Containerisation Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Containerization
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Containerisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Containerisation over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 164 104
Rank change year-on-year +73 -60 +14
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 491 681 1,351
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.28% 2.01% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 2.20% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 376 535 874
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £57,184
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £70,576 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.65% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,819 £86,875 £90,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £71,500
% change year-on-year - +1.40% +2.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,938 31,020 41,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.13% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 23,575 28,496
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Containerisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Containerisation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Containerisation
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Containerisation.

Containerisation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Containerisation
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Containerisation salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (1.43%) Confluence
1 7 (1.43%) SAS
2 6 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.81%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.81%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.61%) Apache
4 3 (0.61%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.61%) CMS
4 3 (0.61%) IIS
4 3 (0.61%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.20%) Mendix
5 1 (0.20%) nginx
5 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 278 (56.62%) Azure
2 246 (50.10%) AWS
3 131 (26.68%) GCP
4 72 (14.66%) AWS CloudFormation
5 64 (13.03%) Amazon EKS
6 57 (11.61%) SaaS
7 48 (9.78%) GitHub
8 44 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (7.74%) Serverless
10 32 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (4.68%) PaaS
13 18 (3.67%) Amazon S3
14 17 (3.46%) OpenShift
15 15 (3.05%) IaaS
15 15 (3.05%) npm
15 15 (3.05%) Power Platform
16 14 (2.85%) AWS KMS
17 12 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 10 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.85%) Network Security
2 13 (2.65%) Internet
3 9 (1.83%) Firewall
4 6 (1.22%) DNS
4 6 (1.22%) SAN
4 6 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.02%) Multicast
6 4 (0.81%) DHCP
6 4 (0.81%) VLAN
7 3 (0.61%) HTTP
8 2 (0.41%) VPN
9 1 (0.20%) Broadband
9 1 (0.20%) IPsec
9 1 (0.20%) NAS
9 1 (0.20%) SpaceWire
9 1 (0.20%) SSH
9 1 (0.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (12.83%) NoSQL
2 59 (12.02%) Elasticsearch
3 44 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (5.70%) SQL Server
5 24 (4.89%) MongoDB
6 19 (3.87%) MySQL
6 19 (3.87%) Tableau
7 18 (3.67%) Relational Database
8 15 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (2.85%) Power BI
10 10 (2.04%) Big Data
11 9 (1.83%) BigQuery
11 9 (1.83%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.63%) Redis
13 7 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.43%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.43%) Tick Data
14 5 (1.02%) Data Hub
14 5 (1.02%) Looker
Development Applications
1 63 (12.83%) Git
2 36 (7.33%) GitLab
3 35 (7.13%) Jenkins
4 27 (5.50%) JUnit
4 27 (5.50%) SonarQube
5 25 (5.09%) Mockito
5 25 (5.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 22 (4.48%) Eclipse
6 22 (4.48%) IntelliJ
6 22 (4.48%) Jasmine
6 22 (4.48%) Karma Test Runner
6 22 (4.48%) Protractor
7 20 (4.07%) webpack
8 19 (3.87%) Cypress.io
9 17 (3.46%) Maven
10 16 (3.26%) Cucumber
11 14 (2.85%) JIRA
12 8 (1.63%) Moq
12 8 (1.63%) SpecFlow
13 7 (1.43%) Gradle
General
1 149 (30.35%) Finance
2 131 (26.68%) Social Skills
3 129 (26.27%) Banking
4 67 (13.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (5.70%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.68%) Legal
8 16 (3.26%) Retail
9 14 (2.85%) Marketing
10 12 (2.44%) Games
10 12 (2.44%) Law
11 9 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.02%) Automotive
13 5 (1.02%) Front Office
14 3 (0.61%) Advertising
14 3 (0.61%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.41%) Electronics
15 2 (0.41%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 133 (27.09%) Developer
2 90 (18.33%) Senior
3 69 (14.05%) Architect
4 65 (13.24%) Lead
5 63 (12.83%) Software Engineer
6 61 (12.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 56 (11.41%) Software Developer
8 48 (9.78%) Solutions Architect
9 30 (6.11%) Java Developer
9 30 (6.11%) Python Engineer
10 28 (5.70%) Backend Developer
10 28 (5.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 23 (4.68%) Senior Developer
12 22 (4.48%) AWS Architect
13 21 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
14 20 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
15 19 (3.87%) Java Engineer
15 19 (3.87%) SaaS Developer
16 18 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
17 17 (3.46%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (17.72%) .NET
2 73 (14.87%) React
3 68 (13.85%) Node.js
4 63 (12.83%) RESTful
5 50 (10.18%) Pandas
6 46 (9.37%) AngularJS
7 44 (8.96%) REST
8 42 (8.55%) Spring
9 41 (8.35%) Kafka
9 41 (8.35%) Spring Boot
10 36 (7.33%) RabbitMQ
11 31 (6.31%) OAuth
12 28 (5.70%) Elastic Stack
13 25 (5.09%) Hibernate
13 25 (5.09%) JPA
14 24 (4.89%) Flask
15 23 (4.68%) FastAPI
15 23 (4.68%) Jest
15 23 (4.68%) OAuth2
16 16 (3.26%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.41%) Cloud Native
2 49 (9.98%) Cyberattack
3 46 (9.37%) Product Ownership
4 42 (8.55%) Management Information System
5 35 (7.13%) Algorithms
6 27 (5.50%) Mobile App
7 19 (3.87%) Onboarding
8 18 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (3.67%) Learning Management System
9 17 (3.46%) Hackathon
10 16 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (3.05%) Public Cloud
12 14 (2.85%) Private Cloud
13 10 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.83%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.63%) Credit Risk
15 8 (1.63%) Distributed Applications
15 8 (1.63%) IoT
15 8 (1.63%) Market Risk
15 8 (1.63%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 124 (25.25%) Linux
2 66 (13.44%) Android
3 29 (5.91%) Windows
4 13 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.43%) Unix
6 6 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.02%) CentOS
7 5 (1.02%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.41%) CoreOS
10 2 (0.41%) Debian
10 2 (0.41%) zOS
11 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (60.69%) CI/CD
2 279 (56.82%) DevOps
3 259 (52.75%) Agile
4 196 (39.92%) Software Engineering
5 190 (38.70%) Microservices
6 91 (18.53%) Mentoring
7 89 (18.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 84 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
8 84 (17.11%) Test Automation
9 83 (16.90%) Design Patterns
10 71 (14.46%) Collaborative Working
11 61 (12.42%) Line Management
12 60 (12.22%) Deployment Automation
13 59 (12.02%) API Development
14 58 (11.81%) Kanban
15 57 (11.61%) Android Development
16 55 (11.20%) Event-Driven
16 55 (11.20%) OO
17 52 (10.59%) OOP
18 51 (10.39%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 247 (50.31%) Python
2 214 (43.58%) Java
3 117 (23.83%) JavaScript
4 106 (21.59%) SQL
5 69 (14.05%) Go
6 60 (12.22%) C#
7 50 (10.18%) C++
7 50 (10.18%) Rust
8 38 (7.74%) PowerShell
9 35 (7.13%) Bash
10 34 (6.92%) TypeScript
11 26 (5.30%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.63%) R
13 7 (1.43%) Bicep
14 4 (0.81%) Scala
15 3 (0.61%) ABAP
16 2 (0.41%) PHP
16 2 (0.41%) Ruby
16 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 117 (23.83%) Security Cleared
2 89 (18.13%) Degree
3 56 (11.41%) DV Cleared
4 45 (9.16%) SC Cleared
5 42 (8.55%) AWS Certification
6 36 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (6.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (5.91%) Master's Degree
9 27 (5.50%) Azure Certification
10 18 (3.67%) PhD
11 17 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.81%) CISSP
14 3 (0.61%) Linux+ Certification
14 3 (0.61%) RHCE
15 2 (0.41%) CEH
15 2 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.41%) CISM
15 2 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.13%) GDPR
2 27 (5.50%) QA
3 24 (4.89%) HIPAA
4 11 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.04%) NCSC
6 9 (1.83%) NIST
7 8 (1.63%) Basel III
7 8 (1.63%) IFRS
7 8 (1.63%) IFRS 9
7 8 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.43%) Basel II
8 7 (1.43%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.43%) Dodd-Frank
8 7 (1.43%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.22%) CDISC
10 2 (0.41%) SLA
11 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.20%) ECSS
11 1 (0.20%) GMP
System Software
1 344 (70.06%) Docker
2 15 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (2.24%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.81%) vSphere
7 3 (0.61%) Dovecot
7 3 (0.61%) Postfix
8 2 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.20%) LXC
9 1 (0.20%) Samba
9 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 302 (61.51%) Kubernetes
2 169 (34.42%) Terraform
3 96 (19.55%) Ansible
4 45 (9.16%) Prometheus
5 34 (6.92%) Grafana
6 8 (1.63%) Argo
7 7 (1.43%) Istio
7 7 (1.43%) Puppet
8 4 (0.81%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.81%) SCCM
9 3 (0.61%) Nagios
9 3 (0.61%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.41%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (0.41%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.41%) Kibana
10 2 (0.41%) logstash
10 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.41%) SCOM
10 2 (0.41%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 77 (15.68%) Microsoft
2 59 (12.02%) Google
3 51 (10.39%) IBM
4 15 (3.05%) VMware
5 13 (2.65%) Databricks
6 12 (2.44%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.04%) Cisco
8 7 (1.43%) Confluent
9 6 (1.22%) Apple
9 6 (1.22%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.22%) New Relic
9 6 (1.22%) Oracle
9 6 (1.22%) Ping Identity
10 5 (1.02%) SAP
10 5 (1.02%) Splunk
11 3 (0.61%) Okta
12 2 (0.41%) ESRI
12 2 (0.41%) F5
12 2 (0.41%) Rapid7
12 2 (0.41%) Teradata