Containerisation Contracts in the North West

Containerization
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 100 126
Rank change year-on-year +11 +26 -18
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 48 53 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.74% 1.65% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.82% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 33 42
10th Percentile £444 £456 £489
25th Percentile £500 £545 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £611
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -3.89% +26.03%
75th Percentile £694 £650 £642
90th Percentile £716 - £686
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +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 £71.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -17.25% +37.88% +28.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,910 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.57% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,071 2,633
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 145 164
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.49 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the North West

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the North West

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the North West

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Manchester +12 42 £550 -8.33% 16
Cheshire +5 6 £510 +10.27% 3
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (10.42%) Apache
1 5 (10.42%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (10.42%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.17%) nginx
2 2 (4.17%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 42 (87.50%) AWS
2 25 (52.08%) Amazon EC2
2 25 (52.08%) Amazon S3
3 17 (35.42%) Serverless
4 16 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (31.25%) Amazon SQS
6 14 (29.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (22.92%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (16.67%) Route 53
9 8 (16.67%) Snowflake
10 6 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (10.42%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (8.33%) GCP
13 3 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
13 3 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (6.25%) Azure
14 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
14 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) Network Security
2 5 (10.42%) FTP
3 4 (8.33%) Firewall
3 4 (8.33%) VPN
4 2 (4.17%) DNS
4 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (14.58%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.42%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (10.42%) Big Data
3 5 (10.42%) MySQL
4 4 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (8.33%) DynamoDB
5 3 (6.25%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (52.08%) Git
2 21 (43.75%) GitLab
3 8 (16.67%) webpack
4 7 (14.58%) Jenkins
5 6 (12.50%) JIRA
6 4 (8.33%) SonarQube
7 3 (6.25%) Maven
8 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
8 2 (4.17%) JUnit
8 2 (4.17%) Mockito
9 1 (2.08%) Postman
9 1 (2.08%) SoapUI
9 1 (2.08%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (10.42%) Manufacturing
1 5 (10.42%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (8.33%) Retail
2 4 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Finance
4 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.08%) Law
5 1 (2.08%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 11 (22.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (22.92%) Lead
3 9 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Technical Leader
5 7 (14.58%) Developer
5 7 (14.58%) Senior
6 6 (12.50%) Architect
6 6 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (10.42%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) Data Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) AWS Consultant
8 4 (8.33%) DevOps Consultant
8 4 (8.33%) Digital Architect
8 4 (8.33%) Digital Technical Architect
8 4 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
8 4 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Consultant
8 4 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (33.33%) Node.js
2 10 (20.83%) React
3 8 (16.67%) Express.js
3 8 (16.67%) Redux
4 6 (12.50%) JSON
5 5 (10.42%) XML
6 3 (6.25%) Spring
6 3 (6.25%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.17%) cloud-init
7 2 (4.17%) Kafka
7 2 (4.17%) WireMock
8 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.08%) AWS CDK
8 1 (2.08%) AWS SAM
8 1 (2.08%) Jest
8 1 (2.08%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (2.08%) REST
8 1 (2.08%) RESTful
8 1 (2.08%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.17%) Clustering
3 2 (4.17%) PKI
4 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Windows
2 4 (8.33%) Android
2 4 (8.33%) Apple iOS
2 4 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.17%) CentOS
3 2 (4.17%) Linux
3 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 33 (68.75%) DevOps
3 20 (41.67%) Agile
4 16 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 13 (27.08%) ETL
6 12 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (22.92%) Full Stack Development
8 10 (20.83%) API Development
8 10 (20.83%) Microservices
8 10 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (18.75%) Front End Development
9 9 (18.75%) Scrum
10 8 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 8 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
10 8 (16.67%) Design Patterns
10 8 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
10 8 (16.67%) QA Automation
10 8 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 7 (14.58%) Software Delivery
12 6 (12.50%) OO
Programming Languages
1 24 (50.00%) Python
2 15 (31.25%) Bash
3 10 (20.83%) Java
4 9 (18.75%) SQL
5 5 (10.42%) C#
5 5 (10.42%) Go
5 5 (10.42%) Ruby
6 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.17%) PHP
6 2 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 15 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.75%) AWS Certification
2 9 (18.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.92%) QA
2 3 (6.25%) ISO 22301
2 3 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (54.17%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (68.75%) Kubernetes
2 24 (50.00%) Terraform
3 10 (20.83%) Ansible
4 3 (6.25%) HP Fortify
5 2 (4.17%) Consul
5 2 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (4.17%) Graphite
5 2 (4.17%) HAProxy
5 2 (4.17%) Istio
5 2 (4.17%) linkerd
5 2 (4.17%) Packer
5 2 (4.17%) Podman
5 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.17%) Puppet
5 2 (4.17%) ZABBIX
6 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Informatica
1 5 (10.42%) Splunk
1 5 (10.42%) Talend
2 3 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 3 (6.25%) VMware
3 2 (4.17%) PagerDuty