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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 98 136
Rank change year-on-year -20 +38 -56
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 22 47 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.81% 1.81% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.95% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8 32 42
10th Percentile £40,356 £45,000 £56,219
25th Percentile £45,188 £51,925 £65,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £69,654 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -1.31% +8.58%
75th Percentile £72,892 £85,938 £88,951
90th Percentile £76,596 £99,378 £96,539
UK median annual salary £71,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.43% - -3.45%

All Process & 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 2,173 2,410 2,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.92% 92.87% 93.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,062 1,010 1,830
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,175 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,375 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,950 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 11 January 2026.

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 11 January 2026. 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 -20 18 £70,000 -12.50% 11
Glasgow +9 2 £72,250 +32.57% 6
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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (95.45%) Azure
2 16 (72.73%) GitHub
2 16 (72.73%) GitHub Actions
3 15 (68.18%) Datadog
4 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) AWS
6 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.55%) Azure AI
7 1 (4.55%) ChatGPT
7 1 (4.55%) dbt
7 1 (4.55%) GCP
7 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (4.55%) PaaS
7 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DHCP
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) LAN
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
1 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) JMeter
1 1 (4.55%) Locust
General
1 15 (68.18%) Social Skills
2 14 (63.64%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Health Technology
4 1 (4.55%) Law
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Police
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Development Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Senior
3 8 (36.36%) Senior Development Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (72.73%) .NET
2 14 (63.64%) ADO
3 2 (9.09%) .NET Core
3 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 2 (9.09%) Blazor
3 2 (9.09%) React
3 2 (9.09%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) Flask
4 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
4 1 (4.55%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (63.64%) Onboarding
1 14 (63.64%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.55%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) CI/CD
2 20 (90.91%) DevOps
3 17 (77.27%) Observability
4 16 (72.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (72.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 15 (68.18%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (63.64%) Asset Management
6 14 (63.64%) Brown Bag Session
6 14 (63.64%) Coaching
6 14 (63.64%) Code Quality
7 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (13.64%) Microservices
8 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
9 2 (9.09%) Agile
9 2 (9.09%) Application Security
9 2 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
9 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) Python
2 15 (68.18%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) RHCE
2 1 (4.55%) RHCSA
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (68.18%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) KVM
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (95.45%) Kubernetes
2 18 (81.82%) Terraform
3 15 (68.18%) Grafana
4 14 (63.64%) Prometheus
5 2 (9.09%) Ansible
6 1 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.55%) Remedy
2 1 (4.55%) VMware