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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 155 117
Rank change year-on-year +34 -38 -3
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 75 53 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.05% 1.34% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.49% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 41 24 45
10th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £73,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% +13.46% -13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £86,000
South East median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -7.14%

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 5,044 3,557 3,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.33% 90.14% 81.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,587 1,482 2,129
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,397 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -
75th Percentile £70,063 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,625 £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 14 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 14 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 +2 27 £71,250 -5.00% 15
Berkshire +21 26 £88,750 +22.41% 27
Oxfordshire -13 22 £57,500 -17.86% 41
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 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 51 (68.00%) AWS
2 39 (52.00%) Azure
3 14 (18.67%) Serverless
4 12 (16.00%) GCP
5 10 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (13.33%) SaaS
6 9 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (12.00%) Azure AKS
6 9 (12.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 9 (12.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 9 (12.00%) Azure Storage
6 9 (12.00%) IaaS
7 8 (10.67%) Amazon S3
8 7 (9.33%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (8.00%) GitHub
10 4 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (2.67%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.67%) DNS
2 5 (6.67%) Firewall
3 4 (5.33%) RFID
4 3 (4.00%) DHCP
5 2 (2.67%) HTTP
5 2 (2.67%) MQTT
5 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.33%) 2G
6 1 (1.33%) 3GPP
6 1 (1.33%) 4G
6 1 (1.33%) 5G
6 1 (1.33%) Internet
6 1 (1.33%) Network Security
6 1 (1.33%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.00%) MySQL
4 2 (2.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.67%) Redis
4 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.33%) GIS
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (17.33%) Git
2 11 (14.67%) GitLab
3 7 (9.33%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.33%) JIRA
4 4 (5.33%) JUnit
4 4 (5.33%) Yeoman
5 3 (4.00%) Postman
5 3 (4.00%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.00%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.67%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.67%) JMeter
6 2 (2.67%) MLflow
6 2 (2.67%) Mocha
6 2 (2.67%) Mockito
6 2 (2.67%) Selenium
7 1 (1.33%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.33%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.33%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 25 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.00%) Finance
3 10 (13.33%) Manufacturing
4 9 (12.00%) Law
4 9 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 7 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.67%) Retail
7 4 (5.33%) Aerospace
7 4 (5.33%) Banking
7 4 (5.33%) Games
8 2 (2.67%) Aviation
9 1 (1.33%) Legal
9 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Software Engineer
2 18 (24.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (18.67%) Lead
4 13 (17.33%) Architect
5 11 (14.67%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (13.33%) Lead Software Engineer
7 9 (12.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (9.33%) Senior
9 5 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) C++ Software Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) Python Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) Python Software Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) Security Architect
10 4 (5.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Developer
10 4 (5.33%) Integration Architect
10 4 (5.33%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.67%) React
2 13 (17.33%) REST
2 13 (17.33%) Terraform
3 12 (16.00%) .NET
4 8 (10.67%) AngularJS
4 8 (10.67%) JSON
4 8 (10.67%) RESTful
5 7 (9.33%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (8.00%) Django
6 6 (8.00%) Spring
7 5 (6.67%) HTML
7 5 (6.67%) JWT
7 5 (6.67%) Kafka
7 5 (6.67%) Node.js
7 5 (6.67%) OAuth
7 5 (6.67%) OAuth2
7 5 (6.67%) Spring Boot
8 4 (5.33%) gRPC
8 4 (5.33%) SOAP
8 4 (5.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.67%) Cloud Native
2 13 (17.33%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (13.33%) Product Ownership
4 7 (9.33%) Public Cloud
5 6 (8.00%) Life Science
6 5 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (5.33%) Contactless
7 4 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (5.33%) Onboarding
7 4 (5.33%) Private Cloud
7 4 (5.33%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (4.00%) Robotics
8 3 (4.00%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.67%) Algorithms
9 2 (2.67%) CUDA
9 2 (2.67%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.67%) Synthetic Data
9 2 (2.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.67%) Linux
2 4 (5.33%) Debian
3 3 (4.00%) Robot Operating System
3 3 (4.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (60.00%) Agile
2 40 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 40 (53.33%) Software Engineering
3 27 (36.00%) Test Automation
4 24 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (30.67%) DevOps
6 22 (29.33%) AI
7 18 (24.00%) Microservices
8 15 (20.00%) Computer Science
9 14 (18.67%) Architectural Patterns
9 14 (18.67%) Event-Driven
9 14 (18.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 14 (18.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (18.67%) Integration Testing
10 13 (17.33%) Code Quality
10 13 (17.33%) Load Balancing
10 13 (17.33%) Mentoring
11 12 (16.00%) Machine Learning
11 12 (16.00%) TDD
12 11 (14.67%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 30 (40.00%) Python
2 16 (21.33%) C#
3 14 (18.67%) Java
4 12 (16.00%) PowerShell
5 10 (13.33%) SQL
6 9 (12.00%) TypeScript
7 8 (10.67%) JavaScript
8 7 (9.33%) C++
9 6 (8.00%) Bash
10 3 (4.00%) Groovy
10 3 (4.00%) Perl
10 3 (4.00%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.33%) C
11 1 (1.33%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 21 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.33%) Degree
3 14 (18.67%) SC Cleared
4 10 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (12.00%) Azure Certification
6 7 (9.33%) Master's Degree
7 4 (5.33%) DV Cleared
8 3 (4.00%) PhD
9 1 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.33%) CCSK
9 1 (1.33%) CCSP
9 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.33%) CISSP
9 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (21.33%) QA
2 4 (5.33%) SOC 2
3 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.33%) COBIT
5 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.33%) NIST
System Software
1 40 (53.33%) Docker
2 7 (9.33%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.67%) Lustre
6 1 (1.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 41 (54.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.00%) Ansible
3 3 (4.00%) Grafana
3 3 (4.00%) Kibana
3 3 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.67%) Argo
4 2 (2.67%) Packer
5 1 (1.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (6.67%) Oracle
2 4 (5.33%) AppDynamics
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.33%) VMware
3 3 (4.00%) IBM
3 3 (4.00%) NVIDIA
3 3 (4.00%) Thales
4 2 (2.67%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.67%) Splunk