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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 106 87
Rank change year-on-year +26 -19 -19
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 80 49 77
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.01% 1.47% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 1.75% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 13 26 40
10th Percentile £49,700 £55,000 £52,000
25th Percentile £63,250 £64,471 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - -0.82% +8.58%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,661 £72,433
90th Percentile - £82,250 £80,250
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 2,410 2,807 2,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.60% 84.29% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,030 1,338 1,883
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,150 £81,250
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 22 October 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 22 October 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 +16 21 £72,500 +25.00% 12
Lanarkshire 0 19 - - 4
Edinburgh -2 9 £70,000 -9.68% 12
Renfrewshire - 5 £42,500 -
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian +5 2 - - 2
Fife - 2 - - 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 & 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 49 (61.25%) Confluence
2 4 (5.00%) Apache
2 4 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 75 (93.75%) Azure
2 66 (82.50%) AWS
3 59 (73.75%) GCP
4 12 (15.00%) GitHub
4 12 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.25%) Datadog
7 4 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (5.00%) Azure AI
7 4 (5.00%) ChatGPT
7 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.50%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.50%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) DHCP
1 1 (1.25%) DNS
1 1 (1.25%) Firewall
1 1 (1.25%) LAN
1 1 (1.25%) VPN
1 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (61.25%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 5 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.00%) Big Data
4 4 (5.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 50 (62.50%) Bitbucket
1 50 (62.50%) GitLab
1 50 (62.50%) Maven
2 49 (61.25%) Cucumber
2 49 (61.25%) JIRA
2 49 (61.25%) Selenium
2 49 (61.25%) SonarQube
2 49 (61.25%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (3.75%) Git
4 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.25%) Gradle
5 1 (1.25%) Snyk
General
1 67 (83.75%) Finance
2 59 (73.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 52 (65.00%) Banking
4 11 (13.75%) Law
5 9 (11.25%) Marketing
6 8 (10.00%) Social Skills
7 4 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.25%) Retail
9 1 (1.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (82.50%) Software Engineer
2 11 (13.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 11 (13.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 10 (12.50%) Lead
4 8 (10.00%) Lead Software Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) .NET Software Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) C# Software Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Development Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Python Software Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior
8 3 (3.75%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior C# Software Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (75.00%) React
2 54 (67.50%) Hibernate
2 54 (67.50%) Spring
2 54 (67.50%) Spring Boot
3 53 (66.25%) Kafka
4 50 (62.50%) CSS
4 50 (62.50%) HTML
4 50 (62.50%) JPA
5 49 (61.25%) Redux
6 13 (16.25%) .NET
6 13 (16.25%) RESTful
7 11 (13.75%) AngularJS
8 8 (10.00%) Blazor
9 7 (8.75%) .NET Core
10 5 (6.25%) ADO
10 5 (6.25%) Vue
11 4 (5.00%) PySpark
11 4 (5.00%) SOAP
11 4 (5.00%) Web Services
12 1 (1.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 54 (67.50%) Product Ownership
2 49 (61.25%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 7 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.00%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.25%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (90.00%) DevOps
2 67 (83.75%) CI/CD
3 66 (82.50%) Software Engineering
4 63 (78.75%) Full-Stack Development
5 61 (76.25%) Agile
6 59 (73.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 57 (71.25%) Microservices
8 56 (70.00%) Test Automation
9 53 (66.25%) Front End Development
9 53 (66.25%) SDLC
10 50 (62.50%) Clean Code
11 49 (61.25%) Performance Optimisation
11 49 (61.25%) TDD
12 9 (11.25%) Analytics
12 9 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (10.00%) Community of Practice
13 8 (10.00%) Observability
13 8 (10.00%) Operational Stability
13 8 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 7 (8.75%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 64 (80.00%) SQL
2 58 (72.50%) Java
3 55 (68.75%) JavaScript
4 12 (15.00%) Python
5 7 (8.75%) C#
6 1 (1.25%) Bash
6 1 (1.25%) Perl
6 1 (1.25%) PHP
6 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
1 1 (1.25%) RHCE
1 1 (1.25%) RHCSA
1 1 (1.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (68.75%) QA
2 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 77 (96.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.25%) KVM
2 1 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 78 (97.50%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.25%) Terraform
3 6 (7.50%) Grafana
3 6 (7.50%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.75%) Ansible
5 2 (2.50%) Puppet
6 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 49 (61.25%) Solace
2 5 (6.25%) Oracle
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.50%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.25%) Google
5 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.25%) VMware