Containerisation Contracts in Hertfordshire

Containerization
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 36 65 65
Rank change year-on-year +29 0 -13
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 9 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 2.80% 0.96% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 1.06% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 5
10th Percentile £449 £318 -
25th Percentile £465 £419 £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £775
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -38.71% +29.17%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £838
90th Percentile £613 £650 £875
East of England median daily rate £490 £513 £713
% change year-on-year -4.39% -28.07% +18.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 753 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 88.79% 90.29% 86.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 277 374
10th Percentile £384 £232 £240
25th Percentile £446 £315 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £705 £768
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 314 156
10th Percentile £22.65 £38.12 £21.00
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.00 £53.69
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -23.08% +27.83%
75th Percentile £79.82 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.25
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Hertfordshire

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Hertfordshire

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage - 1 £500 - 22
Containerisation
East of England

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Wireless
2 2 (22.22%) 3GPP
2 2 (22.22%) 4G
2 2 (22.22%) 5G
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (11.11%) Flink
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Backend Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Programmer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) REST
2 3 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (22.22%) OpenAPI
3 2 (22.22%) Swagger
4 1 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (11.11%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) OO
1 4 (44.44%) TDD
1 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 2 (22.22%) API Development
2 2 (22.22%) Microservices
2 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Data Management
3 1 (11.11%) Data Security
3 1 (11.11%) ETL
3 1 (11.11%) OOP
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) QA Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
3 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
3 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 7 (77.78%) Java
3 4 (44.44%) C#
3 4 (44.44%) C++
4 2 (22.22%) Go
5 1 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) NetApp
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
1 1 (11.11%) VMware