LXC (LinuX Containers)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for LXC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited LXC 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 894 957 1144
Rank change year-on-year +63 +187 -266
Permanent jobs citing LXC 2 13 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.012% 0.057%
As % of the System Software category 0.016% 0.081% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 18
10th Percentile - - £63,750
25th Percentile £57,500 - £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £40,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -54.29% +52.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £55,000 £102,813
90th Percentile - £70,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £40,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -30.43% -20.69%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,249 16,035 28,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.49% 15.32% 18.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,715 10,596 15,794
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £27,825
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LXC.

Salary trend for LXC in the UK

LXC
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LXC 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +132 2 £65,000 - 1
England +102 2 £65,000 +62.50% 4

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Vagrant
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Debian
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source Development
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCSK
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Juju
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft