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 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 140 170 176
Rank change year-on-year +30 +6 -33
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 227 347 700
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.55% 1.45% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.62% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 257 534
10th Percentile £409 £463 £450
25th Percentile £487 £488 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £600 £599
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +0.17% +14.10%
75th Percentile £628 £700 £675
90th Percentile £681 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £66.45 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £67.13 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £68.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +2.24% +48.89%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.13 -
90th Percentile - £70.95 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.00 £55.88
% change year-on-year -4.11% +30.65% +24.86%

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 12,810 21,394 40,150
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.31% 89.63% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,622 15,186 29,240
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 497 521
10th Percentile £14.90 £18.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.75 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +68.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.00
90th Percentile £74.40 £78.30 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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 9 June 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 6 (2.64%) Confluence
2 5 (2.20%) Apache
2 5 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.20%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.76%) Luigi
4 3 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.88%) CMS
5 2 (0.88%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.88%) WordPress
6 1 (0.44%) Drupal
6 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.44%) nginx
6 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Endur
2 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 146 (64.32%) AWS
2 110 (48.46%) Azure
3 48 (21.15%) GCP
4 29 (12.78%) GitHub
5 27 (11.89%) Serverless
6 26 (11.45%) OpenShift
7 24 (10.57%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (10.13%) Amazon S3
9 19 (8.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (8.37%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (7.93%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (7.93%) IaaS
10 18 (7.93%) SaaS
11 17 (7.49%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (7.05%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (7.05%) PaaS
13 13 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (5.73%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (5.29%) AWS Fargate
15 11 (4.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.85%) Firewall
2 8 (3.52%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.08%) VPN
4 6 (2.64%) HTTP
4 6 (2.64%) Network Security
5 5 (2.20%) DNS
6 4 (1.76%) SAN
7 2 (0.88%) Intranet
7 2 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.44%) 4G
8 1 (0.44%) 5G
8 1 (0.44%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.44%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.44%) Internet
8 1 (0.44%) LTE
8 1 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.44%) SSL
8 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.61%) NoSQL
1 15 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (5.29%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.85%) MySQL
5 9 (3.96%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.20%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.20%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.20%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.76%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.76%) Big Data
8 4 (1.76%) InfluxDB
9 3 (1.32%) DB2
9 3 (1.32%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.32%) Triplestore
10 2 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (22.47%) Jenkins
2 49 (21.59%) GitLab
3 45 (19.82%) Git
4 20 (8.81%) SonarQube
5 17 (7.49%) JIRA
6 10 (4.41%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.41%) Selenium
7 8 (3.52%) Artifactory
7 8 (3.52%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.64%) Travis CI
9 5 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.76%) PHPUnit
11 3 (1.32%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.32%) JUnit
11 3 (1.32%) Maven
11 3 (1.32%) webpack
12 2 (0.88%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.88%) Pylint
12 2 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.44%) TestRail
General
1 73 (32.16%) Social Skills
2 27 (11.89%) Public Sector
3 24 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.69%) Finance
5 13 (5.73%) Banking
6 7 (3.08%) Law
6 7 (3.08%) Police
7 5 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.76%) Back Office
8 4 (1.76%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.76%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.76%) Retail
8 4 (1.76%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.88%) Electronics
10 2 (0.88%) Front Office
10 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 52 (22.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (18.94%) Architect
3 36 (15.86%) Developer
4 30 (13.22%) Senior
5 28 (12.33%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (7.49%) AWS Engineer
7 16 (7.05%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (6.61%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (6.17%) Lead
10 13 (5.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (4.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.85%) Software Engineer
12 10 (4.41%) Senior Developer
12 10 (4.41%) Senior DevOps
13 9 (3.96%) Consultant
13 9 (3.96%) Java Engineer
13 9 (3.96%) Python Engineer
14 8 (3.52%) Java Software Engineer
14 8 (3.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.45%) REST
2 22 (9.69%) ARM Templates
3 16 (7.05%) Kafka
3 16 (7.05%) React
4 14 (6.17%) .NET
4 14 (6.17%) HTML
5 12 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (5.29%) SailPoint
6 11 (4.85%) CSS
6 11 (4.85%) Node.js
7 10 (4.41%) Azure Blueprints
7 10 (4.41%) RESTful
8 8 (3.52%) Java EE
9 7 (3.08%) AWS CDK
9 7 (3.08%) GraphQL
10 6 (2.64%) Laravel
10 6 (2.64%) Middleware
10 6 (2.64%) OAuth
11 5 (2.20%) JSON
11 5 (2.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.17%) Public Cloud
2 11 (4.85%) Management Information System
2 11 (4.85%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.64%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.20%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.20%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (1.76%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.76%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.88%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.44%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.44%) Genomics
8 1 (0.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (19.82%) Linux
2 10 (4.41%) Windows
3 7 (3.08%) Unix
4 6 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.20%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.76%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.76%) VMS
7 3 (1.32%) Android
7 3 (1.32%) CentOS
8 2 (0.88%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (66.96%) DevOps
2 119 (52.42%) CI/CD
3 83 (36.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (28.63%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (22.03%) Agile
6 49 (21.59%) Test Automation
7 41 (18.06%) Continuous Integration
8 34 (14.98%) Microservices
8 34 (14.98%) Migration
9 33 (14.54%) Software Engineering
10 29 (12.78%) Deployment Automation
11 21 (9.25%) DevSecOps
12 20 (8.81%) SDLC
13 19 (8.37%) Cloud Security
14 18 (7.93%) Application Security
14 18 (7.93%) Configuration Management
14 18 (7.93%) Project Management
15 17 (7.49%) Architectural Design
15 17 (7.49%) Continuous Deployment
16 16 (7.05%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 83 (36.56%) Python
2 48 (21.15%) Java
3 34 (14.98%) Bash
4 29 (12.78%) SQL
5 26 (11.45%) JavaScript
6 18 (7.93%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.73%) PHP
8 10 (4.41%) C#
9 8 (3.52%) Perl
9 8 (3.52%) Scala
10 7 (3.08%) Go
10 7 (3.08%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.64%) Bicep
11 6 (2.64%) Groovy
12 5 (2.20%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.76%) Ruby
14 3 (1.32%) C
14 3 (1.32%) SPARQL
15 1 (0.44%) Rust
15 1 (0.44%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 52 (22.91%) Security Cleared
2 49 (21.59%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.05%) Degree
4 15 (6.61%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.96%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (2.64%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.44%) SANS
13 1 (0.44%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.29%) NCSC
1 12 (5.29%) QA
2 3 (1.32%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.88%) GDPR
3 2 (0.88%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 140 (61.67%) Docker
2 13 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.41%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.20%) Firmware
5 4 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.76%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 133 (58.59%) Kubernetes
2 99 (43.61%) Terraform
3 60 (26.43%) Ansible
4 21 (9.25%) Prometheus
5 20 (8.81%) Grafana
6 14 (6.17%) Puppet
7 13 (5.73%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (4.85%) Progress Chef
9 10 (4.41%) Kibana
10 9 (3.96%) Podman
11 6 (2.64%) Argo
12 4 (1.76%) Istio
13 3 (1.32%) Dell DRAC
13 3 (1.32%) logstash
14 2 (0.88%) Graylog
14 2 (0.88%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.88%) Kustomize
15 1 (0.44%) Consul
15 1 (0.44%) Kiali
15 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.37%) Google
3 16 (7.05%) CyberArk
4 15 (6.61%) VMware
5 12 (5.29%) BeyondTrust
5 12 (5.29%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.52%) Splunk
7 4 (1.76%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.76%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.32%) Dell
8 3 (1.32%) Oracle
8 3 (1.32%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.32%) SAP
9 2 (0.88%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.88%) Confluent
9 2 (0.88%) Genesys
9 2 (0.88%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.44%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.44%) Veracode