Containerisation Contracts

Containerization
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 161 172
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 -16
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 656 985 1,491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.51% 1.66% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.85% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 738 1,061
10th Percentile £413 £463 £450
25th Percentile £496 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £695
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £558 £575
% change year-on-year -1.35% -3.04% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 7
10th Percentile £52.63 £55.51 £45.71
25th Percentile £62.19 £65.00 £47.46
Median hourly rate £70.00 £71.00 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +30.88% +21.91%
75th Percentile £72.50 £78.00 £62.25
90th Percentile - £92.50 £68.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £69.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -14.86% +33.99% +28.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
England -5 540 £575 -8.00% 327
London -41 286 £600 -7.69% 158
UK excluding London +68 278 £550 -1.35% 176
Work from Home +4 209 £550 -8.33% 178
North of England +42 85 £537 -10.58% 47
South East +28 85 £625 +13.64% 36
North West +17 51 £537 -8.68% 22
Yorkshire +47 33 £550 +10.00% 24
Scotland +46 33 £516 -1.67% 12
South West -3 31 £550 - 31
East of England +17 17 £513 -28.07% 12
Midlands +29 16 £448 -10.50% 32
Wales +30 14 £515 +8.42% 3
East Midlands +24 7 £473 +10.53% 15
West Midlands +20 7 £375 -25.00% 17
North East +6 1 £525 -37.14% 2

Containerisation
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:

Application Platforms
1 30 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.96%) Apache
3 18 (2.74%) Confluence
4 17 (2.59%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.52%) nginx
7 8 (1.22%) OpenStack
7 8 (1.22%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.76%) Luigi
9 3 (0.46%) CMS
9 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.46%) WordPress
10 2 (0.30%) Drupal
10 2 (0.30%) Traefik
10 2 (0.30%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.76%) Endur
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.15%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 346 (52.74%) AWS
2 230 (35.06%) Azure
3 137 (20.88%) GCP
4 84 (12.80%) Serverless
5 75 (11.43%) GitHub
6 74 (11.28%) Amazon S3
7 64 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
8 63 (9.60%) OpenShift
9 57 (8.69%) AWS Lambda
10 44 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (6.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 43 (6.55%) GitHub Actions
12 42 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (5.49%) SaaS
14 35 (5.34%) IaaS
15 34 (5.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 28 (4.27%) Amazon SQS
17 24 (3.66%) PaaS
18 23 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
19 22 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.34%) Firewall
1 35 (5.34%) VPN
2 21 (3.20%) TCP/IP
3 19 (2.90%) DNS
4 13 (1.98%) MPLS
5 12 (1.83%) BGP
5 12 (1.83%) Ethernet VPN
5 12 (1.83%) Network Security
5 12 (1.83%) Radio Access Network
6 11 (1.68%) HTTP
7 7 (1.07%) SAN
8 5 (0.76%) DHCP
8 5 (0.76%) FTP
9 4 (0.61%) InfiniBand
10 3 (0.46%) Intranet
11 2 (0.30%) IPv4
11 2 (0.30%) NAS
11 2 (0.30%) OSPF
11 2 (0.30%) SSL
11 2 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (11.59%) NoSQL
2 57 (8.69%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (7.01%) MySQL
4 38 (5.79%) MongoDB
5 37 (5.64%) Relational Database
6 35 (5.34%) Elasticsearch
7 32 (4.88%) SQL Server
8 23 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (2.29%) Big Data
9 15 (2.29%) Data Lake
9 15 (2.29%) RDBMS
10 14 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
11 13 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (1.83%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.83%) DynamoDB
13 11 (1.68%) Power BI
14 9 (1.37%) Hadoop
15 8 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 150 (22.87%) Git
2 140 (21.34%) Jenkins
3 132 (20.12%) GitLab
4 60 (9.15%) JIRA
5 37 (5.64%) Cucumber
6 36 (5.49%) SonarQube
7 19 (2.90%) JUnit
8 18 (2.74%) Selenium
9 17 (2.59%) Maven
10 16 (2.44%) TeamCity
11 14 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 14 (2.13%) Mockito
11 14 (2.13%) NUnit
11 14 (2.13%) REST Assured
11 14 (2.13%) TestRail
12 13 (1.98%) Artifactory
12 13 (1.98%) Robot Framework
13 12 (1.83%) Moq
14 10 (1.52%) Travis CI
15 9 (1.37%) CircleCI
General
1 159 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 80 (12.20%) Finance
3 60 (9.15%) Public Sector
4 44 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.57%) Banking
6 17 (2.59%) Front Office
7 16 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 14 (2.13%) Retail
9 13 (1.98%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.83%) Back Office
11 11 (1.68%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.68%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.22%) Law
12 8 (1.22%) Police
13 6 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.91%) Marketing
14 4 (0.61%) Local Government
14 4 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 140 (21.34%) Developer
2 111 (16.92%) Architect
3 106 (16.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 65 (9.91%) Senior
5 56 (8.54%) Solutions Architect
6 52 (7.93%) AWS Engineer
7 43 (6.55%) Lead
8 42 (6.40%) AWS DevOps
9 34 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
10 33 (5.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 31 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
12 29 (4.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 28 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
14 26 (3.96%) Site Engineer
15 24 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 24 (3.66%) Java Developer
16 23 (3.51%) Senior Developer
17 22 (3.35%) Cloud Architect
17 22 (3.35%) Technical Architect
18 20 (3.05%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (9.30%) REST
2 50 (7.62%) Node.js
3 48 (7.32%) .NET
4 47 (7.16%) Kafka
5 43 (6.55%) React
6 39 (5.95%) RESTful
7 38 (5.79%) Elastic Stack
8 28 (4.27%) ARM Templates
8 28 (4.27%) Spring Boot
9 27 (4.12%) Spring
10 25 (3.81%) Middleware
11 24 (3.66%) .NET Core
11 24 (3.66%) HTML
12 21 (3.20%) SOAP
13 20 (3.05%) JSON
14 19 (2.90%) CSS
15 18 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
15 18 (2.74%) SailPoint
16 17 (2.59%) AWS CDK
17 14 (2.13%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.10%) Public Cloud
2 28 (4.27%) Cloud Native
3 19 (2.90%) Onboarding
4 18 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (1.83%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 10 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.37%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.22%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.07%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.07%) Distributed Applications
10 7 (1.07%) Product Ownership
11 6 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.91%) Mainframe
11 6 (0.91%) Market Risk
11 6 (0.91%) PKI
11 6 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 139 (21.19%) Linux
2 33 (5.03%) Windows
3 31 (4.73%) Unix
4 25 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (3.35%) VMS
6 14 (2.13%) Windows Server
7 12 (1.83%) Apple iOS
8 11 (1.68%) Android
9 8 (1.22%) Ubuntu
10 7 (1.07%) CentOS
11 2 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (51.22%) DevOps
2 320 (48.78%) CI/CD
3 212 (32.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 206 (31.40%) Agile
5 147 (22.41%) Microservices
6 139 (21.19%) Test Automation
7 135 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
8 101 (15.40%) Continuous Integration
9 81 (12.35%) Migration
10 74 (11.28%) Scrum
11 73 (11.13%) Software Engineering
12 57 (8.69%) DevSecOps
13 54 (8.23%) Configuration Management
14 48 (7.32%) Cloud Security
14 48 (7.32%) Deployment Automation
15 47 (7.16%) Project Management
16 43 (6.55%) High Availability
17 41 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
17 41 (6.25%) OO
18 40 (6.10%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 247 (37.65%) Python
2 133 (20.27%) Java
3 116 (17.68%) SQL
4 111 (16.92%) Bash
5 63 (9.60%) JavaScript
6 57 (8.69%) PowerShell
7 44 (6.71%) C#
8 29 (4.42%) Go
9 23 (3.51%) PHP
10 22 (3.35%) Scala
11 18 (2.74%) Ruby
11 18 (2.74%) TypeScript
12 17 (2.59%) Perl
12 17 (2.59%) Shell Script
13 14 (2.13%) Groovy
14 9 (1.37%) Bicep
15 7 (1.07%) C
16 4 (0.61%) C++
17 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 174 (26.52%) Security Cleared
2 146 (22.26%) SC Cleared
3 54 (8.23%) Degree
4 32 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (4.27%) AWS Certification
6 24 (3.66%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.68%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.61%) SANS
11 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.30%) CISSP
12 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.30%) RHCE
13 1 (0.15%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.79%) QA
2 18 (2.74%) NCSC
3 11 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.91%) NIST
5 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.61%) WCAG
6 3 (0.46%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.46%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 356 (54.27%) Docker
2 37 (5.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.52%) vSphere
5 9 (1.37%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.07%) Firmware
7 4 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.61%) KVM
7 4 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.30%) HDFS
9 2 (0.30%) NFS
9 2 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.30%) vCloud
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.15%) Ceph
10 1 (0.15%) Lustre
10 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 357 (54.42%) Kubernetes
2 231 (35.21%) Terraform
3 154 (23.48%) Ansible
4 53 (8.08%) Grafana
4 53 (8.08%) Prometheus
5 49 (7.47%) Puppet
6 32 (4.88%) Progress Chef
7 23 (3.51%) Docker Swarm
8 21 (3.20%) Istio
9 20 (3.05%) Argo
10 19 (2.90%) Kibana
11 17 (2.59%) Packer
12 14 (2.13%) Graylog
12 14 (2.13%) Podman
13 10 (1.52%) Nagios
14 9 (1.37%) HP Fortify
14 9 (1.37%) Rancher
14 9 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (1.07%) vRealize
15 7 (1.07%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 66 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 58 (8.84%) Google
3 45 (6.86%) VMware
4 35 (5.34%) Splunk
5 32 (4.88%) Oracle
6 22 (3.35%) CyberArk
7 18 (2.74%) Atlassian
7 18 (2.74%) BeyondTrust
7 18 (2.74%) ServiceNow
8 15 (2.29%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.83%) SAP
9 12 (1.83%) TIBCO
10 9 (1.37%) Databricks
11 8 (1.22%) CA
11 8 (1.22%) Talend
12 7 (1.07%) Checkmarx
12 7 (1.07%) Dell
13 6 (0.91%) Informatica
13 6 (0.91%) Veracode
14 5 (0.76%) Veritas