Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Reading

Containerization
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Containerisation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 71 73
Rank change year-on-year +24 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 18 18 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.02% 1.63% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 1.89% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 17
10th Percentile £355 £400 £588
25th Percentile £400 £494 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -3.85% +19.82%
75th Percentile £500 £659 £688
90th Percentile £593 £688 £693
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £482 £650
% change year-on-year +3.79% -25.85% +10.64%

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 547 953 985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.78% 86.40% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 513 653
10th Percentile £343 £350 £300
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +9.56%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 26 18
10th Percentile - £14.50 £38.80
25th Percentile £14.75 £50.81 £57.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £61.33 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.53% -7.08% +24.53%
75th Percentile £58.00 £73.57 £74.59
90th Percentile £66.60 £87.46 £75.77
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £61.55 £60.00
% change year-on-year -39.43% +2.58% +18.81%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Reading over the 6 months to 27 September 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 (11.11%) nginx
2 1 (5.56%) Gunicorn
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Datadog
5 1 (5.56%) IaaS
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Route 53
5 1 (5.56%) Stackdriver
5 1 (5.56%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) BGP
1 1 (5.56%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (5.56%) MPLS
1 1 (5.56%) SMS
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.11%) Redis
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.56%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) GitLab
2 8 (44.44%) JIRA
3 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
3 7 (38.89%) SonarQube
4 6 (33.33%) Cucumber
4 6 (33.33%) REST Assured
4 6 (33.33%) Selenium
5 5 (27.78%) Git
6 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (5.56%) DbUnit
6 1 (5.56%) jMock
6 1 (5.56%) JUnit
6 1 (5.56%) Maven
6 1 (5.56%) Mocha
6 1 (5.56%) Mockito
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Law
4 4 (22.22%) Police
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (5.56%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (5.56%) Finance
6 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Java Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Software Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Automation Developer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Django Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) REST
2 6 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 6 (33.33%) Java EE
3 3 (16.67%) PyTorch
3 3 (16.67%) RESTful
3 3 (16.67%) scikit-learn
3 3 (16.67%) SOAP
3 3 (16.67%) TensorFlow
4 2 (11.11%) Bootstrap
4 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
4 2 (11.11%) HTML
4 2 (11.11%) JSON
4 2 (11.11%) Node.js
4 2 (11.11%) OAuth
4 2 (11.11%) OAuth2
4 2 (11.11%) OpenAPI
4 2 (11.11%) Swagger
4 2 (11.11%) XML
4 2 (11.11%) YAML
5 1 (5.56%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) CentOS
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) DevOps
2 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
4 7 (38.89%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (38.89%) Test Automation
5 6 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 6 (33.33%) Software Architecture
6 5 (27.78%) Agile
7 4 (22.22%) Microservices
7 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
8 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
8 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
8 3 (16.67%) MLOps
9 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
9 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
9 2 (11.11%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
2 8 (44.44%) Python
3 6 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (16.67%) R
5 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.56%) Bash
6 1 (5.56%) Bicep
6 1 (5.56%) C++
6 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) EU AI Act
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) HL7
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (83.33%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 14 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 10 (55.56%) Terraform
3 8 (44.44%) Ansible
4 6 (33.33%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (33.33%) Podman
5 2 (11.11%) Grafana
6 1 (5.56%) logstash
6 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (5.56%) Puppet
6 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco
2 1 (5.56%) IBM
2 1 (5.56%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (5.56%) Pega
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk