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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 124 173
Rank change year-on-year -32 +49 -47
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,413 1,221 1,252
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 2.44% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 2.76% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 916 611 815
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £88,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,875 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

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 80,269 44,315 65,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.64% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 55,761 25,263 40,217
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -6.87%

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 1 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 1 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 -28 1,244 £72,500 -6.45% 1,443
UK excluding London -12 855 £65,000 - 769
Work from Home -31 481 £68,724 -1.82% 674
London -29 466 £80,000 -5.88% 882
North of England -24 234 £65,576 +0.89% 177
South West +12 202 £66,250 -11.67% 153
South East +16 189 £65,000 -5.45% 150
North West -52 121 £75,000 +20.00% 103
Midlands -76 83 £70,000 +3.70% 85
North East -8 60 £55,000 -8.33% 27
Northern Ireland -29 59 - - 50
West Midlands -43 54 £72,500 +3.57% 57
Yorkshire -25 53 £70,932 +9.13% 49
Wales -36 47 £60,000 -17.24% 23
East of England -27 46 £60,000 +4.35% 49
East Midlands -45 29 £64,500 +17.27% 27
Scotland -75 7 £60,000 -7.69% 88

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 (3.47%) Apache
2 38 (2.69%) Confluence
3 36 (2.55%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.28%) Camunda
7 4 (0.28%) IIS
7 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.28%) nginx
8 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.21%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) CMS
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.071%) JBoss
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.071%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 819 (57.96%) AWS
2 738 (52.23%) Azure
3 336 (23.78%) GCP
4 216 (15.29%) GitHub
5 171 (12.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 166 (11.75%) Serverless
7 146 (10.33%) GitHub Actions
8 118 (8.35%) Azure DevOps
9 112 (7.93%) OpenShift
10 97 (6.86%) Azure AKS
11 92 (6.51%) Cloud Computing
12 90 (6.37%) Amazon S3
13 86 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
14 83 (5.87%) Amazon ECS
15 79 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
16 77 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 76 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
18 57 (4.03%) SaaS
19 56 (3.96%) Datadog
20 54 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.24%) WAN
2 69 (4.88%) Firewall
3 67 (4.74%) LAN
4 62 (4.39%) DNS
5 47 (3.33%) Network Security
6 38 (2.69%) VPN
7 35 (2.48%) TCP/IP
8 33 (2.34%) Broadband
9 22 (1.56%) MQTT
10 19 (1.34%) BGP
11 18 (1.27%) OSPF
12 17 (1.20%) VXLAN
13 16 (1.13%) VLAN
14 13 (0.92%) DMARC
15 12 (0.85%) Wireshark
16 10 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.57%) DHCP
17 8 (0.57%) HTTP
17 8 (0.57%) IPv4
18 7 (0.50%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (7.36%) NoSQL
3 71 (5.02%) MongoDB
4 60 (4.25%) MySQL
5 48 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
5 48 (3.40%) DynamoDB
5 48 (3.40%) Relational Database
6 37 (2.62%) SQL Server
7 34 (2.41%) Redis
8 26 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (1.20%) Big Data
11 15 (1.06%) Pinecone
12 13 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (0.92%) Data Lake
12 13 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (0.92%) Hadoop
13 12 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
13 12 (0.85%) InfluxDB
14 10 (0.71%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 276 (19.53%) Git
2 213 (15.07%) Jenkins
3 179 (12.67%) GitLab
4 41 (2.90%) JIRA
5 30 (2.12%) Cypress.io
6 29 (2.05%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.98%) CircleCI
7 28 (1.98%) JUnit
8 23 (1.63%) Maven
9 22 (1.56%) SonarQube
10 21 (1.49%) Mockito
11 19 (1.34%) Selenium
12 18 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 14 (0.99%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.78%) Claude Code
14 11 (0.78%) Vite
15 10 (0.71%) Robot Framework
15 10 (0.71%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.71%) TestRail
16 9 (0.64%) Postman
General
1 443 (31.35%) Social Skills
2 339 (23.99%) Finance
3 156 (11.04%) Public Sector
4 104 (7.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 103 (7.29%) Law
6 100 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
7 93 (6.58%) Banking
8 69 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (2.41%) Legal
10 30 (2.12%) Manufacturing
11 29 (2.05%) Aerospace
12 23 (1.63%) Retail
13 22 (1.56%) Games
14 21 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.99%) Marketing
16 12 (0.85%) Electronics
17 11 (0.78%) Financial Institution
18 10 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
19 9 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
19 9 (0.64%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 264 (18.68%) Senior
2 242 (17.13%) Developer
3 216 (15.29%) Architect
4 210 (14.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 210 (14.86%) Software Engineer
5 172 (12.17%) Lead
6 117 (8.28%) Cloud Engineer
7 78 (5.52%) Platform Engineer
8 67 (4.74%) Systems Architect
9 63 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
9 63 (4.46%) Senior Developer
10 61 (4.32%) Java Developer
11 60 (4.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 50 (3.54%) Senior Software Engineer
13 48 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
14 46 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
15 45 (3.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 44 (3.11%) Senior DevOps
17 42 (2.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 41 (2.90%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 547 (38.71%) Terraform
2 193 (13.66%) RESTful
3 188 (13.31%) Spring
4 181 (12.81%) React
5 173 (12.24%) Spring Boot
6 149 (10.54%) Node.js
7 144 (10.19%) Kafka
8 133 (9.41%) .NET
9 129 (9.13%) REST
10 79 (5.59%) RabbitMQ
11 72 (5.10%) AngularJS
12 55 (3.89%) OAuth
13 54 (3.82%) CSS
14 45 (3.18%) JSON
15 44 (3.11%) gRPC
16 43 (3.04%) OAuth2
17 42 (2.97%) .NET Core
18 40 (2.83%) HTML
19 39 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
19 39 (2.76%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 388 (27.46%) Cloud Native
2 171 (12.10%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 48 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.62%) Data Centre
6 34 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 34 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (2.34%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
7 33 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.84%) Algorithms
8 26 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 26 (1.84%) Public Cloud
9 25 (1.77%) PKI
10 23 (1.63%) Blog
10 23 (1.63%) Virtual Team
11 20 (1.42%) Private Cloud
12 19 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
13 18 (1.27%) Over-the-Top Content
13 18 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 295 (20.88%) Linux
2 99 (7.01%) Windows
3 37 (2.62%) Unix
3 37 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.26%) CentOS
5 20 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.64%) Debian
8 8 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.21%) VMS
10 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.14%) Android
10 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.071%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.071%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.071%) Rocky
11 1 (0.071%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 947 (67.02%) CI/CD
2 712 (50.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 686 (48.55%) DevOps
4 497 (35.17%) Agile
5 453 (32.06%) Software Engineering
6 405 (28.66%) Microservices
7 328 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
8 284 (20.10%) Observability
9 275 (19.46%) Mentoring
10 273 (19.32%) Test Automation
11 268 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 265 (18.75%) AI
13 226 (15.99%) Event-Driven
14 209 (14.79%) Platform Engineering
15 179 (12.67%) Roadmaps
16 164 (11.61%) Full-Stack Development
17 153 (10.83%) Technical Leadership
18 142 (10.05%) Scrum
19 140 (9.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 138 (9.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 642 (45.44%) Python
2 360 (25.48%) Java
3 234 (16.56%) JavaScript
4 187 (13.23%) Bash
5 161 (11.39%) SQL
6 158 (11.18%) TypeScript
7 147 (10.40%) C#
8 135 (9.55%) PowerShell
9 107 (7.57%) Go
10 64 (4.53%) Bicep
11 56 (3.96%) C++
12 39 (2.76%) Ruby
13 35 (2.48%) Scala
14 34 (2.41%) Rust
15 21 (1.49%) Groovy
16 20 (1.42%) PHP
17 17 (1.20%) Kotlin
18 15 (1.06%) C
19 14 (0.99%) PL/SQL
20 11 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 431 (30.50%) Security Cleared
2 210 (14.86%) SC Cleared
3 164 (11.61%) DV Cleared
4 161 (11.39%) Degree
5 90 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (4.10%) AWS Certification
6 58 (4.10%) Azure Certification
7 26 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (1.63%) CISSP
10 14 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (0.85%) CCNP
12 11 (0.78%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.71%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.71%) OSCP
14 9 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.63%) QA
2 72 (5.10%) GRC
3 58 (4.10%) Accessibility
4 36 (2.55%) Data Quality
5 26 (1.84%) NCSC
6 25 (1.77%) GDPR
7 23 (1.63%) NIST
7 23 (1.63%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.42%) WCAG
9 10 (0.71%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.57%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.21%) SLA
15 1 (0.071%) HIPAA
System Software
1 801 (56.69%) Docker
2 49 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 42 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.71%) KVM
6 9 (0.64%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.64%) vSphere
7 8 (0.57%) Squid
8 6 (0.42%) Firmware
8 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.14%) Lustre
10 2 (0.14%) NDS
10 2 (0.14%) QEMU
11 1 (0.071%) iptables
11 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.071%) Xen
Systems Management
1 813 (57.54%) Kubernetes
2 217 (15.36%) Ansible
3 145 (10.26%) Grafana
4 115 (8.14%) Prometheus
5 37 (2.62%) Argo
5 37 (2.62%) Puppet
6 33 (2.34%) Progress Chef
7 27 (1.91%) Istio
8 17 (1.20%) Nagios
8 17 (1.20%) Podman
9 16 (1.13%) Kibana
10 15 (1.06%) FortiGate
10 15 (1.06%) linkerd
11 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.78%) Packer
12 11 (0.78%) ZABBIX
13 8 (0.57%) logstash
14 7 (0.50%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.35%) Mesos
15 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 222 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 91 (6.44%) Google
3 62 (4.39%) Red Hat
4 55 (3.89%) Splunk
4 55 (3.89%) VMware
5 52 (3.68%) Oracle
6 26 (1.84%) OpenAI
7 22 (1.56%) Dynatrace
8 21 (1.49%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.27%) Fortinet
9 18 (1.27%) Typelevel
9 18 (1.27%) Zscaler
10 16 (1.13%) Cisco
11 15 (1.06%) IBM
12 13 (0.92%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.85%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.85%) Mistral
14 11 (0.78%) Databricks
14 11 (0.78%) Rapid7
15 10 (0.71%) ServiceNow