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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 78 152
Rank change year-on-year +20 +74 -10
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 119 104 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.63% 2.25% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 2.65% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 84 42
10th Percentile £393 £444 £451
25th Percentile £456 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £551 £628 £650
90th Percentile £625 £694 £846
England median daily rate £534 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -3.00% -12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £75.65 - -
25th Percentile £78.88 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £87.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% - -
75th Percentile £92.38 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £93.95 - -
England median hourly rate £78.70 £58.75 £73.00
% change year-on-year +33.96% -19.52% +49.77%

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 2,942 3,929 5,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.86% 85.14% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,897 2,407 3,459
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 367 203
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.50 £15.36
Median hourly rate £27.13 £18.00 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +50.69% -35.02% +45.79%
75th Percentile £55.43 £45.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.88 £60.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%

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 23 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Containerisation in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 23 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 +34 82 £500 -4.53% 514
Yorkshire -1 34 £506 -2.64% 432
North East +2 3 £620 +18.10% 128
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 7 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.52%) Confluence
3 2 (1.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.84%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (47.06%) AWS
2 23 (19.33%) Azure
3 21 (17.65%) GitHub
4 20 (16.81%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (15.13%) Serverless
6 17 (14.29%) GCP
7 13 (10.92%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (10.08%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (8.40%) Amazon S3
10 9 (7.56%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (5.88%) OCI
11 7 (5.88%) OpenShift
12 6 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (3.36%) Amazon Glacier
14 4 (3.36%) Amazon Kinesis
14 4 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (3.36%) Apigee
14 4 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (3.36%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.88%) DNS
2 6 (5.04%) SSL
3 5 (4.20%) Firewall
3 5 (4.20%) HTTP
3 5 (4.20%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.36%) NAS
4 4 (3.36%) Network Security
4 4 (3.36%) SAN
5 3 (2.52%) VPN
6 2 (1.68%) DHCP
6 2 (1.68%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.68%) SSH
7 1 (0.84%) BGP
7 1 (0.84%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.84%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.84%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.33%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (15.97%) Relational Database
3 10 (8.40%) DynamoDB
4 9 (7.56%) MongoDB
4 9 (7.56%) NoSQL
5 8 (6.72%) Oracle Database
6 7 (5.88%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.36%) Airbyte
8 4 (3.36%) Neo4j
8 4 (3.36%) ObjectStore
9 3 (2.52%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.68%) Big Data
10 2 (1.68%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.68%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.68%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.68%) Hazelcast
10 2 (1.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (24.37%) Jenkins
2 22 (18.49%) GitLab
3 21 (17.65%) Git
4 11 (9.24%) JUnit
5 10 (8.40%) Gradle
5 10 (8.40%) JIRA
5 10 (8.40%) Liquibase
5 10 (8.40%) Mockito
6 4 (3.36%) CircleCI
7 3 (2.52%) Jaeger
7 3 (2.52%) webpack
8 2 (1.68%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.84%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.84%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (23.53%) Finance
1 28 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.81%) Public Sector
3 14 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 10 (8.40%) Electronics
4 10 (8.40%) Marketing
4 10 (8.40%) Telecoms
5 8 (6.72%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.88%) Banking
7 6 (5.04%) Legal
8 5 (4.20%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.52%) Retail
11 2 (1.68%) Military
12 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (22.69%) Developer
1 27 (22.69%) Senior
2 19 (15.97%) Architect
3 16 (13.45%) Data Engineer
3 16 (13.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (10.08%) Software Engineer
5 9 (7.56%) Java Developer
6 8 (6.72%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 8 (6.72%) Lead
6 8 (6.72%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Applications Architect
8 6 (5.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Data Architect
8 6 (5.04%) Java Architect
8 6 (5.04%) Java Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Python Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (26.05%) Kafka
2 21 (17.65%) RESTful
3 19 (15.97%) React
4 14 (11.76%) Spring
4 14 (11.76%) Spring Boot
5 13 (10.92%) OpenAPI
5 13 (10.92%) REST
5 13 (10.92%) Swagger
6 12 (10.08%) AngularJS
7 11 (9.24%) .NET
8 9 (7.56%) Node.js
9 8 (6.72%) OAuth
10 6 (5.04%) CSS
10 6 (5.04%) HTML
10 6 (5.04%) LDAP
11 5 (4.20%) Middleware
12 4 (3.36%) ActiveMQ
12 4 (3.36%) OpenID
12 4 (3.36%) PyTorch
12 4 (3.36%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.24%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.04%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.04%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.20%) Clustering
3 5 (4.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.68%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.68%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.68%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.84%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.84%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.84%) Replication
6 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.13%) Linux
2 7 (5.88%) Unix
3 4 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.68%) VMS
5 1 (0.84%) AIX
5 1 (0.84%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (61.34%) CI/CD
2 48 (40.34%) DevOps
3 40 (33.61%) Microservices
4 38 (31.93%) Agile
5 33 (27.73%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (21.01%) Software Engineering
7 24 (20.17%) Data Pipeline
8 23 (19.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (16.81%) Continuous Integration
10 19 (15.97%) SDLC
10 19 (15.97%) TDD
11 18 (15.13%) Event-Driven
11 18 (15.13%) Migration
12 17 (14.29%) Test Automation
13 16 (13.45%) Analytics
14 15 (12.61%) Digital Twin
14 15 (12.61%) Visualisation
15 12 (10.08%) Continuous Deployment
16 11 (9.24%) RBAC
17 10 (8.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 54 (45.38%) Python
2 37 (31.09%) Java
3 30 (25.21%) SQL
4 17 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 14 (11.76%) Bash
5 14 (11.76%) Shell Script
6 12 (10.08%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.04%) C#
8 4 (3.36%) Groovy
8 4 (3.36%) SPARQL
9 3 (2.52%) Perl
9 3 (2.52%) Scala
10 2 (1.68%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.84%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.84%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.84%) Bicep
11 1 (0.84%) Go
11 1 (0.84%) Korn
11 1 (0.84%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.84%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (31.09%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.20%) Degree
4 4 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (2.52%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.68%) OCP
6 2 (1.68%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.84%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.84%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.36%) QA
2 3 (2.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.52%) GDPR
2 3 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.52%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.68%) NIST
4 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.84%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 79 (66.39%) Docker
2 5 (4.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.52%) vSphere
4 2 (1.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 87 (73.11%) Kubernetes
2 24 (20.17%) Terraform
3 23 (19.33%) Ansible
4 14 (11.76%) Grafana
5 9 (7.56%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.88%) Puppet
7 6 (5.04%) Istio
8 5 (4.20%) Kustomize
9 3 (2.52%) Control-M
9 3 (2.52%) Kiali
9 3 (2.52%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.68%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.84%) Graylog
11 1 (0.84%) Nagios
Vendors
1 16 (13.45%) Oracle
2 11 (9.24%) SAP
3 10 (8.40%) Splunk
4 7 (5.88%) Google
5 6 (5.04%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.20%) Commvault
7 4 (3.36%) Confluent
7 4 (3.36%) Virgin Media
7 4 (3.36%) VMware
8 3 (2.52%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.52%) xMatters
9 2 (1.68%) Cisco
9 2 (1.68%) Databricks
9 2 (1.68%) Mapbox
9 2 (1.68%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.84%) Ariba
10 1 (0.84%) IBM
10 1 (0.84%) IBM Sterling
10 1 (0.84%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.84%) TIBCO