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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 117 162
Rank change year-on-year -2 +45 -22
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 50 40 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.01% 1.46% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.56% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 27 33 46
10th Percentile £42,750 £47,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,500 £54,933
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -15.79% -10.94%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £92,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £66,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.54% -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 3,638 2,564 5,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 73.73% 93.54% 85.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 1,193 3,981
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,980 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,125 £59,498 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.39% +17.82% -4.72%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,300 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +30 31 £62,500 -13.79% 15
Buckinghamshire -16 15 £60,000 - 10
Oxfordshire -16 4 £80,000 +48.84% 9
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 (4.00%) Camunda
2 1 (2.00%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle Retail
1 1 (2.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 33 (66.00%) AWS
2 32 (64.00%) Azure
3 14 (28.00%) GCP
4 12 (24.00%) OpenShift
5 7 (14.00%) GitHub
6 5 (10.00%) Apigee
6 5 (10.00%) Figma
6 5 (10.00%) IaaS
6 5 (10.00%) Kong
6 5 (10.00%) Serverless
7 4 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (8.00%) Azure AKS
7 4 (8.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (8.00%) Azure Storage
8 3 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.00%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (6.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (26.00%) Firewall
2 8 (16.00%) DNS
3 5 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (2.00%) DHCP
4 1 (2.00%) Internet
4 1 (2.00%) Modbus
4 1 (2.00%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (2.00%) RFID
4 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.00%) MySQL
4 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.00%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 22 (44.00%) Git
2 16 (32.00%) GitLab
3 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.00%) JIRA
4 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.00%) MLflow
5 2 (4.00%) JUnit
5 2 (4.00%) Postman
5 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.00%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.00%) Ant
6 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.00%) Gradle
6 1 (2.00%) Maven
6 1 (2.00%) Mockito
6 1 (2.00%) Yeoman
General
1 27 (54.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Telecoms
3 11 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Finance
5 6 (12.00%) Games
5 6 (12.00%) Law
6 5 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (6.00%) Banking
7 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (4.00%) Automotive
8 2 (4.00%) Aviation
8 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.00%) Legal
9 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Software Engineer
2 10 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 10 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 10 (20.00%) Telecoms Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) Architect
4 7 (14.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Automation Specialist
5 6 (12.00%) Network Specialist
5 6 (12.00%) Telecoms Specialist
6 5 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Senior
7 4 (8.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Developer
7 4 (8.00%) Lead
7 4 (8.00%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Analyst
8 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.00%) REST
2 13 (26.00%) JSON
3 12 (24.00%) YAML
4 10 (20.00%) Jinja
4 10 (20.00%) React
5 6 (12.00%) Web Services
5 6 (12.00%) XML
6 5 (10.00%) .NET
6 5 (10.00%) Django
6 5 (10.00%) Twisted
6 5 (10.00%) WebSockets
6 5 (10.00%) YANG
7 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
7 3 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (6.00%) Keras
7 3 (6.00%) scikit-learn
7 3 (6.00%) Spring
7 3 (6.00%) TensorFlow
8 2 (4.00%) .NET Framework
8 2 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (12.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (8.00%) Life Science
5 3 (6.00%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (4.00%) Low-Code
6 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.00%) Contactless
7 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.00%) IoT
7 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (40.00%) Linux
2 7 (14.00%) Unix
3 3 (6.00%) Windows
3 3 (6.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (58.00%) CI/CD
2 19 (38.00%) Agile
3 17 (34.00%) DevOps
3 17 (34.00%) Software Engineering
4 13 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (24.00%) AI
5 12 (24.00%) Test Automation
6 11 (22.00%) Microservices
6 11 (22.00%) Task Automation
7 10 (20.00%) API Management
7 10 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 10 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (18.00%) High Availability
8 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (16.00%) Secrets Management
10 7 (14.00%) Decision-Making
11 6 (12.00%) Code Quality
11 6 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (12.00%) Machine Learning
11 6 (12.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 33 (66.00%) Python
2 14 (28.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (18.00%) SQL
4 7 (14.00%) Java
5 6 (12.00%) C#
5 6 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (8.00%) C++
8 2 (4.00%) Bash
8 2 (4.00%) Groovy
8 2 (4.00%) Perl
8 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (24.00%) Degree
3 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (12.00%) DV Cleared
5 5 (10.00%) Master's Degree
6 4 (8.00%) Azure Certification
7 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (6.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) ECSS
3 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) NCSC
3 1 (2.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (50.00%) Docker
2 8 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (36.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.00%) Ansible
2 4 (8.00%) Terraform
3 2 (4.00%) Packer
4 1 (2.00%) Argo
4 1 (2.00%) Grafana
4 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Red Hat
2 10 (20.00%) Cisco
3 5 (10.00%) F5
3 5 (10.00%) Juniper
3 5 (10.00%) Oracle
3 5 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 4 (8.00%) Google
4 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.00%) IBM
6 2 (4.00%) AppDynamics
6 2 (4.00%) VMware
7 1 (2.00%) IFS
7 1 (2.00%) Infor
7 1 (2.00%) Jitterbit
7 1 (2.00%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.00%) Pega
7 1 (2.00%) SAP
7 1 (2.00%) SnapLogic
7 1 (2.00%) Talend
7 1 (2.00%) Workday