Containerisation Contracts in England

Containerization
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 158 162
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +8
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 548 858 1,281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.48% 1.70% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.88% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 641 913
10th Percentile £425 £463 £450
25th Percentile £500 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £674 £738 £699
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile £48.38 £54.15 £45.59
25th Percentile £51.56 £60.94 £46.83
Median hourly rate £58.75 £71.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +37.88% +28.74%
75th Percentile £66.56 £76.75 £56.69
90th Percentile £70.13 £87.80 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £68.50 £54.25
% change year-on-year +2.19% +26.27% +21.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in England.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Containerisation in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London -18 296 £600 -7.69% 160
South East +34 89 £625 +13.64% 34
North of England +30 81 £549 -8.50% 46
North West +18 48 £550 -6.38% 21
Yorkshire +46 32 £538 +7.50% 23
South West -4 31 £550 - 27
East of England +10 17 £513 -28.07% 14
Midlands +23 12 £500 - 33
West Midlands +25 6 £425 -15.00% 11
East Midlands +19 4 £688 +60.82% 22
North East +3 1 £525 -16.00% 2
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 29 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.56%) Apache
3 18 (3.28%) Confluence
4 15 (2.74%) Apache Spark
5 12 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.82%) nginx
7 8 (1.46%) OpenStack
7 8 (1.46%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.91%) Luigi
9 3 (0.55%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.55%) WordPress
10 2 (0.36%) CMS
10 2 (0.36%) Drupal
10 2 (0.36%) Traefik
10 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.91%) Endur
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.18%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 281 (51.28%) AWS
2 184 (33.58%) Azure
3 121 (22.08%) GCP
4 65 (11.86%) Serverless
5 61 (11.13%) Amazon S3
6 52 (9.49%) Amazon EC2
6 52 (9.49%) GitHub
7 47 (8.58%) OpenShift
8 43 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (6.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 32 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
11 31 (5.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 27 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (4.20%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (2.74%) Entra ID
17 14 (2.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 14 (2.55%) IaaS
18 13 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.39%) VPN
2 34 (6.20%) Firewall
3 18 (3.28%) DNS
4 16 (2.92%) TCP/IP
5 13 (2.37%) MPLS
6 12 (2.19%) BGP
6 12 (2.19%) Ethernet VPN
6 12 (2.19%) Radio Access Network
7 10 (1.82%) HTTP
7 10 (1.82%) Network Security
8 7 (1.28%) SAN
9 5 (0.91%) FTP
10 4 (0.73%) DHCP
10 4 (0.73%) InfiniBand
11 3 (0.55%) Internet
11 3 (0.55%) Intranet
12 2 (0.36%) IPv4
12 2 (0.36%) OSPF
12 2 (0.36%) SSL
12 2 (0.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (12.41%) NoSQL
2 59 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (6.57%) MongoDB
4 34 (6.20%) Relational Database
5 30 (5.47%) MySQL
6 26 (4.74%) SQL Server
7 24 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.55%) Apache Cassandra
9 14 (2.55%) Big Data
10 13 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 13 (2.37%) RDBMS
11 12 (2.19%) Data Lake
12 10 (1.82%) DynamoDB
13 9 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.64%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.64%) Hadoop
13 9 (1.64%) Power BI
13 9 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 134 (24.45%) Git
2 118 (21.53%) GitLab
3 115 (20.99%) Jenkins
4 60 (10.95%) JIRA
5 36 (6.57%) Cucumber
6 24 (4.38%) SonarQube
7 17 (3.10%) JUnit
7 17 (3.10%) Maven
7 17 (3.10%) Selenium
8 16 (2.92%) TeamCity
9 14 (2.55%) Mockito
9 14 (2.55%) NUnit
9 14 (2.55%) REST Assured
9 14 (2.55%) TestRail
10 13 (2.37%) Robot Framework
11 12 (2.19%) Moq
12 9 (1.64%) CircleCI
12 9 (1.64%) SoapUI
12 9 (1.64%) Travis CI
12 9 (1.64%) webpack
General
1 125 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 72 (13.14%) Finance
3 44 (8.03%) Public Sector
4 42 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (3.10%) Banking
6 16 (2.92%) Front Office
7 15 (2.74%) Telecoms
8 12 (2.19%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.82%) Law
10 9 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.46%) Police
11 8 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.46%) Retail
12 7 (1.28%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.28%) Marketing
13 6 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.91%) Electronics
14 5 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.73%) Back Office
15 4 (0.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 138 (25.18%) Developer
2 81 (14.78%) Architect
3 79 (14.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 64 (11.68%) Senior
5 41 (7.48%) Solutions Architect
6 39 (7.12%) AWS Engineer
6 39 (7.12%) Lead
7 36 (6.57%) AWS DevOps
8 29 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
9 28 (5.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 27 (4.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 26 (4.74%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
11 26 (4.74%) Site Engineer
12 24 (4.38%) Senior Developer
13 22 (4.01%) Java Developer
14 20 (3.65%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 19 (3.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 17 (3.10%) C# Developer
16 17 (3.10%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (9.85%) Node.js
2 50 (9.12%) REST
3 43 (7.85%) Kafka
4 42 (7.66%) .NET
5 35 (6.39%) React
6 33 (6.02%) Elastic Stack
7 30 (5.47%) RESTful
8 25 (4.56%) Spring Boot
9 24 (4.38%) Spring
10 22 (4.01%) .NET Core
11 21 (3.83%) HTML
12 18 (3.28%) JSON
13 17 (3.10%) Middleware
14 16 (2.92%) CSS
14 16 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
15 15 (2.74%) ARM Templates
16 14 (2.55%) SignalR
16 14 (2.55%) SOAP
16 14 (2.55%) YAML
17 13 (2.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.47%) Public Cloud
2 28 (5.11%) Cloud Native
3 16 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.46%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.46%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.28%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.28%) PKI
7 7 (1.28%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.09%) Market Risk
9 5 (0.91%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.91%) Credit Risk
9 5 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (0.91%) Derivative
9 5 (0.91%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 117 (21.35%) Linux
2 25 (4.56%) Windows
3 21 (3.83%) Unix
4 18 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (3.10%) VMS
6 13 (2.37%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.28%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.91%) Android
8 5 (0.91%) CentOS
9 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (51.09%) CI/CD
2 271 (49.45%) DevOps
3 181 (33.03%) Agile
3 181 (33.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 135 (24.64%) Microservices
5 120 (21.90%) Test Automation
6 116 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (17.15%) Continuous Integration
8 58 (10.58%) Software Engineering
9 55 (10.04%) Scrum
10 47 (8.58%) DevSecOps
11 46 (8.39%) Migration
12 44 (8.03%) Configuration Management
13 42 (7.66%) Cloud Security
14 40 (7.30%) Collaborative Working
15 36 (6.57%) TDD
16 35 (6.39%) Computer Science
17 34 (6.20%) OO
17 34 (6.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 34 (6.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 220 (40.15%) Python
2 109 (19.89%) Java
3 106 (19.34%) SQL
4 93 (16.97%) Bash
5 57 (10.40%) JavaScript
6 47 (8.58%) PowerShell
7 43 (7.85%) C#
8 28 (5.11%) Go
9 22 (4.01%) TypeScript
10 20 (3.65%) Ruby
10 20 (3.65%) Scala
11 18 (3.28%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.64%) Groovy
13 8 (1.46%) Bicep
13 8 (1.46%) Perl
14 5 (0.91%) PHP
15 4 (0.73%) C++
16 2 (0.36%) C
17 1 (0.18%) Korn
17 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 156 (28.47%) Security Cleared
2 130 (23.72%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.30%) Degree
4 29 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (4.56%) AWS Certification
6 24 (4.38%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.46%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.55%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.36%) CISSP
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.36%) RHCE
11 2 (0.36%) SANS
12 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.57%) QA
2 11 (2.01%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.64%) NCSC
4 6 (1.09%) NIST
5 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.73%) WCAG
6 3 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.55%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 299 (54.56%) Docker
2 30 (5.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.83%) Active Directory
4 20 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.82%) vSphere
6 9 (1.64%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.28%) Firmware
8 5 (0.91%) KVM
9 4 (0.73%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.36%) HDFS
11 2 (0.36%) NFS
11 2 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.36%) vCloud
12 1 (0.18%) Apache Flume
12 1 (0.18%) Ceph
12 1 (0.18%) IAG
12 1 (0.18%) Lustre
12 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 308 (56.20%) Kubernetes
2 189 (34.49%) Terraform
3 126 (22.99%) Ansible
4 43 (7.85%) Prometheus
5 41 (7.48%) Puppet
6 39 (7.12%) Grafana
7 29 (5.29%) Progress Chef
8 23 (4.20%) Docker Swarm
9 21 (3.83%) Istio
10 16 (2.92%) Packer
11 14 (2.55%) Podman
12 13 (2.37%) Kibana
13 9 (1.64%) Argo
13 9 (1.64%) Rancher
13 9 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (1.46%) HP Fortify
15 7 (1.28%) Graylog
15 7 (1.28%) vRealize
16 6 (1.09%) logstash
17 5 (0.91%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 55 (10.04%) Google
1 55 (10.04%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.93%) VMware
3 28 (5.11%) Splunk
4 27 (4.93%) Oracle
5 15 (2.74%) CyberArk
6 12 (2.19%) Red Hat
6 12 (2.19%) TIBCO
7 11 (2.01%) BeyondTrust
7 11 (2.01%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.46%) CA
8 8 (1.46%) SAP
8 8 (1.46%) Talend
9 7 (1.28%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.28%) Databricks
9 7 (1.28%) Dell
10 6 (1.09%) Informatica
11 5 (0.91%) Arqiva
11 5 (0.91%) IBM
11 5 (0.91%) Veritas