Containerisation Contracts in the North West

Containerization
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 86 112 122
Rank change year-on-year +26 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 50 37 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.80% 1.23% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 1.37% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 21 40
10th Percentile £440 £550 £500
25th Percentile £448 £581 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £588 £611
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% -3.89% +22.25%
75th Percentile £694 £638 £650
90th Percentile - £650 £700
England median daily rate £550 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £58.75 £75.50 £54.25
% change year-on-year -22.19% +39.17% +37.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,704 3,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 84.18% 89.74% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 1,901 2,610
10th Percentile £310 £313 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £658
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 142 158
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.06 £14.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.54 £23.55
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +29.71% +29.98%
75th Percentile £46.18 £44.31 £52.36
90th Percentile £66.61 £62.63 £75.00
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the North West

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the North West

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the North West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the North West

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in the North West

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the North West 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
Manchester +20 39 £550 -6.38% 21
Cheshire +6 11 £510 -5.34% 4
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (10.00%) Apache
1 5 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.00%) nginx
2 1 (2.00%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 42 (84.00%) AWS
2 25 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 24 (48.00%) Amazon EC2
4 17 (34.00%) Serverless
5 16 (32.00%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (26.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (22.00%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (16.00%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (16.00%) Route 53
9 8 (16.00%) Snowflake
10 5 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (10.00%) Azure
11 4 (8.00%) SaaS
12 3 (6.00%) Amazon ELB
12 3 (6.00%) AWS CodePipeline
13 2 (4.00%) OpenShift
14 1 (2.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) FTP
1 5 (10.00%) Network Security
2 4 (8.00%) Firewall
2 4 (8.00%) VPN
3 1 (2.00%) DNS
3 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (14.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (10.00%) Big Data
3 5 (10.00%) MySQL
4 4 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.00%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.00%) DB2
5 3 (6.00%) DynamoDB
5 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (48.00%) Git
2 22 (44.00%) GitLab
3 8 (16.00%) webpack
4 7 (14.00%) Jenkins
5 5 (10.00%) JIRA
6 4 (8.00%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
7 2 (4.00%) JUnit
7 2 (4.00%) Maven
7 2 (4.00%) Mockito
8 1 (2.00%) Travis CI
General
1 6 (12.00%) Finance
2 5 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 5 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.00%) Banking
3 4 (8.00%) Retail
4 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.00%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (30.00%) AWS DevOps
2 13 (26.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (22.00%) Lead
4 9 (18.00%) Architect
4 9 (18.00%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) Technical Leader
6 7 (14.00%) Senior
7 6 (12.00%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (10.00%) Data Engineer
8 5 (10.00%) Developer
8 5 (10.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (10.00%) Snowflake Engineer
8 5 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (8.00%) Digital Architect
9 4 (8.00%) Digital Technical Architect
9 4 (8.00%) Lead Architect
9 4 (8.00%) Technical Architect
10 3 (6.00%) Senior DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (30.00%) Node.js
2 12 (24.00%) React
3 8 (16.00%) Express.js
3 8 (16.00%) Redux
4 7 (14.00%) JSON
5 5 (10.00%) XML
6 3 (6.00%) .NET
6 3 (6.00%) Spring
6 3 (6.00%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.00%) Kafka
7 2 (4.00%) RESTful
7 2 (4.00%) WireMock
8 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.00%) AWS CDK
8 1 (2.00%) AWS SAM
8 1 (2.00%) cloud-init
8 1 (2.00%) Jest
8 1 (2.00%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (2.00%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Public Cloud
2 7 (14.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.00%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.00%) Clustering
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Android
1 7 (14.00%) Apple iOS
2 5 (10.00%) Windows
3 4 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.00%) Unix
5 1 (2.00%) CentOS
5 1 (2.00%) Linux
5 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (88.00%) CI/CD
2 32 (64.00%) DevOps
3 21 (42.00%) Agile
4 15 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 13 (26.00%) ETL
5 13 (26.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (26.00%) Microservices
6 10 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
7 9 (18.00%) Front End Development
7 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (18.00%) Scrum
8 8 (16.00%) API Development
8 8 (16.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 8 (16.00%) Customer Engagement
8 8 (16.00%) End-to-End Testing
8 8 (16.00%) QA Automation
8 8 (16.00%) Software Engineering
9 7 (14.00%) Design Patterns
9 7 (14.00%) Software Delivery
10 6 (12.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.00%) Python
2 14 (28.00%) Bash
2 14 (28.00%) Java
3 10 (20.00%) SQL
4 5 (10.00%) C#
4 5 (10.00%) Ruby
5 4 (8.00%) Go
6 3 (6.00%) C
6 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.00%) PHP
8 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.00%) AWS Certification
2 8 (16.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.00%) QA
2 3 (6.00%) ISO 22301
2 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (52.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (62.00%) Kubernetes
2 23 (46.00%) Terraform
3 10 (20.00%) Ansible
4 3 (6.00%) HP Fortify
5 1 (2.00%) Consul
5 1 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (2.00%) Graphite
5 1 (2.00%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.00%) Istio
5 1 (2.00%) linkerd
5 1 (2.00%) Packer
5 1 (2.00%) Podman
5 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.00%) Puppet
5 1 (2.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Informatica
1 5 (10.00%) Talend
2 4 (8.00%) Splunk
3 3 (6.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.00%) PagerDuty