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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

containerization

397 live US technical postings name containerization in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 397 postings naming containerization that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer52.9%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer26.4%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer5%
  4. 4AI Engineer3.3%
  5. 5Machine Learning Engineer3.3%
  6. 6Security Engineer3%
  7. 7Data Engineer2.5%
  8. 8Data Scientist2%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where containerization is named
n = 232
10th
$142k
25th
$162k
Median
$188k
75th
$215k
90th
$239k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote13.4%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA9.6%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA7.3%
  4. 4New York, NY6.5%
  5. 5Washington, DC6.3%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.3%
  7. 7Seattle, WA3.3%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.8%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.