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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 64 211
Rank change year-on-year -68 +147 -112
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 8 97 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.25% 4.40% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 4.73% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3 26 38
10th Percentile £54,344 £49,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,527 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £63,038 £138,220 £85,000
90th Percentile £63,360 £146,300 £98,474
UK median annual salary £70,932 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.48% +10.71% -

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 2,226 2,051 5,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.33% 93.06% 89.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,248 835 2,530
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,225
25th Percentile £31,813 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,188
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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
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 9 June 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 -7 4 - - 5
Glasgow -4 3 £60,000 -13.98% 3
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 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (25.00%) Datadog
3 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) MLflow
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Advertising
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Games
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Development Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Development Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) ADO
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
2 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
2 1 (12.50%) Hugging Face
2 1 (12.50%) JWT
2 1 (12.50%) NumPy
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
2 1 (12.50%) OpenCV
2 1 (12.50%) Pandas
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) pytest
2 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (12.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) AI
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (37.50%) Asset Management
5 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
5 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
5 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 3 (37.50%) Network Segmentation
5 3 (37.50%) Observability
5 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) RBAC
5 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
6 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (25.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Terraform
3 3 (37.50%) Grafana
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Meraki
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks