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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 132 136
Rank change year-on-year +27 +4 -8
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 86 57 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.32% 1.59% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 1.77% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 54 27 49
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -14.75%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £93,250 £85,000 £86,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £68,750
% change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% -1.79%

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 4,618 3,229 4,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.82% 90.09% 81.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,210 1,437 2,691
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.91% -6.36%

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 3 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 3 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 +27 35 £62,500 -13.79% 10
Buckinghamshire +3 35 £60,000 -14.29% 7
Oxfordshire -12 16 £70,000 +27.27% 11
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 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 60 (69.77%) AWS
2 50 (58.14%) Azure
3 17 (19.77%) GCP
4 15 (17.44%) Serverless
5 12 (13.95%) SaaS
6 11 (12.79%) Azure AKS
6 11 (12.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 11 (12.79%) Azure Key Vault
6 11 (12.79%) Azure Storage
6 11 (12.79%) IaaS
7 10 (11.63%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (11.63%) OpenShift
8 8 (9.30%) Amazon S3
9 7 (8.14%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (6.98%) GitHub
11 5 (5.81%) Apigee
11 5 (5.81%) Figma
11 5 (5.81%) Kong
12 3 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.60%) DNS
2 15 (17.44%) Firewall
3 5 (5.81%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (4.65%) RFID
5 3 (3.49%) DHCP
5 3 (3.49%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.33%) HTTP
6 2 (2.33%) MQTT
7 1 (1.16%) Internet
7 1 (1.16%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.98%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.65%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.49%) MySQL
5 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.33%) Redis
6 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.16%) GIS
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.16%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 18 (20.93%) GitLab
2 17 (19.77%) Git
3 8 (9.30%) Jenkins
4 7 (8.14%) JIRA
5 5 (5.81%) Yeoman
6 4 (4.65%) JUnit
6 4 (4.65%) Postman
6 4 (4.65%) SpecFlow
7 3 (3.49%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.33%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.33%) JMeter
8 2 (2.33%) Mocha
8 2 (2.33%) Mockito
8 2 (2.33%) Selenium
9 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.16%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.16%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 35 (40.70%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.79%) Law
3 11 (12.79%) Manufacturing
4 10 (11.63%) Finance
4 10 (11.63%) Telecoms
5 9 (10.47%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.98%) Games
7 5 (5.81%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.65%) Retail
9 3 (3.49%) Banking
10 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 25 (29.07%) Software Engineer
2 18 (20.93%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (17.44%) Lead
4 13 (15.12%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (13.95%) Architect
5 12 (13.95%) Lead Software Engineer
6 11 (12.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 10 (11.63%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (11.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (11.63%) Network Engineer
7 10 (11.63%) Telecoms Engineer
8 8 (9.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Automation Specialist
9 6 (6.98%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Network Specialist
9 6 (6.98%) Telecoms Specialist
10 5 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Senior
10 5 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (4.65%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (26.74%) REST
2 18 (20.93%) JSON
3 15 (17.44%) .NET
4 14 (16.28%) React
5 12 (13.95%) YAML
6 10 (11.63%) Jinja
7 9 (10.47%) AngularJS
7 9 (10.47%) Django
7 9 (10.47%) XML
8 8 (9.30%) RESTful
9 7 (8.14%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (6.98%) Spring
10 6 (6.98%) Web Services
11 5 (5.81%) HTML
11 5 (5.81%) Kafka
11 5 (5.81%) OAuth
11 5 (5.81%) OAuth2
11 5 (5.81%) Spring Boot
11 5 (5.81%) Twisted
11 5 (5.81%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.60%) Cloud Native
2 13 (15.12%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (15.12%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (12.79%) Product Ownership
4 7 (8.14%) Onboarding
5 6 (6.98%) Life Science
6 5 (5.81%) Public Cloud
6 5 (5.81%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (4.65%) Contactless
7 4 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (4.65%) Private Cloud
7 4 (4.65%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (3.49%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (3.49%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (1.16%) IoT
10 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (30.23%) Linux
2 6 (6.98%) Unix
2 6 (6.98%) Windows
3 3 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.16%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (56.98%) Agile
2 48 (55.81%) CI/CD
3 39 (45.35%) Software Engineering
4 32 (37.21%) Test Automation
5 30 (34.88%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (33.72%) DevOps
7 23 (26.74%) Microservices
8 20 (23.26%) AI
9 18 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (19.77%) Event-Driven
11 16 (18.60%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (18.60%) High Availability
12 15 (17.44%) Architectural Patterns
12 15 (17.44%) Integration Testing
12 15 (17.44%) Load Balancing
13 14 (16.28%) Mentoring
13 14 (16.28%) Task Automation
14 13 (15.12%) Computer Science
14 13 (15.12%) TDD
15 12 (13.95%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 41 (47.67%) Python
2 19 (22.09%) C#
3 15 (17.44%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.28%) PowerShell
5 13 (15.12%) Java
6 12 (13.95%) TypeScript
7 11 (12.79%) SQL
8 7 (8.14%) C++
9 4 (4.65%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.49%) Bash
10 3 (3.49%) Groovy
10 3 (3.49%) Perl
11 1 (1.16%) C
11 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.60%) Degree
3 14 (16.28%) SC Cleared
4 11 (12.79%) Azure Certification
5 7 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (6.98%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.65%) Master's Degree
8 3 (3.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.60%) QA
2 3 (3.49%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (51.16%) Docker
2 9 (10.47%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.98%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (3.49%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.16%) KVM
Systems Management
1 40 (46.51%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.79%) Terraform
3 9 (10.47%) Ansible
4 3 (3.49%) Grafana
4 3 (3.49%) Kibana
4 3 (3.49%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.33%) Packer
6 1 (1.16%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (11.63%) Cisco
1 10 (11.63%) Red Hat
2 8 (9.30%) Oracle
3 5 (5.81%) F5
3 5 (5.81%) Juniper
3 5 (5.81%) Palo Alto
4 4 (4.65%) AppDynamics
4 4 (4.65%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.65%) VMware
5 3 (3.49%) Google
5 3 (3.49%) IBM
5 3 (3.49%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.33%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.33%) Splunk
7 1 (1.16%) NVIDIA