Containerisation Contracts in the South West

Containerization
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 53 126 117
Rank change year-on-year +73 -9 +17
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 60 31 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.58% 0.97% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 1.17% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 27 32
10th Percentile £440 £400 £464
25th Percentile £496 £439 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.23% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £658 £652
90th Percentile £775 £731 £826
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £54.14
25th Percentile - - £60.28
Median hourly rate £78.70 - £73.00
75th Percentile - - £76.75
90th Percentile - - £77.50
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the South West

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the South West

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the South West

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in the South West

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Gloucestershire +33 25 £615 +11.82% 38
Bristol +22 17 £450 +2.45% 21
Wiltshire +36 7 £615 -5.38% 12
Dorset - 4 £550 - 3
Devon +12 2 £513 -6.82% 13
Somerset - 2 £410 - 6
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (8.33%) Apache
2 4 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.00%) nginx
4 2 (3.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 38 (63.33%) AWS
2 29 (48.33%) Azure
3 19 (31.67%) OpenShift
4 5 (8.33%) GCP
4 5 (8.33%) Serverless
5 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.00%) SaaS
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.33%) IaaS
6 2 (3.33%) PaaS
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 20 (33.33%) DNS
2 17 (28.33%) TCP/IP
3 16 (26.67%) DHCP
4 15 (25.00%) HTTP
5 4 (6.67%) Firewall
6 2 (3.33%) Network Security
6 2 (3.33%) VPN
7 1 (1.67%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 3 (5.00%) Big Data
2 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.67%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.67%) GIS
4 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.67%) MySQL
4 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (13.33%) GitLab
3 7 (11.67%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (3.33%) JIRA
6 1 (1.67%) Flyway
6 1 (1.67%) Gatling
6 1 (1.67%) Git
6 1 (1.67%) JMeter
6 1 (1.67%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.67%) MLflow
General
1 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Finance
4 4 (6.67%) Legal
5 2 (3.33%) Electronics
5 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.33%) Marketing
5 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.67%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Senior
4 5 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Administrator
5 4 (6.67%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Developer
6 3 (5.00%) DevOps Administrator
6 3 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Linux DevOps Administrator
6 3 (5.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 2 (3.33%) Backend Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (1.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 1 (1.67%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (6.67%) YAML
3 3 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (1.67%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.67%) Kafka
4 1 (1.67%) LAMP
4 1 (1.67%) Middleware
4 1 (1.67%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.67%) Clustering
3 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 42 (70.00%) Linux
2 20 (33.33%) Windows
3 15 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.67%) Android
4 1 (1.67%) Rocky
4 1 (1.67%) Unix
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (43.33%) CI/CD
2 22 (36.67%) DevOps
3 17 (28.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (23.33%) Service Management
5 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (16.67%) Task Automation
7 9 (15.00%) Agile
8 6 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (10.00%) High Availability
8 6 (10.00%) Incident Management
8 6 (10.00%) Microservices
9 5 (8.33%) GitOps
10 4 (6.67%) Configuration Management
10 4 (6.67%) DevSecOps
10 4 (6.67%) ETL
10 4 (6.67%) Machine Learning
10 4 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 42 (70.00%) Python
2 29 (48.33%) Bash
3 19 (31.67%) PowerShell
4 17 (28.33%) Java
5 6 (10.00%) Perl
6 3 (5.00%) SQL
7 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.67%) PHP
7 1 (1.67%) Ruby
7 1 (1.67%) Rust
7 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 24 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 18 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.00%) Degree
5 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.67%) CISSP
6 1 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.67%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.67%) MCITP
6 1 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.67%) RHCE
6 1 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) NCSC
2 2 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.67%) NIST
System Software
1 49 (81.67%) Docker
2 19 (31.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.67%) NFS
4 1 (1.67%) Samba
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (76.67%) Kubernetes
2 39 (65.00%) Ansible
3 35 (58.33%) Terraform
4 24 (40.00%) Puppet
5 9 (15.00%) Prometheus
6 8 (13.33%) Grafana
7 3 (5.00%) HAProxy
8 2 (3.33%) Automic
9 1 (1.67%) Kibana
9 1 (1.67%) logstash
9 1 (1.67%) Nagios
9 1 (1.67%) Podman
9 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.67%) SELinux
9 1 (1.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (38.33%) VMware
2 21 (35.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.67%) NetApp
4 3 (5.00%) Splunk
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.33%) SAP
6 1 (1.67%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.67%) Citrix
6 1 (1.67%) Dell
6 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.67%) ESRI
6 1 (1.67%) Google
6 1 (1.67%) New Relic
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle
6 1 (1.67%) Rapid7