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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 121 188
Rank change year-on-year -28 +67 -54
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,426 1,271 1,202
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.36% 2.56% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.86% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 928 642 819
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,694 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £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 £88,148 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £120,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -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 77,565 44,386 67,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 89.40% 81.08%
Number of salaries quoted 53,403 25,236 43,866
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,170 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -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 8 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 8 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 1,260 £72,500 -6.45% 879
UK excluding London -18 849 £65,000 - 438
Work from Home -28 509 £70,000 - 411
London -26 489 £80,000 -11.11% 524
North of England -27 232 £65,000 - 118
South East +28 199 £65,000 -3.70% 103
South West +13 196 £61,500 -18.00% 88
North West -36 122 £74,651 +24.42% 73
Midlands -63 80 £70,000 +7.69% 44
Yorkshire -29 57 £70,000 +7.69% 21
Northern Ireland -22 56 £73,801 +71.27% 22
North East -9 53 £55,000 -15.38% 24
West Midlands -48 51 £72,500 +7.41% 32
East of England -28 45 £60,000 +2.56% 15
Wales -29 45 £67,500 +3.85% 17
East Midlands -48 29 £62,500 +13.64% 12
Scotland -65 6 £59,283 -15.31% 32

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 (3.37%) Apache
2 35 (2.45%) Confluence
3 34 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 32 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.84%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.28%) Camunda
8 4 (0.28%) nginx
9 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.21%) IIS
9 3 (0.21%) WordPress
10 2 (0.14%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.070%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.070%) JBoss
11 1 (0.070%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.070%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.070%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 831 (58.27%) AWS
2 742 (52.03%) Azure
3 355 (24.89%) GCP
4 220 (15.43%) GitHub
5 182 (12.76%) Serverless
6 172 (12.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 145 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
8 121 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (7.99%) OpenShift
10 99 (6.94%) Azure AKS
11 97 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
12 96 (6.73%) Amazon S3
13 95 (6.66%) Cloud Computing
14 92 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
15 83 (5.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 79 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
17 69 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
18 67 (4.70%) Datadog
19 62 (4.35%) SaaS
20 56 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 71 (4.98%) Firewall
2 70 (4.91%) WAN
3 66 (4.63%) DNS
4 63 (4.42%) LAN
5 52 (3.65%) Broadband
6 46 (3.23%) Network Security
7 40 (2.81%) TCP/IP
8 36 (2.52%) VPN
9 22 (1.54%) MQTT
10 19 (1.33%) BGP
11 18 (1.26%) OSPF
12 17 (1.19%) VXLAN
13 16 (1.12%) VLAN
14 13 (0.91%) DMARC
15 12 (0.84%) HTTP
15 12 (0.84%) Wireshark
16 10 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.56%) IPv4
17 8 (0.56%) LTE
18 7 (0.49%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (7.92%) NoSQL
3 71 (4.98%) MongoDB
4 58 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
5 57 (4.00%) MySQL
6 51 (3.58%) Relational Database
7 49 (3.44%) DynamoDB
8 45 (3.16%) Redis
9 40 (2.81%) SQL Server
10 30 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (1.05%) Big Data
13 14 (0.98%) Pinecone
14 13 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (0.77%) Data Lake
15 11 (0.77%) DTS
15 11 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (0.77%) Hadoop
15 11 (0.77%) Power BI
16 10 (0.70%) Db2
Development Applications
1 273 (19.14%) Git
2 212 (14.87%) Jenkins
3 188 (13.18%) GitLab
4 43 (3.02%) JIRA
5 34 (2.38%) CircleCI
6 29 (2.03%) Bitbucket
7 27 (1.89%) Cypress.io
7 27 (1.89%) JUnit
8 22 (1.54%) Maven
9 20 (1.40%) Mockito
10 18 (1.26%) SonarQube
11 17 (1.19%) Selenium
12 16 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 15 (1.05%) Cucumber
14 12 (0.84%) Vite
15 11 (0.77%) Claude Code
16 10 (0.70%) Postman
17 9 (0.63%) MLflow
17 9 (0.63%) TeamCity
18 8 (0.56%) JMeter
General
1 444 (31.14%) Social Skills
2 335 (23.49%) Finance
3 138 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 115 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 109 (7.64%) Law
6 107 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 88 (6.17%) Banking
8 64 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
9 32 (2.24%) Telecoms
10 29 (2.03%) Legal
11 28 (1.96%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.82%) Aerospace
13 21 (1.47%) Retail
14 18 (1.26%) Games
15 14 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (0.98%) Marketing
16 12 (0.84%) Electronics
16 12 (0.84%) Front Office
17 11 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
18 9 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 267 (18.72%) Senior
2 260 (18.23%) Developer
3 212 (14.87%) Software Engineer
4 211 (14.80%) DevOps Engineer
5 198 (13.88%) Architect
6 183 (12.83%) Lead
7 122 (8.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 75 (5.26%) Senior Developer
9 68 (4.77%) Azure Engineer
9 68 (4.77%) Platform Engineer
10 66 (4.63%) Java Developer
11 63 (4.42%) Systems Architect
12 52 (3.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 51 (3.58%) AWS Engineer
13 51 (3.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 48 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
14 48 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
15 44 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
16 42 (2.95%) Lead Software Engineer
17 41 (2.88%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (13.60%) Spring
2 190 (13.32%) RESTful
3 182 (12.76%) React
4 178 (12.48%) Spring Boot
5 148 (10.38%) Kafka
6 144 (10.10%) .NET
7 143 (10.03%) Node.js
8 126 (8.84%) REST
9 81 (5.68%) AngularJS
10 80 (5.61%) RabbitMQ
11 63 (4.42%) gRPC
12 57 (4.00%) OAuth
13 51 (3.58%) CSS
13 51 (3.58%) JSON
14 47 (3.30%) .NET Core
14 47 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
15 43 (3.02%) OAuth2
15 43 (3.02%) YAML
16 41 (2.88%) HTML
17 39 (2.73%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 375 (26.30%) Cloud Native
2 183 (12.83%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (4.42%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.44%) Onboarding
5 36 (2.52%) Data Centre
5 36 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (2.52%) Over-the-Top Content
5 36 (2.52%) Video\Live Streaming
6 33 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 29 (2.03%) AI Agents
8 29 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
9 25 (1.75%) Algorithms
10 24 (1.68%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.47%) Virtual Team
12 20 (1.40%) Blog
12 20 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
12 20 (1.40%) PKI
13 19 (1.33%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.19%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 281 (19.71%) Linux
2 94 (6.59%) Windows
3 35 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.24%) CentOS
5 31 (2.17%) Unix
6 24 (1.68%) Ubuntu
7 19 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.56%) Debian
9 7 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.21%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.070%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.070%) Rocky
12 1 (0.070%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 957 (67.11%) CI/CD
2 692 (48.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 687 (48.18%) DevOps
4 516 (36.19%) Agile
5 455 (31.91%) Software Engineering
6 438 (30.72%) Microservices
7 355 (24.89%) Problem-Solving
8 283 (19.85%) Observability
9 275 (19.28%) Mentoring
10 274 (19.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 274 (19.21%) Test Automation
11 264 (18.51%) AI
12 213 (14.94%) Event-Driven
13 200 (14.03%) Platform Engineering
14 178 (12.48%) Full-Stack Development
15 168 (11.78%) Roadmaps
16 149 (10.45%) Machine Learning
17 148 (10.38%) Technical Leadership
18 146 (10.24%) Clean Code
19 145 (10.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 657 (46.07%) Python
2 367 (25.74%) Java
3 246 (17.25%) JavaScript
4 181 (12.69%) Bash
5 176 (12.34%) SQL
6 157 (11.01%) TypeScript
7 156 (10.94%) C#
8 140 (9.82%) PowerShell
9 125 (8.77%) Go
10 59 (4.14%) Bicep
11 52 (3.65%) C++
12 50 (3.51%) Scala
13 41 (2.88%) Ruby
14 30 (2.10%) Rust
15 22 (1.54%) PHP
16 21 (1.47%) Kotlin
17 18 (1.26%) Groovy
18 14 (0.98%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.84%) C
19 12 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 396 (27.77%) Security Cleared
2 207 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 165 (11.57%) Degree
4 145 (10.17%) DV Cleared
5 89 (6.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 61 (4.28%) Azure Certification
7 56 (3.93%) AWS Certification
8 27 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (1.54%) CISSP
10 20 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.84%) CCNP
13 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.70%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 8 (0.56%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.56%) OSCP
16 8 (0.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (8.77%) QA
2 68 (4.77%) GRC
3 53 (3.72%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.10%) Data Quality
5 29 (2.03%) GDPR
6 25 (1.75%) NIST
6 25 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.61%) WCAG
8 22 (1.54%) NCSC
9 21 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 11 (0.77%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.70%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.070%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.070%) SLA
System Software
1 833 (58.42%) Docker
2 46 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 40 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.70%) KVM
6 9 (0.63%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.63%) vSphere
7 8 (0.56%) Squid
8 6 (0.42%) Firmware
8 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.14%) iptables
10 2 (0.14%) NDS
11 1 (0.070%) Lustre
11 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.070%) QEMU
11 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.070%) Xen
Systems Management
1 823 (57.71%) Kubernetes
2 539 (37.80%) Terraform
3 208 (14.59%) Ansible
4 164 (11.50%) Grafana
5 133 (9.33%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.38%) Argo
7 32 (2.24%) Puppet
8 29 (2.03%) Progress Chef
9 24 (1.68%) Istio
10 20 (1.40%) Nagios
11 17 (1.19%) Podman
12 16 (1.12%) Kibana
12 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
13 15 (1.05%) FortiGate
14 13 (0.91%) linkerd
15 11 (0.77%) Packer
15 11 (0.77%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.49%) logstash
17 6 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 202 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 88 (6.17%) Google
3 67 (4.70%) Red Hat
4 54 (3.79%) Splunk
5 52 (3.65%) Oracle
6 49 (3.44%) VMware
7 36 (2.52%) Typelevel
8 28 (1.96%) Dynatrace
9 24 (1.68%) OpenAI
10 23 (1.61%) Palo Alto
11 20 (1.40%) Cisco
12 18 (1.26%) Fortinet
12 18 (1.26%) Zscaler
13 15 (1.05%) IBM
14 13 (0.91%) SendGrid
15 12 (0.84%) ServiceNow
16 11 (0.77%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.77%) Rapid7
17 10 (0.70%) Confluent
17 10 (0.70%) Databricks