Containerisation Contracts in England

Containerization
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 160 161
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 566 779 1,224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.55% 1.62% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 1.80% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 583 888
10th Percentile £425 £463 £450
25th Percentile £484 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +11.63%
75th Percentile £650 £743 £700
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 5
10th Percentile £48.38 £54.83 £45.48
25th Percentile £51.56 £62.97 £46.19
Median hourly rate £58.75 £72.00 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -18.40% +47.72% +21.85%
75th Percentile £66.56 £81.00 £54.25
90th Percentile £70.13 £93.75 £56.20
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £71.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -1.41% +37.88% +21.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,491 43,355 63,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.40% 90.10% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,622 30,435 45,445
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,535 1,743
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in England.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Containerisation in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -31 279 £588 -9.62% 210
North of England +66 104 £520 -13.33% 54
South East +41 92 £625 +13.64% 64
Yorkshire +57 52 £520 +4.00% 25
North West +23 51 £524 -10.85% 25
South West -10 40 £550 - 38
Midlands +30 16 £450 -10.00% 27
East of England +10 15 £575 +4.55% 13
West Midlands +20 7 £425 -15.00% 11
East Midlands +16 7 £473 +10.53% 16
North East +6 1 £525 -38.03% 4
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 29 (5.12%) Apache
2 26 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.71%) Apache Spark
4 19 (3.36%) Confluence
5 12 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.77%) nginx
7 9 (1.59%) OpenStack
8 7 (1.24%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.71%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.71%) Luigi
10 3 (0.53%) WordPress
11 2 (0.35%) CMS
11 2 (0.35%) Drupal
11 2 (0.35%) Traefik
11 2 (0.35%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Endur
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 298 (52.65%) AWS
2 201 (35.51%) Azure
3 123 (21.73%) GCP
4 68 (12.01%) Amazon S3
4 68 (12.01%) Serverless
5 59 (10.42%) OpenShift
6 56 (9.89%) GitHub
7 50 (8.83%) Amazon EC2
8 41 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 32 (5.65%) Amazon EKS
11 31 (5.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 30 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (4.24%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (3.89%) Cloud Computing
15 19 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (3.00%) SaaS
17 15 (2.65%) IaaS
17 15 (2.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.89%) Firewall
2 38 (6.71%) VPN
3 20 (3.53%) HTTP
3 20 (3.53%) TCP/IP
4 18 (3.18%) DNS
5 13 (2.30%) MPLS
6 11 (1.94%) Network Security
6 11 (1.94%) Radio Access Network
7 10 (1.77%) BGP
7 10 (1.77%) Ethernet VPN
8 7 (1.24%) SAN
9 5 (0.88%) DHCP
9 5 (0.88%) FTP
9 5 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.88%) SSL
10 4 (0.71%) InfiniBand
11 3 (0.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 3 (0.53%) Intranet
11 3 (0.53%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (12.72%) NoSQL
2 48 (8.48%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (6.01%) MongoDB
4 31 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
4 31 (5.48%) Relational Database
5 30 (5.30%) MySQL
6 28 (4.95%) SQL Server
7 24 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (3.53%) Big Data
9 18 (3.18%) Data Lake
10 17 (3.00%) BigQuery
11 16 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (2.65%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (2.65%) Hadoop
13 14 (2.47%) RDBMS
14 10 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (1.77%) DynamoDB
15 9 (1.59%) Power BI
16 7 (1.24%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 152 (26.86%) Git
2 129 (22.79%) GitLab
2 129 (22.79%) Jenkins
3 51 (9.01%) JIRA
4 35 (6.18%) Cucumber
5 24 (4.24%) SonarQube
6 18 (3.18%) TeamCity
7 17 (3.00%) JUnit
7 17 (3.00%) Selenium
8 14 (2.47%) Mockito
8 14 (2.47%) REST Assured
9 13 (2.30%) Travis CI
10 12 (2.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 12 (2.12%) TestRail
11 11 (1.94%) CircleCI
11 11 (1.94%) NUnit
11 11 (1.94%) Robot Framework
12 10 (1.77%) Moq
13 9 (1.59%) Artifactory
13 9 (1.59%) webpack
General
1 140 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 75 (13.25%) Finance
3 55 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.60%) Public Sector
5 28 (4.95%) Banking
6 15 (2.65%) Front Office
7 13 (2.30%) Telecoms
8 11 (1.94%) Retail
9 9 (1.59%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (1.41%) Law
10 8 (1.41%) Police
11 7 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.71%) Back Office
13 4 (0.71%) Local Government
13 4 (0.71%) Marketing
13 4 (0.71%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 116 (20.49%) Developer
2 101 (17.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 89 (15.72%) Architect
4 67 (11.84%) Senior
5 48 (8.48%) Solutions Architect
6 38 (6.71%) Lead
7 37 (6.54%) AWS Engineer
8 34 (6.01%) AWS DevOps
9 31 (5.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 29 (5.12%) Site Engineer
11 26 (4.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 26 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
12 25 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
12 25 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
13 24 (4.24%) Senior Developer
14 22 (3.89%) Java Developer
15 20 (3.53%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 20 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 17 (3.00%) C# Developer
16 17 (3.00%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (11.66%) Kafka
2 55 (9.72%) REST
3 49 (8.66%) .NET
4 41 (7.24%) React
5 39 (6.89%) Node.js
6 34 (6.01%) Elastic Stack
6 34 (6.01%) RESTful
7 26 (4.59%) Spring Boot
8 25 (4.42%) Spring
9 24 (4.24%) HTML
10 20 (3.53%) .NET Core
10 20 (3.53%) JSON
11 18 (3.18%) CSS
12 17 (3.00%) XML
13 16 (2.83%) YAML
14 15 (2.65%) Middleware
15 14 (2.47%) ARM Templates
15 14 (2.47%) GraphQL
16 12 (2.12%) SignalR
16 12 (2.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.18%) Public Cloud
2 31 (5.48%) Cloud Native
3 16 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.77%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.41%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.41%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.06%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.06%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.06%) Market Risk
10 6 (1.06%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.88%) Credit Risk
11 5 (0.88%) Derivative
11 5 (0.88%) PKI
11 5 (0.88%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.71%) Credit Derivative
12 4 (0.71%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 123 (21.73%) Linux
2 26 (4.59%) Unix
3 25 (4.42%) Windows
4 21 (3.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.18%) VMS
6 14 (2.47%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.77%) Apple iOS
8 9 (1.59%) Android
9 5 (0.88%) CentOS
10 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (53.36%) DevOps
2 297 (52.47%) CI/CD
3 186 (32.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 172 (30.39%) Agile
5 139 (24.56%) Microservices
6 134 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
7 120 (21.20%) Test Automation
8 94 (16.61%) Continuous Integration
9 59 (10.42%) Scrum
10 56 (9.89%) Software Engineering
11 52 (9.19%) DevSecOps
12 48 (8.48%) Configuration Management
13 45 (7.95%) Migration
14 44 (7.77%) Collaborative Working
14 44 (7.77%) Computer Science
15 42 (7.42%) Technical Leadership
16 41 (7.24%) API Development
17 36 (6.36%) Cloud Security
18 35 (6.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 35 (6.18%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 230 (40.64%) Python
2 127 (22.44%) Java
3 107 (18.90%) SQL
4 97 (17.14%) Bash
5 63 (11.13%) JavaScript
6 57 (10.07%) PowerShell
7 43 (7.60%) C#
8 27 (4.77%) Go
9 25 (4.42%) Shell Script
10 23 (4.06%) Scala
11 18 (3.18%) Ruby
11 18 (3.18%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.59%) Groovy
13 8 (1.41%) Bicep
14 7 (1.24%) C
14 7 (1.24%) Perl
14 7 (1.24%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.88%) PHP
16 4 (0.71%) C++
17 3 (0.53%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 162 (28.62%) Security Cleared
2 134 (23.67%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.48%) Degree
4 37 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (4.59%) DV Cleared
6 21 (3.71%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.35%) CISSP
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.35%) RHCE
11 2 (0.35%) SANS
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.18%) QA
2 8 (1.41%) NCSC
3 7 (1.24%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.06%) NIST
5 4 (0.71%) GDPR
5 4 (0.71%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.53%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.18%) SLA
8 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 331 (58.48%) Docker
2 28 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.71%) Active Directory
4 20 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.59%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.59%) vSphere
6 7 (1.24%) Firmware
7 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.71%) KVM
7 4 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.35%) HDFS
9 2 (0.35%) NFS
9 2 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.35%) vCloud
10 1 (0.18%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.18%) Ceph
10 1 (0.18%) Lustre
10 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 336 (59.36%) Kubernetes
2 203 (35.87%) Terraform
3 137 (24.20%) Ansible
4 53 (9.36%) Prometheus
5 49 (8.66%) Puppet
6 47 (8.30%) Grafana
7 35 (6.18%) Progress Chef
8 25 (4.42%) Docker Swarm
8 25 (4.42%) Istio
9 20 (3.53%) Kibana
10 16 (2.83%) Packer
11 15 (2.65%) Podman
12 13 (2.30%) Argo
13 11 (1.94%) Rancher
14 9 (1.59%) logstash
14 9 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (1.41%) HP Fortify
16 7 (1.24%) Graylog
16 7 (1.24%) vRealize
17 5 (0.88%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 67 (11.84%) Google
2 65 (11.48%) Microsoft
3 38 (6.71%) VMware
4 29 (5.12%) Splunk
5 26 (4.59%) Oracle
6 12 (2.12%) CyberArk
6 12 (2.12%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.77%) TIBCO
8 8 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
8 8 (1.41%) CA
8 8 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.41%) Talend
9 7 (1.24%) Databricks
9 7 (1.24%) Dell
9 7 (1.24%) IBM
9 7 (1.24%) Informatica
10 6 (1.06%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.88%) Checkmarx
11 5 (0.88%) SAP
11 5 (0.88%) Veritas