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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 146 130
Rank change year-on-year +42 -16 -6
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 87 54 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.28% 1.43% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.59% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 52 25 51
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +11.54% -14.75%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £93,250 £85,000 £86,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - -3.57%

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 4,810 3,394 4,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.67% 90.07% 81.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,363 1,458 2,591
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +26 34 £82,500 +13.79% 17
Buckinghamshire +15 34 £60,000 -17.24% 5
Oxfordshire -13 19 £63,750 -5.56% 13
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 (2.30%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 61 (70.11%) AWS
2 51 (58.62%) Azure
3 19 (21.84%) GCP
4 15 (17.24%) Serverless
5 12 (13.79%) SaaS
6 11 (12.64%) Azure AKS
6 11 (12.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 11 (12.64%) Azure Key Vault
6 11 (12.64%) Azure Storage
6 11 (12.64%) IaaS
7 10 (11.49%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (11.49%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (9.20%) Amazon S3
8 8 (9.20%) OpenShift
9 7 (8.05%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (8.05%) GitHub
10 5 (5.75%) Figma
11 4 (4.60%) Apigee
11 4 (4.60%) Kong
12 3 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.39%) DNS
2 13 (14.94%) Firewall
3 4 (4.60%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (4.60%) RFID
4 3 (3.45%) DHCP
4 3 (3.45%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.30%) HTTP
5 2 (2.30%) MQTT
6 1 (1.15%) Internet
6 1 (1.15%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.60%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.45%) MySQL
4 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.30%) Redis
6 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.15%) GIS
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (19.54%) Git
1 17 (19.54%) GitLab
2 7 (8.05%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.05%) JIRA
3 5 (5.75%) Yeoman
4 4 (4.60%) JUnit
4 4 (4.60%) Postman
4 4 (4.60%) SpecFlow
5 3 (3.45%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.30%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.30%) JMeter
6 2 (2.30%) Mocha
6 2 (2.30%) Mockito
6 2 (2.30%) Selenium
7 1 (1.15%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.15%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.15%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 35 (40.23%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.64%) Finance
3 11 (12.64%) Law
3 11 (12.64%) Manufacturing
4 9 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.20%) Telecoms
6 7 (8.05%) Games
7 4 (4.60%) Banking
7 4 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.60%) Retail
8 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 25 (28.74%) Software Engineer
2 20 (22.99%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (17.24%) Lead
4 13 (14.94%) Architect
4 13 (14.94%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (13.79%) Lead Software Engineer
6 11 (12.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 10 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (9.20%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (9.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (9.20%) Network Engineer
8 8 (9.20%) Telecoms Engineer
9 7 (8.05%) Senior
10 6 (6.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Automation Specialist
11 5 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Network Specialist
11 5 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (5.75%) Telecoms Specialist
12 4 (4.60%) Cloud Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.29%) REST
2 16 (18.39%) JSON
3 15 (17.24%) .NET
4 14 (16.09%) React
5 10 (11.49%) YAML
6 9 (10.34%) AngularJS
6 9 (10.34%) Django
7 8 (9.20%) Jinja
7 8 (9.20%) RESTful
7 8 (9.20%) XML
8 7 (8.05%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (6.90%) Spring
9 6 (6.90%) Web Services
10 5 (5.75%) JWT
10 5 (5.75%) Kafka
10 5 (5.75%) OAuth
10 5 (5.75%) OAuth2
10 5 (5.75%) Spring Boot
10 5 (5.75%) Twisted
10 5 (5.75%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.94%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (13.79%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (12.64%) Product Ownership
5 7 (8.05%) Onboarding
5 7 (8.05%) Public Cloud
6 6 (6.90%) Life Science
7 5 (5.75%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (4.60%) Contactless
8 4 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (4.60%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (4.60%) Private Cloud
8 4 (4.60%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (3.45%) Virtual Team
10 2 (2.30%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (1.15%) Robotics
11 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (28.74%) Linux
2 6 (6.90%) Windows
3 4 (4.60%) Unix
4 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.30%) Debian
6 1 (1.15%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (56.32%) Agile
2 48 (55.17%) CI/CD
3 40 (45.98%) Software Engineering
4 32 (36.78%) Test Automation
5 28 (32.18%) DevOps
5 28 (32.18%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (25.29%) AI
6 22 (25.29%) Microservices
7 19 (21.84%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (19.54%) Event-Driven
9 16 (18.39%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (18.39%) High Availability
10 15 (17.24%) Architectural Patterns
10 15 (17.24%) Integration Testing
10 15 (17.24%) Load Balancing
11 14 (16.09%) Computer Science
11 14 (16.09%) Mentoring
12 13 (14.94%) Code Quality
12 13 (14.94%) TDD
13 12 (13.79%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (44.83%) Python
2 19 (21.84%) C#
3 14 (16.09%) JavaScript
3 14 (16.09%) PowerShell
4 13 (14.94%) Java
5 12 (13.79%) TypeScript
6 11 (12.64%) SQL
7 6 (6.90%) C++
8 4 (4.60%) Bash
9 3 (3.45%) Groovy
9 3 (3.45%) Perl
9 3 (3.45%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.15%) C
10 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 21 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.54%) Degree
3 14 (16.09%) SC Cleared
4 11 (12.64%) Azure Certification
5 8 (9.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (8.05%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.60%) Master's Degree
8 3 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.54%) QA
2 3 (3.45%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (50.57%) Docker
2 10 (11.49%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.90%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (3.45%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.30%) Lustre
7 1 (1.15%) KVM
Systems Management
1 41 (47.13%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.94%) Terraform
3 9 (10.34%) Ansible
4 3 (3.45%) Grafana
4 3 (3.45%) Kibana
4 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.30%) Argo
5 2 (2.30%) Packer
6 1 (1.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (9.20%) Cisco
1 8 (9.20%) Oracle
1 8 (9.20%) Red Hat
2 4 (4.60%) AppDynamics
2 4 (4.60%) F5
2 4 (4.60%) Juniper
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.60%) Palo Alto
2 4 (4.60%) VMware
3 3 (3.45%) Google
3 3 (3.45%) IBM
3 3 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.30%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.30%) Splunk
5 1 (1.15%) NVIDIA