Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Containerization
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 24 22
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +19
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 31 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 22.14% 2.78% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.13% 3.13% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £608 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £615 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +36.67% -
75th Percentile £700 £661 £500
90th Percentile £750 £685 -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £650 £615 £768
% change year-on-year +5.69% -19.87% +39.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - - £78.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 134 96 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 95.71% 88.89% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 74 63
10th Percentile £232 £354 £359
25th Percentile £375 £410 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +12.20%
75th Percentile £650 £651 £663
90th Percentile £700 £734 £706
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £24.28 £20.88 £19.85
25th Percentile - £21.49 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.21 £23.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +122.65% -16.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile - £24.81 £56.50
90th Percentile £61.14 £25.60 £78.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £51.21 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -21.22% +33.42% -18.80%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Gloucester over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Gloucester

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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 29 (93.55%) Azure
2 28 (90.32%) GitHub
3 10 (32.26%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (32.26%) Serverless
4 9 (29.03%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (25.81%) Azure Key Vault
5 8 (25.81%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.45%) AWS
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (58.06%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (32.26%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (25.81%) Redis
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.23%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.23%) Big Data
4 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) SonarQube
2 2 (6.45%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Data Engineer
1 10 (32.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 10 (32.26%) Senior
1 10 (32.26%) Senior Data Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Developer
3 8 (25.81%) Backend Developer
3 8 (25.81%) Python Developer
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Developer
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (3.23%) Junior
4 1 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (35.48%) YAML
2 10 (32.26%) Kafka
2 10 (32.26%) Keycloak
3 8 (25.81%) FastAPI
3 8 (25.81%) Flask
3 8 (25.81%) GraphQL
3 8 (25.81%) gRPC
3 8 (25.81%) REST
3 8 (25.81%) WebSockets
4 1 (3.23%) .NET
4 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.23%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (29.03%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (96.77%) DevOps
2 20 (64.52%) CI/CD
3 11 (35.48%) DevSecOps
3 11 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (35.48%) Platform Engineering
3 11 (35.48%) Test Automation
4 10 (32.26%) Batch Processing
4 10 (32.26%) Data Architecture
4 10 (32.26%) Data Engineering
4 10 (32.26%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (32.26%) DataOps
4 10 (32.26%) ETL
4 10 (32.26%) Microservices
4 10 (32.26%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (6.45%) Agile
6 1 (3.23%) High Availability
6 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (3.23%) Kanban
6 1 (3.23%) Software Engineering
6 1 (3.23%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) Python
2 18 (58.06%) Go
3 8 (25.81%) SQL
4 1 (3.23%) Bash
4 1 (3.23%) Bicep
4 1 (3.23%) C
4 1 (3.23%) C#
4 1 (3.23%) Java
4 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (93.55%) SC Cleared
3 20 (64.52%) DV Cleared
4 11 (35.48%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (32.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (93.55%) Kubernetes
2 11 (35.48%) Terraform
3 8 (25.81%) Grafana
3 8 (25.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft