Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Containerization
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 29 57
Rank change year-on-year -11 +28 +35
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 7 22 5
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.03% 5.63% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 6.75% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 5
10th Percentile - £406 -
25th Percentile £525 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £560 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -13.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £641 £743
90th Percentile £665 £705 -
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £620
% change year-on-year -5.00% -19.35% +3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 312 326 613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 90.43% 83.38% 92.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 229 463
10th Percentile £233 £234 £275
25th Percentile £350 £380 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -11.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £613
90th Percentile £635 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 9 14
10th Percentile £15.12 £14.58 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.70 £14.24
Median hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +57.89% +38.18%
75th Percentile £25.15 £36.75 £23.56
90th Percentile £29.61 £41.15 £24.00
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.05% +47.89%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Containerisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Containerisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Containerisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Milton Keynes -8 7 £600 +7.14% 6
Containerisation
South East

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) AI
3 3 (42.86%) AI Transformation
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (14.29%) Inventory Management
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Podman
1 3 (42.86%) Proxmox
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Zscaler
2 2 (28.57%) Ab Initio
2 2 (28.57%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) JDA