Containerisation Contracts in England

Containerization
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 152 160
Rank change year-on-year +73 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 756 566 779
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.09% 1.55% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.39% 1.80% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 404 583
10th Percentile £409 £425 £463
25th Percentile £463 £484 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £743
90th Percentile £700 £725 £800
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -2.27% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 8
10th Percentile £25.25 £48.38 £54.83
25th Percentile £25.81 £51.56 £62.97
Median hourly rate £53.10 £58.75 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% -18.40% +47.72%
75th Percentile £83.05 £66.56 £81.00
90th Percentile £89.75 £70.13 £93.75
UK median hourly rate £53.10 £70.00 £71.00
% change year-on-year -24.14% -1.41% +37.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,329 31,491 43,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.21% 86.40% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,605 20,622 30,435
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 949 2,249 1,535
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.32% +1.11% +38.82%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Containerisation in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +79 405 £575 -2.13% 635
North of England +30 122 £500 -3.85% 204
North West +39 85 £500 -4.53% 125
South East +15 66 £600 -4.00% 273
South West +57 61 £600 +9.09% 102
Midlands +43 42 £513 +13.89% 68
Yorkshire -1 34 £531 +2.16% 66
West Midlands +27 29 £550 +29.41% 42
East of England +27 17 £490 -14.78% 57
East Midlands +18 13 £440 -6.98% 23
North East -3 3 £620 +18.10% 13
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 28 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.31%) Apache
3 23 (3.04%) Confluence
4 17 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.79%) nginx
6 5 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.53%) Camunda
7 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.26%) IBM Domino
9 2 (0.26%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) DataSynapse
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.13%) InVision
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Shopify
2 2 (0.26%) Actimize
2 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.26%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 394 (52.12%) AWS
2 259 (34.26%) Azure
3 133 (17.59%) GCP
4 101 (13.36%) Serverless
5 75 (9.92%) GitHub
6 73 (9.66%) Amazon S3
7 72 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 71 (9.39%) Amazon EKS
9 64 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
10 59 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
12 46 (6.08%) OpenShift
13 44 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (4.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 28 (3.70%) Azure AKS
15 28 (3.70%) PaaS
16 26 (3.44%) IaaS
17 22 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
18 20 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (6.88%) DNS
2 41 (5.42%) HTTP
3 38 (5.03%) TCP/IP
4 25 (3.31%) DHCP
4 25 (3.31%) Firewall
5 19 (2.51%) VPN
6 16 (2.12%) Network Security
7 8 (1.06%) Internet
7 8 (1.06%) SSL
7 8 (1.06%) VLAN
7 8 (1.06%) Wireless
8 7 (0.93%) BGP
8 7 (0.93%) SAN
9 6 (0.79%) Kerberos
9 6 (0.79%) MPLS
10 5 (0.66%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.66%) WAN
11 4 (0.53%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.53%) NAS
11 4 (0.53%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (16.01%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (8.73%) Amazon RDS
3 64 (8.47%) Relational Database
4 44 (5.82%) MongoDB
5 43 (5.69%) NoSQL
6 36 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (4.76%) MySQL
7 28 (3.70%) Big Data
7 28 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
8 27 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 24 (3.17%) DynamoDB
10 21 (2.78%) Hadoop
11 20 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
12 18 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
13 17 (2.25%) Data Lake
14 13 (1.72%) Oracle Database
14 13 (1.72%) Redis
15 10 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
16 9 (1.19%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 171 (22.62%) Jenkins
2 121 (16.01%) GitLab
3 95 (12.57%) Git
4 57 (7.54%) JIRA
5 50 (6.61%) JUnit
6 36 (4.76%) Mockito
7 33 (4.37%) Gradle
8 27 (3.57%) Liquibase
8 27 (3.57%) SonarQube
9 22 (2.91%) Cucumber
10 16 (2.12%) Bitbucket
10 16 (2.12%) Maven
11 15 (1.98%) Selenium
12 13 (1.72%) CircleCI
13 12 (1.59%) Jasmine
13 12 (1.59%) REST Assured
14 9 (1.19%) JMeter
15 7 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (0.79%) LoadRunner
16 6 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 206 (27.25%) Social Skills
2 132 (17.46%) Finance
3 120 (15.87%) Public Sector
4 86 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (5.42%) Telecoms
6 37 (4.89%) Banking
7 28 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 28 (3.70%) Marketing
8 24 (3.17%) Electronics
9 21 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.85%) Legal
11 13 (1.72%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.19%) Retail
13 8 (1.06%) Law
13 8 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.93%) Military
14 7 (0.93%) Publishing
15 6 (0.79%) Front Office
15 6 (0.79%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 170 (22.49%) Developer
2 121 (16.01%) Senior
3 120 (15.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 104 (13.76%) Architect
5 62 (8.20%) Java Developer
6 59 (7.80%) Lead
7 57 (7.54%) Software Engineer
8 43 (5.69%) Data Engineer
9 39 (5.16%) Senior Developer
10 38 (5.03%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (4.10%) AWS Architect
12 24 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
12 24 (3.17%) Python Engineer
13 23 (3.04%) Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (3.04%) Lead Developer
14 22 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.78%) Java Engineer
16 20 (2.65%) Consultant
16 20 (2.65%) Platform Engineer
16 20 (2.65%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (13.10%) Kafka
2 87 (11.51%) Spring
3 76 (10.05%) Spring Boot
4 73 (9.66%) RESTful
5 72 (9.52%) React
6 61 (8.07%) .NET
7 58 (7.67%) REST
8 53 (7.01%) OpenAPI
8 53 (7.01%) Swagger
9 46 (6.08%) Node.js
10 45 (5.95%) Elastic Stack
11 32 (4.23%) AngularJS
12 28 (3.70%) HTML
13 23 (3.04%) OAuth
14 22 (2.91%) ARM Templates
14 22 (2.91%) CSS
14 22 (2.91%) Web Services
15 21 (2.78%) Spring Batch
16 19 (2.51%) OpenTelemetry
17 17 (2.25%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.86%) Cloud Native
2 36 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (3.97%) Public Cloud
4 29 (3.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 13 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 13 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.32%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.19%) PKI
9 8 (1.06%) Management Information System
10 7 (0.93%) Clustering
10 7 (0.93%) Private Cloud
10 7 (0.93%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (0.79%) Hedge funds
11 6 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 172 (22.75%) Linux
2 55 (7.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 40 (5.29%) Windows
4 22 (2.91%) Unix
5 21 (2.78%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.06%) VMS
7 7 (0.93%) Rocky
8 6 (0.79%) CentOS
9 5 (0.66%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.53%) Android
10 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.40%) SUSE
12 2 (0.26%) AIX
12 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.13%) Solaris
13 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (55.82%) CI/CD
2 352 (46.56%) DevOps
3 260 (34.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 222 (29.37%) Agile
5 212 (28.04%) Microservices
6 188 (24.87%) Problem-Solving
7 133 (17.59%) Software Engineering
8 126 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 99 (13.10%) Continuous Integration
10 83 (10.98%) Migration
11 81 (10.71%) Configuration Management
12 79 (10.45%) High Availability
13 74 (9.79%) TDD
14 69 (9.13%) Analytics
15 68 (8.99%) Event-Driven
16 62 (8.20%) Data Pipeline
17 60 (7.94%) Full-Stack Development
18 57 (7.54%) Observability
19 51 (6.75%) Infrastructure Automation
20 50 (6.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 344 (45.50%) Python
2 197 (26.06%) Java
3 151 (19.97%) SQL
4 132 (17.46%) Bash
5 92 (12.17%) JavaScript
6 67 (8.86%) PowerShell
7 65 (8.60%) TypeScript
8 62 (8.20%) C#
9 35 (4.63%) Shell Script
10 29 (3.84%) Go
11 17 (2.25%) Bicep
12 16 (2.12%) C++
13 13 (1.72%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.46%) Perl
14 11 (1.46%) Scala
15 9 (1.19%) Ruby
16 8 (1.06%) RPG
16 8 (1.06%) RPG IV
17 6 (0.79%) Groovy
17 6 (0.79%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 284 (37.57%) Security Cleared
2 226 (29.89%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.61%) AWS Certification
4 47 (6.22%) DV Cleared
5 42 (5.56%) Degree
6 40 (5.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (2.91%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 10 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.19%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 8 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.66%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 5 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.66%) MCSE
14 4 (0.53%) CISSP
14 4 (0.53%) RHCSA
15 3 (0.40%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.23%) QA
2 21 (2.78%) GDPR
3 15 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.98%) NCSC
4 13 (1.72%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.59%) NIST
6 10 (1.32%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.19%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) EMIR
10 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 487 (64.42%) Docker
2 38 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.65%) Active Directory
4 18 (2.38%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.93%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 7 (0.93%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.53%) Postfix
6 4 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.40%) Platform Symphony
7 3 (0.40%) vSphere
8 2 (0.26%) Lustre
9 1 (0.13%) Ceph
9 1 (0.13%) HDFS
9 1 (0.13%) NFS
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) Samba
9 1 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 512 (67.72%) Kubernetes
2 275 (36.38%) Terraform
3 193 (25.53%) Ansible
4 92 (12.17%) Grafana
5 79 (10.45%) Prometheus
6 66 (8.73%) Puppet
7 29 (3.84%) Progress Chef
8 20 (2.65%) Podman
9 13 (1.72%) Argo
10 11 (1.46%) Istio
11 9 (1.19%) Docker Swarm
12 7 (0.93%) Kibana
12 7 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.66%) Consul
14 5 (0.66%) Nagios
14 5 (0.66%) Packer
14 5 (0.66%) Perfmon
14 5 (0.66%) ZABBIX
15 4 (0.53%) Salt
Vendors
1 59 (7.80%) Google
2 52 (6.88%) Red Hat
3 51 (6.75%) Microsoft
4 50 (6.61%) VMware
5 38 (5.03%) Oracle
6 32 (4.23%) SAP
7 25 (3.31%) Splunk
8 17 (2.25%) Databricks
9 12 (1.59%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.46%) Cisco
11 10 (1.32%) IBM
12 9 (1.19%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.19%) New Relic
13 8 (1.06%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.06%) TIBCO
14 6 (0.79%) NetApp
15 5 (0.66%) Commvault
15 5 (0.66%) Confluent
16 4 (0.53%) Informatica
16 4 (0.53%) Salesforce