Containerisation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Containerization
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 46 92 119
Rank change year-on-year +46 +27 +10
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 57 53 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.77% 1.97% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.06% 2.26% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 28 22
10th Percentile £412 £446 £382
25th Percentile £500 £492 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £629 £614 £473
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% +29.89% -8.92%
75th Percentile £688 £659 £530
90th Percentile £743 £695 £614
South East median daily rate £628 £625 £550
% change year-on-year +0.49% +13.64% -5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
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
% change year-on-year - -23.23% -11.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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

Containerisation
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

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the Thames Valley

Containerisation
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 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
Berkshire +24 43 £567 -8.55% 49
Buckinghamshire +29 14 £630 +2.86% 38
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 2 (3.51%) Apache
1 2 (3.51%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.75%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.75%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 38 (66.67%) Azure
2 24 (42.11%) AWS
3 9 (15.79%) Azure AKS
3 9 (15.79%) SaaS
4 8 (14.04%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (14.04%) IaaS
4 8 (14.04%) PaaS
5 7 (12.28%) GCP
6 6 (10.53%) Entra ID
7 5 (8.77%) Azure API Management
7 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (8.77%) Serverless
8 4 (7.02%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.51%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (3.51%) GitHub
9 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.54%) VSAN
2 8 (14.04%) BGP
2 8 (14.04%) MPLS
3 7 (12.28%) TCP/IP
3 7 (12.28%) VLAN
4 3 (5.26%) VPN
5 2 (3.51%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (3.51%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (3.51%) DNS
5 2 (3.51%) Firewall
5 2 (3.51%) NGFW
5 2 (3.51%) OSPF
5 2 (3.51%) SD-WAN
5 2 (3.51%) WAN
6 1 (1.75%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (1.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.02%) Redis
3 3 (5.26%) Big Data
3 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.26%) SSDT
4 2 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.51%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.51%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (21.05%) GitLab
1 12 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 10 (17.54%) JIRA
2 10 (17.54%) SonarQube
3 9 (15.79%) Cucumber
3 9 (15.79%) REST Assured
3 9 (15.79%) Selenium
4 5 (8.77%) Robot Framework
5 2 (3.51%) Git
6 1 (1.75%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.75%) DbUnit
6 1 (1.75%) jMock
6 1 (1.75%) JUnit
6 1 (1.75%) Maven
6 1 (1.75%) Mockito
General
1 22 (38.60%) Social Skills
2 19 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Law
4 7 (12.28%) Telecoms
5 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.02%) Police
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Architect
2 10 (17.54%) Developer
2 10 (17.54%) Senior
2 10 (17.54%) Technical Architect
3 9 (15.79%) Senior Architect
3 9 (15.79%) Senior Technical Architect
4 6 (10.53%) Auditor
4 6 (10.53%) Security Auditor
5 5 (8.77%) Automation Tester
5 5 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Java Developer
5 5 (8.77%) Java Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Software Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Telecoms Tester
5 5 (8.77%) Tester
6 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 4 (7.02%) Principal Architect
6 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) REST
2 9 (15.79%) ARM Templates
2 9 (15.79%) Java EE
3 5 (8.77%) OAuth
3 5 (8.77%) RESTful
4 4 (7.02%) GraphQL
4 4 (7.02%) Prisma
4 4 (7.02%) YAML
5 3 (5.26%) Node.js
6 2 (3.51%) PyTorch
6 2 (3.51%) React
6 2 (3.51%) scikit-learn
6 2 (3.51%) SOAP
6 2 (3.51%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.75%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.75%) Material-UI
7 1 (1.75%) NETCONF
7 1 (1.75%) OpenAPI
7 1 (1.75%) RESTCONF
7 1 (1.75%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (17.54%) PKI
3 8 (14.04%) Cloud Native
4 6 (10.53%) Public Cloud
5 5 (8.77%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.75%) IoT
7 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.75%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.75%) SCADA
7 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) CentOS
2 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (56.14%) CI/CD
1 32 (56.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 28 (49.12%) DevOps
3 27 (47.37%) Continuous Integration
4 22 (38.60%) Microservices
5 18 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (26.32%) Agile
6 15 (26.32%) DevSecOps
6 15 (26.32%) Test Automation
7 14 (24.56%) Continuous Delivery
7 14 (24.56%) ITIL
7 14 (24.56%) TOGAF
7 14 (24.56%) Zachman Framework
8 12 (21.05%) Configuration Management
9 11 (19.30%) Software Engineering
10 10 (17.54%) IT Strategy
10 10 (17.54%) Matrix Organization
10 10 (17.54%) Technology Strategy
11 9 (15.79%) Software Architecture
11 9 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.05%) Python
2 10 (17.54%) Java
3 8 (14.04%) PowerShell
4 5 (8.77%) SQL
4 5 (8.77%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.26%) Bicep
6 2 (3.51%) R
7 1 (1.75%) C#
7 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (49.12%) Security Cleared
2 27 (47.37%) SC Cleared
3 14 (24.56%) MCSE
3 14 (24.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (17.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (10.53%) Azure Certification
6 5 (8.77%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (7.02%) CCNP
7 4 (7.02%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.75%) CCSP
8 1 (1.75%) CISSP
8 1 (1.75%) OSCP
8 1 (1.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (33.33%) NCSC
2 13 (22.81%) NIST
3 9 (15.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (50.88%) Docker
2 10 (17.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (17.54%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.75%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 31 (54.39%) Kubernetes
2 19 (33.33%) Terraform
3 18 (31.58%) Ansible
4 9 (15.79%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (15.79%) Podman
5 3 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.51%) Grafana
7 1 (1.75%) Argo
7 1 (1.75%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (24.56%) VMware
2 11 (19.30%) Cisco
3 10 (17.54%) Palo Alto
4 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.26%) UiPath
6 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.75%) Google
6 1 (1.75%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.75%) New Relic
6 1 (1.75%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.75%) Splunk