Containerisation Contracts in Sheffield

Containerization
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 35 41 51
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 15 14 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 4.70% 3.69% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 3.99% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 4
10th Percentile - £509 -
25th Percentile £500 £613 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +8.70% -2.54%
75th Percentile £650 £645 £675
90th Percentile £698 £650 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £588 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -6.00% +8.70% -2.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Sheffield

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Sheffield

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Sheffield

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) OCI
2 5 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) Azure
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.67%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) BGP
2 1 (6.67%) EIGRP
2 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (6.67%) OSPF
2 1 (6.67%) SSH
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (13.33%) BigQuery
2 2 (13.33%) Hazelcast
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
3 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) Git
3 2 (13.33%) Jaeger
4 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Financial Institution
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Data Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Data Protection Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Database Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) gRPC
1 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (6.67%) PySpark
2 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Unix
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.67%) AIX
4 1 (6.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (13.33%) High Availability
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (13.33%) Microservices
5 2 (13.33%) Network Management
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
6 1 (6.67%) Integration Testing
6 1 (6.67%) Network Design
6 1 (6.67%) Resource Management
6 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Python
2 10 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 3 (20.00%) Bash
3 3 (20.00%) Groovy
3 3 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) ActionScript
5 1 (6.67%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (6.67%) Go
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) Korn
5 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
5 1 (6.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (13.33%) OCP
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
1 1 (6.67%) QA
1 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
1 1 (6.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (86.67%) Docker
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (20.00%) vSphere
3 1 (6.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 15 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (80.00%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Control-M
3 2 (13.33%) Grafana
3 2 (13.33%) Istio
3 2 (13.33%) Kiali
3 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (13.33%) Puppet
4 1 (6.67%) Nagios
4 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) Commvault
3 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (20.00%) Splunk
3 3 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (13.33%) AppDynamics
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco
4 2 (13.33%) xMatters
5 1 (6.67%) Databricks
5 1 (6.67%) Google
5 1 (6.67%) IBM
5 1 (6.67%) IBM Sterling