Containerisation Contracts in Wales

Containerization
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 36 30 57
Rank change year-on-year -6 +27 +9
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 7 14 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.39% 3.54% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 4.50% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 3
10th Percentile £521 £475 -
25th Percentile £533 £508 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.68% +8.42% -32.14%
75th Percentile £625 £598 £569
90th Percentile £670 £646 £618
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 311 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.03% 78.73% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 212 421
10th Percentile £185 £168 £183
25th Percentile £285 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
75th Percentile £525 £571 £573
90th Percentile £625 £667 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Wales

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Wales

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Wales

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Wales 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
South Wales +2 7 £570 +7.55% 19
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (42.86%) Apache
1 3 (42.86%) JBoss
1 3 (42.86%) nginx
1 3 (42.86%) WebLogic
1 3 (42.86%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
2 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
1 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Stack
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) JWT
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Rocky
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) API Management
3 3 (42.86%) Concurrent Programming
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Multithreading
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) OO
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) SOA
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 3 (42.86%) LXC
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) IBM