Containerisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Containerization
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Containerisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Containerisation over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 217 203
Rank change year-on-year +73 -14 +2
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 329 229 399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.54% 1.01% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 1.13% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 164 285
10th Percentile £400 £450 £450
25th Percentile £461 £500 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -2.08% +20.00%
75th Percentile £645 £656 £656
90th Percentile £688 £760 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £48.38 £61.75 £46.50
25th Percentile £51.56 £67.75 £48.74
Median hourly rate £58.75 £78.00 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +43.78% +37.34%
75th Percentile £66.56 £84.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.13 £90.00 £59.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.00 £55.88
% change year-on-year -4.11% +30.65% +24.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Containerisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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
North of England +72 119 £509 -15.25% 61
South East +46 97 £623 +10.67% 45
Yorkshire +67 69 £505 -16.53% 19
North West +27 49 £510 -13.19% 37
South West -8 42 £550 - 35
Scotland +53 31 £516 +3.25% 12
Midlands +24 22 £475 -5.00% 21
East of England +3 14 £600 +4.80% 16
West Midlands +18 10 £450 -10.00% 7
Wales +28 9 £515 -8.44% 1
East Midlands +10 8 £445 -7.29% 14
North East +1 1 £525 -38.09% 6
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 21 (6.38%) Apache Spark
2 20 (6.08%) Apache
3 17 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (5.17%) Confluence
4 11 (3.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.82%) nginx
6 3 (0.91%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.30%) Traefik
Applications
1 9 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.30%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Maximo
1 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 165 (50.15%) AWS
2 123 (37.39%) Azure
3 61 (18.54%) OpenShift
4 57 (17.33%) GCP
5 43 (13.07%) Amazon S3
6 39 (11.85%) Serverless
7 35 (10.64%) GitHub
8 34 (10.33%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (7.90%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (5.78%) Cloud Computing
11 16 (4.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (4.56%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (4.56%) Entra ID
13 14 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (3.65%) IaaS
16 11 (3.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (3.04%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (3.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (10.64%) Firewall
2 27 (8.21%) VPN
3 14 (4.26%) DNS
3 14 (4.26%) HTTP
4 13 (3.95%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.43%) MPLS
6 7 (2.13%) Radio Access Network
7 6 (1.82%) BGP
7 6 (1.82%) Ethernet VPN
8 5 (1.52%) FTP
8 5 (1.52%) Network Security
8 5 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.52%) SAN
9 3 (0.91%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (0.91%) SSL
10 2 (0.61%) DHCP
10 2 (0.61%) InfiniBand
10 2 (0.61%) IPv4
10 2 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.55%) Elasticsearch
2 35 (10.64%) NoSQL
3 33 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (6.69%) MySQL
5 21 (6.38%) MongoDB
6 20 (6.08%) Big Data
7 16 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (4.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (4.86%) BigQuery
7 16 (4.86%) Data Lake
8 15 (4.56%) Hadoop
9 14 (4.26%) Relational Database
10 11 (3.34%) SQL Server
11 9 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (2.13%) Oracle Database
12 7 (2.13%) Power BI
13 6 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (1.82%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 89 (27.05%) Jenkins
2 84 (25.53%) GitLab
3 81 (24.62%) Git
4 40 (12.16%) JIRA
5 22 (6.69%) SonarQube
6 15 (4.56%) Cucumber
6 15 (4.56%) Selenium
7 12 (3.65%) REST Assured
7 12 (3.65%) Travis CI
8 11 (3.34%) JUnit
9 10 (3.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (2.74%) CircleCI
10 9 (2.74%) Mockito
11 8 (2.43%) Artifactory
11 8 (2.43%) webpack
12 7 (2.13%) Robot Framework
13 6 (1.82%) Burp Suite
13 6 (1.82%) TestRail
14 5 (1.52%) AppScan
15 4 (1.22%) Maven
General
1 70 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 41 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (8.81%) Public Sector
4 16 (4.86%) Finance
5 14 (4.26%) Banking
6 11 (3.34%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.43%) Back Office
7 8 (2.43%) Law
7 8 (2.43%) Police
7 8 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.13%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.52%) Retail
10 4 (1.22%) Local Government
11 2 (0.61%) Automotive
12 1 (0.30%) Electronics
12 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Marketing
12 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 77 (23.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 47 (14.29%) Architect
3 34 (10.33%) Developer
4 31 (9.42%) AWS DevOps
5 30 (9.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 29 (8.81%) AWS Engineer
6 29 (8.81%) Site Engineer
7 27 (8.21%) Senior
8 25 (7.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 23 (6.99%) Solutions Architect
10 21 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (6.08%) Lead
12 14 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (3.95%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 12 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
15 11 (3.34%) Linux Engineer
15 11 (3.34%) Technical Architect
16 10 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 10 (3.04%) Software Engineer
16 10 (3.04%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (13.68%) Kafka
2 37 (11.25%) REST
3 22 (6.69%) Node.js
4 20 (6.08%) RESTful
5 19 (5.78%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (5.47%) React
7 16 (4.86%) JSON
8 15 (4.56%) XML
9 14 (4.26%) GraphQL
9 14 (4.26%) SOAP
9 14 (4.26%) Spring Boot
10 13 (3.95%) .NET
10 13 (3.95%) ARM Templates
10 13 (3.95%) Spring
10 13 (3.95%) YAML
11 12 (3.65%) Java EE
12 9 (2.74%) OAuth
12 9 (2.74%) Redux
13 8 (2.43%) CSS
13 8 (2.43%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.78%) Public Cloud
3 10 (3.04%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (1.52%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.22%) IoT
7 4 (1.22%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.22%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.91%) Smart Meter
9 2 (0.61%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.61%) Clustering
9 2 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.61%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.61%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.61%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.30%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.30%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 70 (21.28%) Linux
2 23 (6.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (6.69%) Unix
4 20 (6.08%) VMS
5 19 (5.78%) Windows
6 12 (3.65%) Windows Server
7 8 (2.43%) Android
7 8 (2.43%) Apple iOS
8 7 (2.13%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (61.09%) DevOps
2 164 (49.85%) CI/CD
3 123 (37.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 112 (34.04%) Agile
5 71 (21.58%) Test Automation
6 64 (19.45%) Microservices
7 59 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (12.77%) Continuous Integration
8 42 (12.77%) Scrum
9 38 (11.55%) Configuration Management
9 38 (11.55%) Technical Leadership
10 37 (11.25%) Software Engineering
10 37 (11.25%) Task Automation
11 31 (9.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 30 (9.12%) Collaborative Working
13 28 (8.51%) ETL
14 27 (8.21%) Migration
15 26 (7.90%) DevSecOps
15 26 (7.90%) High Availability
16 25 (7.60%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 127 (38.60%) Python
2 81 (24.62%) Java
3 63 (19.15%) Bash
4 57 (17.33%) SQL
5 36 (10.94%) PowerShell
6 24 (7.29%) JavaScript
7 15 (4.56%) Go
7 15 (4.56%) Groovy
8 14 (4.26%) C#
9 13 (3.95%) Shell Script
10 12 (3.65%) Scala
11 9 (2.74%) Perl
11 9 (2.74%) PHP
12 8 (2.43%) Ruby
13 5 (1.52%) SPARQL
14 4 (1.22%) C
15 3 (0.91%) ActionScript
15 3 (0.91%) C++
15 3 (0.91%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.30%) CQL
Qualifications
1 113 (34.35%) Security Cleared
2 101 (30.70%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.99%) Degree
4 20 (6.08%) AWS Certification
5 18 (5.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 14 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.65%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.91%) RHCE
10 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.61%) SANS
11 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.30%) GIAC
11 1 (0.30%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.30%) LPIC
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.30%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.21%) QA
2 6 (1.82%) GDPR
2 6 (1.82%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (0.91%) ISO 22301
3 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.61%) NCSC
4 2 (0.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
System Software
1 170 (51.67%) Docker
2 25 (7.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (4.56%) Active Directory
4 11 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (2.74%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.13%) vSphere
7 4 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.91%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.91%) Firmware
8 3 (0.91%) HDFS
8 3 (0.91%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.61%) vCloud
10 1 (0.30%) KVM
10 1 (0.30%) Lustre
10 1 (0.30%) NFS
10 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 208 (63.22%) Kubernetes
2 120 (36.47%) Terraform
3 82 (24.92%) Ansible
4 41 (12.46%) Grafana
5 39 (11.85%) Prometheus
6 28 (8.51%) Kibana
7 25 (7.60%) Puppet
8 24 (7.29%) Istio
9 22 (6.69%) Argo
9 22 (6.69%) Docker Swarm
10 18 (5.47%) Progress Chef
11 13 (3.95%) Podman
12 10 (3.04%) Rancher
13 9 (2.74%) logstash
13 9 (2.74%) Packer
14 8 (2.43%) HP Fortify
14 8 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (1.82%) Graylog
15 6 (1.82%) vRealize
16 5 (1.52%) SELinux
Vendors
1 36 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.73%) Google
2 32 (9.73%) VMware
3 22 (6.69%) Splunk
4 12 (3.65%) Atlassian
4 12 (3.65%) Oracle
5 10 (3.04%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.43%) CA
7 6 (1.82%) Checkmarx
8 5 (1.52%) Informatica
8 5 (1.52%) Talend
8 5 (1.52%) Veracode
9 4 (1.22%) Arqiva
9 4 (1.22%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.22%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.22%) Veritas
10 3 (0.91%) F5
10 3 (0.91%) Foundry
10 3 (0.91%) Palantir
10 3 (0.91%) Salesforce