Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Containerization
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 68 74
Rank change year-on-year +23 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 50 7 15
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 3.79% 0.76% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 0.90% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 4 12
10th Percentile £416 - £513
25th Percentile £418 £613 £552
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +10.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £663 £591
90th Percentile £694 £685 £620
South East median daily rate £511 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -9.20% -2.17% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £104.50 - -
Median hourly rate £109.00 - -
75th Percentile £113.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £84.00 - £57.99
% change year-on-year - - -38.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,097 774 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.04% 84.22% 86.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 540 615
10th Percentile £313 £356 £318
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £649
90th Percentile £725 £689 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £523
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.44% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 48 73
10th Percentile £16.17 £20.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.00 £21.05
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £51.42
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -31.93% +18.21%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £49.63 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £22.27 £50.00 £53.94
% change year-on-year -55.47% -7.31% +43.85%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Hampshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Hampshire

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Farnborough +5 14 £598 - 1
Portsmouth +4 11 £435 -37.86% 1
Southampton +10 8 £530 -15.20% 3
Andover - 3 £450 -
Romsey - 2 £755 - 2
Basingstoke -9 1 £650 - 1
Aldershot - 1 £663 -
Fleet - 1 £447 -
Containerisation
South East

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.00%) Apache
3 2 (4.00%) IIS
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 24 (48.00%) AWS
3 19 (38.00%) Azure
4 16 (32.00%) GitHub
5 12 (24.00%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (18.00%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (16.00%) Amazon S3
7 8 (16.00%) GCP
8 6 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (12.00%) Serverless
9 5 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (6.00%) Snowflake
12 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECR
12 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
12 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
12 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) DNS
1 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.00%) Firewall
3 2 (4.00%) DHCP
3 2 (4.00%) HTTP
4 1 (2.00%) DMZ
4 1 (2.00%) Internet
4 1 (2.00%) MQTT
4 1 (2.00%) Network Security
4 1 (2.00%) SSH
4 1 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (20.00%) Redis
3 6 (12.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.00%) Big Data
6 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 13 (26.00%) GitLab
2 11 (22.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (16.00%) Git
4 6 (12.00%) Maven
5 4 (8.00%) Cucumber
5 4 (8.00%) Gradle
6 3 (6.00%) Bitbucket
6 3 (6.00%) JIRA
6 3 (6.00%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.00%) Gatling
7 1 (2.00%) JUnit
7 1 (2.00%) MLflow
7 1 (2.00%) Poetry
7 1 (2.00%) Postman
7 1 (2.00%) PyCharm
7 1 (2.00%) Selenium
7 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.00%) TestNG
7 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (2.00%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.00%) Aerospace
3 3 (6.00%) Finance
4 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Developer
2 8 (16.00%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (6.00%) Lead
5 2 (4.00%) Architect
5 2 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.00%) Linux Specialist
5 2 (4.00%) Project Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Project Leader
5 2 (4.00%) Senior
5 2 (4.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.00%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (2.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) System Design Authority
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.00%) Kafka
2 11 (22.00%) Keycloak
3 10 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 7 (14.00%) React
4 7 (14.00%) Spring
5 5 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 5 (10.00%) Middleware
6 4 (8.00%) REST
6 4 (8.00%) YAML
7 3 (6.00%) RESTful
8 2 (4.00%) Vue
9 1 (2.00%) Apache Avro
9 1 (2.00%) Flask
9 1 (2.00%) gRPC
9 1 (2.00%) JSON
9 1 (2.00%) Pandas
9 1 (2.00%) Protocol Buffers
9 1 (2.00%) Swagger
9 1 (2.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Private Cloud
2 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) PKI
4 1 (2.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Mobile Computing
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (34.00%) Linux
2 5 (10.00%) Windows
3 3 (6.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (6.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.00%) CentOS
4 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.00%) Unix
4 2 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (66.00%) CI/CD
2 27 (54.00%) DevOps
3 24 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (36.00%) Platform Engineering
5 16 (32.00%) Agile
6 15 (30.00%) Observability
7 14 (28.00%) Configuration Management
8 11 (22.00%) Deployment Automation
9 10 (20.00%) DevSecOps
9 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (20.00%) Software Engineering
10 9 (18.00%) High Availability
11 8 (16.00%) Microservices
12 6 (12.00%) GitOps
12 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
12 6 (12.00%) Migration
13 5 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
13 5 (10.00%) Open Source
13 5 (10.00%) Scrum
13 5 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.00%) Python
2 19 (38.00%) Bash
3 18 (36.00%) Java
4 12 (24.00%) PowerShell
5 11 (22.00%) SQL
6 9 (18.00%) JavaScript
7 7 (14.00%) C#
8 2 (4.00%) Perl
9 1 (2.00%) C
9 1 (2.00%) C++
9 1 (2.00%) Go
9 1 (2.00%) Groovy
9 1 (2.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 34 (68.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (58.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (18.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.00%) Degree
5 2 (4.00%) RHCE
5 2 (4.00%) RHCSA
6 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.00%) OCP
6 1 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) NCSC
2 3 (6.00%) Def Stans
2 3 (6.00%) QA
3 1 (2.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) GRC
3 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (2.00%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.00%) NIST
3 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (34.00%) Docker
2 5 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 43 (86.00%) Kubernetes
2 34 (68.00%) Ansible
3 23 (46.00%) Terraform
4 17 (34.00%) Grafana
5 16 (32.00%) Prometheus
6 9 (18.00%) Puppet
7 7 (14.00%) Argo
8 6 (12.00%) Istio
9 5 (10.00%) linkerd
9 5 (10.00%) Progress Chef
10 4 (8.00%) Packer
10 4 (8.00%) SCOM
11 3 (6.00%) Cilium
11 3 (6.00%) Podman
11 3 (6.00%) Rsyslog
12 1 (2.00%) Proxmox
12 1 (2.00%) Rancher
12 1 (2.00%) Rundeck
12 1 (2.00%) Salt
12 1 (2.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 20 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 15 (30.00%) VMware
3 11 (22.00%) Splunk
4 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.00%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.00%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.00%) Oracle
6 1 (2.00%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.00%) Tenable