Containerisation Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Containerization
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 58 68
Rank change year-on-year -22 +10 +81
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 225 158 116
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.95% 4.03% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 4.53% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 108 84
10th Percentile £363 £346 £357
25th Percentile £408 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £550
90th Percentile £664 £650 £618
England median daily rate £535 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 £79.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% - -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £67.00 -
% change year-on-year +5.97% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,337 3,488 3,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.14% 88.96% 83.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,749 2,253 2,028
10th Percentile £313 £268 £312
25th Percentile £405 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £686
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 518 195 182
10th Percentile £15.47 £13.04 £12.55
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.41 £17.81
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.26% -35.34% +27.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £38.38 £51.90
90th Percentile £79.13 £72.08 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in the North of England

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Containerisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the North of England

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Containerisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 September 2026. 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
Yorkshire -3 96 £500 +1.01% 58
North West -62 78 £550 +10.00% 99
North East +3 52 £413 -5.17% 25
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 28 (12.44%) Apache Spark
2 27 (12.00%) Apache
3 26 (11.56%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (10.22%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.33%) Confluence
5 3 (1.33%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Superset
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 124 (55.11%) AWS
2 88 (39.11%) Azure
3 53 (23.56%) GCP
4 39 (17.33%) GitHub
5 35 (15.56%) Serverless
6 26 (11.56%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (9.33%) OpenShift
9 19 (8.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (6.67%) Amazon S3
10 15 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 13 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (4.89%) Azure AKS
14 10 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (4.44%) Amazon EMR
15 8 (3.56%) AWS KMS
15 8 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.56%) Firewall
2 15 (6.67%) DNS
3 13 (5.78%) Network Security
4 4 (1.78%) NAS
4 4 (1.78%) SAN
5 2 (0.89%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.89%) HTTP
5 2 (0.89%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.89%) SSL
5 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.89%) VPN
5 2 (0.89%) VSAN
6 1 (0.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.22%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.78%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.56%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (3.11%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.11%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.67%) Neo4j
6 6 (2.67%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.22%) Big Data
7 5 (2.22%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.78%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.78%) MySQL
9 3 (1.33%) Redis
10 2 (0.89%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.89%) DocumentDB
10 2 (0.89%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.89%) Tableau
10 2 (0.89%) Trino
Development Applications
1 61 (27.11%) GitLab
2 34 (15.11%) Jenkins
3 25 (11.11%) Git
4 13 (5.78%) JIRA
5 9 (4.00%) Gatling
6 7 (3.11%) Maven
7 5 (2.22%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.22%) JMeter
7 5 (2.22%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.78%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.78%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.78%) Selenium
9 3 (1.33%) Gradle
10 2 (0.89%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.89%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.89%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.44%) eggPlant
11 1 (0.44%) Newman
11 1 (0.44%) Postman
General
1 59 (26.22%) Public Sector
2 50 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 34 (15.11%) Finance
4 29 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.33%) Banking
6 8 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.78%) Military
10 2 (0.89%) Publishing
10 2 (0.89%) Retail
11 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.44%) Law
11 1 (0.44%) Legal
11 1 (0.44%) Police
11 1 (0.44%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (22.67%) Developer
3 29 (12.89%) Senior
4 28 (12.44%) Architect
5 24 (10.67%) Lead
6 21 (9.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (8.89%) Python Developer
8 16 (7.11%) Java Developer
9 14 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (6.22%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (5.78%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (5.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.33%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (5.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.33%) Security Engineer
12 10 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.00%) Lead Developer
13 9 (4.00%) Software Developer
14 8 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (3.56%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (56.00%) Terraform
2 26 (11.56%) REST
3 23 (10.22%) RESTful
4 22 (9.78%) Spring Boot
5 20 (8.89%) Kafka
5 20 (8.89%) Spring
6 17 (7.56%) Node.js
6 17 (7.56%) OAuth
7 14 (6.22%) OpenTelemetry
7 14 (6.22%) React
8 12 (5.33%) OpenID
9 11 (4.89%) FastAPI
10 10 (4.44%) AngularJS
10 10 (4.44%) JWT
11 9 (4.00%) .NET
11 9 (4.00%) OAuth2
12 7 (3.11%) ARM Templates
12 7 (3.11%) Playwright
12 7 (3.11%) SAML
13 6 (2.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 69 (30.67%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.44%) Security Posture
5 9 (4.00%) Private Cloud
6 8 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.67%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.67%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.22%) Replication
10 4 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.78%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.78%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.78%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.33%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (1.33%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.44%) Linux
2 8 (3.56%) Windows
3 7 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.11%) Unix
4 2 (0.89%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (0.89%) VMS
5 1 (0.44%) Android
5 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (82.22%) CI/CD
2 137 (60.89%) DevOps
3 123 (54.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (36.44%) Agile
5 73 (32.44%) Microservices
6 61 (27.11%) Observability
7 49 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 36 (16.00%) DevSecOps
9 36 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
10 30 (13.33%) Migration
11 29 (12.89%) API Development
12 25 (11.11%) AI
12 25 (11.11%) Analytics
12 25 (11.11%) Cloud Security
12 25 (11.11%) Scrum
13 24 (10.67%) Event-Driven
13 24 (10.67%) Software Engineering
14 23 (10.22%) Cybersecurity
14 23 (10.22%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 118 (52.44%) Python
2 69 (30.67%) Java
3 40 (17.78%) Bash
4 34 (15.11%) SQL
5 28 (12.44%) PowerShell
6 16 (7.11%) Bicep
6 16 (7.11%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.44%) Shell Script
8 9 (4.00%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.11%) Scala
10 5 (2.22%) C#
10 5 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.22%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (1.78%) Groovy
12 2 (0.89%) Go
12 2 (0.89%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.44%) Cypher
13 1 (0.44%) Swift
Qualifications
1 73 (32.44%) Security Cleared
2 66 (29.33%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.56%) CISSP
4 11 (4.89%) Azure Certification
4 11 (4.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.00%) Degree
7 7 (3.11%) CISM
8 6 (2.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (2.67%) CCSP
8 6 (2.67%) CEH
8 6 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.67%) OSCP
9 5 (2.22%) GCFA
9 5 (2.22%) GCIH
9 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.78%) OCP
10 4 (1.78%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.89%) NCDA
11 2 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.11%) QA
2 15 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 14 (6.22%) NIST
4 12 (5.33%) Accessibility
5 11 (4.89%) GDPR
6 7 (3.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (3.11%) WCAG
7 6 (2.67%) COBIT
7 6 (2.67%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.44%) ISA99
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 145 (64.44%) Docker
2 9 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.56%) vSphere
4 6 (2.67%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.67%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.78%) NFS
6 3 (1.33%) KVM
7 2 (0.89%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.89%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.89%) SRDF
7 2 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 146 (64.89%) Kubernetes
2 37 (16.44%) Grafana
3 33 (14.67%) Ansible
4 29 (12.89%) Prometheus
5 14 (6.22%) Progress Chef
6 13 (5.78%) Argo
7 8 (3.56%) vCenter Server
8 7 (3.11%) Control-M
8 7 (3.11%) IBM Guardium
8 7 (3.11%) Nessus
8 7 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.22%) CASB
9 5 (2.22%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.78%) Kustomize
11 3 (1.33%) Packer
12 2 (0.89%) Consul
12 2 (0.89%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.89%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.89%) SnapMirror
12 2 (0.89%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 31 (13.78%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.78%) Google
3 20 (8.89%) Splunk
4 19 (8.44%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.33%) Dynatrace
6 11 (4.89%) Trend Micro
7 10 (4.44%) Pure Storage
7 10 (4.44%) VMware
8 9 (4.00%) Tenable
9 5 (2.22%) Cribl.io
10 4 (1.78%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.78%) Databricks
10 4 (1.78%) IBM
10 4 (1.78%) Okta
10 4 (1.78%) Oracle
10 4 (1.78%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.33%) Brocade
11 3 (1.33%) Cisco
11 3 (1.33%) Dell
11 3 (1.33%) New Relic