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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 142 118
Rank change year-on-year -21 -24 +24
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 890 1,220 1,399
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.59% 1.94% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 2.24% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 610 782 1,048
10th Percentile £48,165 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% +0.82%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +3.85%

All Process and 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 46,878 54,401 47,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.98% 86.62% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 28,142 28,251 36,353
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.70%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 -15 825 £72,500 +3.57% 466
UK excluding London -22 428 £65,000 - 350
London +16 391 £85,000 - 189
Work from Home -10 315 £67,500 -3.57% 247
North of England +4 173 £65,000 +8.33% 97
North West +19 106 £65,000 +8.33% 54
South West -7 86 £60,000 -13.67% 70
South East -37 63 £75,000 +13.21% 111
Midlands -2 56 £67,500 +3.85% 35
Yorkshire -32 44 £68,500 +24.55% 34
West Midlands +4 35 £70,271 +8.11% 21
East of England +13 28 £57,500 -13.21% 21
Scotland -26 26 £70,000 - 15
North East +18 23 £57,600 -7.33% 9
East Midlands +11 20 £54,600 +28.47% 12
Wales -1 13 £80,000 +23.08% 8
Northern Ireland -12 3 - - 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 46 (5.17%) Apache Spark
2 42 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.58%) Apache
4 17 (1.91%) CMS
5 16 (1.80%) IIS
6 13 (1.46%) Apache Solr
7 8 (0.90%) Appian
8 6 (0.67%) nginx
9 5 (0.56%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.56%) Confluence
9 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.22%) CICS
12 2 (0.22%) SAS
12 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.11%) FileNet
13 1 (0.11%) JBoss
13 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (2.25%) Maya
2 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.22%) Weka
3 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.67%) Shopify
2 4 (0.45%) Endur
3 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 514 (57.75%) AWS
2 497 (55.84%) Azure
3 225 (25.28%) GCP
4 176 (19.78%) GitHub
5 128 (14.38%) Azure DevOps
6 125 (14.04%) GitHub Actions
7 121 (13.60%) Serverless
8 72 (8.09%) Amazon S3
9 63 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
9 63 (7.08%) SaaS
10 61 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
11 60 (6.74%) AWS CloudFormation
12 51 (5.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 46 (5.17%) OpenShift
14 45 (5.06%) Datadog
15 42 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
16 37 (4.16%) Cloud Computing
17 35 (3.93%) Azure AKS
18 34 (3.82%) PaaS
19 31 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.84%) Firewall
2 31 (3.48%) DNS
3 21 (2.36%) VPN
4 19 (2.13%) DHCP
4 19 (2.13%) Network Security
5 17 (1.91%) WAN
6 16 (1.80%) TCP/IP
7 12 (1.35%) LAN
8 9 (1.01%) HTTP
8 9 (1.01%) IPsec
9 8 (0.90%) AMQP
9 8 (0.90%) VLAN
10 7 (0.79%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.67%) VoIP
11 6 (0.67%) Wireless
12 5 (0.56%) SAN
13 4 (0.45%) DMZ
13 4 (0.45%) InfiniBand
13 4 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (11.24%) NoSQL
2 95 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
3 78 (8.76%) SQL Server
4 60 (6.74%) MongoDB
5 51 (5.73%) MySQL
6 47 (5.28%) Relational Database
7 42 (4.72%) DynamoDB
8 40 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (2.92%) Big Data
10 24 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
10 24 (2.70%) Metadata
11 20 (2.25%) Spark SQL
12 19 (2.13%) Delta Lake
13 16 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (1.46%) Hadoop
15 12 (1.35%) RDBMS
16 11 (1.24%) Data Lake
16 11 (1.24%) Pinecone
16 11 (1.24%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 166 (18.65%) Git
2 115 (12.92%) Jenkins
3 88 (9.89%) GitLab
4 35 (3.93%) MLflow
5 28 (3.15%) JIRA
6 19 (2.13%) Cucumber
7 17 (1.91%) CircleCI
7 17 (1.91%) JUnit
8 16 (1.80%) TeamCity
9 15 (1.69%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.69%) SonarQube
10 13 (1.46%) Selenium
11 12 (1.35%) JMeter
12 11 (1.24%) Cypress.io
13 9 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.90%) Locust
15 6 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (0.45%) NeoLoad
16 4 (0.45%) SpecFlow
16 4 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 274 (30.79%) Social Skills
2 215 (24.16%) Finance
3 80 (8.99%) Law
4 73 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 61 (6.85%) Marketing
6 48 (5.39%) Telecoms
7 43 (4.83%) Banking
8 36 (4.04%) Games
9 27 (3.03%) Manufacturing
10 26 (2.92%) Retail
11 25 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (2.70%) Front Office
13 20 (2.25%) Electronics
14 14 (1.57%) French Language
15 13 (1.46%) Dutch Language
16 12 (1.35%) Legal
17 11 (1.24%) Advertising
17 11 (1.24%) Financial Institution
18 10 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 209 (23.48%) Developer
2 189 (21.24%) Senior
3 121 (13.60%) Lead
4 107 (12.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 84 (9.44%) Software Engineer
6 57 (6.40%) Architect
7 56 (6.29%) Senior Developer
8 53 (5.96%) Platform Engineer
9 47 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
9 47 (5.28%) Python Developer
10 42 (4.72%) Full-Stack Developer
11 36 (4.04%) Data Engineer
11 36 (4.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 36 (4.04%) Lead Developer
11 36 (4.04%) Software Developer
12 35 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
12 35 (3.93%) Backend Developer
13 34 (3.82%) Operations Engineer
14 32 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
15 29 (3.26%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (15.39%) React
2 130 (14.61%) .NET
3 124 (13.93%) RESTful
4 77 (8.65%) Spring
5 76 (8.54%) Node.js
6 74 (8.31%) REST
7 71 (7.98%) Spring Boot
8 65 (7.30%) Kafka
9 63 (7.08%) FastAPI
10 59 (6.63%) AngularJS
11 56 (6.29%) .NET Core
12 52 (5.84%) HTML
13 51 (5.73%) CSS
14 49 (5.51%) PyTorch
15 48 (5.39%) Flask
16 45 (5.06%) TensorFlow
17 42 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
18 41 (4.61%) scikit-learn
19 40 (4.49%) Pandas
19 40 (4.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 208 (23.37%) Cloud Native
2 101 (11.35%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
4 35 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (3.71%) Onboarding
6 32 (3.60%) Linux Command Line
7 31 (3.48%) Management Information System
7 31 (3.48%) Product Ownership
8 29 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (2.92%) Algorithms
10 24 (2.70%) Fixed Income
10 24 (2.70%) Public Cloud
11 22 (2.47%) Blockchain
11 22 (2.47%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.80%) AI Agents
13 12 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
13 12 (1.35%) PKI
14 11 (1.24%) Data Structures
14 11 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (1.24%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 188 (21.12%) Linux
2 112 (12.58%) Windows
3 50 (5.62%) Windows Server
4 37 (4.16%) Unix
5 29 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (2.13%) VMS
7 17 (1.91%) Ubuntu
8 11 (1.24%) CentOS
8 11 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.90%) Android
10 7 (0.79%) Debian
10 7 (0.79%) Rocky
11 6 (0.67%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.22%) zOS
14 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.11%) Fedora
14 1 (0.11%) Solaris
14 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (63.82%) CI/CD
2 468 (52.58%) DevOps
3 305 (34.27%) Agile
4 278 (31.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 258 (28.99%) Microservices
6 252 (28.31%) Problem-Solving
7 234 (26.29%) AI
8 174 (19.55%) Software Engineering
9 163 (18.31%) Mentoring
10 131 (14.72%) Machine Learning
11 126 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (13.48%) Test Automation
13 115 (12.92%) Observability
14 105 (11.80%) Full-Stack Development
15 100 (11.24%) Computer Science
16 92 (10.34%) Analytics
17 89 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
18 87 (9.78%) Data Pipeline
19 85 (9.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 81 (9.10%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 431 (48.43%) Python
2 189 (21.24%) SQL
3 175 (19.66%) Java
4 154 (17.30%) JavaScript
5 131 (14.72%) C#
6 112 (12.58%) Bash
7 99 (11.12%) PowerShell
8 58 (6.52%) TypeScript
9 45 (5.06%) Go
10 29 (3.26%) Bicep
11 19 (2.13%) C++
12 16 (1.80%) PHP
13 12 (1.35%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.01%) Ruby
15 8 (0.90%) Delphi
16 7 (0.79%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.79%) Scala
17 6 (0.67%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.45%) C
18 4 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 136 (15.28%) Degree
2 133 (14.94%) Security Cleared
3 85 (9.55%) SC Cleared
4 83 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (7.08%) AWS Certification
5 63 (7.08%) DV Cleared
6 45 (5.06%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.80%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.57%) AWS Certified Developer
10 13 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.46%) CISSP
11 8 (0.90%) CISM
12 7 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (0.79%) PhD
12 7 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.67%) ACMT
13 6 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.21%) QA
2 40 (4.49%) GDPR
3 27 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.47%) Data Quality
5 19 (2.13%) NIST
6 15 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.35%) SOC 2
8 9 (1.01%) NCSC
9 8 (0.90%) WCAG
10 7 (0.79%) GRC
10 7 (0.79%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.79%) JSP 440
11 6 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.45%) EMIR
13 4 (0.45%) SLA
14 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.22%) ECSS
14 2 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 594 (66.74%) Docker
2 49 (5.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (4.83%) Active Directory
4 27 (3.03%) Hyper-V
5 20 (2.25%) vSphere
6 14 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.79%) NFS
9 5 (0.56%) KVM
9 5 (0.56%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.45%) Lustre
10 4 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.45%) vCloud
11 2 (0.22%) Ceph
11 2 (0.22%) GPFS
11 2 (0.22%) RACF
11 2 (0.22%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.11%) Firmware
12 1 (0.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 569 (63.93%) Kubernetes
2 312 (35.06%) Terraform
3 133 (14.94%) Ansible
4 111 (12.47%) Grafana
5 90 (10.11%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.70%) Kubeflow
7 14 (1.57%) Argo
8 12 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (1.12%) Control-M
10 10 (1.12%) Puppet
11 8 (0.90%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.90%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 6 (0.67%) Autotask
13 6 (0.67%) SCCM
14 5 (0.56%) Rancher
14 5 (0.56%) SCOM
14 5 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 118 (13.26%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.63%) VMware
3 58 (6.52%) Oracle
4 51 (5.73%) Google
5 39 (4.38%) Databricks
6 36 (4.04%) Red Hat
7 29 (3.26%) Splunk
8 26 (2.92%) SAP
9 23 (2.58%) Cisco
10 22 (2.47%) Palo Alto
11 20 (2.25%) OpenAI
12 19 (2.13%) Dell
13 12 (1.35%) Atlassian
14 11 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
14 11 (1.24%) Fortinet
15 10 (1.12%) MuleSoft
16 9 (1.01%) Dynatrace
16 9 (1.01%) Pure Storage
17 8 (0.90%) Commvault
17 8 (0.90%) IBM