Containerisation Contracts in the North West

Containerization
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 47 87 104
Rank change year-on-year +40 +17 +14
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 82 50 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.17% 1.81% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 2.10% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 39 33
10th Percentile £405 £444 £456
25th Percentile £456 £450 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% -6.72% -3.89%
75th Percentile £545 £694 £650
90th Percentile £615 £705 -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the North West

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the North West

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the North West

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in the North West

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +28 58 £475 -15.56% 119
Cheshire +7 16 £514 +0.69% 10
Lancashire - 4 £600 - 32
Merseyside - 3 £413 - 7
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (6.10%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.66%) Confluence
3 1 (1.22%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (51.22%) AWS
2 16 (19.51%) Amazon EKS
3 15 (18.29%) Azure
3 15 (18.29%) Serverless
4 13 (15.85%) GitHub
5 10 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (10.98%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (10.98%) Amazon S3
6 9 (10.98%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (8.54%) GCP
8 4 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.88%) Amazon Glacier
8 4 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (4.88%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (4.88%) Azure AI
8 4 (4.88%) dbt
8 4 (4.88%) Google Gemini
9 3 (3.66%) Apigee
9 3 (3.66%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) DNS
2 2 (2.44%) DHCP
2 2 (2.44%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.22%) Firewall
3 1 (1.22%) HTTP
3 1 (1.22%) SSH
3 1 (1.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.83%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (23.17%) Relational Database
3 11 (13.41%) NoSQL
4 9 (10.98%) SQL Server
5 8 (9.76%) MongoDB
6 6 (7.32%) DynamoDB
7 5 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (4.88%) Airbyte
8 4 (4.88%) Couchbase
8 4 (4.88%) Neo4j
8 4 (4.88%) ObjectStore
9 3 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (3.66%) MySQL
10 2 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (2.44%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (2.44%) GIS
11 1 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.22%) Big Data
11 1 (1.22%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 17 (20.73%) Jenkins
2 14 (17.07%) Git
3 13 (15.85%) GitLab
4 12 (14.63%) JUnit
5 10 (12.20%) Gradle
5 10 (12.20%) Liquibase
5 10 (12.20%) Mockito
6 6 (7.32%) JIRA
7 3 (3.66%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.44%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.44%) Jasmine
9 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.22%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.22%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (24.39%) Public Sector
2 18 (21.95%) Finance
3 17 (20.73%) Social Skills
4 14 (17.07%) Manufacturing
5 10 (12.20%) Electronics
5 10 (12.20%) Marketing
5 10 (12.20%) Telecoms
6 7 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (7.32%) Legal
7 6 (7.32%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.66%) Banking
10 2 (2.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (32.93%) Senior
2 21 (25.61%) Developer
3 15 (18.29%) Architect
4 12 (14.63%) Software Engineer
5 11 (13.41%) Data Engineer
6 9 (10.98%) Java Developer
7 8 (9.76%) Python Engineer
7 8 (9.76%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) Java Architect
8 6 (7.32%) Java Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) Senior Developer
8 6 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.10%) Applications Architect
9 5 (6.10%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (6.10%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 5 (6.10%) React Developer
9 5 (6.10%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (32.93%) Kafka
2 20 (24.39%) RESTful
3 17 (20.73%) React
4 15 (18.29%) Spring
4 15 (18.29%) Spring Boot
5 14 (17.07%) OpenAPI
5 14 (17.07%) Swagger
6 9 (10.98%) .NET
7 8 (9.76%) AngularJS
8 7 (8.54%) Node.js
8 7 (8.54%) OAuth
9 5 (6.10%) REST
10 4 (4.88%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (4.88%) OAuth2
10 4 (4.88%) OpenID
10 4 (4.88%) PyTorch
10 4 (4.88%) SAML
10 4 (4.88%) TensorFlow
11 3 (3.66%) ARM Templates
11 3 (3.66%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.32%) Algorithms
1 6 (7.32%) Public Cloud
2 5 (6.10%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.44%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.22%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.22%) Clustering
5 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.22%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.54%) Linux
2 3 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.44%) Unix
3 2 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (64.63%) CI/CD
2 35 (42.68%) Microservices
3 32 (39.02%) DevOps
4 29 (35.37%) Agile
5 22 (26.83%) Data Pipeline
6 20 (24.39%) Software Engineering
7 19 (23.17%) Continuous Integration
7 19 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (20.73%) Event-Driven
8 17 (20.73%) TDD
9 15 (18.29%) Digital Twin
9 15 (18.29%) SDLC
9 15 (18.29%) Visualisation
10 14 (17.07%) Analytics
10 14 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (14.63%) Continuous Deployment
11 12 (14.63%) Migration
11 12 (14.63%) Test Automation
12 10 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (12.20%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (41.46%) Python
2 30 (36.59%) Java
3 28 (34.15%) SQL
4 18 (21.95%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.54%) Bash
5 7 (8.54%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.10%) C#
7 4 (4.88%) SPARQL
8 3 (3.66%) Scala
9 2 (2.44%) Perl
9 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.22%) Bicep
10 1 (1.22%) R
10 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (37.80%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.66%) Degree
4 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.44%) QA
2 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 58 (70.73%) Docker
2 4 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (67.07%) Kubernetes
2 16 (19.51%) Terraform
3 6 (7.32%) Ansible
4 4 (4.88%) Grafana
5 3 (3.66%) Istio
5 3 (3.66%) Kustomize
5 3 (3.66%) Puppet
6 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.44%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.22%) Graylog
7 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (13.41%) SAP
2 7 (8.54%) Oracle
3 5 (6.10%) Google
3 5 (6.10%) VMware
4 4 (4.88%) Virgin Media
5 3 (3.66%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.44%) Mapbox
7 1 (1.22%) Ariba
7 1 (1.22%) Databricks
7 1 (1.22%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.22%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.22%) TIBCO