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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 85 171
Rank change year-on-year -45 +86 -69
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 18 52 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.61% 2.15% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 2.29% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4 38 41
10th Percentile £40,738 £45,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £44,442 £61,563 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £70,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% -0.11% +8.58%
75th Percentile £65,392 £93,778 £91,934
90th Percentile £70,596 £142,364 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,310 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.02% +3.57% -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 2,342 2,269 3,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.71% 94.03% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,162 956 2,177
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,875 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -30 16 £59,039 -30.54% 3
Glasgow +3 1 £60,000 -4.00% 11
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 17 (94.44%) Azure
2 15 (83.33%) Datadog
3 14 (77.78%) GitHub
3 14 (77.78%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (11.11%) AWS
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.56%) dbt
5 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) JMeter
1 1 (5.56%) Locust
General
1 14 (77.78%) Finance
1 14 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Law
2 1 (5.56%) Police
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Development Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Senior
2 8 (44.44%) Senior Development Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (77.78%) .NET
1 14 (77.78%) ADO
2 1 (5.56%) Flask
2 1 (5.56%) Gherkin
2 1 (5.56%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (77.78%) Onboarding
1 14 (77.78%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (94.44%) DevOps
3 16 (88.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (83.33%) Observability
4 15 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (77.78%) Asset Management
5 14 (77.78%) Brown Bag Session
5 14 (77.78%) Coaching
5 14 (77.78%) Code Quality
5 14 (77.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (5.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 1 (5.56%) Line Management
8 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning
8 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
8 1 (5.56%) Test Strategy
8 1 (5.56%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) Python
2 15 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (83.33%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (94.44%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (94.44%) Kubernetes
2 16 (88.89%) Terraform
3 15 (83.33%) Grafana
4 14 (77.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.56%) Ansible
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco
1 1 (5.56%) Meraki
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.56%) Remedy