Containerisation Contracts in Reading

Containerization
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 74 81
Rank change year-on-year +21 +7 -22
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 39 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.29% 1.25% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 1.39% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 10
10th Percentile £428 £465 -
25th Percentile £538 £481 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £520 £481
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +8.05% -
75th Percentile £688 £613 £606
90th Percentile £716 £638 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £620 £460 £563
% change year-on-year +34.78% -18.22% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,068 936 1,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.20% 89.91% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 620 816
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £413 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £660 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Reading

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Reading

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Reading over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Reading

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 11 (28.21%) Apache
1 11 (28.21%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 24 (61.54%) Azure
2 20 (51.28%) AWS
3 9 (23.08%) OpenShift
4 8 (20.51%) GCP
5 4 (10.26%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.21%) BGP
1 11 (28.21%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (28.21%) MPLS
1 11 (28.21%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (28.21%) VPN
2 2 (5.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (43.59%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 11 (28.21%) NoSQL
4 4 (10.26%) Redis
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.56%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 25 (64.10%) GitLab
2 23 (58.97%) JIRA
3 13 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 13 (33.33%) Selenium
4 12 (30.77%) Cucumber
4 12 (30.77%) REST Assured
4 12 (30.77%) SonarQube
5 11 (28.21%) Robot Framework
5 11 (28.21%) TestRail
6 1 (2.56%) Appium
6 1 (2.56%) Git
6 1 (2.56%) MSTest
6 1 (2.56%) NUnit
6 1 (2.56%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.56%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (48.72%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (20.51%) Law
3 8 (20.51%) Police
4 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Network Engineer
1 10 (25.64%) Test Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Developer
2 8 (20.51%) Senior
3 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Java Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Senior Java Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Java Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Java Technical Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Node.js Developer
6 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (58.97%) REST
2 13 (33.33%) ARM Templates
3 12 (30.77%) Java EE
4 11 (28.21%) NETCONF
4 11 (28.21%) RESTCONF
4 11 (28.21%) SOAP
4 11 (28.21%) YANG
5 4 (10.26%) Node.js
6 1 (2.56%) .NET
6 1 (2.56%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
1 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (5.13%) Unix
1 2 (5.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (61.54%) Test Automation
2 20 (51.28%) DevOps
2 20 (51.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (48.72%) CI/CD
3 19 (48.72%) Technical Leadership
4 13 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 13 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (30.77%) Decision-Making
5 12 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (30.77%) Software Architecture
5 12 (30.77%) Unit Testing
6 11 (28.21%) Agile
6 11 (28.21%) Integration Testing
6 11 (28.21%) Performance Testing
6 11 (28.21%) Regression Testing
6 11 (28.21%) Scrum
6 11 (28.21%) Security Testing
6 11 (28.21%) Workflow
7 10 (25.64%) Software Engineering
8 8 (20.51%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) Python
2 12 (30.77%) Java
3 11 (28.21%) SQL
4 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.69%) Bash
6 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.56%) C#
7 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 15 (38.46%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 31 (79.49%) Docker
2 4 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.13%) vCloud
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.13%) VMware NSX
3 2 (5.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (61.54%) Kubernetes
2 20 (51.28%) Terraform
3 15 (38.46%) Ansible
4 12 (30.77%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (30.77%) Podman
5 9 (23.08%) Rancher
6 7 (17.95%) Istio
7 2 (5.13%) Packer
7 2 (5.13%) vCenter Server
7 2 (5.13%) vRealize
8 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Google
2 4 (10.26%) VMware
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle
3 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft