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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 111 146
Rank change year-on-year +23 +35 +14
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 70 95 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.30% 1.66% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 2.02% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 70 53
10th Percentile £399 £445 £400
25th Percentile £418 £493 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £623 £590
Median % change year-on-year -17.67% +5.51% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £667 £675
90th Percentile £758 £688 £728
England median daily rate £530 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -3.64% -12.00% +2.04%
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% +3.13%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £63.91
90th Percentile - - £64.56
England median hourly rate £78.70 £58.75 £75.50
% change year-on-year +33.96% -22.19% +35.12%

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 2,783 4,710 5,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.25% 82.50% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,741 2,726 3,514
10th Percentile £250 £263 £250
25th Percentile £396 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £511
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.24% +2.25%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £620
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 470 231
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.06 £18.23 £22.07
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £52.10
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% -4.03% +131.56%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.75 £65.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +12 45 £630 +5.00% 60
Berkshire +14 42 £640 +5.35% 32
Hampshire +45 19 £464 -15.64% 27
East Sussex - 3 £463 - 6
Buckinghamshire +11 2 - - 14
West Sussex +5 2 £300 -32.58% 6
Surrey +12 1 - - 11
Oxfordshire +4 1 £413 -31.25% 14
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 (2.86%) nginx
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.43%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (47.14%) Azure
2 32 (45.71%) AWS
3 9 (12.86%) GCP
3 9 (12.86%) GitHub
4 8 (11.43%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 7 (10.00%) Serverless
6 6 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (8.57%) Azure AKS
6 6 (8.57%) Entra ID
7 5 (7.14%) Azure API Management
7 5 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (7.14%) OpenShift
8 4 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (4.29%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (4.29%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (4.29%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) HTTP
2 1 (1.43%) BGP
2 1 (1.43%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.43%) MPLS
2 1 (1.43%) Network Security
2 1 (1.43%) SMS
2 1 (1.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (12.86%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (12.86%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.57%) Redis
4 5 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (4.29%) MySQL
5 3 (4.29%) SSDT
6 2 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.86%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.43%) Big Data
7 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.43%) GIS
Development Applications
1 17 (24.29%) Jenkins
2 14 (20.00%) GitLab
3 12 (17.14%) JIRA
4 10 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 9 (12.86%) Cucumber
5 9 (12.86%) REST Assured
5 9 (12.86%) Selenium
6 5 (7.14%) Git
7 1 (1.43%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (1.43%) DbUnit
7 1 (1.43%) jMock
7 1 (1.43%) JUnit
7 1 (1.43%) Maven
7 1 (1.43%) Mockito
General
1 29 (41.43%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.43%) Law
4 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.71%) Police
6 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Banking
7 2 (2.86%) Retail
8 1 (1.43%) Finance
8 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.43%) Legal
8 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (27.14%) Developer
2 16 (22.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (10.00%) Senior
3 7 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) Auditor
4 6 (8.57%) Security Auditor
5 5 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.14%) Java Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.29%) Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (21.43%) REST
2 9 (12.86%) ARM Templates
2 9 (12.86%) Java EE
2 9 (12.86%) Kafka
3 8 (11.43%) .NET
3 8 (11.43%) YAML
4 7 (10.00%) React
5 6 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (8.57%) Node.js
6 5 (7.14%) OAuth
7 4 (5.71%) Keycloak
7 4 (5.71%) RESTful
8 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.29%) Next.js
8 3 (4.29%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (4.29%) Web Services
9 2 (2.86%) CSS
9 2 (2.86%) SOAP
9 2 (2.86%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Algorithms
1 6 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.43%) Clustering
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) IoT
4 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.43%) Replication
4 1 (1.43%) Robotics
4 1 (1.43%) SCADA
4 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.57%) Linux
2 1 (1.43%) CentOS
2 1 (1.43%) Unix
2 1 (1.43%) Windows
2 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (65.71%) CI/CD
2 45 (64.29%) DevOps
3 35 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (35.71%) Agile
5 21 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (25.71%) Test Automation
7 17 (24.29%) Software Engineering
8 15 (21.43%) Configuration Management
9 14 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (18.57%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (17.14%) Analytics
11 12 (17.14%) Microservices
11 12 (17.14%) Observability
12 11 (15.71%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (14.29%) Data Science
13 10 (14.29%) Software Architecture
14 8 (11.43%) Data Visualisation
14 8 (11.43%) ETL
14 8 (11.43%) Release Management
14 8 (11.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.86%) Python
2 14 (20.00%) Java
2 14 (20.00%) SQL
3 12 (17.14%) PowerShell
4 11 (15.71%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.00%) Bash
6 6 (8.57%) C#
7 4 (5.71%) Bicep
7 4 (5.71%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.29%) Go
8 3 (4.29%) Scala
9 2 (2.86%) Korn
9 2 (2.86%) Ruby
10 1 (1.43%) R
10 1 (1.43%) Rust
10 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 23 (32.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.29%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.86%) Degree
6 1 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.43%) CCSP
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.43%) CISSP
6 1 (1.43%) OSCP
6 1 (1.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) NCSC
2 4 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.43%) GDPR
3 1 (1.43%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.43%) HL7
3 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.43%) QA
3 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.43%) Postfix
2 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 32 (45.71%) Terraform
3 20 (28.57%) Ansible
4 9 (12.86%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (12.86%) Grafana
4 9 (12.86%) Podman
4 9 (12.86%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.71%) Packer
6 3 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.43%) Argo
7 1 (1.43%) Istio
7 1 (1.43%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (10.00%) Splunk
2 6 (8.57%) Google
3 5 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.29%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.29%) UiPath
5 2 (2.86%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco
6 1 (1.43%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.43%) New Relic
6 1 (1.43%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.43%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.43%) VMware