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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 82 118
Rank change year-on-year +39 +36 +6
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 89 47 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.45% 1.67% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 2.00% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 37 20
10th Percentile £358 £436 £541
25th Percentile £438 £445 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £588
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -13.19% -2.08%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £641
90th Percentile £619 £694 £650
England median daily rate £530 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -3.64% -12.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £70.70 - -
25th Percentile £71.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £79.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% - -
75th Percentile £89.75 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £92.90 - -
England median hourly rate £78.70 £58.75 £75.50
% change year-on-year +33.96% -22.19% +35.12%

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 1,788 2,353 2,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.44% 83.77% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,435 1,884
10th Percentile £303 £306 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% -1.00% +2.62%
75th Percentile £561 £585 £588
90th Percentile £665 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 267 140
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.06 £14.18 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £30.27
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -0.89% +27.72%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.17 £66.61 £57.68
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

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 24 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Containerisation in the North West over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 24 June 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 +39 60 £500 -9.09% 141
Cheshire +3 22 £391 -17.68% 25
Lancashire +4 4 £600 +21.70% 28
Merseyside - 1 £413 - 16
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 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.12%) Camunda
3 1 (1.12%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (50.56%) AWS
2 17 (19.10%) Amazon EKS
3 16 (17.98%) Serverless
4 15 (16.85%) GitHub
5 14 (15.73%) Azure
6 11 (12.36%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (11.24%) Amazon S3
7 10 (11.24%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (10.11%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (10.11%) GCP
9 8 (8.99%) OpenShift
10 7 (7.87%) SaaS
11 6 (6.74%) IaaS
11 6 (6.74%) PaaS
12 4 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (4.49%) Amazon Glacier
12 4 (4.49%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (4.49%) Apigee
12 4 (4.49%) dbt
12 4 (4.49%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.49%) DNS
2 2 (2.25%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.12%) DHCP
3 1 (1.12%) Firewall
3 1 (1.12%) HTTP
3 1 (1.12%) SAN
3 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (26.97%) Relational Database
2 19 (21.35%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (10.11%) NoSQL
4 8 (8.99%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.87%) DynamoDB
5 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (4.49%) Airbyte
7 4 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.49%) Neo4j
7 4 (4.49%) ObjectStore
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.25%) DocumentDB
8 2 (2.25%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (2.25%) GIS
8 2 (2.25%) Metadata
9 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.12%) Apache Accumulo
9 1 (1.12%) Big Data
9 1 (1.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (21.35%) Jenkins
2 15 (16.85%) GitLab
3 12 (13.48%) Git
4 11 (12.36%) Gradle
4 11 (12.36%) JUnit
5 10 (11.24%) Liquibase
5 10 (11.24%) Mockito
6 6 (6.74%) JIRA
7 4 (4.49%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.25%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.12%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.12%) Maven
9 1 (1.12%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (1.12%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.35%) Finance
3 17 (19.10%) Public Sector
4 14 (15.73%) Manufacturing
5 10 (11.24%) Electronics
5 10 (11.24%) Marketing
5 10 (11.24%) Telecoms
6 8 (8.99%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (6.74%) Legal
9 4 (4.49%) Banking
9 4 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (4.49%) Retail
10 2 (2.25%) Military
11 1 (1.12%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (25.84%) Senior
2 22 (24.72%) Developer
3 18 (20.22%) Architect
4 13 (14.61%) Software Engineer
5 11 (12.36%) Data Engineer
6 10 (11.24%) Lead
7 8 (8.99%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Java Developer
8 7 (7.87%) Java Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Java Software Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Data Architect
9 6 (6.74%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (6.74%) Java Architect
9 6 (6.74%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (5.62%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) React Developer
10 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (28.09%) Kafka
2 18 (20.22%) React
3 17 (19.10%) RESTful
4 15 (16.85%) AngularJS
5 14 (15.73%) Node.js
5 14 (15.73%) Spring
6 13 (14.61%) Spring Boot
7 12 (13.48%) OpenAPI
7 12 (13.48%) Swagger
8 11 (12.36%) .NET
9 8 (8.99%) OAuth
10 5 (5.62%) GraphQL
10 5 (5.62%) REST
11 4 (4.49%) ActiveMQ
11 4 (4.49%) OAuth2
11 4 (4.49%) OpenID
11 4 (4.49%) PyTorch
11 4 (4.49%) SAML
11 4 (4.49%) TensorFlow
12 3 (3.37%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.99%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.74%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.74%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.37%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.25%) Data Fabric
5 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.12%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.12%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.36%) Linux
2 6 (6.74%) Windows
3 3 (3.37%) Unix
4 2 (2.25%) VMS
5 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (56.18%) CI/CD
2 38 (42.70%) Agile
3 34 (38.20%) DevOps
3 34 (38.20%) Microservices
4 25 (28.09%) Software Engineering
5 22 (24.72%) Data Pipeline
6 21 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (20.22%) Event-Driven
7 18 (20.22%) TDD
8 17 (19.10%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (19.10%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (17.98%) Migration
10 15 (16.85%) Digital Twin
10 15 (16.85%) SDLC
10 15 (16.85%) Visualisation
11 14 (15.73%) Analytics
12 13 (14.61%) ETL
13 12 (13.48%) Continuous Deployment
14 11 (12.36%) Full-Stack Development
14 11 (12.36%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (42.70%) Python
2 33 (37.08%) Java
3 26 (29.21%) SQL
4 19 (21.35%) TypeScript
5 9 (10.11%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.62%) Bash
6 5 (5.62%) C#
6 5 (5.62%) PHP
7 4 (4.49%) SPARQL
8 3 (3.37%) Scala
9 1 (1.12%) Bicep
9 1 (1.12%) Perl
9 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.12%) R
9 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (34.83%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) Degree
4 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) QA
2 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 57 (64.04%) Docker
2 3 (3.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (66.29%) Kubernetes
2 17 (19.10%) Terraform
3 10 (11.24%) Grafana
4 5 (5.62%) Ansible
5 3 (3.37%) Istio
5 3 (3.37%) Kustomize
5 3 (3.37%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.25%) Puppet
6 2 (2.25%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.12%) Graylog
Vendors
1 11 (12.36%) SAP
2 10 (11.24%) Oracle
3 6 (6.74%) Google
4 5 (5.62%) AppDynamics
5 4 (4.49%) Virgin Media
6 2 (2.25%) IBM
6 2 (2.25%) Mapbox
6 2 (2.25%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.25%) PagerDuty
6 2 (2.25%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.25%) VMware
7 1 (1.12%) Ariba
7 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.12%) Citrix
7 1 (1.12%) F5
7 1 (1.12%) HP
7 1 (1.12%) SendGrid
7 1 (1.12%) TIBCO