Containerisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Containerization
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 230 196
Rank change year-on-year +88 -34 -4
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 298 242 408
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.47% 1.05% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.18% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 176 295
10th Percentile £425 £450 £425
25th Percentile £463 £497 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -5.17% +22.11%
75th Percentile £650 £641 £647
90th Percentile £694 £755 £768
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £48.38 £53.46 £45.48
25th Percentile £51.56 £58.91 £46.19
Median hourly rate £58.75 £69.00 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% +41.57% +22.62%
75th Percentile £66.56 £77.38 £54.25
90th Percentile £70.13 £84.00 £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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,127 20,595 27,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.40% 89.52% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,220 18,919
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,061 1,259 1,357
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Containerisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
North of England +62 104 £520 -13.33% 45
South East +35 90 £625 +13.64% 33
Yorkshire +58 52 £520 +4.00% 22
North West +25 51 £524 -10.85% 20
South West -5 38 £550 - 38
Scotland +40 31 £516 +1.98% 14
Midlands +27 16 £450 -10.00% 27
East of England +10 15 £575 +4.55% 8
Wales +23 9 £515 +8.42% 3
West Midlands +21 7 £425 -15.00% 11
East Midlands +16 7 £473 +10.53% 16
North East +2 1 £525 -38.03% 3
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (7.72%) Apache
2 19 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (5.37%) Apache Spark
4 15 (5.03%) Confluence
5 11 (3.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (2.35%) nginx
7 3 (1.01%) Jupyter
7 3 (1.01%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.67%) Traefik
9 1 (0.34%) CMS
9 1 (0.34%) Drupal
9 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.34%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 153 (51.34%) AWS
2 112 (37.58%) Azure
3 52 (17.45%) OpenShift
4 51 (17.11%) GCP
5 41 (13.76%) Amazon S3
6 37 (12.42%) Serverless
7 35 (11.74%) GitHub
8 33 (11.07%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (6.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (5.37%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (5.03%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (5.03%) IaaS
12 15 (5.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (3.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (3.69%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (3.69%) SaaS
15 10 (3.36%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 32 (10.74%) Firewall
2 29 (9.73%) VPN
3 16 (5.37%) DNS
4 15 (5.03%) HTTP
4 15 (5.03%) TCP/IP
5 11 (3.69%) MPLS
6 9 (3.02%) BGP
6 9 (3.02%) Ethernet VPN
6 9 (3.02%) Radio Access Network
7 7 (2.35%) Network Security
8 5 (1.68%) FTP
8 5 (1.68%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.68%) SAN
9 4 (1.34%) SSL
10 3 (1.01%) BIG-IP
10 3 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 2 (0.67%) InfiniBand
11 2 (0.67%) OSPF
11 2 (0.67%) VLAN
11 2 (0.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.09%) NoSQL
2 31 (10.40%) Elasticsearch
2 31 (10.40%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (8.05%) MongoDB
4 23 (7.72%) MySQL
5 17 (5.70%) Big Data
6 15 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (4.70%) Data Lake
7 14 (4.70%) Relational Database
8 13 (4.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (4.03%) BigQuery
10 11 (3.69%) SQL Server
11 9 (3.02%) Hadoop
12 8 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (2.35%) Oracle Database
13 7 (2.35%) Power BI
13 7 (2.35%) RDBMS
14 6 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (1.68%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 83 (27.85%) GitLab
2 81 (27.18%) Jenkins
3 78 (26.17%) Git
4 41 (13.76%) JIRA
5 22 (7.38%) SonarQube
6 15 (5.03%) Cucumber
6 15 (5.03%) Selenium
7 13 (4.36%) Travis CI
8 12 (4.03%) REST Assured
9 10 (3.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (3.36%) JUnit
9 10 (3.36%) Robot Framework
10 9 (3.02%) CircleCI
10 9 (3.02%) Mockito
10 9 (3.02%) TestRail
11 8 (2.68%) Artifactory
11 8 (2.68%) webpack
12 6 (2.01%) Burp Suite
13 5 (1.68%) AppScan
14 3 (1.01%) TeamCity
General
1 63 (21.14%) Social Skills
2 37 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (9.06%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.05%) Finance
5 14 (4.70%) Banking
6 9 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.68%) Back Office
7 8 (2.68%) Law
7 8 (2.68%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.68%) Police
8 7 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.68%) Retail
10 4 (1.34%) Local Government
11 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Marketing
11 1 (0.34%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 65 (21.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (14.77%) Architect
3 36 (12.08%) Developer
4 24 (8.05%) Senior
4 24 (8.05%) Solutions Architect
5 23 (7.72%) AWS DevOps
5 23 (7.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 22 (7.38%) Site Engineer
7 20 (6.71%) AWS Engineer
7 20 (6.71%) Lead
8 17 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (5.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (4.36%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 12 (4.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.69%) AWS Architect
13 11 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
14 10 (3.36%) Automation Engineer
14 10 (3.36%) Technical Leader
15 9 (3.02%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.09%) REST
2 32 (10.74%) Kafka
3 21 (7.05%) Node.js
4 18 (6.04%) RESTful
5 17 (5.70%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (5.70%) React
5 17 (5.70%) SOAP
6 16 (5.37%) JSON
7 15 (5.03%) XML
8 13 (4.36%) ARM Templates
8 13 (4.36%) Spring Boot
9 12 (4.03%) .NET
9 12 (4.03%) GraphQL
9 12 (4.03%) Java EE
9 12 (4.03%) Spring
10 11 (3.69%) YAML
11 10 (3.36%) Middleware
12 9 (3.02%) CSS
12 9 (3.02%) HTML
12 9 (3.02%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.71%) Public Cloud
2 19 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.36%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (1.34%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.01%) Clustering
6 3 (1.01%) Smart Meter
7 2 (0.67%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.67%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.67%) IoT
7 2 (0.67%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.67%) PKI
7 2 (0.67%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.67%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.67%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.34%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.34%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 67 (22.48%) Linux
2 23 (7.72%) Unix
3 21 (7.05%) VMS
4 20 (6.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (6.04%) Windows
6 12 (4.03%) Windows Server
7 9 (3.02%) Android
7 9 (3.02%) Apple iOS
8 8 (2.68%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.01%) CentOS
10 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (58.39%) DevOps
2 149 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 110 (36.91%) Agile
3 110 (36.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (24.50%) Test Automation
5 55 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (17.11%) Microservices
7 47 (15.77%) Scrum
8 44 (14.77%) Continuous Integration
9 35 (11.74%) Configuration Management
9 35 (11.74%) Technical Leadership
10 34 (11.41%) Task Automation
11 31 (10.40%) Software Engineering
12 29 (9.73%) Migration
13 27 (9.06%) Collaborative Working
14 26 (8.72%) DevSecOps
15 24 (8.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (7.72%) API Development
16 23 (7.72%) SDLC
17 22 (7.38%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 121 (40.60%) Python
2 68 (22.82%) Java
3 59 (19.80%) Bash
4 56 (18.79%) SQL
5 34 (11.41%) PowerShell
6 21 (7.05%) JavaScript
7 14 (4.70%) Go
8 13 (4.36%) C#
9 12 (4.03%) Shell Script
10 10 (3.36%) Groovy
11 9 (3.02%) Perl
11 9 (3.02%) PHP
11 9 (3.02%) Ruby
12 8 (2.68%) Scala
13 5 (1.68%) SPARQL
14 4 (1.34%) C
15 3 (1.01%) ActionScript
15 3 (1.01%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.34%) C++
16 1 (0.34%) CQL
Qualifications
1 87 (29.19%) Security Cleared
2 78 (26.17%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.71%) Degree
4 13 (4.36%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 10 (3.36%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.67%) RHCE
6 2 (0.67%) SANS
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.34%) CCNP
7 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.34%) GIAC
7 1 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.34%) LPIC
7 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.34%) MCSE
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.40%) QA
2 4 (1.34%) GDPR
2 4 (1.34%) HIPAA
2 4 (1.34%) NCSC
3 3 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.01%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.01%) NIST
4 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
System Software
1 156 (52.35%) Docker
2 30 (10.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.02%) VMware NSX
4 9 (3.02%) vSphere
5 4 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.01%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.67%) HDFS
7 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.67%) vCloud
8 1 (0.34%) KVM
8 1 (0.34%) Lustre
8 1 (0.34%) NFS
8 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 183 (61.41%) Kubernetes
2 106 (35.57%) Terraform
3 83 (27.85%) Ansible
4 36 (12.08%) Grafana
5 34 (11.41%) Prometheus
6 27 (9.06%) Puppet
7 23 (7.72%) Docker Swarm
7 23 (7.72%) Kibana
8 20 (6.71%) Istio
9 19 (6.38%) Progress Chef
10 17 (5.70%) Argo
11 14 (4.70%) Podman
12 10 (3.36%) Packer
12 10 (3.36%) Rancher
13 9 (3.02%) logstash
14 8 (2.68%) HP Fortify
14 8 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (2.35%) vRealize
16 6 (2.01%) Graylog
17 5 (1.68%) Nessus
Vendors
1 39 (13.09%) VMware
2 28 (9.40%) Microsoft
3 25 (8.39%) Google
4 23 (7.72%) Splunk
5 14 (4.70%) Oracle
6 10 (3.36%) Atlassian
7 9 (3.02%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.68%) CA
9 6 (2.01%) Checkmarx
10 5 (1.68%) Arqiva
10 5 (1.68%) Informatica
10 5 (1.68%) Talend
10 5 (1.68%) Veracode
10 5 (1.68%) Veritas
11 4 (1.34%) CyberArk
12 3 (1.01%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.01%) F5
12 3 (1.01%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.67%) Fortinet
13 2 (0.67%) Juniper