Containerisation Contracts in England

Containerization
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 157 161
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 536 807 1,253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.46% 1.64% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.82% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 607 898
10th Percentile £418 £456 £450
25th Percentile £493 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £571 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.79% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 5
10th Percentile £48.38 £54.83 £45.48
25th Percentile £51.56 £62.97 £46.19
Median hourly rate £58.75 £72.00 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -18.40% +47.72% +21.85%
75th Percentile £66.56 £81.00 £54.25
90th Percentile £70.13 £93.75 £56.20
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
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,870 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,878 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.90 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Containerisation in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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
London -22 283 £600 -7.69% 177
North of England +47 85 £525 -12.50% 50
South East +24 85 £625 +13.64% 37
North West +27 51 £524 -10.85% 19
Yorkshire +53 33 £550 +10.00% 29
South West 0 32 £550 - 30
East of England +7 16 £575 -6.12% 12
Midlands +30 15 £448 -10.50% 34
East Midlands +22 7 £473 +10.53% 17
West Midlands +20 6 £375 -25.00% 17
North East +7 1 £525 -38.03% 2
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 28 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (4.48%) Apache
3 16 (2.99%) Confluence
4 14 (2.61%) Apache Spark
5 12 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.87%) nginx
7 8 (1.49%) OpenStack
8 7 (1.31%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.75%) Luigi
10 3 (0.56%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.56%) WordPress
11 2 (0.37%) CMS
11 2 (0.37%) Drupal
11 2 (0.37%) Traefik
11 2 (0.37%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Endur
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 271 (50.56%) AWS
2 170 (31.72%) Azure
3 110 (20.52%) GCP
4 63 (11.75%) Serverless
5 62 (11.57%) Amazon S3
6 51 (9.51%) Amazon EC2
7 50 (9.33%) GitHub
8 48 (8.96%) OpenShift
9 42 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (6.34%) AWS CloudFormation
11 32 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
12 31 (5.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 27 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 17 (3.17%) SaaS
18 15 (2.80%) Entra ID
18 15 (2.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 15 (2.80%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.72%) Firewall
1 36 (6.72%) VPN
2 16 (2.99%) TCP/IP
3 15 (2.80%) MPLS
4 14 (2.61%) DNS
5 12 (2.24%) BGP
5 12 (2.24%) Ethernet VPN
5 12 (2.24%) Radio Access Network
6 11 (2.05%) Network Security
7 10 (1.87%) HTTP
8 7 (1.31%) SAN
9 5 (0.93%) FTP
10 4 (0.75%) DHCP
10 4 (0.75%) InfiniBand
11 3 (0.56%) Intranet
11 3 (0.56%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.56%) WAN
12 2 (0.37%) IPv4
12 2 (0.37%) OSPF
12 2 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (13.43%) NoSQL
2 47 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (6.72%) MongoDB
4 32 (5.97%) Relational Database
5 30 (5.60%) MySQL
6 27 (5.04%) SQL Server
7 25 (4.66%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.61%) Apache Cassandra
9 14 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (2.61%) RDBMS
10 13 (2.43%) Big Data
11 11 (2.05%) Data Lake
12 10 (1.87%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.87%) DynamoDB
13 9 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.68%) Power BI
14 8 (1.49%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (0.93%) DB2
Development Applications
1 129 (24.07%) Git
2 121 (22.57%) GitLab
3 113 (21.08%) Jenkins
4 51 (9.51%) JIRA
5 36 (6.72%) Cucumber
6 24 (4.48%) SonarQube
7 17 (3.17%) JUnit
7 17 (3.17%) Selenium
8 16 (2.99%) TeamCity
9 14 (2.61%) Mockito
9 14 (2.61%) REST Assured
9 14 (2.61%) TestRail
10 13 (2.43%) Robot Framework
11 12 (2.24%) NUnit
12 11 (2.05%) Moq
13 10 (1.87%) Travis CI
14 9 (1.68%) CircleCI
14 9 (1.68%) Maven
14 9 (1.68%) webpack
15 8 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 127 (23.69%) Social Skills
2 75 (13.99%) Finance
3 42 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.28%) Public Sector
5 25 (4.66%) Banking
6 16 (2.99%) Front Office
7 13 (2.43%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.68%) Investment Banking
8 9 (1.68%) Manufacturing
8 9 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (1.68%) Retail
9 8 (1.49%) Law
9 8 (1.49%) Police
10 7 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.75%) Back Office
12 4 (0.75%) Local Government
12 4 (0.75%) Marketing
12 4 (0.75%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 123 (22.95%) Developer
2 82 (15.30%) DevOps Engineer
3 81 (15.11%) Architect
4 63 (11.75%) Senior
5 40 (7.46%) Solutions Architect
6 38 (7.09%) AWS Engineer
6 38 (7.09%) Lead
7 35 (6.53%) AWS DevOps
8 29 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 28 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 27 (5.04%) Site Engineer
11 26 (4.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 26 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
12 23 (4.29%) Senior Developer
13 21 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (3.92%) Java Developer
14 20 (3.73%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 18 (3.36%) C# Developer
16 17 (3.17%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.33%) REST
2 49 (9.14%) .NET
3 47 (8.77%) Kafka
4 41 (7.65%) React
5 40 (7.46%) Node.js
6 32 (5.97%) Elastic Stack
7 30 (5.60%) RESTful
8 25 (4.66%) Spring Boot
9 24 (4.48%) Spring
10 21 (3.92%) .NET Core
10 21 (3.92%) HTML
11 18 (3.36%) JSON
12 16 (2.99%) CSS
12 16 (2.99%) Middleware
13 15 (2.80%) ARM Templates
14 14 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
14 14 (2.61%) SOAP
14 14 (2.61%) XML
15 13 (2.43%) ASP.NET
15 13 (2.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.53%) Public Cloud
2 28 (5.22%) Cloud Native
3 16 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.49%) Fixed Income
8 8 (1.49%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.31%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.12%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.12%) Market Risk
10 6 (1.12%) PKI
10 6 (1.12%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.93%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.93%) Credit Risk
11 5 (0.93%) Derivative
11 5 (0.93%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.75%) Equities
12 4 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (21.08%) Linux
2 23 (4.29%) Windows
3 22 (4.10%) Unix
4 20 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.36%) VMS
6 12 (2.24%) Windows Server
7 11 (2.05%) Apple iOS
8 10 (1.87%) Android
9 5 (0.93%) CentOS
10 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (51.49%) CI/CD
2 265 (49.44%) DevOps
3 176 (32.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 167 (31.16%) Agile
5 138 (25.75%) Microservices
6 116 (21.64%) Test Automation
7 115 (21.46%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (17.16%) Continuous Integration
9 55 (10.26%) Scrum
9 55 (10.26%) Software Engineering
10 47 (8.77%) DevSecOps
11 46 (8.58%) Configuration Management
12 44 (8.21%) Migration
13 39 (7.28%) Collaborative Working
14 37 (6.90%) Cloud Security
15 36 (6.72%) Computer Science
16 35 (6.53%) TDD
16 35 (6.53%) Technical Leadership
17 34 (6.34%) OO
18 32 (5.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 214 (39.93%) Python
2 113 (21.08%) Java
3 103 (19.22%) SQL
4 94 (17.54%) Bash
5 59 (11.01%) JavaScript
6 46 (8.58%) PowerShell
7 44 (8.21%) C#
8 27 (5.04%) Go
9 22 (4.10%) Scala
10 19 (3.54%) Ruby
11 18 (3.36%) Shell Script
11 18 (3.36%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.68%) Groovy
13 8 (1.49%) Bicep
14 7 (1.31%) C
14 7 (1.31%) Perl
15 5 (0.93%) PHP
16 4 (0.75%) C++
17 1 (0.19%) CQL
17 1 (0.19%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 152 (28.36%) Security Cleared
2 126 (23.51%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.46%) Degree
4 29 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (4.66%) DV Cleared
6 23 (4.29%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.49%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.75%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.37%) CISSP
12 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.37%) RHCE
12 2 (0.37%) SANS
13 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.16%) QA
2 10 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.49%) NCSC
4 6 (1.12%) NIST
5 4 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.75%) WCAG
6 3 (0.56%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.37%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 301 (56.16%) Docker
2 29 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.92%) Active Directory
4 20 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.87%) vSphere
6 9 (1.68%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.31%) Firmware
8 4 (0.75%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.75%) KVM
8 4 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.37%) HDFS
10 2 (0.37%) NFS
10 2 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.37%) vCloud
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.19%) Ceph
11 1 (0.19%) Lustre
11 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 308 (57.46%) Kubernetes
2 189 (35.26%) Terraform
3 125 (23.32%) Ansible
4 45 (8.40%) Prometheus
5 40 (7.46%) Puppet
6 39 (7.28%) Grafana
7 30 (5.60%) Progress Chef
8 22 (4.10%) Docker Swarm
8 22 (4.10%) Istio
9 16 (2.99%) Packer
10 14 (2.61%) Kibana
10 14 (2.61%) Podman
11 9 (1.68%) Argo
11 9 (1.68%) Rancher
11 9 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (1.49%) HP Fortify
13 7 (1.31%) Graylog
13 7 (1.31%) vRealize
14 6 (1.12%) logstash
15 5 (0.93%) Nessus
Vendors
1 56 (10.45%) Google
2 55 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 37 (6.90%) VMware
4 27 (5.04%) Oracle
4 27 (5.04%) Splunk
5 12 (2.24%) CyberArk
5 12 (2.24%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.05%) TIBCO
7 8 (1.49%) BeyondTrust
7 8 (1.49%) CA
7 8 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.49%) Talend
8 7 (1.31%) Databricks
8 7 (1.31%) Dell
8 7 (1.31%) Informatica
9 6 (1.12%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.93%) IBM
10 5 (0.93%) SAP
10 5 (0.93%) Veracode
10 5 (0.93%) Veritas