Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Containerization
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 34 11 2
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 51.52% 28.95% 9.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 53.13% 32.35% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 11 2
10th Percentile - £575 -
25th Percentile £525 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £612 £675
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% -9.33% -
75th Percentile £700 £685 £688
90th Percentile £750 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £545 £612 £688
% change year-on-year -10.95% -10.98% +27.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 34 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 96.97% 89.47% 81.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 27 11
10th Percentile - £458 £300
25th Percentile £525 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £612 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +11.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £635 £706
90th Percentile £750 £685 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £21.46 - -
25th Percentile £22.46 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -35.00% -
75th Percentile - £33.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.04% +2.61% +29.80%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Herefordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Herefordshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Herefordshire

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Ledbury -2 28 £650 +2.36%
Hereford +1 3 £575 +2.22%
Containerisation
West Midlands

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (94.12%) Azure
2 27 (79.41%) GitHub
3 11 (32.35%) Serverless
4 10 (29.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (20.59%) Azure Key Vault
5 7 (20.59%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (14.71%) AWS
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon S3
7 4 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (11.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (29.41%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (20.59%) Redis
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (11.76%) InfluxDB
4 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (29.41%) SonarQube
2 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.88%) GitLab
4 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Senior
2 10 (29.41%) Data Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) Senior Data Engineer
3 8 (23.53%) Developer
4 7 (20.59%) Backend Developer
4 7 (20.59%) Python Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Site Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) .NET Developer
6 1 (2.94%) .NET Software Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Developer
6 1 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (29.41%) Kafka
1 10 (29.41%) Keycloak
1 10 (29.41%) YAML
2 7 (20.59%) FastAPI
2 7 (20.59%) Flask
2 7 (20.59%) GraphQL
2 7 (20.59%) gRPC
2 7 (20.59%) REST
2 7 (20.59%) WebSockets
3 4 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.94%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (20.59%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (85.29%) DevOps
2 23 (67.65%) CI/CD
3 12 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (29.41%) Batch Processing
4 10 (29.41%) Data Architecture
4 10 (29.41%) Data Engineering
4 10 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (29.41%) DataOps
4 10 (29.41%) DevSecOps
4 10 (29.41%) ETL
4 10 (29.41%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (29.41%) Regulatory Compliance
4 10 (29.41%) Test Automation
5 8 (23.53%) Microservices
6 5 (14.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 4 (11.76%) Observability
7 4 (11.76%) Service Management
7 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 4 (11.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (67.65%) Python
2 22 (64.71%) Go
3 12 (35.29%) SQL
4 4 (11.76%) Java
4 4 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (97.06%) Security Cleared
2 32 (94.12%) SC Cleared
3 21 (61.76%) DV Cleared
4 10 (29.41%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (29.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (91.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (97.06%) Kubernetes
2 15 (44.12%) Terraform
3 11 (32.35%) Grafana
3 11 (32.35%) Prometheus
4 4 (11.76%) Ansible
4 4 (11.76%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.88%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (5.88%) Puppet
6 1 (2.94%) Podman
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft