Containerisation Contracts in the Midlands

Containerization
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 79 117 151
Rank change year-on-year +38 +34 -18
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 32 16 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.67% 0.58% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 0.71% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 14 9
10th Percentile £312 £290 £457
25th Percentile £425 £397 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.66% -10.50% +8.87%
75th Percentile £700 £647 £625
90th Percentile £790 £749 £695
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the Midlands

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the Midlands

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the Midlands

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +31 24 £600 +60.00% 67
East Midlands +11 8 £467 -1.16% 37
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (12.50%) Apache
2 3 (9.38%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (6.25%) Confluence
4 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) NetSuite
1 2 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) AWS
2 14 (43.75%) Azure
3 10 (31.25%) Amazon S3
4 9 (28.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (21.88%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (21.88%) Serverless
6 5 (15.63%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (15.63%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (15.63%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (12.50%) GitHub
8 3 (9.38%) Amazon Glacier
8 3 (9.38%) AWS KMS
8 3 (9.38%) GCP
8 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (9.38%) PaaS
8 3 (9.38%) Route 53
8 3 (9.38%) SaaS
9 2 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) DynamoDB
2 5 (15.63%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.13%) Flink
6 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.50%) Git
3 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (9.38%) DbUnit
3 3 (9.38%) jMock
3 3 (9.38%) JUnit
3 3 (9.38%) Maven
3 3 (9.38%) Mockito
3 3 (9.38%) SonarQube
4 2 (6.25%) JIRA
5 1 (3.13%) GitLab
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 5 (15.63%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Finance
5 3 (9.38%) Legal
6 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Developer
1 5 (15.63%) Senior
2 4 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Architect
3 3 (9.38%) AWS Developer
3 3 (9.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Java Developer
3 3 (9.38%) Lead
3 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Python Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Site Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Application Development Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Development Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Java Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Java Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) RESTful
2 6 (18.75%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (18.75%) Kafka
3 5 (15.63%) .NET
4 4 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 4 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (9.38%) Bootstrap
5 3 (9.38%) Django
5 3 (9.38%) Hibernate
5 3 (9.38%) JPA
5 3 (9.38%) PowerMock
5 3 (9.38%) PySpark
5 3 (9.38%) SOAP
5 3 (9.38%) Spring
5 3 (9.38%) Spring Batch
5 3 (9.38%) Spring Boot
5 3 (9.38%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (9.38%) Spring Integration
5 3 (9.38%) Web Services
5 3 (9.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Public Cloud
2 4 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Windows
3 1 (3.13%) Android
3 1 (3.13%) Rocky
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (37.50%) Agile
3 11 (34.38%) DevOps
3 11 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (25.00%) Microservices
7 7 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (18.75%) Computer Science
8 6 (18.75%) Task Automation
9 5 (15.63%) Analytics
9 5 (15.63%) Data Integration
9 5 (15.63%) Decision-Making
9 5 (15.63%) ETL
9 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (12.50%) Data Modelling
10 4 (12.50%) Scrum
10 4 (12.50%) Service Delivery
10 4 (12.50%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) Python
2 11 (34.38%) Java
3 9 (28.13%) SQL
4 6 (18.75%) Bash
5 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
6 3 (9.38%) C#
6 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
7 2 (6.25%) R
7 2 (6.25%) Scala
8 1 (3.13%) Bicep
8 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 8 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (18.75%) Degree
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) NCSC
2 3 (9.38%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 25 (78.13%) Docker
2 3 (9.38%) Postfix
3 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (34.38%) Terraform
3 6 (18.75%) Ansible
4 4 (12.50%) Grafana
4 4 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.25%) Podman
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Atlassian
1 3 (9.38%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (6.25%) Google
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) BT
3 1 (3.13%) Dell
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Siemens
3 1 (3.13%) VMware