Containerisation Contracts in the North West

Containerization
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 113 123
Rank change year-on-year +27 +10 -4
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 49 37 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.76% 1.23% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 1.37% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 21 40
10th Percentile £438 £550 £500
25th Percentile £446 £581 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £588 £611
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% -3.89% +22.25%
75th Percentile £683 £638 £650
90th Percentile £694 £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 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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,704 3,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 89.77% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,900 2,591
10th Percentile £310 £313 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 142 155
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.61 £59.08 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 12 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 12 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 +12 37 £550 -6.38% 26
Cheshire +5 11 £510 -5.34% 4
Lancashire - 1 £493 - 3
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 (10.20%) Apache
1 5 (10.20%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (10.20%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.04%) nginx
2 1 (2.04%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 40 (81.63%) AWS
2 25 (51.02%) Amazon S3
3 24 (48.98%) Amazon EC2
4 17 (34.69%) Serverless
5 16 (32.65%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (30.61%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (26.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (22.45%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (16.33%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (16.33%) Route 53
9 8 (16.33%) Snowflake
10 7 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (10.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (10.20%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (10.20%) Azure
12 3 (6.12%) Amazon ELB
12 3 (6.12%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (6.12%) OpenShift
12 3 (6.12%) SaaS
13 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) FTP
2 4 (8.16%) Firewall
2 4 (8.16%) Network Security
2 4 (8.16%) VPN
3 1 (2.04%) DNS
3 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.20%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (10.20%) Big Data
3 5 (10.20%) MySQL
4 4 (8.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.12%) DB2
5 3 (6.12%) DynamoDB
5 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (46.94%) Git
2 21 (42.86%) GitLab
3 8 (16.33%) webpack
4 6 (12.24%) Jenkins
5 5 (10.20%) JIRA
6 4 (8.16%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.08%) Cucumber
7 2 (4.08%) JUnit
7 2 (4.08%) Maven
7 2 (4.08%) Mockito
General
1 6 (12.24%) Finance
2 5 (10.20%) Manufacturing
2 5 (10.20%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (10.20%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Banking
3 4 (8.16%) Retail
4 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.04%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
2 12 (24.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (22.45%) Lead
4 9 (18.37%) Architect
4 9 (18.37%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (16.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 8 (16.33%) Technical Leader
6 6 (12.24%) Senior
7 5 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Data Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Developer
7 5 (10.20%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (10.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Snowflake Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (8.16%) Digital Architect
8 4 (8.16%) Digital Technical Architect
8 4 (8.16%) Lead Architect
8 4 (8.16%) Site Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (30.61%) Node.js
2 12 (24.49%) React
3 8 (16.33%) Express.js
3 8 (16.33%) Redux
4 7 (14.29%) JSON
5 5 (10.20%) XML
6 3 (6.12%) .NET
6 3 (6.12%) Kafka
6 3 (6.12%) Spring
6 3 (6.12%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.08%) RESTful
7 2 (4.08%) WireMock
8 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.04%) AWS CDK
8 1 (2.04%) AWS SAM
8 1 (2.04%) cloud-init
8 1 (2.04%) Jest
8 1 (2.04%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (2.04%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Public Cloud
2 7 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.12%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.04%) Clustering
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.04%) PKI
4 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Android
1 7 (14.29%) Apple iOS
2 5 (10.20%) Windows
3 4 (8.16%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.08%) Unix
5 1 (2.04%) CentOS
5 1 (2.04%) Linux
5 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 31 (63.27%) DevOps
3 22 (44.90%) Agile
4 15 (30.61%) Test Automation
5 14 (28.57%) Microservices
6 13 (26.53%) ETL
7 12 (24.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (20.41%) Full Stack Development
9 9 (18.37%) Front End Development
9 9 (18.37%) Scrum
9 9 (18.37%) Software Engineering
10 8 (16.33%) API Development
10 8 (16.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 8 (16.33%) Customer Engagement
10 8 (16.33%) End-to-End Testing
10 8 (16.33%) QA Automation
11 7 (14.29%) Design Patterns
11 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
12 6 (12.24%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.90%) Python
2 14 (28.57%) Java
3 13 (26.53%) Bash
4 10 (20.41%) SQL
5 5 (10.20%) C#
5 5 (10.20%) Ruby
6 4 (8.16%) Go
7 3 (6.12%) C
7 3 (6.12%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.08%) PHP
9 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (32.65%) SC Cleared
1 16 (32.65%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 7 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.45%) QA
2 3 (6.12%) ISO 22301
2 3 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (48.98%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (61.22%) Kubernetes
2 21 (42.86%) Terraform
3 10 (20.41%) Ansible
4 3 (6.12%) HP Fortify
5 2 (4.08%) Istio
5 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.04%) Argo
6 1 (2.04%) Consul
6 1 (2.04%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (2.04%) Grafana
6 1 (2.04%) Graphite
6 1 (2.04%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.04%) Kibana
6 1 (2.04%) linkerd
6 1 (2.04%) Packer
6 1 (2.04%) Podman
6 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.04%) Puppet
6 1 (2.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (10.20%) Informatica
1 5 (10.20%) Talend
2 4 (8.16%) Splunk
3 3 (6.12%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.08%) VMware
5 1 (2.04%) PagerDuty