Containerisation Contracts in the North of England

Containerization
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 59 104 140
Rank change year-on-year +45 +36 -9
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 120 83 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.64% 1.74% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 2.03% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 66 54
10th Percentile £406 £444 £452
25th Percentile £461 £458 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £549 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -8.50% +1.69%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £650
90th Percentile £650 £694 £791
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £26.50 £58.75 £71.00
% change year-on-year -54.89% -17.25% +37.88%

All Process and 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 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the North of England

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the North of England

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the North of England

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in the North of England

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 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
North West +40 82 £500 -8.76% 146
Yorkshire +10 34 £588 +5.62% 64
North East +3 4 £635 +20.95% 17
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (9.17%) Confluence
2 7 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.67%) Apache
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) Camunda
4 1 (0.83%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (41.67%) AWS
2 23 (19.17%) Azure
3 17 (14.17%) Amazon EKS
3 17 (14.17%) GitHub
4 15 (12.50%) Serverless
5 14 (11.67%) GCP
6 10 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 10 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (7.50%) Slack
8 7 (5.83%) OpenShift
9 6 (5.00%) OCI
10 5 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.33%) Amazon Glacier
11 4 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (3.33%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.33%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.67%) HTTP
2 5 (4.17%) DNS
2 5 (4.17%) SSL
3 4 (3.33%) NAS
3 4 (3.33%) SAN
4 3 (2.50%) Firewall
4 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.67%) DHCP
5 2 (1.67%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.67%) Network Security
5 2 (1.67%) SSH
6 1 (0.83%) BGP
6 1 (0.83%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.83%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.83%) OSPF
6 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (15.83%) Relational Database
3 17 (14.17%) MongoDB
4 12 (10.00%) MySQL
5 11 (9.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 11 (9.17%) NoSQL
6 9 (7.50%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.83%) DynamoDB
7 7 (5.83%) Oracle Database
8 5 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.33%) Airbyte
9 4 (3.33%) Couchbase
9 4 (3.33%) Neo4j
9 4 (3.33%) ObjectStore
10 3 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.67%) Big Data
11 2 (1.67%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.67%) GIS
11 2 (1.67%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.67%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 26 (21.67%) Jenkins
2 25 (20.83%) Git
3 19 (15.83%) JUnit
4 18 (15.00%) GitLab
5 16 (13.33%) JIRA
6 10 (8.33%) Gradle
6 10 (8.33%) Liquibase
6 10 (8.33%) Mockito
7 9 (7.50%) Cucumber
7 9 (7.50%) Jasmine
8 3 (2.50%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.67%) Jaeger
9 2 (1.67%) webpack
10 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (22.50%) Finance
2 26 (21.67%) Public Sector
2 26 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.67%) Manufacturing
4 10 (8.33%) Electronics
4 10 (8.33%) Marketing
4 10 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.83%) Banking
6 6 (5.00%) Legal
6 6 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.33%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Military
9 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 36 (30.00%) Senior
2 32 (26.67%) Developer
3 17 (14.17%) Architect
3 17 (14.17%) Java Developer
4 16 (13.33%) Data Engineer
5 14 (11.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.67%) Senior Developer
6 13 (10.83%) Software Engineer
7 9 (7.50%) Python Engineer
7 9 (7.50%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (6.67%) Java Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Applications Architect
10 6 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Java Architect
10 6 (5.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 6 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (27.50%) Kafka
2 30 (25.00%) RESTful
3 24 (20.00%) Spring
3 24 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 21 (17.50%) Swagger
5 20 (16.67%) OpenAPI
6 18 (15.00%) React
7 13 (10.83%) REST
8 10 (8.33%) AngularJS
8 10 (8.33%) Spring Security
9 9 (7.50%) .NET
9 9 (7.50%) Spring Batch
10 8 (6.67%) Node.js
11 7 (5.83%) OAuth
12 6 (5.00%) LDAP
13 5 (4.17%) Middleware
14 4 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
14 4 (3.33%) CSS
14 4 (3.33%) HTML
14 4 (3.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 7 (5.83%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 6 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.17%) Clustering
5 4 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.67%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.67%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.83%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.83%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (20.00%) Linux
2 14 (11.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (5.00%) Unix
4 2 (1.67%) VMS
5 1 (0.83%) AIX
5 1 (0.83%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (64.17%) CI/CD
2 50 (41.67%) Microservices
3 42 (35.00%) DevOps
4 33 (27.50%) Agile
5 29 (24.17%) Software Engineering
6 28 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
6 28 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (22.50%) TDD
8 24 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
9 22 (18.33%) Test Automation
10 18 (15.00%) SDLC
11 17 (14.17%) Event-Driven
11 17 (14.17%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (13.33%) Analytics
13 15 (12.50%) Digital Twin
13 15 (12.50%) Visualisation
14 14 (11.67%) Migration
15 13 (10.83%) High Availability
16 12 (10.00%) BDD
16 12 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 51 (42.50%) Python
2 42 (35.00%) Java
3 40 (33.33%) SQL
4 21 (17.50%) Bash
5 18 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 11 (9.17%) Shell Script
7 10 (8.33%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.17%) C#
9 4 (3.33%) SPARQL
10 3 (2.50%) Groovy
10 3 (2.50%) Perl
10 3 (2.50%) Scala
11 2 (1.67%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.83%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.83%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.83%) Bicep
12 1 (0.83%) Go
12 1 (0.83%) Korn
12 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.83%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (35.83%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.33%) Degree
3 4 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.67%) OCP
5 2 (1.67%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.33%) QA
2 3 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.83%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 88 (73.33%) Docker
2 7 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (2.50%) vSphere
5 2 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 91 (75.83%) Kubernetes
2 20 (16.67%) Terraform
3 19 (15.83%) Ansible
4 11 (9.17%) Grafana
5 7 (5.83%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.17%) Istio
6 5 (4.17%) Puppet
7 3 (2.50%) Kustomize
7 3 (2.50%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.67%) Control-M
8 2 (1.67%) Kiali
8 2 (1.67%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.83%) Graylog
9 1 (0.83%) Kibana
9 1 (0.83%) logstash
9 1 (0.83%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (15.00%) Oracle
2 11 (9.17%) SAP
3 8 (6.67%) VMware
4 7 (5.83%) Splunk
5 6 (5.00%) Google
5 6 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.33%) Commvault
6 4 (3.33%) Confluent
6 4 (3.33%) Virgin Media
7 2 (1.67%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.67%) Cisco
7 2 (1.67%) Databricks
7 2 (1.67%) Mapbox
7 2 (1.67%) xMatters
8 1 (0.83%) Ariba
8 1 (0.83%) IBM
8 1 (0.83%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.83%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.83%) TIBCO