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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 151 122
Rank change year-on-year +34 -29 -1
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 78 51 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.11% 1.31% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.46% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 47 23 45
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £94,450 £85,000 £86,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £71,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.77% +5.56% -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 4,930 3,496 4,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.06% 89.48% 81.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,518 1,476 2,243
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.66% -3.64%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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
Buckinghamshire 0 29 £60,000 -20.00% 11
Berkshire +22 27 £82,500 +13.79% 24
Oxfordshire -14 22 £57,500 -17.86% 26
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 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 55 (70.51%) AWS
2 44 (56.41%) Azure
3 14 (17.95%) GCP
3 14 (17.95%) Serverless
4 10 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (12.82%) Azure AKS
4 10 (12.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 10 (12.82%) Azure Key Vault
4 10 (12.82%) Azure Storage
4 10 (12.82%) IaaS
4 10 (12.82%) SaaS
5 9 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (10.26%) Amazon S3
7 7 (8.97%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (8.97%) GitHub
8 4 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.13%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.85%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 15 (19.23%) DNS
2 9 (11.54%) Firewall
3 4 (5.13%) RFID
4 3 (3.85%) DHCP
5 2 (2.56%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (2.56%) HTTP
5 2 (2.56%) MQTT
5 2 (2.56%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.13%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.85%) MySQL
3 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.56%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.56%) Redis
5 1 (1.28%) GIS
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (20.51%) Git
2 15 (19.23%) GitLab
3 7 (8.97%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.41%) JIRA
5 4 (5.13%) JUnit
5 4 (5.13%) Yeoman
6 3 (3.85%) Postman
6 3 (3.85%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.85%) SpecFlow
7 2 (2.56%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.56%) JMeter
7 2 (2.56%) Mocha
7 2 (2.56%) Mockito
7 2 (2.56%) Selenium
8 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.28%) Eclipse
8 1 (1.28%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 28 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.10%) Finance
3 10 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.82%) Law
3 10 (12.82%) Manufacturing
4 9 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.41%) Games
6 4 (5.13%) Banking
6 4 (5.13%) Retail
6 4 (5.13%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 22 (28.21%) Software Engineer
2 19 (24.36%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (16.67%) Lead
4 12 (15.38%) Architect
4 12 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (12.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 10 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (12.82%) Lead Software Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) Senior
7 6 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Python Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Integration Architect
9 4 (5.13%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Network Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Security Architect
9 4 (5.13%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.51%) REST
2 15 (19.23%) React
3 13 (16.67%) Terraform
4 12 (15.38%) .NET
4 12 (15.38%) JSON
5 8 (10.26%) AngularJS
5 8 (10.26%) RESTful
6 7 (8.97%) Django
6 7 (8.97%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (7.69%) Spring
7 6 (7.69%) XML
7 6 (7.69%) YAML
8 5 (6.41%) HTML
8 5 (6.41%) JWT
8 5 (6.41%) Kafka
8 5 (6.41%) Node.js
8 5 (6.41%) OAuth
8 5 (6.41%) OAuth2
8 5 (6.41%) Spring Boot
9 4 (5.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 13 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 8 (10.26%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (8.97%) Public Cloud
5 6 (7.69%) Life Science
6 5 (6.41%) Onboarding
7 4 (5.13%) Contactless
7 4 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (5.13%) Private Cloud
7 4 (5.13%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (3.85%) Robotics
8 3 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (3.85%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 21 (26.92%) Linux
2 4 (5.13%) Debian
2 4 (5.13%) Windows
3 3 (3.85%) Robot Operating System
3 3 (3.85%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.56%) Unix
5 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (58.97%) Agile
2 44 (56.41%) CI/CD
3 38 (48.72%) Software Engineering
4 28 (35.90%) Test Automation
5 26 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (32.05%) DevOps
7 20 (25.64%) AI
8 19 (24.36%) Microservices
9 16 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (17.95%) Architectural Patterns
11 14 (17.95%) Computer Science
11 14 (17.95%) Event-Driven
11 14 (17.95%) Integration Testing
11 14 (17.95%) Load Balancing
12 13 (16.67%) High Availability
13 12 (15.38%) Code Quality
13 12 (15.38%) Mentoring
13 12 (15.38%) TDD
14 11 (14.10%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 34 (43.59%) Python
2 16 (20.51%) C#
3 14 (17.95%) Java
4 13 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 11 (14.10%) JavaScript
6 10 (12.82%) TypeScript
7 9 (11.54%) SQL
8 7 (8.97%) C++
9 6 (7.69%) Bash
10 3 (3.85%) Groovy
10 3 (3.85%) Perl
10 3 (3.85%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.28%) C
11 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 18 (23.08%) Degree
3 12 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 10 (12.82%) Azure Certification
4 10 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.41%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.41%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (21.79%) QA
2 3 (3.85%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (53.85%) Docker
2 8 (10.26%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.56%) Lustre
6 1 (1.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 41 (52.56%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.54%) Ansible
3 3 (3.85%) Grafana
3 3 (3.85%) Kibana
3 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.56%) Argo
4 2 (2.56%) Packer
5 1 (1.28%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (7.69%) Oracle
2 4 (5.13%) AppDynamics
2 4 (5.13%) Cisco
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.13%) Red Hat
2 4 (5.13%) VMware
3 3 (3.85%) IBM
3 3 (3.85%) NVIDIA
4 2 (2.56%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.56%) F5
4 2 (2.56%) Juniper
4 2 (2.56%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.56%) Splunk
5 1 (1.28%) Google
5 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow