Containerisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Containerization
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 228 188
Rank change year-on-year +76 -40 +2
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 274 252 420
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.34% 1.07% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.20% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 188 300
10th Percentile £422 £450 £425
25th Percentile £471 £500 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £651 £641 £641
90th Percentile £694 £750 £758
UK median daily rate £571 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.79% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £48.38 £53.46 £45.48
25th Percentile £51.56 £58.91 £46.19
Median hourly rate £58.75 £69.00 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% +41.57% +21.85%
75th Percentile £66.56 £77.38 £54.25
90th Percentile £70.13 £84.00 £56.20
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £71.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -1.41% +37.88% +15.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Containerisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England +47 85 £525 -12.50% 50
South East +24 85 £625 +13.64% 37
North West +27 51 £524 -10.85% 19
Yorkshire +53 33 £550 +10.00% 29
Scotland +43 32 £516 +0.49% 10
South West 0 32 £550 - 29
East of England +7 16 £575 -6.12% 12
Midlands +30 15 £448 -10.50% 34
Wales +27 12 £523 +10.00% 3
East Midlands +22 7 £473 +10.53% 17
West Midlands +20 6 £375 -25.00% 17
North East +7 1 £525 -38.03% 2
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 21 (7.66%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (7.30%) Apache
3 12 (4.38%) Confluence
4 11 (4.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (3.28%) Apache Spark
6 7 (2.55%) nginx
7 3 (1.09%) Jupyter
7 3 (1.09%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.73%) Traefik
9 1 (0.36%) CMS
9 1 (0.36%) Drupal
9 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.36%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 9 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 124 (45.26%) AWS
2 89 (32.48%) Azure
3 44 (16.06%) OpenShift
4 37 (13.50%) GCP
5 34 (12.41%) Amazon S3
6 33 (12.04%) Amazon EC2
7 31 (11.31%) Serverless
8 29 (10.58%) GitHub
9 25 (9.12%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (5.47%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (5.47%) IaaS
12 15 (5.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 13 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (4.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (4.01%) SaaS
15 10 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (3.65%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.95%) Firewall
2 28 (10.22%) VPN
3 13 (4.74%) DNS
3 13 (4.74%) MPLS
4 12 (4.38%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.01%) BGP
5 11 (4.01%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (4.01%) Radio Access Network
6 8 (2.92%) HTTP
7 7 (2.55%) Network Security
8 5 (1.82%) FTP
8 5 (1.82%) SAN
9 2 (0.73%) DHCP
9 2 (0.73%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.73%) IPv4
9 2 (0.73%) OSPF
9 2 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.73%) VLAN
9 2 (0.73%) VSAN
9 2 (0.73%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.96%) NoSQL
2 32 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (9.85%) Elasticsearch
4 26 (9.49%) MongoDB
4 26 (9.49%) MySQL
5 15 (5.47%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.65%) Big Data
6 10 (3.65%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.55%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.55%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.55%) Power BI
8 7 (2.55%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.82%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.46%) DB2
11 4 (1.46%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.09%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 78 (28.47%) GitLab
2 64 (23.36%) Jenkins
3 59 (21.53%) Git
4 40 (14.60%) JIRA
5 22 (8.03%) SonarQube
6 15 (5.47%) Cucumber
6 15 (5.47%) Selenium
7 12 (4.38%) REST Assured
7 12 (4.38%) Robot Framework
8 11 (4.01%) TestRail
9 10 (3.65%) JUnit
9 10 (3.65%) Travis CI
10 9 (3.28%) Mockito
11 8 (2.92%) webpack
12 7 (2.55%) Artifactory
12 7 (2.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (2.19%) Burp Suite
13 6 (2.19%) CircleCI
14 5 (1.82%) AppScan
15 2 (0.73%) Maven
General
1 56 (20.44%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (7.66%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.30%) Finance
5 11 (4.01%) Banking
6 9 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.92%) Back Office
7 8 (2.92%) Law
7 8 (2.92%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.92%) Police
8 7 (2.55%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.46%) Local Government
10 4 (1.46%) Retail
11 1 (0.36%) Electronics
11 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 50 (18.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (13.50%) Architect
2 37 (13.50%) Developer
3 23 (8.39%) AWS DevOps
4 22 (8.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 21 (7.66%) Site Engineer
6 20 (7.30%) AWS Engineer
6 20 (7.30%) Senior
7 19 (6.93%) Lead
8 17 (6.20%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (6.20%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (5.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 15 (5.47%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (4.74%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 13 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.01%) AWS Architect
12 10 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (3.65%) Network Engineer
12 10 (3.65%) Python Developer
12 10 (3.65%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.60%) REST
2 21 (7.66%) Node.js
3 19 (6.93%) SOAP
4 18 (6.57%) Kafka
5 17 (6.20%) React
6 15 (5.47%) JSON
6 15 (5.47%) RESTful
7 14 (5.11%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (4.74%) .NET
8 13 (4.74%) ARM Templates
8 13 (4.74%) XML
9 12 (4.38%) Java EE
9 12 (4.38%) Spring Boot
10 11 (4.01%) NETCONF
10 11 (4.01%) RESTCONF
10 11 (4.01%) Spring
10 11 (4.01%) YANG
11 10 (3.65%) Middleware
12 9 (3.28%) Redux
13 8 (2.92%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.30%) Public Cloud
2 17 (6.20%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (2.92%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (2.55%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.46%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.09%) Clustering
6 3 (1.09%) Smart Meter
7 2 (0.73%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.73%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.73%) IoT
7 2 (0.73%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.73%) PKI
7 2 (0.73%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.73%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.73%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.36%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.36%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (20.44%) Linux
2 21 (7.66%) VMS
3 20 (7.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (6.57%) Unix
5 15 (5.47%) Windows
6 11 (4.01%) Windows Server
7 9 (3.28%) Android
7 9 (3.28%) Apple iOS
8 8 (2.92%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.09%) CentOS
10 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (52.92%) DevOps
2 132 (48.18%) CI/CD
3 109 (39.78%) Agile
4 99 (36.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 70 (25.55%) Test Automation
6 51 (18.61%) Microservices
7 48 (17.52%) Scrum
8 43 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (14.96%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (12.04%) Configuration Management
11 32 (11.68%) Migration
12 30 (10.95%) Software Engineering
13 28 (10.22%) Task Automation
13 28 (10.22%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (8.39%) Collaborative Working
14 23 (8.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 22 (8.03%) DevSecOps
16 19 (6.93%) SDLC
17 18 (6.57%) Full Stack Development
17 18 (6.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 105 (38.32%) Python
2 55 (20.07%) Bash
2 55 (20.07%) Java
3 51 (18.61%) SQL
4 24 (8.76%) PowerShell
5 17 (6.20%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.11%) Go
7 13 (4.74%) C#
8 12 (4.38%) PHP
9 10 (3.65%) Groovy
10 9 (3.28%) Perl
10 9 (3.28%) Ruby
11 8 (2.92%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.55%) Scala
13 4 (1.46%) C
14 3 (1.09%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.36%) C++
15 1 (0.36%) CQL
Qualifications
1 79 (28.83%) Security Cleared
2 71 (25.91%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.57%) Degree
4 13 (4.74%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.73%) RHCE
8 2 (0.73%) SANS
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.36%) CCNP
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.36%) GIAC
9 1 (0.36%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.36%) LPIC
9 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.36%) MCSE
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.12%) QA
2 4 (1.46%) NCSC
3 3 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.09%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.09%) NIST
4 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
System Software
1 133 (48.54%) Docker
2 31 (11.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.65%) vSphere
5 9 (3.28%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.73%) HDFS
8 2 (0.73%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.73%) vCloud
9 1 (0.36%) KVM
9 1 (0.36%) Lustre
9 1 (0.36%) NFS
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 158 (57.66%) Kubernetes
2 93 (33.94%) Terraform
3 74 (27.01%) Ansible
4 30 (10.95%) Grafana
5 27 (9.85%) Prometheus
6 20 (7.30%) Docker Swarm
7 19 (6.93%) Istio
7 19 (6.93%) Kibana
7 19 (6.93%) Puppet
8 17 (6.20%) Argo
9 15 (5.47%) Progress Chef
10 14 (5.11%) Podman
11 10 (3.65%) Packer
12 9 (3.28%) Rancher
13 8 (2.92%) HP Fortify
13 8 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (2.55%) vRealize
15 6 (2.19%) Graylog
15 6 (2.19%) logstash
16 5 (1.82%) Nessus
Vendors
1 39 (14.23%) VMware
2 23 (8.39%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.30%) Splunk
4 14 (5.11%) Google
4 14 (5.11%) Oracle
5 13 (4.74%) Atlassian
6 9 (3.28%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.92%) CA
8 6 (2.19%) Checkmarx
9 5 (1.82%) Arqiva
9 5 (1.82%) Informatica
9 5 (1.82%) Talend
9 5 (1.82%) Veracode
9 5 (1.82%) Veritas
10 4 (1.46%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.73%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.73%) Foundry
12 2 (0.73%) Juniper
12 2 (0.73%) SAP