Containerisation Contracts in the South East

Containerization
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Containerisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Containerisation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 153 157
Rank change year-on-year +39 +4 -8
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 89 73 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.61% 1.25% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 1.40% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 58 71
10th Percentile £478 £400 £446
25th Percentile £520 £486 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -6.38% +23.68%
75th Percentile £688 £624 £638
90th Percentile £695 £743 £738
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £57.69 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £58.91 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £61.88 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.23% -11.61% +94.44%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.91 -
90th Percentile - £64.56 -
England median hourly rate £58.75 £71.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -17.25% +37.88% +28.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Containerisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the South East

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +30 54 £614 +29.89% 14
Berkshire +17 51 £620 +34.78% 9
Surrey +17 15 £675 +12.03% 7
Hampshire -5 14 £540 -1.82% 10
West Sussex +4 2 £525 -27.84%
Oxfordshire +4 2 £600 - 4
Sussex - 2 £550 -
Buckinghamshire +26 1 £613 +22.50% 1
Kent - 1 £525 -
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (13.48%) Apache
2 11 (12.36%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.49%) Confluence
4 3 (3.37%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 36 (40.45%) Azure
2 30 (33.71%) AWS
3 20 (22.47%) OpenShift
4 9 (10.11%) GCP
5 6 (6.74%) IaaS
6 5 (5.62%) Azure AKS
6 5 (5.62%) GitHub
7 3 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.37%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.25%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.12%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.48%) VPN
2 11 (12.36%) BGP
2 11 (12.36%) Ethernet VPN
2 11 (12.36%) MPLS
2 11 (12.36%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (3.37%) DNS
4 2 (2.25%) VSAN
5 1 (1.12%) DHCP
5 1 (1.12%) HTTP
5 1 (1.12%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.12%) SAN
5 1 (1.12%) SSL
5 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (31.46%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (21.35%) MongoDB
3 12 (13.48%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.74%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (6.74%) MySQL
4 6 (6.74%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.62%) RDBMS
6 4 (4.49%) Redis
7 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.12%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (1.12%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 33 (37.08%) GitLab
2 24 (26.97%) JIRA
3 16 (17.98%) Jenkins
4 14 (15.73%) Selenium
5 12 (13.48%) Cucumber
5 12 (13.48%) REST Assured
5 12 (13.48%) SonarQube
6 11 (12.36%) Robot Framework
6 11 (12.36%) TestRail
7 9 (10.11%) Git
8 1 (1.12%) Appium
8 1 (1.12%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.12%) JUnit
8 1 (1.12%) MSTest
8 1 (1.12%) NUnit
8 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.12%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.12%) TestNG
8 1 (1.12%) Travis CI
General
1 27 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.99%) Law
3 8 (8.99%) Police
4 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.37%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.25%) Finance
6 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (14.61%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 11 (12.36%) Developer
2 11 (12.36%) Senior
3 10 (11.24%) Network Engineer
3 10 (11.24%) Test Engineer
4 8 (8.99%) Architect
4 8 (8.99%) Site Engineer
4 8 (8.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 7 (7.87%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (7.87%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (6.74%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 6 (6.74%) Software Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Java Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Senior Java Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.49%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (26.97%) REST
2 13 (14.61%) ARM Templates
3 12 (13.48%) Java EE
4 11 (12.36%) NETCONF
4 11 (12.36%) RESTCONF
4 11 (12.36%) SOAP
4 11 (12.36%) YANG
5 6 (6.74%) Kafka
6 5 (5.62%) Node.js
7 2 (2.25%) .NET
7 2 (2.25%) CSS
7 2 (2.25%) HTML
7 2 (2.25%) jQuery
8 1 (1.12%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.12%) Django
8 1 (1.12%) JSON
8 1 (1.12%) SQLAlchemy
8 1 (1.12%) WebSockets
8 1 (1.12%) XML
8 1 (1.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.85%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.99%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.37%) Smart Meter
4 1 (1.12%) Clustering
4 1 (1.12%) Grid Computing
4 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.12%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.73%) Linux
2 11 (12.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (8.99%) Unix
3 8 (8.99%) VMS
4 1 (1.12%) Android
4 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.12%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.12%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.12%) Windows
4 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (51.69%) Infrastructure as Code
2 42 (47.19%) Agile
2 42 (47.19%) Test Automation
3 38 (42.70%) DevOps
4 30 (33.71%) CI/CD
5 19 (21.35%) Technical Leadership
6 18 (20.22%) Scrum
6 18 (20.22%) Software Engineering
7 17 (19.10%) Microservices
8 16 (17.98%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (16.85%) Decision-Making
9 15 (16.85%) DevSecOps
10 14 (15.73%) Configuration Management
10 14 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (15.73%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 13 (14.61%) Collaborative Working
11 13 (14.61%) Performance Testing
11 13 (14.61%) Unit Testing
12 12 (13.48%) Integration Testing
12 12 (13.48%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.21%) Python
2 14 (15.73%) Java
3 12 (13.48%) SQL
4 8 (8.99%) Bash
5 5 (5.62%) Shell Script
6 4 (4.49%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.37%) C#
7 3 (3.37%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.25%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.12%) C++
9 1 (1.12%) Go
9 1 (1.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 52 (58.43%) Security Cleared
2 50 (56.18%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.37%) Degree
3 3 (3.37%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.12%) CCNP
5 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.12%) MCSE
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) NIST
1 3 (3.37%) QA
2 2 (2.25%) NCSC
3 1 (1.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 41 (46.07%) Docker
2 7 (7.87%) vSphere
3 5 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.49%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.37%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.25%) vCloud
7 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
7 1 (1.12%) NFS
7 1 (1.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 55 (61.80%) Kubernetes
2 29 (32.58%) Terraform
3 27 (30.34%) Ansible
4 13 (14.61%) Istio
5 12 (13.48%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (13.48%) Podman
6 9 (10.11%) Rancher
7 8 (8.99%) Packer
8 7 (7.87%) Grafana
8 7 (7.87%) Prometheus
8 7 (7.87%) vRealize
9 6 (6.74%) Argo
9 6 (6.74%) Kibana
10 2 (2.25%) Puppet
10 2 (2.25%) vCenter Server
11 1 (1.12%) CFEngine
11 1 (1.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (1.12%) Progress Chef
11 1 (1.12%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (11.24%) VMware
2 8 (8.99%) Google
2 8 (8.99%) Oracle
3 6 (6.74%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.62%) Arqiva
4 5 (5.62%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.62%) Veritas
5 3 (3.37%) Foundry
5 3 (3.37%) Palantir
6 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.12%) Dell
6 1 (1.12%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.12%) SolarWinds