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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 113 182
Rank change year-on-year -18 +69 -40
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 37 52 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.81% 1.78% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.89% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 19 40 35
10th Percentile £44,500 £47,000 £47,250
25th Percentile £55,625 £51,500 £52,455
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £61,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.39% -12.50% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £93,875 £87,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £67,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.09% -0.37% -1.82%

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 3,492 2,752 4,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 76.28% 94.18% 86.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,099 1,198 3,638
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,730 £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 £76,000 £66,708
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,000 £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 6 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 6 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 20 £62,500 -13.79% 12
Buckinghamshire -14 12 £75,000 +25.00% 8
Oxfordshire -4 5 £81,250 +47.73% 10
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 (5.41%) Camunda
2 1 (2.70%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (72.97%) Azure
2 22 (59.46%) AWS
3 10 (27.03%) GCP
4 8 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (21.62%) GitHub
4 8 (21.62%) OpenShift
5 7 (18.92%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (13.51%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (10.81%) Entra ID
8 3 (8.11%) Apigee
8 3 (8.11%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (8.11%) Kong
9 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
9 2 (5.41%) IaaS
9 2 (5.41%) SaaS
9 2 (5.41%) Serverless
10 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.70%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.62%) Firewall
2 4 (10.81%) DNS
3 3 (8.11%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (2.70%) Modbus
4 1 (2.70%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.81%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.41%) MySQL
4 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.70%) Big Data
5 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.70%) Redis
5 1 (2.70%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 18 (48.65%) Git
2 10 (27.03%) GitLab
3 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.81%) MLflow
5 2 (5.41%) JIRA
5 2 (5.41%) JUnit
6 1 (2.70%) Ant
6 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.70%) Gradle
6 1 (2.70%) Maven
6 1 (2.70%) Mockito
6 1 (2.70%) Postman
6 1 (2.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Telecoms
3 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Finance
4 5 (13.51%) Games
5 3 (8.11%) Banking
5 3 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Law
5 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.41%) Automotive
6 2 (5.41%) Aviation
6 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (18.92%) Architect
2 6 (16.22%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Network Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Telecoms Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Lead
3 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Automation Specialist
5 3 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Network Specialist
5 3 (8.11%) Security Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Telecoms Specialist
6 2 (5.41%) Applications Support Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) REST
2 7 (18.92%) JSON
3 6 (16.22%) Jinja
3 6 (16.22%) React
3 6 (16.22%) YAML
4 4 (10.81%) ARM Templates
4 4 (10.81%) XML
5 3 (8.11%) .NET
5 3 (8.11%) Keras
5 3 (8.11%) scikit-learn
5 3 (8.11%) Spring
5 3 (8.11%) TensorFlow
5 3 (8.11%) YANG
6 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
6 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.41%) Kafka
6 2 (5.41%) Node.js
6 2 (5.41%) RESTful
6 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
6 2 (5.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Cloud Native
1 6 (16.22%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (16.22%) Onboarding
2 5 (13.51%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (8.11%) Life Science
4 2 (5.41%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (5.41%) Low-Code
4 2 (5.41%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.70%) IoT
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (29.73%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Unix
3 4 (10.81%) VMS
4 2 (5.41%) Windows
4 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) CI/CD
2 17 (45.95%) DevOps
3 12 (32.43%) Agile
4 10 (27.03%) Software Engineering
4 10 (27.03%) Task Automation
5 9 (24.32%) AI
5 9 (24.32%) Computer Science
5 9 (24.32%) Observability
5 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (21.62%) RBAC
7 7 (18.92%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (18.92%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (16.22%) API Management
8 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (16.22%) Machine Learning
8 6 (16.22%) Microservices
9 5 (13.51%) Decision-Making
9 5 (13.51%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) Python
2 9 (24.32%) SQL
3 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.51%) Bash
4 5 (13.51%) Java
4 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
5 4 (10.81%) C#
5 4 (10.81%) C++
6 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (29.73%) Degree
2 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
3 6 (16.22%) Master's Degree
4 5 (13.51%) DV Cleared
4 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) ECSS
1 2 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (59.46%) Docker
2 6 (16.22%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.81%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.70%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (45.95%) Kubernetes
2 7 (18.92%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Ansible
3 1 (2.70%) Argo
3 1 (2.70%) Grafana
3 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Red Hat
2 6 (16.22%) Cisco
3 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.11%) F5
4 3 (8.11%) Google
4 3 (8.11%) Juniper
4 3 (8.11%) Oracle
4 3 (8.11%) Palo Alto
4 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.70%) Automation Anywhere
5 1 (2.70%) IFS
5 1 (2.70%) Infor
5 1 (2.70%) Jitterbit
5 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.70%) NVIDIA
5 1 (2.70%) Pure Storage
5 1 (2.70%) SnapLogic
5 1 (2.70%) Talend
5 1 (2.70%) UiPath
5 1 (2.70%) Workday