Containerisation Job Trends in South Wales

Containerization
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Containerisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 51 39
Rank change year-on-year -5 -12 +25
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 7 15 31
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.90% 2.38% 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 2.86% 5.59%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 11
10th Percentile £62,098 £64,471 £41,750
25th Percentile £64,295 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £57,165
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +13.71% -4.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £67,500
90th Percentile - £74,144 £86,250
Wales median annual salary £72,539 £65,000 £56,083
% change year-on-year +11.60% +15.90% -6.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 582 524 555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 75.19% 83.17% 90.24%
Number of salaries quoted 403 266 428
10th Percentile £24,977 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £39,820
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,375 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,149 £79,600 £72,433
Wales median annual salary £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Containerisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Containerisation job vacancy trend in South Wales

Containerisation
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Containerisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in South Wales over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in South Wales

Containerisation
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Cardiff +12 3 £70,079 +1.11% 13
Monmouthshire +1 3 £80,000 +23.08%
Bridgend - 1 £61,496 - 1
Containerisation
Wales

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Stack
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure API Management
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) Datadog
4 1 (14.29%) dbt
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) git-flow
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) JMeter
1 1 (14.29%) Locust
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) IT Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
1 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
1 1 (14.29%) Jest
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
1 3 (42.86%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Rocky
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) FinOps
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) OWASP
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
2 3 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) Grafana
4 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft