rkt Contract Job Trends in England

CoreOS rkt Container Runtime for Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring rkt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing rkt 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.044% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - - -

All Systems Management Skills
England

rkt falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,543 4,510 5,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.14% 14.05% 14.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,001 2,982 4,282
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 52 160
10th Percentile £17.75 £21.05 £19.17
25th Percentile £19.75 £23.80 £34.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £36.83 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -29.84% +119.57%
75th Percentile £63.40 £60.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £77.63 £74.44 £78.08
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £35.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.89% -36.21% +130.03%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing rkt relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

rkt job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing rkt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing rkt

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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 rkt within the England region over the 6 months to 15 October 2025. 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 - 2 - -
rkt
UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GoCD
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) Asynchronous Programming
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Garbage Collection
1 2 (100.00%) Green IT
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) R
1 2 (100.00%) Rust
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace