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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 163 175
Rank change year-on-year +17 +12 -18
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 670 912 1,432
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 1.60% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 1.78% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 679 1,033
10th Percentile £417 £463 £456
25th Percentile £485 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £734 £700
90th Percentile £725 £800 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £587
% change year-on-year - -6.26% +22.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 6
10th Percentile £52.63 £55.51 £45.59
25th Percentile £62.19 £65.00 £46.83
Median hourly rate £70.00 £71.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +37.88% +21.88%
75th Percentile £72.50 £78.00 £56.69
90th Percentile - £92.50 £62.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £69.00 £48.74
% change year-on-year -14.86% +41.57% +22.62%

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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +6 566 £550 -12.00% 366
UK excluding London +87 302 £550 - 210
London -30 279 £588 -9.62% 199
Work from Home +13 221 £543 -9.50% 203
North of England +73 104 £520 -13.33% 55
South East +56 92 £625 +13.64% 59
Yorkshire +59 52 £520 +4.00% 25
North West +27 51 £524 -10.85% 26
South West -7 40 £550 - 37
Scotland +46 31 £516 +1.98% 16
Midlands +23 16 £450 -10.00% 25
East of England +4 15 £575 +4.55% 14
Wales +23 9 £515 +8.42% 4
West Midlands +18 7 £425 -15.00% 11
East Midlands +17 7 £473 +10.53% 14
North East +4 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 30 (4.48%) Apache
2 26 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (3.43%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.99%) Confluence
5 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.49%) nginx
7 9 (1.34%) OpenStack
8 7 (1.04%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.60%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.60%) Luigi
10 3 (0.45%) CMS
10 3 (0.45%) WordPress
11 2 (0.30%) Drupal
11 2 (0.30%) Traefik
11 2 (0.30%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.75%) Endur
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 365 (54.48%) AWS
2 245 (36.57%) Azure
3 144 (21.49%) GCP
4 88 (13.13%) Serverless
5 80 (11.94%) Amazon S3
6 75 (11.19%) OpenShift
7 73 (10.90%) GitHub
8 62 (9.25%) Amazon EC2
9 56 (8.36%) AWS Lambda
10 47 (7.01%) Azure DevOps
11 44 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (5.37%) SaaS
14 35 (5.22%) IaaS
15 34 (5.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 33 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
17 29 (4.33%) Amazon SQS
17 29 (4.33%) Cloud Computing
18 26 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
18 26 (3.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.97%) Firewall
2 39 (5.82%) VPN
3 25 (3.73%) TCP/IP
4 22 (3.28%) DNS
5 20 (2.99%) HTTP
6 13 (1.94%) MPLS
7 12 (1.79%) Network Security
8 11 (1.64%) Radio Access Network
9 10 (1.49%) BGP
9 10 (1.49%) Ethernet VPN
10 7 (1.04%) SAN
11 6 (0.90%) DHCP
12 5 (0.75%) FTP
12 5 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (0.75%) SSL
13 4 (0.60%) InfiniBand
14 3 (0.45%) BIG-IP
14 3 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 3 (0.45%) Intranet
14 3 (0.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (11.34%) NoSQL
2 53 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
4 40 (5.97%) MySQL
5 35 (5.22%) MongoDB
6 34 (5.07%) Relational Database
7 32 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (4.48%) SQL Server
9 22 (3.28%) Big Data
10 20 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (2.99%) Data Lake
11 19 (2.84%) BigQuery
12 17 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (2.39%) RDBMS
14 15 (2.24%) Apache Cassandra
14 15 (2.24%) Hadoop
15 13 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
16 12 (1.79%) DynamoDB
17 10 (1.49%) Power BI
18 7 (1.04%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 169 (25.22%) Git
2 151 (22.54%) Jenkins
3 138 (20.60%) GitLab
4 54 (8.06%) JIRA
5 36 (5.37%) SonarQube
6 35 (5.22%) Cucumber
7 19 (2.84%) JUnit
8 18 (2.69%) Selenium
8 18 (2.69%) TeamCity
9 17 (2.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 16 (2.39%) Artifactory
11 14 (2.09%) Mockito
11 14 (2.09%) REST Assured
12 13 (1.94%) Travis CI
13 12 (1.79%) TestRail
14 11 (1.64%) CircleCI
14 11 (1.64%) NUnit
14 11 (1.64%) Robot Framework
15 10 (1.49%) Maven
15 10 (1.49%) Moq
General
1 170 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 77 (11.49%) Finance
3 63 (9.40%) Public Sector
4 57 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.07%) Banking
6 16 (2.39%) Retail
7 15 (2.24%) Front Office
7 15 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (1.94%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.79%) Back Office
11 11 (1.64%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.34%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.19%) Law
13 8 (1.19%) Police
14 4 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.60%) Local Government
14 4 (0.60%) Marketing
14 4 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 125 (18.66%) Developer
1 125 (18.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 119 (17.76%) Architect
3 69 (10.30%) Senior
4 63 (9.40%) Solutions Architect
5 49 (7.31%) AWS Engineer
6 42 (6.27%) AWS DevOps
6 42 (6.27%) Lead
7 34 (5.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 34 (5.07%) Platform Engineer
8 33 (4.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 30 (4.48%) Site Engineer
10 27 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
12 25 (3.73%) Java Developer
12 25 (3.73%) Senior Developer
13 22 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
13 22 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (3.13%) Technical Architect
15 20 (2.99%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (10.15%) Kafka
2 65 (9.70%) REST
3 50 (7.46%) .NET
4 44 (6.57%) React
5 43 (6.42%) Node.js
6 41 (6.12%) RESTful
7 40 (5.97%) Elastic Stack
8 29 (4.33%) Spring Boot
9 28 (4.18%) Spring
10 26 (3.88%) ARM Templates
10 26 (3.88%) HTML
11 23 (3.43%) Middleware
12 20 (2.99%) .NET Core
12 20 (2.99%) CSS
12 20 (2.99%) JSON
12 20 (2.99%) SOAP
13 18 (2.69%) SailPoint
14 17 (2.54%) XML
14 17 (2.54%) YAML
15 16 (2.39%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.82%) Public Cloud
2 32 (4.78%) Cloud Native
3 20 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 16 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 12 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 11 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.34%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.19%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.19%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.19%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
11 6 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.90%) Mainframe
11 6 (0.90%) Market Risk
11 6 (0.90%) Reference Data
11 6 (0.90%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.75%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 149 (22.24%) Linux
2 34 (5.07%) Unix
2 34 (5.07%) Windows
3 27 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (3.28%) VMS
5 16 (2.39%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.49%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.34%) Android
8 7 (1.04%) CentOS
8 7 (1.04%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (55.07%) DevOps
2 341 (50.90%) CI/CD
3 220 (32.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 192 (28.66%) Agile
5 150 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
6 146 (21.79%) Microservices
7 141 (21.04%) Test Automation
8 103 (15.37%) Continuous Integration
9 77 (11.49%) Migration
10 72 (10.75%) Software Engineering
11 70 (10.45%) Scrum
12 62 (9.25%) DevSecOps
13 57 (8.51%) Configuration Management
14 50 (7.46%) Deployment Automation
14 50 (7.46%) High Availability
15 48 (7.16%) Cloud Security
16 47 (7.01%) Project Management
17 46 (6.87%) Collaborative Working
17 46 (6.87%) Computer Science
17 46 (6.87%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 256 (38.21%) Python
2 144 (21.49%) Java
3 115 (17.16%) SQL
4 112 (16.72%) Bash
5 67 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 65 (9.70%) PowerShell
7 44 (6.57%) C#
8 28 (4.18%) Go
9 26 (3.88%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.43%) Scala
11 19 (2.84%) TypeScript
12 18 (2.69%) Ruby
13 17 (2.54%) Perl
13 17 (2.54%) PHP
14 14 (2.09%) Groovy
15 9 (1.34%) Bicep
16 7 (1.04%) C
16 7 (1.04%) SPARQL
17 4 (0.60%) C++
18 3 (0.45%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 180 (26.87%) Security Cleared
2 152 (22.69%) SC Cleared
3 56 (8.36%) Degree
4 39 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (4.18%) AWS Certification
6 26 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.49%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.75%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.60%) SANS
12 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 2 (0.30%) CISSP
13 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.30%) RHCE
14 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.82%) QA
2 18 (2.69%) NCSC
3 8 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.90%) NIST
5 4 (0.60%) GDPR
5 4 (0.60%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.45%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 383 (57.16%) Docker
2 36 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (3.43%) Active Directory
4 22 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.34%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.34%) vSphere
6 7 (1.04%) Firmware
7 4 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.60%) KVM
7 4 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.45%) 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
1 386 (57.61%) Kubernetes
2 245 (36.57%) Terraform
3 165 (24.63%) Ansible
4 60 (8.96%) Grafana
4 60 (8.96%) Prometheus
5 56 (8.36%) Puppet
6 38 (5.67%) Progress Chef
7 26 (3.88%) Docker Swarm
7 26 (3.88%) Kibana
8 25 (3.73%) Istio
9 19 (2.84%) Argo
10 17 (2.54%) Packer
11 15 (2.24%) Podman
12 13 (1.94%) Graylog
13 11 (1.64%) Rancher
14 9 (1.34%) HP Fortify
14 9 (1.34%) logstash
14 9 (1.34%) Nagios
14 9 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (1.04%) vRealize
Vendors
1 73 (10.90%) Microsoft
2 70 (10.45%) Google
3 46 (6.87%) VMware
4 35 (5.22%) Splunk
5 31 (4.63%) Oracle
6 22 (3.28%) CyberArk
7 18 (2.69%) BeyondTrust
7 18 (2.69%) ServiceNow
8 15 (2.24%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.79%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.49%) SAP
10 10 (1.49%) TIBCO
11 8 (1.19%) CA
11 8 (1.19%) Databricks
11 8 (1.19%) Talend
12 7 (1.04%) Checkmarx
12 7 (1.04%) Dell
12 7 (1.04%) IBM
12 7 (1.04%) Informatica
13 6 (0.90%) Veracode