Containerisation Contracts in Birmingham

Containerization
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 41 63 73
Rank change year-on-year +22 +10 -3
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 9 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.72% 0.52% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 0.62% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £295 £338 -
25th Percentile £337 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -
75th Percentile £719 £469 -
90th Percentile £800 £473 -
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +60.00% -25.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Birmingham

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Birmingham

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Birmingham

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (11.11%) DbUnit
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) jMock
1 1 (11.11%) JUnit
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) Mockito
1 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Application Development Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Applications Development Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Applications Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Development Manager
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (11.11%) ADO
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
2 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
2 1 (11.11%) JPA
2 1 (11.11%) PowerMock
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Batch
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Integration
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) SIEM
2 3 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Line Management
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Service Management
3 2 (22.22%) Use Case
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Kubernetes
2 5 (55.56%) Terraform
3 3 (33.33%) Ansible
4 1 (11.11%) Grafana
4 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
1 1 (11.11%) BT
1 1 (11.11%) Jaspersoft