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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 112 196
Rank change year-on-year -52 +84 -47
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,189 1,237 1,452
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.28% 2.85% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 3.06% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 800 641 1,101
10th Percentile £45,475 £48,688 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,867 £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 68,833 40,438 84,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.92% 93.25% 83.74%
Number of salaries quoted 44,981 21,310 60,621
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,200
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,871 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,610 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% +4.75% -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 30 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 30 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 -48 1,095 £72,500 -6.45% 399
UK excluding London -60 621 £62,500 -7.41% 256
London -18 477 £80,000 -11.11% 187
Work from Home -30 441 £70,505 -0.69% 197
North of England -65 192 £65,000 -3.37% 71
South East +14 160 £70,000 +7.69% 73
South West 0 140 £55,000 -23.60% 51
North West -43 95 £70,932 +14.03% 42
Yorkshire -50 60 £65,000 -7.14% 14
Midlands -93 60 £70,000 +14.29% 19
East of England -20 40 £60,000 -11.11% 17
North East -19 37 £55,000 -16.69% 15
West Midlands -70 32 £70,505 +8.47% 10
East Midlands -52 28 £64,000 +6.67% 9
Wales -22 20 £57,500 -4.17% 9
Scotland -69 9 £60,000 -25.00% 13
Northern Ireland -35 5 £62,500 - 5

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 19 (1.60%) 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
2 604 (50.80%) Azure
3 329 (27.67%) GCP
4 191 (16.06%) GitHub
5 168 (14.13%) 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 94 (7.91%) AWS Lambda
11 91 (7.65%) Amazon S3
12 88 (7.40%) OpenShift
13 79 (6.64%) Datadog
14 77 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 72 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
16 65 (5.47%) SaaS
17 49 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
18 48 (4.04%) 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 25 (2.10%) HTTP
7 18 (1.51%) VPN
8 13 (1.09%) MQTT
9 10 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
10 8 (0.67%) AMQP
11 7 (0.59%) DHCP
11 7 (0.59%) DMARC
11 7 (0.59%) IPv4
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
1 139 (11.69%) NoSQL
2 102 (8.58%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (6.39%) 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
2 177 (14.89%) Jenkins
3 157 (13.20%) GitLab
4 48 (4.04%) CircleCI
5 35 (2.94%) JIRA
6 26 (2.19%) Bitbucket
7 25 (2.10%) 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
2 237 (19.93%) Finance
3 89 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (7.15%) 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%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 275 (23.13%) Senior
2 253 (21.28%) Developer
3 178 (14.97%) Software Engineer
4 155 (13.04%) Lead
5 149 (12.53%) 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
14 42 (3.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 42 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 42 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
15 35 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
16 33 (2.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 32 (2.69%) AWS DevOps
18 30 (2.52%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (14.97%) React
2 169 (14.21%) RESTful
3 153 (12.87%) .NET
4 138 (11.61%) Spring
5 127 (10.68%) REST
6 125 (10.51%) Spring Boot
7 115 (9.67%) Node.js
8 114 (9.59%) Kafka
9 87 (7.32%) gRPC
10 73 (6.14%) AngularJS
11 66 (5.55%) 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 34 (2.86%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 282 (23.72%) Cloud Native
2 149 (12.53%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (5.55%) 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 24 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.85%) PKI
10 22 (1.85%) Web3
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 16 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
16 15 (1.26%) Data Structures
16 15 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 231 (19.43%) Linux
2 80 (6.73%) Windows
3 38 (3.20%) Unix
4 37 (3.11%) Ubuntu
5 31 (2.61%) 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
3 493 (41.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 456 (38.35%) Agile
5 392 (32.97%) Microservices
6 370 (31.12%) Software Engineering
7 303 (25.48%) Problem-Solving
8 239 (20.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 239 (20.10%) Test Automation
9 234 (19.68%) Mentoring
10 226 (19.01%) AI
11 210 (17.66%) Observability
12 162 (13.62%) Full-Stack Development
13 149 (12.53%) Machine Learning
14 144 (12.11%) High Availability
15 135 (11.35%) Event-Driven
16 134 (11.27%) Platform Engineering
17 133 (11.19%) Continuous Delivery
18 131 (11.02%) Clean Code
19 129 (10.85%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 550 (46.26%) Python
2 291 (24.47%) Java
3 240 (20.19%) JavaScript
4 201 (16.90%) SQL
5 182 (15.31%) Bash
6 149 (12.53%) Go
7 145 (12.20%) C#
8 139 (11.69%) 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
1 254 (21.36%) Security Cleared
2 133 (11.19%) SC Cleared
3 125 (10.51%) Degree
4 85 (7.15%) DV Cleared
5 72 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (4.63%) AWS Certification
6 55 (4.63%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (0.93%) ISTQB
9 11 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.84%) CISSP
11 8 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 7 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.59%) OSCP
12 7 (0.59%) RHCSA
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 30 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (2.35%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.84%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.84%) vSphere
6 7 (0.59%) Firmware
6 7 (0.59%) KVM
6 7 (0.59%) Squid
7 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.34%) iptables
8 3 (0.25%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.084%) QEMU
10 1 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.084%) Xen
Systems Management
1 705 (59.29%) 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 26 (2.19%) Puppet
8 21 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (1.60%) Istio
10 18 (1.51%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.43%) Podman
11 17 (1.43%) Progress Chef
12 15 (1.26%) Nagios
13 11 (0.93%) Packer
14 10 (0.84%) Kibana
15 8 (0.67%) linkerd
15 8 (0.67%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
16 7 (0.59%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.50%) Mesos
Vendors
1 118 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 106 (8.92%) Google
3 57 (4.79%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.78%) Typelevel
5 41 (3.45%) Splunk
6 40 (3.36%) Oracle
7 35 (2.94%) 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