Containerisation Contracts in the North of England

Containerization
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Containerisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Containerisation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 146 144
Rank change year-on-year +45 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 86 66 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.84% 1.16% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 1.28% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 46 81
10th Percentile £440 £450 £450
25th Percentile £456 £518 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +28.55%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £650
90th Percentile £694 £842 £700
England median daily rate £575 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - £46.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £47.38
75th Percentile £72.50 - £48.56
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £58.75 £72.00 £48.74
% change year-on-year -18.40% +47.72% +21.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Containerisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,003 5,154 6,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.61% 90.64% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,440 3,571 4,590
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 201 250
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.75 £12.84
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.57
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the North of England

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the North of England

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the North of England

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in the North of England

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +17 51 £524 -10.85% 19
Yorkshire +46 34 £538 +7.50% 26
North East +4 1 £525 -38.03% 2
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (11.63%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (8.14%) Apache
2 7 (8.14%) Apache Spark
2 7 (8.14%) nginx
3 6 (6.98%) Confluence
4 3 (3.49%) Jupyter
5 2 (2.33%) Traefik
6 1 (1.16%) CMS
6 1 (1.16%) Drupal
6 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.16%) SharePoint 2013
Cloud Services
1 62 (72.09%) AWS
2 26 (30.23%) Azure
3 25 (29.07%) Amazon EC2
3 25 (29.07%) Amazon S3
4 20 (23.26%) GCP
5 19 (22.09%) Serverless
6 16 (18.60%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (17.44%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (16.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (15.12%) GitHub
10 11 (12.79%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (10.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (9.30%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (9.30%) Route 53
13 8 (9.30%) Snowflake
14 6 (6.98%) Apigee
14 6 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (6.98%) Kong
15 5 (5.81%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.12%) Firewall
2 10 (11.63%) VPN
3 8 (9.30%) DNS
3 8 (9.30%) TCP/IP
4 6 (6.98%) HTTP
4 6 (6.98%) Network Security
5 5 (5.81%) FTP
6 2 (2.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.28%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (15.12%) NoSQL
3 9 (10.47%) MySQL
4 7 (8.14%) Big Data
4 7 (8.14%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (6.98%) Data Lake
5 6 (6.98%) Relational Database
6 5 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.65%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (4.65%) BigQuery
7 4 (4.65%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.49%) ClickHouse
8 3 (3.49%) DB2
8 3 (3.49%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.33%) GIS
9 2 (2.33%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.33%) InterSystems Cache
9 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (40.70%) Git
2 34 (39.53%) GitLab
3 31 (36.05%) Jenkins
4 11 (12.79%) JIRA
5 8 (9.30%) SonarQube
5 8 (9.30%) webpack
6 7 (8.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (8.14%) Travis CI
7 6 (6.98%) CircleCI
8 4 (4.65%) AppScan
8 4 (4.65%) Burp Suite
9 2 (2.33%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.33%) JUnit
9 2 (2.33%) Maven
9 2 (2.33%) Mockito
General
1 11 (12.79%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (11.63%) Finance
3 5 (5.81%) Manufacturing
3 5 (5.81%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (4.65%) Banking
4 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.65%) Retail
5 1 (1.16%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 28 (32.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (18.60%) AWS DevOps
3 14 (16.28%) Lead
4 12 (13.95%) Architect
5 9 (10.47%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (10.47%) Site Engineer
5 9 (10.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Developer
6 8 (9.30%) Technical Leader
7 7 (8.14%) Senior
8 6 (6.98%) Data Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Technical Architect
10 4 (4.65%) DevOps Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.60%) Node.js
2 12 (13.95%) JSON
2 12 (13.95%) React
3 11 (12.79%) XML
4 10 (11.63%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (9.30%) Express.js
5 8 (9.30%) Kafka
5 8 (9.30%) Redux
6 6 (6.98%) YAML
7 3 (3.49%) .NET
7 3 (3.49%) Apache Beam
7 3 (3.49%) Keycloak
7 3 (3.49%) Spring
7 3 (3.49%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.33%) cloud-init
8 2 (2.33%) OpenLayers
8 2 (2.33%) PostGIS
8 2 (2.33%) RESTful
8 2 (2.33%) SignalR
8 2 (2.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.12%) Public Cloud
2 7 (8.14%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.98%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.49%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.33%) Clustering
5 2 (2.33%) PKI
6 1 (1.16%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.16%) NHS
6 1 (1.16%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.95%) Linux
2 7 (8.14%) Android
2 7 (8.14%) Apple iOS
3 5 (5.81%) Unix
3 5 (5.81%) Windows
4 4 (4.65%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.33%) CentOS
5 2 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (82.56%) CI/CD
2 64 (74.42%) DevOps
3 43 (50.00%) Agile
4 33 (38.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (25.58%) Continuous Integration
5 22 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (23.26%) Test Automation
7 16 (18.60%) Scrum
8 15 (17.44%) ETL
8 15 (17.44%) Microservices
9 14 (16.28%) API Development
9 14 (16.28%) Configuration Management
10 13 (15.12%) Project Management
11 12 (13.95%) Full Stack Development
12 11 (12.79%) Design Patterns
12 11 (12.79%) Front End Development
13 10 (11.63%) Data Engineering
13 10 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 8 (9.30%) Collaborative Working
14 8 (9.30%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (54.65%) Python
2 33 (38.37%) Bash
3 19 (22.09%) Java
4 14 (16.28%) SQL
5 13 (15.12%) PowerShell
6 11 (12.79%) Go
7 9 (10.47%) Ruby
8 8 (9.30%) Scala
9 6 (6.98%) JavaScript
10 5 (5.81%) C#
10 5 (5.81%) Groovy
11 3 (3.49%) C
12 2 (2.33%) PHP
12 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.16%) CQL
13 1 (1.16%) Perl
13 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (23.26%) SC Cleared
1 20 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.47%) AWS Certification
2 9 (10.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.16%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (24.42%) QA
2 3 (3.49%) ISO 22301
2 3 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.33%) NCSC
4 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
System Software
1 55 (63.95%) Docker
2 4 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (2.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 59 (68.60%) Kubernetes
2 48 (55.81%) Terraform
3 25 (29.07%) Ansible
4 17 (19.77%) Prometheus
5 13 (15.12%) Grafana
6 12 (13.95%) Puppet
7 11 (12.79%) Progress Chef
8 8 (9.30%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (8.14%) HP Fortify
10 6 (6.98%) Kibana
10 6 (6.98%) logstash
11 4 (4.65%) Graylog
11 4 (4.65%) Istio
11 4 (4.65%) Nessus
11 4 (4.65%) WebInspect
12 2 (2.33%) Consul
12 2 (2.33%) Kiali
12 2 (2.33%) linkerd
12 2 (2.33%) Podman
12 2 (2.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (19.77%) Splunk
2 5 (5.81%) Informatica
2 5 (5.81%) Talend
2 5 (5.81%) VMware
3 4 (4.65%) Checkmarx
3 4 (4.65%) Veracode
4 3 (3.49%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.49%) Google
4 3 (3.49%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.49%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.33%) PagerDuty