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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 153 137
Rank change year-on-year +18 -16 -13
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 71 53 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.97% 1.38% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.54% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 38 25 42
10th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £84,688 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £94,150 £85,000 £91,400
South East median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year -6.90% +9.43% -1.85%

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 5,211 3,448 4,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.96% 89.91% 82.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,685 1,459 2,058
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,850 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 21 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 21 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
Buckinghamshire +4 25 £71,250 -5.00% 14
Berkshire +22 23 £85,000 +17.24% 25
Oxfordshire -11 23 £57,500 -17.86% 42
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 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 49 (69.01%) AWS
2 37 (52.11%) Azure
3 13 (18.31%) Serverless
4 10 (14.08%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (14.08%) GCP
5 9 (12.68%) SaaS
6 8 (11.27%) Amazon S3
6 8 (11.27%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (11.27%) Azure AKS
6 8 (11.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 8 (11.27%) Azure Key Vault
6 8 (11.27%) Azure Storage
6 8 (11.27%) IaaS
7 7 (9.86%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (5.63%) GitHub
8 4 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.31%) DNS
2 5 (7.04%) Firewall
3 3 (4.23%) DHCP
3 3 (4.23%) RFID
4 2 (2.82%) HTTP
4 2 (2.82%) MQTT
4 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.41%) 2G
5 1 (1.41%) 3GPP
5 1 (1.41%) 4G
5 1 (1.41%) 5G
5 1 (1.41%) Internet
5 1 (1.41%) Network Security
5 1 (1.41%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.63%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.23%) MySQL
4 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.82%) Redis
5 1 (1.41%) GIS
5 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (16.90%) Git
2 11 (15.49%) GitLab
3 7 (9.86%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.63%) JIRA
4 4 (5.63%) JUnit
4 4 (5.63%) Yeoman
5 3 (4.23%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.82%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.82%) JMeter
6 2 (2.82%) MLflow
6 2 (2.82%) Mocha
6 2 (2.82%) Mockito
6 2 (2.82%) Postman
6 2 (2.82%) Selenium
6 2 (2.82%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.41%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.41%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.41%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 23 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.49%) Finance
3 10 (14.08%) Manufacturing
4 9 (12.68%) Public Sector
5 8 (11.27%) Law
6 7 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.63%) Aerospace
7 4 (5.63%) Banking
7 4 (5.63%) Games
7 4 (5.63%) Retail
8 2 (2.82%) Aviation
9 1 (1.41%) Legal
9 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (26.76%) Software Engineer
2 17 (23.94%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (18.31%) Lead
4 12 (16.90%) Architect
5 10 (14.08%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (14.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (12.68%) Lead Software Engineer
7 8 (11.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (9.86%) Senior
9 6 (8.45%) C++ Software Engineer
9 6 (8.45%) Python Engineer
9 6 (8.45%) Python Software Engineer
10 5 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (7.04%) Security Architect
11 4 (5.63%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 4 (5.63%) Developer
11 4 (5.63%) Integration Architect
11 4 (5.63%) Java Developer
11 4 (5.63%) Java Engineer
12 3 (4.23%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.31%) React
1 13 (18.31%) Terraform
2 11 (15.49%) .NET
3 10 (14.08%) REST
4 8 (11.27%) JSON
4 8 (11.27%) RESTful
5 7 (9.86%) AngularJS
5 7 (9.86%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (8.45%) Spring
7 5 (7.04%) HTML
7 5 (7.04%) JWT
7 5 (7.04%) Kafka
7 5 (7.04%) Node.js
7 5 (7.04%) OAuth
7 5 (7.04%) OAuth2
7 5 (7.04%) Spring Boot
8 4 (5.63%) gRPC
8 4 (5.63%) JPA
8 4 (5.63%) SOAP
8 4 (5.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.72%) Cloud Native
2 13 (18.31%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (11.27%) Product Ownership
4 7 (9.86%) Public Cloud
5 6 (8.45%) Life Science
6 4 (5.63%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.63%) Private Cloud
6 4 (5.63%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (4.23%) Contactless
7 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (4.23%) Robotics
7 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (4.23%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.82%) CUDA
8 2 (2.82%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.82%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.13%) Linux
2 4 (5.63%) Debian
3 3 (4.23%) Robot Operating System
3 3 (4.23%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (60.56%) Agile
2 40 (56.34%) CI/CD
3 38 (53.52%) Software Engineering
4 24 (33.80%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (33.80%) Test Automation
5 23 (32.39%) DevOps
6 21 (29.58%) AI
7 17 (23.94%) Microservices
8 15 (21.13%) Computer Science
9 14 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (18.31%) Event-Driven
10 13 (18.31%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (18.31%) Integration Testing
11 12 (16.90%) Architectural Patterns
11 12 (16.90%) Load Balancing
11 12 (16.90%) Machine Learning
11 12 (16.90%) Mentoring
12 11 (15.49%) Code Quality
12 11 (15.49%) Design Patterns
12 11 (15.49%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 29 (40.85%) Python
2 15 (21.13%) C#
2 15 (21.13%) Java
3 11 (15.49%) PowerShell
3 11 (15.49%) SQL
4 8 (11.27%) C++
5 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
5 7 (9.86%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.45%) Bash
7 3 (4.23%) Groovy
7 3 (4.23%) Perl
7 3 (4.23%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.41%) C
8 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 21 (29.58%) Security Cleared
2 20 (28.17%) Degree
3 14 (19.72%) SC Cleared
4 10 (14.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (11.27%) Azure Certification
5 8 (11.27%) Master's Degree
6 4 (5.63%) DV Cleared
6 4 (5.63%) PhD
7 1 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.41%) CCSK
7 1 (1.41%) CCSP
7 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.41%) CISSP
7 1 (1.41%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.72%) QA
2 4 (5.63%) SOC 2
3 3 (4.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.41%) COBIT
5 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.41%) NIST
System Software
1 38 (53.52%) Docker
2 5 (7.04%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.23%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.82%) Lustre
6 1 (1.41%) KVM
Systems Management
1 41 (57.75%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.68%) Ansible
3 3 (4.23%) Grafana
3 3 (4.23%) Kibana
3 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.82%) Argo
4 2 (2.82%) Packer
5 1 (1.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (5.63%) AppDynamics
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
1 4 (5.63%) Oracle
1 4 (5.63%) VMware
2 3 (4.23%) IBM
2 3 (4.23%) NVIDIA
2 3 (4.23%) Thales
3 2 (2.82%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.82%) Splunk