Containerisation Contracts in Berkshire

Containerization
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Containerisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Containerisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 74 86
Rank change year-on-year +24 +12 +24
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 43 50 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.67% 2.52% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 2.83% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 21
10th Percentile £409 £443 £380
25th Percentile £500 £491 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £620 £460
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% +34.78% -18.22%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £530
90th Percentile £709 £700 £614
South East median daily rate £628 £625 £550
% change year-on-year +0.49% +13.64% -5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.88
Median hourly rate - - £58.75
75th Percentile - - £60.63
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £47.50 £61.88
% change year-on-year - -23.23% -11.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Containerisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Berkshire

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Berkshire

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Berkshire

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in Berkshire

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +20 28 £550 -15.38% 33
Wokingham -9 10 £698 +41.58%
Bracknell - 1 - - 1
Slough - 1 £650 - 21
Containerisation
South East

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (4.65%) Apache
1 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (2.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 32 (74.42%) Azure
2 18 (41.86%) AWS
3 9 (20.93%) Azure AKS
4 8 (18.60%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (16.28%) GCP
6 6 (13.95%) Entra ID
7 5 (11.63%) Azure API Management
7 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (11.63%) Serverless
8 4 (9.30%) Azure Functions
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (4.65%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (4.65%) GitHub
9 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) BGP
1 6 (13.95%) MPLS
2 5 (11.63%) TCP/IP
2 5 (11.63%) VLAN
3 1 (2.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.33%) Network Security
3 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.30%) Redis
3 3 (6.98%) Big Data
3 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.98%) SSDT
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.65%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (27.91%) GitLab
1 12 (27.91%) Jenkins
2 10 (23.26%) JIRA
2 10 (23.26%) SonarQube
3 9 (20.93%) Cucumber
3 9 (20.93%) REST Assured
3 9 (20.93%) Selenium
4 5 (11.63%) Robot Framework
5 2 (4.65%) Git
6 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (2.33%) DbUnit
6 1 (2.33%) jMock
6 1 (2.33%) JUnit
6 1 (2.33%) Maven
6 1 (2.33%) Mockito
General
1 22 (51.16%) Social Skills
2 19 (44.19%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (18.60%) Law
4 7 (16.28%) Telecoms
5 4 (9.30%) Police
6 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Developer
2 6 (13.95%) Auditor
2 6 (13.95%) Security Auditor
3 5 (11.63%) Automation Tester
3 5 (11.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Java Developer
3 5 (11.63%) Java Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Software Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Telecoms Tester
3 5 (11.63%) Tester
4 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Backend Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Lead
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.91%) REST
2 9 (20.93%) ARM Templates
2 9 (20.93%) Java EE
3 5 (11.63%) OAuth
3 5 (11.63%) RESTful
4 4 (9.30%) GraphQL
4 4 (9.30%) Prisma
4 4 (9.30%) YAML
5 3 (6.98%) Node.js
6 2 (4.65%) PyTorch
6 2 (4.65%) React
6 2 (4.65%) scikit-learn
6 2 (4.65%) SOAP
6 2 (4.65%) TensorFlow
7 1 (2.33%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.33%) Bootstrap
7 1 (2.33%) Material-UI
7 1 (2.33%) Next.js
7 1 (2.33%) OpenAPI
7 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.63%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) IoT
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.33%) SCADA
4 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) CentOS
2 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (55.81%) DevOps
2 18 (41.86%) CI/CD
2 18 (41.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (41.86%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (34.88%) Test Automation
4 13 (30.23%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (27.91%) Configuration Management
6 11 (25.58%) Agile
6 11 (25.58%) Software Engineering
7 9 (20.93%) Software Architecture
7 9 (20.93%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (18.60%) Microservices
9 7 (16.28%) Decision-Making
9 7 (16.28%) ETL
9 7 (16.28%) Security Testing
10 6 (13.95%) Cost Management
10 6 (13.95%) Identity Management
10 6 (13.95%) Penetration Testing
10 6 (13.95%) Test Strategy
11 5 (11.63%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.91%) Python
2 10 (23.26%) Java
3 8 (18.60%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.63%) SQL
4 5 (11.63%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.98%) Bicep
6 2 (4.65%) R
7 1 (2.33%) C#
7 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) SC Cleared
1 16 (37.21%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (2.33%) CCSP
3 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.33%) CISSP
3 1 (2.33%) OSCP
3 1 (2.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) NCSC
2 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (67.44%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 31 (72.09%) Kubernetes
2 19 (44.19%) Terraform
3 18 (41.86%) Ansible
4 9 (20.93%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (20.93%) Podman
5 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.98%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (4.65%) Grafana
7 1 (2.33%) Argo
7 1 (2.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) UiPath
3 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.33%) Cisco
3 1 (2.33%) Google
3 1 (2.33%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (2.33%) New Relic
3 1 (2.33%) Rapid7
3 1 (2.33%) Splunk