LXC Contracts in Wales

LXC (LinuX Containers)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring LXC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LXC over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LXC 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.02% - -
As % of the System Software category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - £425 £500
% change year-on-year - -15.00% -9.09%

All System Software Skills
Wales

LXC falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 45 39 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 15.36% 9.87% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 31 71
10th Percentile £185 £185 £145
25th Percentile £213 £354 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £460 £531 £538
90th Percentile £539 £600 £631
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £22.50 £12.94 £15.24
25th Percentile £26.25 £13.98 £15.61
Median hourly rate £37.50 £15.84 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +136.82% -3.71% +17.46%
75th Percentile £41.25 £17.57 £17.38
90th Percentile - £18.53 £17.81
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

LXC
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing LXC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for LXC in Wales

LXC
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LXC within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South Wales - 3 - -
LXC
UK

LXC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) JBoss
1 3 (100.00%) nginx
1 3 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (100.00%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) JWT
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) API Management
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) IBM