Containerisation Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Containerization
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 39 49 55
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 +17
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 6 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.17% 1.39% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 1.69% 0.60%
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
East of England median daily rate £490 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -14.78% +4.55% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 243 414 496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.04% 81.98% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 147 265
10th Percentile £264 £200 £200
25th Percentile £406 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -
75th Percentile £550 £563 £538
90th Percentile £650 £700 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 197 149
10th Percentile £14.84 - £13.39
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +4.84%
75th Percentile £18.85 £21.37 £20.56
90th Percentile £27.30 £48.30 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - +81.82% +41.94%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Cambridgeshire

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Cambridgeshire

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Cambridgeshire

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Cambridge +10 6 £335 - 31
Containerisation
East of England

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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