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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 167 174
Rank change year-on-year +22 +7 -13
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 704 882 1,410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.64% 1.57% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 1.75% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 654 1,023
10th Percentile £413 £463 £463
25th Percentile £485 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £614 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.39% +2.29% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £700
90th Percentile £719 £800 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £563 £590
% change year-on-year -2.22% -4.66% +18.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 5
10th Percentile £52.63 £63.38 £46.50
25th Percentile £62.19 £66.00 £48.74
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.00 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +34.56% +21.91%
75th Percentile £72.50 £78.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - £90.00 £63.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £78.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -24.68% +51.47% +30.37%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +16 603 £550 -12.00% 349
UK excluding London +78 311 £550 -2.22% 175
London -10 304 £575 -11.54% 183
Work from Home +27 230 £543 -9.58% 190
North of England +67 110 £515 -14.17% 51
South East +40 94 £625 +13.64% 36
Yorkshire +65 58 £507 -8.24% 20
North West +32 51 £523 -11.06% 28
South West -7 43 £550 - 39
Scotland +40 27 £513 +2.50% 11
Midlands +26 18 £450 -10.00% 23
East of England +8 15 £575 -30.30% 13
Wales +24 9 £515 +8.42% 2
West Midlands +12 9 £450 -10.00% 9
East Midlands +14 6 £445 +4.09% 14
North East +3 1 £525 -38.03% 4

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 27 (3.84%) Apache
2 24 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (3.41%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.98%) Confluence
4 12 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (1.42%) nginx
6 9 (1.28%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.99%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.57%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.57%) Luigi
9 3 (0.43%) CMS
9 3 (0.43%) WordPress
10 2 (0.28%) Drupal
10 2 (0.28%) Traefik
10 2 (0.28%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.71%) 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
1 381 (54.12%) AWS
2 270 (38.35%) Azure
3 152 (21.59%) GCP
4 89 (12.64%) Serverless
5 81 (11.51%) GitHub
6 80 (11.36%) Amazon S3
7 77 (10.94%) OpenShift
8 62 (8.81%) Amazon EC2
9 58 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
10 55 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
11 46 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (5.40%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (5.11%) SaaS
15 35 (4.97%) IaaS
16 33 (4.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 32 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
18 30 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
19 28 (3.98%) PaaS
20 26 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.97%) Firewall
2 37 (5.26%) VPN
3 24 (3.41%) TCP/IP
4 21 (2.98%) DNS
5 19 (2.70%) HTTP
6 11 (1.56%) MPLS
7 10 (1.42%) Network Security
8 9 (1.28%) Radio Access Network
9 8 (1.14%) BGP
9 8 (1.14%) Ethernet VPN
10 7 (0.99%) SAN
11 5 (0.71%) DHCP
11 5 (0.71%) FTP
11 5 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.57%) InfiniBand
12 4 (0.57%) SSL
13 3 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 3 (0.43%) Intranet
13 3 (0.43%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (10.51%) NoSQL
2 60 (8.52%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (6.11%) MySQL
4 42 (5.97%) Relational Database
5 41 (5.82%) Elasticsearch
6 33 (4.69%) MongoDB
7 32 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (4.40%) SQL Server
9 21 (2.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (2.98%) Big Data
10 19 (2.70%) BigQuery
10 19 (2.70%) Data Lake
11 18 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (2.41%) Hadoop
13 16 (2.27%) RDBMS
14 15 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
15 14 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
16 12 (1.70%) DynamoDB
17 9 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
18 8 (1.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 177 (25.14%) Git
2 158 (22.44%) Jenkins
3 147 (20.88%) GitLab
4 52 (7.39%) JIRA
5 37 (5.26%) SonarQube
6 32 (4.55%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.84%) JUnit
8 18 (2.56%) TeamCity
9 17 (2.41%) Artifactory
9 17 (2.41%) Selenium
10 15 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 14 (1.99%) Mockito
12 13 (1.85%) CircleCI
12 13 (1.85%) Travis CI
13 12 (1.70%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.56%) Maven
14 11 (1.56%) NUnit
15 10 (1.42%) Moq
15 10 (1.42%) TestRail
16 9 (1.28%) webpack
General
1 192 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 83 (11.79%) Finance
3 62 (8.81%) Public Sector
4 59 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (5.26%) Banking
6 17 (2.41%) Retail
7 15 (2.13%) Front Office
8 14 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
8 14 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.85%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.56%) Back Office
10 11 (1.56%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.56%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.14%) Law
11 8 (1.14%) Police
12 5 (0.71%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (0.57%) Local Government
14 3 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 133 (18.89%) Developer
1 133 (18.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 117 (16.62%) Architect
3 76 (10.80%) Senior
4 63 (8.95%) Solutions Architect
5 49 (6.96%) AWS Engineer
6 43 (6.11%) AWS DevOps
7 42 (5.97%) Lead
8 38 (5.40%) Platform Engineer
9 36 (5.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 34 (4.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 31 (4.40%) Site Engineer
12 30 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
13 27 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
13 27 (3.84%) Java Developer
13 27 (3.84%) Senior Developer
14 25 (3.55%) Python Developer
15 23 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (2.84%) Cloud Architect
16 20 (2.84%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (10.23%) Kafka
2 61 (8.66%) REST
3 49 (6.96%) .NET
4 47 (6.68%) React
4 47 (6.68%) RESTful
5 45 (6.39%) Node.js
6 43 (6.11%) Elastic Stack
7 32 (4.55%) ARM Templates
8 29 (4.12%) HTML
8 29 (4.12%) Spring Boot
9 27 (3.84%) Spring
10 24 (3.41%) CSS
11 21 (2.98%) .NET Core
11 21 (2.98%) JSON
11 21 (2.98%) Middleware
11 21 (2.98%) YAML
12 20 (2.84%) AWS CDK
12 20 (2.84%) SOAP
13 19 (2.70%) XML
14 18 (2.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 44 (6.25%) Public Cloud
2 34 (4.83%) Cloud Native
3 20 (2.84%) Onboarding
4 16 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (1.70%) Data Structures
6 12 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (1.70%) Management Information System
7 11 (1.56%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.14%) Fixed Income
9 7 (0.99%) Algorithms
10 6 (0.85%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.85%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.85%) Reference Data
10 6 (0.85%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.71%) Credit Risk
11 5 (0.71%) Distributed Applications
11 5 (0.71%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 151 (21.45%) Linux
2 32 (4.55%) Unix
3 31 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 31 (4.40%) Windows
4 23 (3.27%) VMS
5 16 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.42%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.28%) Android
8 8 (1.14%) CentOS
9 7 (0.99%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (56.25%) DevOps
2 366 (51.99%) CI/CD
3 249 (35.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 206 (29.26%) Agile
5 162 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
6 156 (22.16%) Microservices
7 141 (20.03%) Test Automation
8 103 (14.63%) Continuous Integration
9 80 (11.36%) Migration
10 72 (10.23%) Software Engineering
11 67 (9.52%) Scrum
12 63 (8.95%) Configuration Management
12 63 (8.95%) DevSecOps
13 52 (7.39%) Computer Science
13 52 (7.39%) High Availability
14 51 (7.24%) Cloud Security
14 51 (7.24%) Deployment Automation
15 47 (6.68%) Project Management
15 47 (6.68%) Technical Leadership
16 45 (6.39%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 265 (37.64%) Python
2 146 (20.74%) Java
3 115 (16.34%) SQL
4 114 (16.19%) Bash
5 73 (10.37%) JavaScript
6 64 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 44 (6.25%) C#
8 31 (4.40%) Shell Script
9 28 (3.98%) Go
10 24 (3.41%) Scala
11 20 (2.84%) TypeScript
12 19 (2.70%) PHP
13 18 (2.56%) Ruby
14 16 (2.27%) Perl
15 14 (1.99%) Groovy
16 9 (1.28%) Bicep
17 8 (1.14%) C
18 7 (0.99%) SPARQL
19 4 (0.57%) C++
20 3 (0.43%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 192 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 163 (23.15%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.95%) Degree
4 45 (6.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (4.40%) DV Cleared
6 29 (4.12%) AWS Certification
7 20 (2.84%) Azure Certification
8 18 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.85%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.43%) RHCE
13 3 (0.43%) SANS
14 2 (0.28%) CISSP
14 2 (0.28%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
15 1 (0.14%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.40%) QA
2 17 (2.41%) NCSC
3 8 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.85%) GDPR
5 5 (0.71%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.71%) NIST
6 3 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.43%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.43%) 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
1 406 (57.67%) Docker
2 35 (4.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (3.69%) Active Directory
4 22 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.28%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.28%) vSphere
6 7 (0.99%) Firmware
7 5 (0.71%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.57%) KVM
8 4 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.28%) HDFS
10 2 (0.28%) NFS
10 2 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.28%) vCloud
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.14%) Ceph
11 1 (0.14%) Lustre
11 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 405 (57.53%) Kubernetes
2 267 (37.93%) Terraform
3 172 (24.43%) Ansible
4 63 (8.95%) Prometheus
5 62 (8.81%) Grafana
6 54 (7.67%) Puppet
7 37 (5.26%) Progress Chef
8 26 (3.69%) Docker Swarm
8 26 (3.69%) Kibana
9 25 (3.55%) Istio
10 20 (2.84%) Argo
11 18 (2.56%) Packer
12 15 (2.13%) Podman
13 11 (1.56%) Graylog
13 11 (1.56%) Rancher
14 9 (1.28%) HP Fortify
14 9 (1.28%) logstash
14 9 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.99%) Nagios
15 7 (0.99%) vRealize
Vendors
1 77 (10.94%) Google
2 75 (10.65%) Microsoft
3 46 (6.53%) VMware
4 33 (4.69%) Splunk
5 30 (4.26%) Oracle
6 22 (3.13%) CyberArk
7 18 (2.56%) BeyondTrust
7 18 (2.56%) ServiceNow
8 16 (2.27%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.56%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.42%) SAP
10 10 (1.42%) TIBCO
11 8 (1.14%) CA
11 8 (1.14%) Talend
12 7 (0.99%) Checkmarx
12 7 (0.99%) Dell
12 7 (0.99%) IBM
12 7 (0.99%) Informatica
13 6 (0.85%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.85%) Veracode