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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 127 161
Rank change year-on-year +24 +34 -2
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 72 50 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.28% 1.49% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.59% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 48 32 51
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £51,250 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -9.23% -13.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,563 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,975 £83,625 £87,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% +7.69%

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 4,042 3,149 5,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.96% 93.92% 84.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,725 1,232 3,901
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 14 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 14 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 +34 36 £62,500 -15.25% 12
Buckinghamshire +6 31 £60,000 +3.45% 5
Oxfordshire -10 5 £75,000 +36.36% 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 (2.78%) Camunda
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.39%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 50 (69.44%) AWS
2 45 (62.50%) Azure
3 17 (23.61%) GCP
4 13 (18.06%) Serverless
5 11 (15.28%) OpenShift
6 10 (13.89%) SaaS
7 9 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (12.50%) Azure AKS
7 9 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 9 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 9 (12.50%) Azure Storage
7 9 (12.50%) IaaS
8 7 (9.72%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (8.33%) Amazon S3
10 5 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (6.94%) Apigee
10 5 (6.94%) Figma
10 5 (6.94%) GitHub
10 5 (6.94%) Kong
11 4 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (23.61%) Firewall
2 16 (22.22%) DNS
3 5 (6.94%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (4.17%) DHCP
4 3 (4.17%) RFID
5 1 (1.39%) Internet
5 1 (1.39%) Modbus
5 1 (1.39%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.94%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.78%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.78%) MySQL
3 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.39%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 22 (30.56%) Git
2 17 (23.61%) GitLab
3 8 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.94%) JIRA
4 5 (6.94%) JUnit
5 4 (5.56%) Postman
5 4 (5.56%) SpecFlow
5 4 (5.56%) Yeoman
6 3 (4.17%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.17%) MLflow
6 3 (4.17%) Mockito
6 3 (4.17%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.78%) JMeter
8 1 (1.39%) Ant
8 1 (1.39%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.39%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.39%) Gradle
8 1 (1.39%) Maven
General
1 30 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 10 (13.89%) Law
5 9 (12.50%) Finance
6 8 (11.11%) Public Sector
7 5 (6.94%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (5.56%) Games
8 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
9 3 (4.17%) Retail
10 1 (1.39%) Automotive
10 1 (1.39%) Aviation
10 1 (1.39%) Banking
10 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (19.44%) Software Engineer
2 12 (16.67%) Lead
3 11 (15.28%) Architect
3 11 (15.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (13.89%) Automation Engineer
4 10 (13.89%) Network Engineer
4 10 (13.89%) Telecoms Engineer
5 9 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 9 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) Developer
7 6 (8.33%) Automation Specialist
7 6 (8.33%) Network Specialist
7 6 (8.33%) Telecoms Specialist
8 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Senior
8 5 (6.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.94%) REST
2 16 (22.22%) JSON
3 14 (19.44%) React
4 12 (16.67%) .NET
4 12 (16.67%) YAML
5 10 (13.89%) Jinja
6 9 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 9 (12.50%) XML
7 7 (9.72%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (9.72%) RESTful
7 7 (9.72%) Spring
8 6 (8.33%) Kafka
8 6 (8.33%) Web Services
9 5 (6.94%) Django
9 5 (6.94%) Spring Boot
9 5 (6.94%) Twisted
9 5 (6.94%) WebSockets
9 5 (6.94%) YANG
10 4 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (5.56%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.61%) Cloud Native
2 13 (18.06%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (15.28%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (12.50%) Product Ownership
5 7 (9.72%) Life Science
5 7 (9.72%) Onboarding
6 5 (6.94%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (5.56%) Private Cloud
7 4 (5.56%) Public Cloud
8 3 (4.17%) Contactless
8 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (4.17%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.39%) IoT
10 1 (1.39%) Low-Code
10 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (8.33%) Unix
3 5 (6.94%) Windows
4 3 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 40 (55.56%) Agile
3 29 (40.28%) DevOps
3 29 (40.28%) Software Engineering
4 26 (36.11%) Test Automation
5 21 (29.17%) Microservices
5 21 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (23.61%) AI
7 16 (22.22%) Event-Driven
8 14 (19.44%) Computer Science
8 14 (19.44%) High Availability
9 13 (18.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (18.06%) Load Balancing
9 13 (18.06%) Task Automation
10 12 (16.67%) Integration Testing
10 12 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 12 (16.67%) TDD
11 11 (15.28%) Architectural Patterns
12 10 (13.89%) API Management
12 10 (13.89%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.00%) Python
2 15 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 12 (16.67%) C#
3 12 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 11 (15.28%) Java
4 11 (15.28%) SQL
5 6 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.17%) Bash
7 3 (4.17%) Groovy
7 3 (4.17%) Perl
8 2 (2.78%) C++
9 1 (1.39%) Go
9 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (22.22%) Degree
3 12 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 9 (12.50%) Azure Certification
5 7 (9.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (6.94%) Master's Degree
7 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
8 3 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.83%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (50.00%) Docker
2 6 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (43.06%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.72%) Ansible
2 7 (9.72%) Terraform
3 3 (4.17%) Grafana
3 3 (4.17%) Kibana
3 3 (4.17%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.78%) Packer
Vendors
1 11 (15.28%) Red Hat
2 10 (13.89%) Cisco
3 7 (9.72%) Oracle
4 5 (6.94%) F5
4 5 (6.94%) Juniper
4 5 (6.94%) Palo Alto
5 4 (5.56%) AppDynamics
5 4 (5.56%) Google
5 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.17%) IBM
6 3 (4.17%) VMware
7 2 (2.78%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.78%) Splunk
8 1 (1.39%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (1.39%) NVIDIA
8 1 (1.39%) Pega
8 1 (1.39%) UiPath