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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 113 181
Rank change year-on-year -12 +68 -34
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 42 47 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.90% 1.67% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.77% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 23 38 38
10th Percentile £39,250 £47,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -20.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -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 3,500 2,651 5,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 75.41% 94.07% 86.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,169 1,192 3,844
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,900 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -7 26 £62,500 -13.79% 9
Buckinghamshire -3 12 £67,000 +11.67% 9
Oxfordshire -7 4 £81,250 +47.73% 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 (4.76%) Camunda
2 1 (2.38%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.38%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (69.05%) Azure
2 27 (64.29%) AWS
3 12 (28.57%) GCP
3 12 (28.57%) OpenShift
4 8 (19.05%) GitHub
5 6 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (11.90%) Apigee
6 5 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (11.90%) Kong
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (7.14%) Figma
7 3 (7.14%) SaaS
8 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.76%) IaaS
8 2 (4.76%) Serverless
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Storage
9 1 (2.38%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 12 (28.57%) Firewall
2 5 (11.90%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (9.52%) DNS
4 1 (2.38%) Modbus
4 1 (2.38%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.76%) MySQL
3 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.38%) Redis
4 1 (2.38%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 20 (47.62%) Git
2 14 (33.33%) GitLab
3 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
4 3 (7.14%) JIRA
4 3 (7.14%) MLflow
5 2 (4.76%) JUnit
6 1 (2.38%) Ant
6 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.38%) Gradle
6 1 (2.38%) Maven
6 1 (2.38%) Mockito
6 1 (2.38%) Postman
6 1 (2.38%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.38%) Yeoman
General
1 23 (54.76%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.95%) Telecoms
3 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (14.29%) Games
5 5 (11.90%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (11.90%) Finance
6 3 (7.14%) Banking
6 3 (7.14%) Law
6 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.76%) Automotive
7 2 (4.76%) Aviation
8 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.38%) Legal
8 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Automation Engineer
1 10 (23.81%) Network Engineer
1 10 (23.81%) Telecoms Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Architect
2 7 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Automation Specialist
3 6 (14.29%) Network Specialist
3 6 (14.29%) Telecoms Specialist
4 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Senior
5 4 (9.52%) Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Lead
5 4 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Applications Support
6 3 (7.14%) Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Security Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (28.57%) REST
2 11 (26.19%) JSON
3 10 (23.81%) Jinja
3 10 (23.81%) YAML
4 8 (19.05%) React
5 6 (14.29%) XML
6 5 (11.90%) YANG
7 4 (9.52%) .NET
7 4 (9.52%) Web Services
8 3 (7.14%) Django
8 3 (7.14%) Keras
8 3 (7.14%) scikit-learn
8 3 (7.14%) Spring
8 3 (7.14%) TensorFlow
8 3 (7.14%) Twisted
8 3 (7.14%) WebSockets
9 2 (4.76%) .NET Core
9 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
9 2 (4.76%) Kafka
9 2 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 5 (11.90%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (11.90%) Onboarding
4 3 (7.14%) Life Science
4 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (4.76%) Low-Code
5 2 (4.76%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.38%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (38.10%) Linux
2 7 (16.67%) Unix
3 3 (7.14%) Windows
3 3 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 17 (40.48%) DevOps
3 13 (30.95%) Software Engineering
4 12 (28.57%) Agile
4 12 (28.57%) Task Automation
5 10 (23.81%) AI
5 10 (23.81%) API Management
5 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (21.43%) Computer Science
7 8 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (19.05%) Microservices
8 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (16.67%) Observability
9 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 6 (14.29%) RBAC
9 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 5 (11.90%) API Integration
10 5 (11.90%) High Availability
10 5 (11.90%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 28 (66.67%) Python
2 12 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 10 (23.81%) SQL
4 5 (11.90%) C#
4 5 (11.90%) Java
5 4 (9.52%) C++
5 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.14%) Bash
6 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.38%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Degree
1 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.90%) Master's Degree
4 3 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) ECSS
3 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
3 1 (2.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (52.38%) Docker
2 6 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (11.90%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.38%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (2.38%) Ansible
3 1 (2.38%) Argo
3 1 (2.38%) Grafana
3 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 10 (23.81%) Cisco
3 5 (11.90%) F5
3 5 (11.90%) Juniper
3 5 (11.90%) Palo Alto
4 4 (9.52%) Google
4 4 (9.52%) Oracle
4 4 (9.52%) ServiceNow
5 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.38%) Dell
6 1 (2.38%) Epicor
6 1 (2.38%) IBM
6 1 (2.38%) Infor
6 1 (2.38%) Informatica
6 1 (2.38%) Pega
6 1 (2.38%) SAP
6 1 (2.38%) SnapLogic
6 1 (2.38%) Software AG
6 1 (2.38%) TIBCO
6 1 (2.38%) VMware