Containerisation Contracts in Central London

Containerization
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Containerisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Containerisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 107 101
Rank change year-on-year +35 -6 +7
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 58 26 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.90% 1.06% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 1.17% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 16 49
10th Percentile £438 £513 £524
25th Percentile £491 £534 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £668 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% -4.64% +16.67%
75th Percentile £664 £754 £813
90th Percentile £706 £775 £850
London median daily rate £575 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Containerisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Central London

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Central London

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Central London

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +39 56 £575 -13.86% 34
West End of London - 1 £425 - 17
City of Westminster - 1 £425 -
Containerisation
London

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (3.45%) Apache
1 2 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Actimize
1 2 (3.45%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.72%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 27 (46.55%) AWS
2 19 (32.76%) Azure
3 10 (17.24%) Serverless
4 8 (13.79%) GitHub
5 6 (10.34%) GCP
6 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (6.90%) OpenShift
6 4 (6.90%) PaaS
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.17%) Azure AKS
7 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (3.45%) Datadog
8 2 (3.45%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.62%) VPN
2 3 (5.17%) DNS
2 3 (5.17%) Firewall
3 2 (3.45%) DHCP
3 2 (3.45%) HTTP
3 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.62%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.90%) Big Data
3 4 (6.90%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.17%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.17%) MySQL
4 3 (5.17%) OLAP
4 3 (5.17%) OLTP
4 3 (5.17%) SAP BW
4 3 (5.17%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (5.17%) SAP HANA
4 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.45%) DataStage
5 2 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (20.69%) GitLab
2 11 (18.97%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.62%) Git
4 3 (5.17%) JIRA
5 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.72%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.72%) JUnit
5 1 (1.72%) Maven
5 1 (1.72%) Snyk
5 1 (1.72%) Travis CI
5 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (29.31%) Finance
2 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.62%) Banking
4 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Publishing
6 2 (3.45%) Front Office
6 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Back Office
7 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (15.52%) Senior
3 8 (13.79%) Architect
3 8 (13.79%) Developer
4 6 (10.34%) Data Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Lead
5 4 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Azure Architect
5 4 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Consultant
6 3 (5.17%) Principal Data Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (5.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Security Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) REST
2 5 (8.62%) .NET
2 5 (8.62%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (8.62%) Node.js
2 5 (8.62%) Web Services
3 4 (6.90%) Kafka
3 4 (6.90%) Spring
4 3 (5.17%) FastAPI
4 3 (5.17%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.45%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.45%) HTML
5 2 (3.45%) JSON
5 2 (3.45%) OpenAPI
5 2 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (3.45%) React
5 2 (3.45%) RESTful
5 2 (3.45%) Swagger
6 1 (1.72%) CSS
6 1 (1.72%) OAuth
6 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.62%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.17%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.45%) DataPower
4 2 (3.45%) Derivative
4 2 (3.45%) Equities
4 2 (3.45%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.45%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.72%) CUDA
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.72%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.72%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (29.31%) Linux
2 8 (13.79%) Unix
3 5 (8.62%) Windows
4 3 (5.17%) Rocky
5 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.72%) SUSE
5 1 (1.72%) VMS
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (65.52%) CI/CD
2 36 (62.07%) DevOps
3 27 (46.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (24.14%) Agile
5 13 (22.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 10 (17.24%) Configuration Management
7 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (15.52%) Software Engineering
8 8 (13.79%) Analytics
8 8 (13.79%) Observability
8 8 (13.79%) Test Automation
9 7 (12.07%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (12.07%) Microservices
10 6 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (10.34%) High Availability
10 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (10.34%) Service-Level Objective
11 5 (8.62%) ETL
11 5 (8.62%) Low Latency
11 5 (8.62%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (62.07%) Python
2 10 (17.24%) Bash
3 9 (15.52%) Java
4 8 (13.79%) SQL
5 7 (12.07%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.34%) C#
7 5 (8.62%) Shell Script
8 3 (5.17%) C++
8 3 (5.17%) Go
9 2 (3.45%) Bicep
9 2 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (3.45%) Perl
9 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.45%) Ruby
9 2 (3.45%) SPARQL
10 1 (1.72%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.72%) Scala
10 1 (1.72%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (22.41%) SC Cleared
1 13 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.62%) AWS Certification
2 5 (8.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (6.90%) Degree
4 3 (5.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (5.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) EMIR
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) MiFID
2 1 (1.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (60.34%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Lustre
2 1 (1.72%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 41 (70.69%) Kubernetes
2 29 (50.00%) Terraform
3 17 (29.31%) Ansible
4 9 (15.52%) Grafana
5 7 (12.07%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.17%) Consul
6 3 (5.17%) Progress Chef
6 3 (5.17%) Puppet
7 2 (3.45%) Kibana
7 2 (3.45%) Podman
8 1 (1.72%) Argo
8 1 (1.72%) Istio
8 1 (1.72%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (1.72%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.72%) Rancher
8 1 (1.72%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.17%) SAP
3 2 (3.45%) Databricks
3 2 (3.45%) Google
3 2 (3.45%) Informatica
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle
3 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.72%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.72%) CQG
4 1 (1.72%) IBM
4 1 (1.72%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.72%) New Relic
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.72%) Reuters
4 1 (1.72%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.72%) TOWER Software