Containerisation Contracts in the West Midlands

Containerization
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 128 109
Rank change year-on-year +23 -19 +10
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 7 12 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.36% 0.50% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.57% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 45
10th Percentile £275 - £393
25th Percentile £288 - £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% +26.32%
75th Percentile £459 £650 £550
90th Percentile £469 £715 £675
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 2,110 3,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.91% 88.54% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,085 1,445 2,351
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +16.07%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the West Midlands

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +15 4 £425 - 2
Coventry +10 3 £300 -60.00% 4
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Travis CI
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Full Stack Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Flask
2 1 (14.29%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) A/B Testing
4 1 (14.29%) API Development
4 1 (14.29%) API Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Canary Deployment
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) Go
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Argo
3 1 (14.29%) Istio
3 1 (14.29%) linkerd
3 1 (14.29%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Confluent
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) SAP