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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 153 93
Rank change year-on-year +83 -60 -24
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 86 52 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.40% 1.19% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 1.39% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 17 33 35
10th Percentile £48,600 £48,500 £49,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,200 £95,279 £80,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -

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 2,276 3,750 2,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.92% 85.83% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 999 1,592 2,004
10th Percentile £26,924 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,950 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation 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 17 September 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 17 September 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
Glasgow +85 26 £74,500 +35.45% 9
Lanarkshire -1 19 - - 3
Edinburgh +3 10 £70,000 -12.50% 12
Renfrewshire - 5 £42,500 - 1
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian +12 2 - -
Fife - 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 49 (56.98%) Confluence
2 4 (4.65%) Apache
2 4 (4.65%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 78 (90.70%) Azure
2 69 (80.23%) AWS
3 61 (70.93%) GCP
4 12 (13.95%) GitHub
4 12 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (12.79%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (4.65%) Azure AI
6 4 (4.65%) ChatGPT
6 4 (4.65%) Datadog
6 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.33%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.33%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) DHCP
1 1 (1.16%) DNS
1 1 (1.16%) Firewall
1 1 (1.16%) LAN
1 1 (1.16%) SpaceWire
1 1 (1.16%) VPN
1 1 (1.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (56.98%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.14%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.98%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.65%) Big Data
5 4 (4.65%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.49%) MySQL
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 56 (65.12%) GitLab
2 52 (60.47%) Maven
3 50 (58.14%) Bitbucket
4 49 (56.98%) Cucumber
4 49 (56.98%) JIRA
4 49 (56.98%) Selenium
4 49 (56.98%) SonarQube
4 49 (56.98%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (9.30%) Git
6 6 (6.98%) Jenkins
7 3 (3.49%) Gradle
8 2 (2.33%) JUnit
8 2 (2.33%) Mockito
9 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.16%) Snyk
General
1 66 (76.74%) Finance
2 59 (68.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 53 (61.63%) Banking
4 11 (12.79%) Law
4 11 (12.79%) Social Skills
5 9 (10.47%) Marketing
6 4 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.16%) Front Office
8 1 (1.16%) Retail
8 1 (1.16%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (79.07%) Software Engineer
2 12 (13.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 12 (13.95%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 12 (13.95%) Lead
3 8 (9.30%) .NET Software Engineer
3 8 (9.30%) C# Software Engineer
3 8 (9.30%) Lead Software Engineer
3 8 (9.30%) Senior
4 5 (5.81%) Java Engineer
4 5 (5.81%) Python Engineer
4 5 (5.81%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (4.65%) Development Engineer
5 4 (4.65%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (4.65%) Python Software Engineer
5 4 (4.65%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 4 (4.65%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 4 (4.65%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (4.65%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 3 (3.49%) Developer
6 3 (3.49%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (73.26%) React
2 56 (65.12%) Hibernate
2 56 (65.12%) Spring
2 56 (65.12%) Spring Boot
3 55 (63.95%) Kafka
4 52 (60.47%) JPA
5 50 (58.14%) CSS
5 50 (58.14%) HTML
6 49 (56.98%) Redux
7 16 (18.60%) RESTful
8 14 (16.28%) AngularJS
9 13 (15.12%) .NET
10 9 (10.47%) Blazor
11 8 (9.30%) .NET Core
12 5 (5.81%) Vue
13 4 (4.65%) ADO
13 4 (4.65%) PySpark
13 4 (4.65%) SOAP
13 4 (4.65%) Web Services
14 2 (2.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 53 (61.63%) Product Ownership
2 49 (56.98%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (11.63%) Cloud Native
4 8 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.81%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.65%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.16%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.49%) Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (89.53%) DevOps
2 73 (84.88%) CI/CD
3 69 (80.23%) Software Engineering
4 65 (75.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 64 (74.42%) Agile
6 61 (70.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 61 (70.93%) Microservices
7 56 (65.12%) Front End Development
7 56 (65.12%) Test Automation
8 53 (61.63%) SDLC
9 50 (58.14%) Clean Code
10 49 (56.98%) Performance Optimisation
10 49 (56.98%) TDD
11 12 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (10.47%) Analytics
13 8 (9.30%) Community of Practice
13 8 (9.30%) Deployment Automation
13 8 (9.30%) Observability
13 8 (9.30%) Operational Stability
13 8 (9.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (76.74%) SQL
2 63 (73.26%) Java
3 54 (62.79%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.28%) Python
5 8 (9.30%) C#
6 2 (2.33%) Bash
7 1 (1.16%) C
7 1 (1.16%) Perl
7 1 (1.16%) PHP
7 1 (1.16%) Rust
7 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
1 1 (1.16%) RHCE
1 1 (1.16%) RHCSA
1 1 (1.16%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (67.44%) QA
2 4 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.16%) ECSS
System Software
1 83 (96.51%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.16%) KVM
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (95.35%) Kubernetes
2 10 (11.63%) Terraform
3 5 (5.81%) Ansible
3 5 (5.81%) Grafana
3 5 (5.81%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.33%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.33%) Puppet
5 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (56.98%) Solace
2 5 (5.81%) Oracle
3 3 (3.49%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.49%) Ping Identity
4 1 (1.16%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.16%) Google
4 1 (1.16%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.16%) VMware