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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 116 201
Rank change year-on-year -37 +85 -57
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,228 1,246 1,472
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 2.78% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 3.00% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 850 639 1,096
10th Percentile £45,743 £49,044 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.34% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £128,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 68,746 41,496 89,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 92.46% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,319 22,262 63,244
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 June 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 June 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 -35 1,131 £72,500 -9.38% 370
UK excluding London -35 654 £62,500 -7.41% 270
London -22 481 £80,000 -11.11% 169
Work from Home -35 439 £70,079 -2.66% 193
North of England -41 196 £65,000 - 67
South East +30 165 £66,000 +1.54% 84
South West -6 156 £55,000 -26.67% 66
North West -42 100 £70,000 +16.67% 41
Midlands -80 61 £70,000 +7.69% 22
Yorkshire -45 58 £70,932 +1.33% 16
East of England -14 44 £60,000 -11.11% 11
North East -21 38 £55,000 -15.38% 10
West Midlands -54 33 £70,505 +6.42% 14
East Midlands -61 28 £64,000 +6.67% 8
Wales -32 26 £67,500 +12.50% 6
Scotland -67 6 £60,000 -25.00% 4
Northern Ireland -28 5 £62,500 +45.04% 16

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 33 (2.69%) Apache
2 28 (2.28%) Confluence
3 26 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.65%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.49%) Appian
6 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.41%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.33%) IIS
9 3 (0.24%) Camunda
9 3 (0.24%) CMS
9 3 (0.24%) WordPress
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.081%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.081%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.081%) nginx
11 1 (0.081%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.081%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.24%) Blender
3 3 (0.24%) Maya
4 1 (0.081%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.081%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 733 (59.69%) AWS
2 614 (50.00%) Azure
3 324 (26.38%) GCP
4 202 (16.45%) GitHub
5 171 (13.93%) Serverless
6 138 (11.24%) GitHub Actions
7 134 (10.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 119 (9.69%) Azure DevOps
9 107 (8.71%) Azure AKS
10 97 (7.90%) OpenShift
11 93 (7.57%) AWS Lambda
12 90 (7.33%) Amazon S3
13 79 (6.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 76 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
15 72 (5.86%) Datadog
16 69 (5.62%) SaaS
17 57 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
18 56 (4.56%) Amazon ECS
19 52 (4.23%) IaaS
20 43 (3.50%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.27%) Broadband
2 72 (5.86%) Firewall
3 70 (5.70%) DNS
4 36 (2.93%) TCP/IP
5 35 (2.85%) Network Security
6 24 (1.95%) VPN
7 23 (1.87%) HTTP
8 16 (1.30%) MQTT
9 12 (0.98%) DMARC
9 12 (0.98%) VLAN
10 11 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
11 10 (0.81%) BGP
11 10 (0.81%) OSPF
11 10 (0.81%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.73%) DHCP
13 8 (0.65%) AMQP
13 8 (0.65%) IPv4
14 6 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.49%) WAN
14 6 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (11.16%) NoSQL
2 115 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (6.68%) MongoDB
4 70 (5.70%) Relational Database
5 57 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
5 57 (4.64%) SQL Server
6 52 (4.23%) MySQL
7 47 (3.83%) DynamoDB
8 36 (2.93%) Redis
9 30 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
10 27 (2.20%) RDBMS
11 19 (1.55%) Pinecone
12 18 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.06%) Big Data
14 11 (0.90%) Metadata
15 10 (0.81%) Power BI
16 9 (0.73%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.73%) InfluxDB
17 8 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
18 7 (0.57%) DTS
Development Applications
1 216 (17.59%) Git
2 188 (15.31%) Jenkins
3 171 (13.93%) GitLab
4 45 (3.66%) CircleCI
5 41 (3.34%) JIRA
6 27 (2.20%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.95%) JUnit
8 23 (1.87%) Cypress.io
9 22 (1.79%) Maven
10 21 (1.71%) Mockito
11 18 (1.47%) Jaeger
11 18 (1.47%) Vite
12 16 (1.30%) Selenium
13 15 (1.22%) SonarQube
14 14 (1.14%) Cucumber
15 13 (1.06%) MLflow
16 10 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 9 (0.73%) JMeter
18 8 (0.65%) Gatling
18 8 (0.65%) TestRail
General
1 335 (27.28%) Social Skills
2 237 (19.30%) Finance
3 96 (7.82%) Public Sector
4 88 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (6.51%) Banking
6 77 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (4.72%) Law
8 45 (3.66%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.12%) Manufacturing
10 25 (2.04%) Aerospace
11 19 (1.55%) Retail
12 15 (1.22%) Games
13 14 (1.14%) Front Office
14 13 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (0.90%) Legal
16 10 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (0.81%) Marketing
17 9 (0.73%) Advertising
17 9 (0.73%) Billing
17 9 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 268 (21.82%) Senior
2 254 (20.68%) Developer
3 180 (14.66%) Software Engineer
4 163 (13.27%) Lead
5 157 (12.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 125 (10.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 107 (8.71%) Architect
8 72 (5.86%) Senior Developer
9 68 (5.54%) Azure Engineer
10 65 (5.29%) Java Developer
11 58 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
12 56 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
13 54 (4.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 48 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
15 47 (3.83%) Full-Stack Developer
16 45 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 35 (2.85%) AWS DevOps
17 35 (2.85%) Senior DevOps
18 34 (2.77%) Software Developer
19 33 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (14.82%) React
2 173 (14.09%) RESTful
3 149 (12.13%) Spring
4 147 (11.97%) .NET
5 140 (11.40%) Spring Boot
6 130 (10.59%) Node.js
7 127 (10.34%) REST
8 122 (9.93%) Kafka
9 80 (6.51%) gRPC
10 76 (6.19%) AngularJS
11 72 (5.86%) RabbitMQ
12 67 (5.46%) Elastic Stack
13 61 (4.97%) OAuth
14 53 (4.32%) .NET Core
15 43 (3.50%) FastAPI
15 43 (3.50%) JSON
16 42 (3.42%) OAuth2
17 39 (3.18%) CSS
18 38 (3.09%) YAML
19 36 (2.93%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 315 (25.65%) Cloud Native
2 155 (12.62%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.66%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.66%) Video\Live Streaming
5 31 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 27 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.20%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.12%) Blockchain
8 26 (2.12%) Data Centre
9 23 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.79%) PKI
11 21 (1.71%) Web3
12 19 (1.55%) Management Information System
13 18 (1.47%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.38%) AI Agents
15 16 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
16 15 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 244 (19.87%) Linux
2 89 (7.25%) Windows
3 38 (3.09%) Unix
4 37 (3.01%) Windows Server
5 34 (2.77%) Ubuntu
6 31 (2.52%) CentOS
7 20 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.73%) Debian
9 4 (0.33%) VMS
10 3 (0.24%) Android
11 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.081%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.081%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 835 (68.00%) CI/CD
2 599 (48.78%) DevOps
3 523 (42.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 478 (38.93%) Agile
5 406 (33.06%) Microservices
6 395 (32.17%) Software Engineering
7 317 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
8 245 (19.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 245 (19.95%) Test Automation
9 244 (19.87%) Mentoring
10 230 (18.73%) Observability
11 220 (17.92%) AI
12 179 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
13 160 (13.03%) Event-Driven
14 152 (12.38%) Platform Engineering
15 141 (11.48%) High Availability
16 138 (11.24%) Machine Learning
17 135 (10.99%) Clean Code
18 134 (10.91%) Continuous Delivery
19 121 (9.85%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 578 (47.07%) Python
2 315 (25.65%) Java
3 243 (19.79%) JavaScript
4 193 (15.72%) SQL
5 188 (15.31%) Bash
6 155 (12.62%) TypeScript
7 153 (12.46%) C#
8 145 (11.81%) Go
9 136 (11.07%) PowerShell
10 52 (4.23%) Scala
11 49 (3.99%) Bicep
12 37 (3.01%) C++
13 28 (2.28%) Rust
14 25 (2.04%) PHP
15 24 (1.95%) Ruby
16 23 (1.87%) Kotlin
17 18 (1.47%) Groovy
18 16 (1.30%) C
19 12 (0.98%) PL/SQL
20 8 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 278 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 151 (12.30%) SC Cleared
3 125 (10.18%) Degree
4 85 (6.92%) DV Cleared
5 71 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.56%) Azure Certification
7 53 (4.32%) AWS Certification
8 20 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.14%) CISSP
10 12 (0.98%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.90%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.65%) CCNA
12 8 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 8 (0.65%) OSCP
12 8 (0.65%) RHCE
12 8 (0.65%) RHCSA
13 7 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (7.98%) QA
2 37 (3.01%) Accessibility
3 36 (2.93%) GDPR
4 33 (2.69%) PCI DSS
5 29 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (2.20%) Data Quality
7 24 (1.95%) NIST
8 14 (1.14%) SOC 2
8 14 (1.14%) WCAG
9 12 (0.98%) GRC
9 12 (0.98%) JSP 440
9 12 (0.98%) NCSC
10 6 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.24%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.081%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.081%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 751 (61.16%) Docker
2 38 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
3 35 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (2.69%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.81%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.81%) vSphere
6 9 (0.73%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.65%) Squid
8 7 (0.57%) KVM
9 6 (0.49%) Firmware
10 4 (0.33%) iptables
10 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.24%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.081%) QEMU
12 1 (0.081%) Xen
Systems Management
1 731 (59.53%) Kubernetes
2 473 (38.52%) Terraform
3 198 (16.12%) Ansible
4 165 (13.44%) Grafana
5 158 (12.87%) Prometheus
6 46 (3.75%) Argo
7 26 (2.12%) Puppet
8 23 (1.87%) Istio
9 22 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 22 (1.79%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.47%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.38%) Podman
12 16 (1.30%) Nagios
13 13 (1.06%) Packer
14 12 (0.98%) Kibana
14 12 (0.98%) linkerd
15 11 (0.90%) ZABBIX
16 9 (0.73%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
18 5 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 130 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 106 (8.63%) Google
3 59 (4.80%) Red Hat
4 46 (3.75%) Splunk
5 45 (3.66%) Typelevel
6 41 (3.34%) Oracle
7 39 (3.18%) VMware
8 26 (2.12%) OpenAI
9 25 (2.04%) Dynatrace
10 18 (1.47%) Cisco
11 16 (1.30%) Palo Alto
12 13 (1.06%) Fortinet
13 12 (0.98%) Salesforce
13 12 (0.98%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.98%) Zscaler
14 11 (0.90%) Databricks
15 10 (0.81%) Confluent
15 10 (0.81%) NVIDIA
15 10 (0.81%) ServiceNow
16 9 (0.73%) IBM