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 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 61 115 106
Rank change year-on-year +54 -9 +22
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 59 42 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.36% 1.28% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 1.55% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 39 35
10th Percentile £438 £431 £471
25th Percentile £500 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -13.73%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £719
90th Percentile £775 £675 £799
England median daily rate £530 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -3.64% -12.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £78.83 - £73.50
25th Percentile £79.03 - -
Median hourly rate £79.35 - £78.00
75th Percentile £79.68 - £90.00
90th Percentile £79.87 - -
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 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 1,595 2,704 3,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.78% 82.16% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 976 1,696 2,209
10th Percentile £214 £257 £313
25th Percentile £363 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 373 309
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.85 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £29.75 £16.54
Median hourly rate £28.55 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.31
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 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 24 June 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 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
Gloucestershire +37 28 £615 +11.82% 60
Bristol +9 14 £450 -15.57% 33
Wiltshire +37 5 £600 -7.69% 8
Devon +6 4 £513 -6.82% 15
Dorset - 4 £550 - 6
Somerset - 1 £410 - 10
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 4 (6.78%) Apache
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.39%) nginx
3 1 (1.69%) Camunda
3 1 (1.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 43 (72.88%) AWS
2 29 (49.15%) Azure
3 20 (33.90%) OpenShift
4 7 (11.86%) GCP
5 5 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (8.47%) Serverless
6 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.08%) GitHub
7 3 (5.08%) SaaS
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.69%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.69%) IaaS
8 1 (1.69%) PaaS
8 1 (1.69%) Pulumi
8 1 (1.69%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 19 (32.20%) DNS
2 16 (27.12%) TCP/IP
3 15 (25.42%) DHCP
3 15 (25.42%) HTTP
4 5 (8.47%) Firewall
5 2 (3.39%) Network Security
5 2 (3.39%) VPN
6 1 (1.69%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
1 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.39%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.69%) Big Data
3 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.69%) GIS
3 1 (1.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (23.73%) GitLab
2 12 (20.34%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.17%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.39%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.39%) Selenium
5 1 (1.69%) Appium
5 1 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.69%) Gatling
5 1 (1.69%) JIRA
5 1 (1.69%) JMeter
5 1 (1.69%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.69%) Snyk
5 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.39%) Aerospace
3 2 (3.39%) Finance
3 2 (3.39%) Legal
4 1 (1.69%) Electronics
4 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.69%) Marketing
4 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (18.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (16.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (11.86%) Developer
4 6 (10.17%) Senior
5 5 (8.47%) Administrator
5 5 (8.47%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (6.78%) Backend Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) DevOps Administrator
7 3 (5.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Lead
7 3 (5.08%) Linux DevOps Administrator
7 3 (5.08%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 3 (5.08%) QA Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (3.39%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.56%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (8.47%) Node.js
3 3 (5.08%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (3.39%) Playwright
4 2 (3.39%) React
4 2 (3.39%) YAML
5 1 (1.69%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.69%) Kafka
5 1 (1.69%) LAMP
5 1 (1.69%) REST
5 1 (1.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (5.08%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.39%) Replication
3 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (64.41%) Linux
2 17 (28.81%) Windows
3 15 (25.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (23.73%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.69%) Android
5 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (49.15%) CI/CD
2 19 (32.20%) DevOps
3 15 (25.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (23.73%) Service Management
5 12 (20.34%) Agile
5 12 (20.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (15.25%) Test Automation
8 8 (13.56%) Task Automation
9 7 (11.86%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (11.86%) Incident Management
10 6 (10.17%) High Availability
11 5 (8.47%) Configuration Management
11 5 (8.47%) Machine Learning
11 5 (8.47%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
12 4 (6.78%) DevSecOps
12 4 (6.78%) Software Testing
12 4 (6.78%) Vulnerability Management
12 4 (6.78%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 43 (72.88%) Python
2 29 (49.15%) Bash
3 19 (32.20%) PowerShell
4 18 (30.51%) Java
5 4 (6.78%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.78%) Perl
6 3 (5.08%) SQL
7 1 (1.69%) C
7 1 (1.69%) C++
7 1 (1.69%) Go
7 1 (1.69%) Groovy
7 1 (1.69%) PHP
7 1 (1.69%) Rust
7 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (67.80%) Security Cleared
2 28 (47.46%) DV Cleared
3 15 (25.42%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.39%) Degree
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.69%) CISSP
5 1 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.69%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.69%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) NCSC
3 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.39%) GDPR
3 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.39%) NIST
System Software
1 46 (77.97%) Docker
2 18 (30.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (23.73%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.69%) NFS
4 1 (1.69%) Samba
Systems Management
1 42 (71.19%) Kubernetes
2 39 (66.10%) Ansible
3 34 (57.63%) Terraform
4 22 (37.29%) Puppet
5 9 (15.25%) Grafana
6 8 (13.56%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.39%) Automic
7 2 (3.39%) Kibana
7 2 (3.39%) logstash
7 2 (3.39%) Podman
8 1 (1.69%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.69%) Nagios
8 1 (1.69%) SELinux
8 1 (1.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (35.59%) VMware
2 19 (32.20%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.78%) Splunk
4 2 (3.39%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.39%) NetApp
5 1 (1.69%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.69%) Citrix
5 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.69%) ESRI
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.69%) New Relic
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle
5 1 (1.69%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.69%) SAP