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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 28 43
Rank change year-on-year -18 +15 +10
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 26 31 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 4.59% 7.56% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 8.54% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 6
10th Percentile £384 £463 £450
25th Percentile - £496 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -20.00% +7.00%
75th Percentile £606 £622 £694
90th Percentile £650 £644 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £520 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% -20.00% +7.00%

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 537 363 373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.71% 88.54% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 194 242
10th Percentile £295 £393 £400
25th Percentile £374 £435 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.81% -13.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £697
90th Percentile £625 £645 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £468 £515 £600
% change year-on-year -9.22% -14.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.88 £13.18
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.13 £16.44
Median hourly rate £18.36 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% +7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.88 £20.69
90th Percentile - £22.00 £21.93
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £20.00
% change year-on-year +43.08% -35.85% +19.40%

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 16 August 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 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) GCP
2 12 (46.15%) AWS
3 9 (34.62%) Serverless
4 7 (26.92%) OCI
5 5 (19.23%) GitHub
6 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (11.54%) Azure
7 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.85%) CloudBees
8 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.85%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) BGP
1 1 (3.85%) EIGRP
1 1 (3.85%) Network Security
1 1 (3.85%) OSPF
1 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) NoSQL
2 8 (30.77%) Oracle Database
3 3 (11.54%) BigQuery
4 2 (7.69%) Hazelcast
4 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.85%) Big Data
5 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (65.38%) Jenkins
2 9 (34.62%) GitLab
3 8 (30.77%) Liquibase
4 3 (11.54%) Git
4 3 (11.54%) Jaeger
5 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 18 (69.23%) Finance
2 15 (57.69%) Social Skills
3 11 (42.31%) Financial Institution
4 10 (38.46%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Data Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Data Protection Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Python Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Angular Developer
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Database Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) GCP Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) REST
1 10 (38.46%) RESTful
2 9 (34.62%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (11.54%) CSS
3 3 (11.54%) HTML
4 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 2 (7.69%) CSS3
4 2 (7.69%) Express.js
4 2 (7.69%) gRPC
4 2 (7.69%) HTML5
4 2 (7.69%) Kafka
4 2 (7.69%) MEAN Stack
4 2 (7.69%) NestJS
4 2 (7.69%) NgRx
4 2 (7.69%) Node.js
4 2 (7.69%) Sass
5 1 (3.85%) .NET
5 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.85%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Cloud Native
2 6 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (23.08%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Unix
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 14 (53.85%) DevOps
2 14 (53.85%) Microservices
3 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Automation
4 9 (34.62%) Software Engineering
5 8 (30.77%) Agile
5 8 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (26.92%) Computer Science
6 7 (26.92%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (26.92%) High Availability
6 7 (26.92%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (23.08%) Change Management
7 6 (23.08%) Cost Optimisation
7 6 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (23.08%) Data Protection
7 6 (23.08%) Data Security
7 6 (23.08%) Non-Functional Testing
7 6 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (84.62%) Python
2 10 (38.46%) Java
2 10 (38.46%) Shell Script
3 8 (30.77%) Go
4 4 (15.38%) Bash
4 4 (15.38%) Groovy
4 4 (15.38%) SQL
5 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.85%) C#
6 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (26.92%) Degree
2 6 (23.08%) Master's Degree
3 5 (19.23%) AWS Certification
3 5 (19.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (7.69%) OCP
5 2 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 22 (84.62%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (96.15%) Kubernetes
2 18 (69.23%) Ansible
3 12 (46.15%) Grafana
4 11 (42.31%) Terraform
5 9 (34.62%) Prometheus
6 3 (11.54%) Control-M
6 3 (11.54%) Istio
6 3 (11.54%) Kiali
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Splunk
2 8 (30.77%) Oracle
3 6 (23.08%) Google
4 5 (19.23%) Commvault
5 3 (11.54%) AppDynamics
5 3 (11.54%) VMware
5 3 (11.54%) xMatters
6 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
6 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.85%) Cisco
7 1 (3.85%) Databricks