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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 127 125
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 +49
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 54 70 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.40% 1.45% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.76% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 25 43 43
10th Percentile £51,250 £37,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,625 £66,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,875 £81,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £67,750
% change year-on-year +11.54% -4.06% +8.84%

All Process and 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 3,486 3,970 3,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.12% 81.97% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,478 2,086 2,463
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £31,775
25th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 -19 24 £72,500 +3.57% 23
Buckinghamshire 0 23 £75,000 +15.38% 7
Oxfordshire +14 7 £70,000 +37.25% 10
Containerisation
South East

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 45 (83.33%) Azure
2 42 (77.78%) AWS
3 27 (50.00%) GCP
4 10 (18.52%) GitHub
4 10 (18.52%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 6 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (9.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (9.26%) AWS KMS
7 5 (9.26%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (9.26%) Entra ID
7 5 (9.26%) Route 53
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (12.96%) SQL Server
3 6 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (9.26%) DynamoDB
4 5 (9.26%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.85%) Big Data
6 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.85%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.85%) MySQL
6 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (53.70%) Git
2 18 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 16 (29.63%) SonarQube
4 13 (24.07%) GitLab
5 12 (22.22%) Maven
6 9 (16.67%) JIRA
6 9 (16.67%) JUnit
6 9 (16.67%) Mockito
7 6 (11.11%) Bitbucket
7 6 (11.11%) Cucumber
7 6 (11.11%) Selenium
7 6 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (9.26%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (9.26%) DbUnit
8 5 (9.26%) jMock
9 2 (3.70%) MLflow
General
1 24 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.93%) Law
2 14 (25.93%) Marketing
3 11 (20.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (11.11%) Banking
6 6 (11.11%) Finance
7 2 (3.70%) Health Technology
7 2 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (51.85%) Developer
2 16 (29.63%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (27.78%) Senior
3 15 (27.78%) Senior Developer
4 14 (25.93%) Full-Stack Web Developer
4 14 (25.93%) Lead
4 14 (25.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (25.93%) Senior Web Developer
4 14 (25.93%) Web Developer
5 10 (18.52%) Java Developer
6 9 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (12.96%) Software Engineer
8 5 (9.26%) Lead Developer
8 5 (9.26%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Architect
10 2 (3.70%) Python Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Software Developer
11 1 (1.85%) PHP Developer
11 1 (1.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (46.30%) React
2 22 (40.74%) RESTful
3 20 (37.04%) CSS
3 20 (37.04%) HTML
4 18 (33.33%) Node.js
5 16 (29.63%) Spring
6 15 (27.78%) Spring Boot
7 14 (25.93%) Hibernate
8 12 (22.22%) JPA
9 11 (20.37%) AngularJS
10 10 (18.52%) Kafka
11 6 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
11 6 (11.11%) Bootstrap
11 6 (11.11%) Redux
11 6 (11.11%) REST
11 6 (11.11%) SOAP
12 5 (9.26%) PowerMock
12 5 (9.26%) Spring Batch
12 5 (9.26%) Spring Integration
12 5 (9.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 6 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 5 (9.26%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.26%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.70%) Cyberattack
5 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.85%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.37%) Linux
2 5 (9.26%) VMS
3 4 (7.41%) Windows
4 2 (3.70%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (79.63%) CI/CD
2 39 (72.22%) DevOps
3 37 (68.52%) Agile
4 23 (42.59%) Test Automation
5 22 (40.74%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (33.33%) Microservices
8 16 (29.63%) Design Patterns
9 15 (27.78%) User Experience
9 15 (27.78%) Web Development
10 14 (25.93%) Customer Engagement
10 14 (25.93%) UX Design
11 13 (24.07%) TDD
12 11 (20.37%) Scrum
12 11 (20.37%) Software Engineering
13 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (18.52%) Observability
13 10 (18.52%) SDLC
14 9 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
14 9 (16.67%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (40.74%) JavaScript
2 20 (37.04%) Java
3 14 (25.93%) SQL
4 12 (22.22%) Python
5 9 (16.67%) Bash
5 9 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.70%) C++
6 2 (3.70%) Go
6 2 (3.70%) Rust
7 1 (1.85%) Groovy
7 1 (1.85%) PHP
7 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (20.37%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) Degree
4 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (40.74%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) GDPR
2 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (94.44%) Docker
2 5 (9.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.41%) vCloud
4 1 (1.85%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 44 (81.48%) Kubernetes
2 13 (24.07%) Terraform
3 6 (11.11%) Ansible
4 4 (7.41%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (7.41%) Grafana
4 4 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 4 (7.41%) Rundeck
5 1 (1.85%) Argo
5 1 (1.85%) PingFederate
5 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) Solace
3 5 (9.26%) Atlassian
4 4 (7.41%) VMware
5 2 (3.70%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.85%) Databricks