Containerisation Contracts in the South West

Containerization
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 119 135
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 -53
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 31 52 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.97% 1.44% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.60% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 36 34
10th Percentile £400 £469 £433
25th Percentile £439 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +23.66%
75th Percentile £658 £717 £672
90th Percentile £731 £834 £757
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £54.14 £46.12
25th Percentile - £60.28 £47.81
Median hourly rate - £73.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year - +41.76% +28.74%
75th Percentile - £76.75 £55.06
90th Percentile - £77.50 £56.53
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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,654 3,248 3,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.02% 89.70% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,694 2,395 2,337
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £723 £668
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 332 192
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £16.89 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.50 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +26.52% +8.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.98
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the South West over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the South West

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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

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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 2 May 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
Bristol +15 14 £439 -16.34% 11
Gloucestershire +6 9 £550 - 9
Devon -3 4 £550 -33.33% 2
Wiltshire +3 3 £650 - 3
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 11 (35.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.45%) Confluence
3 1 (3.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) Azure
2 8 (25.81%) Entra ID
2 8 (25.81%) OpenShift
3 7 (22.58%) Azure Logic Apps
3 7 (22.58%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (22.58%) Power Platform
4 6 (19.35%) AWS
5 3 (9.68%) GCP
5 3 (9.68%) PaaS
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.45%) GitHub
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.23%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (3.23%) IaaS
7 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (51.61%) Firewall
2 5 (16.13%) VPN
3 4 (12.90%) SAN
4 2 (6.45%) IPv4
4 2 (6.45%) OSPF
4 2 (6.45%) VLAN
5 1 (3.23%) MPLS
5 1 (3.23%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) Power BI
2 6 (19.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.23%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) JMeter
3 1 (3.23%) Robot Framework
3 1 (3.23%) Selenium
General
1 4 (12.90%) Local Government
1 4 (12.90%) Telecoms
2 3 (9.68%) Finance
3 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Electronics
4 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.23%) Marketing
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Developer
3 4 (12.90%) Lead
3 4 (12.90%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Python Developer
5 1 (3.23%) .NET Developer
5 1 (3.23%) .NET Team Leader
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Lead .NET Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Lead C# Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Principal Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Site Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.23%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) REST
2 2 (6.45%) .NET
2 2 (6.45%) ModSecurity
3 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.23%) gRPC
3 1 (3.23%) JCE
3 1 (3.23%) JSON
3 1 (3.23%) Middleware
3 1 (3.23%) Node.js
3 1 (3.23%) React
3 1 (3.23%) Swagger
3 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Linux
2 8 (25.81%) VMS
3 6 (19.35%) Windows
4 4 (12.90%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) DevOps
2 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
4 8 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (25.81%) Migration
5 6 (19.35%) Microservices
6 5 (16.13%) Agile
6 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (9.68%) ITIL
7 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
7 3 (9.68%) Service Management
8 2 (6.45%) ArchiMate
8 2 (6.45%) Configuration Management
8 2 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (6.45%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (6.45%) Low Latency
8 2 (6.45%) Software Architecture
8 2 (6.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (6.45%) Test Automation
8 2 (6.45%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) SQL
2 7 (22.58%) Python
3 6 (19.35%) Bash
3 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.45%) Java
4 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) C#
5 1 (3.23%) Go
5 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 6 (19.35%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.23%) GIAC
4 1 (3.23%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (38.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (35.48%) Active Directory
2 11 (35.48%) Docker
3 8 (25.81%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (19.35%) VMware NSX
5 4 (12.90%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (9.68%) vSphere
7 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (51.61%) Kubernetes
2 12 (38.71%) Ansible
3 8 (25.81%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (6.45%) OPNET
4 2 (6.45%) Puppet
4 2 (6.45%) Terraform
5 1 (3.23%) Grafana
5 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.23%) rkt
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) VMware
2 8 (25.81%) CA
3 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
4 4 (12.90%) CyberArk
5 3 (9.68%) Atlassian
6 2 (6.45%) Google
7 1 (3.23%) Cisco
7 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.23%) IBM
7 1 (3.23%) Juniper
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle
7 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.23%) SAP
7 1 (3.23%) Splunk