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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 125 132
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 41 70 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.07% 1.77% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 2.01% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 16 47 28
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,500 £48,875
25th Percentile £71,875 £56,250 £58,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +1.69%
75th Percentile £79,063 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £94,250 £82,500
South East median annual salary £75,000 £66,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year +13.21% -1.85% +3.85%

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 3,185 3,478 3,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.38% 87.96% 93.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,701 1,709 2,163
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,763
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.00% -0.43%

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 11 December 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 11 December 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 -9 20 £62,500 -10.71% 26
Buckinghamshire +9 17 £75,000 +25.00% 6
Oxfordshire +17 4 £82,500 +10.00% 13
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 1 (2.44%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.44%) Camunda
1 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (87.80%) Azure
2 27 (65.85%) AWS
3 16 (39.02%) GCP
4 13 (31.71%) GitHub
4 13 (31.71%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (29.27%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (14.63%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (14.63%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.44%) Boomi
8 1 (2.44%) IaaS
8 1 (2.44%) iPaaS
8 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.44%) Serverless
8 1 (2.44%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) DNS
1 1 (2.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) Relational Database
2 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.88%) MySQL
4 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.44%) Big Data
4 1 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (70.73%) Git
2 12 (29.27%) Jenkins
3 5 (12.20%) GitLab
4 4 (9.76%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.88%) JUnit
5 2 (4.88%) MLflow
6 1 (2.44%) Ant
6 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.44%) Gradle
6 1 (2.44%) Maven
6 1 (2.44%) Mockito
General
1 23 (56.10%) Social Skills
2 15 (36.59%) Law
3 14 (34.15%) Marketing
4 2 (4.88%) Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Finance
4 2 (4.88%) Games
4 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Automotive
5 1 (2.44%) Aviation
5 1 (2.44%) Legal
5 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) Developer
2 17 (41.46%) Senior
3 16 (39.02%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (34.15%) Full-Stack Web Developer
4 14 (34.15%) Senior Developer
4 14 (34.15%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (34.15%) Senior Web Developer
4 14 (34.15%) Web Developer
5 12 (29.27%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (24.39%) Lead
7 4 (9.76%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (7.32%) Architect
9 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Java Developer
9 2 (4.88%) Security Architect
9 2 (4.88%) Software Engineer
10 1 (2.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 1 (2.44%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 1 (2.44%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (41.46%) React
2 16 (39.02%) CSS
2 16 (39.02%) Node.js
2 16 (39.02%) RESTful
3 15 (36.59%) HTML
4 6 (14.63%) ARM Templates
5 3 (7.32%) REST
5 3 (7.32%) Spring
6 2 (4.88%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.44%) Kafka
7 1 (2.44%) Keras
7 1 (2.44%) Mustache
7 1 (2.44%) Next.js
7 1 (2.44%) Nightwatchjs
7 1 (2.44%) Sequelize
7 1 (2.44%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
7 1 (2.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (24.39%) Onboarding
2 6 (14.63%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (12.20%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Life Science
4 1 (2.44%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Linux
1 6 (14.63%) VMS
2 4 (9.76%) Windows
3 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (82.93%) CI/CD
2 30 (73.17%) DevOps
3 24 (58.54%) Agile
4 18 (43.90%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (41.46%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (36.59%) Test Automation
6 15 (36.59%) User Experience
7 14 (34.15%) Customer Engagement
7 14 (34.15%) Design Patterns
7 14 (34.15%) UX Design
7 14 (34.15%) Web Development
8 12 (29.27%) Observability
9 11 (26.83%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (24.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (24.39%) Resource Management
11 9 (21.95%) RBAC
11 9 (21.95%) Task Automation
12 7 (17.07%) Network Virtualisation
12 7 (17.07%) Scrum
13 6 (14.63%) Matrix Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) JavaScript
2 11 (26.83%) Bash
2 11 (26.83%) Python
3 10 (24.39%) PowerShell
4 5 (12.20%) Java
4 5 (12.20%) SQL
5 2 (4.88%) C++
6 1 (2.44%) C#
6 1 (2.44%) Go
6 1 (2.44%) Groovy
6 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Degree
1 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (36.59%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) ECSS
3 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (92.68%) Docker
2 6 (14.63%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.76%) vCloud
4 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (87.80%) Kubernetes
2 13 (31.71%) Terraform
3 5 (12.20%) Ansible
4 4 (9.76%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (9.76%) Rundeck
5 1 (2.44%) Argo
5 1 (2.44%) Grafana
5 1 (2.44%) PingFederate
5 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) VMware
3 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.44%) Dell
4 1 (2.44%) Epicor
4 1 (2.44%) IBM
4 1 (2.44%) IFS
4 1 (2.44%) Infor
4 1 (2.44%) Informatica
4 1 (2.44%) Jitterbit
4 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) Pure Storage
4 1 (2.44%) SAP
4 1 (2.44%) SnapLogic
4 1 (2.44%) Software AG
4 1 (2.44%) Talend
4 1 (2.44%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.44%) Workday