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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 129 187
Rank change year-on-year -36 +58 -39
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,111 980 1,509
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.28% 2.35% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 2.53% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 707 724 1,143
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £71,800
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.46% -0.28%
75th Percentile £87,500 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,000 £125,125 £103,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 65,329 38,670 81,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.37% 92.92% 85.97%
Number of salaries quoted 40,301 22,594 59,579
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.51%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.41%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -26 1,018 £72,500 -3.33% 462
UK excluding London -41 535 £62,500 -7.41% 349
London +1 471 £82,500 -5.71% 166
Work from Home -11 435 £70,932 -1.47% 228
North of England -39 181 £65,000 - 81
South East -4 123 £70,000 +12.00% 91
South West -23 122 £55,000 -23.60% 72
North West -13 94 £65,000 +4.49% 44
Midlands -48 57 £70,000 +7.69% 40
Yorkshire -80 56 £65,000 -4.41% 23
North East -11 31 £48,445 -27.73% 14
West Midlands -41 29 £70,079 +5.78% 22
East Midlands -44 27 £64,000 +6.67% 18
East of England -33 25 £60,100 -7.54% 34
Scotland -56 17 £60,000 -29.52% 22
Wales -21 12 £60,000 -7.69% 11
Northern Ireland -37 8 £62,500 - 6

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 35 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (2.79%) Apache
3 21 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.44%) Appian
5 12 (1.08%) Confluence
6 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.36%) CMS
8 4 (0.36%) IIS
8 4 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Camunda
9 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 1 (0.090%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.090%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.090%) nginx
11 1 (0.090%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.63%) Maya
2 5 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Weka
4 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (0.63%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.090%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.090%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.090%) Endur
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 648 (58.33%) AWS
2 561 (50.50%) Azure
3 335 (30.15%) GCP
4 210 (18.90%) GitHub
5 168 (15.12%) Serverless
6 145 (13.05%) GitHub Actions
7 129 (11.61%) Azure DevOps
8 121 (10.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 99 (8.91%) Datadog
9 99 (8.91%) OpenShift
10 96 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
11 84 (7.56%) Amazon S3
12 83 (7.47%) Azure AKS
13 75 (6.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 64 (5.76%) SaaS
15 51 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
16 50 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
17 45 (4.05%) PaaS
18 43 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
19 40 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (7.02%) Broadband
2 75 (6.75%) Firewall
3 47 (4.23%) DNS
4 29 (2.61%) Network Security
4 29 (2.61%) TCP/IP
5 28 (2.52%) HTTP
6 19 (1.71%) VPN
7 9 (0.81%) AMQP
7 9 (0.81%) DHCP
8 8 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (0.63%) WAN
10 6 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.45%) DMZ
11 5 (0.45%) MQTT
12 4 (0.36%) InfiniBand
12 4 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.27%) SCCP
13 3 (0.27%) Unified Communications
13 3 (0.27%) VSAN
13 3 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (15.30%) NoSQL
2 101 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (7.47%) SQL Server
4 77 (6.93%) MongoDB
5 75 (6.75%) Relational Database
6 61 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (4.50%) MySQL
8 44 (3.96%) DynamoDB
9 33 (2.97%) RDBMS
10 29 (2.61%) Pinecone
11 26 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (1.89%) Redis
13 15 (1.35%) Big Data
14 14 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (1.17%) InfluxDB
16 12 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
17 11 (0.99%) BigQuery
17 11 (0.99%) Data Lake
17 11 (0.99%) Metadata
17 11 (0.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 201 (18.09%) Git
2 161 (14.49%) Jenkins
3 134 (12.06%) GitLab
4 43 (3.87%) CircleCI
5 34 (3.06%) JIRA
6 29 (2.61%) Cucumber
7 24 (2.16%) JUnit
8 22 (1.98%) Bitbucket
9 21 (1.89%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.89%) MLflow
10 19 (1.71%) Jaeger
10 19 (1.71%) Selenium
11 15 (1.35%) JMeter
12 14 (1.26%) TeamCity
12 14 (1.26%) Vite
13 13 (1.17%) Locust
13 13 (1.17%) SonarQube
14 12 (1.08%) Maven
14 12 (1.08%) Mockito
15 11 (0.99%) Robot Framework
General
1 308 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 239 (21.51%) Finance
3 93 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (7.11%) Telecoms
5 75 (6.75%) Banking
5 75 (6.75%) Public Sector
6 63 (5.67%) Law
7 57 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (2.16%) Front Office
9 23 (2.07%) Games
10 20 (1.80%) Aerospace
11 19 (1.71%) Retail
12 18 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.35%) Billing
13 15 (1.35%) Legal
14 12 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.08%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.08%) Marketing
15 11 (0.99%) Electronics
16 9 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 271 (24.39%) Senior
2 235 (21.15%) Developer
3 143 (12.87%) Software Engineer
4 142 (12.78%) Lead
5 132 (11.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 92 (8.28%) Cloud Engineer
7 82 (7.38%) Architect
8 71 (6.39%) Senior Developer
9 53 (4.77%) Azure Engineer
10 52 (4.68%) Java Developer
10 52 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
11 47 (4.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 47 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 37 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
13 35 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
14 33 (2.97%) Data Engineer
15 32 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
16 30 (2.70%) Scala Engineer
16 30 (2.70%) Software Developer
17 28 (2.52%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (14.58%) React
2 153 (13.77%) RESTful
3 148 (13.32%) .NET
4 128 (11.52%) REST
5 119 (10.71%) Spring
6 110 (9.90%) Spring Boot
7 102 (9.18%) Kafka
8 95 (8.55%) Node.js
9 91 (8.19%) gRPC
10 80 (7.20%) Elastic Stack
11 67 (6.03%) AngularJS
12 66 (5.94%) .NET Core
13 57 (5.13%) OAuth
14 52 (4.68%) RabbitMQ
15 50 (4.50%) Django
15 50 (4.50%) FastAPI
16 45 (4.05%) Flask
17 39 (3.51%) Vue
18 34 (3.06%) CSS
18 34 (3.06%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 277 (24.93%) Cloud Native
2 154 (13.86%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (6.48%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.05%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (4.05%) Video\Live Streaming
5 42 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (2.70%) Blockchain
7 27 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (2.34%) Public Cloud
9 25 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (2.07%) Onboarding
11 22 (1.98%) Low-Code
11 22 (1.98%) PKI
12 21 (1.89%) AI Agents
12 21 (1.89%) Fixed Income
12 21 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
13 19 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
13 19 (1.71%) Management Information System
14 18 (1.62%) Web3
15 15 (1.35%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 217 (19.53%) Linux
2 90 (8.10%) Windows
3 45 (4.05%) Unix
4 42 (3.78%) Ubuntu
5 32 (2.88%) CentOS
6 25 (2.25%) Windows Server
7 22 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.17%) Android
9 11 (0.99%) VMS
10 10 (0.90%) Debian
11 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.18%) zOS
14 1 (0.090%) Rocky
14 1 (0.090%) Solaris
14 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 744 (66.97%) CI/CD
2 562 (50.59%) DevOps
3 440 (39.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 426 (38.34%) Agile
5 391 (35.19%) Microservices
6 312 (28.08%) Problem-Solving
7 306 (27.54%) Software Engineering
8 239 (21.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 234 (21.06%) AI
10 210 (18.90%) Mentoring
11 203 (18.27%) Test Automation
12 194 (17.46%) Observability
13 168 (15.12%) Machine Learning
14 148 (13.32%) Full-Stack Development
15 142 (12.78%) High Availability
16 133 (11.97%) Continuous Integration
17 132 (11.88%) Continuous Delivery
18 120 (10.80%) Clean Code
19 114 (10.26%) Event-Driven
20 110 (9.90%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 542 (48.78%) Python
2 271 (24.39%) Java
3 224 (20.16%) JavaScript
3 224 (20.16%) SQL
4 169 (15.21%) Bash
5 156 (14.04%) Go
6 128 (11.52%) C#
7 111 (9.99%) PowerShell
8 97 (8.73%) TypeScript
9 47 (4.23%) Scala
10 40 (3.60%) Bicep
11 36 (3.24%) C++
12 24 (2.16%) PHP
13 21 (1.89%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.17%) C
15 12 (1.08%) Ruby
16 10 (0.90%) Rust
16 10 (0.90%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.72%) Delphi
17 8 (0.72%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 212 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 124 (11.16%) Degree
3 118 (10.62%) SC Cleared
4 76 (6.84%) DV Cleared
5 75 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 68 (6.12%) AWS Certification
7 39 (3.51%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
10 13 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.81%) CISSP
13 7 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.54%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.45%) CISM
15 5 (0.45%) OSCP
16 4 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (7.65%) QA
2 38 (3.42%) GDPR
3 37 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 36 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (2.88%) PCI DSS
6 28 (2.52%) Data Quality
7 24 (2.16%) NIST
8 21 (1.89%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.17%) WCAG
10 11 (0.99%) GRC
11 10 (0.90%) NCSC
12 9 (0.81%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 5 (0.45%) SLA
14 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.18%) ECSS
15 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 729 (65.62%) Docker
2 42 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
3 35 (3.15%) Active Directory
4 30 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.08%) vSphere
6 9 (0.81%) KVM
7 8 (0.72%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.63%) Firmware
8 7 (0.63%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.36%) iptables
9 4 (0.36%) Lustre
9 4 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.27%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.27%) Squid
11 2 (0.18%) Ceph
11 2 (0.18%) GPFS
11 2 (0.18%) RACF
11 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.090%) QEMU
12 1 (0.090%) Xen
Systems Management
1 692 (62.29%) Kubernetes
2 434 (39.06%) Terraform
3 188 (16.92%) Ansible
4 182 (16.38%) Grafana
5 153 (13.77%) Prometheus
6 44 (3.96%) Argo
7 23 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (1.89%) Puppet
9 19 (1.71%) Istio
9 19 (1.71%) Kustomize
10 13 (1.17%) Nagios
10 13 (1.17%) Podman
11 10 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.72%) Kibana
12 8 (0.72%) linkerd
12 8 (0.72%) Mesos
13 7 (0.63%) Packer
13 7 (0.63%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.54%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 113 (10.17%) Google
2 101 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 59 (5.31%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.05%) Typelevel
5 43 (3.87%) Splunk
6 40 (3.60%) Oracle
7 35 (3.15%) VMware
8 32 (2.88%) OpenAI
9 22 (1.98%) Dynatrace
10 18 (1.62%) Cisco
11 17 (1.53%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.44%) Databricks
13 15 (1.35%) Palo Alto
14 13 (1.17%) Automation Anywhere
14 13 (1.17%) NVIDIA
14 13 (1.17%) UiPath
15 12 (1.08%) Atlassian
15 12 (1.08%) SAP
16 11 (0.99%) Confluent
17 10 (0.90%) Dell