Containerisation Job Trends in Reading

Containerization
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Containerisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 53 79
Rank change year-on-year +7 +26 +14
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 5 26 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.86% 3.23% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 3.66% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1 14 12
10th Percentile - £51,500 £66,875
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,188 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% -6.45% +24.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £92,500 £82,500
90th Percentile - £93,750 -
Berkshire median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% -9.68% -8.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 461 711 935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 79.21% 88.21% 92.57%
Number of salaries quoted 297 319 607
10th Percentile £28,450 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £50,000 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -6.78%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Containerisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Reading

Containerisation
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Containerisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Games
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Express.js
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Mustache
2 1 (20.00%) Next.js
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Sequelize
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) IT Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) RBAC
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes