Containerisation Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Containerization
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 87 120
Rank change year-on-year +43 +33 +60
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 149 36 17
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 4.79% 1.56% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.53% 1.82% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 26 15
10th Percentile £413 £460 £525
25th Percentile £480 £490 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £594 £675
Median % change year-on-year -10.70% -12.07% +25.00%
75th Percentile £629 £685 £738
90th Percentile £700 £713 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -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 2,693 1,983 2,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.51% 85.88% 84.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 1,246 1,518
10th Percentile £250 £250 £262
25th Percentile £375 £375 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 71 97
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.15
25th Percentile £16.31 £17.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% -2.17% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £30.78 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Containerisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 December 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 15 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
West Midlands +45 136 £545 -10.95% 80
East Midlands -9 13 £435 -2.03% 72
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 24 (16.11%) SAS
2 8 (5.37%) Confluence
3 7 (4.70%) OpenStack
4 5 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.68%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (2.01%) Drupal
6 3 (2.01%) nginx
7 2 (1.34%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.01%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 71 (47.65%) Azure
2 59 (39.60%) AWS
3 58 (38.93%) GitHub
4 36 (24.16%) GCP
4 36 (24.16%) Serverless
5 29 (19.46%) OpenShift
6 28 (18.79%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (8.72%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (7.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (6.71%) Amazon S3
10 10 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (6.71%) Azure AKS
11 8 (5.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (4.70%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (4.03%) Datadog
14 5 (3.36%) AWS KMS
14 5 (3.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.36%) Firewall
2 4 (2.68%) Network Security
3 2 (1.34%) DNS
3 2 (1.34%) SSH
3 2 (1.34%) SSL
3 2 (1.34%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (26.17%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (15.44%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (13.42%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.04%) Redis
4 9 (6.04%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 8 (5.37%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.70%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (4.03%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 5 (3.36%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.36%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.68%) InfluxDB
9 4 (2.68%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 3 (2.01%) Big Data
10 3 (2.01%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.34%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.34%) Metadata
11 2 (1.34%) MySQL
11 2 (1.34%) Parquet
11 2 (1.34%) Power BI
11 2 (1.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 57 (38.26%) Jenkins
2 56 (37.58%) GitLab
3 33 (22.15%) Git
4 23 (15.44%) JUnit
5 22 (14.77%) Selenium
5 22 (14.77%) SonarQube
6 16 (10.74%) JIRA
7 10 (6.71%) CircleCI
7 10 (6.71%) Liquibase
8 8 (5.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (4.70%) Bitbucket
10 6 (4.03%) Artifactory
10 6 (4.03%) Maven
10 6 (4.03%) Postman
11 5 (3.36%) Cypress.io
11 5 (3.36%) Gradle
11 5 (3.36%) Snyk
11 5 (3.36%) webpack
12 3 (2.01%) MLflow
13 2 (1.34%) Jaeger
General
1 69 (46.31%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.41%) Finance
3 15 (10.07%) Banking
4 14 (9.40%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.71%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.01%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.67%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (18.12%) Senior
2 26 (17.45%) Developer
3 18 (12.08%) Test Specialist
4 16 (10.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (10.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 15 (10.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (8.72%) Site Engineer
7 12 (8.05%) Data Engineer
7 12 (8.05%) GCP Engineer
7 12 (8.05%) Splunk Engineer
8 10 (6.71%) Backend Developer
8 10 (6.71%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 10 (6.71%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.37%) Python Developer
10 8 (5.37%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (5.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.70%) Architect
11 7 (4.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (34.23%) REST
2 39 (26.17%) Elastic Stack
3 23 (15.44%) RESTful
4 17 (11.41%) pytest
4 17 (11.41%) YAML
5 16 (10.74%) Kafka
6 11 (7.38%) Keycloak
7 10 (6.71%) Flask
7 10 (6.71%) JSON
8 9 (6.04%) Spring
9 8 (5.37%) FastAPI
9 8 (5.37%) GraphQL
9 8 (5.37%) WebSockets
10 7 (4.70%) gRPC
10 7 (4.70%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (4.03%) OAuth
12 5 (3.36%) .NET
12 5 (3.36%) Spring Boot
13 4 (2.68%) Hibernate
13 4 (2.68%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.46%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.41%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (9.40%) Public Cloud
4 11 (7.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (6.71%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.36%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.01%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.34%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.67%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 44 (29.53%) Linux
2 10 (6.71%) Unix
3 3 (2.01%) Windows
4 1 (0.67%) Android
4 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (79.19%) CI/CD
2 115 (77.18%) DevOps
3 59 (39.60%) Agile
4 49 (32.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (28.86%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (28.19%) Microservices
6 42 (28.19%) Test Automation
7 34 (22.82%) Analytics
7 34 (22.82%) Data Pipeline
8 31 (20.81%) Computer Science
9 26 (17.45%) High Availability
10 24 (16.11%) Migration
10 24 (16.11%) Software Engineering
11 21 (14.09%) Observability
11 21 (14.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (13.42%) DevSecOps
12 20 (13.42%) Test Strategy
13 19 (12.75%) Change Management
13 19 (12.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 18 (12.08%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 85 (57.05%) Python
2 46 (30.87%) Go
3 28 (18.79%) SQL
4 21 (14.09%) Java
5 17 (11.41%) Bash
6 9 (6.04%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.37%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.03%) C#
9 4 (2.68%) PHP
10 3 (2.01%) Ruby
11 2 (1.34%) Groovy
11 2 (1.34%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.67%) R
12 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 72 (48.32%) Security Cleared
2 58 (38.93%) SC Cleared
3 32 (21.48%) Degree
4 29 (19.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (18.12%) DV Cleared
6 15 (10.07%) Azure Certification
7 14 (9.40%) Master's Degree
8 8 (5.37%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.67%) PhD
12 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.38%) NCSC
2 6 (4.03%) QA
3 4 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.68%) GDPR
4 3 (2.01%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.34%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.34%) WCAG
6 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 125 (83.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.67%) HDFS
2 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 125 (83.89%) Kubernetes
2 53 (35.57%) Terraform
3 42 (28.19%) Ansible
4 37 (24.83%) Prometheus
5 36 (24.16%) Grafana
6 19 (12.75%) Puppet
7 14 (9.40%) Kibana
8 10 (6.71%) Progress Chef
9 6 (4.03%) Podman
10 4 (2.68%) Argo
10 4 (2.68%) Istio
10 4 (2.68%) logstash
11 3 (2.01%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 2 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 32 (21.48%) Microsoft
1 32 (21.48%) Splunk
2 13 (8.72%) Oracle
3 9 (6.04%) Google
4 4 (2.68%) IBM
5 3 (2.01%) Cloudera
5 3 (2.01%) Ping Identity
6 2 (1.34%) Databricks
6 2 (1.34%) Pega
6 2 (1.34%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.34%) VMware
7 1 (0.67%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.67%) F5
7 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.67%) Talend
7 1 (0.67%) Tenable