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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 215 91
Rank change year-on-year +135 -124 +25
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 895 510 1,225
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.25% 1.56% 3.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 1.75% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 317 423 727
10th Percentile £48,165 £50,000 £50,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £89,852
90th Percentile £127,500 £105,000 £101,185
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

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 19,574 29,160 33,339
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 92.88% 89.07% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10,359 21,452 24,510
10th Percentile £25,313 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,772 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

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 16 July 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
1 160 (17.88%) Confluence
2 13 (1.45%) CMS
3 9 (1.01%) Apache Solr
4 6 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.67%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.45%) Apache
6 4 (0.45%) SAS
7 3 (0.34%) IIS
8 2 (0.22%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.11%) Mendix
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 699 (78.10%) AWS
2 517 (57.77%) Azure
3 268 (29.94%) GCP
4 217 (24.25%) Pulumi
5 73 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
6 69 (7.71%) Amazon EKS
7 47 (5.25%) GitHub
8 46 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
9 37 (4.13%) Serverless
10 34 (3.80%) SaaS
11 30 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (2.35%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
15 14 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (1.56%) PaaS
16 13 (1.45%) npm
17 11 (1.23%) OpenShift
18 10 (1.12%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 215 (24.02%) Broadband
2 11 (1.23%) Internet
3 10 (1.12%) Network Security
4 9 (1.01%) DHCP
4 9 (1.01%) DNS
4 9 (1.01%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.67%) SAN
6 5 (0.56%) Firewall
6 5 (0.56%) Multicast
7 3 (0.34%) VPN
8 1 (0.11%) LAN
8 1 (0.11%) NAS
8 1 (0.11%) SpaceWire
8 1 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (30.39%) SQL Server
2 250 (27.93%) NoSQL
3 230 (25.70%) Relational Database
4 215 (24.02%) RDBMS
5 63 (7.04%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (2.12%) Tick Data
9 15 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (1.45%) MySQL
11 11 (1.23%) Tableau
12 9 (1.01%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.89%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.89%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.67%) Power BI
15 5 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.56%) Big Data
15 5 (0.56%) Data Hub
15 5 (0.56%) Looker
15 5 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 281 (31.40%) GitLab
1 281 (31.40%) SonarQube
2 275 (30.73%) Sonatype Nexus
3 259 (28.94%) Cucumber
4 257 (28.72%) JIRA
5 256 (28.60%) Maven
6 249 (27.82%) Bitbucket
7 247 (27.60%) Selenium
8 215 (24.02%) Jaeger
9 51 (5.70%) Git
10 36 (4.02%) Jenkins
11 13 (1.45%) Cypress.io
12 11 (1.23%) JUnit
12 11 (1.23%) Mockito
12 11 (1.23%) webpack
13 8 (0.89%) Moq
13 8 (0.89%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.78%) Jasmine
14 7 (0.78%) Karma Test Runner
14 7 (0.78%) Protractor
General
1 525 (58.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 359 (40.11%) Finance
3 328 (36.65%) Banking
4 100 (11.17%) Retail
5 98 (10.95%) Social Skills
6 90 (10.06%) Corporate Banking
6 90 (10.06%) Investment Banking
7 59 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
8 23 (2.57%) Public Sector
9 16 (1.79%) Marketing
10 12 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.45%) Back Office
12 3 (0.34%) Automotive
12 3 (0.34%) Front Office
12 3 (0.34%) Law
13 2 (0.22%) Advertising
13 2 (0.22%) Electronics
13 2 (0.22%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.22%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.11%) Games
Job Titles
1 299 (33.41%) Software Engineer
2 275 (30.73%) Lead
3 215 (24.02%) Team Leader
4 116 (12.96%) Developer
5 81 (9.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 78 (8.72%) Senior
7 56 (6.26%) Architect
8 49 (5.47%) Software Developer
9 40 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
10 39 (4.36%) AWS DevOps
11 37 (4.13%) Python Engineer
12 27 (3.02%) AWS Architect
13 26 (2.91%) AWS Engineer
14 25 (2.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 20 (2.23%) Senior DevOps
16 19 (2.12%) Java Engineer
16 19 (2.12%) Platform Engineer
17 18 (2.01%) Python Developer
18 17 (1.90%) Cloud Engineer
18 17 (1.90%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (33.63%) React
2 278 (31.06%) Kafka
3 277 (30.95%) Spring
4 276 (30.84%) Spring Boot
5 262 (29.27%) HTML
6 260 (29.05%) CSS
7 258 (28.83%) JPA
8 247 (27.60%) Redux
9 233 (26.03%) Elastic Stack
10 218 (24.36%) OpenTelemetry
11 167 (18.66%) Hibernate
12 144 (16.09%) REST
13 135 (15.08%) RESTful
14 102 (11.40%) Jest
15 101 (11.28%) .NET
16 92 (10.28%) CSS3
16 92 (10.28%) HTML5
17 90 (10.06%) Sass
18 59 (6.59%) Node.js
19 50 (5.59%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 286 (31.96%) Product Ownership
2 250 (27.93%) Enterprise Software
3 64 (7.15%) Cloud Native
4 49 (5.47%) Cyberattack
5 48 (5.36%) Management Information System
6 18 (2.01%) Onboarding
7 17 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.12%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.01%) Public Cloud
11 8 (0.89%) Algorithms
11 8 (0.89%) Data Centre
11 8 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (0.89%) Mobile App
11 8 (0.89%) Online Banking
11 8 (0.89%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.67%) DataPower
12 6 (0.67%) Distributed Applications
12 6 (0.67%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 335 (37.43%) Linux
2 220 (24.58%) Unix
3 63 (7.04%) Android
4 43 (4.80%) Windows
5 25 (2.79%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.67%) CentOS
8 6 (0.67%) Rocky
9 5 (0.56%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.56%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 712 (79.55%) DevOps
2 675 (75.42%) Agile
3 539 (60.22%) CI/CD
4 477 (53.30%) Performance Optimisation
5 411 (45.92%) Microservices
6 398 (44.47%) Software Engineering
7 379 (42.35%) Mentoring
8 304 (33.97%) Test Automation
9 299 (33.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 285 (31.84%) Full-Stack Development
11 265 (29.61%) Roadmaps
12 264 (29.50%) Front End Development
13 255 (28.49%) SDLC
14 248 (27.71%) Continuous Integration
15 238 (26.59%) High Availability
16 232 (25.92%) Resource Management
17 231 (25.81%) Cost Optimisation
17 231 (25.81%) Product Management
18 216 (24.13%) Task Automation
19 215 (24.02%) Budget Control
Programming Languages
1 628 (70.17%) Java
2 558 (62.35%) JavaScript
3 452 (50.50%) Python
4 323 (36.09%) SQL
5 278 (31.06%) Go
6 262 (29.27%) Bash
7 111 (12.40%) TypeScript
8 57 (6.37%) C#
9 51 (5.70%) C++
10 49 (5.47%) Rust
11 45 (5.03%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.89%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.78%) Bicep
14 5 (0.56%) PHP
14 5 (0.56%) R
15 4 (0.45%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.22%) ABAP
18 1 (0.11%) Groovy
18 1 (0.11%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 265 (29.61%) AWS Certification
2 97 (10.84%) Security Cleared
3 58 (6.48%) DV Cleared
4 50 (5.59%) Degree
5 36 (4.02%) SC Cleared
6 34 (3.80%) Azure Certification
7 30 (3.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.01%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.56%) CISM
12 5 (0.56%) CISSP
12 5 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.45%) Linux+ Certification
13 4 (0.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (31.62%) QA
2 95 (10.61%) Accessibility
3 39 (4.36%) GDPR
4 30 (3.35%) HIPAA
5 16 (1.79%) NIST
6 11 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.67%) CDISC
8 5 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.45%) Basel II
9 4 (0.45%) Basel III
9 4 (0.45%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.45%) IFRS
9 4 (0.45%) IFRS 9
9 4 (0.45%) NCSC
10 3 (0.34%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.22%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.22%) SLA
12 1 (0.11%) ECSS
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 776 (86.70%) Docker
2 23 (2.57%) Hyper-V
3 22 (2.46%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.45%) Dovecot
6 4 (0.45%) Postfix
7 3 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 737 (82.35%) Kubernetes
2 388 (43.35%) Terraform
3 312 (34.86%) Ansible
4 254 (28.38%) Prometheus
5 216 (24.13%) Argo
6 215 (24.02%) Kustomize
7 36 (4.02%) Grafana
8 10 (1.12%) SCCM
9 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 7 (0.78%) SCOM
9 7 (0.78%) WSUS
10 6 (0.67%) Istio
11 3 (0.34%) Puppet
12 2 (0.22%) AWS Copilot
12 2 (0.22%) Kibana
12 2 (0.22%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.22%) logstash
13 1 (0.11%) Marathon
13 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 257 (28.72%) Google
2 247 (27.60%) Solace
3 59 (6.59%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.12%) IBM
5 17 (1.90%) Databricks
6 16 (1.79%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.34%) VMware
8 11 (1.23%) Oracle
9 7 (0.78%) Ping Identity
10 6 (0.67%) Apple
10 6 (0.67%) Cisco
10 6 (0.67%) Confluent
10 6 (0.67%) Dell
11 5 (0.56%) SAP
12 4 (0.45%) Okta
13 3 (0.34%) Dynatrace
14 2 (0.22%) ESRI
14 2 (0.22%) Splunk
15 1 (0.11%) Salesforce
15 1 (0.11%) SEEBURGER