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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 137 130
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 +17
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 52 60 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.37% 1.38% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.64% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 24 36 27
10th Percentile £52,875 £53,750 £48,500
25th Percentile £68,750 £57,188 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £79,063 £85,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £94,375 £83,000
South East median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +8.00%

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 3,417 3,652 3,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 89.94% 83.88% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,510 1,766 2,178
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £56,252 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.23% +2.28% -3.51%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

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 26 October 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 26 October 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 -4 24 £72,500 -4.92% 90
Buckinghamshire +6 21 £75,000 +15.38% 11
Oxfordshire +12 7 £76,250 +1.67% 20
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 9 (17.31%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (80.77%) Azure
2 37 (71.15%) AWS
3 22 (42.31%) GCP
4 11 (21.15%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (21.15%) GitHub
4 11 (21.15%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (11.54%) Amazon S3
5 6 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (11.54%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (11.54%) Entra ID
6 5 (9.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (9.62%) AWS KMS
6 5 (9.62%) Route 53
7 1 (1.92%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.92%) Boomi
7 1 (1.92%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.92%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) DNS
1 1 (1.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.54%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (11.54%) SQL Server
3 5 (9.62%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.92%) Big Data
5 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.92%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (57.69%) Git
2 17 (32.69%) Jenkins
3 16 (30.77%) SonarQube
4 12 (23.08%) Maven
5 9 (17.31%) GitLab
5 9 (17.31%) JIRA
6 6 (11.54%) Bitbucket
6 6 (11.54%) Cucumber
6 6 (11.54%) JUnit
6 6 (11.54%) Mockito
6 6 (11.54%) Selenium
6 6 (11.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (9.62%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (9.62%) DbUnit
7 5 (9.62%) jMock
8 2 (3.85%) MLflow
General
1 22 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.85%) Law
3 14 (26.92%) Marketing
4 7 (13.46%) Banking
4 7 (13.46%) Finance
4 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
5 6 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.92%) Games
7 1 (1.92%) Legal
7 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (42.31%) Developer
2 16 (30.77%) Senior
3 15 (28.85%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (28.85%) Lead
3 15 (28.85%) Senior Developer
4 14 (26.92%) Full-Stack Web Developer
4 14 (26.92%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (26.92%) Senior Web Developer
4 14 (26.92%) Web Developer
5 12 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (13.46%) Java Developer
6 7 (13.46%) Software Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Lead Developer
7 5 (9.62%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Architect
8 4 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Python Engineer
10 1 (1.92%) DevOps Automation Engineer
10 1 (1.92%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
10 1 (1.92%) Platform Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (40.38%) React
2 20 (38.46%) CSS
2 20 (38.46%) HTML
2 20 (38.46%) RESTful
3 15 (28.85%) Node.js
4 13 (25.00%) Spring
5 12 (23.08%) JPA
5 12 (23.08%) Spring Boot
6 11 (21.15%) Hibernate
7 7 (13.46%) AngularJS
7 7 (13.46%) Kafka
7 7 (13.46%) REST
7 7 (13.46%) SOAP
8 6 (11.54%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (11.54%) ARM Templates
8 6 (11.54%) Bootstrap
8 6 (11.54%) Redux
8 6 (11.54%) Web Services
9 5 (9.62%) Spring Batch
9 5 (9.62%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Onboarding
2 6 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.54%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (11.54%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.77%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.92%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.15%) Linux
2 6 (11.54%) VMS
3 4 (7.69%) Windows
4 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 38 (73.08%) DevOps
3 33 (63.46%) Agile
4 23 (44.23%) Test Automation
5 21 (40.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (28.85%) Microservices
7 15 (28.85%) User Experience
8 14 (26.92%) Customer Engagement
8 14 (26.92%) Design Patterns
8 14 (26.92%) UX Design
8 14 (26.92%) Web Development
9 13 (25.00%) TDD
10 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (21.15%) Observability
10 11 (21.15%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (21.15%) Scrum
11 10 (19.23%) Resource Management
12 9 (17.31%) Software Engineering
12 9 (17.31%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (40.38%) JavaScript
2 16 (30.77%) Java
3 12 (23.08%) Python
3 12 (23.08%) SQL
4 11 (21.15%) Bash
5 10 (19.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.92%) C#
6 1 (1.92%) Groovy
6 1 (1.92%) PHP
6 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (42.31%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (90.38%) Docker
2 6 (11.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.69%) vCloud
4 1 (1.92%) Postfix
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.92%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (78.85%) Kubernetes
2 13 (25.00%) Terraform
3 5 (9.62%) Ansible
4 4 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (7.69%) Grafana
4 4 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 4 (7.69%) Rundeck
5 1 (1.92%) Argo
5 1 (1.92%) PingFederate
5 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) Solace
3 5 (9.62%) Atlassian
3 5 (9.62%) VMware
4 2 (3.85%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.92%) Databricks
5 1 (1.92%) Dell
5 1 (1.92%) Epicor
5 1 (1.92%) IFS
5 1 (1.92%) Infor
5 1 (1.92%) Informatica
5 1 (1.92%) Jitterbit
5 1 (1.92%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.92%) Pure Storage
5 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.92%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.92%) Software AG
5 1 (1.92%) Talend
5 1 (1.92%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.92%) Workday