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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 101 91
Rank change year-on-year -14 -10 -14
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 30 57 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.11% 1.70% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.98% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 15 36 45
10th Percentile £43,350 £46,115 £53,988
25th Percentile £62,875 £53,438 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,654 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -1.31% +8.58%
75th Percentile £78,283 £78,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £96,889 £96,539
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% +0.82%

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 2,314 2,880 2,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 85.64% 85.79% 95.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,123 1,364 1,787
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,448 £82,958 £82,548
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 November 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 November 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 +7 14 £72,500 +28.89% 13
Edinburgh -17 14 £70,000 -2.99% 8
Renfrewshire - 1 £42,500 -
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 3 (10.00%) Apache
1 3 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 25 (83.33%) Azure
2 16 (53.33%) GitHub
2 16 (53.33%) GitHub Actions
3 11 (36.67%) AWS
4 10 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (33.33%) Datadog
5 4 (13.33%) Azure AI
5 4 (13.33%) ChatGPT
5 4 (13.33%) GCP
5 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (3.33%) dbt
8 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.33%) PaaS
8 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DHCP
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) LAN
1 1 (3.33%) VPN
1 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.00%) Big Data
2 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.33%) JMeter
2 1 (3.33%) Locust
2 1 (3.33%) Snyk
General
1 16 (53.33%) Finance
2 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Law
4 6 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (20.00%) Marketing
5 4 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Health Technology
7 1 (3.33%) Police
7 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.33%) Retail
7 1 (3.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Software Engineer
2 10 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 10 (33.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 9 (30.00%) Development Engineer
3 9 (30.00%) Lead
4 7 (23.33%) .NET Software Engineer
4 7 (23.33%) C# Software Engineer
4 7 (23.33%) Lead Software Engineer
5 6 (20.00%) Senior
6 4 (13.33%) Java Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Python Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Senior C# Software Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Senior Development Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (56.67%) .NET
2 11 (36.67%) RESTful
3 10 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 10 (33.33%) React
4 9 (30.00%) ADO
5 8 (26.67%) Blazor
6 7 (23.33%) .NET Core
7 4 (13.33%) Vue
8 3 (10.00%) Hibernate
8 3 (10.00%) Kafka
8 3 (10.00%) PySpark
8 3 (10.00%) SOAP
8 3 (10.00%) Spring
8 3 (10.00%) Spring Boot
8 3 (10.00%) Web Services
9 1 (3.33%) CSS
9 1 (3.33%) Flask
9 1 (3.33%) Gherkin
9 1 (3.33%) Middleware
9 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 9 (30.00%) Onboarding
1 9 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 7 (23.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (83.33%) DevOps
2 22 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 14 (46.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (46.67%) Software Engineering
4 13 (43.33%) Observability
5 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (36.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (36.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 10 (33.33%) Agile
7 10 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (30.00%) Asset Management
8 9 (30.00%) Brown Bag Session
8 9 (30.00%) Coaching
8 9 (30.00%) Code Quality
9 8 (26.67%) Microservices
10 7 (23.33%) Application Security
10 7 (23.33%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (23.33%) Test Automation
11 6 (20.00%) Community of Practice
11 6 (20.00%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) Python
2 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
3 10 (33.33%) SQL
4 7 (23.33%) C#
5 5 (16.67%) Java
6 1 (3.33%) Bash
6 1 (3.33%) Perl
6 1 (3.33%) PHP
6 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) RHCE
2 1 (3.33%) RHCSA
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (33.33%) QA
2 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (96.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) KVM
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (93.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (43.33%) Terraform
3 10 (33.33%) Grafana
4 9 (30.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.67%) Ansible
6 1 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.33%) Remedy
3 1 (3.33%) VMware