Containerisation Contracts in Manchester

Containerization
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 56 75
Rank change year-on-year +34 +19 +18
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 57 39 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 6.38% 2.73% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.17% 3.15% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 28 20
10th Percentile £428 £438 £550
25th Percentile £456 £450 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -7.37% -2.66%
75th Percentile £531 £694 £641
90th Percentile £549 £711 £650
North West median daily rate £500 £523 £588
% change year-on-year -4.31% -11.06% -3.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £70.70 - -
25th Percentile £71.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £79.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% - -
75th Percentile £89.75 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £92.90 - -
North West median hourly rate £79.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +12.86% - -

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 795 1,238 1,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.93% 86.51% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 845 1,196
10th Percentile £313 £313 £315
25th Percentile £400 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £668 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 77 52
10th Percentile £14.17 £12.46 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.70 £13.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £27.60
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -5.80% +52.36%
75th Percentile £74.38 £61.25 £42.81
90th Percentile £86.20 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.92% -25.71% +52.17%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Manchester

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Manchester

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Manchester

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in Manchester

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Containerisation in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Containerisation in Manchester

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (8.77%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 31 (54.39%) AWS
2 17 (29.82%) Amazon EKS
3 14 (24.56%) GitHub
4 11 (19.30%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (14.04%) Azure
7 5 (8.77%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (8.77%) Serverless
8 4 (7.02%) Apigee
8 4 (7.02%) dbt
8 4 (7.02%) GCP
9 3 (5.26%) Azure AKS
9 3 (5.26%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) DNS
2 2 (3.51%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.75%) DHCP
3 1 (1.75%) HTTP
3 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 16 (28.07%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 6 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 6 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 5 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (7.02%) Airbyte
5 4 (7.02%) ObjectStore
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (5.26%) DynamoDB
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.51%) DocumentDB
7 2 (3.51%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (3.51%) GIS
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.75%) Apache Accumulo
8 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.75%) Big Data
8 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 15 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 14 (24.56%) GitLab
3 11 (19.30%) Gradle
3 11 (19.30%) JUnit
4 10 (17.54%) Liquibase
4 10 (17.54%) Mockito
5 6 (10.53%) Git
6 5 (8.77%) JIRA
7 4 (7.02%) CircleCI
8 2 (3.51%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.75%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.75%) Maven
9 1 (1.75%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (1.75%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 11 (19.30%) Finance
4 10 (17.54%) Electronics
4 10 (17.54%) Manufacturing
4 10 (17.54%) Marketing
4 10 (17.54%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.26%) Retail
6 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (29.82%) Senior
2 16 (28.07%) Developer
3 13 (22.81%) Software Engineer
4 11 (19.30%) Data Engineer
5 8 (14.04%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Java Developer
6 7 (12.28%) Java Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Java Software Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) Python Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) React Developer
8 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Data Architect
9 4 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (7.02%) Python Data Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.58%) Kafka
2 16 (28.07%) React
3 13 (22.81%) Spring
4 12 (21.05%) OpenAPI
4 12 (21.05%) Spring Boot
4 12 (21.05%) Swagger
5 10 (17.54%) RESTful
6 8 (14.04%) OAuth
7 7 (12.28%) AngularJS
8 6 (10.53%) .NET
9 5 (8.77%) Node.js
10 4 (7.02%) OAuth2
10 4 (7.02%) OpenID
10 4 (7.02%) REST
10 4 (7.02%) SAML
11 3 (5.26%) FastAPI
12 2 (3.51%) GeoJSON
12 2 (3.51%) GraphQL
12 2 (3.51%) MapLibre
12 2 (3.51%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.75%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.77%) Linux
2 2 (3.51%) VMS
3 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (57.89%) CI/CD
2 27 (47.37%) DevOps
3 22 (38.60%) Software Engineering
4 21 (36.84%) Agile
5 19 (33.33%) Microservices
6 18 (31.58%) Data Pipeline
7 16 (28.07%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (28.07%) TDD
8 15 (26.32%) Digital Twin
8 15 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (26.32%) Visualisation
9 13 (22.81%) Analytics
9 13 (22.81%) Migration
10 11 (19.30%) Continuous Deployment
10 11 (19.30%) Test Automation
11 10 (17.54%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (17.54%) Digital Marketing
11 10 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (17.54%) Programme Management
12 9 (15.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.11%) Python
2 23 (40.35%) SQL
3 21 (36.84%) Java
4 17 (29.82%) TypeScript
5 6 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.02%) Bash
6 4 (7.02%) C#
6 4 (7.02%) SPARQL
7 1 (1.75%) Bicep
7 1 (1.75%) Perl
7 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (49.12%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.75%) Degree
3 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) QA
System Software
1 33 (57.89%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (70.18%) Kubernetes
2 15 (26.32%) Terraform
3 4 (7.02%) Grafana
4 3 (5.26%) Ansible
4 3 (5.26%) Istio
4 3 (5.26%) Kustomize
5 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.51%) Puppet
5 2 (3.51%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.75%) Graylog
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) SAP
2 6 (10.53%) Google
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle
4 2 (3.51%) Mapbox
4 2 (3.51%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.75%) Databricks
5 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.75%) SendGrid