Containerisation Contracts

Containerization
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 158 169
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 -16
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 669 994 1,528
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.55% 1.66% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 1.85% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 741 1,085
10th Percentile £414 £463 £450
25th Percentile £500 £518 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £695
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 7
10th Percentile £52.63 £54.83 £45.71
25th Percentile £62.19 £62.97 £47.46
Median hourly rate £70.00 £68.50 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +26.27% +21.23%
75th Percentile £72.50 £76.13 £62.25
90th Percentile - £85.35 £68.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £65.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -9.62% +26.23% +28.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +4 548 £575 -8.00% 312
London -16 296 £600 -7.69% 149
UK excluding London +72 280 £550 - 192
Work from Home +1 208 £550 -8.33% 180
South East +39 89 £625 +13.64% 34
North of England +30 81 £549 -8.50% 50
North West +11 48 £550 -6.38% 21
Scotland +47 36 £516 -1.67% 20
Yorkshire +43 32 £538 +7.50% 26
South West +5 31 £550 - 30
East of England +17 17 £513 -33.87% 13
Wales +26 14 £515 +8.42% 6
Midlands +20 12 £500 - 32
West Midlands +24 6 £425 -15.00% 11
East Midlands +19 4 £688 +60.82% 21
North East +2 1 £525 -16.00% 3

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 30 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.89%) Apache
3 19 (2.84%) Confluence
4 17 (2.54%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.49%) nginx
7 8 (1.20%) OpenStack
7 8 (1.20%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.75%) Luigi
9 3 (0.45%) CMS
9 3 (0.45%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.45%) WordPress
10 2 (0.30%) Drupal
10 2 (0.30%) Traefik
10 2 (0.30%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.15%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.75%) Endur
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.15%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 355 (53.06%) AWS
2 240 (35.87%) Azure
3 144 (21.52%) GCP
4 87 (13.00%) Serverless
5 75 (11.21%) Amazon S3
5 75 (11.21%) GitHub
6 66 (9.87%) Amazon EC2
7 63 (9.42%) OpenShift
8 59 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (6.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 45 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (6.43%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (6.43%) GitHub Actions
12 34 (5.08%) IaaS
12 34 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 30 (4.48%) SaaS
14 27 (4.04%) Amazon SQS
15 23 (3.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 23 (3.44%) PaaS
16 21 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.38%) Firewall
1 36 (5.38%) VPN
2 23 (3.44%) DNS
3 21 (3.14%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.94%) MPLS
5 12 (1.79%) BGP
5 12 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
5 12 (1.79%) HTTP
5 12 (1.79%) Radio Access Network
6 11 (1.64%) Network Security
7 7 (1.05%) SAN
8 5 (0.75%) DHCP
8 5 (0.75%) FTP
9 4 (0.60%) InfiniBand
9 4 (0.60%) Internet
10 3 (0.45%) Intranet
11 2 (0.30%) IPv4
11 2 (0.30%) NAS
11 2 (0.30%) OSPF
11 2 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (10.91%) NoSQL
2 67 (10.01%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (6.73%) MySQL
4 38 (5.68%) Relational Database
5 37 (5.53%) MongoDB
6 36 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
7 30 (4.48%) SQL Server
8 24 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (2.24%) Big Data
9 15 (2.24%) Data Lake
9 15 (2.24%) RDBMS
10 14 (2.09%) Apache Cassandra
11 13 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (1.94%) DynamoDB
12 11 (1.64%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.64%) Power BI
12 11 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (1.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 152 (22.72%) Git
2 141 (21.08%) Jenkins
3 131 (19.58%) GitLab
4 65 (9.72%) JIRA
5 36 (5.38%) Cucumber
5 36 (5.38%) SonarQube
6 21 (3.14%) Maven
7 19 (2.84%) JUnit
7 19 (2.84%) Selenium
8 16 (2.39%) TeamCity
9 15 (2.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 14 (2.09%) Mockito
10 14 (2.09%) NUnit
10 14 (2.09%) REST Assured
10 14 (2.09%) TestRail
11 13 (1.94%) Artifactory
11 13 (1.94%) Robot Framework
12 12 (1.79%) Moq
13 11 (1.64%) Postman
13 11 (1.64%) SoapUI
General
1 157 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 76 (11.36%) Finance
3 65 (9.72%) Public Sector
4 44 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (3.74%) Banking
6 16 (2.39%) Front Office
6 16 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (2.24%) Telecoms
8 14 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (1.94%) Retail
10 12 (1.79%) Back Office
10 12 (1.79%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.49%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.49%) Law
12 8 (1.20%) Police
13 7 (1.05%) Marketing
14 6 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.75%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 150 (22.42%) Developer
2 113 (16.89%) Architect
3 105 (15.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 67 (10.01%) Senior
5 57 (8.52%) Solutions Architect
6 54 (8.07%) AWS Engineer
7 44 (6.58%) AWS DevOps
8 43 (6.43%) Lead
9 35 (5.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 34 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
11 33 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 29 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
14 27 (4.04%) Site Engineer
15 25 (3.74%) Java Developer
15 25 (3.74%) Senior Developer
16 23 (3.44%) Technical Architect
17 22 (3.29%) Cloud Architect
17 22 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 20 (2.99%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (9.27%) REST
2 59 (8.82%) Node.js
3 46 (6.88%) Kafka
4 43 (6.43%) .NET
5 39 (5.83%) Elastic Stack
6 38 (5.68%) React
7 37 (5.53%) RESTful
8 28 (4.19%) ARM Templates
8 28 (4.19%) Spring Boot
9 27 (4.04%) Spring
10 25 (3.74%) Middleware
11 24 (3.59%) HTML
12 23 (3.44%) .NET Core
12 23 (3.44%) SailPoint
13 22 (3.29%) SOAP
14 20 (2.99%) JSON
15 19 (2.84%) CSS
15 19 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
16 18 (2.69%) AWS CDK
17 14 (2.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.08%) Public Cloud
2 29 (4.33%) Cloud Native
3 19 (2.84%) Onboarding
4 17 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
6 13 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 11 (1.64%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.20%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.20%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
10 7 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.05%) PKI
10 7 (1.05%) Security Posture
11 6 (0.90%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.90%) CCTV
11 6 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.90%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 145 (21.67%) Linux
2 37 (5.53%) Windows
3 32 (4.78%) Unix
4 24 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (3.14%) VMS
6 15 (2.24%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.20%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.20%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.05%) CentOS
9 6 (0.90%) Android
10 2 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (51.57%) DevOps
2 326 (48.73%) CI/CD
3 218 (32.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 212 (31.69%) Agile
5 143 (21.38%) Microservices
6 140 (20.93%) Test Automation
7 136 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (15.40%) Continuous Integration
9 83 (12.41%) Migration
10 75 (11.21%) Software Engineering
11 73 (10.91%) Scrum
12 57 (8.52%) DevSecOps
13 54 (8.07%) Cloud Security
13 54 (8.07%) Configuration Management
14 53 (7.92%) Deployment Automation
15 48 (7.17%) High Availability
16 42 (6.28%) Collaborative Working
16 42 (6.28%) Project Management
17 40 (5.98%) OO
18 39 (5.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 254 (37.97%) Python
2 128 (19.13%) Java
3 118 (17.64%) SQL
4 111 (16.59%) Bash
5 63 (9.42%) JavaScript
6 57 (8.52%) PowerShell
7 44 (6.58%) C#
8 28 (4.19%) Go
9 22 (3.29%) PHP
9 22 (3.29%) TypeScript
10 20 (2.99%) Ruby
10 20 (2.99%) Scala
11 18 (2.69%) Perl
11 18 (2.69%) Shell Script
12 14 (2.09%) Groovy
13 9 (1.35%) Bicep
14 4 (0.60%) C++
15 2 (0.30%) C
16 1 (0.15%) Korn
16 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 178 (26.61%) Security Cleared
2 149 (22.27%) SC Cleared
3 54 (8.07%) Degree
4 32 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (4.63%) AWS Certification
6 24 (3.59%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 13 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.64%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.60%) SANS
11 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.45%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.30%) CISSP
12 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.30%) RHCE
13 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.98%) QA
2 19 (2.84%) NCSC
3 12 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.90%) NIST
5 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.60%) WCAG
6 3 (0.45%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.45%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 356 (53.21%) Docker
2 39 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.49%) vSphere
5 9 (1.35%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.05%) Firmware
7 5 (0.75%) KVM
8 4 (0.60%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.30%) HDFS
10 2 (0.30%) NFS
10 2 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.30%) vCloud
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.15%) Ceph
11 1 (0.15%) IAG
11 1 (0.15%) Lustre
11 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 362 (54.11%) Kubernetes
2 233 (34.83%) Terraform
3 156 (23.32%) Ansible
4 55 (8.22%) Grafana
5 53 (7.92%) Prometheus
6 50 (7.47%) Puppet
7 32 (4.78%) Progress Chef
8 24 (3.59%) Docker Swarm
9 21 (3.14%) Istio
10 20 (2.99%) Argo
11 19 (2.84%) Kibana
12 17 (2.54%) Packer
13 15 (2.24%) Graylog
14 14 (2.09%) Podman
15 11 (1.64%) Nagios
16 9 (1.35%) HP Fortify
16 9 (1.35%) Rancher
16 9 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (1.35%) ZABBIX
17 7 (1.05%) vRealize
Vendors
1 68 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.52%) Google
3 47 (7.03%) VMware
4 36 (5.38%) Splunk
5 32 (4.78%) Oracle
6 26 (3.89%) CyberArk
7 22 (3.29%) BeyondTrust
7 22 (3.29%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.69%) Atlassian
9 15 (2.24%) Red Hat
10 13 (1.94%) SAP
11 12 (1.79%) TIBCO
12 9 (1.35%) Databricks
13 8 (1.20%) CA
13 8 (1.20%) Talend
14 7 (1.05%) Checkmarx
14 7 (1.05%) Dell
15 6 (0.90%) Informatica
15 6 (0.90%) Veracode
16 5 (0.75%) Veritas