Containerisation Contracts in the South East

Containerization
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 78 118 149
Rank change year-on-year +40 +31 +9
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 84 88 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.79% 1.58% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 1.87% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 55 58
10th Percentile £409 £478 £400
25th Percentile £500 £520 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +13.64% -5.38%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £624
90th Percentile £741 £695 £743
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £57.69
25th Percentile - £46.25 £58.91
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £61.88
Median % change year-on-year - -23.23% -11.61%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £63.91
90th Percentile - - £64.56
England median hourly rate £26.50 £58.75 £71.00
% change year-on-year -54.89% -17.25% +37.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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

Containerisation
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

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

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

Containerisation
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 1 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
Thames Valley +46 57 £629 +2.49% 41
Berkshire +24 43 £567 -8.55% 21
Buckinghamshire +29 14 £630 +2.86% 10
Hampshire +25 13 £550 +1.85% 26
West Sussex +16 6 £725 +38.10% 8
Surrey +8 6 £650 -3.70% 10
East Sussex - 2 £475 - 4
Middlesex - 1 - -
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 2 (2.38%) Apache
1 2 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.19%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.19%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 41 (48.81%) Azure
2 34 (40.48%) AWS
3 13 (15.48%) GCP
4 10 (11.90%) SaaS
5 9 (10.71%) Azure AKS
5 9 (10.71%) PaaS
6 8 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (9.52%) IaaS
7 7 (8.33%) GitHub
8 6 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (7.14%) Entra ID
8 6 (7.14%) Serverless
9 5 (5.95%) Azure API Management
10 4 (4.76%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (3.57%) Amazon S3
11 3 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (2.38%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.90%) VSAN
2 8 (9.52%) BGP
2 8 (9.52%) MPLS
3 7 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 7 (8.33%) VLAN
4 3 (3.57%) VPN
5 2 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (2.38%) DNS
5 2 (2.38%) Firewall
5 2 (2.38%) NGFW
5 2 (2.38%) OSPF
5 2 (2.38%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.38%) WAN
6 1 (1.19%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (1.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.14%) Big Data
2 6 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 5 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (5.95%) Redis
4 4 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (3.57%) SSDT
6 2 (2.38%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.19%) MySQL
7 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (17.86%) GitLab
2 14 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 11 (13.10%) JIRA
3 11 (13.10%) SonarQube
4 9 (10.71%) Cucumber
4 9 (10.71%) REST Assured
4 9 (10.71%) Selenium
5 5 (5.95%) Robot Framework
6 3 (3.57%) Git
7 1 (1.19%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (1.19%) DbUnit
7 1 (1.19%) jMock
7 1 (1.19%) JUnit
7 1 (1.19%) Maven
7 1 (1.19%) Mockito
General
1 26 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 22 (26.19%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.52%) Law
4 7 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.76%) Police
6 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (17.86%) Architect
2 14 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (14.29%) Senior
4 11 (13.10%) Developer
5 10 (11.90%) Technical Architect
6 9 (10.71%) Senior Architect
6 9 (10.71%) Senior Technical Architect
7 8 (9.52%) Software Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Auditor
8 6 (7.14%) Security Auditor
9 5 (5.95%) Automation Tester
9 5 (5.95%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Java Developer
9 5 (5.95%) Java Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Telecoms Tester
9 5 (5.95%) Tester
10 4 (4.76%) Principal Architect
10 4 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.48%) REST
2 10 (11.90%) ARM Templates
3 9 (10.71%) Java EE
4 7 (8.33%) .NET
5 5 (5.95%) OAuth
5 5 (5.95%) RESTful
5 5 (5.95%) YAML
6 4 (4.76%) GraphQL
6 4 (4.76%) Kafka
6 4 (4.76%) Node.js
6 4 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (4.76%) Prisma
7 3 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.57%) React
8 2 (2.38%) PyTorch
8 2 (2.38%) scikit-learn
8 2 (2.38%) SOAP
8 2 (2.38%) Spring
8 2 (2.38%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.10%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (11.90%) PKI
3 8 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 8 (9.52%) Public Cloud
4 6 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.76%) IoT
7 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.19%) Clustering
7 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.19%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.19%) Replication
7 1 (1.19%) SCADA
7 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.52%) Linux
2 3 (3.57%) Windows
3 1 (1.19%) CentOS
3 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (55.95%) CI/CD
1 47 (55.95%) Infrastructure as Code
2 44 (52.38%) DevOps
3 31 (36.90%) Test Automation
4 28 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 28 (33.33%) Microservices
5 27 (32.14%) Agile
6 23 (27.38%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (25.00%) DevSecOps
8 18 (21.43%) Software Engineering
9 15 (17.86%) Continuous Delivery
9 15 (17.86%) ITIL
10 14 (16.67%) TOGAF
10 14 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
11 13 (15.48%) Configuration Management
12 10 (11.90%) IT Strategy
12 10 (11.90%) Matrix Organization
12 10 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (11.90%) Technology Strategy
13 9 (10.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 23 (27.38%) Python
2 11 (13.10%) Java
3 10 (11.90%) PowerShell
3 10 (11.90%) SQL
4 7 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.14%) C#
5 6 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.95%) Go
7 3 (3.57%) Bash
7 3 (3.57%) Bicep
8 2 (2.38%) R
9 1 (1.19%) Rust
9 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (53.57%) Security Cleared
2 43 (51.19%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.67%) MCSE
3 14 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (11.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 7 (8.33%) Azure Certification
6 5 (5.95%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.95%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.76%) CCNP
8 2 (2.38%) CISSP
9 1 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.19%) CCSP
9 1 (1.19%) CEH
9 1 (1.19%) CISM
9 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.19%) Degree
9 1 (1.19%) OSCP
9 1 (1.19%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (22.62%) NCSC
2 14 (16.67%) NIST
3 9 (10.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 40 (47.62%) Docker
2 11 (13.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (11.90%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.19%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 47 (55.95%) Kubernetes
2 26 (30.95%) Terraform
3 22 (26.19%) Ansible
4 9 (10.71%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (10.71%) Podman
5 7 (8.33%) Grafana
5 7 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.19%) Argo
7 1 (1.19%) Istio
7 1 (1.19%) Packer
7 1 (1.19%) Puppet
7 1 (1.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (17.86%) VMware
2 11 (13.10%) Cisco
3 10 (11.90%) Palo Alto
4 6 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 5 (5.95%) Splunk
6 4 (4.76%) Google
7 3 (3.57%) UiPath
8 1 (1.19%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.19%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (1.19%) New Relic
8 1 (1.19%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.19%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.19%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.19%) SolarWinds