Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Containerization
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 21 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 2.13% 1.03% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 1.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.91% - -
South West median daily rate £625 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 69 88 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 73.40% 90.72% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 49 103
10th Percentile £188 £245 £172
25th Percentile £296 £405 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +6.06%
75th Percentile £548 £550 £675
90th Percentile £675 £675 £825
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 52
10th Percentile - - £15.20
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.41 £20.16
Median hourly rate £18.19 £15.22 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% -73.07% +172.70%
75th Percentile £23.58 £15.62 £65.98
90th Percentile £25.15 £20.40 £69.62
South West median hourly rate £32.75 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -49.62% +8.33% -7.69%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Containerisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Dorset

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Containerisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Containerisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
Bournemouth +2 2 £270 -50.91% 11
Containerisation
South West

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft