Containerisation Contracts

Containerization
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 158 169
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 -15
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 649 937 1,462
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.52% 1.61% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.79% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 703 1,049
10th Percentile £413 £463 £450
25th Percentile £485 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £700
90th Percentile £725 £800 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £580
% change year-on-year - -5.17% +22.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 6
10th Percentile £52.63 £55.51 £45.59
25th Percentile £62.19 £65.00 £46.83
Median hourly rate £70.00 £71.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +37.88% +21.88%
75th Percentile £72.50 £78.00 £56.69
90th Percentile - £92.50 £62.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £69.00 £48.74
% change year-on-year -14.86% +41.57% +22.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 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
England -5 544 £565 -9.60% 340
UK excluding London +77 280 £550 - 172
London -31 280 £588 -9.62% 172
Work from Home +16 209 £543 -9.50% 191
North of England +46 89 £537 -10.58% 44
South East +35 89 £625 +13.64% 37
North West +28 51 £524 -10.85% 18
Yorkshire +50 37 £563 +12.50% 24
South West -1 35 £550 - 37
Scotland +51 31 £516 +0.73% 11
Midlands +33 16 £450 -10.00% 26
East of England +5 14 £575 -6.12% 11
Wales +26 9 £515 +8.42% 5
East Midlands +27 7 £473 +10.53% 15
West Midlands +18 7 £425 -15.00% 11
North East +4 1 £525 -38.03% 2

Containerisation
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:

Application Platforms
1 30 (4.62%) Apache
2 28 (4.31%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.93%) Confluence
4 17 (2.62%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.54%) nginx
7 8 (1.23%) OpenStack
8 7 (1.08%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.62%) Luigi
10 3 (0.46%) CMS
10 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.46%) WordPress
11 2 (0.31%) Drupal
11 2 (0.31%) Traefik
11 2 (0.31%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.77%) Endur
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 350 (53.93%) AWS
2 229 (35.29%) Azure
3 134 (20.65%) GCP
4 83 (12.79%) Serverless
5 76 (11.71%) Amazon S3
6 73 (11.25%) GitHub
7 71 (10.94%) OpenShift
8 64 (9.86%) Amazon EC2
9 57 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
11 44 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (5.55%) SaaS
14 35 (5.39%) IaaS
15 34 (5.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 33 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
17 28 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
18 25 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
19 24 (3.70%) PaaS
20 22 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 38 (5.86%) Firewall
1 38 (5.86%) VPN
2 23 (3.54%) TCP/IP
3 20 (3.08%) DNS
4 18 (2.77%) HTTP
5 14 (2.16%) MPLS
6 12 (1.85%) Network Security
7 11 (1.69%) BGP
7 11 (1.69%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (1.69%) Radio Access Network
8 7 (1.08%) SAN
9 5 (0.77%) DHCP
9 5 (0.77%) FTP
10 4 (0.62%) InfiniBand
10 4 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.62%) SSL
11 3 (0.46%) Intranet
11 3 (0.46%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.46%) WAN
12 2 (0.31%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (11.56%) NoSQL
2 51 (7.86%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (6.16%) MySQL
4 38 (5.86%) Elasticsearch
5 36 (5.55%) MongoDB
6 35 (5.39%) Relational Database
7 30 (4.62%) SQL Server
8 25 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (2.47%) RDBMS
10 15 (2.31%) Big Data
10 15 (2.31%) Data Lake
11 14 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (2.16%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (2.00%) BigQuery
12 13 (2.00%) DynamoDB
13 11 (1.69%) Power BI
14 9 (1.39%) Hadoop
15 7 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (1.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 150 (23.11%) Git
2 138 (21.26%) Jenkins
3 136 (20.96%) GitLab
4 54 (8.32%) JIRA
5 36 (5.55%) Cucumber
5 36 (5.55%) SonarQube
6 19 (2.93%) JUnit
7 18 (2.77%) Selenium
7 18 (2.77%) TeamCity
8 15 (2.31%) Artifactory
8 15 (2.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 14 (2.16%) Mockito
9 14 (2.16%) REST Assured
10 13 (2.00%) TestRail
11 12 (1.85%) NUnit
11 12 (1.85%) Robot Framework
11 12 (1.85%) Travis CI
12 11 (1.69%) Moq
13 10 (1.54%) CircleCI
13 10 (1.54%) Maven
General
1 168 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 78 (12.02%) Finance
3 59 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 47 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (4.78%) Banking
6 16 (2.47%) Front Office
7 15 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (2.31%) Retail
8 14 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (2.00%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.85%) Back Office
11 11 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.39%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.23%) Law
13 8 (1.23%) Police
14 4 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.62%) Local Government
14 4 (0.62%) Marketing
14 4 (0.62%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (19.11%) Developer
2 121 (18.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 113 (17.41%) Architect
4 66 (10.17%) Senior
5 57 (8.78%) Solutions Architect
6 52 (8.01%) AWS Engineer
7 43 (6.63%) AWS DevOps
7 43 (6.63%) Lead
8 34 (5.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 34 (5.24%) Platform Engineer
9 32 (4.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 29 (4.47%) Site Engineer
11 28 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
12 26 (4.01%) Azure Engineer
13 24 (3.70%) Java Developer
13 24 (3.70%) Senior Developer
14 23 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 22 (3.39%) Cloud Architect
16 21 (3.24%) Technical Architect
17 20 (3.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (10.02%) REST
2 58 (8.94%) Kafka
3 50 (7.70%) .NET
4 43 (6.63%) Node.js
5 42 (6.47%) React
6 40 (6.16%) Elastic Stack
7 37 (5.70%) RESTful
8 28 (4.31%) Spring Boot
9 27 (4.16%) Spring
10 26 (4.01%) ARM Templates
11 25 (3.85%) HTML
12 24 (3.70%) Middleware
13 21 (3.24%) .NET Core
13 21 (3.24%) SOAP
14 20 (3.08%) CSS
15 19 (2.93%) JSON
16 18 (2.77%) SailPoint
17 17 (2.62%) RabbitMQ
18 16 (2.47%) AWS CDK
18 16 (2.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.01%) Public Cloud
2 30 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 19 (2.93%) Onboarding
4 17 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 11 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.23%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.23%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.08%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
12 6 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.92%) Mainframe
12 6 (0.92%) Market Risk
12 6 (0.92%) PKI
12 6 (0.92%) Reference Data
12 6 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 149 (22.96%) Linux
2 35 (5.39%) Unix
3 34 (5.24%) Windows
4 26 (4.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (3.39%) VMS
6 16 (2.47%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.69%) Apple iOS
8 10 (1.54%) Android
9 8 (1.23%) Ubuntu
10 7 (1.08%) CentOS
11 2 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (53.93%) DevOps
2 326 (50.23%) CI/CD
3 213 (32.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 193 (29.74%) Agile
5 144 (22.19%) Microservices
6 138 (21.26%) Test Automation
7 136 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
8 101 (15.56%) Continuous Integration
9 76 (11.71%) Migration
10 72 (11.09%) Software Engineering
11 71 (10.94%) Scrum
12 61 (9.40%) DevSecOps
13 55 (8.47%) Configuration Management
14 49 (7.55%) Deployment Automation
15 48 (7.40%) Cloud Security
16 46 (7.09%) Computer Science
16 46 (7.09%) Project Management
17 45 (6.93%) High Availability
18 44 (6.78%) Collaborative Working
19 41 (6.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 241 (37.13%) Python
2 133 (20.49%) Java
3 111 (17.10%) Bash
4 110 (16.95%) SQL
5 65 (10.02%) JavaScript
6 59 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 45 (6.93%) C#
8 27 (4.16%) Go
9 23 (3.54%) Scala
10 19 (2.93%) Shell Script
10 19 (2.93%) TypeScript
11 18 (2.77%) Ruby
12 17 (2.62%) Perl
12 17 (2.62%) PHP
13 14 (2.16%) Groovy
14 9 (1.39%) Bicep
15 7 (1.08%) C
16 6 (0.92%) SPARQL
17 4 (0.62%) C++
18 2 (0.31%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 176 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 151 (23.27%) SC Cleared
3 56 (8.63%) Degree
4 39 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (4.31%) AWS Certification
6 23 (3.54%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.54%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.62%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.62%) SANS
11 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.31%) CISSP
12 2 (0.31%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.31%) RHCE
13 1 (0.15%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.01%) QA
2 18 (2.77%) NCSC
3 8 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.92%) NIST
5 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.46%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 369 (56.86%) Docker
2 36 (5.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (3.54%) Active Directory
4 22 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.39%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.39%) vSphere
6 7 (1.08%) Firmware
7 4 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.62%) KVM
7 4 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.31%) HDFS
9 2 (0.31%) NFS
9 2 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.31%) vCloud
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.15%) Ceph
10 1 (0.15%) Lustre
10 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 368 (56.70%) Kubernetes
2 237 (36.52%) Terraform
3 159 (24.50%) Ansible
4 57 (8.78%) Prometheus
5 56 (8.63%) Grafana
6 52 (8.01%) Puppet
7 37 (5.70%) Progress Chef
8 25 (3.85%) Docker Swarm
9 23 (3.54%) Istio
9 23 (3.54%) Kibana
10 17 (2.62%) Packer
11 16 (2.47%) Argo
12 14 (2.16%) Podman
13 13 (2.00%) Graylog
14 11 (1.69%) Rancher
15 9 (1.39%) HP Fortify
15 9 (1.39%) Nagios
15 9 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
16 8 (1.23%) logstash
17 7 (1.08%) vRealize
Vendors
1 66 (10.17%) Microsoft
2 61 (9.40%) Google
3 46 (7.09%) VMware
4 35 (5.39%) Splunk
5 32 (4.93%) Oracle
6 22 (3.39%) CyberArk
7 18 (2.77%) BeyondTrust
7 18 (2.77%) ServiceNow
8 15 (2.31%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.85%) Atlassian
10 11 (1.69%) TIBCO
11 10 (1.54%) SAP
12 9 (1.39%) Databricks
13 8 (1.23%) CA
13 8 (1.23%) Talend
14 7 (1.08%) Checkmarx
14 7 (1.08%) Dell
14 7 (1.08%) IBM
14 7 (1.08%) Informatica
15 6 (0.92%) Veracode