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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 117 200
Rank change year-on-year -42 +83 -50
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,189 1,241 1,450
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.28% 2.84% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 3.04% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 803 644 1,099
10th Percentile £45,549 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,734 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £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 68,860 40,768 84,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.96% 93.19% 83.65%
Number of salaries quoted 45,013 21,524 60,756
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,228
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,750 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -41 1,097 £72,500 -6.45% 257
UK excluding London -54 623 £62,500 -7.41% 204
London -13 477 £80,000 -11.11% 100
Work from Home -26 442 £70,932 -1.47% 132
North of England -62 193 £65,000 -3.37% 57
South East +23 160 £70,000 +7.69% 66
South West +1 141 £55,000 -23.87% 40
North West -50 96 £70,932 +14.03% 33
Yorkshire -45 60 £65,000 -7.14% 11
Midlands -94 60 £70,000 +16.67% 13
East of England -23 40 £60,000 -11.11% 13
North East -22 37 £55,000 -16.69% 13
West Midlands -68 32 £70,505 +8.47% 9
East Midlands -59 28 £64,000 +6.67% 4
Wales -27 20 £57,500 -4.17% 7
Scotland -69 9 £60,000 -27.27% 8
Northern Ireland -34 5 £62,500 - 2

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 (2.78%) Apache
2 25 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.68%) Confluence
5 10 (0.84%) Appian
6 7 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.42%) IIS
9 4 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.25%) Camunda
10 3 (0.25%) CMS
10 3 (0.25%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Qpid
12 1 (0.084%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.084%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.084%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.084%) nginx
12 1 (0.084%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.084%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.42%) Maya
4 4 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.17%) Blender
6 1 (0.084%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.084%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
2 3 (0.25%) Shopify
3 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 699 (58.79%) AWS
2 602 (50.63%) Azure
3 328 (27.59%) GCP
4 191 (16.06%) GitHub
5 169 (14.21%) Serverless
6 134 (11.27%) GitHub Actions
7 128 (10.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 125 (10.51%) Azure DevOps
9 104 (8.75%) Azure AKS
10 95 (7.99%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (7.74%) Amazon S3
12 89 (7.49%) OpenShift
13 79 (6.64%) Datadog
14 77 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 73 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
16 65 (5.47%) SaaS
17 49 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
17 49 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
18 48 (4.04%) IaaS
19 39 (3.28%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.48%) Broadband
2 71 (5.97%) Firewall
3 65 (5.47%) DNS
4 37 (3.11%) TCP/IP
5 32 (2.69%) Network Security
6 24 (2.02%) HTTP
7 18 (1.51%) VPN
8 13 (1.09%) MQTT
9 11 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
10 8 (0.67%) AMQP
10 8 (0.67%) IPv4
11 7 (0.59%) DHCP
11 7 (0.59%) DMARC
11 7 (0.59%) VLAN
12 6 (0.50%) BGP
12 6 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.50%) DMZ
12 6 (0.50%) OSPF
12 6 (0.50%) VXLAN
12 6 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (11.61%) NoSQL
2 102 (8.58%) PostgreSQL
3 75 (6.31%) MongoDB
4 72 (6.06%) Relational Database
5 67 (5.63%) SQL Server
6 60 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (4.29%) MySQL
8 48 (4.04%) DynamoDB
9 31 (2.61%) Redis
10 30 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (2.52%) RDBMS
11 22 (1.85%) Pinecone
12 16 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.09%) Big Data
14 10 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (0.84%) Metadata
15 9 (0.76%) Data Lake
15 9 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.76%) InfluxDB
15 9 (0.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 212 (17.83%) Git
2 178 (14.97%) Jenkins
3 158 (13.29%) GitLab
4 48 (4.04%) CircleCI
5 35 (2.94%) JIRA
6 27 (2.27%) Bitbucket
7 24 (2.02%) JUnit
8 22 (1.85%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.77%) Maven
9 21 (1.77%) Mockito
10 18 (1.51%) Jaeger
11 17 (1.43%) MLflow
12 16 (1.35%) Vite
13 15 (1.26%) SonarQube
14 13 (1.09%) Cucumber
15 11 (0.93%) Selenium
16 9 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (0.76%) JMeter
17 8 (0.67%) Robot Framework
17 8 (0.67%) TestRail
General
1 327 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 235 (19.76%) Finance
3 88 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (7.06%) Public Sector
5 75 (6.31%) Banking
6 63 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 63 (5.30%) Law
7 54 (4.54%) Telecoms
8 26 (2.19%) Aerospace
9 22 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 19 (1.60%) Retail
11 18 (1.51%) Front Office
12 14 (1.18%) Games
13 13 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.01%) Billing
15 11 (0.93%) Legal
15 11 (0.93%) Marketing
16 10 (0.84%) Electronics
16 10 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 276 (23.21%) Senior
2 253 (21.28%) Developer
3 178 (14.97%) Software Engineer
4 155 (13.04%) Lead
5 148 (12.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 118 (9.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 91 (7.65%) Architect
8 76 (6.39%) Senior Developer
9 68 (5.72%) Azure Engineer
10 64 (5.38%) Java Developer
11 58 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
12 46 (3.87%) Full-Stack Developer
13 43 (3.62%) AWS Engineer
13 43 (3.62%) Platform Engineer
14 42 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 41 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 35 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
17 33 (2.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 32 (2.69%) AWS DevOps
19 30 (2.52%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (15.05%) React
2 168 (14.13%) RESTful
3 154 (12.95%) .NET
4 136 (11.44%) Spring
5 126 (10.60%) REST
6 123 (10.34%) Spring Boot
7 116 (9.76%) Node.js
8 113 (9.50%) Kafka
9 86 (7.23%) gRPC
10 73 (6.14%) AngularJS
11 67 (5.63%) RabbitMQ
12 62 (5.21%) Elastic Stack
13 61 (5.13%) OAuth
14 58 (4.88%) .NET Core
15 45 (3.78%) FastAPI
16 41 (3.45%) JSON
17 39 (3.28%) OAuth2
18 36 (3.03%) Django
18 36 (3.03%) JWT
19 33 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 283 (23.80%) Cloud Native
2 149 (12.53%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (5.47%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.78%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.78%) Video\Live Streaming
5 32 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (2.52%) Blockchain
7 29 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 28 (2.35%) Public Cloud
9 25 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (1.85%) PKI
10 22 (1.85%) Web3
11 21 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.77%) Onboarding
12 19 (1.60%) Management Information System
13 18 (1.51%) AI Agents
14 17 (1.43%) Data Centre
15 15 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
15 15 (1.26%) Data Structures
15 15 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 231 (19.43%) Linux
2 81 (6.81%) Windows
3 38 (3.20%) Unix
4 37 (3.11%) Ubuntu
5 32 (2.69%) Windows Server
6 30 (2.52%) CentOS
7 21 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.76%) Debian
9 8 (0.67%) Android
10 6 (0.50%) VMS
11 4 (0.34%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.084%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (67.79%) CI/CD
2 579 (48.70%) DevOps
3 494 (41.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 454 (38.18%) Agile
5 391 (32.88%) Microservices
6 370 (31.12%) Software Engineering
7 304 (25.57%) Problem-Solving
8 239 (20.10%) Test Automation
9 238 (20.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 235 (19.76%) Mentoring
11 225 (18.92%) AI
12 210 (17.66%) Observability
13 161 (13.54%) Full-Stack Development
14 149 (12.53%) Machine Learning
15 144 (12.11%) High Availability
16 136 (11.44%) Event-Driven
17 135 (11.35%) Platform Engineering
18 133 (11.19%) Continuous Delivery
19 132 (11.10%) Clean Code
20 128 (10.77%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 550 (46.26%) Python
2 289 (24.31%) Java
3 239 (20.10%) JavaScript
4 201 (16.90%) SQL
5 182 (15.31%) Bash
6 149 (12.53%) Go
7 146 (12.28%) C#
8 138 (11.61%) TypeScript
9 134 (11.27%) PowerShell
10 50 (4.21%) Scala
11 38 (3.20%) Bicep
12 36 (3.03%) C++
13 28 (2.35%) PHP
14 24 (2.02%) Rust
15 21 (1.77%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.35%) C
16 16 (1.35%) Ruby
17 15 (1.26%) Groovy
18 12 (1.01%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 252 (21.19%) Security Cleared
2 132 (11.10%) SC Cleared
3 125 (10.51%) Degree
4 85 (7.15%) DV Cleared
5 72 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.71%) AWS Certification
7 55 (4.63%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.01%) ISTQB
10 12 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (0.84%) CISSP
13 8 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (0.67%) CCNA
13 8 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 8 (0.67%) OSCP
13 8 (0.67%) RHCE
13 8 (0.67%) RHCSA
14 7 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (7.65%) QA
2 38 (3.20%) GDPR
3 32 (2.69%) PCI DSS
4 31 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (2.35%) Data Quality
7 23 (1.93%) NIST
8 16 (1.35%) SOC 2
9 12 (1.01%) GRC
9 12 (1.01%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.67%) WCAG
11 7 (0.59%) NCSC
12 6 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.17%) SLA
16 1 (0.084%) Actionable Recommendations
16 1 (0.084%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 738 (62.07%) Docker
2 36 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (2.44%) Active Directory
5 11 (0.93%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.93%) vSphere
6 8 (0.67%) Squid
7 7 (0.59%) Firmware
7 7 (0.59%) KVM
8 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.34%) iptables
9 3 (0.25%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.084%) QEMU
11 1 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.084%) Xen
Systems Management
1 706 (59.38%) Kubernetes
2 452 (38.02%) Terraform
3 193 (16.23%) Ansible
4 159 (13.37%) Grafana
5 151 (12.70%) Prometheus
6 42 (3.53%) Argo
7 25 (2.10%) Puppet
8 21 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.68%) Istio
10 18 (1.51%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.43%) Podman
11 17 (1.43%) Progress Chef
12 15 (1.26%) Nagios
13 12 (1.01%) Packer
14 10 (0.84%) Kibana
15 9 (0.76%) linkerd
15 9 (0.76%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
16 7 (0.59%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.50%) Mesos
Vendors
1 119 (10.01%) Microsoft
2 106 (8.92%) Google
3 58 (4.88%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.78%) Typelevel
5 42 (3.53%) Splunk
6 41 (3.45%) Oracle
7 36 (3.03%) VMware
8 29 (2.44%) OpenAI
9 23 (1.93%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.26%) Cisco
11 13 (1.09%) NVIDIA
11 13 (1.09%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.09%) Salesforce
12 11 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 11 (0.93%) Databricks
12 11 (0.93%) Fortinet
13 10 (0.84%) Automation Anywhere
13 10 (0.84%) UiPath
14 9 (0.76%) Confluent
14 9 (0.76%) Zscaler