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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 164 181
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 -23
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 672 893 1,423
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.58% 1.58% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 1.76% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 664 1,028
10th Percentile £414 £463 £456
25th Percentile £482 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £700
90th Percentile £725 £800 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +23.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 6
10th Percentile £52.63 £56.19 £45.59
25th Percentile £62.19 £65.25 £46.83
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +39.82% +21.88%
75th Percentile £72.50 £87.00 £56.69
90th Percentile - £91.25 £62.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £73.00 £48.74
% change year-on-year -19.52% +49.77% +22.62%

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 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 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
England +4 573 £550 -12.00% 439
UK excluding London +74 297 £550 - 283
London -23 287 £575 -11.54% 267
Work from Home +22 225 £543 -9.50% 242
North of England +64 104 £520 -13.33% 52
South East +43 90 £625 +13.64% 131
Yorkshire +62 52 £520 +4.00% 23
North West +30 51 £524 -10.85% 26
South West -1 42 £550 - 37
Scotland +44 27 £516 +1.98% 15
Midlands +33 15 £448 -10.50% 25
East of England +13 15 £575 - 19
Wales +27 9 £515 +8.42% 3
West Midlands +12 7 £425 -15.00% 13
East Midlands +17 5 £445 +4.09% 12
North East +3 1 £525 -38.03% 4

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 29 (4.32%) Apache
2 25 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (3.72%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.83%) Confluence
4 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (1.49%) nginx
6 9 (1.34%) OpenStack
7 7 (1.04%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.60%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.60%) Luigi
9 3 (0.45%) CMS
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
Applications
1 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.74%) Endur
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 362 (53.87%) AWS
2 248 (36.90%) Azure
3 146 (21.73%) GCP
4 85 (12.65%) Serverless
5 79 (11.76%) Amazon S3
6 77 (11.46%) OpenShift
7 74 (11.01%) GitHub
8 62 (9.23%) Amazon EC2
9 55 (8.18%) AWS Lambda
10 48 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (6.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (5.36%) SaaS
14 35 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
14 35 (5.21%) IaaS
15 33 (4.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 31 (4.61%) Cloud Computing
17 30 (4.46%) Amazon SQS
18 28 (4.17%) PaaS
19 25 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.95%) Firewall
2 38 (5.65%) VPN
3 23 (3.42%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.83%) HTTP
5 18 (2.68%) DNS
6 12 (1.79%) MPLS
6 12 (1.79%) Network Security
7 10 (1.49%) Radio Access Network
8 9 (1.34%) BGP
8 9 (1.34%) Ethernet VPN
9 7 (1.04%) SAN
10 5 (0.74%) DHCP
10 5 (0.74%) FTP
10 5 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.60%) InfiniBand
11 4 (0.60%) SSL
12 3 (0.45%) BIG-IP
12 3 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 3 (0.45%) Intranet
12 3 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (11.16%) NoSQL
2 55 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (6.40%) Elasticsearch
3 43 (6.40%) MySQL
4 34 (5.06%) MongoDB
5 33 (4.91%) Relational Database
6 31 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
7 30 (4.46%) SQL Server
8 22 (3.27%) Big Data
9 20 (2.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (2.83%) BigQuery
11 18 (2.68%) Data Lake
12 17 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (2.53%) Hadoop
13 16 (2.38%) RDBMS
14 15 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
16 12 (1.79%) DynamoDB
17 8 (1.19%) Power BI
18 7 (1.04%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 170 (25.30%) Git
2 153 (22.77%) Jenkins
3 140 (20.83%) GitLab
4 52 (7.74%) JIRA
5 37 (5.51%) SonarQube
6 34 (5.06%) Cucumber
7 21 (3.13%) JUnit
8 18 (2.68%) Selenium
8 18 (2.68%) TeamCity
9 16 (2.38%) Artifactory
9 16 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 14 (2.08%) Mockito
11 13 (1.93%) REST Assured
11 13 (1.93%) Travis CI
12 11 (1.64%) CircleCI
12 11 (1.64%) Maven
12 11 (1.64%) NUnit
12 11 (1.64%) TestRail
13 10 (1.49%) Moq
13 10 (1.49%) Robot Framework
General
1 180 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 78 (11.61%) Finance
3 61 (9.08%) Public Sector
4 56 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (5.21%) Banking
6 17 (2.53%) Retail
7 15 (2.23%) Front Office
8 14 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 14 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.93%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.64%) Back Office
10 11 (1.64%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.34%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.19%) Law
12 8 (1.19%) Police
13 5 (0.74%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.60%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 127 (18.90%) Developer
2 125 (18.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 116 (17.26%) Architect
4 70 (10.42%) Senior
5 61 (9.08%) Solutions Architect
6 47 (6.99%) AWS Engineer
7 42 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
7 42 (6.25%) Lead
8 36 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
9 34 (5.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 34 (5.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 31 (4.61%) Site Engineer
11 27 (4.02%) Java Developer
12 26 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
12 26 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
13 25 (3.72%) Senior Developer
14 21 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (3.13%) Technical Architect
15 20 (2.98%) Cloud Architect
16 19 (2.83%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (10.57%) Kafka
2 62 (9.23%) REST
3 49 (7.29%) .NET
4 46 (6.85%) React
5 44 (6.55%) Node.js
5 44 (6.55%) RESTful
6 42 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
7 29 (4.32%) Spring Boot
8 28 (4.17%) HTML
8 28 (4.17%) Spring
9 26 (3.87%) ARM Templates
10 22 (3.27%) .NET Core
10 22 (3.27%) CSS
11 21 (3.13%) Middleware
11 21 (3.13%) SOAP
12 19 (2.83%) JSON
12 19 (2.83%) XML
13 18 (2.68%) SailPoint
14 16 (2.38%) AWS CDK
14 16 (2.38%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.40%) Public Cloud
2 35 (5.21%) Cloud Native
3 20 (2.98%) Onboarding
4 16 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 12 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.49%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.19%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.19%) Fixed Income
9 6 (0.89%) Data Centre
9 6 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (0.89%) Mainframe
9 6 (0.89%) Reference Data
9 6 (0.89%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.74%) Credit Risk
10 5 (0.74%) Distributed Applications
10 5 (0.74%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 147 (21.88%) Linux
2 34 (5.06%) Unix
3 33 (4.91%) Windows
4 27 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (3.27%) VMS
6 16 (2.38%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.49%) Apple iOS
8 9 (1.34%) Android
9 7 (1.04%) CentOS
9 7 (1.04%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (55.36%) DevOps
2 347 (51.64%) CI/CD
3 226 (33.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 195 (29.02%) Agile
5 152 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
6 151 (22.47%) Microservices
7 143 (21.28%) Test Automation
8 104 (15.48%) Continuous Integration
9 78 (11.61%) Migration
10 74 (11.01%) Software Engineering
11 68 (10.12%) Scrum
12 62 (9.23%) DevSecOps
13 57 (8.48%) Configuration Management
14 50 (7.44%) Computer Science
14 50 (7.44%) Deployment Automation
15 49 (7.29%) Cloud Security
15 49 (7.29%) High Availability
16 47 (6.99%) Project Management
17 45 (6.70%) Collaborative Working
17 45 (6.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 255 (37.95%) Python
2 145 (21.58%) Java
3 114 (16.96%) Bash
3 114 (16.96%) SQL
4 72 (10.71%) JavaScript
5 64 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 44 (6.55%) C#
7 28 (4.17%) Go
7 28 (4.17%) Shell Script
8 23 (3.42%) Scala
9 19 (2.83%) TypeScript
10 18 (2.68%) PHP
11 17 (2.53%) Perl
11 17 (2.53%) Ruby
12 14 (2.08%) Groovy
13 9 (1.34%) Bicep
14 7 (1.04%) C
14 7 (1.04%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.60%) C++
16 3 (0.45%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 182 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 152 (22.62%) SC Cleared
3 60 (8.93%) Degree
4 43 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (4.46%) DV Cleared
6 27 (4.02%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.79%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.74%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.60%) SANS
12 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 2 (0.30%) CISSP
13 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.30%) RHCE
14 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.65%) QA
2 17 (2.53%) NCSC
3 8 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.74%) NIST
5 4 (0.60%) GDPR
5 4 (0.60%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.45%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.15%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.15%) SLA
7 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 384 (57.14%) Docker
2 34 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (3.72%) Active Directory
4 22 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.34%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.34%) vSphere
6 7 (1.04%) Firmware
7 4 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.60%) KVM
7 4 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.30%) HDFS
9 2 (0.30%) NFS
9 2 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.30%) vCloud
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.15%) Ceph
10 1 (0.15%) Lustre
10 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 388 (57.74%) Kubernetes
2 246 (36.61%) Terraform
3 166 (24.70%) Ansible
4 62 (9.23%) Grafana
4 62 (9.23%) Prometheus
5 55 (8.18%) Puppet
6 36 (5.36%) Progress Chef
7 27 (4.02%) Kibana
8 26 (3.87%) Docker Swarm
8 26 (3.87%) Istio
9 20 (2.98%) Argo
10 17 (2.53%) Packer
11 15 (2.23%) Podman
12 12 (1.79%) Graylog
13 11 (1.64%) Rancher
14 9 (1.34%) HP Fortify
14 9 (1.34%) logstash
14 9 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (1.19%) Nagios
16 7 (1.04%) vRealize
Vendors
1 73 (10.86%) Google
2 72 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 44 (6.55%) VMware
4 35 (5.21%) Splunk
5 31 (4.61%) Oracle
6 22 (3.27%) CyberArk
7 18 (2.68%) BeyondTrust
7 18 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 15 (2.23%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.64%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.49%) SAP
10 10 (1.49%) TIBCO
11 8 (1.19%) CA
11 8 (1.19%) Talend
12 7 (1.04%) Checkmarx
12 7 (1.04%) Dell
12 7 (1.04%) IBM
12 7 (1.04%) Informatica
13 6 (0.89%) Veracode
14 5 (0.74%) Arqiva