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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 127 179
Rank change year-on-year -21 +52 -51
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,427 1,245 1,220
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.34% 2.49% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 2.79% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 923 623 828
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £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 £88,000 £95,000 £89,063
90th Percentile £103,100 £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 78,515 44,640 67,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.47% 89.25% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 54,079 25,322 43,171
10th Percentile £30,975 £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 £97,236 £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 16 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 16 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 -21 1,263 £72,500 -6.45% 906
UK excluding London -11 860 £65,000 - 459
Work from Home -29 497 £70,000 +1.52% 455
London -30 479 £80,000 -11.11% 550
North of England -26 236 £65,000 - 115
South East +23 201 £65,000 -3.70% 108
South West +8 200 £65,000 -13.33% 91
North West -39 123 £75,000 +22.45% 75
Midlands -62 81 £70,000 +5.66% 42
Yorkshire -20 58 £65,000 - 19
Northern Ireland -23 56 - - 29
North East -17 55 £55,000 -15.38% 21
West Midlands -49 53 £72,500 +7.41% 30
East of England -32 46 £60,000 +2.56% 18
Wales -33 45 £63,750 -1.92% 19
East Midlands -51 28 £61,250 +6.52% 12
Scotland -69 6 £59,283 -8.80% 39

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 50 (3.50%) Apache
2 37 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 36 (2.52%) Confluence
4 32 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.91%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.28%) Camunda
7 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.28%) nginx
7 4 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.21%) IIS
8 3 (0.21%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.070%) CMS
10 1 (0.070%) JBoss
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.070%) SharePoint
10 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
1 821 (57.53%) AWS
2 738 (51.72%) Azure
3 340 (23.83%) GCP
4 220 (15.42%) GitHub
5 179 (12.54%) Serverless
6 170 (11.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 146 (10.23%) GitHub Actions
8 120 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
9 115 (8.06%) OpenShift
10 101 (7.08%) Azure AKS
11 96 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
12 94 (6.59%) Amazon S3
13 91 (6.38%) Cloud Computing
14 85 (5.96%) Amazon ECS
15 81 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 80 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
17 74 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
18 65 (4.56%) Datadog
19 62 (4.34%) SaaS
20 53 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 71 (4.98%) WAN
2 69 (4.84%) Firewall
3 64 (4.48%) DNS
3 64 (4.48%) LAN
4 46 (3.22%) Network Security
5 43 (3.01%) Broadband
6 37 (2.59%) VPN
7 34 (2.38%) TCP/IP
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%) IPv4
16 8 (0.56%) LTE
17 7 (0.49%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (10.16%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (7.99%) NoSQL
3 72 (5.05%) MongoDB
4 61 (4.27%) MySQL
5 53 (3.71%) Relational Database
6 50 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
6 50 (3.50%) DynamoDB
7 41 (2.87%) SQL Server
8 38 (2.66%) Redis
9 26 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
10 24 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
11 18 (1.26%) Big Data
12 15 (1.05%) Pinecone
13 13 (0.91%) Data Lake
13 13 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.91%) Hadoop
14 12 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (0.70%) Db2
16 10 (0.70%) DTS
Development Applications
1 279 (19.55%) Git
2 213 (14.93%) Jenkins
3 187 (13.10%) GitLab
4 44 (3.08%) JIRA
5 33 (2.31%) CircleCI
6 29 (2.03%) Bitbucket
6 29 (2.03%) Cypress.io
7 28 (1.96%) JUnit
8 22 (1.54%) Maven
9 21 (1.47%) Mockito
10 20 (1.40%) SonarQube
11 18 (1.26%) Selenium
12 17 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 16 (1.12%) Cucumber
14 12 (0.84%) Vite
15 11 (0.77%) Claude Code
16 10 (0.70%) Postman
16 10 (0.70%) TeamCity
17 9 (0.63%) JMeter
17 9 (0.63%) MLflow
General
1 445 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 340 (23.83%) Finance
3 146 (10.23%) Public Sector
4 114 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (7.57%) Law
6 104 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 92 (6.45%) Banking
8 66 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (2.17%) Legal
10 29 (2.03%) Manufacturing
11 28 (1.96%) Aerospace
11 28 (1.96%) Telecoms
12 22 (1.54%) Retail
13 21 (1.47%) Games
14 14 (0.98%) Marketing
15 12 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (0.84%) Electronics
15 12 (0.84%) Front Office
16 11 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 266 (18.64%) Senior
2 256 (17.94%) Developer
3 216 (15.14%) Software Engineer
4 207 (14.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 203 (14.23%) Architect
6 178 (12.47%) Lead
7 121 (8.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (5.05%) Senior Developer
9 69 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
10 66 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
11 65 (4.56%) Java Developer
12 64 (4.48%) Systems Architect
13 56 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 51 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
15 50 (3.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 49 (3.43%) AWS Engineer
16 49 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (3.01%) Full-Stack Developer
18 41 (2.87%) Lead Software Engineer
19 40 (2.80%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (13.52%) RESTful
1 193 (13.52%) Spring
2 186 (13.03%) React
3 178 (12.47%) Spring Boot
4 149 (10.44%) Kafka
5 148 (10.37%) Node.js
6 142 (9.95%) .NET
7 129 (9.04%) REST
8 82 (5.75%) RabbitMQ
9 77 (5.40%) AngularJS
10 56 (3.92%) OAuth
11 55 (3.85%) gRPC
12 54 (3.78%) CSS
13 49 (3.43%) JSON
14 46 (3.22%) .NET Core
15 42 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
15 42 (2.94%) HTML
15 42 (2.94%) OAuth2
16 41 (2.87%) YAML
17 40 (2.80%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 382 (26.77%) Cloud Native
2 176 (12.33%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (4.41%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.43%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.59%) Data Centre
6 36 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 33 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (2.24%) AI Agents
9 31 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
10 27 (1.89%) Over-the-Top Content
10 27 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
11 26 (1.82%) Algorithms
12 25 (1.75%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.75%) Public Cloud
13 21 (1.47%) Blog
13 21 (1.47%) PKI
13 21 (1.47%) Virtual Team
14 18 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
14 18 (1.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 290 (20.32%) Linux
2 101 (7.08%) Windows
3 41 (2.87%) Windows Server
4 33 (2.31%) CentOS
5 31 (2.17%) Unix
6 24 (1.68%) Ubuntu
7 21 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.63%) Debian
9 7 (0.49%) 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%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.070%) Rocky
12 1 (0.070%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 951 (66.64%) CI/CD
2 703 (49.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 682 (47.79%) DevOps
4 504 (35.32%) Agile
5 461 (32.31%) Software Engineering
6 430 (30.13%) Microservices
7 344 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
8 283 (19.83%) Observability
9 278 (19.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 278 (19.48%) Test Automation
10 273 (19.13%) Mentoring
11 272 (19.06%) AI
12 216 (15.14%) Event-Driven
13 201 (14.09%) Platform Engineering
14 176 (12.33%) Roadmaps
15 174 (12.19%) Full-Stack Development
16 146 (10.23%) Machine Learning
16 146 (10.23%) Technical Leadership
17 145 (10.16%) Scrum
18 134 (9.39%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 654 (45.83%) Python
2 362 (25.37%) Java
3 246 (17.24%) JavaScript
4 184 (12.89%) Bash
5 176 (12.33%) SQL
6 158 (11.07%) C#
7 157 (11.00%) TypeScript
8 138 (9.67%) PowerShell
9 116 (8.13%) Go
10 60 (4.20%) Bicep
11 55 (3.85%) C++
12 43 (3.01%) Scala
13 39 (2.73%) Ruby
14 31 (2.17%) Rust
15 23 (1.61%) PHP
16 20 (1.40%) Groovy
16 20 (1.40%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.98%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.91%) C
19 12 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 417 (29.22%) Security Cleared
2 213 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 163 (11.42%) Degree
4 155 (10.86%) DV Cleared
5 90 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (4.20%) Azure Certification
7 55 (3.85%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (1.54%) CISSP
10 21 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.84%) CCNP
13 11 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.63%) OSCP
16 8 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 8 (0.56%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (8.83%) QA
2 68 (4.77%) GRC
3 55 (3.85%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 26 (1.82%) GDPR
6 24 (1.68%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.61%) NCSC
7 23 (1.61%) NIST
7 23 (1.61%) WCAG
8 19 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.70%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.63%) JSP 440
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
14 2 (0.14%) SLA
15 1 (0.070%) HIPAA
System Software
1 824 (57.74%) Docker
2 47 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 42 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.70%) KVM
6 9 (0.63%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.63%) vSphere
7 8 (0.56%) Squid
8 6 (0.42%) Firmware
8 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.14%) Lustre
10 2 (0.14%) NDS
11 1 (0.070%) iptables
11 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.070%) QEMU
11 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.070%) Xen
Systems Management
1 820 (57.46%) Kubernetes
2 544 (38.12%) Terraform
3 213 (14.93%) Ansible
4 154 (10.79%) Grafana
5 124 (8.69%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.45%) Argo
7 33 (2.31%) Puppet
8 30 (2.10%) Progress Chef
9 24 (1.68%) Istio
10 20 (1.40%) Nagios
11 17 (1.19%) Podman
12 15 (1.05%) FortiGate
12 15 (1.05%) Kibana
12 15 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
13 13 (0.91%) linkerd
14 11 (0.77%) Packer
14 11 (0.77%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.49%) logstash
16 6 (0.42%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 211 (14.79%) Microsoft
2 90 (6.31%) Google
3 66 (4.63%) Red Hat
4 54 (3.78%) Splunk
5 52 (3.64%) Oracle
6 51 (3.57%) VMware
7 27 (1.89%) Dynatrace
7 27 (1.89%) Typelevel
8 26 (1.82%) OpenAI
9 22 (1.54%) Palo Alto
10 18 (1.26%) Cisco
10 18 (1.26%) Fortinet
10 18 (1.26%) Zscaler
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