Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Containerization
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside 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 29 32 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 2.39% 0.44% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 0.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £495 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - -
75th Percentile £529 £463 -
90th Percentile £564 - -
North West median daily rate £503 £490 £555
% change year-on-year +2.55% -11.71% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 226 165 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 90.04% 72.69% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 85 74
10th Percentile £130 £149 £222
25th Percentile £151 £188 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year -32.12% -8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £501 £563
90th Percentile £643 £630 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 14
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.28 £13.77
25th Percentile £15.18 £15.22 £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.04 £20.19 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +7.68% +6.78%
75th Percentile £51.02 £23.53 £26.71
90th Percentile - £26.02 £43.70
North West median hourly rate £34.50 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year +7.78% -9.83% +37.54%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +2 6 £510 +13.33% 7
Containerisation
North West

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JUnit
1 4 (66.67%) Postman
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Senior
2 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Java Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Senior Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) React
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 4 (66.67%) jQuery
2 4 (66.67%) JSON
2 4 (66.67%) POJO
2 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (66.67%) Thymeleaf
3 1 (16.67%) Express.js
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) MERN Stack
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) Unit Testing
3 4 (66.67%) API Development
3 4 (66.67%) MVC
3 4 (66.67%) User Research
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) Pair Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform