Containerisation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Containerization
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 113 135
Rank change year-on-year +40 +22 -1
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 57 32 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.16% 1.12% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 1.23% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 24 23
10th Percentile £475 £386 £413
25th Percentile £500 £400 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £493 £513
Median % change year-on-year +26.90% -3.90% +24.24%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £606
90th Percentile £688 £675 £630
South East median daily rate £625 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +13.64% -6.38% +22.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 £56.88 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £60.63 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £61.88 -
% change year-on-year -23.23% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,598 3,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.01% 90.78% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,766 2,158
10th Percentile £213 £319 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £579
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 69 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.50 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
% change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%

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 May 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 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
Berkshire +13 50 £625 +32.28% 6
Buckinghamshire +33 5 £613 +22.50% 4
Oxfordshire +8 2 £600 - 1
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 8 (14.04%) Apache
2 7 (12.28%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 28 (49.12%) Azure
2 26 (45.61%) OpenShift
3 24 (42.11%) AWS
4 9 (15.79%) GCP
5 4 (7.02%) Azure API Management
5 4 (7.02%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (7.02%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.51%) PaaS
6 2 (3.51%) Slack
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.75%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.28%) BGP
1 7 (12.28%) Ethernet VPN
1 7 (12.28%) MPLS
1 7 (12.28%) Radio Access Network
1 7 (12.28%) VPN
2 2 (3.51%) Firewall
2 2 (3.51%) VSAN
3 1 (1.75%) DHCP
3 1 (1.75%) DNS
3 1 (1.75%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (35.09%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (19.30%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (17.54%) MongoDB
4 7 (12.28%) NoSQL
5 4 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (7.02%) SSDT
6 2 (3.51%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (38.60%) GitLab
2 19 (33.33%) JIRA
3 16 (28.07%) Jenkins
4 13 (22.81%) Selenium
5 12 (21.05%) Cucumber
5 12 (21.05%) REST Assured
5 12 (21.05%) SonarQube
6 7 (12.28%) Robot Framework
6 7 (12.28%) TestRail
7 3 (5.26%) Git
8 1 (1.75%) Appium
8 1 (1.75%) MSTest
8 1 (1.75%) NUnit
8 1 (1.75%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.75%) Spinnaker
8 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Law
3 8 (14.04%) Police
4 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (22.81%) Site Engineer
1 13 (22.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 12 (21.05%) Senior
3 6 (10.53%) Developer
3 6 (10.53%) Network Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Software Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Test Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Java Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Senior Java Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Environment And Release Manager
5 4 (7.02%) Environment Manager
5 4 (7.02%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Release Manager
6 3 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (33.33%) REST
2 13 (22.81%) ARM Templates
3 12 (21.05%) Java EE
4 11 (19.30%) Kafka
5 7 (12.28%) NETCONF
5 7 (12.28%) RESTCONF
5 7 (12.28%) SOAP
5 7 (12.28%) YANG
6 4 (7.02%) YAML
7 2 (3.51%) Fluent Bit
7 2 (3.51%) Loki
8 1 (1.75%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.75%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.75%) HTML
8 1 (1.75%) jQuery
8 1 (1.75%) Node.js
8 1 (1.75%) React
8 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.51%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.75%) Grid Computing
3 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
2 4 (7.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.26%) Unix
4 2 (3.51%) VMS
4 2 (3.51%) Windows
5 1 (1.75%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (71.93%) DevOps
2 28 (49.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (38.60%) Software Engineering
3 22 (38.60%) Test Automation
4 21 (36.84%) CI/CD
5 19 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
6 17 (29.82%) Agile
6 17 (29.82%) Collaborative Working
6 17 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (28.07%) Configuration Management
7 16 (28.07%) Microservices
8 14 (24.56%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (24.56%) GitOps
9 13 (22.81%) ITSM
9 13 (22.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 13 (22.81%) Task Automation
10 12 (21.05%) Decision-Making
10 12 (21.05%) Software Architecture
11 10 (17.54%) Change Management
11 10 (17.54%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.56%) Java
1 14 (24.56%) Python
2 7 (12.28%) SQL
3 5 (8.77%) Bash
4 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.51%) C#
5 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 34 (59.65%) Security Cleared
2 31 (54.39%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) Degree
4 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) CCNP
5 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.75%) MCSE
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) NCSC
2 1 (1.75%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (54.39%) Docker
2 4 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.51%) vCloud
3 2 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.51%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.51%) vSphere
4 1 (1.75%) NFS
4 1 (1.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 44 (77.19%) Kubernetes
2 27 (47.37%) Terraform
3 19 (33.33%) Ansible
4 18 (31.58%) Istio
5 14 (24.56%) Grafana
5 14 (24.56%) Prometheus
6 13 (22.81%) Argo
7 12 (21.05%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (21.05%) Podman
8 11 (19.30%) Kibana
9 9 (15.79%) Rancher
10 2 (3.51%) Kustomize
10 2 (3.51%) Packer
10 2 (3.51%) Puppet
10 2 (3.51%) SELinux
10 2 (3.51%) vCenter Server
10 2 (3.51%) vRealize
10 2 (3.51%) yum
11 1 (1.75%) CFEngine
11 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (14.04%) Google
2 5 (8.77%) VMware
3 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.02%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.51%) Oracle