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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 118 182
Rank change year-on-year -24 +64 -47
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 27 58 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.62% 1.79% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.92% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12 39 30
10th Percentile £54,500 £47,000 £45,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £54,933
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -8.77% -8.06%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,125 £99,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £72,500 £69,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.32% +2.96% +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 3,402 3,017 4,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 78.03% 93.20% 87.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,966 1,269 3,455
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,700 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -17 14 £62,500 -16.67% 5
Buckinghamshire -14 8 £75,000 +22.45% 7
Oxfordshire +3 5 £81,250 +27.45% 6
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 (7.41%) Camunda
2 1 (3.70%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (77.78%) Azure
2 14 (51.85%) AWS
3 9 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (29.63%) GitHub
4 8 (29.63%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (22.22%) GCP
6 5 (18.52%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (18.52%) Entra ID
7 4 (14.81%) OpenShift
8 3 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (3.70%) Apigee
9 1 (3.70%) Boomi
9 1 (3.70%) IaaS
9 1 (3.70%) iPaaS
9 1 (3.70%) Kong
9 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
9 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (3.70%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.41%) MySQL
4 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.70%) Big Data
4 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (59.26%) Git
2 7 (25.93%) Jenkins
3 6 (22.22%) GitLab
4 4 (14.81%) MLflow
5 2 (7.41%) JUnit
6 1 (3.70%) Ant
6 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.70%) Gradle
6 1 (3.70%) Maven
6 1 (3.70%) Mockito
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Telecoms
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
3 3 (11.11%) Games
3 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Automotive
4 2 (7.41%) Aviation
4 2 (7.41%) Law
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Architect
3 5 (18.52%) Lead
3 5 (18.52%) Senior
4 4 (14.81%) Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Security Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Network Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Telecoms Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Intelligent Automation Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Network Specialist
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) ARM Templates
2 4 (14.81%) React
3 3 (11.11%) JSON
3 3 (11.11%) Keras
3 3 (11.11%) REST
3 3 (11.11%) scikit-learn
3 3 (11.11%) Spring
3 3 (11.11%) TensorFlow
4 2 (7.41%) CSS
4 2 (7.41%) Jinja
4 2 (7.41%) Kafka
4 2 (7.41%) Node.js
4 2 (7.41%) RESTful
4 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
4 2 (7.41%) XML
4 2 (7.41%) YAML
5 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.70%) Bootstrap
5 1 (3.70%) Express.js
5 1 (3.70%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Linux Command Line
1 5 (18.52%) Onboarding
2 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.11%) Life Science
4 2 (7.41%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (7.41%) Low-Code
4 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
1 5 (18.52%) VMS
2 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) CI/CD
2 15 (55.56%) DevOps
3 10 (37.04%) Agile
3 10 (37.04%) Observability
4 9 (33.33%) RBAC
5 8 (29.63%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (25.93%) Computer Science
6 7 (25.93%) Software Engineering
6 7 (25.93%) Task Automation
7 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
7 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (18.52%) Machine Learning
8 5 (18.52%) Matrix Management
8 5 (18.52%) Resource Management
8 5 (18.52%) Servant Leadership
9 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
9 4 (14.81%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
2 6 (22.22%) Bash
2 6 (22.22%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) Java
3 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
3 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
4 3 (11.11%) C++
5 2 (7.41%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) Go
6 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Degree
2 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
3 6 (22.22%) Master's Degree
4 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) ECSS
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) NCSC
2 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 18 (66.67%) Docker
2 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
3 3 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.70%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (59.26%) Kubernetes
2 8 (29.63%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Argo
3 1 (3.70%) Grafana
3 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco
4 1 (3.70%) Dell
4 1 (3.70%) Epicor
4 1 (3.70%) F5
4 1 (3.70%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) IBM
4 1 (3.70%) Infor
4 1 (3.70%) Informatica
4 1 (3.70%) Juniper
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Pega
4 1 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.70%) SnapLogic
4 1 (3.70%) Software AG
4 1 (3.70%) Talend
4 1 (3.70%) TIBCO
4 1 (3.70%) VMware