Containerisation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Containerization
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 164 163
Rank change year-on-year +12 -1 -33
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 208 385 742
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.38% 1.53% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.71% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 288 567
10th Percentile £400 £463 £425
25th Percentile £486 £497 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £582
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +1.37% +16.40%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £675
90th Percentile £688 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £570 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £66.90 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £68.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £71.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +5.97% +48.89%
75th Percentile £72.50 £87.00 -
90th Percentile - £96.30 -
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Containerisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Containerisation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Containerisation.

Containerisation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Containerisation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Containerisation.

Containerisation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.92%) Confluence
2 4 (1.92%) Luigi
2 4 (1.92%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.44%) Apache
3 3 (1.44%) CMS
3 3 (1.44%) WordPress
4 2 (0.96%) Drupal
4 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.96%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.48%) nginx
5 1 (0.48%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Endur
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 133 (63.94%) AWS
2 92 (44.23%) Azure
3 44 (21.15%) GCP
4 26 (12.50%) GitHub
5 23 (11.06%) Serverless
6 22 (10.58%) OpenShift
7 21 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (9.13%) Amazon S3
9 18 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (8.65%) SaaS
10 17 (8.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (7.69%) IaaS
12 15 (7.21%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (5.77%) PaaS
14 11 (5.29%) AWS Fargate
14 11 (5.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.33%) Firewall
2 7 (3.37%) Network Security
3 6 (2.88%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.40%) VPN
5 4 (1.92%) SAN
6 3 (1.44%) HTTP
6 3 (1.44%) Intranet
7 2 (0.96%) DNS
8 1 (0.48%) 4G
8 1 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 15 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.77%) SQL Server
4 11 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (4.81%) MySQL
6 9 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.88%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.92%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.92%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.44%) DB2
9 3 (1.44%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.44%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.44%) InfluxDB
9 3 (1.44%) Power BI
10 2 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.96%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (20.19%) Jenkins
2 41 (19.71%) GitLab
3 35 (16.83%) Git
4 20 (9.62%) SonarQube
5 16 (7.69%) JIRA
6 11 (5.29%) Cucumber
7 9 (4.33%) Selenium
8 8 (3.85%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.88%) Artifactory
10 5 (2.40%) Travis CI
11 4 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.92%) Maven
12 3 (1.44%) PHPUnit
12 3 (1.44%) webpack
13 2 (0.96%) Burp Suite
13 2 (0.96%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.96%) JUnit
13 2 (0.96%) Pylint
14 1 (0.48%) JMeter
14 1 (0.48%) LoadRunner
General
1 62 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 27 (12.98%) Public Sector
3 23 (11.06%) Finance
4 19 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.33%) Banking
6 7 (3.37%) Law
6 7 (3.37%) Police
7 6 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.92%) Back Office
9 4 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.44%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.44%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.44%) Retail
10 3 (1.44%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.96%) Electronics
11 2 (0.96%) Front Office
11 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (20.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (19.23%) Architect
3 39 (18.75%) Developer
4 27 (12.98%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (11.54%) Senior
6 19 (9.13%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (7.21%) AWS DevOps
7 15 (7.21%) Lead
7 15 (7.21%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (5.77%) Software Engineer
10 10 (4.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.33%) Java Engineer
11 9 (4.33%) Python Engineer
11 9 (4.33%) Senior Developer
12 8 (3.85%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.85%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (3.37%) Consultant
13 7 (3.37%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.54%) REST
2 21 (10.10%) ARM Templates
3 16 (7.69%) .NET
4 15 (7.21%) React
5 13 (6.25%) Kafka
5 13 (6.25%) Node.js
6 12 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (5.77%) HTML
6 12 (5.77%) SailPoint
7 10 (4.81%) Azure Blueprints
7 10 (4.81%) CSS
8 8 (3.85%) Java EE
8 8 (3.85%) RESTful
9 7 (3.37%) Middleware
10 5 (2.40%) AWS CDK
10 5 (2.40%) JSON
10 5 (2.40%) Laravel
10 5 (2.40%) Pandas
10 5 (2.40%) Spring
11 4 (1.92%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.29%) Management Information System
1 11 (5.29%) Public Cloud
2 10 (4.81%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.88%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.40%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.40%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (1.92%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.92%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.48%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.48%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.48%) Genomics
8 1 (0.48%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 36 (17.31%) Linux
2 8 (3.85%) Windows
3 5 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.40%) Ubuntu
3 5 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.92%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.92%) Unix
5 3 (1.44%) Android
5 3 (1.44%) VMS
6 2 (0.96%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.96%) CentOS
7 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (63.94%) DevOps
2 107 (51.44%) CI/CD
3 66 (31.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (23.08%) Agile
6 44 (21.15%) Test Automation
7 39 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
8 37 (17.79%) Software Engineering
9 35 (16.83%) Microservices
10 30 (14.42%) Migration
11 28 (13.46%) Deployment Automation
12 21 (10.10%) DevSecOps
13 19 (9.13%) Cloud Security
14 17 (8.17%) Application Security
14 17 (8.17%) Architectural Design
14 17 (8.17%) Continuous Delivery
14 17 (8.17%) Project Management
15 16 (7.69%) Configuration Management
15 16 (7.69%) Mentoring
16 15 (7.21%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 78 (37.50%) Python
2 43 (20.67%) Java
3 31 (14.90%) Bash
4 28 (13.46%) SQL
5 25 (12.02%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.21%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.77%) PHP
8 11 (5.29%) C#
9 10 (4.81%) Perl
10 7 (3.37%) Go
10 7 (3.37%) Scala
11 6 (2.88%) Bicep
11 6 (2.88%) Groovy
11 6 (2.88%) Ruby
11 6 (2.88%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.44%) C
12 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.48%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 49 (23.56%) Security Cleared
2 46 (22.12%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.73%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.25%) Degree
5 12 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.40%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.40%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.96%) SANS
11 1 (0.48%) CCNP
11 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.48%) MCSE
11 1 (0.48%) PhD
11 1 (0.48%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.25%) NCSC
2 10 (4.81%) QA
3 6 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.96%) NIST
5 1 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 122 (58.65%) Docker
2 13 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.37%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.92%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 116 (55.77%) Kubernetes
2 88 (42.31%) Terraform
3 54 (25.96%) Ansible
4 16 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 15 (7.21%) Grafana
6 12 (5.77%) Docker Swarm
7 11 (5.29%) Progress Chef
7 11 (5.29%) Puppet
8 9 (4.33%) Kibana
9 8 (3.85%) Podman
10 4 (1.92%) Istio
11 3 (1.44%) Argo
11 3 (1.44%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.96%) Graylog
12 2 (0.96%) logstash
13 1 (0.48%) Consul
13 1 (0.48%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.48%) Packer
13 1 (0.48%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.48%) Salt
Vendors
1 20 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.69%) CyberArk
2 16 (7.69%) Google
3 15 (7.21%) VMware
4 12 (5.77%) BeyondTrust
4 12 (5.77%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.88%) Splunk
6 4 (1.92%) Oracle
7 3 (1.44%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.44%) Dell
7 3 (1.44%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.44%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.44%) SAP
8 2 (0.96%) Checkmarx
8 2 (0.96%) Confluent
8 2 (0.96%) Databricks
8 2 (0.96%) Genesys
8 2 (0.96%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.48%) Apple
9 1 (0.48%) CA