Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Worcester

Containerization
Worcestershire > Worcester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcester requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 7 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Worcester 26.92% 14.29% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 30.43% 15.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
75th Percentile £578 £725 -
90th Percentile £583 £770 -
Worcestershire median daily rate £568 £700 -
% change year-on-year -18.93% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Worcester

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 Worcester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 23 26 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcester 88.46% 92.86% 75.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 18
10th Percentile £163 £138 £213
25th Percentile £438 £145 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +41.18% -17.07%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £574
90th Percentile £582 £900 £694
Worcestershire median daily rate £550 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -2.22% +7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - - £14.33
25th Percentile - £15.22 £18.78
Median hourly rate £13.00 £17.16 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.22% -62.91% +161.30%
75th Percentile - £18.13 £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median hourly rate £45.00 £17.16 £11.73
% change year-on-year +162.31% +46.31% -33.76%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcester

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Worcester

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in Worcester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcester citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcester 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) Azure Data Factory
1 5 (71.43%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Artifactory
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Data Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
1 5 (71.43%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Kafka
1 5 (71.43%) Keycloak
2 2 (28.57%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (28.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Batch Processing
2 5 (71.43%) Data Architecture
2 5 (71.43%) Data Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (71.43%) DataOps
2 5 (71.43%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Secrets Management
3 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Go
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Certification
2 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat