Containerisation Contracts in Reading

Containerization
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 32 52 74
Rank change year-on-year +20 +22 +9
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 28 39 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.69% 3.27% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.05% 3.63% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 11
10th Percentile £409 £428 £465
25th Percentile £421 £538 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £520
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +25.00% +8.05%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £613
90th Percentile £684 £716 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £567 £620 £460
% change year-on-year -8.55% +34.78% -18.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Reading

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Reading

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Reading

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (7.14%) Apache
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 25 (89.29%) Azure
2 14 (50.00%) AWS
3 7 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 6 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (21.43%) GCP
5 5 (17.86%) Azure API Management
5 5 (17.86%) Entra ID
5 5 (17.86%) Serverless
6 4 (14.29%) Azure Functions
7 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.57%) Route 53
9 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) BGP
1 6 (21.43%) MPLS
2 5 (17.86%) TCP/IP
2 5 (17.86%) VLAN
3 1 (3.57%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (3.57%) Network Security
3 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.29%) Redis
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.71%) SSDT
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (7.14%) Big Data
4 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
2 8 (28.57%) GitLab
3 7 (25.00%) JIRA
3 7 (25.00%) SonarQube
4 6 (21.43%) Cucumber
4 6 (21.43%) REST Assured
4 6 (21.43%) Selenium
5 5 (17.86%) Robot Framework
6 2 (7.14%) Git
7 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
7 1 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (3.57%) DbUnit
7 1 (3.57%) jMock
7 1 (3.57%) JUnit
7 1 (3.57%) Maven
7 1 (3.57%) Mockito
General
1 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 15 (53.57%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 5 (17.86%) Law
5 4 (14.29%) Police
6 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Automation Tester
2 5 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Java Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Software Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Telecoms Tester
2 5 (17.86%) Tester
3 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Backend Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) REST
2 6 (21.43%) ARM Templates
2 6 (21.43%) Java EE
3 5 (17.86%) OAuth
3 5 (17.86%) RESTful
4 4 (14.29%) GraphQL
4 4 (14.29%) Prisma
4 4 (14.29%) YAML
5 3 (10.71%) Node.js
6 2 (7.14%) PyTorch
6 2 (7.14%) React
6 2 (7.14%) scikit-learn
6 2 (7.14%) SOAP
6 2 (7.14%) TensorFlow
7 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
7 1 (3.57%) Material-UI
7 1 (3.57%) NETCONF
7 1 (3.57%) OpenAPI
7 1 (3.57%) RESTCONF
7 1 (3.57%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.86%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) CentOS
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) DevOps
2 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (32.14%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (28.57%) Microservices
7 7 (25.00%) Configuration Management
7 7 (25.00%) ETL
7 7 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 6 (21.43%) Software Architecture
8 6 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (21.43%) Test Strategy
9 5 (17.86%) B2B
9 5 (17.86%) B2C
9 5 (17.86%) Cost Management
9 5 (17.86%) Front End Development
9 5 (17.86%) Identity Management
9 5 (17.86%) RBAC
9 5 (17.86%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) Java
3 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
5 4 (14.29%) SQL
6 2 (7.14%) R
7 1 (3.57%) Bicep
7 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (3.57%) CCSP
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.57%) CISSP
3 1 (3.57%) OSCP
3 1 (3.57%) SANS
System Software
1 23 (82.14%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 22 (78.57%) Kubernetes
2 13 (46.43%) Ansible
2 13 (46.43%) Terraform
3 6 (21.43%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (21.43%) Podman
4 3 (10.71%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.57%) Grafana
5 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) UiPath
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco
3 1 (3.57%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (3.57%) New Relic
3 1 (3.57%) Rapid7