Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Wales

Containerization
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 43 47
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 2 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.42% 1.42% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 1.66% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - £203 £506
25th Percentile - £289 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £572 £564
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% +1.46% +18.68%
75th Percentile - £594 £633
90th Percentile - £647 £641
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -

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 381 361 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 80.04% 85.34% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 220 287
10th Percentile £183 £162 £174
25th Percentile £282 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £501 £550 £575
90th Percentile £613 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 45 24
10th Percentile £13.33 £18.93 £17.30
25th Percentile £16.72 £20.12 £21.32
Median hourly rate £18.18 £25.36 £26.58
Median % change year-on-year -28.31% -4.60% +40.24%
75th Percentile £23.71 £40.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £30.75 £48.75 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Containerisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Wales

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Containerisation

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 20 December 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 0 1 - - 5
Dyfed - 1 £600 -
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Software Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Case Management
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Podman
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk