Containerisation Contracts in Scotland

Containerization
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 141 123
Rank change year-on-year +41 -18 +1
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 27 27 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.26% 1.00% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.08% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 41
10th Percentile £358 £460 £463
25th Percentile £400 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £563 £738
90th Percentile £688 £600 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,869 2,492 3,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.17% 92.43% 93.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,156 1,739 2,252
10th Percentile £219 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.24 £11.25 £17.61
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Scotland

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Scotland

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Scotland

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in Scotland

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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
Edinburgh +26 14 £595 +19.90% 4
Glasgow +22 11 £369 -38.50% 4
Perthshire - 1 - -
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) AWS
2 12 (44.44%) OpenShift
3 6 (22.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 6 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 6 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (22.22%) AWS CodeBuild
3 6 (22.22%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 6 (22.22%) AWS CodePipeline
3 6 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (22.22%) Serverless
4 5 (18.52%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (18.52%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (18.52%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (18.52%) IaaS
5 4 (14.81%) SaaS
6 2 (7.41%) Azure
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (3.70%) GCP
7 1 (3.70%) PaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle Database
3 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
4 3 (11.11%) InfluxDB
4 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (40.74%) Jenkins
2 6 (22.22%) Artifactory
2 6 (22.22%) GitLab
3 4 (14.81%) Git
4 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 12 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
3 8 (29.63%) Back Office
3 8 (29.63%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (33.33%) Architect
3 7 (25.93%) AWS Architect
3 7 (25.93%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (18.52%) Python Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (11.11%) AWS Solution Architect
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Senior
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) REST
2 8 (29.63%) SOAP
3 6 (22.22%) AWS CDK
3 6 (22.22%) Middleware
4 4 (14.81%) RESTful
5 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.70%) CSS
6 1 (3.70%) HTML
6 1 (3.70%) Kafka
6 1 (3.70%) Node.js
6 1 (3.70%) Spring
6 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.70%) Spring MVC
6 1 (3.70%) Spring Web Flow
6 1 (3.70%) Thymeleaf
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Linux
2 6 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (22.22%) Ubuntu
3 4 (14.81%) Unix
3 4 (14.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) CI/CD
1 17 (62.96%) DevOps
2 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 8 (29.63%) API Management
4 8 (29.63%) Migration
4 8 (29.63%) Service Management
4 8 (29.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (29.63%) Storage Management
5 5 (18.52%) Agile
5 5 (18.52%) OO
5 5 (18.52%) Security Architecture
5 5 (18.52%) Task Automation
5 5 (18.52%) Technical Architecture
6 4 (14.81%) Data Architecture
6 4 (14.81%) Observability
6 4 (14.81%) Release Management
6 4 (14.81%) Software Delivery
6 4 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 10 (37.04%) Java
3 6 (22.22%) Bash
4 5 (18.52%) Groovy
4 5 (18.52%) Perl
5 4 (14.81%) SQL
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
2 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
1 8 (29.63%) Terraform
2 6 (22.22%) Ansible
2 6 (22.22%) Grafana
2 6 (22.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
1 5 (18.52%) VMware