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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 155 132
Rank change year-on-year +46 -23 -6
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 82 51 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.18% 1.31% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.46% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 50 22 48
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £84,063
90th Percentile £93,550 £85,000 £86,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +1.85% -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 4,861 3,495 4,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.13% 89.71% 81.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,452 1,503 2,378
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.26% -0.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £82,500
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 31 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 31 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 +33 31 £82,500 +13.79% 16
Buckinghamshire +6 30 £60,000 -20.00% 6
Oxfordshire -5 21 £63,750 -8.93% 15
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 (2.44%) Confluence
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 58 (70.73%) AWS
2 47 (57.32%) Azure
3 16 (19.51%) GCP
4 14 (17.07%) Serverless
5 11 (13.41%) SaaS
6 10 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (12.20%) Azure AKS
6 10 (12.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 10 (12.20%) Azure Key Vault
6 10 (12.20%) Azure Storage
6 10 (12.20%) IaaS
7 9 (10.98%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (9.76%) Amazon S3
9 7 (8.54%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (8.54%) GitHub
10 6 (7.32%) OpenShift
11 4 (4.88%) Figma
12 3 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (3.66%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.29%) DNS
2 11 (13.41%) Firewall
3 4 (4.88%) RFID
4 3 (3.66%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (3.66%) DHCP
4 3 (3.66%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.44%) HTTP
5 2 (2.44%) MQTT
6 1 (1.22%) Internet
6 1 (1.22%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.88%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.66%) MySQL
3 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.44%) Redis
5 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.22%) GIS
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (20.73%) Git
2 16 (19.51%) GitLab
3 7 (8.54%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.10%) JIRA
4 5 (6.10%) Yeoman
5 4 (4.88%) JUnit
6 3 (3.66%) Postman
6 3 (3.66%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.66%) SpecFlow
7 2 (2.44%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.44%) JMeter
7 2 (2.44%) Mocha
7 2 (2.44%) Mockito
7 2 (2.44%) Selenium
8 1 (1.22%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.22%) Eclipse
8 1 (1.22%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 31 (37.80%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.41%) Finance
3 11 (13.41%) Manufacturing
4 10 (12.20%) Law
5 9 (10.98%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.32%) Telecoms
7 5 (6.10%) Games
8 4 (4.88%) Banking
8 4 (4.88%) Retail
9 3 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 24 (29.27%) Software Engineer
2 19 (23.17%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (17.07%) Lead
4 13 (15.85%) Architect
5 12 (14.63%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (13.41%) Lead Software Engineer
7 10 (12.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 10 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (8.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (8.54%) Senior
9 6 (7.32%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (7.32%) Network Engineer
9 6 (7.32%) Telecoms Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) C++ Software Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Python Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Python Software Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (4.88%) Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.17%) REST
2 15 (18.29%) React
3 14 (17.07%) .NET
3 14 (17.07%) JSON
4 13 (15.85%) Terraform
5 8 (9.76%) AngularJS
5 8 (9.76%) Django
5 8 (9.76%) RESTful
5 8 (9.76%) YAML
6 7 (8.54%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (8.54%) XML
7 6 (7.32%) Jinja
7 6 (7.32%) Spring
8 5 (6.10%) HTML
8 5 (6.10%) JWT
8 5 (6.10%) Kafka
8 5 (6.10%) OAuth
8 5 (6.10%) OAuth2
8 5 (6.10%) Spring Boot
8 5 (6.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.29%) Cloud Native
2 13 (15.85%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (12.20%) Product Ownership
3 10 (12.20%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (8.54%) Public Cloud
5 6 (7.32%) Life Science
6 5 (6.10%) Onboarding
7 4 (4.88%) Contactless
7 4 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (4.88%) Private Cloud
7 4 (4.88%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (4.88%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (3.66%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (3.66%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.44%) Robotics
10 1 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.83%) Linux
2 4 (4.88%) Windows
3 3 (3.66%) Debian
3 3 (3.66%) Unix
4 2 (2.44%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (2.44%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (57.32%) Agile
1 47 (57.32%) CI/CD
2 40 (48.78%) Software Engineering
3 30 (36.59%) Test Automation
4 27 (32.93%) DevOps
4 27 (32.93%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (25.61%) Microservices
6 20 (24.39%) AI
7 18 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (19.51%) Event-Driven
8 16 (19.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 14 (17.07%) Architectural Patterns
9 14 (17.07%) High Availability
9 14 (17.07%) Integration Testing
9 14 (17.07%) Load Balancing
10 13 (15.85%) Code Quality
10 13 (15.85%) Computer Science
10 13 (15.85%) Mentoring
11 12 (14.63%) TDD
12 11 (13.41%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 36 (43.90%) Python
2 18 (21.95%) C#
3 14 (17.07%) Java
4 13 (15.85%) JavaScript
4 13 (15.85%) PowerShell
5 11 (13.41%) TypeScript
6 10 (12.20%) SQL
7 7 (8.54%) C++
8 5 (6.10%) Bash
9 3 (3.66%) Groovy
9 3 (3.66%) Perl
9 3 (3.66%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.22%) C
10 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (23.17%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.73%) Degree
3 12 (14.63%) SC Cleared
4 10 (12.20%) Azure Certification
5 9 (10.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (6.10%) DV Cleared
6 5 (6.10%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.73%) QA
2 3 (3.66%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (51.22%) Docker
2 9 (10.98%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.66%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.44%) Lustre
6 1 (1.22%) KVM
Systems Management
1 41 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.98%) Ansible
3 3 (3.66%) Grafana
3 3 (3.66%) Kibana
3 3 (3.66%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.44%) Argo
4 2 (2.44%) Packer
5 1 (1.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (7.32%) Cisco
1 6 (7.32%) Oracle
1 6 (7.32%) Red Hat
2 4 (4.88%) AppDynamics
2 4 (4.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.88%) VMware
3 3 (3.66%) F5
3 3 (3.66%) IBM
3 3 (3.66%) Juniper
3 3 (3.66%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.44%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.44%) NVIDIA
4 2 (2.44%) Splunk
5 1 (1.22%) Google
5 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow