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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 144 167
Rank change year-on-year +54 +23 -14
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 79 40 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.39% 1.18% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.26% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 56 23 52
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,000 £37,625
25th Percentile £56,875 £50,625 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £62,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -1.96% -14.43%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £83,500 £87,350
South East median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%

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 4,083 3,177 5,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.06% 93.50% 83.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,807 1,193 3,940
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,640 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +34 36 £62,500 -13.79% 5
Buckinghamshire +16 35 £60,000 +11.63% 5
Oxfordshire -9 8 £70,000 +27.27% 6
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 (1.27%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.27%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 54 (68.35%) AWS
2 48 (60.76%) Azure
3 18 (22.78%) GCP
4 13 (16.46%) Serverless
5 12 (15.19%) SaaS
6 11 (13.92%) Azure AKS
6 11 (13.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 11 (13.92%) Azure Key Vault
6 11 (13.92%) Azure Storage
6 11 (13.92%) IaaS
7 10 (12.66%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (12.66%) OpenShift
8 8 (10.13%) Amazon S3
9 7 (8.86%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (7.59%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (6.33%) Apigee
11 5 (6.33%) Figma
11 5 (6.33%) GitHub
11 5 (6.33%) Kong
12 3 (3.80%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 18 (22.78%) DNS
2 17 (21.52%) Firewall
3 5 (6.33%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (5.06%) RFID
5 3 (3.80%) DHCP
6 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.27%) HTTP
7 1 (1.27%) Internet
7 1 (1.27%) Modbus
7 1 (1.27%) MQTT
7 1 (1.27%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.53%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.53%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.27%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 19 (24.05%) Git
2 17 (21.52%) GitLab
3 7 (8.86%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.33%) JIRA
4 5 (6.33%) Yeoman
5 4 (5.06%) JUnit
5 4 (5.06%) Postman
5 4 (5.06%) SpecFlow
6 3 (3.80%) MLflow
6 3 (3.80%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.53%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.53%) JMeter
7 2 (2.53%) Mockito
8 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
General
1 33 (41.77%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (15.19%) Law
3 12 (15.19%) Telecoms
4 10 (12.66%) Finance
5 8 (10.13%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.06%) Games
7 4 (5.06%) Manufacturing
7 4 (5.06%) Retail
8 1 (1.27%) Automotive
8 1 (1.27%) Aviation
8 1 (1.27%) Banking
8 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (21.52%) Software Engineer
2 15 (18.99%) Lead
3 14 (17.72%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (15.19%) Architect
4 12 (15.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (15.19%) Lead Software Engineer
5 11 (13.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 11 (13.92%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (12.66%) Automation Engineer
6 10 (12.66%) Network Engineer
6 10 (12.66%) Telecoms Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Automation Specialist
7 6 (7.59%) Network Specialist
7 6 (7.59%) Senior
7 6 (7.59%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (7.59%) Telecoms Specialist
8 5 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.85%) REST
2 17 (21.52%) JSON
3 14 (17.72%) .NET
4 12 (15.19%) React
4 12 (15.19%) YAML
5 10 (12.66%) Jinja
6 9 (11.39%) AngularJS
6 9 (11.39%) XML
7 7 (8.86%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (8.86%) RESTful
8 6 (7.59%) Web Services
9 5 (6.33%) Django
9 5 (6.33%) Kafka
9 5 (6.33%) Spring
9 5 (6.33%) Twisted
9 5 (6.33%) WebSockets
9 5 (6.33%) YANG
10 4 (5.06%) .NET Framework
10 4 (5.06%) Middleware
10 4 (5.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.78%) Cloud Native
2 13 (16.46%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (13.92%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (11.39%) Product Ownership
5 8 (10.13%) Life Science
6 7 (8.86%) Onboarding
7 5 (6.33%) Public Cloud
7 5 (6.33%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (5.06%) Contactless
8 4 (5.06%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (5.06%) Private Cloud
9 3 (3.80%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (3.80%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (3.80%) Virtual Team
10 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
11 1 (1.27%) IoT
11 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
11 1 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (32.91%) Linux
2 6 (7.59%) Unix
2 6 (7.59%) Windows
3 3 (3.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (58.23%) CI/CD
2 42 (53.16%) Agile
3 32 (40.51%) Software Engineering
4 29 (36.71%) DevOps
5 28 (35.44%) Test Automation
6 22 (27.85%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (26.58%) Microservices
8 19 (24.05%) AI
9 18 (22.78%) Event-Driven
10 17 (21.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (20.25%) High Availability
12 15 (18.99%) Computer Science
12 15 (18.99%) Load Balancing
13 14 (17.72%) Integration Testing
13 14 (17.72%) Mentoring
14 13 (16.46%) Architectural Patterns
14 13 (16.46%) Task Automation
15 11 (13.92%) BDD
15 11 (13.92%) Root Cause Analysis
15 11 (13.92%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 37 (46.84%) Python
2 14 (17.72%) C#
2 14 (17.72%) PowerShell
3 13 (16.46%) JavaScript
4 10 (12.66%) Java
4 10 (12.66%) SQL
5 5 (6.33%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.06%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.80%) Bash
7 3 (3.80%) Groovy
7 3 (3.80%) Perl
8 2 (2.53%) C++
9 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (22.78%) Security Cleared
2 17 (21.52%) Degree
3 12 (15.19%) SC Cleared
4 11 (13.92%) Azure Certification
5 7 (8.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (7.59%) Master's Degree
7 4 (5.06%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.72%) QA
2 3 (3.80%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (45.57%) Docker
2 6 (7.59%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.59%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.80%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (43.04%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.66%) Terraform
3 9 (11.39%) Ansible
4 3 (3.80%) Grafana
4 3 (3.80%) Kibana
4 3 (3.80%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.53%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (12.66%) Cisco
1 10 (12.66%) Red Hat
2 8 (10.13%) Oracle
3 5 (6.33%) F5
3 5 (6.33%) Juniper
3 5 (6.33%) Palo Alto
4 4 (5.06%) AppDynamics
4 4 (5.06%) Google
4 4 (5.06%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.06%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.80%) IBM
5 3 (3.80%) VMware
6 2 (2.53%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.53%) Splunk
7 1 (1.27%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (1.27%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.27%) Pega
7 1 (1.27%) UiPath