Containerisation Contracts in Cheltenham

Containerization
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 29 22
Rank change year-on-year +20 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 10 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 17.54% 3.94% 4.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.61% 4.60% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 3
10th Percentile £565 - £548
25th Percentile £608 £525 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -7.41% +5.80%
75th Percentile £623 £628 £794
90th Percentile £636 £630 £843
Gloucestershire median daily rate £615 £588 £550
% change year-on-year +4.68% +6.82% -13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - - £84.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51 174 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 89.47% 85.71% 87.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 91 89
10th Percentile £515 £375 £395
25th Percentile £548 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £676 £669 £700
90th Percentile £746 £738 £763
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £53.65 £38.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £70.38 £50.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £71.00 £81.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% -12.35% +535.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.06 £90.00
90th Percentile - £74.13 £92.70
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £67.50 £40.00 £71.50
% change year-on-year +68.75% -44.06% +120.68%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Cheltenham

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Cheltenham

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 8 (80.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) DHCP
1 6 (60.00%) DNS
1 6 (60.00%) HTTP
1 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Service Management
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Bash
2 7 (70.00%) Java
2 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (70.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) C
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) DV Cleared
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
2 6 (60.00%) Hyper-V
2 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Ansible
2 9 (90.00%) Terraform
3 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
4 6 (60.00%) Puppet
5 1 (10.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (60.00%) VMware