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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 143 147
Rank change year-on-year +29 +4 -15
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 22 15 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.76% 0.47% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.53% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 38
10th Percentile £310 £468 £418
25th Percentile £430 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £630 £669 £579
90th Percentile £688 £685 £700
England median daily rate £550 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% +11.36%

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 2,343 2,821 4,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.04% 87.55% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,568 1,980 3,250
10th Percentile £231 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 101 130
10th Percentile £11.10 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +21.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +13 10 £450 -10.00% 8
East Midlands +15 8 £445 -7.29% 17
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 10 (45.45%) AWS
2 9 (40.91%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) SaaS
4 3 (13.64%) Serverless
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.55%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) InfiniBand
1 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (18.18%) DB2
3 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) GitLab
3 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 2 (9.09%) Gradle
3 2 (9.09%) Maven
3 2 (9.09%) TeamCity
3 2 (9.09%) Travis CI
4 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Banking
2 5 (22.73%) Manufacturing
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Architect
1 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (18.18%) Product Owner
1 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (9.09%) Developer
2 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Senior
2 2 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) IAM Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Lead
3 1 (4.55%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (4.55%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) .NET
2 4 (18.18%) React
3 3 (13.64%) OAuth
3 3 (13.64%) SAML
4 2 (9.09%) Kafka
5 1 (4.55%) Flask
5 1 (4.55%) OpenMP
5 1 (4.55%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (18.18%) IoT
1 4 (18.18%) Mainframe
1 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
1 4 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) Android
2 4 (18.18%) Apple iOS
3 2 (9.09%) Windows
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) DevOps
2 9 (40.91%) Agile
2 9 (40.91%) Microservices
3 7 (31.82%) API Management
3 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
3 7 (31.82%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (22.73%) Identity Management
4 5 (22.73%) Information Security
4 5 (22.73%) SDLC
5 4 (18.18%) API Design
5 4 (18.18%) Architectural Design
5 4 (18.18%) Domain-Driven Design
5 4 (18.18%) Epics
5 4 (18.18%) Product Management
5 4 (18.18%) Project Management
5 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 4 (18.18%) Service Delivery
5 4 (18.18%) Use Case
5 4 (18.18%) User Stories
5 4 (18.18%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) C
4 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.09%) Groovy
5 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.09%) SQL
6 1 (4.55%) Bash
6 1 (4.55%) Go
6 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) RHCE
2 1 (4.55%) RHCSA
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
2 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.55%) Lustre
3 1 (4.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (18.18%) Ansible
2 4 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) Argo
3 1 (4.55%) Istio
3 1 (4.55%) linkerd
3 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.55%) Puppet
3 1 (4.55%) Rancher
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (4.55%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Confluent
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Guidewire
2 1 (4.55%) SAP
2 1 (4.55%) VMware