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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 69 210
Rank change year-on-year -54 +141 -100
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 17 51 64
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.51% 2.65% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 2.87% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5 41 43
10th Percentile £44,383 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,555 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +17.24% +11.54%
75th Percentile £63,576 £113,979 £96,539
90th Percentile £69,870 £146,300 £109,695
UK median annual salary £70,932 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -5.42% +6.27% -1.98%

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 2,454 1,775 5,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 73.01% 92.21% 92.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,325 899 2,396
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,200 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -27 12 £70,079 -17.80% 12
Glasgow -28 3 £60,000 -5.88%
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) Datadog
3 10 (58.82%) GitHub
3 10 (58.82%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (17.65%) AWS
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
5 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (11.76%) Serverless
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (5.88%) Dagster
6 1 (5.88%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) JMeter
2 1 (5.88%) Locust
2 1 (5.88%) MLflow
General
1 11 (64.71%) Finance
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Games
3 1 (5.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Development Engineer
2 9 (52.94%) Senior
3 8 (47.06%) Senior Development Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) .NET
1 10 (58.82%) ADO
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
2 1 (5.88%) Flask
2 1 (5.88%) Gherkin
2 1 (5.88%) JWT
2 1 (5.88%) Next.js
2 1 (5.88%) NumPy
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.88%) OpenCV
2 1 (5.88%) Pandas
2 1 (5.88%) PySpark
2 1 (5.88%) pytest
2 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (5.88%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Onboarding
1 10 (58.82%) Product Ownership
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.88%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) CI/CD
2 14 (82.35%) DevOps
3 12 (70.59%) Observability
3 12 (70.59%) Platform Engineering
3 12 (70.59%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (64.71%) Asset Management
4 11 (64.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (58.82%) Brown Bag Session
5 10 (58.82%) Coaching
5 10 (58.82%) Code Quality
5 10 (58.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) AI
6 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
7 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
7 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
7 3 (17.65%) Network Segmentation
7 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Python
2 11 (64.71%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (64.71%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (82.35%) Kubernetes
2 12 (70.59%) Grafana
2 12 (70.59%) Terraform
3 10 (58.82%) Prometheus
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco
2 2 (11.76%) Meraki
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Remedy