Containerisation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Containerization
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 118 129
Rank change year-on-year +30 +11 -15
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 54 32 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.02% 1.09% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 1.19% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 22 24
10th Percentile £446 £382 £413
25th Percentile £492 £400 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £473 £519
Median % change year-on-year +29.89% -8.92% +72.92%
75th Percentile £659 £530 £603
90th Percentile £695 £614 £628
South East median daily rate £625 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +13.64% -6.38% +23.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 £56.88 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £60.63 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £61.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year -23.23% -11.61% +94.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,334 2,697 3,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.19% 91.83% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 1,872 2,094
10th Percentile £213 £323 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 85
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £12.05
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.00
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Berkshire +17 51 £620 +34.78% 9
Oxfordshire +4 2 £600 - 4
Buckinghamshire +26 1 £613 +22.50% 1
Containerisation
South East

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 12 (22.22%) Apache
2 11 (20.37%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (48.15%) Azure
2 23 (42.59%) AWS
3 19 (35.19%) OpenShift
4 9 (16.67%) GCP
5 5 (9.26%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.37%) BGP
1 11 (20.37%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (20.37%) MPLS
1 11 (20.37%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (20.37%) VPN
2 2 (3.70%) VSAN
3 1 (1.85%) DHCP
3 1 (1.85%) DNS
3 1 (1.85%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (42.59%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (25.93%) MongoDB
3 12 (22.22%) NoSQL
4 6 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (7.41%) Redis
6 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.85%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.85%) MySQL
7 1 (1.85%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (48.15%) GitLab
2 23 (42.59%) JIRA
3 14 (25.93%) Jenkins
4 13 (24.07%) Selenium
5 12 (22.22%) Cucumber
5 12 (22.22%) REST Assured
5 12 (22.22%) SonarQube
6 11 (20.37%) Robot Framework
6 11 (20.37%) TestRail
7 2 (3.70%) Git
8 1 (1.85%) Appium
8 1 (1.85%) MSTest
8 1 (1.85%) NUnit
8 1 (1.85%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.85%) Spinnaker
8 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.81%) Law
3 8 (14.81%) Police
4 3 (5.56%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (20.37%) Developer
2 10 (18.52%) Network Engineer
2 10 (18.52%) Senior
2 10 (18.52%) Test Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Site Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Architect
5 5 (9.26%) Java Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Senior Java Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Java Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Java Technical Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (44.44%) REST
2 13 (24.07%) ARM Templates
3 12 (22.22%) Java EE
4 11 (20.37%) NETCONF
4 11 (20.37%) RESTCONF
4 11 (20.37%) SOAP
4 11 (20.37%) YANG
5 6 (11.11%) Kafka
6 5 (9.26%) Node.js
7 2 (3.70%) .NET
7 2 (3.70%) CSS
7 2 (3.70%) HTML
7 2 (3.70%) jQuery
8 1 (1.85%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.85%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.85%) Django
8 1 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.85%) WebSockets
8 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.85%) Grid Computing
3 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Unix
3 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.70%) VMS
4 1 (1.85%) Android
4 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) DevOps
2 27 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 22 (40.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (38.89%) CI/CD
5 20 (37.04%) Agile
6 19 (35.19%) Technical Leadership
7 18 (33.33%) Software Engineering
8 16 (29.63%) Microservices
9 14 (25.93%) Configuration Management
9 14 (25.93%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (24.07%) Collaborative Working
10 13 (24.07%) Performance Testing
10 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (24.07%) Unit Testing
11 12 (22.22%) Decision-Making
11 12 (22.22%) Scrum
11 12 (22.22%) Software Architecture
12 11 (20.37%) Integration Testing
12 11 (20.37%) Regression Testing
12 11 (20.37%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (31.48%) Python
2 14 (25.93%) Java
3 12 (22.22%) SQL
4 4 (7.41%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.56%) Bash
5 3 (5.56%) C#
6 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.70%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.85%) Perl
7 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (46.30%) Security Cleared
2 24 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.70%) Degree
4 1 (1.85%) CCNP
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.85%) MCSE
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) NCSC
2 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (62.96%) Docker
2 4 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.70%) vCloud
3 2 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.70%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.70%) vSphere
4 1 (1.85%) NFS
4 1 (1.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 36 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 21 (38.89%) Terraform
3 17 (31.48%) Ansible
4 13 (24.07%) Istio
5 12 (22.22%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (22.22%) Podman
6 9 (16.67%) Rancher
7 7 (12.96%) Grafana
7 7 (12.96%) Prometheus
8 6 (11.11%) Argo
8 6 (11.11%) Kibana
9 2 (3.70%) Packer
9 2 (3.70%) Puppet
9 2 (3.70%) vCenter Server
9 2 (3.70%) vRealize
10 1 (1.85%) CFEngine
10 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Google
2 5 (9.26%) VMware
3 4 (7.41%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.56%) Oracle
5 2 (3.70%) Microsoft