Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Containerization
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Containerisation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 2.31% - 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% - 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £615
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.50%
75th Percentile - - £623
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £447 £665 £575
% change year-on-year -32.78% +15.65% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 111 113 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 85.38% 68.90% 83.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 74 104
10th Percentile £170 £200 £263
25th Percentile £320 £356 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £594 £617 £620
90th Percentile £688 £646 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile £36.90 £46.00 £18.75
25th Percentile £58.50 - £22.69
Median hourly rate £71.50 £80.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +196.30% +47.38%
75th Percentile £73.50 - £32.63
90th Percentile £74.40 - £36.63
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +4.27% +30.49%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Southampton

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Containerisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Podman
3 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat