Containerisation Job Trends in Scotland

Containerization
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Containerisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 96 97
Rank change year-on-year -20 +1 -25
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 27 58 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.98% 1.85% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 2.11% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 12 37 47
10th Percentile £41,775 £45,000 £54,731
25th Percentile £59,063 £52,500 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - -0.82% +8.58%
75th Percentile £76,175 £80,000 £79,375
90th Percentile £82,500 £96,267 £96,539
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% +0.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,313 2,754 2,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 83.74% 87.90% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,149 1,268 1,757
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,121 £82,878
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Scotland

Containerisation
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Containerisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in Scotland

Containerisation
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -17 16 £70,000 -6.67% 2
Glasgow +12 9 £80,000 +45.45% 8
Renfrewshire - 1 £42,500 -
Scottish Borders - 1 £39,594 -
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (7.41%) Apache
1 2 (7.41%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 23 (85.19%) Azure
2 16 (59.26%) GitHub
2 16 (59.26%) GitHub Actions
3 12 (44.44%) Datadog
4 8 (29.63%) AWS
5 7 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (11.11%) Azure AI
6 3 (11.11%) ChatGPT
6 3 (11.11%) GCP
6 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.70%) dbt
8 1 (3.70%) PaaS
8 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) DHCP
1 1 (3.70%) DNS
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) LAN
1 1 (3.70%) VPN
1 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.41%) Big Data
2 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.70%) JMeter
2 1 (3.70%) Locust
General
1 15 (55.56%) Finance
2 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Law
4 4 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (14.81%) Marketing
5 3 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (7.41%) Health Technology
7 1 (3.70%) Police
7 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Development Engineer
2 10 (37.04%) Software Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Senior
4 6 (22.22%) Lead
5 5 (18.52%) .NET Software Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) C# Software Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Lead Software Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Senior Development Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Java Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior C# Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (59.26%) .NET
2 11 (40.74%) ADO
3 7 (25.93%) AngularJS
3 7 (25.93%) React
3 7 (25.93%) RESTful
4 5 (18.52%) .NET Core
4 5 (18.52%) Blazor
5 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
5 2 (7.41%) Kafka
5 2 (7.41%) PySpark
5 2 (7.41%) SOAP
5 2 (7.41%) Spring
5 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
5 2 (7.41%) Vue
5 2 (7.41%) Web Services
6 1 (3.70%) Flask
6 1 (3.70%) Gherkin
6 1 (3.70%) Next.js
6 1 (3.70%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 11 (40.74%) Onboarding
1 11 (40.74%) Product Ownership
2 7 (25.93%) Cloud Native
3 5 (18.52%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (85.19%) DevOps
2 22 (81.48%) CI/CD
3 15 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (55.56%) Observability
4 14 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (48.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (44.44%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (40.74%) Asset Management
7 11 (40.74%) Brown Bag Session
7 11 (40.74%) Coaching
7 11 (40.74%) Code Quality
8 10 (37.04%) Software Engineering
9 7 (25.93%) Agile
9 7 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (22.22%) Microservices
10 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
11 5 (18.52%) Application Security
11 5 (18.52%) Deployment Automation
12 4 (14.81%) Community of Practice
12 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 16 (59.26%) Python
2 13 (48.15%) JavaScript
3 7 (25.93%) SQL
4 5 (18.52%) C#
5 4 (14.81%) Java
6 1 (3.70%) Bash
6 1 (3.70%) Perl
6 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) RHCE
2 1 (3.70%) RHCSA
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (44.44%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) KVM
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (96.30%) Kubernetes
2 15 (55.56%) Terraform
3 12 (44.44%) Grafana
4 11 (40.74%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.41%) Ansible
6 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.70%) Remedy
2 1 (3.70%) VMware