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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 117 192
Rank change year-on-year -28 +75 -52
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,363 1,305 1,311
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.36% 2.65% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 2.95% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 926 664 940
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,706 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,505 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.03% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,875 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £126,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.19% +8.00% -6.03%

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 73,727 44,243 76,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.97% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,045 24,911 52,533
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.73%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -27 1,200 £72,500 -6.45% 584
UK excluding London -30 793 £64,000 -5.19% 326
Work from Home -28 504 £70,000 -2.77% 262
London -22 476 £80,000 -11.11% 317
North of England -35 222 £65,000 - 88
South East +26 189 £65,000 -1.89% 86
South West -7 177 £57,500 -23.33% 66
North West -38 121 £71,250 +18.75% 54
Midlands -74 68 £70,000 +7.69% 42
Yorkshire -40 59 £65,000 -5.11% 20
Northern Ireland -19 56 £73,801 +71.27% 11
Wales -30 43 £67,500 +8.00% 4
North East -18 42 £55,000 -15.38% 14
East of England -14 41 £60,000 -7.69% 15
West Midlands -49 41 £70,079 +3.82% 28
East Midlands -53 27 £63,250 +10.00% 14
Scotland -65 7 £60,000 -19.46% 18

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 38 (2.79%) Apache
2 31 (2.27%) Confluence
3 30 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.05%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.73%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.29%) IIS
8 3 (0.22%) Camunda
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.22%) WordPress
9 2 (0.15%) Appian
9 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.073%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.073%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.073%) nginx
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.73%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.22%) Blender
4 3 (0.22%) Maya
5 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 777 (57.01%) AWS
2 700 (51.36%) Azure
3 345 (25.31%) GCP
4 217 (15.92%) GitHub
5 182 (13.35%) Serverless
6 157 (11.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 154 (11.30%) GitHub Actions
8 117 (8.58%) Azure DevOps
9 110 (8.07%) OpenShift
10 105 (7.70%) Azure AKS
11 96 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
12 94 (6.90%) Amazon S3
13 90 (6.60%) Cloud Computing
14 82 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 82 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
15 77 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
16 71 (5.21%) Datadog
17 68 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
18 66 (4.84%) SaaS
19 57 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 73 (5.36%) Firewall
2 69 (5.06%) DNS
2 69 (5.06%) WAN
3 62 (4.55%) LAN
4 60 (4.40%) Broadband
5 44 (3.23%) Network Security
6 42 (3.08%) TCP/IP
7 37 (2.71%) VPN
8 21 (1.54%) MQTT
9 20 (1.47%) HTTP
10 17 (1.25%) BGP
10 17 (1.25%) OSPF
11 16 (1.17%) VLAN
11 16 (1.17%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.95%) DMARC
13 12 (0.88%) Wireshark
14 11 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
15 8 (0.59%) IPv4
16 7 (0.51%) LTE
16 7 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (8.14%) NoSQL
3 72 (5.28%) MongoDB
4 59 (4.33%) MySQL
5 58 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
6 54 (3.96%) Relational Database
7 46 (3.37%) DynamoDB
8 45 (3.30%) SQL Server
9 41 (3.01%) Redis
10 30 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (0.95%) Big Data
13 12 (0.88%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.81%) DTS
15 10 (0.73%) Db2
16 9 (0.66%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.66%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.66%) Power BI
17 8 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 248 (18.20%) Git
2 205 (15.04%) Jenkins
3 188 (13.79%) GitLab
4 40 (2.93%) CircleCI
5 39 (2.86%) JIRA
6 25 (1.83%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.76%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.32%) JUnit
8 18 (1.32%) Maven
9 16 (1.17%) Mockito
10 15 (1.10%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.03%) Selenium
11 14 (1.03%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.95%) Vite
13 12 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (0.66%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.59%) Gatling
15 8 (0.59%) JMeter
15 8 (0.59%) MLflow
15 8 (0.59%) TestRail
General
1 410 (30.08%) Social Skills
2 309 (22.67%) Finance
3 115 (8.44%) Public Sector
4 106 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (6.82%) Law
6 82 (6.02%) Banking
7 76 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 59 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
9 42 (3.08%) Telecoms
10 26 (1.91%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.69%) Aerospace
12 20 (1.47%) Legal
13 19 (1.39%) Retail
14 17 (1.25%) Games
15 14 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.81%) Front Office
17 10 (0.73%) Electronics
18 9 (0.66%) Billing
18 9 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
19 8 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 267 (19.59%) Senior
2 258 (18.93%) Developer
3 200 (14.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 192 (14.09%) Software Engineer
5 189 (13.87%) Architect
6 167 (12.25%) Lead
7 124 (9.10%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (5.28%) Senior Developer
9 67 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
10 64 (4.70%) Java Developer
11 63 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
11 63 (4.62%) Systems Architect
12 54 (3.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 53 (3.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 52 (3.82%) AWS Engineer
15 49 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
16 48 (3.52%) Senior Software Engineer
17 41 (3.01%) Full-Stack Developer
18 39 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
19 37 (2.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (13.13%) RESTful
2 176 (12.91%) Spring
3 171 (12.55%) React
4 169 (12.40%) Spring Boot
5 138 (10.12%) Node.js
6 136 (9.98%) Kafka
7 135 (9.90%) .NET
8 123 (9.02%) REST
9 78 (5.72%) AngularJS
10 77 (5.65%) RabbitMQ
11 75 (5.50%) gRPC
12 59 (4.33%) OAuth
13 50 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
13 50 (3.67%) JSON
14 44 (3.23%) CSS
14 44 (3.23%) OAuth2
15 43 (3.15%) .NET Core
15 43 (3.15%) YAML
16 39 (2.86%) FastAPI
16 39 (2.86%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 348 (25.53%) Cloud Native
2 175 (12.84%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.30%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.30%) Video\Live Streaming
5 40 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.64%) Data Centre
7 31 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 30 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.54%) PKI
12 20 (1.47%) Algorithms
12 20 (1.47%) Blockchain
12 20 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
13 18 (1.32%) AI Agents
13 18 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 17 (1.25%) Web3
15 16 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 269 (19.74%) Linux
2 89 (6.53%) Windows
3 34 (2.49%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.35%) CentOS
5 30 (2.20%) Ubuntu
6 27 (1.98%) Unix
7 17 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.66%) Debian
9 5 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.29%) VMS
11 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.073%) Android
12 1 (0.073%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.073%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 904 (66.32%) CI/CD
2 643 (47.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 637 (46.74%) DevOps
4 471 (34.56%) Agile
5 428 (31.40%) Software Engineering
6 425 (31.18%) Microservices
7 343 (25.17%) Problem-Solving
8 259 (19.00%) Test Automation
9 257 (18.86%) Mentoring
10 254 (18.64%) Observability
11 249 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 225 (16.51%) AI
13 192 (14.09%) Event-Driven
14 184 (13.50%) Platform Engineering
15 169 (12.40%) Full-Stack Development
16 161 (11.81%) Roadmaps
17 145 (10.64%) Clean Code
18 136 (9.98%) Machine Learning
19 133 (9.76%) Technical Leadership
20 129 (9.46%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 625 (45.85%) Python
2 323 (23.70%) Java
3 238 (17.46%) JavaScript
4 180 (13.21%) Bash
5 168 (12.33%) SQL
6 150 (11.01%) C#
7 148 (10.86%) TypeScript
8 138 (10.12%) PowerShell
9 133 (9.76%) Go
10 55 (4.04%) Bicep
10 55 (4.04%) Scala
11 48 (3.52%) C++
12 37 (2.71%) Ruby
13 30 (2.20%) Rust
14 26 (1.91%) PHP
15 21 (1.54%) Kotlin
16 17 (1.25%) Groovy
17 12 (0.88%) C
18 11 (0.81%) Shell Script
19 10 (0.73%) RPG
Qualifications
1 335 (24.58%) Security Cleared
2 169 (12.40%) SC Cleared
3 149 (10.93%) Degree
4 124 (9.10%) DV Cleared
5 81 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.11%) Azure Certification
7 39 (2.86%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (1.54%) CISSP
10 18 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.81%) CCNP
11 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.73%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.66%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.59%) CCNA
14 8 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.59%) OSCP
14 8 (0.59%) RHCE
14 8 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (8.36%) QA
2 68 (4.99%) GRC
3 42 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.27%) GDPR
5 30 (2.20%) PCI DSS
6 28 (2.05%) Data Quality
7 23 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (1.61%) NIST
9 20 (1.47%) WCAG
10 16 (1.17%) NCSC
11 14 (1.03%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.73%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.073%) SEPA
16 1 (0.073%) SLA
System Software
1 788 (57.81%) Docker
2 41 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (2.79%) Active Directory
5 9 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.66%) vSphere
6 8 (0.59%) Squid
7 7 (0.51%) KVM
8 6 (0.44%) Firmware
8 6 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.22%) iptables
10 2 (0.15%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.15%) NDS
11 1 (0.073%) QEMU
11 1 (0.073%) Xen
Systems Management
1 780 (57.23%) Kubernetes
2 516 (37.86%) Terraform
3 207 (15.19%) Ansible
4 174 (12.77%) Grafana
5 146 (10.71%) Prometheus
6 32 (2.35%) Argo
6 32 (2.35%) Puppet
7 28 (2.05%) Progress Chef
8 23 (1.69%) Istio
9 19 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (1.39%) Nagios
10 18 (1.32%) Podman
11 15 (1.10%) Kibana
12 14 (1.03%) FortiGate
13 13 (0.95%) linkerd
14 11 (0.81%) Packer
14 11 (0.81%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.51%) logstash
16 6 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
16 6 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 193 (14.16%) Microsoft
2 79 (5.80%) Google
3 60 (4.40%) Red Hat
4 51 (3.74%) Splunk
5 45 (3.30%) Typelevel
6 43 (3.15%) VMware
7 41 (3.01%) Oracle
8 25 (1.83%) Dynatrace
9 23 (1.69%) Palo Alto
10 21 (1.54%) Cisco
10 21 (1.54%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.39%) Fortinet
12 17 (1.25%) Zscaler
13 14 (1.03%) IBM
14 13 (0.95%) SendGrid
15 11 (0.81%) Rapid7
15 11 (0.81%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.73%) Confluent
16 10 (0.73%) NVIDIA
17 9 (0.66%) Databricks