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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 130 186
Rank change year-on-year -37 +56 -40
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,105 973 1,499
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 2.35% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 2.52% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 703 720 1,144
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,734 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +3.45% +0.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £103,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 64,759 38,558 80,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.53% 92.98% 86.03%
Number of salaries quoted 39,875 22,521 59,469
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% -10.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.26%

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 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 16 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 -26 1,013 £72,500 -3.33% 440
UK excluding London -45 531 £62,500 -7.41% 328
London +2 468 £82,500 -2.94% 165
Work from Home -10 433 £70,932 +1.33% 215
North of England -40 182 £65,000 - 79
South East -7 122 £70,000 +9.80% 90
South West -30 122 £55,000 -23.60% 70
North West -16 94 £65,000 +4.49% 42
Midlands -55 56 £70,000 +7.69% 34
Yorkshire -68 56 £65,000 -4.41% 23
North East -12 32 £49,222 -26.57% 14
West Midlands -33 28 £70,079 +7.81% 20
East Midlands -47 27 £64,000 +6.67% 14
East of England -30 24 £60,100 -7.54% 31
Scotland -56 16 £59,283 -30.36% 14
Wales -25 11 £60,748 -6.54% 10
Northern Ireland -37 8 £62,500 - 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 35 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (2.81%) Apache
3 21 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.45%) Appian
5 11 (1.00%) Confluence
6 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.54%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.45%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.36%) CMS
9 4 (0.36%) IIS
9 4 (0.36%) 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 (0.090%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.090%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.090%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.63%) Maya
2 4 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Weka
4 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.72%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.090%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.090%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.090%) Endur
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 648 (58.64%) AWS
2 559 (50.59%) Azure
3 336 (30.41%) GCP
4 210 (19.00%) GitHub
5 168 (15.20%) Serverless
6 145 (13.12%) GitHub Actions
7 127 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
8 118 (10.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 98 (8.87%) Datadog
9 98 (8.87%) OpenShift
10 95 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
11 84 (7.60%) Amazon S3
12 82 (7.42%) Azure AKS
13 74 (6.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 64 (5.79%) SaaS
15 52 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
16 51 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
17 46 (4.16%) PaaS
18 42 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
19 40 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (7.06%) Broadband
2 74 (6.70%) Firewall
3 45 (4.07%) DNS
4 28 (2.53%) TCP/IP
5 27 (2.44%) HTTP
5 27 (2.44%) Network Security
6 19 (1.72%) VPN
7 9 (0.81%) AMQP
7 9 (0.81%) DHCP
8 7 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (0.63%) WAN
9 6 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.45%) DMZ
10 5 (0.45%) MQTT
11 4 (0.36%) InfiniBand
11 4 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.27%) Modbus
12 3 (0.27%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.27%) VSAN
12 3 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (15.29%) NoSQL
2 102 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (7.60%) SQL Server
4 78 (7.06%) MongoDB
5 77 (6.97%) Relational Database
6 60 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (4.52%) MySQL
8 43 (3.89%) DynamoDB
9 33 (2.99%) RDBMS
10 28 (2.53%) Pinecone
11 26 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (1.90%) Redis
13 15 (1.36%) Big Data
14 13 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (1.18%) InfluxDB
15 11 (1.00%) BigQuery
15 11 (1.00%) Data Lake
15 11 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.00%) Metadata
16 10 (0.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 199 (18.01%) Git
2 159 (14.39%) Jenkins
3 133 (12.04%) GitLab
4 43 (3.89%) CircleCI
5 34 (3.08%) JIRA
6 29 (2.62%) Cucumber
7 24 (2.17%) JUnit
8 22 (1.99%) Bitbucket
9 21 (1.90%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.90%) MLflow
10 19 (1.72%) Jaeger
10 19 (1.72%) Selenium
11 15 (1.36%) JMeter
12 14 (1.27%) TeamCity
12 14 (1.27%) Vite
13 13 (1.18%) Locust
13 13 (1.18%) SonarQube
14 12 (1.09%) Maven
14 12 (1.09%) Mockito
15 11 (1.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 310 (28.05%) Social Skills
2 240 (21.72%) Finance
3 91 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (7.15%) Telecoms
5 75 (6.79%) Banking
5 75 (6.79%) Public Sector
6 64 (5.79%) Law
7 56 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (2.26%) Front Office
9 23 (2.08%) Games
10 19 (1.72%) Aerospace
10 19 (1.72%) Retail
11 17 (1.54%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.45%) Legal
13 15 (1.36%) Billing
14 12 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.00%) Marketing
16 10 (0.90%) Electronics
17 9 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 268 (24.25%) Senior
2 235 (21.27%) Developer
3 140 (12.67%) Software Engineer
4 139 (12.58%) Lead
5 131 (11.86%) DevOps Engineer
6 92 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 82 (7.42%) Architect
8 71 (6.43%) Senior Developer
9 53 (4.80%) Azure Engineer
10 52 (4.71%) Java Developer
11 50 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
12 47 (4.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 47 (4.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 36 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
14 34 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
15 33 (2.99%) Data Engineer
15 33 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
16 30 (2.71%) Scala Engineer
16 30 (2.71%) Software Developer
17 28 (2.53%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (14.48%) React
2 151 (13.67%) RESTful
3 147 (13.30%) .NET
4 129 (11.67%) REST
5 119 (10.77%) Spring
6 110 (9.95%) Spring Boot
7 100 (9.05%) Kafka
8 94 (8.51%) Node.js
9 91 (8.24%) gRPC
10 80 (7.24%) Elastic Stack
11 67 (6.06%) AngularJS
12 66 (5.97%) .NET Core
13 55 (4.98%) OAuth
14 51 (4.62%) Django
14 51 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
15 50 (4.52%) FastAPI
16 46 (4.16%) Flask
17 39 (3.53%) Vue
18 34 (3.08%) CSS
18 34 (3.08%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 274 (24.80%) Cloud Native
2 151 (13.67%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (6.43%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.07%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (4.07%) Video\Live Streaming
5 42 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (2.71%) Blockchain
7 27 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (2.44%) Public Cloud
8 25 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (2.08%) Fixed Income
9 23 (2.08%) Low-Code
10 22 (1.99%) Onboarding
10 22 (1.99%) PKI
11 21 (1.90%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
12 19 (1.72%) Management Information System
13 18 (1.63%) Web3
14 16 (1.45%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 219 (19.82%) Linux
2 90 (8.14%) Windows
3 46 (4.16%) Unix
4 41 (3.71%) Ubuntu
5 31 (2.81%) CentOS
6 24 (2.17%) Windows Server
7 22 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.18%) Android
9 11 (1.00%) VMS
10 9 (0.81%) Debian
11 4 (0.36%) 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 (0.090%) Rocky
14 1 (0.090%) Solaris
14 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 740 (66.97%) CI/CD
2 558 (50.50%) DevOps
3 435 (39.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 425 (38.46%) Agile
5 388 (35.11%) Microservices
6 305 (27.60%) Problem-Solving
7 301 (27.24%) Software Engineering
8 237 (21.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 232 (21.00%) AI
10 207 (18.73%) Mentoring
11 199 (18.01%) Test Automation
12 191 (17.29%) Observability
13 165 (14.93%) Machine Learning
14 146 (13.21%) Full-Stack Development
15 141 (12.76%) High Availability
16 132 (11.95%) Continuous Delivery
16 132 (11.95%) Continuous Integration
17 120 (10.86%) Clean Code
18 112 (10.14%) Analytics
19 111 (10.05%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 542 (49.05%) Python
2 269 (24.34%) Java
3 224 (20.27%) JavaScript
4 222 (20.09%) SQL
5 167 (15.11%) Bash
6 156 (14.12%) Go
7 126 (11.40%) C#
8 110 (9.95%) PowerShell
9 94 (8.51%) TypeScript
10 47 (4.25%) Scala
11 40 (3.62%) Bicep
12 36 (3.26%) C++
13 24 (2.17%) PHP
14 21 (1.90%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.18%) C
16 12 (1.09%) Ruby
17 10 (0.90%) Rust
17 10 (0.90%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.72%) Delphi
18 8 (0.72%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 213 (19.28%) Security Cleared
2 122 (11.04%) Degree
3 119 (10.77%) SC Cleared
4 77 (6.97%) DV Cleared
5 74 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 67 (6.06%) AWS Certification
7 39 (3.53%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.36%) AWS Certified Developer
10 12 (1.09%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.72%) CISSP
13 7 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 6 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.45%) ISTQB
16 4 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 4 (0.36%) CISM
16 4 (0.36%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (7.51%) QA
2 39 (3.53%) GDPR
3 37 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 35 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (2.90%) PCI DSS
6 29 (2.62%) Data Quality
7 23 (2.08%) NIST
8 20 (1.81%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.18%) WCAG
10 11 (1.00%) GRC
11 10 (0.90%) NCSC
12 9 (0.81%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 5 (0.45%) SLA
14 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.18%) ECSS
15 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 723 (65.43%) Docker
2 42 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
3 34 (3.08%) Active Directory
4 30 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.09%) vSphere
6 9 (0.81%) KVM
7 7 (0.63%) Firmware
7 7 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.63%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.36%) iptables
8 4 (0.36%) Lustre
8 4 (0.36%) 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 (0.090%) QEMU
11 1 (0.090%) Xen
Systems Management
1 686 (62.08%) Kubernetes
2 432 (39.10%) Terraform
3 188 (17.01%) Ansible
4 183 (16.56%) Grafana
5 154 (13.94%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.89%) Argo
7 22 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (1.81%) Puppet
9 19 (1.72%) Istio
9 19 (1.72%) Kustomize
10 13 (1.18%) Nagios
10 13 (1.18%) Podman
11 10 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.72%) Kibana
12 8 (0.72%) linkerd
12 8 (0.72%) Mesos
13 6 (0.54%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.54%) Packer
13 6 (0.54%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 111 (10.05%) Google
2 98 (8.87%) Microsoft
3 57 (5.16%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.07%) Typelevel
5 42 (3.80%) Splunk
6 40 (3.62%) Oracle
7 35 (3.17%) VMware
8 31 (2.81%) OpenAI
9 22 (1.99%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.54%) Cisco
10 17 (1.54%) Palo Alto
10 17 (1.54%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.45%) Databricks
12 13 (1.18%) Automation Anywhere
12 13 (1.18%) NVIDIA
12 13 (1.18%) SAP
12 13 (1.18%) UiPath
13 12 (1.09%) Atlassian
14 11 (1.00%) Confluent
14 11 (1.00%) Dell