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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 131 168
Rank change year-on-year -30 +37 -42
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,384 1,193 1,237
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.21% 2.42% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 2.72% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 887 590 777
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -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 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -33 1,212 £72,500 -3.33% 2,027
UK excluding London -17 848 £67,500 +3.85% 1,076
London -41 440 £80,000 -5.88% 1,156
Work from Home -51 438 £68,724 +0.29% 895
North of England -33 239 £67,500 +3.85% 270
South West +9 204 £67,500 +1.10% 178
South East -8 170 £66,250 -8.62% 213
North West -40 130 £75,000 +15.38% 148
Midlands -54 84 £70,000 +1.82% 117
North East -13 60 £58,750 -2.08% 40
Northern Ireland -24 59 - - 51
West Midlands -56 52 £72,500 +3.57% 77
Wales -43 50 £60,000 -17.24% 19
Yorkshire -25 49 £72,500 +11.54% 85
East of England -38 48 £60,000 +3.45% 89
East Midlands -52 32 £67,500 +22.73% 40
Scotland -62 6 £90,000 +28.57% 142

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 50 (3.61%) Apache
2 40 (2.89%) Apache Spark
3 37 (2.67%) Confluence
4 25 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.94%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.51%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.29%) nginx
8 3 (0.22%) Camunda
8 3 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) IIS
8 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.22%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.072%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.072%) JBoss
10 1 (0.072%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.072%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.22%) Blender
4 3 (0.22%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 788 (56.94%) AWS
2 716 (51.73%) Azure
3 310 (22.40%) GCP
4 219 (15.82%) GitHub
5 172 (12.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 159 (11.49%) Serverless
7 154 (11.13%) GitHub Actions
8 112 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
9 101 (7.30%) OpenShift
10 96 (6.94%) Azure AKS
11 93 (6.72%) Cloud Computing
12 85 (6.14%) Amazon ECS
13 83 (6.00%) Amazon S3
14 79 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
15 75 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
16 74 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
17 73 (5.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 56 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
19 52 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
20 49 (3.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (5.42%) WAN
2 68 (4.91%) LAN
3 62 (4.48%) Firewall
4 58 (4.19%) DNS
5 48 (3.47%) Network Security
6 38 (2.75%) VPN
7 33 (2.38%) TCP/IP
8 25 (1.81%) MQTT
9 19 (1.37%) BGP
10 18 (1.30%) Broadband
10 18 (1.30%) OSPF
11 17 (1.23%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.16%) VLAN
13 13 (0.94%) DMARC
14 12 (0.87%) Wireshark
15 10 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
16 8 (0.58%) 3GPP
16 8 (0.58%) AMQP
16 8 (0.58%) DHCP
16 8 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (10.40%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (6.58%) NoSQL
3 66 (4.77%) MongoDB
4 59 (4.26%) MySQL
5 48 (3.47%) DynamoDB
6 45 (3.25%) Relational Database
7 42 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
8 37 (2.67%) Redis
9 32 (2.31%) SQL Server
10 27 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (1.30%) Big Data
13 15 (1.08%) Hadoop
13 15 (1.08%) Pinecone
14 14 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
16 12 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
17 11 (0.79%) InfluxDB
17 11 (0.79%) Metadata
18 10 (0.72%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 276 (19.94%) Git
2 208 (15.03%) Jenkins
3 168 (12.14%) GitLab
4 37 (2.67%) JIRA
5 27 (1.95%) Bitbucket
6 24 (1.73%) JUnit
6 24 (1.73%) Maven
7 23 (1.66%) Cypress.io
8 21 (1.52%) SonarQube
9 18 (1.30%) CircleCI
9 18 (1.30%) Selenium
10 17 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 17 (1.23%) Mockito
11 13 (0.94%) Cucumber
12 12 (0.87%) Claude Code
13 11 (0.79%) Vite
14 9 (0.65%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.65%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.65%) TestRail
15 8 (0.58%) Gatling
General
1 439 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 329 (23.77%) Finance
3 177 (12.79%) Public Sector
4 102 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 97 (7.01%) Law
6 92 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (6.14%) Banking
8 69 (4.99%) Presentation Skills
9 37 (2.67%) Aerospace
10 33 (2.38%) Legal
11 27 (1.95%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.95%) Retail
12 21 (1.52%) Games
13 14 (1.01%) Marketing
14 13 (0.94%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.87%) Electronics
16 11 (0.79%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.72%) Front Office
17 10 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 273 (19.73%) Senior
2 245 (17.70%) Developer
3 222 (16.04%) Architect
4 204 (14.74%) Software Engineer
5 198 (14.31%) DevOps Engineer
6 173 (12.50%) Lead
7 111 (8.02%) Cloud Engineer
8 82 (5.92%) Platform Engineer
9 68 (4.91%) Senior Developer
10 67 (4.84%) Systems Architect
11 63 (4.55%) Java Developer
12 62 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 57 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
14 53 (3.83%) Senior Software Engineer
15 44 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
16 42 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
17 41 (2.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 40 (2.89%) Software Developer
19 39 (2.82%) Senior DevOps
20 38 (2.75%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 529 (38.22%) Terraform
2 195 (14.09%) RESTful
3 194 (14.02%) Spring
4 182 (13.15%) React
5 180 (13.01%) Spring Boot
6 148 (10.69%) Node.js
7 146 (10.55%) Kafka
8 123 (8.89%) REST
9 120 (8.67%) .NET
10 84 (6.07%) RabbitMQ
11 71 (5.13%) AngularJS
12 52 (3.76%) CSS
13 51 (3.68%) OAuth
14 44 (3.18%) FastAPI
15 42 (3.03%) OAuth2
16 39 (2.82%) HTML
17 38 (2.75%) LangChain
17 38 (2.75%) OpenAPI
18 35 (2.53%) .NET Core
18 35 (2.53%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 388 (28.03%) Cloud Native
2 166 (11.99%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (4.34%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 38 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 33 (2.38%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 33 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (2.02%) Public Cloud
10 27 (1.95%) Algorithms
10 27 (1.95%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.81%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.73%) Blog
12 24 (1.73%) PKI
13 20 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
14 19 (1.37%) Private Cloud
15 18 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
16 16 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 298 (21.53%) Linux
2 90 (6.50%) Windows
3 39 (2.82%) Unix
4 34 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.24%) CentOS
6 21 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (1.45%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.87%) Debian
9 8 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.22%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.22%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
12 1 (0.072%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.072%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.072%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 919 (66.40%) CI/CD
2 704 (50.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 669 (48.34%) DevOps
4 494 (35.69%) Agile
5 442 (31.94%) Software Engineering
6 395 (28.54%) Microservices
7 315 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
8 288 (20.81%) Observability
9 285 (20.59%) Mentoring
10 276 (19.94%) AI
11 266 (19.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 263 (19.00%) Test Automation
13 232 (16.76%) Event-Driven
14 216 (15.61%) Platform Engineering
15 189 (13.66%) Roadmaps
16 162 (11.71%) Technical Leadership
17 152 (10.98%) Full-Stack Development
18 142 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 138 (9.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 136 (9.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 619 (44.73%) Python
2 369 (26.66%) Java
3 217 (15.68%) JavaScript
4 183 (13.22%) Bash
5 165 (11.92%) TypeScript
6 157 (11.34%) SQL
7 139 (10.04%) C#
8 125 (9.03%) PowerShell
9 91 (6.58%) Go
10 59 (4.26%) Bicep
11 57 (4.12%) C++
12 37 (2.67%) Ruby
13 36 (2.60%) Rust
14 26 (1.88%) Scala
15 23 (1.66%) Groovy
16 16 (1.16%) Kotlin
17 15 (1.08%) C
17 15 (1.08%) PL/SQL
17 15 (1.08%) Shell Script
18 14 (1.01%) PHP
Qualifications
1 447 (32.30%) Security Cleared
2 224 (16.18%) SC Cleared
3 168 (12.14%) DV Cleared
4 157 (11.34%) Degree
5 91 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 59 (4.26%) AWS Certification
7 54 (3.90%) Azure Certification
8 28 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.81%) CISSP
11 13 (0.94%) CCNP
12 11 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.79%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.79%) OSCP
12 11 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.72%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.65%) CISM
14 9 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (8.74%) QA
2 72 (5.20%) GRC
3 57 (4.12%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.82%) Data Quality
5 28 (2.02%) NCSC
6 24 (1.73%) NIST
7 23 (1.66%) GDPR
8 21 (1.52%) PCI DSS
9 19 (1.37%) WCAG
10 18 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 10 (0.72%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.51%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.29%) SLA
16 3 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 1 (0.072%) COBIT
17 1 (0.072%) PSD2
System Software
1 769 (55.56%) Docker
2 49 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (3.11%) Active Directory
4 31 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.94%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.65%) KVM
6 9 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.65%) vSphere
7 8 (0.58%) Squid
8 6 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.36%) NDS
9 5 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.22%) Firmware
11 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 2 (0.14%) QEMU
12 1 (0.072%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.072%) Xen
Systems Management
1 801 (57.88%) Kubernetes
2 212 (15.32%) Ansible
3 137 (9.90%) Grafana
4 113 (8.16%) Prometheus
5 39 (2.82%) Puppet
6 38 (2.75%) Argo
7 34 (2.46%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.59%) Istio
9 16 (1.16%) linkerd
10 15 (1.08%) FortiGate
10 15 (1.08%) Kibana
10 15 (1.08%) Nagios
11 12 (0.87%) Podman
12 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.79%) Packer
12 11 (0.79%) ZABBIX
13 9 (0.65%) logstash
14 7 (0.51%) Rancher
15 6 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 226 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 88 (6.36%) Google
3 56 (4.05%) Splunk
4 55 (3.97%) VMware
5 54 (3.90%) Red Hat
6 52 (3.76%) Oracle
7 26 (1.88%) OpenAI
8 18 (1.30%) Fortinet
8 18 (1.30%) Palo Alto
8 18 (1.30%) Zscaler
9 16 (1.16%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.08%) IBM
11 13 (0.94%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.87%) Databricks
12 12 (0.87%) Mistral
13 11 (0.79%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.79%) Cisco
14 10 (0.72%) Okta
14 10 (0.72%) Rapid7
15 9 (0.65%) ForgeRock