Containerisation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Containerization
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 157 153
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 -25
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 213 416 774
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.39% 1.61% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.79% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 307 587
10th Percentile £400 £463 £425
25th Percentile £488 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £675
90th Percentile £688 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £66.90 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £68.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £71.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +5.97% +48.89%
75th Percentile £72.50 £87.00 -
90th Percentile - £96.30 -
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,505 23,232 40,651
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.83% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,015 16,421 29,503
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.03%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 532 547
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Containerisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Containerisation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Containerisation.

Containerisation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Containerisation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Containerisation.

Containerisation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.88%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.88%) Confluence
2 4 (1.88%) Luigi
2 4 (1.88%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.41%) Apache
3 3 (1.41%) CMS
3 3 (1.41%) WordPress
4 2 (0.94%) Drupal
4 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.94%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
5 1 (0.47%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Endur
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 133 (62.44%) AWS
2 92 (43.19%) Azure
3 45 (21.13%) GCP
4 28 (13.15%) GitHub
5 24 (11.27%) Serverless
6 21 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (9.86%) OpenShift
7 19 (8.92%) Amazon S3
7 19 (8.92%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (7.98%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (7.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (7.04%) IaaS
10 15 (7.04%) SaaS
11 13 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (5.16%) AWS Fargate
13 11 (5.16%) PaaS
13 11 (5.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.23%) Firewall
2 7 (3.29%) Network Security
3 6 (2.82%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.35%) VPN
5 4 (1.88%) SAN
6 3 (1.41%) DNS
6 3 (1.41%) HTTP
6 3 (1.41%) Intranet
7 1 (0.47%) 4G
7 1 (0.47%) Internet
7 1 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.10%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.16%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (4.69%) MySQL
5 9 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (3.76%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.82%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.88%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.88%) Redis
9 3 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.41%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.41%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.41%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.41%) InfluxDB
9 3 (1.41%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.41%) Power BI
10 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (19.25%) GitLab
2 40 (18.78%) Jenkins
3 34 (15.96%) Git
4 20 (9.39%) SonarQube
5 17 (7.98%) JIRA
6 10 (4.69%) Cucumber
7 9 (4.23%) Selenium
8 8 (3.76%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.82%) Artifactory
10 5 (2.35%) Maven
10 5 (2.35%) Travis CI
11 4 (1.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (1.41%) webpack
13 2 (0.94%) Burp Suite
13 2 (0.94%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.94%) JUnit
13 2 (0.94%) PHPUnit
13 2 (0.94%) Postman
13 2 (0.94%) Pylint
13 2 (0.94%) SoapUI
General
1 60 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.55%) Public Sector
3 24 (11.27%) Finance
4 19 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.29%) Law
5 7 (3.29%) Police
5 7 (3.29%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.82%) Banking
6 6 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.88%) Back Office
7 4 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.88%) Electronics
7 4 (1.88%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.88%) Marketing
8 3 (1.41%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.94%) Retail
9 2 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (19.72%) Developer
1 42 (19.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (18.78%) Architect
3 25 (11.74%) Senior
3 25 (11.74%) Solutions Architect
4 21 (9.86%) AWS Engineer
5 16 (7.51%) AWS DevOps
6 15 (7.04%) Lead
6 15 (7.04%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (6.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 13 (6.10%) Software Engineer
9 12 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (4.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.69%) Python Engineer
10 10 (4.69%) Senior Developer
11 9 (4.23%) Java Engineer
12 8 (3.76%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (3.29%) Consultant
13 7 (3.29%) Data Engineer
13 7 (3.29%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.21%) REST
2 22 (10.33%) ARM Templates
3 16 (7.51%) Node.js
4 14 (6.57%) SailPoint
5 13 (6.10%) HTML
6 12 (5.63%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (5.63%) React
7 11 (5.16%) .NET
7 11 (5.16%) CSS
7 11 (5.16%) Kafka
8 10 (4.69%) Azure Blueprints
9 8 (3.76%) Java EE
10 7 (3.29%) Middleware
10 7 (3.29%) RESTful
11 6 (2.82%) JSON
12 5 (2.35%) AWS CDK
12 5 (2.35%) Pandas
12 5 (2.35%) Spring
13 4 (1.88%) Redux
13 4 (1.88%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.16%) Management Information System
2 10 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.76%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.82%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.35%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.35%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (1.88%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.41%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.47%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.47%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.47%) Genomics
9 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.47%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.47%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.37%) Linux
2 8 (3.76%) Windows
3 5 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.35%) Ubuntu
3 5 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.41%) Unix
5 2 (0.94%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.94%) CentOS
5 2 (0.94%) VMS
6 1 (0.47%) Android
6 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (62.91%) DevOps
2 107 (50.23%) CI/CD
3 65 (30.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (23.47%) Agile
6 46 (21.60%) Test Automation
7 40 (18.78%) Continuous Integration
8 39 (18.31%) Software Engineering
9 35 (16.43%) Microservices
10 30 (14.08%) Deployment Automation
10 30 (14.08%) Migration
11 21 (9.86%) Cloud Security
11 21 (9.86%) DevSecOps
12 19 (8.92%) Application Security
13 17 (7.98%) Continuous Delivery
14 16 (7.51%) Configuration Management
14 16 (7.51%) High Availability
14 16 (7.51%) Mentoring
14 16 (7.51%) Project Management
15 15 (7.04%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 81 (38.03%) Python
2 40 (18.78%) Java
3 31 (14.55%) Bash
4 27 (12.68%) SQL
5 25 (11.74%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.04%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.63%) PHP
8 10 (4.69%) Perl
9 9 (4.23%) C#
10 8 (3.76%) Go
10 8 (3.76%) Ruby
11 7 (3.29%) TypeScript
12 6 (2.82%) Bicep
12 6 (2.82%) Groovy
13 5 (2.35%) Scala
14 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.47%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 49 (23.00%) Security Cleared
2 45 (21.13%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.04%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.10%) Degree
5 12 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (2.82%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.35%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.94%) SANS
11 1 (0.47%) CCNP
11 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.47%) MCSE
11 1 (0.47%) PhD
11 1 (0.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.10%) NCSC
2 11 (5.16%) QA
3 6 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.94%) NIST
5 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 118 (55.40%) Docker
2 14 (6.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.82%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.88%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.41%) Firmware
6 1 (0.47%) IAG
Systems Management
1 115 (53.99%) Kubernetes
2 86 (40.38%) Terraform
3 54 (25.35%) Ansible
4 15 (7.04%) Grafana
5 14 (6.57%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.63%) Docker Swarm
7 11 (5.16%) Progress Chef
7 11 (5.16%) Puppet
8 9 (4.23%) Kibana
9 8 (3.76%) Podman
10 4 (1.88%) Argo
10 4 (1.88%) Istio
11 3 (1.41%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.94%) Graylog
12 2 (0.94%) logstash
13 1 (0.47%) Consul
13 1 (0.47%) Nagios
13 1 (0.47%) Nessus
13 1 (0.47%) Salt
13 1 (0.47%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 19 (8.92%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.98%) CyberArk
3 16 (7.51%) VMware
4 15 (7.04%) Google
5 13 (6.10%) BeyondTrust
5 13 (6.10%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.82%) Splunk
7 5 (2.35%) SAP
8 4 (1.88%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.88%) Oracle
9 3 (1.41%) Dell
9 3 (1.41%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.94%) Brio
10 2 (0.94%) Checkmarx
10 2 (0.94%) Confluent
10 2 (0.94%) Databricks
10 2 (0.94%) Genesys
10 2 (0.94%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.47%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace