Containerisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Containerization
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 220 187
Rank change year-on-year +63 -33 +1
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 280 264 429
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.36% 1.10% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.23% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 188 309
10th Percentile £423 £450 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £694 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £48.38 £52.78 £45.59
25th Percentile £51.56 £56.88 £46.83
Median hourly rate £58.75 £65.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +26.23% +28.74%
75th Percentile £66.56 £75.50 £56.69
90th Percentile £70.13 £77.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £68.50 £54.25
% change year-on-year +2.19% +26.27% +21.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,514 21,548 27,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.76% 89.51% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,486 14,951 19,202
10th Percentile £248 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,030 1,307 1,367
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.18 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Containerisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +34 89 £625 +13.64% 34
North of England +30 81 £549 -8.50% 46
North West +18 48 £550 -6.38% 21
Scotland +46 36 £516 -1.67% 19
Yorkshire +46 32 £538 +7.50% 23
South West -4 31 £550 - 28
East of England +10 17 £513 -28.07% 14
Wales +24 14 £515 +8.42% 5
Midlands +23 12 £500 - 34
West Midlands +25 6 £425 -15.00% 12
East Midlands +19 4 £688 +60.82% 22
North East +3 1 £525 -16.00% 2
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (7.86%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (7.50%) Apache
3 13 (4.64%) Confluence
4 11 (3.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (3.57%) Apache Spark
6 7 (2.50%) nginx
7 4 (1.43%) SharePoint
8 3 (1.07%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.71%) Traefik
10 1 (0.36%) CMS
10 1 (0.36%) Drupal
10 1 (0.36%) Luigi
10 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.36%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 11 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 128 (45.71%) AWS
2 95 (33.93%) Azure
3 42 (15.00%) OpenShift
4 40 (14.29%) GCP
5 34 (12.14%) Amazon S3
6 33 (11.79%) Amazon EC2
7 32 (11.43%) GitHub
8 31 (11.07%) Serverless
9 25 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (6.07%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (5.36%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (5.36%) IaaS
12 15 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
14 10 (3.57%) Entra ID
14 10 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.36%) Firewall
2 27 (9.64%) VPN
3 14 (5.00%) DNS
4 12 (4.29%) MPLS
4 12 (4.29%) TCP/IP
5 11 (3.93%) BGP
5 11 (3.93%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (3.93%) Radio Access Network
6 8 (2.86%) HTTP
7 7 (2.50%) Network Security
8 5 (1.79%) FTP
8 5 (1.79%) SAN
9 2 (0.71%) DHCP
9 2 (0.71%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.71%) IPv4
9 2 (0.71%) OSPF
9 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.71%) VLAN
9 2 (0.71%) VSAN
10 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.64%) NoSQL
2 37 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (10.00%) MySQL
4 27 (9.64%) MongoDB
5 26 (9.29%) Elasticsearch
6 17 (6.07%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.93%) Big Data
8 7 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.50%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.50%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.50%) Power BI
8 7 (2.50%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.50%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.14%) Redis
10 5 (1.79%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.79%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.07%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 78 (27.86%) GitLab
2 61 (21.79%) Jenkins
3 59 (21.07%) Git
4 41 (14.64%) JIRA
5 22 (7.86%) SonarQube
6 16 (5.71%) Selenium
7 15 (5.36%) Cucumber
8 12 (4.29%) REST Assured
8 12 (4.29%) Robot Framework
9 11 (3.93%) TestRail
10 10 (3.57%) JUnit
11 9 (3.21%) Mockito
11 9 (3.21%) Travis CI
12 8 (2.86%) webpack
13 7 (2.50%) Artifactory
13 7 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (2.14%) Burp Suite
14 6 (2.14%) CircleCI
15 5 (1.79%) AppScan
16 3 (1.07%) Maven
General
1 58 (20.71%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (7.86%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.36%) Finance
5 10 (3.57%) Law
5 10 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (2.86%) Back Office
6 8 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 8 (2.86%) Police
7 7 (2.50%) Banking
7 7 (2.50%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.43%) Local Government
9 4 (1.43%) Retail
10 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 49 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 45 (16.07%) Developer
3 33 (11.79%) Architect
4 24 (8.57%) AWS DevOps
5 22 (7.86%) Senior
6 20 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 20 (7.14%) Lead
6 20 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 19 (6.79%) Site Engineer
8 17 (6.07%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 16 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (4.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 13 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.93%) AWS Architect
12 11 (3.93%) Migration Manager
12 11 (3.93%) Migration Project Manager
12 11 (3.93%) Project Manager
12 11 (3.93%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (14.64%) REST
2 26 (9.29%) Node.js
3 19 (6.79%) SOAP
4 16 (5.71%) Kafka
5 15 (5.36%) JSON
5 15 (5.36%) RESTful
6 14 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (5.00%) React
7 13 (4.64%) ARM Templates
7 13 (4.64%) XML
8 12 (4.29%) Java EE
8 12 (4.29%) Spring Boot
9 11 (3.93%) NETCONF
9 11 (3.93%) RESTCONF
9 11 (3.93%) Spring
9 11 (3.93%) YANG
10 10 (3.57%) Middleware
11 9 (3.21%) Redux
12 8 (2.86%) .NET
12 8 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.07%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 8 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.07%) Clustering
6 3 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.07%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.07%) Smart Meter
7 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.71%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.71%) IoT
7 2 (0.71%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.71%) PKI
7 2 (0.71%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.71%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.36%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 57 (20.36%) Linux
2 20 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 20 (7.14%) VMS
3 18 (6.43%) Unix
4 16 (5.71%) Windows
5 11 (3.93%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.86%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.79%) Android
7 5 (1.79%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.07%) CentOS
9 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (51.79%) DevOps
2 132 (47.14%) CI/CD
3 111 (39.64%) Agile
4 103 (36.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 72 (25.71%) Test Automation
6 50 (17.86%) Microservices
6 50 (17.86%) Scrum
7 48 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (14.64%) Continuous Integration
9 34 (12.14%) Configuration Management
9 34 (12.14%) Migration
10 31 (11.07%) Software Engineering
11 28 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
12 27 (9.64%) Task Automation
13 23 (8.21%) Collaborative Working
14 22 (7.86%) DevSecOps
14 22 (7.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 19 (6.79%) Full Stack Development
16 18 (6.43%) SDLC
16 18 (6.43%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 108 (38.57%) Python
2 54 (19.29%) Bash
3 52 (18.57%) SQL
4 50 (17.86%) Java
5 24 (8.57%) PowerShell
6 15 (5.36%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.00%) Go
7 14 (5.00%) PHP
8 12 (4.29%) C#
9 10 (3.57%) Groovy
10 9 (3.21%) Perl
11 8 (2.86%) Ruby
11 8 (2.86%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.50%) TypeScript
13 5 (1.79%) Scala
14 1 (0.36%) C++
14 1 (0.36%) CQL
Qualifications
1 81 (28.93%) Security Cleared
2 71 (25.36%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.14%) Degree
4 13 (4.64%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 9 (3.21%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.71%) RHCE
8 2 (0.71%) SANS
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.36%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.36%) CCNP
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.36%) GIAC
9 1 (0.36%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.36%) LPIC
9 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.36%) MCSE
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.29%) QA
2 4 (1.43%) NCSC
3 3 (1.07%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.07%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.07%) NIST
4 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
System Software
1 133 (47.50%) Docker
2 32 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.57%) vSphere
5 9 (3.21%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.07%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.71%) HDFS
8 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.71%) vCloud
9 1 (0.36%) KVM
9 1 (0.36%) Lustre
9 1 (0.36%) NFS
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 160 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 92 (32.86%) Terraform
3 75 (26.79%) Ansible
4 29 (10.36%) Grafana
5 24 (8.57%) Prometheus
6 20 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
7 19 (6.79%) Puppet
8 18 (6.43%) Argo
8 18 (6.43%) Istio
8 18 (6.43%) Kibana
9 15 (5.36%) Progress Chef
10 14 (5.00%) Podman
11 10 (3.57%) Packer
12 9 (3.21%) Rancher
13 8 (2.86%) HP Fortify
13 8 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (2.50%) vRealize
15 6 (2.14%) Graylog
15 6 (2.14%) logstash
16 5 (1.79%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 40 (14.29%) VMware
2 25 (8.93%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.14%) Splunk
4 15 (5.36%) Atlassian
5 14 (5.00%) Google
5 14 (5.00%) Oracle
6 9 (3.21%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.86%) CA
8 6 (2.14%) Checkmarx
9 5 (1.79%) Arqiva
9 5 (1.79%) Informatica
9 5 (1.79%) Talend
9 5 (1.79%) Veracode
9 5 (1.79%) Veritas
10 4 (1.43%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.07%) Foundry
11 3 (1.07%) Palantir
11 3 (1.07%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.71%) PagerDuty
12 2 (0.71%) SAP