTTP
5 26 (2.38%) Network Security
6 19 (1.74%) VPN
7 9 (0.82%) AMQP
7 9 (0.82%) DHCP
8 7 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (0.64%) WAN
9 6 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.46%) DMZ
10 5 (0.46%) MQTT
11 4 (0.37%) InfiniBand
11 4 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.27%) Modbus
12 3 (0.27%) Multicast
12 3 (0.27%) SCCP
12 3 (0.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (15.57%) NoSQL
2 101 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (7.60%) SQL Server
4 77 (7.05%) MongoDB
5 76 (6.96%) Relational Database
6 60 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (4.67%) MySQL
8 42 (3.85%) DynamoDB
9 33 (3.02%) RDBMS
10 27 (2.47%) Pinecone
11 26 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (1.83%) Redis
13 15 (1.37%) Big Data
14 13 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
15 11 (1.01%) InfluxDB
15 11 (1.01%) Metadata
16 10 (0.92%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.92%) Data Lake
16 10 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 191 (17.49%) Git
2 158 (14.47%) Jenkins
3 132 (12.09%) GitLab
4 43 (3.94%) CircleCI
5 34 (3.11%) JIRA
6 29 (2.66%) Cucumber
7 24 (2.20%) JUnit
8 22 (2.01%) Bitbucket
9 21 (1.92%) MLflow
10 20 (1.83%) Cypress.io
11 19 (1.74%) Jaeger
12 17 (1.56%) Selenium
13 15 (1.37%) JMeter
14 14 (1.28%) TeamCity
15 13 (1.19%) Locust
15 13 (1.19%) Vite
16 12 (1.10%) Maven
16 12 (1.10%) Mockito
16 12 (1.10%) SonarQube
17 9 (0.82%) Robot Framework
General
1 308 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 232 (21.25%) Finance
3 91 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (7.42%) Telecoms
5 74 (6.78%) Public Sector
6 73 (6.68%) Banking
7 64 (5.86%) Law
8 56 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 25 (2.29%) Front Office
10 21 (1.92%) Games
11 19 (1.74%) Aerospace
11 19 (1.74%) Retail
12 17 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 16 (1.47%) Legal
14 15 (1.37%) Billing
15 12 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.10%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.01%) Marketing
17 10 (0.92%) Electronics
18 9 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 266 (24.36%) Senior
2 232 (21.25%) Developer
3 141 (12.91%) Software Engineer
4 136 (12.45%) Lead
5 131 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 91 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 78 (7.14%) Architect
8 70 (6.41%) Senior Developer
9 51 (4.67%) Java Developer
10 50 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
10 50 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
11 45 (4.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 45 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 36 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
12 36 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
13 34 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
14 33 (3.02%) Data Engineer
15 30 (2.75%) Scala Engineer
15 30 (2.75%) Software Developer
16 29 (2.66%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (14.47%) React
2 151 (13.83%) RESTful
3 146 (13.37%) .NET
4 126 (11.54%) REST
5 117 (10.71%) Spring
6 108 (9.89%) Spring Boot
7 98 (8.97%) Kafka
8 92 (8.42%) Node.js
9 91 (8.33%) gRPC
10 80 (7.33%) Elastic Stack
11 65 (5.95%) .NET Core
12 64 (5.86%) AngularJS
13 54 (4.95%) OAuth
14 53 (4.85%) Django
15 50 (4.58%) RabbitMQ
16 49 (4.49%) FastAPI
17 47 (4.30%) Flask
18 38 (3.48%) Vue
19 33 (3.02%) CSS
19 33 (3.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 271 (24.82%) Cloud Native
2 149 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (6.32%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.12%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (4.12%) Video\Live Streaming
5 42 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (2.75%) Blockchain
7 27 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (2.47%) Public Cloud
8 25 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (2.11%) Fixed Income
10 22 (2.01%) Low-Code
10 22 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 22 (2.01%) PKI
11 21 (1.92%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (1.74%) Management Information System
13 18 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
13 18 (1.65%) Web3
14 16 (1.47%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 218 (19.96%) Linux
2 89 (8.15%) Windows
3 48 (4.40%) Unix
4 41 (3.75%) Ubuntu
5 29 (2.66%) CentOS
6 24 (2.20%) Windows Server
7 22 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.19%) Android
9 11 (1.01%) VMS
10 9 (0.82%) Debian
11 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.18%) zOS
14 1 (0.092%) Rocky
14 1 (0.092%) Solaris
14 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (67.22%) CI/CD
2 558 (51.10%) DevOps
3 429 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 415 (38.00%) Agile
5 383 (35.07%) Microservices
6 307 (28.11%) Problem-Solving
7 299 (27.38%) Software Engineering
8 234 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 229 (20.97%) AI
10 205 (18.77%) Mentoring
11 194 (17.77%) Test Automation
12 184 (16.85%) Observability
13 165 (15.11%) Machine Learning
14 143 (13.10%) Full-Stack Development
15 141 (12.91%) High Availability
16 132 (12.09%) Continuous Delivery
17 131 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
18 118 (10.81%) Clean Code
19 110 (10.07%) Analytics
20 107 (9.80%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 537 (49.18%) Python
2 265 (24.27%) Java
3 223 (20.42%) SQL
4 216 (19.78%) JavaScript
5 166 (15.20%) Bash
6 155 (14.19%) Go
7 123 (11.26%) C#
8 108 (9.89%) PowerShell
9 89 (8.15%) TypeScript
10 48 (4.40%) Scala
11 38 (3.48%) Bicep
12 34 (3.11%) C++
13 24 (2.20%) PHP
14 22 (2.01%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.19%) C
16 12 (1.10%) Ruby
17 10 (0.92%) Rust
18 9 (0.82%) Shell Script
19 8 (0.73%) Delphi
19 8 (0.73%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 203 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 124 (11.36%) Degree
3 117 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 76 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (6.68%) DV Cleared
6 66 (6.04%) AWS Certification
7 38 (3.48%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
10 12 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.73%) CISSP
12 7 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.55%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.46%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.37%) CISM
15 4 (0.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (7.42%) QA
2 40 (3.66%) GDPR
3 37 (3.39%) Accessibility
4 35 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (3.02%) PCI DSS
6 27 (2.47%) Data Quality
7 23 (2.11%) NIST
8 20 (1.83%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.19%) WCAG
10 11 (1.01%) GRC
11 10 (0.92%) NCSC
12 9 (0.82%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.37%) SLA
15 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.18%) ECSS
16 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 1 (0.092%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 717 (65.66%) Docker
2 38 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (3.02%) Active Directory
4 29 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.10%) vSphere
6 9 (0.82%) KVM
7 7 (0.64%) Firmware
7 7 (0.64%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.64%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.37%) iptables
8 4 (0.37%) Lustre
8 4 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.27%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.18%) Ceph
10 2 (0.18%) GPFS
10 2 (0.18%) RACF
10 2 (0.18%) Squid
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.092%) QEMU
11 1 (0.092%) Xen
Systems Management
1 683 (62.55%) Kubernetes
2 429 (39.29%) Terraform
3 188 (17.22%) Ansible
4 182 (16.67%) Grafana
5 155 (14.19%) Prometheus
6 44 (4.03%) Argo
7 22 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (1.83%) Puppet
9 19 (1.74%) Istio
9 19 (1.74%) Kustomize
10 13 (1.19%) Nagios
10 13 (1.19%) Podman
11 10 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.73%) linkerd
12 8 (0.73%) Mesos
13 7 (0.64%) Kibana
14 6 (0.55%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.55%) Packer
14 6 (0.55%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.46%) Cilium
Vendors
1 109 (9.98%) Google
2 96 (8.79%) Microsoft
3 55 (5.04%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.12%) Typelevel
5 42 (3.85%) Splunk
6 40 (3.66%) Oracle
7 34 (3.11%) VMware
8 30 (2.75%) OpenAI
9 22 (2.01%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.56%) Cisco
10 17 (1.56%) Palo Alto
10 17 (1.56%) Salesforce
11 15 (1.37%) Databricks
12 13 (1.19%) Automation Anywhere
12 13 (1.19%) NVIDIA
12 13 (1.19%) SAP
12 13 (1.19%) UiPath
13 11 (1.01%) Atlassian
13 11 (1.01%) Dell
14 10 (0.92%) Confluent