CoreOS rkt Container Runtime for Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for rkt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited rkt over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 702 834
Rank change year-on-year +121 +132 -143
Contract jobs citing rkt 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.002% 0.006%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.020% 0.011% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £763
25th Percentile - £525 £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -31.25% +39.13%
75th Percentile - £575 £838
90th Percentile - - £845
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

rkt is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,099 9,284 13,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.86% 16.04% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,659 6,677 10,044
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £562 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% -0.53% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 209 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.48 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.00 £47.84
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.60 £65.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -9.09%

rkt
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for rkt in the UK

rkt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for rkt in the UK

rkt
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing rkt within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +97 1 £550 -
UK excluding London +57 1 £550 -
South West - 1 £550 -

rkt
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) JCE
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes