Containerisation Contracts in Gloucestershire

Containerization
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 49 50
Rank change year-on-year +33 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 25 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 9.12% 2.10% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.46% 2.45% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 6
10th Percentile £575 £400 £433
25th Percentile £606 £494 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% - -13.86%
75th Percentile £700 £776 £575
90th Percentile £775 - £663
South West median daily rate £606 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +10.23% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £71.25
25th Percentile - - £72.38
Median hourly rate - - £75.50
75th Percentile - - £77.38
90th Percentile - - £77.75
South West median hourly rate £78.70 - £73.00
% change year-on-year - - +41.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 239 368 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 87.23% 85.78% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 230 307
10th Percentile £237 £363 £295
25th Percentile £413 £458 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +6.34%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £650
90th Percentile £729 £738 £700
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 31 37
10th Percentile £25.56 £14.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.88 £19.57 £50.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.86% -50.00% +116.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.38 £78.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Gloucestershire

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Gloucestershire

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Gloucestershire

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in Gloucestershire

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cheltenham +15 8 £615 +11.82% 30
Gloucester +5 7 £700 +55.56% 25
Containerisation
South West

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 3 (12.00%) Apache
1 3 (12.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (12.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 19 (76.00%) Azure
2 18 (72.00%) OpenShift
3 16 (64.00%) AWS
4 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Stack
5 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) PaaS
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (56.00%) DHCP
1 14 (56.00%) DNS
1 14 (56.00%) HTTP
1 14 (56.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Big Data
1 3 (12.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) YAML
2 3 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (88.00%) Linux
2 15 (60.00%) Windows
2 15 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 14 (56.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.00%) Android
4 1 (4.00%) Rocky
4 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Service Management
2 8 (32.00%) DevOps
3 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 4 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (12.00%) Data Engineering
7 3 (12.00%) DevSecOps
7 3 (12.00%) ETL
7 3 (12.00%) Observability
7 3 (12.00%) Requirements Engineering
7 3 (12.00%) Thought Leadership
8 2 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (8.00%) Test Automation
8 2 (8.00%) Vulnerability Management
9 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 1 (4.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Bash
1 14 (56.00%) Java
1 14 (56.00%) PowerShell
1 14 (56.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (76.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (92.00%) Docker
2 15 (60.00%) Hyper-V
3 14 (56.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (92.00%) Kubernetes
2 22 (88.00%) Ansible
2 22 (88.00%) Terraform
3 14 (56.00%) Puppet
4 3 (12.00%) Grafana
4 3 (12.00%) HAProxy
4 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) Red Hat
1 14 (56.00%) VMware
2 1 (4.00%) Dell