Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Containerization
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 44 85
Rank change year-on-year +10 +41 -5
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 63 39 21
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 5.57% 3.41% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.21% 3.85% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 17 16
10th Percentile £385 £358 £443
25th Percentile £478 £375 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year +14.11% -11.20% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £700
90th Percentile £688 £580 £713
North West median daily rate £503 £492 £555
% change year-on-year +2.24% -11.44% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £64.38
90th Percentile - - £64.75
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £63.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +16.42% +2.06% -5.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,015 1,014 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.66% 88.71% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 597 1,026
10th Percentile £300 £294 £285
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £661 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 41 48
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.00 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £22.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +64.56% -43.57%
75th Percentile £31.40 £45.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £74.28
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Manchester

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Manchester

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 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
Cheadle - 5 £625 - 2
Oldham - 4 - -
Containerisation
North West

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (6.35%) OpenStack
2 3 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.76%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 38 (60.32%) AWS
2 28 (44.44%) GCP
3 25 (39.68%) Azure
4 14 (22.22%) GitHub
4 14 (22.22%) Serverless
5 13 (20.63%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (15.87%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (15.87%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
7 9 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (14.29%) Datadog
8 8 (12.70%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (12.70%) SaaS
9 7 (11.11%) PaaS
10 6 (9.52%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (7.94%) Apigee
11 5 (7.94%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (7.94%) Loggly
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) Firewall
2 3 (4.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.63%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (17.46%) DynamoDB
3 9 (14.29%) MySQL
3 9 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 8 (12.70%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (11.11%) BigQuery
5 7 (11.11%) Relational Database
6 5 (7.94%) MongoDB
6 5 (7.94%) RDBMS
6 5 (7.94%) Redis
7 3 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (4.76%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.17%) DocumentDB
9 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.59%) Big Data
9 1 (1.59%) Metadata
9 1 (1.59%) ObjectStore
9 1 (1.59%) Power BI
9 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (31.75%) Jenkins
2 14 (22.22%) Git
3 9 (14.29%) GitLab
4 5 (7.94%) Gradle
4 5 (7.94%) Maven
4 5 (7.94%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (7.94%) SonarLint
4 5 (7.94%) SonarQube
5 4 (6.35%) JIRA
6 3 (4.76%) Artifactory
6 3 (4.76%) Mockito
General
1 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.81%) Finance
3 13 (20.63%) Banking
3 13 (20.63%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.35%) Games
5 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Electronics
5 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.17%) Marketing
5 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.59%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.59%) Military
6 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (26.98%) Architect
2 10 (15.87%) Developer
3 9 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Software Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Java Architect
5 7 (11.11%) Java Technical Architect
5 7 (11.11%) Technical Architect
6 6 (9.52%) Senior
7 5 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (6.35%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Lead
9 3 (4.76%) Software Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.22%) Kafka
2 12 (19.05%) Spring Boot
3 9 (14.29%) RESTful
4 6 (9.52%) Dropwizard
4 6 (9.52%) GraphQL
4 6 (9.52%) J2EE
4 6 (9.52%) JWT
4 6 (9.52%) Micronaut
4 6 (9.52%) Spring
5 5 (7.94%) Celery
5 5 (7.94%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (6.35%) React
7 3 (4.76%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (4.76%) JAX-RS
7 3 (4.76%) Middleware
7 3 (4.76%) OAuth
7 3 (4.76%) REST
7 3 (4.76%) Spring Batch
7 3 (4.76%) Spring Security
8 2 (3.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (9.52%) N-Tier
3 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (4.76%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.17%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.59%) CUDA
6 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (34.92%) Linux
2 6 (9.52%) Unix
3 4 (6.35%) Windows
4 3 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 28 (44.44%) DevOps
3 23 (36.51%) Agile
4 21 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (31.75%) Microservices
6 16 (25.40%) Software Engineering
7 15 (23.81%) Event-Driven
7 15 (23.81%) Observability
7 15 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (20.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 12 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (19.05%) TDD
10 11 (17.46%) Design Patterns
10 11 (17.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (15.87%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (14.29%) BDD
12 9 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (14.29%) Waterfall
13 8 (12.70%) API Design
13 8 (12.70%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 39 (61.90%) Python
2 25 (39.68%) Java
3 15 (23.81%) Bash
4 14 (22.22%) SQL
5 7 (11.11%) C++
6 5 (7.94%) Go
6 5 (7.94%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.35%) C
7 4 (6.35%) Ruby
8 3 (4.76%) PHP
9 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (26.98%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.59%) Degree
4 1 (1.59%) Tableau Certification
4 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.76%) IEC 61508
1 3 (4.76%) IEC 62304
1 3 (4.76%) ISO 26262
2 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.59%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (74.60%) Docker
2 4 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.35%) vSphere
3 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (68.25%) Kubernetes
2 26 (41.27%) Terraform
3 10 (15.87%) Grafana
4 7 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.35%) Ansible
6 3 (4.76%) Podman
6 3 (4.76%) SELinux
7 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (11.11%) F5
1 7 (11.11%) VMware
2 6 (9.52%) Gigya
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.35%) Confluent
3 4 (6.35%) Palo Alto
4 3 (4.76%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.76%) Citrix
4 3 (4.76%) Google
4 3 (4.76%) HP
4 3 (4.76%) IBM
4 3 (4.76%) Oracle
4 3 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.17%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.17%) SAP
6 1 (1.59%) Databricks
6 1 (1.59%) Pega
6 1 (1.59%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.59%) Virgin Media