Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Containerization
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 34 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 4.09% 0.51% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 0.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £386 - -
25th Percentile £402 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.91% - -
75th Percentile £491 £575 -
90th Percentile £523 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 186 178 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 84.55% 90.36% 76.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 103 56
10th Percentile £235 £200 £161
25th Percentile £363 £325 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £494
Median % change year-on-year - -8.86% +17.91%
75th Percentile £630 £575 £584
90th Percentile £694 £624 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.23% -4.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 24 29
10th Percentile - £14.78 -
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.32 £12.25
Median hourly rate £26.50 £20.15 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +31.51% -10.68% +62.19%
75th Percentile £44.23 £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile £53.75 - £40.25
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +2.63%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Containerisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 29 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Northern Ireland

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
County Antrim +14 9 £446 -18.91% 13
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Heroku
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Release Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Playwright
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (22.22%) API Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
5 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
5 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Agile
6 1 (11.11%) B2B
6 1 (11.11%) Data Management
6 1 (11.11%) Release Management
6 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Go
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Grafana
2 4 (44.44%) Prometheus
3 2 (22.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce