Containerisation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Containerization
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 166 178
Rank change year-on-year +25 +12 -37
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 235 349 699
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.59% 1.46% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 1.63% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 258 532
10th Percentile £411 £463 £450
25th Percentile £490 £488 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £675
90th Percentile £678 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £66.45 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £67.13 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £68.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +2.24% +48.89%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.13 -
90th Percentile - £70.95 -
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 19 June 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 6 (2.55%) Apache Spark
1 6 (2.55%) Confluence
2 5 (2.13%) Apache
2 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.13%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.70%) Luigi
4 3 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.85%) CMS
5 2 (0.85%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.85%) WordPress
6 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.43%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Endur
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 149 (63.40%) AWS
2 115 (48.94%) Azure
3 52 (22.13%) GCP
4 29 (12.34%) GitHub
4 29 (12.34%) OpenShift
5 27 (11.49%) Serverless
6 25 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (10.21%) Amazon S3
8 19 (8.09%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (7.66%) Amazon EC2
9 18 (7.66%) Amazon ECS
9 18 (7.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (7.66%) IaaS
10 17 (7.23%) SaaS
11 16 (6.81%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (6.81%) PaaS
12 13 (5.53%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (5.53%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (5.11%) AWS Fargate
14 11 (4.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.11%) Firewall
2 8 (3.40%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.98%) VPN
4 6 (2.55%) HTTP
4 6 (2.55%) Network Security
5 5 (2.13%) DNS
6 4 (1.70%) SAN
7 2 (0.85%) Intranet
7 2 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.43%) 4G
8 1 (0.43%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.43%) DSL
8 1 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.43%) Internet
8 1 (0.43%) LTE
8 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.43%) SSL
8 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (6.38%) NoSQL
3 14 (5.96%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (5.96%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (5.11%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.68%) MySQL
6 9 (3.83%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.98%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (2.98%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.55%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.13%) Big Data
9 5 (2.13%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.13%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.70%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.70%) InfluxDB
11 3 (1.28%) DB2
11 3 (1.28%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.28%) Triplestore
12 2 (0.85%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 53 (22.55%) Jenkins
2 50 (21.28%) GitLab
3 45 (19.15%) Git
4 20 (8.51%) SonarQube
5 17 (7.23%) JIRA
6 10 (4.26%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.26%) Selenium
7 8 (3.40%) Artifactory
7 8 (3.40%) REST Assured
8 5 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.13%) Travis CI
9 4 (1.70%) JUnit
9 4 (1.70%) PHPUnit
10 3 (1.28%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.28%) Maven
10 3 (1.28%) webpack
11 2 (0.85%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.85%) Gradle
11 2 (0.85%) Pylint
11 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 79 (33.62%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.91%) Public Sector
3 25 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.36%) Finance
5 14 (5.96%) Banking
6 7 (2.98%) Law
6 7 (2.98%) Police
7 6 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.13%) Retail Banking
8 5 (2.13%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.70%) Back Office
9 4 (1.70%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.70%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.70%) Retail
10 3 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.85%) Automotive
11 2 (0.85%) Electronics
11 2 (0.85%) Front Office
11 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 52 (22.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (18.72%) Architect
3 35 (14.89%) Developer
4 30 (12.77%) Senior
5 28 (11.91%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (7.23%) AWS Engineer
7 16 (6.81%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (6.38%) AWS DevOps
8 15 (6.38%) Lead
9 13 (5.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.68%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.68%) Software Engineer
11 10 (4.26%) Java Engineer
11 10 (4.26%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (3.83%) Consultant
12 9 (3.83%) Python Engineer
13 8 (3.40%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (3.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.06%) REST
2 23 (9.79%) ARM Templates
3 19 (8.09%) Kafka
4 17 (7.23%) React
5 15 (6.38%) .NET
6 14 (5.96%) HTML
7 12 (5.11%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (5.11%) SailPoint
8 11 (4.68%) CSS
8 11 (4.68%) Node.js
8 11 (4.68%) RESTful
9 10 (4.26%) Azure Blueprints
10 8 (3.40%) Java EE
11 7 (2.98%) AWS CDK
11 7 (2.98%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.55%) Laravel
12 6 (2.55%) Middleware
12 6 (2.55%) OAuth
13 5 (2.13%) JSON
13 5 (2.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.96%) Public Cloud
2 11 (4.68%) Management Information System
2 11 (4.68%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.83%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.55%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.13%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (1.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.70%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.85%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.43%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.43%) Genomics
9 1 (0.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 48 (20.43%) Linux
2 10 (4.26%) Windows
3 9 (3.83%) Unix
4 7 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.13%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.70%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.70%) CentOS
6 4 (1.70%) VMS
7 3 (1.28%) Android
8 2 (0.85%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (67.66%) DevOps
2 123 (52.34%) CI/CD
3 84 (35.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (28.94%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (22.98%) Agile
6 49 (20.85%) Test Automation
7 41 (17.45%) Continuous Integration
8 38 (16.17%) Microservices
9 36 (15.32%) Software Engineering
10 34 (14.47%) Migration
11 30 (12.77%) Deployment Automation
12 21 (8.94%) DevSecOps
13 20 (8.51%) SDLC
14 19 (8.09%) Cloud Security
14 19 (8.09%) Configuration Management
15 18 (7.66%) Application Security
15 18 (7.66%) Project Management
16 17 (7.23%) Architectural Design
16 17 (7.23%) Continuous Deployment
16 17 (7.23%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 86 (36.60%) Python
2 49 (20.85%) Java
3 34 (14.47%) Bash
4 30 (12.77%) SQL
5 25 (10.64%) JavaScript
6 18 (7.66%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.53%) PHP
8 11 (4.68%) C#
9 8 (3.40%) Perl
9 8 (3.40%) Scala
10 7 (2.98%) Go
10 7 (2.98%) Groovy
10 7 (2.98%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.55%) Bicep
11 6 (2.55%) Ruby
12 5 (2.13%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.28%) C
13 3 (1.28%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.43%) Rust
14 1 (0.43%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 57 (24.26%) Security Cleared
2 54 (22.98%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.66%) Degree
4 15 (6.38%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.26%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.55%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.70%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.43%) SANS
11 1 (0.43%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.11%) NCSC
1 12 (5.11%) QA
2 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.85%) GDPR
3 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 144 (61.28%) Docker
2 13 (5.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.26%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.13%) Firmware
5 4 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 142 (60.43%) Kubernetes
2 101 (42.98%) Terraform
3 62 (26.38%) Ansible
4 23 (9.79%) Prometheus
5 22 (9.36%) Grafana
6 15 (6.38%) Puppet
7 13 (5.53%) Docker Swarm
8 12 (5.11%) Kibana
8 12 (5.11%) Progress Chef
9 9 (3.83%) Podman
10 8 (3.40%) Argo
11 6 (2.55%) Istio
12 3 (1.28%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (1.28%) logstash
13 2 (0.85%) Graylog
13 2 (0.85%) Karpenter
13 2 (0.85%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.85%) Packer
13 2 (0.85%) SELinux
13 2 (0.85%) yum
Vendors
1 27 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.09%) Google
3 16 (6.81%) CyberArk
4 15 (6.38%) VMware
5 12 (5.11%) BeyondTrust
5 12 (5.11%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.40%) Splunk
7 4 (1.70%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.70%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.28%) Dell
8 3 (1.28%) Oracle
8 3 (1.28%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.28%) SAP
9 2 (0.85%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.85%) Confluent
9 2 (0.85%) Genesys
9 2 (0.85%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.85%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.43%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.43%) Palantir