LXC (LinuX Containers)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring LXC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited LXC over the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 764 726 1052
Rank change year-on-year -38 +326 +14
Permanent jobs citing LXC 2 4 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.008% 0.018%
As % of the System Software category 0.026% 0.045% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 18
10th Percentile - £37,667 £42,500
25th Percentile - £41,578 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £47,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -26.92% -16.13%
75th Percentile - £51,250 £75,000
90th Percentile - - £90,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -20.83% +9.09%

All System Software Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 7,596 8,872 18,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.95% 16.75% 15.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,463 7,069 12,536
10th Percentile £30,256 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £55,755
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -1.35% +1.37%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,647 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £49,787
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.59% +4.82%

LXC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for LXC in the UK

LXC
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LXC.

Salary trend for LXC in the UK

LXC
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LXC within the UK over the 6 months to 8 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -59 2 - - 2
UK excluding London -74 2 - -
East of England - 2 - -

LXC
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Vagrant
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CCSK
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft