Containerisation Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Containerization
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 70 74
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 +28
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 27 14 29
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.68% 1.23% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 1.46% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 20
10th Percentile £446 - £475
25th Percentile £453 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £300 £575
Median % change year-on-year +82.50% -47.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £500 £681
90th Percentile £770 £523 £700
England median daily rate £525 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -0.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £63.63 - -
25th Percentile £65.88 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £44.64 £63.75
% change year-on-year +52.32% -29.97% -8.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,356 957 1,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.49% 84.24% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 411 794
10th Percentile £192 £240 £239
25th Percentile £363 £338 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £576 £586 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 182 355
10th Percentile £14.25 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.45 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +40.78% -3.14%
75th Percentile £60.96 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in the East of England

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Containerisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the East of England

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Containerisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Hertfordshire -9 13 £525 - 7
Cambridgeshire +1 8 £635 +27.00% 8
Suffolk -3 5 £450 +50.00%
Norfolk - 1 £475 -
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 9 (33.33%) npm
2 8 (29.63%) Azure
3 7 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (22.22%) AWS
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
6 3 (11.11%) GitHub
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.70%) GCP
8 1 (3.70%) Route 53
8 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) DNS
1 1 (3.70%) Kerberos
1 1 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) NoSQL
2 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.41%) MySQL
3 2 (7.41%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (44.44%) GitLab
2 9 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 9 (33.33%) JIRA
2 9 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 6 (22.22%) Git
4 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.41%) JMeter
4 2 (7.41%) Postman
4 2 (7.41%) Selenium
5 1 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (7.41%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Law
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Lead
4 3 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Development Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.41%) QA Leader
5 2 (7.41%) Software Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Leader
5 2 (7.41%) Test Leader
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) .NET
2 13 (48.15%) React
3 11 (40.74%) Node.js
4 9 (33.33%) .NET Framework
4 9 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 9 (33.33%) CSS
4 9 (33.33%) HTML
4 9 (33.33%) Svelte
4 9 (33.33%) Vue
5 4 (14.81%) RESTful
6 2 (7.41%) FastAPI
6 2 (7.41%) REST
6 2 (7.41%) Spring
7 1 (3.70%) Express.js
7 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
7 1 (3.70%) gRPC
7 1 (3.70%) Jest
7 1 (3.70%) MERN Stack
7 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
7 1 (3.70%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 9 (33.33%) Data Structures
3 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
4 3 (11.11%) Life Science
5 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (48.15%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) CI/CD
2 21 (77.78%) DevOps
3 18 (66.67%) Agile
4 14 (51.85%) Microservices
4 14 (51.85%) Software Testing
5 13 (48.15%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (40.74%) TDD
7 10 (37.04%) Computer Science
7 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (33.33%) Design Patterns
8 9 (33.33%) OOP
8 9 (33.33%) SDLC
9 8 (29.63%) AI
10 7 (25.93%) LLM
10 7 (25.93%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 7 (25.93%) Scrum
11 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
11 6 (22.22%) Validation
12 5 (18.52%) OWASP
12 5 (18.52%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) TypeScript
2 10 (37.04%) JavaScript
3 9 (33.33%) C#
4 7 (25.93%) C++
5 6 (22.22%) Python
6 4 (14.81%) Java
7 2 (7.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) QA
2 5 (18.52%) EU AI Act
2 5 (18.52%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (85.19%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (51.85%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.11%) Consul
2 3 (11.11%) Terraform
3 2 (7.41%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) Nagios
4 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.70%) Puppet
4 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) IBM
3 1 (3.70%) SaltStack