LXC (LinuX Containers)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for LXC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited LXC over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 726 1050 1064
Rank change year-on-year +324 +14 -317
Permanent jobs citing LXC 4 22 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.018% 0.012%
As % of the System Software category 0.045% 0.12% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 4 18 11
10th Percentile £37,667 £42,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £41,578 £48,125 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% -16.13% +34.78%
75th Percentile £51,250 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile - £90,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% -

All System Software Skills
UK

LXC is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,872 18,743 22,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.75% 15.26% 17.64%
Number of salaries quoted 7,069 12,536 15,960
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,952 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +1.73% -
75th Percentile £72,647 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £49,787 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.59% +4.82% +5.56%

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 6 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 7 December 2023. 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 +317 4 £47,500 -26.92% 7
UK excluding London +232 4 £47,500 -20.83% 3
Work from Home +235 3 £47,500 -20.83% 3
North of England - 3 £47,500 -
North West - 3 £47,500 -
South East +140 1 £35,559 -55.55% 1

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 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) Vagrant
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) Linux Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) CentOS
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) Rocky
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
2 3 (75.00%) Go
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (25.00%) KVM
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Cacti
2 3 (75.00%) Nagios
2 3 (75.00%) ZABBIX
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) VMware