Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Containerization
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 22 37
Rank change year-on-year +6 +15 0
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 10 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 5.49% 1.82% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.58% 2.15% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 4
10th Percentile - £488 £489
25th Percentile £416 £523 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £589 £540
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% +9.07% -1.82%
75th Percentile £519 £648 £560
90th Percentile £553 £679 -
Hampshire median daily rate £519 £588 £540
% change year-on-year -11.70% +8.80% -1.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 132 93 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 72.53% 84.55% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 49 112
10th Percentile £313 £400 £400
25th Percentile £416 £464 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £542
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +6.09% +5.76%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £631
90th Percentile £629 £660 £823
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 67
10th Percentile £15.65 £31.25 £31.95
25th Percentile £23.88 £34.06 £53.40
Median hourly rate £47.50 £61.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% -0.81% +3.33%
75th Percentile £54.06 £62.81 £68.51
90th Percentile £59.88 £71.63 £78.12
Hampshire median hourly rate £22.00 £57.75 £53.69
% change year-on-year -61.90% +7.57% +13.03%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Containerisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Portsmouth

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) GitHub
1 8 (80.00%) OpenShift
2 7 (70.00%) AWS
3 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (90.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) Kafka
1 9 (90.00%) Keycloak
2 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (90.00%) DevOps
3 8 (80.00%) Observability
3 8 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (70.00%) GitOps
5 6 (60.00%) DevSecOps
6 5 (50.00%) SBOM
7 2 (20.00%) Agile
7 2 (20.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
7 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
8 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 1 (10.00%) Microservices
8 1 (10.00%) MODAF
8 1 (10.00%) Scrum
8 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Bash
2 7 (70.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Ansible
1 9 (90.00%) Grafana
1 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (90.00%) Prometheus
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 7 (70.00%) Argo
3 6 (60.00%) Istio
3 6 (60.00%) linkerd
4 2 (20.00%) Packer
5 1 (10.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Splunk
2 7 (70.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (70.00%) VMware