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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 130 181
Rank change year-on-year -21 +51 -53
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,426 1,231 1,228
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.33% 2.47% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.77% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 922 612 826
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,688 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,688 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £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 78,808 44,479 67,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.30% 89.14% 80.83%
Number of salaries quoted 54,325 25,171 42,850
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £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 £97,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 20 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 20 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 -20 1,259 £72,500 -6.45% 536
UK excluding London -12 859 £65,000 - 363
Work from Home -25 495 £70,000 - 267
London -32 476 £80,000 -11.11% 255
North of England -15 237 £65,000 - 97
South West +13 201 £65,000 -13.33% 71
South East +22 195 £65,000 -3.70% 88
North West -40 123 £75,000 +25.00% 56
Midlands -60 81 £70,000 +3.70% 35
North East -7 60 £55,000 -12.00% 19
Northern Ireland -29 59 - - 10
Yorkshire -25 54 £70,000 +7.69% 22
West Midlands -47 53 £72,500 +7.41% 23
East of England -23 46 £60,000 +3.45% 25
Wales -34 45 £63,750 -12.07% 10
East Midlands -52 28 £61,250 +11.36% 11
Scotland -71 6 £59,283 -12.17% 29

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 49 (3.44%) Apache
2 37 (2.59%) Apache Spark
2 37 (2.59%) Confluence
3 30 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (0.91%) Jupyter
5 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.28%) Camunda
6 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.28%) nginx
6 4 (0.28%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.21%) IIS
7 3 (0.21%) WordPress
8 2 (0.14%) CMS
8 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.070%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.070%) JBoss
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 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
1 820 (57.50%) AWS
2 737 (51.68%) Azure
3 341 (23.91%) GCP
4 220 (15.43%) GitHub
5 176 (12.34%) Serverless
6 170 (11.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 147 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
8 118 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
9 113 (7.92%) OpenShift
10 99 (6.94%) Azure AKS
11 94 (6.59%) Amazon S3
12 93 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
12 93 (6.52%) Cloud Computing
13 84 (5.89%) Amazon ECS
14 80 (5.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 79 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
16 75 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
17 63 (4.42%) Datadog
18 61 (4.28%) SaaS
19 54 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.19%) WAN
2 69 (4.84%) Firewall
3 67 (4.70%) LAN
4 66 (4.63%) DNS
5 46 (3.23%) Network Security
6 43 (3.02%) Broadband
7 37 (2.59%) TCP/IP
7 37 (2.59%) VPN
8 22 (1.54%) MQTT
9 19 (1.33%) BGP
10 18 (1.26%) OSPF
11 17 (1.19%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.12%) VLAN
13 13 (0.91%) DMARC
14 12 (0.84%) Wireshark
15 10 (0.70%) HTTP
15 10 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
16 8 (0.56%) DHCP
16 8 (0.56%) IPv4
17 7 (0.49%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (7.71%) NoSQL
3 71 (4.98%) MongoDB
4 60 (4.21%) MySQL
5 51 (3.58%) Relational Database
6 50 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
7 49 (3.44%) DynamoDB
8 40 (2.81%) SQL Server
9 37 (2.59%) Redis
10 26 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (1.19%) Big Data
13 15 (1.05%) Pinecone
14 13 (0.91%) Data Lake
14 13 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (0.91%) Hadoop
15 12 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
16 11 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
17 10 (0.70%) Flink
17 10 (0.70%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 276 (19.35%) Git
2 213 (14.94%) Jenkins
3 181 (12.69%) GitLab
4 43 (3.02%) JIRA
5 31 (2.17%) CircleCI
6 29 (2.03%) Bitbucket
6 29 (2.03%) Cypress.io
7 28 (1.96%) JUnit
8 22 (1.54%) Maven
8 22 (1.54%) SonarQube
9 21 (1.47%) Mockito
10 18 (1.26%) Selenium
11 17 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 16 (1.12%) Cucumber
13 12 (0.84%) Vite
14 11 (0.77%) Claude Code
15 10 (0.70%) Postman
15 10 (0.70%) TeamCity
16 9 (0.63%) JMeter
17 8 (0.56%) Gatling
General
1 446 (31.28%) Social Skills
2 339 (23.77%) Finance
3 150 (10.52%) Public Sector
4 108 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (7.57%) Law
5 106 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 91 (6.38%) Banking
7 69 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
8 31 (2.17%) Legal
9 30 (2.10%) Manufacturing
10 29 (2.03%) Aerospace
11 25 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 22 (1.54%) Games
12 22 (1.54%) Retail
13 14 (0.98%) Marketing
14 12 (0.84%) Electronics
15 11 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.70%) Front Office
17 9 (0.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 259 (18.16%) Senior
2 250 (17.53%) Developer
3 216 (15.15%) Software Engineer
4 212 (14.87%) DevOps Engineer
5 207 (14.52%) Architect
6 178 (12.48%) Lead
7 120 (8.42%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
9 68 (4.77%) Senior Developer
10 67 (4.70%) Systems Architect
11 66 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
12 63 (4.42%) Java Developer
13 56 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 50 (3.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 49 (3.44%) Senior Software Engineer
15 49 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
16 48 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
17 43 (3.02%) Senior DevOps
18 42 (2.95%) Full-Stack Developer
19 41 (2.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 549 (38.50%) Terraform
2 194 (13.60%) RESTful
3 193 (13.53%) Spring
4 182 (12.76%) React
5 178 (12.48%) Spring Boot
6 150 (10.52%) Node.js
7 145 (10.17%) Kafka
8 139 (9.75%) .NET
9 129 (9.05%) REST
10 81 (5.68%) RabbitMQ
11 75 (5.26%) AngularJS
12 56 (3.93%) OAuth
13 55 (3.86%) CSS
14 54 (3.79%) gRPC
15 45 (3.16%) JSON
16 44 (3.09%) .NET Core
17 42 (2.95%) OAuth2
18 41 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
18 41 (2.88%) HTML
19 39 (2.73%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 384 (26.93%) Cloud Native
2 180 (12.62%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 51 (3.58%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.59%) Data Centre
6 35 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (2.31%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 32 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
10 27 (1.89%) Over-the-Top Content
10 27 (1.89%) Public Cloud
10 27 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
11 25 (1.75%) Algorithms
11 25 (1.75%) Data Structures
12 22 (1.54%) PKI
13 21 (1.47%) Blog
13 21 (1.47%) Virtual Team
14 20 (1.40%) Private Cloud
15 18 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 290 (20.34%) Linux
2 99 (6.94%) Windows
3 40 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 33 (2.31%) Unix
5 32 (2.24%) CentOS
6 22 (1.54%) Ubuntu
7 19 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.63%) Debian
9 8 (0.56%) 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%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.070%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.070%) Rocky
12 1 (0.070%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 951 (66.69%) CI/CD
2 714 (50.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 683 (47.90%) DevOps
4 503 (35.27%) Agile
5 459 (32.19%) Software Engineering
6 426 (29.87%) Microservices
7 343 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
8 279 (19.57%) Observability
8 279 (19.57%) Test Automation
9 274 (19.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 272 (19.07%) Mentoring
11 267 (18.72%) AI
12 221 (15.50%) Event-Driven
13 203 (14.24%) Platform Engineering
14 179 (12.55%) Roadmaps
15 171 (11.99%) Full-Stack Development
16 146 (10.24%) Technical Leadership
17 144 (10.10%) Machine Learning
17 144 (10.10%) Scrum
18 134 (9.40%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 655 (45.93%) Python
2 365 (25.60%) Java
3 241 (16.90%) JavaScript
4 188 (13.18%) Bash
5 170 (11.92%) SQL
6 160 (11.22%) TypeScript
7 155 (10.87%) C#
8 138 (9.68%) PowerShell
9 118 (8.27%) Go
10 60 (4.21%) Bicep
11 55 (3.86%) C++
12 43 (3.02%) Scala
13 39 (2.73%) Ruby
14 32 (2.24%) Rust
15 22 (1.54%) PHP
16 20 (1.40%) Groovy
16 20 (1.40%) Kotlin
17 15 (1.05%) C
18 14 (0.98%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 425 (29.80%) Security Cleared
2 212 (14.87%) SC Cleared
3 161 (11.29%) Degree
4 160 (11.22%) DV Cleared
5 88 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 61 (4.28%) Azure Certification
7 57 (4.00%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (1.61%) CISSP
10 14 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (0.84%) CCNP
12 11 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (0.70%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.70%) OSCP
14 9 (0.63%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
15 8 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (8.84%) QA
2 71 (4.98%) GRC
3 55 (3.86%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 25 (1.75%) GDPR
6 24 (1.68%) NCSC
7 23 (1.61%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.61%) WCAG
8 22 (1.54%) NIST
9 19 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (0.63%) JSP 440
10 9 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
12 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.21%) SLA
14 1 (0.070%) PSD2
System Software
1 822 (57.64%) Docker
2 47 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.95%) Active Directory
4 41 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.70%) KVM
7 9 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.63%) vSphere
8 8 (0.56%) Squid
9 6 (0.42%) Firmware
9 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 2 (0.14%) NDS
11 2 (0.14%) QEMU
12 1 (0.070%) iptables
12 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.070%) Xen
Systems Management
1 818 (57.36%) Kubernetes
2 218 (15.29%) Ansible
3 151 (10.59%) Grafana
4 120 (8.42%) Prometheus
5 36 (2.52%) Argo
5 36 (2.52%) Puppet
6 33 (2.31%) Progress Chef
7 25 (1.75%) Istio
8 19 (1.33%) Nagios
9 17 (1.19%) Podman
10 15 (1.05%) FortiGate
10 15 (1.05%) Kibana
10 15 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.98%) linkerd
12 11 (0.77%) Packer
12 11 (0.77%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.49%) logstash
14 6 (0.42%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.35%) Rancher
15 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 215 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.45%) Google
3 62 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 53 (3.72%) Oracle
4 53 (3.72%) Splunk
5 52 (3.65%) VMware
6 27 (1.89%) Typelevel
7 26 (1.82%) Dynatrace
7 26 (1.82%) OpenAI
8 21 (1.47%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.26%) Fortinet
9 18 (1.26%) Zscaler
10 16 (1.12%) Cisco
11 15 (1.05%) IBM
12 13 (0.91%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.84%) ServiceNow
14 11 (0.77%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.77%) Databricks
14 11 (0.77%) Rapid7
15 10 (0.70%) Confluent