Containerisation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Containerization
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Containerisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Containerisation over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 110 146
Rank change year-on-year +54 +36 -31
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 78 32 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.65% 1.20% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.19% 1.33% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 25 30
10th Percentile £390 £464 £480
25th Percentile £406 £600 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +11.63%
75th Percentile £606 £675 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £498 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -19.11% +2.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £92.50
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £57.99 £77.50
% change year-on-year - -25.17% +10.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,861 2,411 3,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.00% 90.74% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 1,584 2,502
10th Percentile £300 £245 £305
25th Percentile £411 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £612
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 100 72
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.39 £11.42
25th Percentile £27.75 £24.00 £14.06
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +159.74% -
75th Percentile £62.69 £66.11 £50.31
90th Percentile £70.72 £75.67 £75.75
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
% change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Berkshire +34 51 £409 -37.08% 11
Buckinghamshire +31 26 £568 -18.52% 12
Oxfordshire +8 1 - - 7
Containerisation
South East

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.41%) Apache
2 2 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.28%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 36 (46.15%) Azure
2 23 (29.49%) AWS
3 15 (19.23%) Serverless
4 14 (17.95%) GCP
5 13 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 13 (16.67%) OpenShift
6 11 (14.10%) Azure Functions
7 7 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (7.69%) PaaS
8 6 (7.69%) SaaS
9 5 (6.41%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (5.13%) Amazon S3
10 4 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (5.13%) Azure API Management
10 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (5.13%) Entra ID
10 4 (5.13%) Google Compute Engine
10 4 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (5.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.95%) BGP
1 14 (17.95%) MPLS
2 13 (16.67%) VPN
3 10 (12.82%) VSAN
4 9 (11.54%) Ethernet VPN
5 6 (7.69%) SMTP
6 5 (6.41%) TCP/IP
6 5 (6.41%) VLAN
7 4 (5.13%) Firewall
7 4 (5.13%) FTP
8 2 (2.56%) DNS
8 2 (2.56%) HTTP
8 2 (2.56%) Telnet
9 1 (1.28%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 9 (11.54%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (11.54%) MongoDB
3 9 (11.54%) Redis
4 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.13%) SSDT
5 2 (2.56%) Big Data
5 2 (2.56%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (21.79%) GitLab
2 12 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 9 (11.54%) JIRA
4 8 (10.26%) Git
5 4 (5.13%) Bitbucket
5 4 (5.13%) Gradle
5 4 (5.13%) IntelliJ
5 4 (5.13%) Maven
5 4 (5.13%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.28%) CircleCI
General
1 21 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (10.26%) Public Sector
2 8 (10.26%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.85%) Finance
4 2 (2.56%) Billing
5 1 (1.28%) Electronics
5 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.28%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (26.92%) Senior
2 15 (19.23%) Developer
3 12 (15.38%) Architect
4 11 (14.10%) Automation Tester
4 11 (14.10%) Site Engineer
4 11 (14.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (14.10%) Tester
5 9 (11.54%) Backend Developer
5 9 (11.54%) Technical Architect
6 8 (10.26%) Senior Architect
7 7 (8.97%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (8.97%) Senior Technical Architect
8 6 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.13%) Applications Developer
10 4 (5.13%) Java Applications Developer
10 4 (5.13%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.13%) Release Manager
10 4 (5.13%) Senior Applications Developer
10 4 (5.13%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.67%) RESTful
2 11 (14.10%) Kafka
3 10 (12.82%) GraphQL
4 9 (11.54%) NETCONF
4 9 (11.54%) Prisma
4 9 (11.54%) REST
4 9 (11.54%) RESTCONF
4 9 (11.54%) SOAP
4 9 (11.54%) YANG
5 8 (10.26%) Node.js
6 7 (8.97%) Gherkin
7 6 (7.69%) YAML
8 4 (5.13%) Spring
8 4 (5.13%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.56%) JSON
9 2 (2.56%) LDAP
9 2 (2.56%) Loki
9 2 (2.56%) scikit-learn
9 2 (2.56%) TensorFlow
9 2 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.51%) Cloud Native
2 11 (14.10%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (14.10%) PKI
3 7 (8.97%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.13%) Virtual Team
4 4 (5.13%) Wiki
5 2 (2.56%) CMDB
6 1 (1.28%) IoT
6 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.28%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 21 (26.92%) Linux
2 15 (19.23%) CentOS
3 9 (11.54%) Unix
4 6 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.13%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (62.82%) CI/CD
2 38 (48.72%) Microservices
3 34 (43.59%) DevOps
4 27 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (25.64%) Agile
6 14 (17.95%) Task Automation
7 13 (16.67%) ITIL
7 13 (16.67%) Migration
7 13 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 12 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (15.38%) Cost Management
8 12 (15.38%) Software Engineering
9 11 (14.10%) DevSecOps
9 11 (14.10%) GitOps
9 11 (14.10%) ITSM
9 11 (14.10%) Scrum
9 11 (14.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 11 (14.10%) Test Strategy
9 11 (14.10%) TOGAF
10 10 (12.82%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 30 (38.46%) Python
2 19 (24.36%) SQL
3 11 (14.10%) Java
4 9 (11.54%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.26%) Bash
6 6 (7.69%) Groovy
7 4 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.85%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.56%) C++
9 2 (2.56%) Go
9 2 (2.56%) R
9 2 (2.56%) Scala
10 1 (1.28%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 31 (39.74%) Security Cleared
2 28 (35.90%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.10%) MCSE
3 11 (14.10%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (14.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 8 (10.26%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.41%) Degree
6 2 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.38%) NIST
2 11 (14.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (12.82%) NCSC
4 7 (8.97%) QA
5 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (48.72%) Docker
2 13 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (12.82%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.85%) KVM
5 2 (2.56%) NFS
5 2 (2.56%) Samba
6 1 (1.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 51 (65.38%) Kubernetes
2 16 (20.51%) Ansible
3 15 (19.23%) Terraform
4 12 (15.38%) Grafana
4 12 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 11 (14.10%) Argo
6 10 (12.82%) Istio
7 9 (11.54%) Kibana
8 4 (5.13%) SELinux
8 4 (5.13%) yum
9 3 (3.85%) Progress Chef
9 3 (3.85%) Puppet
10 2 (2.56%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 20 (25.64%) Cisco
2 14 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.95%) VMware
3 11 (14.10%) Palo Alto
4 6 (7.69%) Google
5 4 (5.13%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.28%) SAP