LXC (LinuX Containers)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for LXC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LXC over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 595 706 844
Rank change year-on-year +111 +138 -186
Contract jobs citing LXC 3 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.010% 0.010%
As % of the System Software category 0.064% 0.076% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £283 - -
25th Percentile £331 - £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +14.58%
75th Percentile £531 - £638
90th Percentile £588 - £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -15.00% -7.41% +6.67%

All System Software Skills
UK

LXC is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,661 7,864 12,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.71% 13.21% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,187 5,615 8,605
10th Percentile £199 £204 £200
25th Percentile £334 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -3.65% +6.67% +6.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 276 317
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.11 £13.20
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £44.69
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £40.00 £18.12
% change year-on-year -45.00% +120.81% +2.93%

LXC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for LXC in the UK

LXC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for LXC in the UK

LXC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LXC over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LXC in the UK

LXC
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LXC within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +130 3 £425 -15.00% 5
UK excluding London +49 3 £425 -15.00% 2
East of England - 2 £250 - 1
South East - 1 £600 -

LXC
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:

Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Proxmox
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible