Containerisation Contracts in Chester

Containerization
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 2.60% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £430 £445 £550
% change year-on-year -3.37% -19.09% +29.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63 47 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 81.82% 78.33% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 16 45
10th Percentile £325 £450 £350
25th Percentile £459 £542 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £618 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +17.62% +23.53%
75th Percentile £702 £738 £588
90th Percentile £783 - £683
Cheshire median daily rate £435 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -8.47% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 16
10th Percentile £20.19 £16.00 £17.38
25th Percentile £29.28 £25.50 £30.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £35.00 £31.88
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% +9.80% +46.36%
75th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £64.40 £47.50 £37.52
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -8.57% +14.60% +40.22%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Chester

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Chester

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 (50.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (50.00%) Mule
1 1 (50.00%) Mule ESB
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk