Containerisation Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Containerization
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Containerisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 136 163
Rank change year-on-year +26 +27 -3
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 60 42 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.07% 1.39% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.49% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 38 33 53
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,000 £37,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% -14.75%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,250 £83,500 £87,200
South East median annual salary £68,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.17% -14.29% +5.66%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,040 2,814 5,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.36% 93.06% 84.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,626 1,224 4,024
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Containerisation
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Containerisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in the Thames Valley

Containerisation
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +20 34 £62,500 -3.85% 7
Buckinghamshire -9 23 £60,000 +3.45% 6
Oxfordshire -17 3 £80,000 +48.84% 10
Containerisation
South East

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (3.33%) Camunda
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 41 (68.33%) AWS
2 39 (65.00%) Azure
3 16 (26.67%) GCP
4 11 (18.33%) OpenShift
5 10 (16.67%) Serverless
6 8 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (11.67%) SaaS
8 6 (10.00%) Azure AKS
8 6 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (10.00%) Azure Storage
8 6 (10.00%) IaaS
9 5 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (8.33%) Amazon S3
9 5 (8.33%) Apigee
9 5 (8.33%) Figma
9 5 (8.33%) GitHub
9 5 (8.33%) Kong
10 3 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 16 (26.67%) Firewall
2 12 (20.00%) DNS
3 5 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (3.33%) DHCP
4 2 (3.33%) RFID
5 1 (1.67%) Internet
5 1 (1.67%) Modbus
5 1 (1.67%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.33%) MySQL
4 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.67%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 22 (36.67%) Git
2 17 (28.33%) GitLab
3 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (8.33%) JIRA
5 4 (6.67%) Postman
5 4 (6.67%) SpecFlow
6 3 (5.00%) Cucumber
6 3 (5.00%) MLflow
6 3 (5.00%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.33%) JUnit
7 2 (3.33%) Yeoman
8 1 (1.67%) Ant
8 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.67%) Gradle
8 1 (1.67%) Maven
8 1 (1.67%) Mockito
General
1 26 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 9 (15.00%) Finance
5 7 (11.67%) Law
6 5 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (8.33%) Games
6 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.00%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.33%) Banking
8 2 (3.33%) Retail
9 1 (1.67%) Automotive
9 1 (1.67%) Aviation
9 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (16.67%) Architect
1 10 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
1 10 (16.67%) Network Engineer
1 10 (16.67%) Software Engineer
1 10 (16.67%) Telecoms Engineer
2 9 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Lead
4 6 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Automation Specialist
4 6 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Network Specialist
4 6 (10.00%) Telecoms Specialist
5 5 (8.33%) Developer
5 5 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Lead Software Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Senior
6 4 (6.67%) Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (36.67%) REST
2 15 (25.00%) JSON
3 13 (21.67%) React
4 12 (20.00%) YAML
5 10 (16.67%) Jinja
6 9 (15.00%) .NET
7 8 (13.33%) AngularJS
7 8 (13.33%) XML
8 6 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (10.00%) Web Services
9 5 (8.33%) Django
9 5 (8.33%) Kafka
9 5 (8.33%) Spring
9 5 (8.33%) Twisted
9 5 (8.33%) WebSockets
9 5 (8.33%) YANG
10 4 (6.67%) .NET Framework
10 4 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 12 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (13.33%) Product Ownership
4 6 (10.00%) Onboarding
5 5 (8.33%) Life Science
5 5 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (5.00%) Private Cloud
8 2 (3.33%) Contactless
8 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
8 2 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (3.33%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.67%) IoT
9 1 (1.67%) Low-Code
9 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (35.00%) Linux
2 6 (10.00%) Unix
3 3 (5.00%) Windows
3 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 30 (50.00%) Agile
3 24 (40.00%) DevOps
4 23 (38.33%) Software Engineering
5 21 (35.00%) Test Automation
6 18 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (28.33%) Microservices
8 15 (25.00%) AI
9 12 (20.00%) Computer Science
9 12 (20.00%) Event-Driven
9 12 (20.00%) Task Automation
10 11 (18.33%) High Availability
10 11 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (16.67%) API Management
12 9 (15.00%) Architectural Patterns
12 9 (15.00%) Load Balancing
12 9 (15.00%) Secrets Management
12 9 (15.00%) TDD
13 8 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
13 8 (13.33%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (55.00%) Python
2 13 (21.67%) JavaScript
3 10 (16.67%) SQL
4 9 (15.00%) C#
5 8 (13.33%) Java
5 8 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 6 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.00%) Groovy
7 3 (5.00%) Perl
8 2 (3.33%) Bash
8 2 (3.33%) C++
8 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.67%) Go
9 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (23.33%) Degree
3 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 5 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 5 (8.33%) Master's Degree
6 3 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.67%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (50.00%) Docker
2 7 (11.67%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (8.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.00%) Ansible
2 6 (10.00%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Grafana
3 2 (3.33%) Packer
3 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) Red Hat
2 10 (16.67%) Cisco
3 6 (10.00%) Oracle
4 5 (8.33%) F5
4 5 (8.33%) Juniper
4 5 (8.33%) Palo Alto
5 4 (6.67%) AppDynamics
5 4 (6.67%) Google
5 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.00%) IBM
6 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.33%) VMware
8 1 (1.67%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (1.67%) NVIDIA
8 1 (1.67%) Pega
8 1 (1.67%) UiPath