Containerisation Contracts in Cambridge

Containerization
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 26 32
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 6 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 5.00% 3.59% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.77% 3.89% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £515
25th Percentile £250 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £459 - £594
90th Percentile £529 - £605
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £335 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 104 180 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 86.67% 92.31% 88.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 99 170
10th Percentile £296 £233 £185
25th Percentile £406 £350 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £558
90th Percentile £665 £655 £614
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 28 14
10th Percentile £16.40 £20.40 £16.98
25th Percentile £18.10 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 £19.11
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +174.73% -66.47%
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +4.84%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Cambridge

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Cambridge

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Cambridge over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Cambridge

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) iSCSI
2 2 (33.33%) SAN
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) CentOS
2 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Science
1 4 (66.67%) ITSM
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) GitOps
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (33.33%) Puppet
3 2 (33.33%) Salt
4 1 (16.67%) Consul
4 1 (16.67%) Grafana
4 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft