Containerisation Contracts in the West Midlands

Containerization
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 120 123
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 -13
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 9 11 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.46% 0.49% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.56% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 35
10th Percentile £275 - £413
25th Percentile £325 - £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.72% +4.11%
75th Percentile £656 £631 £563
90th Percentile £688 £725 £690
England median daily rate £550 £625 £609
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.67% +10.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,612 1,976 3,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.88% 87.86% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 1,343 2,346
10th Percentile £263 £263 £280
25th Percentile £373 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% +16.47%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £586
90th Percentile £746 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 49 61
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.22 £13.70 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +23.35% +9.68%
75th Percentile £40.81 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £48.75 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the West Midlands

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Birmingham +18 6 £544 - 3
Coventry +11 3 £300 -60.00% 1
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) TeamCity
1 2 (22.22%) Travis CI
2 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Full Stack Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Product Owner
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) Flask
2 1 (11.11%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) IoT
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Microservices
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) API Management
5 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) Epics
5 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
5 2 (22.22%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
5 2 (22.22%) Information Security
5 2 (22.22%) Product Management
5 2 (22.22%) Product Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) SQL Optimisation
5 2 (22.22%) Use Case
5 2 (22.22%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Argo
3 1 (11.11%) Istio
3 1 (11.11%) linkerd
3 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) Rancher
3 1 (11.11%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Confluent
2 1 (11.11%) Guidewire
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) VMware