Containerisation Contracts in Cheshire

Containerization
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 42 49 57
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 16 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.56% 1.79% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 2.12% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 6
10th Percentile £358 - £438
25th Percentile £383 £445 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £510 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +10.27% -22.11%
75th Percentile £553 £515 £509
90th Percentile £645 £519 £573
North West median daily rate £500 £548 £588
% change year-on-year -8.76% -6.72% -3.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Cheshire

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Cheshire

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Cheshire

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Knutsford +2 9 £391 -12.13%
Macclesfield +15 5 £600 +17.65% 2
Alderley Edge - 1 - - 1
Containerisation
North West

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (6.25%) Camunda
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Serverless
3 5 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (31.25%) Azure
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon Glacier
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (25.00%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (25.00%) Azure AI
4 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 4 (25.00%) Google Gemini
5 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
6 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 4 (25.00%) Neo4j
2 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Legal
2 6 (37.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Architect
2 6 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Senior
2 6 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (25.00%) AWS Architect
3 4 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Java Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Java Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Kafka
2 5 (31.25%) RESTful
3 4 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (25.00%) PyTorch
3 4 (25.00%) TensorFlow
4 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 2 (12.50%) CSS
4 2 (12.50%) CSS3
4 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 2 (12.50%) HTML
4 2 (12.50%) HTML5
4 2 (12.50%) Node.js
4 2 (12.50%) React
5 1 (6.25%) ADO
5 1 (6.25%) jBPM
5 1 (6.25%) Middleware
5 1 (6.25%) OLE
5 1 (6.25%) REST
5 1 (6.25%) Spring
5 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Algorithms
1 6 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Blockchain
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 12 (75.00%) Agile
2 12 (75.00%) SDLC
3 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (43.75%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (43.75%) Machine Learning
4 7 (43.75%) Microservices
5 6 (37.50%) Generative AI
5 6 (37.50%) LLM
5 6 (37.50%) Natural Language Processing
6 5 (31.25%) Data Cleansing
6 5 (31.25%) Event-Driven
7 4 (25.00%) Budget Control
7 4 (25.00%) Business Analysis
7 4 (25.00%) Mathematics
7 4 (25.00%) Pattern Recognition
7 4 (25.00%) Project Planning
7 4 (25.00%) RDF
7 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
7 4 (25.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Java
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Scala
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 14 (87.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Ansible
4 1 (6.25%) Grafana
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Ariba
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
1 1 (6.25%) SAP
1 1 (6.25%) TIBCO
1 1 (6.25%) VMware