Containerisation Contracts in Scotland

Containerization
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 91 135
Rank change year-on-year +32 +44 0
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 58 31 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.55% 1.45% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.79% 1.65% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 20 20
10th Percentile £363 £360 £461
25th Percentile £433 £442 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £516 £506
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +1.98% -11.57%
75th Percentile £575 £645 £600
90th Percentile - £688 -
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -2.32% -8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,531 1,881 2,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.81% 88.02% 92.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 878 1,158 1,773
10th Percentile £263 £219 £260
25th Percentile £375 £369 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +1.06%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 92 55
10th Percentile £15.90 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.07 £15.92 £11.25
Median hourly rate £19.83 £19.50 £15.99
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +21.95% -57.28%
75th Percentile £24.66 £42.71 £50.74
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £67.13
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Scotland

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Scotland

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Scotland

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in Scotland

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Glasgow +17 42 £550 +41.39% 15
Edinburgh +6 14 £525 -17.65% 12
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 12 (20.69%) Confluence
2 6 (10.34%) Jupyter
3 2 (3.45%) Camunda
4 1 (1.72%) Apache
4 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.72%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 30 (51.72%) AWS
2 18 (31.03%) Serverless
3 8 (13.79%) Amazon S3
3 8 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (12.07%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (12.07%) Azure
4 7 (12.07%) OpenShift
5 6 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (10.34%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 6 (10.34%) AWS Fargate
6 5 (8.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 5 (8.62%) AWS CodeBuild
6 5 (8.62%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 5 (8.62%) AWS CodePipeline
6 5 (8.62%) PaaS
6 5 (8.62%) Route 53
6 5 (8.62%) SaaS
7 4 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (6.90%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) DNS
2 1 (1.72%) FTP
2 1 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.72%) SAN
2 1 (1.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.31%) KDB
1 17 (29.31%) Kdb+
2 6 (10.34%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.62%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.45%) InfluxDB
5 2 (3.45%) MySQL
5 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.72%) Big Data
6 1 (1.72%) DB2
6 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (22.41%) Bitbucket
1 13 (22.41%) JIRA
2 12 (20.69%) Git
3 9 (15.52%) Jenkins
4 5 (8.62%) Artifactory
4 5 (8.62%) GitLab
5 3 (5.17%) Mockito
6 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (3.45%) Gradle
6 2 (3.45%) JUnit
6 2 (3.45%) Maven
7 1 (1.72%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.72%) Toad
General
1 24 (41.38%) Banking
1 24 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 17 (29.31%) Investment Banking
3 11 (18.97%) Finance
4 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (53.45%) Developer
2 21 (36.21%) Python Developer
3 18 (31.03%) Senior
4 17 (29.31%) Senior Developer
5 16 (27.59%) C++ Developer
6 13 (22.41%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
6 13 (22.41%) Linux Developer
6 13 (22.41%) Senior C++ Developer
6 13 (22.41%) Senior Python Developer
7 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (12.07%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (8.62%) Python Engineer
10 4 (6.90%) Architect
10 4 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (6.90%) Software Engineer
11 3 (5.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 3 (5.17%) Python Software Engineer
12 2 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.79%) AWS CDK
1 8 (13.79%) Spring
1 8 (13.79%) Spring Boot
2 7 (12.07%) RESTful
3 5 (8.62%) React
4 4 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.45%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.45%) Hibernate
5 2 (3.45%) JPA
5 2 (3.45%) Kafka
5 2 (3.45%) LDAP
5 2 (3.45%) OpenAPI
5 2 (3.45%) Spring Batch
5 2 (3.45%) Spring MVC
5 2 (3.45%) Spring Security
5 2 (3.45%) Swagger
6 1 (1.72%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.72%) Great Expectations
6 1 (1.72%) HTML
6 1 (1.72%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 26 (44.83%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 30 (51.72%) Linux
2 25 (43.10%) Windows
3 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.17%) Unix
4 2 (3.45%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.72%) AIX
5 1 (1.72%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (39.66%) SDLC
2 20 (34.48%) Data Science
3 19 (32.76%) CI/CD
4 15 (25.86%) Agile
4 15 (25.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (22.41%) DevOps
6 12 (20.69%) Continuous Delivery
7 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (17.24%) Operational Stability
8 9 (15.52%) Computer Science
9 8 (13.79%) Mathematics
9 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (12.07%) Scrum
10 7 (12.07%) Test Automation
11 6 (10.34%) Data Protection
11 6 (10.34%) Microservices
11 6 (10.34%) Software Engineering
12 4 (6.90%) Kanban
13 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Architecture
13 3 (5.17%) OO
Programming Languages
1 50 (86.21%) Python
2 17 (29.31%) C++
3 9 (15.52%) Bash
4 8 (13.79%) Java
5 6 (10.34%) R
5 6 (10.34%) SQL
6 5 (8.62%) Perl
7 4 (6.90%) Groovy
7 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
8 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.45%) C#
9 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.72%) Go
10 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (20.69%) AWS Certification
2 9 (15.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (13.79%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.72%) OCP
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) GDPR
2 2 (3.45%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (60.34%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Firmware
2 1 (1.72%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 39 (67.24%) Kubernetes
2 15 (25.86%) Terraform
3 8 (13.79%) Ansible
4 3 (5.17%) Grafana
4 3 (5.17%) Kibana
5 2 (3.45%) Podman
5 2 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.72%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.72%) linkerd
6 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.72%) Puppet
6 1 (1.72%) RSA Archer
6 1 (1.72%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 3 (5.17%) Oracle
2 2 (3.45%) IBM
2 2 (3.45%) Imperva
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.45%) Splunk
3 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.72%) Brocade
3 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.72%) EMC
3 1 (1.72%) ForgeRock
3 1 (1.72%) Google
3 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.72%) NetApp
3 1 (1.72%) Netskope
3 1 (1.72%) Okta
3 1 (1.72%) Proofpoint
3 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.72%) Sybase
3 1 (1.72%) Talend
3 1 (1.72%) Veritas