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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 169 176
Rank change year-on-year +20 +7 -16
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 713 866 1,405
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.65% 1.56% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.74% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 641 1,017
10th Percentile £400 £463 £463
25th Percentile £478 £513 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £706
90th Percentile £719 £800 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 6
10th Percentile £52.63 £63.38 £46.87
25th Percentile £62.19 £66.00 £50.12
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.00 £55.88
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +30.65% +24.86%
75th Percentile £72.50 £78.00 £59.38
90th Percentile - £90.00 £63.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £78.00 £54.25
% change year-on-year -24.68% +43.78% +37.34%

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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +22 610 £550 -12.00% 337
UK excluding London +82 321 £550 -6.38% 188
London -19 305 £575 -11.54% 158
Work from Home +30 227 £543 -9.50% 195
North of England +80 116 £510 -15.00% 51
South East +42 93 £625 +13.64% 42
Yorkshire +61 65 £507 -16.20% 18
North West +26 50 £523 -11.06% 29
South West +1 42 £550 - 39
Scotland +43 30 £516 +3.25% 13
Midlands +29 22 £475 -5.00% 25
East of England 0 14 £600 +4.80% 17
West Midlands +13 10 £450 -10.00% 8
Wales +26 9 £515 -8.44% 1
East Midlands +15 8 £445 -7.29% 17
North East +5 1 £525 -38.09% 5

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 28 (3.93%) Confluence
2 26 (3.65%) Apache
3 24 (3.37%) Apache Spark
4 23 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.26%) nginx
6 9 (1.26%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.84%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.70%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.56%) Luigi
10 2 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.28%) WordPress
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.14%) Drupal
11 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 15 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.70%) Endur
2 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.14%) Maximo
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 389 (54.56%) AWS
2 274 (38.43%) Azure
3 154 (21.60%) GCP
4 91 (12.76%) Serverless
5 81 (11.36%) Amazon S3
6 80 (11.22%) GitHub
7 75 (10.52%) OpenShift
8 63 (8.84%) Amazon EC2
9 61 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (7.99%) AWS Lambda
11 45 (6.31%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (5.05%) Cloud Computing
14 36 (5.05%) SaaS
15 35 (4.91%) IaaS
16 32 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 30 (4.21%) Amazon SQS
18 28 (3.93%) PaaS
19 26 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (5.75%) Firewall
2 36 (5.05%) VPN
3 23 (3.23%) TCP/IP
4 20 (2.81%) DNS
5 19 (2.66%) HTTP
6 10 (1.40%) MPLS
6 10 (1.40%) Network Security
7 8 (1.12%) Radio Access Network
8 7 (0.98%) BGP
8 7 (0.98%) Ethernet VPN
8 7 (0.98%) SAN
9 5 (0.70%) DHCP
9 5 (0.70%) FTP
9 5 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.56%) InfiniBand
10 4 (0.56%) SSL
11 3 (0.42%) BIG-IP
11 3 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 3 (0.42%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (10.24%) NoSQL
2 59 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (6.03%) MySQL
4 41 (5.75%) Relational Database
5 39 (5.47%) Elasticsearch
6 33 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
7 32 (4.49%) MongoDB
8 31 (4.35%) SQL Server
9 22 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (2.95%) Big Data
10 21 (2.95%) BigQuery
11 19 (2.66%) Data Lake
12 17 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (2.38%) Hadoop
13 16 (2.24%) RDBMS
14 15 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
14 15 (2.10%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (1.68%) DynamoDB
16 7 (0.98%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.98%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 180 (25.25%) Git
2 163 (22.86%) Jenkins
3 149 (20.90%) GitLab
4 58 (8.13%) JIRA
5 37 (5.19%) SonarQube
6 32 (4.49%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.81%) JUnit
8 18 (2.52%) TeamCity
9 17 (2.38%) Artifactory
9 17 (2.38%) Selenium
10 14 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 14 (1.96%) Mockito
11 13 (1.82%) CircleCI
11 13 (1.82%) Maven
11 13 (1.82%) Travis CI
12 12 (1.68%) REST Assured
13 11 (1.54%) NUnit
14 10 (1.40%) Bitbucket
14 10 (1.40%) Moq
15 9 (1.26%) TestRail
General
1 193 (27.07%) Social Skills
2 81 (11.36%) Finance
3 60 (8.42%) Public Sector
4 59 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (5.19%) Banking
6 16 (2.24%) Retail
7 15 (2.10%) Front Office
8 14 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.82%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.68%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.54%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.40%) Back Office
13 8 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.12%) Law
13 8 (1.12%) Police
14 5 (0.70%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
15 4 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 139 (19.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 131 (18.37%) Developer
3 122 (17.11%) Architect
4 81 (11.36%) Senior
5 62 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
6 55 (7.71%) AWS Engineer
7 49 (6.87%) AWS DevOps
8 43 (6.03%) Lead
9 42 (5.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 39 (5.47%) Platform Engineer
11 34 (4.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 31 (4.35%) Site Engineer
13 28 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
13 28 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
14 27 (3.79%) Java Developer
15 26 (3.65%) Senior Developer
15 26 (3.65%) Technical Architect
16 25 (3.51%) Python Developer
17 22 (3.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 21 (2.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (10.38%) Kafka
2 60 (8.42%) REST
3 50 (7.01%) RESTful
4 49 (6.87%) React
5 47 (6.59%) .NET
6 44 (6.17%) Node.js
7 42 (5.89%) Elastic Stack
8 33 (4.63%) ARM Templates
9 29 (4.07%) HTML
9 29 (4.07%) Spring Boot
10 27 (3.79%) Spring
11 23 (3.23%) CSS
12 21 (2.95%) JSON
12 21 (2.95%) Middleware
13 20 (2.81%) .NET Core
13 20 (2.81%) AWS CDK
13 20 (2.81%) YAML
14 19 (2.66%) SOAP
14 19 (2.66%) XML
15 18 (2.52%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.03%) Public Cloud
2 32 (4.49%) Cloud Native
3 20 (2.81%) Onboarding
4 16 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (1.82%) Data Structures
7 12 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.68%) Management Information System
7 12 (1.68%) Security Posture
8 10 (1.40%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.12%) Fixed Income
10 6 (0.84%) Algorithms
10 6 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.84%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.84%) Reference Data
11 5 (0.70%) Credit Risk
11 5 (0.70%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.70%) Derivative
11 5 (0.70%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 150 (21.04%) Linux
2 31 (4.35%) Unix
2 31 (4.35%) Windows
3 30 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (3.23%) VMS
5 16 (2.24%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.40%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.26%) Android
8 7 (0.98%) CentOS
8 7 (0.98%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (56.94%) DevOps
2 372 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 253 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 201 (28.19%) Agile
5 162 (22.72%) Problem-Solving
6 160 (22.44%) Microservices
7 139 (19.50%) Test Automation
8 99 (13.88%) Continuous Integration
9 78 (10.94%) Migration
10 73 (10.24%) Software Engineering
11 66 (9.26%) Configuration Management
12 65 (9.12%) Scrum
13 63 (8.84%) DevSecOps
14 56 (7.85%) High Availability
15 51 (7.15%) Deployment Automation
16 50 (7.01%) Cloud Security
17 49 (6.87%) Computer Science
18 47 (6.59%) API Development
18 47 (6.59%) Project Management
18 47 (6.59%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 268 (37.59%) Python
2 152 (21.32%) Java
3 115 (16.13%) Bash
4 113 (15.85%) SQL
5 73 (10.24%) JavaScript
6 66 (9.26%) PowerShell
7 43 (6.03%) C#
8 31 (4.35%) Shell Script
9 29 (4.07%) Go
10 26 (3.65%) Scala
11 20 (2.81%) TypeScript
12 19 (2.66%) PHP
13 18 (2.52%) Groovy
14 16 (2.24%) Ruby
15 15 (2.10%) Perl
16 9 (1.26%) Bicep
17 8 (1.12%) C
18 7 (0.98%) SPARQL
19 6 (0.84%) C++
20 3 (0.42%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 200 (28.05%) Security Cleared
2 171 (23.98%) SC Cleared
3 60 (8.42%) Degree
4 43 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (4.77%) AWS Certification
6 31 (4.35%) DV Cleared
7 24 (3.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 20 (2.81%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.70%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (0.42%) RHCE
11 3 (0.42%) SANS
12 2 (0.28%) CISSP
12 2 (0.28%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.14%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.33%) QA
2 17 (2.38%) NCSC
3 7 (0.98%) GDPR
4 6 (0.84%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.84%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.56%) NIST
6 3 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.42%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.14%) SLA
7 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 411 (57.64%) Docker
2 33 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (3.93%) Active Directory
4 21 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.68%) Firmware
6 9 (1.26%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.12%) vSphere
8 5 (0.70%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.56%) KVM
9 4 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.28%) HDFS
11 2 (0.28%) NFS
11 2 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.28%) vCloud
12 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
12 1 (0.14%) Ceph
12 1 (0.14%) Lustre
12 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 413 (57.92%) Kubernetes
2 276 (38.71%) Terraform
3 170 (23.84%) Ansible
4 62 (8.70%) Grafana
5 61 (8.56%) Prometheus
6 51 (7.15%) Puppet
7 37 (5.19%) Progress Chef
8 26 (3.65%) Kibana
9 25 (3.51%) Docker Swarm
10 24 (3.37%) Istio
11 20 (2.81%) Argo
12 17 (2.38%) Packer
13 15 (2.10%) Podman
14 11 (1.54%) Rancher
15 10 (1.40%) Graylog
16 9 (1.26%) HP Fortify
16 9 (1.26%) logstash
16 9 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
17 7 (0.98%) vRealize
18 6 (0.84%) Nessus
Vendors
1 84 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 79 (11.08%) Google
3 43 (6.03%) VMware
4 32 (4.49%) Splunk
5 30 (4.21%) Oracle
6 22 (3.09%) CyberArk
7 19 (2.66%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.52%) Atlassian
8 18 (2.52%) BeyondTrust
9 16 (2.24%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.40%) SAP
10 10 (1.40%) TIBCO
11 8 (1.12%) CA
11 8 (1.12%) Talend
12 7 (0.98%) Checkmarx
12 7 (0.98%) Dell
12 7 (0.98%) Informatica
13 6 (0.84%) IBM
13 6 (0.84%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.84%) Veracode