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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 135 150
Rank change year-on-year +31 +15 -21
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 86 58 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.36% 1.61% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 1.77% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 54 28 50
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,875 £83,750
90th Percentile £93,250 £85,000 £86,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £68,750
% change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% -1.79%

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 4,507 3,269 4,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.02% 90.60% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,124 1,426 2,972
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,891 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +29 36 £62,500 -13.79%
Buckinghamshire -1 35 £60,000 -14.29% 5
Oxfordshire -14 15 £70,000 +27.27% 10
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 2 (2.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 60 (69.77%) AWS
2 50 (58.14%) Azure
3 18 (20.93%) GCP
4 15 (17.44%) Serverless
5 12 (13.95%) SaaS
6 11 (12.79%) Azure AKS
6 11 (12.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 11 (12.79%) Azure Key Vault
6 11 (12.79%) Azure Storage
6 11 (12.79%) IaaS
7 10 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (11.63%) OpenShift
8 9 (10.47%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (9.30%) Amazon S3
10 7 (8.14%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (6.98%) GitHub
12 5 (5.81%) Apigee
12 5 (5.81%) Figma
12 5 (5.81%) Kong
13 3 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.60%) DNS
2 15 (17.44%) Firewall
3 5 (5.81%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (4.65%) RFID
5 3 (3.49%) DHCP
5 3 (3.49%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.33%) HTTP
6 2 (2.33%) MQTT
7 1 (1.16%) Internet
7 1 (1.16%) Modbus
7 1 (1.16%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.98%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.65%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.49%) MySQL
5 2 (2.33%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.33%) Redis
6 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.16%) GIS
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.16%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 18 (20.93%) GitLab
2 17 (19.77%) Git
3 8 (9.30%) Jenkins
4 7 (8.14%) JIRA
5 5 (5.81%) Yeoman
6 4 (4.65%) JUnit
6 4 (4.65%) Postman
6 4 (4.65%) SpecFlow
7 3 (3.49%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.33%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.33%) JMeter
8 2 (2.33%) Mocha
8 2 (2.33%) Mockito
8 2 (2.33%) Selenium
9 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.16%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.16%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 36 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.79%) Law
3 11 (12.79%) Telecoms
4 10 (11.63%) Finance
4 10 (11.63%) Manufacturing
5 9 (10.47%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.98%) Games
7 5 (5.81%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.65%) Retail
9 3 (3.49%) Banking
10 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 24 (27.91%) Software Engineer
2 17 (19.77%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (17.44%) Lead
4 13 (15.12%) Architect
4 13 (15.12%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (13.95%) Lead Software Engineer
6 11 (12.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 10 (11.63%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (11.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (11.63%) Network Engineer
7 10 (11.63%) Telecoms Engineer
8 8 (9.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Automation Specialist
9 6 (6.98%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Network Specialist
9 6 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (6.98%) Telecoms Specialist
10 5 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Senior
11 4 (4.65%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (26.74%) REST
2 18 (20.93%) JSON
3 15 (17.44%) .NET
4 14 (16.28%) React
5 12 (13.95%) YAML
6 10 (11.63%) Jinja
7 9 (10.47%) AngularJS
7 9 (10.47%) XML
8 8 (9.30%) Django
8 8 (9.30%) RESTful
9 7 (8.14%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (6.98%) Kafka
10 6 (6.98%) Spring
10 6 (6.98%) Web Services
11 5 (5.81%) HTML
11 5 (5.81%) OAuth
11 5 (5.81%) OAuth2
11 5 (5.81%) Spring Boot
11 5 (5.81%) Twisted
11 5 (5.81%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.77%) Cloud Native
2 13 (15.12%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (15.12%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (12.79%) Product Ownership
4 7 (8.14%) Onboarding
5 6 (6.98%) Life Science
6 5 (5.81%) Public Cloud
6 5 (5.81%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (4.65%) Contactless
7 4 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (4.65%) Private Cloud
7 4 (4.65%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (3.49%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (3.49%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (1.16%) Low-Code
10 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (30.23%) Linux
2 6 (6.98%) Unix
2 6 (6.98%) Windows
3 3 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.16%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (55.81%) Agile
1 48 (55.81%) CI/CD
2 38 (44.19%) Software Engineering
3 32 (37.21%) Test Automation
4 29 (33.72%) DevOps
4 29 (33.72%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (26.74%) Microservices
6 20 (23.26%) AI
7 18 (20.93%) Event-Driven
7 18 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (18.60%) High Availability
9 15 (17.44%) Architectural Patterns
9 15 (17.44%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (17.44%) Integration Testing
9 15 (17.44%) Load Balancing
10 14 (16.28%) Computer Science
10 14 (16.28%) Mentoring
10 14 (16.28%) Task Automation
11 13 (15.12%) TDD
12 12 (13.95%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 41 (47.67%) Python
2 18 (20.93%) C#
3 15 (17.44%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.28%) PowerShell
5 13 (15.12%) Java
6 11 (12.79%) SQL
6 11 (12.79%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.98%) C++
8 4 (4.65%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.49%) Bash
9 3 (3.49%) Groovy
9 3 (3.49%) Perl
10 1 (1.16%) C
10 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.77%) Degree
3 14 (16.28%) SC Cleared
4 11 (12.79%) Azure Certification
5 7 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (6.98%) DV Cleared
7 5 (5.81%) Master's Degree
8 3 (3.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.60%) QA
2 3 (3.49%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 43 (50.00%) Docker
2 9 (10.47%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.98%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (3.49%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.16%) KVM
Systems Management
1 39 (45.35%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.79%) Terraform
3 9 (10.47%) Ansible
4 3 (3.49%) Grafana
4 3 (3.49%) Kibana
4 3 (3.49%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.33%) Packer
6 1 (1.16%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (11.63%) Cisco
1 10 (11.63%) Red Hat
2 8 (9.30%) Oracle
3 5 (5.81%) F5
3 5 (5.81%) Juniper
3 5 (5.81%) Palo Alto
4 4 (4.65%) AppDynamics
4 4 (4.65%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.65%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.65%) VMware
5 3 (3.49%) Google
5 3 (3.49%) IBM
6 2 (2.33%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.33%) Splunk
7 1 (1.16%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (1.16%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.16%) Pega
7 1 (1.16%) UiPath