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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 132 135
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 +6
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 42 64 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.17% 1.48% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.75% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 20 41 29
10th Percentile £53,625 £51,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £70,938 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £79,063 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% - -

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 3,094 3,656 3,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.55% 84.45% 93.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,617 1,769 2,224
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £31,613
25th Percentile £34,000 £44,106 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 16 November 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 16 November 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 -7 20 £72,500 +3.57% 17
Buckinghamshire +12 16 £75,000 +15.38% 8
Oxfordshire +22 6 £82,500 +10.00% 15
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 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (85.71%) Azure
2 28 (66.67%) AWS
3 15 (35.71%) GCP
4 13 (30.95%) GitHub
4 13 (30.95%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (26.19%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (4.76%) AWS KMS
7 2 (4.76%) Route 53
8 1 (2.38%) Boomi
8 1 (2.38%) IaaS
8 1 (2.38%) iPaaS
8 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) DNS
1 1 (2.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.76%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.38%) Big Data
3 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.38%) Redis
3 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (66.67%) Git
2 13 (30.95%) Jenkins
3 6 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 5 (11.90%) GitLab
5 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (4.76%) DbUnit
5 2 (4.76%) JIRA
5 2 (4.76%) jMock
5 2 (4.76%) JUnit
5 2 (4.76%) Maven
5 2 (4.76%) Mockito
6 1 (2.38%) MLflow
General
1 23 (54.76%) Social Skills
2 15 (35.71%) Law
3 14 (33.33%) Marketing
4 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.76%) Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Finance
5 2 (4.76%) Games
5 2 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.38%) Automotive
6 1 (2.38%) Aviation
6 1 (2.38%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.38%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.38%) Publishing
6 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (42.86%) Developer
2 16 (38.10%) Senior
3 15 (35.71%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (33.33%) Full-Stack Web Developer
4 14 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 14 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (33.33%) Senior Web Developer
4 14 (33.33%) Web Developer
5 12 (28.57%) Lead
5 12 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Architect
6 4 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Security Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (40.48%) RESTful
2 15 (35.71%) Node.js
2 15 (35.71%) React
3 14 (33.33%) CSS
3 14 (33.33%) HTML
4 6 (14.29%) ARM Templates
5 3 (7.14%) REST
5 3 (7.14%) SOAP
5 3 (7.14%) Spring
5 3 (7.14%) Web Services
6 2 (4.76%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.76%) Hibernate
6 2 (4.76%) JPA
6 2 (4.76%) JSON
6 2 (4.76%) PowerMock
6 2 (4.76%) Spring Batch
6 2 (4.76%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.76%) Spring Integration
6 2 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Onboarding
2 6 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.38%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Linux
2 6 (14.29%) VMS
3 4 (9.52%) Windows
4 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (76.19%) CI/CD
2 29 (69.05%) DevOps
3 25 (59.52%) Agile
4 17 (40.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 16 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (38.10%) Test Automation
6 15 (35.71%) User Experience
7 14 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
7 14 (33.33%) Design Patterns
7 14 (33.33%) UX Design
7 14 (33.33%) Web Development
8 11 (26.19%) Observability
8 11 (26.19%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (23.81%) Resource Management
10 9 (21.43%) RBAC
10 9 (21.43%) Scrum
10 9 (21.43%) Task Automation
11 7 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
11 7 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 12 (28.57%) Python
3 11 (26.19%) Bash
4 10 (23.81%) PowerShell
5 7 (16.67%) Java
6 5 (11.90%) SQL
7 2 (4.76%) C++
8 1 (2.38%) C#
8 1 (2.38%) Groovy
8 1 (2.38%) PHP
8 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (35.71%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) ECSS
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 38 (90.48%) Docker
2 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.52%) vCloud
4 2 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.38%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (30.95%) Terraform
3 5 (11.90%) Ansible
4 4 (9.52%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (9.52%) Rundeck
5 1 (2.38%) Argo
5 1 (2.38%) Grafana
5 1 (2.38%) PingFederate
5 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) VMware
3 2 (4.76%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.38%) Dell
4 1 (2.38%) Epicor
4 1 (2.38%) IBM
4 1 (2.38%) IFS
4 1 (2.38%) Infor
4 1 (2.38%) Informatica
4 1 (2.38%) Jitterbit
4 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle
4 1 (2.38%) Pure Storage
4 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.38%) SAP
4 1 (2.38%) SnapLogic
4 1 (2.38%) Software AG
4 1 (2.38%) Talend
4 1 (2.38%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.38%) Workday