Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Central London

Containerization
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 73 96
Rank change year-on-year +12 +23 -4
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 94 52 39
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.94% 2.75% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 2.93% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 42 21
10th Percentile £452 £463 £425
25th Percentile £475 £496 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £610 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% +13.49% -20.37%
75th Percentile £613 £688 £663
90th Percentile £732 £786 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -7.69%

All Process & 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 2,179 1,774 2,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 91.25% 93.96% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,515 1,208 1,376
10th Percentile £360 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £685
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 24 27
10th Percentile £15.92 £17.61 £19.70
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.54 £27.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £27.04 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% -22.76% +27.27%
75th Percentile £43.00 £35.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £64.15 £61.65 £122.20
London median hourly rate £33.30 £30.25 £36.65
% change year-on-year +10.08% -17.46% -8.38%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Containerisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Central London

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Containerisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Central London over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

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 13 October 2026. 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 +13 90 £525 -13.93% 65
City of Westminster -3 8 £475 - 19
West End of London -5 5 £544 +14.58% 7
Containerisation
London

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.26%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.06%) Apache
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.06%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 42 (44.68%) AWS
2 34 (36.17%) Azure
3 25 (26.60%) GitHub
4 18 (19.15%) GCP
5 14 (14.89%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (13.83%) Serverless
7 9 (9.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (6.38%) Amazon S3
8 6 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.32%) Azure AKS
9 5 (5.32%) Cloud Functions
9 5 (5.32%) Google App Engine
9 5 (5.32%) Google Compute Engine
9 5 (5.32%) PaaS
10 4 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (4.26%) OpenShift
11 3 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.32%) Internet
2 4 (4.26%) DNS
3 3 (3.19%) Firewall
3 3 (3.19%) VPN
4 1 (1.06%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (1.06%) Network Security
4 1 (1.06%) RTCP
4 1 (1.06%) RTP
4 1 (1.06%) VoIP
4 1 (1.06%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.38%) MongoDB
2 6 (6.38%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.32%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.26%) Big Data
5 3 (3.19%) Milvus
5 3 (3.19%) Pinecone
5 3 (3.19%) Power BI
6 2 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.13%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.13%) Metadata
6 2 (2.13%) Weaviate
7 1 (1.06%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.06%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.06%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (23.40%) Jenkins
2 19 (20.21%) Git
3 14 (14.89%) GitLab
4 8 (8.51%) JIRA
5 7 (7.45%) JUnit
6 6 (6.38%) Mockito
6 6 (6.38%) Postman
7 5 (5.32%) Gradle
7 5 (5.32%) JMeter
7 5 (5.32%) Maven
8 2 (2.13%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.13%) Selenium
8 2 (2.13%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.13%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.13%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.06%) Gatling
9 1 (1.06%) Liquibase
9 1 (1.06%) MLflow
9 1 (1.06%) Vite
General
1 31 (32.98%) Finance
2 20 (21.28%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.09%) Banking
4 10 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.45%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.13%) Back Office
8 2 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.13%) Law
8 2 (2.13%) Marketing
8 2 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.13%) Police
9 1 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.06%) Front Office
9 1 (1.06%) Local Government
9 1 (1.06%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (19.15%) Architect
2 16 (17.02%) Senior
3 14 (14.89%) Developer
4 12 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (9.57%) Java Developer
6 7 (7.45%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (7.45%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.38%) AWS Architect
8 5 (5.32%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Azure Architect
8 5 (5.32%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Lead
8 5 (5.32%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (5.32%) Tester
9 4 (4.26%) Applications Support
9 4 (4.26%) Applications Support Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (34.04%) Terraform
2 17 (18.09%) Spring
2 17 (18.09%) Spring Boot
3 14 (14.89%) Kafka
4 12 (12.77%) RESTful
5 10 (10.64%) REST
6 9 (9.57%) Middleware
7 6 (6.38%) React
8 5 (5.32%) HTML
8 5 (5.32%) Swagger
9 4 (4.26%) AngularJS
9 4 (4.26%) FastAPI
9 4 (4.26%) LangChain
9 4 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (4.26%) Spring Cloud
9 4 (4.26%) Web Services
10 3 (3.19%) LangGraph
10 3 (3.19%) LlamaIndex
10 3 (3.19%) PyTorch
10 3 (3.19%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 34 (36.17%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.32%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.32%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.26%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.13%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.13%) Genomics
7 2 (2.13%) Life Science
7 2 (2.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.06%) Derivative
8 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.06%) Equities
8 1 (1.06%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.06%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.06%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.64%) Linux
2 6 (6.38%) Ubuntu
2 6 (6.38%) Unix
3 4 (4.26%) Windows
4 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (68.09%) CI/CD
2 48 (51.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (38.30%) DevOps
4 23 (24.47%) Test Automation
5 22 (23.40%) Agile
6 21 (22.34%) Microservices
7 20 (21.28%) Observability
8 18 (19.15%) Migration
8 18 (19.15%) Software Engineering
9 16 (17.02%) AI
10 15 (15.96%) Event-Driven
11 11 (11.70%) Mentoring
11 11 (11.70%) Roadmaps
12 10 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (10.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 10 (10.64%) LLM
12 10 (10.64%) Machine Learning
12 10 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (9.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 33 (35.11%) Python
2 28 (29.79%) Java
3 14 (14.89%) SQL
4 7 (7.45%) JavaScript
4 7 (7.45%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.38%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.32%) Bash
7 3 (3.19%) Ruby
8 2 (2.13%) Bicep
8 2 (2.13%) C#
8 2 (2.13%) Go
8 2 (2.13%) Korn
8 2 (2.13%) Scala
9 1 (1.06%) C++
9 1 (1.06%) Cypher
9 1 (1.06%) Gremlin
9 1 (1.06%) PromQL
9 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (48.94%) Security Cleared
2 42 (44.68%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.70%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.38%) Degree
5 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.06%) CEH
7 1 (1.06%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (1.06%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.06%) OSCP
7 1 (1.06%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (6.38%) QA
2 5 (5.32%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.19%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.13%) NCSC
5 1 (1.06%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.06%) NIST
5 1 (1.06%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.06%) PSD2
5 1 (1.06%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (38.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (58.51%) Kubernetes
2 15 (15.96%) Grafana
3 12 (12.77%) Prometheus
4 8 (8.51%) Ansible
5 1 (1.06%) Bosun
5 1 (1.06%) Istio
5 1 (1.06%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.06%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (12.77%) Google
2 6 (6.38%) Databricks
2 6 (6.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.32%) Oracle
3 5 (5.32%) Splunk
4 4 (4.26%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.26%) IBM
5 3 (3.19%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (2.13%) New Relic
7 1 (1.06%) Alias
7 1 (1.06%) Calypso
7 1 (1.06%) FIS
7 1 (1.06%) Metaswitch
7 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.06%) Murex
7 1 (1.06%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.06%) SAP
7 1 (1.06%) Sybase
7 1 (1.06%) Temenos