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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 46 42
Rank change year-on-year +29 -4 +7
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Containerisation 18 13 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 6.50% 2.87% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.47% 3.35% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 6
10th Percentile £470 - £469
25th Percentile £556 £525 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £588 £671
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -12.48% +8.48%
75th Percentile £700 £630 £741
90th Percentile - £862 £813
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £74.25
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £87.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
South West median hourly rate £79.35 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +51.47%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 241 388 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 87.00% 85.65% 91.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 213 272
10th Percentile £219 £363 £375
25th Percentile £350 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £675
90th Percentile £740 £738 £748
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.60% +2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 34 48
10th Percentile £15.31 £22.50 £32.10
25th Percentile £26.85 £28.50 £48.75
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.52 £76.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -50.96% +135.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £83.88
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +3.85% +20.37%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Gloucestershire

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Containerisation

Containerisation
DemandTrendContract 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 24 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheltenham +23 7 £594 -5.00% 20
Gloucester - 6 £700 - 14
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 (16.67%) nginx
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (16.67%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub
3 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) IaaS
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Big Data
3 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) GitLab
2 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
3 3 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
General
1 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Automation Tester
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Tester
3 3 (16.67%) Tester
4 2 (11.11%) Backend Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Python Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) YAML
2 4 (22.22%) Node.js
3 3 (16.67%) React
4 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (11.11%) Vue
5 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (5.56%) OpenID
5 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 8 (44.44%) Test Automation
3 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (27.78%) DevSecOps
6 4 (22.22%) DevOps
6 4 (22.22%) Microservices
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
7 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Software Testing
8 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven
8 2 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 1 (5.56%) Data Pipeline
9 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 1 (5.56%) Observability
9 1 (5.56%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Bash
1 5 (27.78%) C
1 5 (27.78%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.11%) C++
4 2 (11.11%) Go
4 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (94.44%) Security Cleared
2 16 (88.89%) DV Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (72.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 9 (50.00%) Terraform
3 8 (44.44%) Ansible
4 4 (22.22%) Podman
5 2 (11.11%) Grafana
5 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (5.56%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat