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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 117 141
Rank change year-on-year -14 +24 -16
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 40 63 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.00% 1.82% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.99% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 13 43 26
10th Percentile £55,250 £51,500 £48,125
25th Percentile £70,000 £55,125 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -8.20% +5.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £88,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £94,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% +3.85%

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 3,236 3,165 3,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 81.14% 91.50% 90.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,728 1,461 2,249
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,130
% change year-on-year -13.04% +8.23% -3.40%

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 2 January 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 2 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
Berkshire -8 23 £62,500 -10.71% 5
Buckinghamshire -11 12 £75,000 +20.00% 4
Oxfordshire +13 5 £81,250 +8.33% 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 1 (2.50%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.50%) Camunda
1 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (87.50%) Azure
2 28 (70.00%) AWS
3 18 (45.00%) GCP
4 10 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (22.50%) GitHub
5 9 (22.50%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (15.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (15.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.50%) Boomi
9 1 (2.50%) IaaS
9 1 (2.50%) iPaaS
9 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.50%) SaaS
9 1 (2.50%) Serverless
9 1 (2.50%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.00%) MySQL
4 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.50%) Big Data
4 1 (2.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (77.50%) Git
2 10 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.00%) GitLab
3 4 (10.00%) MLflow
4 2 (5.00%) JUnit
4 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.50%) Ant
5 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.50%) Gradle
5 1 (2.50%) Maven
5 1 (2.50%) Mockito
General
1 22 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (40.00%) Law
3 14 (35.00%) Marketing
4 3 (7.50%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Automotive
5 2 (5.00%) Aviation
5 2 (5.00%) Banking
5 2 (5.00%) Games
5 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (47.50%) Developer
1 19 (47.50%) Senior
2 17 (42.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (35.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
3 14 (35.00%) Senior Developer
3 14 (35.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (35.00%) Senior Web Developer
3 14 (35.00%) Web Developer
4 8 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (15.00%) Lead
6 4 (10.00%) Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Security Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (45.00%) React
2 16 (40.00%) CSS
2 16 (40.00%) Node.js
2 16 (40.00%) RESTful
3 15 (37.50%) HTML
4 6 (15.00%) ARM Templates
5 4 (10.00%) Spring
6 3 (7.50%) Keras
6 3 (7.50%) REST
6 3 (7.50%) scikit-learn
6 3 (7.50%) TensorFlow
7 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
8 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.50%) Bootstrap
8 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (2.50%) Express.js
8 1 (2.50%) Kafka
8 1 (2.50%) Mustache
8 1 (2.50%) Sequelize
8 1 (2.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (15.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.50%) Life Science
3 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) VMS
2 5 (12.50%) Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Windows
4 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 28 (70.00%) DevOps
3 24 (60.00%) Agile
4 19 (47.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (37.50%) Test Automation
6 15 (37.50%) User Experience
7 14 (35.00%) Customer Engagement
7 14 (35.00%) Design Patterns
7 14 (35.00%) UX Design
7 14 (35.00%) Web Development
8 9 (22.50%) Observability
8 9 (22.50%) RBAC
9 8 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (17.50%) Network Virtualisation
10 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
10 7 (17.50%) Task Automation
11 6 (15.00%) Computer Science
11 6 (15.00%) Matrix Management
11 6 (15.00%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) JavaScript
2 13 (32.50%) Python
3 7 (17.50%) Bash
4 6 (15.00%) Java
4 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (15.00%) SQL
5 3 (7.50%) C++
6 2 (5.00%) C#
7 1 (2.50%) Go
7 1 (2.50%) Groovy
7 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Degree
2 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (37.50%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) ECSS
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (90.00%) Docker
2 6 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.00%) vCloud
3 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (82.50%) Kubernetes
2 9 (22.50%) Terraform
3 3 (7.50%) Ansible
4 2 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (5.00%) Rundeck
5 1 (2.50%) Argo
5 1 (2.50%) Grafana
5 1 (2.50%) PingFederate
5 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) VMware
3 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.50%) Dell
4 1 (2.50%) Epicor
4 1 (2.50%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) IBM
4 1 (2.50%) IFS
4 1 (2.50%) Infor
4 1 (2.50%) Informatica
4 1 (2.50%) Jitterbit
4 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle
4 1 (2.50%) Pure Storage
4 1 (2.50%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) SnapLogic
4 1 (2.50%) Software AG
4 1 (2.50%) Talend
4 1 (2.50%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.50%) Workday