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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 189 95
Rank change year-on-year +115 -94 +21
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 885 588 1,215
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.53% 1.65% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 1.84% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 312 488 753
10th Percentile £48,260 £48,750 £49,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,063 £90,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £105,000 £101,185
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% - -

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 18,330 31,903 35,477
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.83% 89.33% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9,584 23,758 25,396
10th Percentile £26,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £76,840 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%

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 17 June 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
1 161 (18.19%) Confluence
2 7 (0.79%) CMS
3 6 (0.68%) Apache Solr
4 5 (0.56%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.45%) Apache
5 4 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.45%) IIS
5 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.45%) SAS
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.11%) Mendix
8 1 (0.11%) nginx
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Magento
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 696 (78.64%) AWS
2 500 (56.50%) Azure
3 273 (30.85%) GCP
4 217 (24.52%) Pulumi
5 71 (8.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 67 (7.57%) Amazon EKS
7 51 (5.76%) GitHub
8 41 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
9 40 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (4.29%) SaaS
11 37 (4.18%) Serverless
12 31 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (2.49%) Amazon S3
14 16 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (1.69%) PaaS
16 13 (1.47%) npm
17 11 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
17 11 (1.24%) AWS KMS
17 11 (1.24%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 215 (24.29%) Broadband
2 12 (1.36%) Internet
3 10 (1.13%) Network Security
4 8 (0.90%) DHCP
4 8 (0.90%) DNS
4 8 (0.90%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.79%) Firewall
6 6 (0.68%) SAN
7 5 (0.56%) Multicast
8 4 (0.45%) VPN
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
10 1 (0.11%) HTTP
10 1 (0.11%) IPsec
10 1 (0.11%) NAS
10 1 (0.11%) SpaceWire
10 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (30.73%) SQL Server
2 256 (28.93%) NoSQL
3 231 (26.10%) Relational Database
4 215 (24.29%) RDBMS
5 60 (6.78%) Elasticsearch
6 38 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (1.92%) MySQL
9 15 (1.69%) MongoDB
10 14 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (1.36%) Tableau
11 12 (1.36%) Tick Data
12 9 (1.02%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.90%) DynamoDB
14 7 (0.79%) Power BI
15 6 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.68%) Redis
16 5 (0.56%) Big Data
16 5 (0.56%) DB2
16 5 (0.56%) Looker
Development Applications
1 280 (31.64%) SonarQube
2 275 (31.07%) GitLab
3 273 (30.85%) Sonatype Nexus
4 260 (29.38%) Maven
5 259 (29.27%) Cucumber
6 255 (28.81%) JIRA
7 249 (28.14%) Bitbucket
8 247 (27.91%) Selenium
9 215 (24.29%) Jaeger
10 44 (4.97%) Git
11 33 (3.73%) Jenkins
12 16 (1.81%) JUnit
13 15 (1.69%) Mockito
14 13 (1.47%) Cypress.io
15 12 (1.36%) webpack
16 11 (1.24%) Eclipse
16 11 (1.24%) IntelliJ
16 11 (1.24%) Jasmine
16 11 (1.24%) Karma Test Runner
16 11 (1.24%) Protractor
General
1 521 (58.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 354 (40.00%) Finance
3 337 (38.08%) Banking
4 104 (11.75%) Retail
5 102 (11.53%) Social Skills
6 90 (10.17%) Corporate Banking
6 90 (10.17%) Investment Banking
7 59 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (2.37%) Public Sector
9 13 (1.47%) Marketing
10 12 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (0.56%) Games
12 4 (0.45%) Front Office
12 4 (0.45%) Law
13 3 (0.34%) Automotive
13 3 (0.34%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.23%) Advertising
14 2 (0.23%) Electronics
14 2 (0.23%) Legal
14 2 (0.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 304 (34.35%) Software Engineer
2 269 (30.40%) Lead
3 215 (24.29%) Team Leader
4 118 (13.33%) Developer
5 83 (9.38%) Senior
6 72 (8.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 60 (6.78%) Architect
8 53 (5.99%) Software Developer
9 44 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (3.84%) AWS DevOps
10 34 (3.84%) Python Engineer
11 25 (2.82%) AWS Architect
12 24 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
13 23 (2.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 21 (2.37%) Senior Developer
15 20 (2.26%) Java Engineer
16 19 (2.15%) Java Developer
17 18 (2.03%) Senior Software Engineer
18 17 (1.92%) Kubernetes Engineer
18 17 (1.92%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (34.92%) React
2 286 (32.32%) Spring
3 283 (31.98%) Kafka
4 281 (31.75%) Spring Boot
5 262 (29.60%) JPA
6 259 (29.27%) HTML
7 257 (29.04%) CSS
8 248 (28.02%) Redux
9 237 (26.78%) Elastic Stack
10 218 (24.63%) OpenTelemetry
11 171 (19.32%) Hibernate
12 145 (16.38%) RESTful
13 142 (16.05%) REST
14 103 (11.64%) Jest
15 95 (10.73%) .NET
16 92 (10.40%) CSS3
16 92 (10.40%) HTML5
17 90 (10.17%) Sass
18 60 (6.78%) Node.js
19 50 (5.65%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 288 (32.54%) Product Ownership
2 250 (28.25%) Enterprise Software
3 60 (6.78%) Cloud Native
4 49 (5.54%) Cyberattack
5 43 (4.86%) Management Information System
6 14 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (1.58%) Onboarding
7 12 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.24%) Algorithms
8 11 (1.24%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.13%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.13%) Private Cloud
10 8 (0.90%) Online Banking
10 8 (0.90%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.68%) DataPower
12 6 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
13 5 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (0.56%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (0.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 325 (36.72%) Linux
2 221 (24.97%) Unix
3 63 (7.12%) Android
4 33 (3.73%) Windows
5 17 (1.92%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.45%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.34%) CentOS
11 2 (0.23%) Rocky
12 1 (0.11%) Debian
12 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 702 (79.32%) DevOps
2 679 (76.72%) Agile
3 521 (58.87%) CI/CD
4 478 (54.01%) Performance Optimisation
5 421 (47.57%) Microservices
6 404 (45.65%) Software Engineering
7 378 (42.71%) Mentoring
8 310 (35.03%) Test Automation
9 290 (32.77%) Infrastructure as Code
10 281 (31.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 270 (30.51%) Front End Development
12 264 (29.83%) Roadmaps
13 252 (28.47%) SDLC
14 247 (27.91%) Continuous Integration
15 236 (26.67%) High Availability
16 232 (26.21%) Product Management
17 231 (26.10%) Cost Optimisation
18 230 (25.99%) Resource Management
19 216 (24.41%) Task Automation
20 215 (24.29%) Budget Control
Programming Languages
1 643 (72.66%) Java
2 556 (62.82%) JavaScript
3 427 (48.25%) Python
4 327 (36.95%) SQL
5 275 (31.07%) Go
6 247 (27.91%) Bash
7 111 (12.54%) TypeScript
8 51 (5.76%) C++
9 49 (5.54%) Rust
10 46 (5.20%) C#
11 32 (3.62%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.90%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.68%) PHP
14 5 (0.56%) R
15 4 (0.45%) Bicep
15 4 (0.45%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.23%) ABAP
17 2 (0.23%) Ruby
17 2 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 262 (29.60%) AWS Certification
2 95 (10.73%) Security Cleared
3 55 (6.21%) DV Cleared
4 54 (6.10%) Degree
5 32 (3.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 31 (3.50%) SC Cleared
7 28 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (3.05%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 4 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.34%) CISM
13 3 (0.34%) CISSP
13 3 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
13 3 (0.34%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (31.64%) QA
2 95 (10.73%) Accessibility
3 35 (3.95%) GDPR
4 26 (2.94%) HIPAA
5 13 (1.47%) NIST
6 11 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.68%) CDISC
8 5 (0.56%) NCSC
8 5 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.45%) Basel II
9 4 (0.45%) Basel III
9 4 (0.45%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.45%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.45%) IFRS
9 4 (0.45%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.34%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.23%) SLA
12 1 (0.11%) ECSS
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 774 (87.46%) Docker
2 17 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.81%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.34%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.34%) Postfix
7 2 (0.23%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) LXC
8 1 (0.11%) Samba
Systems Management
1 736 (83.16%) Kubernetes
2 377 (42.60%) Terraform
3 308 (34.80%) Ansible
4 256 (28.93%) Prometheus
5 220 (24.86%) Argo
6 215 (24.29%) Kustomize
7 33 (3.73%) Grafana
8 8 (0.90%) SCCM
9 7 (0.79%) Istio
10 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 5 (0.56%) SCOM
10 5 (0.56%) WSUS
11 3 (0.34%) Puppet
12 2 (0.23%) AWS Copilot
12 2 (0.23%) Kibana
12 2 (0.23%) logstash
13 1 (0.11%) Marathon
13 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.11%) Rancher
13 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 259 (29.27%) Google
2 247 (27.91%) Solace
3 52 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 23 (2.60%) IBM
5 16 (1.81%) Databricks
6 11 (1.24%) VMware
7 10 (1.13%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.02%) Oracle
9 7 (0.79%) Confluent
10 6 (0.68%) Apple
10 6 (0.68%) Ping Identity
11 5 (0.56%) Cisco
11 5 (0.56%) SAP
12 4 (0.45%) New Relic
13 3 (0.34%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.34%) Okta
14 2 (0.23%) Dell
14 2 (0.23%) ESRI
14 2 (0.23%) Splunk
15 1 (0.11%) Palantir