Containerisation Contracts in the Midlands

Containerization
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 149 129
Rank change year-on-year +30 -20 +4
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 16 16 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.59% 0.49% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.56% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 47
10th Percentile £295 £457 £396
25th Percentile £406 - £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £672 £625 £551
90th Percentile £740 £695 £710
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +11.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,216 2,879 4,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.20% 88.23% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 2,017 3,226
10th Percentile £234 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 104 146
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.86 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.52 £13.74
Median hourly rate £18.00 £20.71 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.06% +18.31% +13.09%
75th Percentile £33.25 £30.50 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.63 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the Midlands

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the Midlands

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the Midlands

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
West Midlands +20 7 £425 -15.00% 11
East Midlands +16 7 £473 +10.53% 16
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) SaaS
4 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) InfiniBand
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) DB2
3 2 (12.50%) Big Data
3 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
1 2 (12.50%) Travis CI
2 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
1 6 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Architect
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Solution Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Data Analytics Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Data Migration Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Full Stack Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Migration Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Product Owner
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) .NET
2 4 (25.00%) React
3 2 (12.50%) Kafka
4 1 (6.25%) Flask
4 1 (6.25%) OpenMP
4 1 (6.25%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) IoT
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Android
1 4 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Microservices
2 7 (43.75%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) SDLC
5 4 (25.00%) API Design
5 4 (25.00%) Architectural Design
5 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 4 (25.00%) Project Management
5 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Epics
7 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
7 2 (12.50%) IT Strategy
7 2 (12.50%) Organisational Awareness
7 2 (12.50%) Product Strategy
7 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 2 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
7 2 (12.50%) Technology Transformation
7 2 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) C
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
5 1 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Lustre
2 1 (6.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Argo
3 1 (6.25%) Istio
3 1 (6.25%) linkerd
3 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
3 1 (6.25%) Rancher
3 1 (6.25%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Confluent
1 2 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Guidewire
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) VMware