Containerisation Contracts in South Yorkshire

Containerization
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 33 41 52
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 -5
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 15 15 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 4.02% 3.28% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 3.67% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 4
10th Percentile - £510 -
25th Percentile £500 £561 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +8.70% -2.54%
75th Percentile £650 £645 £675
90th Percentile £698 £650 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £588 £556 £500
% change year-on-year +5.62% +11.25% -11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in South Yorkshire

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in South Yorkshire

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in South Yorkshire

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +6 15 £588 -6.00% 6
Containerisation
Yorkshire

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) OCI
2 5 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) Azure
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.67%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) BGP
2 1 (6.67%) EIGRP
2 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (6.67%) OSPF
2 1 (6.67%) SSH
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (13.33%) BigQuery
2 2 (13.33%) Hazelcast
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
3 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) Git
3 2 (13.33%) Jaeger
4 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Financial Institution
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Data Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Data Protection Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Database Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) gRPC
1 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (6.67%) PySpark
2 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Unix
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.67%) AIX
4 1 (6.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (13.33%) High Availability
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (13.33%) Microservices
5 2 (13.33%) Network Management
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
6 1 (6.67%) Integration Testing
6 1 (6.67%) Network Design
6 1 (6.67%) Resource Management
6 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Python
2 10 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 3 (20.00%) Bash
3 3 (20.00%) Groovy
3 3 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) ActionScript
5 1 (6.67%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (6.67%) Go
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) Korn
5 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
5 1 (6.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (13.33%) OCP
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
1 1 (6.67%) QA
1 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
1 1 (6.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (86.67%) Docker
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (20.00%) vSphere
3 1 (6.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 15 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (80.00%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Control-M
3 2 (13.33%) Grafana
3 2 (13.33%) Istio
3 2 (13.33%) Kiali
3 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (13.33%) Puppet
4 1 (6.67%) Nagios
4 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) Commvault
3 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (20.00%) Splunk
3 3 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (13.33%) AppDynamics
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco
4 2 (13.33%) xMatters
5 1 (6.67%) Databricks
5 1 (6.67%) Google
5 1 (6.67%) IBM
5 1 (6.67%) IBM Sterling