Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Containerization
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 56 96
Rank change year-on-year +26 +40 +3
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 138 35 14
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 7.54% 2.96% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.42% 3.44% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 23 12
10th Percentile £398 - £461
25th Percentile £438 £381 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £425 £588
Median % change year-on-year +14.59% -27.66% -2.08%
75th Percentile £535 £513 £663
90th Percentile £609 £630 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,016 1,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.51% 86.03% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,098 608 1,038
10th Percentile £250 £234 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £479 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.73% -4.30% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £639 £688 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 30 25
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.52 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.88 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%
75th Percentile £43.59 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £59.65 £60.29 £38.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Yorkshire

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 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 Yorkshire +21 89 £487 -10.15% 17
West Yorkshire +3 46 £500 +25.00% 17
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 7 (5.07%) Confluence
2 2 (1.45%) Apache
2 2 (1.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 91 (65.94%) AWS
2 78 (56.52%) GCP
3 49 (35.51%) Azure
4 47 (34.06%) Serverless
5 32 (23.19%) OpenShift
6 11 (7.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (7.97%) GitHub
7 10 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (5.80%) AWS KMS
9 8 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.62%) Azure Functions
12 4 (2.90%) Amazon S3
13 3 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.17%) Azure AKS
14 2 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 2 (1.45%) Azure Key Vault
14 2 (1.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.97%) Firewall
2 6 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
2 6 (4.35%) iSCSI
2 6 (4.35%) NAS
2 6 (4.35%) SAN
3 3 (2.17%) DNS
4 1 (0.72%) FTP
4 1 (0.72%) HTTP
4 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.72%) VPN
4 1 (0.72%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 34 (24.64%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (5.80%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.35%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.45%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.45%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.72%) MySQL
8 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (42.75%) Jenkins
2 51 (36.96%) GitLab
3 28 (20.29%) Liquibase
4 24 (17.39%) Git
5 17 (12.32%) JIRA
6 3 (2.17%) JUnit
6 3 (2.17%) Maven
7 2 (1.45%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.45%) Gradle
7 2 (1.45%) Log4j
7 2 (1.45%) Mockito
7 2 (1.45%) Subversion
8 1 (0.72%) Appium
8 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.72%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.72%) Mocha
8 1 (0.72%) Selenium
8 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.72%) TestNG
General
1 63 (45.65%) Social Skills
2 46 (33.33%) Banking
3 44 (31.88%) Finance
4 25 (18.12%) Financial Institution
5 15 (10.87%) Public Sector
6 12 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.17%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Local Government
9 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (21.74%) Software Engineer
2 22 (15.94%) Developer
3 21 (15.22%) Senior
4 20 (14.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (12.32%) GCP Engineer
7 15 (10.87%) Architect
8 13 (9.42%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (6.52%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) Python Developer
11 8 (5.80%) Python Engineer
12 7 (5.07%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 7 (5.07%) NetBackup Engineer
12 7 (5.07%) Node.js Developer
13 6 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
13 6 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 5 (3.62%) .NET Software Engineer
14 5 (3.62%) Angular Developer
14 5 (3.62%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (35.51%) RESTful
2 38 (27.54%) Elastic Stack
3 35 (25.36%) REST
4 19 (13.77%) React
5 14 (10.14%) Node.js
6 13 (9.42%) FastAPI
6 13 (9.42%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (6.52%) .NET
7 9 (6.52%) Kafka
8 8 (5.80%) AngularJS
9 6 (4.35%) .NET Core
9 6 (4.35%) Express.js
9 6 (4.35%) Spring
10 5 (3.62%) GraphQL
10 5 (3.62%) Jest
11 4 (2.90%) CSS
11 4 (2.90%) FHIR
11 4 (2.90%) HTML
11 4 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (29.71%) Cloud Native
2 36 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (23.19%) Public Cloud
4 15 (10.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (7.97%) Product Ownership
6 8 (5.80%) Enterprise Storage
7 7 (5.07%) Replication
8 4 (2.90%) NHS
9 3 (2.17%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.17%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (3.62%) VMS
3 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (73.91%) CI/CD
2 87 (63.04%) DevOps
3 72 (52.17%) Agile
4 65 (47.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (39.13%) Microservices
6 42 (30.43%) Software Engineering
7 37 (26.81%) High Availability
8 33 (23.91%) Root Cause Analysis
9 32 (23.19%) Computer Science
10 30 (21.74%) Change Management
11 29 (21.01%) Continuous Delivery
11 29 (21.01%) Continuous Integration
12 28 (20.29%) Cost Optimisation
12 28 (20.29%) Cryptography
12 28 (20.29%) Infrastructure Automation
12 28 (20.29%) Migration
13 27 (19.57%) Non-Functional Testing
13 27 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (18.12%) Cybersecurity
14 25 (18.12%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 82 (59.42%) Python
2 37 (26.81%) Go
3 21 (15.22%) Java
4 20 (14.49%) Bash
5 11 (7.97%) TypeScript
6 10 (7.25%) C#
6 10 (7.25%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.25%) SQL
7 6 (4.35%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.62%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.17%) Bicep
10 2 (1.45%) Groovy
11 1 (0.72%) C++
11 1 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 35 (25.36%) Degree
2 32 (23.19%) Computer Science Degree
2 32 (23.19%) Master's Degree
3 14 (10.14%) AWS Certification
4 10 (7.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 10 (7.25%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.35%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.62%) OCP
6 5 (3.62%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.17%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.17%) PMP
8 2 (1.45%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.72%) CSPO
9 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.90%) HL7
1 4 (2.90%) QA
System Software
1 85 (61.59%) Docker
2 10 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.35%) NFS
3 6 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.45%) KVM
4 2 (1.45%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.45%) vSphere
5 1 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 106 (76.81%) Kubernetes
2 77 (55.80%) Terraform
3 51 (36.96%) Ansible
3 51 (36.96%) Grafana
4 49 (35.51%) Prometheus
5 10 (7.25%) Control-M
5 10 (7.25%) IBM Guardium
5 10 (7.25%) Nessus
6 7 (5.07%) NetBackup
6 7 (5.07%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (2.17%) Argo
8 2 (1.45%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.45%) Puppet
8 2 (1.45%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.72%) Kibana
9 1 (0.72%) logstash
9 1 (0.72%) Podman
Vendors
1 33 (23.91%) Splunk
2 29 (21.01%) Google
3 16 (11.59%) Microsoft
4 13 (9.42%) VMware
5 10 (7.25%) Tenable
6 7 (5.07%) CyberArk
6 7 (5.07%) Oracle
6 7 (5.07%) Veritas
7 6 (4.35%) NetApp
7 6 (4.35%) Pure Storage
8 5 (3.62%) EMC
8 5 (3.62%) IBM
9 4 (2.90%) Dell
9 4 (2.90%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.17%) Brio
10 3 (2.17%) SAP
11 1 (0.72%) Cisco
11 1 (0.72%) F5
11 1 (0.72%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.72%) Salesforce