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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 138 137
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -15
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 68 54 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.91% 1.43% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.59% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 36 26 41
10th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £59,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £84,063 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £94,750 £85,000 £92,000
South East median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -3.70%

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 5,305 3,389 3,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.98% 89.94% 83.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,760 1,460 1,964
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £71,535 £67,500 £70,781
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -

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 28 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 28 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
Berkshire +3 23 £85,000 +17.24% 21
Buckinghamshire -1 23 £71,250 -5.00% 8
Oxfordshire -15 22 £57,500 -17.86% 28
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 3 (4.41%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 48 (70.59%) AWS
2 35 (51.47%) Azure
3 13 (19.12%) Serverless
4 10 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (14.71%) GCP
5 9 (13.24%) SaaS
6 8 (11.76%) Amazon S3
6 8 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (10.29%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (10.29%) Azure AKS
7 7 (10.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 7 (10.29%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (10.29%) Azure Storage
7 7 (10.29%) IaaS
8 4 (5.88%) GitHub
8 4 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.18%) DNS
2 4 (5.88%) Firewall
3 3 (4.41%) RFID
4 2 (2.94%) DHCP
4 2 (2.94%) HTTP
4 2 (2.94%) MQTT
4 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.47%) 2G
5 1 (1.47%) 3GPP
5 1 (1.47%) 4G
5 1 (1.47%) 5G
5 1 (1.47%) Network Security
5 1 (1.47%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.41%) MySQL
4 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.94%) Redis
5 1 (1.47%) GIS
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Git
2 11 (16.18%) GitLab
3 7 (10.29%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.88%) JIRA
4 4 (5.88%) JUnit
4 4 (5.88%) Yeoman
5 3 (4.41%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.94%) JMeter
6 2 (2.94%) MLflow
6 2 (2.94%) Mocha
6 2 (2.94%) Mockito
6 2 (2.94%) Postman
6 2 (2.94%) Selenium
6 2 (2.94%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.47%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.47%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 22 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.71%) Finance
3 9 (13.24%) Manufacturing
4 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 7 (10.29%) Law
6 6 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.88%) Aerospace
7 4 (5.88%) Banking
7 4 (5.88%) Games
7 4 (5.88%) Retail
8 2 (2.94%) Aviation
9 1 (1.47%) Legal
9 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (26.47%) Software Engineer
2 16 (23.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (17.65%) Architect
3 12 (17.65%) Lead
4 9 (13.24%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (13.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Lead Software Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Senior
7 6 (8.82%) C++ Software Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Python Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Python Software Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Security Architect
9 4 (5.88%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Integration Architect
9 4 (5.88%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Java Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.12%) React
2 12 (17.65%) Terraform
3 11 (16.18%) .NET
4 10 (14.71%) REST
5 8 (11.76%) JSON
5 8 (11.76%) RESTful
6 7 (10.29%) AngularJS
6 7 (10.29%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (8.82%) Spring
8 5 (7.35%) HTML
8 5 (7.35%) JWT
8 5 (7.35%) Kafka
8 5 (7.35%) Node.js
8 5 (7.35%) OAuth
8 5 (7.35%) OAuth2
8 5 (7.35%) Spring Boot
9 4 (5.88%) gRPC
9 4 (5.88%) JPA
9 4 (5.88%) SOAP
9 4 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.59%) Cloud Native
2 12 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (11.76%) Product Ownership
4 6 (8.82%) Public Cloud
5 5 (7.35%) Life Science
6 4 (5.88%) Onboarding
7 3 (4.41%) Contactless
7 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (4.41%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (4.41%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (4.41%) Robotics
8 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.94%) CUDA
8 2 (2.94%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.94%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.94%) Synthetic Data
8 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.06%) Linux
2 4 (5.88%) Debian
3 3 (4.41%) Robot Operating System
3 3 (4.41%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (60.29%) Agile
2 39 (57.35%) CI/CD
3 36 (52.94%) Software Engineering
4 23 (33.82%) Test Automation
5 22 (32.35%) DevOps
5 22 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (29.41%) AI
7 17 (25.00%) Microservices
8 14 (20.59%) Computer Science
9 13 (19.12%) Event-Driven
9 13 (19.12%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (19.12%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (19.12%) Integration Testing
10 12 (17.65%) Architectural Patterns
10 12 (17.65%) Mentoring
11 11 (16.18%) Code Quality
11 11 (16.18%) Load Balancing
11 11 (16.18%) Machine Learning
11 11 (16.18%) TDD
12 10 (14.71%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 28 (41.18%) Python
2 15 (22.06%) C#
2 15 (22.06%) Java
3 11 (16.18%) SQL
4 9 (13.24%) PowerShell
5 8 (11.76%) C++
6 7 (10.29%) JavaScript
6 7 (10.29%) TypeScript
7 5 (7.35%) Bash
8 3 (4.41%) Groovy
8 3 (4.41%) Perl
8 3 (4.41%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.47%) C
9 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 19 (27.94%) Degree
3 13 (19.12%) SC Cleared
4 9 (13.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (11.76%) Master's Degree
6 7 (10.29%) Azure Certification
7 4 (5.88%) DV Cleared
7 4 (5.88%) PhD
8 1 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.47%) CCSK
8 1 (1.47%) CCSP
8 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.47%) CISSP
8 1 (1.47%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.12%) QA
2 3 (4.41%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.41%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.47%) COBIT
4 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.47%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (54.41%) Docker
2 5 (7.35%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.94%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.94%) Lustre
5 1 (1.47%) KVM
Systems Management
1 39 (57.35%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.76%) Ansible
3 3 (4.41%) Kibana
4 2 (2.94%) Argo
4 2 (2.94%) Grafana
4 2 (2.94%) Packer
4 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.47%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (5.88%) AppDynamics
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 4 (5.88%) Oracle
2 3 (4.41%) IBM
2 3 (4.41%) NVIDIA
2 3 (4.41%) Thales
2 3 (4.41%) VMware
3 2 (2.94%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.94%) Splunk