Containerisation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Containerization
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 147 173 167
Rank change year-on-year +26 -6 -35
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 221 371 728
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.49% 1.51% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.68% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 279 557
10th Percentile £405 £463 £425
25th Percentile £485 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +2.13% +17.50%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £675
90th Percentile £688 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £66.90 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £68.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £71.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +5.97% +48.89%
75th Percentile £72.50 £87.00 -
90th Percentile - £96.30 -
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,003 22,075 40,116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.68% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,720 15,632 29,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 503 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.68 £20.43
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +35.21% +61.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Containerisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Containerisation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Containerisation.

Containerisation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Containerisation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Containerisation.

Containerisation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (3.17%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.71%) Apache
3 5 (2.26%) Confluence
3 5 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.26%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.81%) Luigi
5 3 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.36%) CMS
5 3 (1.36%) WordPress
6 2 (0.90%) Drupal
6 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.90%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.45%) nginx
7 1 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Endur
2 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 146 (66.06%) AWS
2 104 (47.06%) Azure
3 50 (22.62%) GCP
4 28 (12.67%) OpenShift
5 27 (12.22%) GitHub
5 27 (12.22%) Serverless
6 22 (9.95%) Amazon S3
7 20 (9.05%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (8.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (8.14%) SaaS
9 17 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (7.24%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (7.24%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (7.24%) IaaS
11 14 (6.33%) PaaS
12 13 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (5.43%) AWS Fargate
14 11 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (4.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.52%) Firewall
2 8 (3.62%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.17%) HTTP
3 7 (3.17%) Network Security
3 7 (3.17%) VPN
4 4 (1.81%) DNS
4 4 (1.81%) SAN
5 3 (1.36%) Intranet
6 2 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.90%) SSL
7 1 (0.45%) 5G
7 1 (0.45%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.45%) DHCP
7 1 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.45%) LTE
7 1 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.24%) NoSQL
2 15 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (4.98%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.52%) MySQL
6 7 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (2.71%) Big Data
7 6 (2.71%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.71%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.71%) Hadoop
7 6 (2.71%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.81%) InfluxDB
8 4 (1.81%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.36%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (1.36%) DB2
9 3 (1.36%) Triplestore
10 2 (0.90%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 49 (22.17%) Jenkins
2 46 (20.81%) Git
3 45 (20.36%) GitLab
4 20 (9.05%) SonarQube
5 16 (7.24%) JIRA
6 11 (4.98%) Cucumber
7 9 (4.07%) Selenium
8 8 (3.62%) REST Assured
9 7 (3.17%) Artifactory
10 6 (2.71%) Travis CI
11 5 (2.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (1.36%) CircleCI
12 3 (1.36%) Maven
12 3 (1.36%) PHPUnit
12 3 (1.36%) webpack
13 2 (0.90%) Burp Suite
13 2 (0.90%) JUnit
13 2 (0.90%) Pylint
14 1 (0.45%) JMeter
14 1 (0.45%) LoadRunner
General
1 66 (29.86%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.48%) Public Sector
3 24 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.50%) Finance
5 12 (5.43%) Banking
6 7 (3.17%) Law
6 7 (3.17%) Police
7 6 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.26%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.81%) Back Office
9 4 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.36%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.36%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.36%) Retail
10 3 (1.36%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.90%) Electronics
11 2 (0.90%) Front Office
11 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.90%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (22.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (19.46%) Architect
3 38 (17.19%) Developer
4 30 (13.57%) Solutions Architect
5 27 (12.22%) Senior
6 18 (8.14%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (6.79%) AWS DevOps
7 15 (6.79%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (6.33%) Lead
9 13 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.98%) Software Engineer
11 10 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.52%) Python Engineer
12 9 (4.07%) Java Engineer
12 9 (4.07%) Senior Developer
13 8 (3.62%) Consultant
13 8 (3.62%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (3.62%) Senior DevOps
14 7 (3.17%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.22%) REST
2 20 (9.05%) ARM Templates
3 19 (8.60%) Kafka
4 16 (7.24%) .NET
4 16 (7.24%) React
5 13 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (5.88%) HTML
6 12 (5.43%) Node.js
6 12 (5.43%) SailPoint
7 11 (4.98%) CSS
8 10 (4.52%) Azure Blueprints
8 10 (4.52%) RESTful
9 8 (3.62%) Java EE
10 7 (3.17%) GraphQL
10 7 (3.17%) Middleware
11 5 (2.26%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.26%) JSON
11 5 (2.26%) Laravel
11 5 (2.26%) Pandas
11 5 (2.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.98%) Management Information System
1 11 (4.98%) Onboarding
1 11 (4.98%) Public Cloud
2 7 (3.17%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.71%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.26%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.26%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.81%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.45%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.45%) Genomics
8 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (20.36%) Linux
2 10 (4.52%) Windows
3 7 (3.17%) Unix
4 5 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.26%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.81%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.36%) Android
6 3 (1.36%) VMS
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.90%) CentOS
8 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (66.52%) DevOps
2 116 (52.49%) CI/CD
3 73 (33.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (28.96%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (22.17%) Agile
6 47 (21.27%) Test Automation
7 41 (18.55%) Continuous Integration
8 35 (15.84%) Microservices
8 35 (15.84%) Software Engineering
9 31 (14.03%) Migration
10 28 (12.67%) Deployment Automation
11 22 (9.95%) DevSecOps
12 19 (8.60%) Cloud Security
13 18 (8.14%) Application Security
13 18 (8.14%) Configuration Management
13 18 (8.14%) High Availability
13 18 (8.14%) Project Management
13 18 (8.14%) SDLC
14 17 (7.69%) Architectural Design
14 17 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 84 (38.01%) Python
2 47 (21.27%) Java
3 33 (14.93%) Bash
4 30 (13.57%) SQL
5 26 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 19 (8.60%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.43%) PHP
8 11 (4.98%) C#
9 10 (4.52%) Perl
10 7 (3.17%) Scala
11 6 (2.71%) Bicep
11 6 (2.71%) Go
11 6 (2.71%) Groovy
11 6 (2.71%) Ruby
11 6 (2.71%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.71%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.36%) C
12 3 (1.36%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.45%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 54 (24.43%) Security Cleared
2 49 (22.17%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.24%) Degree
4 15 (6.79%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.71%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (2.26%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.81%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.90%) SANS
12 1 (0.45%) CCNP
12 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.45%) MCSE
12 1 (0.45%) PhD
12 1 (0.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.88%) NCSC
2 11 (4.98%) QA
3 5 (2.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.90%) GDPR
4 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.90%) NIST
5 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) JSP 440
System Software
1 135 (61.09%) Docker
2 13 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.17%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.81%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.81%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 127 (57.47%) Kubernetes
2 94 (42.53%) Terraform
3 59 (26.70%) Ansible
4 19 (8.60%) Prometheus
5 18 (8.14%) Grafana
6 14 (6.33%) Puppet
7 13 (5.88%) Docker Swarm
8 12 (5.43%) Progress Chef
9 11 (4.98%) Kibana
10 8 (3.62%) Podman
11 6 (2.71%) Argo
12 5 (2.26%) Istio
13 3 (1.36%) Dell DRAC
13 3 (1.36%) logstash
14 2 (0.90%) Graylog
14 2 (0.90%) Kustomize
15 1 (0.45%) Kiali
15 1 (0.45%) Knative
15 1 (0.45%) Salt
15 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (10.41%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.95%) Google
3 16 (7.24%) CyberArk
4 15 (6.79%) VMware
5 12 (5.43%) BeyondTrust
5 12 (5.43%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.17%) Splunk
7 4 (1.81%) Oracle
8 3 (1.36%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.36%) Dell
8 3 (1.36%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.36%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.36%) SAP
9 2 (0.90%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.90%) Confluent
9 2 (0.90%) Genesys
9 2 (0.90%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.45%) CA
10 1 (0.45%) Databricks
10 1 (0.45%) Informatica