Hybrid/Remote Containerisation Job Trends

Containerization
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Containerisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 86 189
Rank change year-on-year -26 +103 -71
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 440 664 585
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.21% 4.33% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 4.58% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 288 304 488
10th Percentile £47,125 £48,165 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.66% +2.84% -3.45%
75th Percentile £86,250 £89,063 £86,063
90th Percentile £98,250 £127,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,505 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.03% +10.71% -

All Process & 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 16,294 14,504 30,743
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.85% 94.61% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,745 8,418 23,751
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Containerisation and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Containerisation job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Containerisation
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Containerisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Containerisation salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 9 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.82%) Apache
3 6 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.14%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.68%) CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Camunda
6 2 (0.45%) Confluence
6 2 (0.45%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.45%) WordPress
7 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.23%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Blender
1 3 (0.68%) Maya
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 337 (76.59%) AWS
2 209 (47.50%) Azure
3 149 (33.86%) GCP
4 68 (15.45%) GitHub
5 61 (13.86%) Serverless
6 44 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 38 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
7 38 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
8 36 (8.18%) Amazon S3
9 30 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 30 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
9 30 (6.82%) OpenShift
10 29 (6.59%) Amazon ECS
10 29 (6.59%) SaaS
11 27 (6.14%) Pulumi
12 25 (5.68%) PaaS
13 24 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (4.32%) Azure AKS
15 17 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (17.50%) Broadband
2 25 (5.68%) Firewall
3 17 (3.86%) TCP/IP
4 16 (3.64%) Network Security
5 9 (2.05%) VPN
6 6 (1.36%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (1.36%) DMZ
6 6 (1.36%) DNS
7 5 (1.14%) BGP
7 5 (1.14%) OSPF
7 5 (1.14%) VLAN
7 5 (1.14%) VXLAN
8 4 (0.91%) HTTP
8 4 (0.91%) MQTT
9 3 (0.68%) AMQP
9 3 (0.68%) DSL
9 3 (0.68%) Modbus
9 3 (0.68%) RTP
9 3 (0.68%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.68%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (15.68%) NoSQL
2 50 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (8.86%) Relational Database
4 33 (7.50%) MongoDB
5 25 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (4.09%) DynamoDB
6 18 (4.09%) RDBMS
7 17 (3.86%) MySQL
7 17 (3.86%) Redis
8 14 (3.18%) SQL Server
9 13 (2.95%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (2.27%) Metadata
11 6 (1.36%) Big Data
11 6 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.14%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.45%) MariaDB
15 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.23%) Neo4j
15 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 68 (15.45%) Git
2 46 (10.45%) GitLab
3 40 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 18 (4.09%) Jaeger
5 14 (3.18%) Cypress.io
6 12 (2.73%) CircleCI
7 8 (1.82%) JIRA
8 7 (1.59%) Maven
9 5 (1.14%) Claude Code
9 5 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.14%) JMeter
9 5 (1.14%) JUnit
9 5 (1.14%) Locust
9 5 (1.14%) Mockito
9 5 (1.14%) Selenium
10 4 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.91%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.68%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.68%) Storybook
12 2 (0.45%) MLflow
General
1 115 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 51 (11.59%) Finance
3 44 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 42 (9.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.55%) Banking
7 11 (2.50%) Telecoms
8 10 (2.27%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.27%) Retail
9 9 (2.05%) Law
9 9 (2.05%) Legal
10 6 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.36%) Legal Technology
11 5 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.91%) Aviation
12 4 (0.91%) Military
12 4 (0.91%) Publishing
13 3 (0.68%) Electronics
13 3 (0.68%) Humanities
13 3 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 99 (22.50%) Developer
2 97 (22.05%) Senior
3 92 (20.91%) Software Engineer
4 74 (16.82%) Lead
5 42 (9.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 32 (7.27%) Architect
8 31 (7.05%) Senior Software Engineer
9 30 (6.82%) Scala Engineer
10 26 (5.91%) AWS Engineer
11 24 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
11 24 (5.45%) Java Developer
12 18 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (3.86%) AWS DevOps
13 17 (3.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 15 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (3.41%) Scala Developer
14 15 (3.41%) Scala Software Engineer
15 14 (3.18%) Lead Developer
15 14 (3.18%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (15.91%) React
2 55 (12.50%) .NET
3 52 (11.82%) RESTful
4 51 (11.59%) gRPC
5 50 (11.36%) Node.js
6 48 (10.91%) REST
6 48 (10.91%) Spring
7 38 (8.64%) Spring Boot
8 35 (7.95%) Kafka
9 27 (6.14%) AngularJS
10 25 (5.68%) JSON
11 24 (5.45%) OpenTelemetry
12 20 (4.55%) Django
12 20 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (3.86%) Playwright
13 17 (3.86%) RabbitMQ
14 16 (3.64%) CSS
15 14 (3.18%) Jinja
16 13 (2.95%) Web Services
16 13 (2.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 113 (25.68%) Cloud Native
2 80 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (10.23%) Over-the-Top Content
3 45 (10.23%) Video\Live Streaming
4 26 (5.91%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.73%) Security Posture
7 11 (2.50%) Blog
8 10 (2.27%) PKI
9 9 (2.05%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.59%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.36%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (1.36%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 6 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.36%) Podcast
11 6 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.14%) Life Science
12 5 (1.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 72 (16.36%) Linux
2 34 (7.73%) Unix
3 7 (1.59%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.91%) Windows
5 3 (0.68%) CentOS
5 3 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.23%) Android
6 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.23%) Debian
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (74.32%) CI/CD
2 223 (50.68%) DevOps
3 196 (44.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 182 (41.36%) Agile
5 173 (39.32%) Software Engineering
6 161 (36.59%) Microservices
7 140 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
8 99 (22.50%) Mentoring
9 96 (21.82%) Clean Code
10 95 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 78 (17.73%) Coaching
12 77 (17.50%) Continuous Delivery
13 73 (16.59%) Observability
14 72 (16.36%) Test Automation
15 71 (16.14%) AI
16 70 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
17 68 (15.45%) Machine Learning
18 65 (14.77%) Scrum
19 64 (14.55%) Data Science
20 53 (12.05%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 224 (50.91%) Python
2 104 (23.64%) Java
3 96 (21.82%) JavaScript
4 84 (19.09%) Go
5 62 (14.09%) SQL
6 52 (11.82%) Bash
7 51 (11.59%) TypeScript
8 48 (10.91%) Scala
9 44 (10.00%) C#
10 23 (5.23%) PowerShell
11 16 (3.64%) Ruby
12 15 (3.41%) Bicep
13 13 (2.95%) C++
14 12 (2.73%) PHP
15 10 (2.27%) Kotlin
16 8 (1.82%) Rust
17 7 (1.59%) C
18 6 (1.36%) Groovy
18 6 (1.36%) PL/SQL
19 4 (0.91%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 69 (15.68%) Security Cleared
2 58 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 35 (7.95%) Degree
4 27 (6.14%) AWS Certification
5 18 (4.09%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.91%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.68%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.45%) HND
10 2 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.45%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.45%) LPIC
10 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.23%) CISSP
11 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.95%) QA
2 19 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 18 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (3.64%) PCI DSS
5 14 (3.18%) NIST
6 12 (2.73%) GDPR
7 7 (1.59%) WCAG
8 6 (1.36%) Data Quality
8 6 (1.36%) GRC
8 6 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 6 (1.36%) JSP 440
8 6 (1.36%) NCSC
9 3 (0.68%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.23%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 288 (65.45%) Docker
2 16 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.14%) Firmware
4 4 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.68%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.23%) KVM
6 1 (0.23%) QEMU
6 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.23%) vSphere
6 1 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 199 (45.23%) Kubernetes
2 151 (34.32%) Terraform
3 56 (12.73%) Ansible
4 43 (9.77%) Prometheus
5 33 (7.50%) Grafana
6 27 (6.14%) Argo
7 18 (4.09%) Kustomize
8 12 (2.73%) Podman
9 11 (2.50%) Istio
10 8 (1.82%) Puppet
11 7 (1.59%) Progress Chef
12 5 (1.14%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (1.14%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.68%) linkerd
13 3 (0.68%) Packer
14 2 (0.45%) Kibana
14 2 (0.45%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (13.18%) Google
2 45 (10.23%) Typelevel
3 41 (9.32%) Microsoft
4 16 (3.64%) Red Hat
5 12 (2.73%) Cisco
6 11 (2.50%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.05%) Oracle
7 9 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.82%) Confluent
8 8 (1.82%) Fortinet
9 7 (1.59%) Splunk
10 6 (1.36%) F5
10 6 (1.36%) Juniper
11 5 (1.14%) HubSpot
11 5 (1.14%) VMware
11 5 (1.14%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.91%) Databricks
13 3 (0.68%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.68%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.68%) ServiceNow