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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 89 91
Rank change year-on-year +16 +2 +21
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 59 44 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.87% 1.90% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 2.07% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 24 58
10th Percentile £454 £442 £550
25th Percentile £495 £500 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £631 £683
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -7.51% +5.00%
75th Percentile £688 £731 £788
90th Percentile £750 £775 £858
London median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +1.56%

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 1,929 2,121 3,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.82% 91.66% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,276 1,441 2,188
10th Percentile £325 £375 £340
25th Percentile £423 £470 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £774 £788 £820
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 21 17
10th Percentile £19.14 £16.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -22.86% -17.65%
75th Percentile £49.22 £61.25 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
London median hourly rate £29.50 £35.71 £40.25
% change year-on-year -17.39% -11.28% +8.46%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +5 57 £610 -3.37% 36
City of Westminster - 2 £475 - 1
West End of London - 1 £475 - 2
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 1 (1.69%) CICS
1 1 (1.69%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.69%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.29%) AWS
2 19 (32.20%) Azure
3 14 (23.73%) GCP
3 14 (23.73%) GitHub
4 8 (13.56%) Serverless
5 7 (11.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (11.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 6 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.47%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (8.47%) PaaS
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.78%) Azure AKS
8 4 (6.78%) SaaS
8 4 (6.78%) Slack
8 4 (6.78%) Stackdriver
9 3 (5.08%) Apigee
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.47%) DNS
2 4 (6.78%) HTTP
2 4 (6.78%) TCP/IP
2 4 (6.78%) VPN
3 3 (5.08%) Firewall
4 2 (3.39%) DHCP
4 2 (3.39%) SSL
5 1 (1.69%) NAS
5 1 (1.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.08%) Big Data
3 3 (5.08%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.39%) MySQL
4 2 (3.39%) Redis
4 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.69%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.69%) Impala
5 1 (1.69%) KDB
5 1 (1.69%) OLAP
5 1 (1.69%) OLTP
5 1 (1.69%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (25.42%) GitLab
2 10 (16.95%) Jenkins
3 7 (11.86%) Gradle
3 7 (11.86%) Maven
4 6 (10.17%) Git
4 6 (10.17%) SonarQube
5 4 (6.78%) Selenium
6 3 (5.08%) JIRA
7 2 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (3.39%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.69%) git-flow
8 1 (1.69%) Mocha
8 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (33.90%) Finance
2 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.86%) Banking
5 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.78%) Telecoms
7 3 (5.08%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Back Office
9 1 (1.69%) Front Office
9 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (16.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Architect
3 8 (13.56%) Developer
4 6 (10.17%) Senior
5 5 (8.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Azure Architect
6 4 (6.78%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Lead
6 4 (6.78%) Site Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Python Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) DevOps Specialist
8 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 2 (3.39%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.56%) Node.js
2 6 (10.17%) GraphQL
3 5 (8.47%) REST
4 4 (6.78%) RESTful
4 4 (6.78%) Spring
4 4 (6.78%) Spring Boot
5 3 (5.08%) .NET
5 3 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (5.08%) Kafka
5 3 (5.08%) OAuth
5 3 (5.08%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.39%) HTML
6 2 (3.39%) JSON
6 2 (3.39%) OpenAPI
6 2 (3.39%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (3.39%) Swagger
7 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.69%) CSS
7 1 (1.69%) jQuery
7 1 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (33.90%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.17%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.47%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.08%) IVR
4 3 (5.08%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.39%) Derivative
5 2 (3.39%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.39%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.39%) Equities
5 2 (3.39%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.39%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.39%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.39%) Replication
6 1 (1.69%) DataPower
6 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.69%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.42%) Linux
2 8 (13.56%) Unix
3 4 (6.78%) Windows
4 2 (3.39%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.69%) AIX
5 1 (1.69%) Android
5 1 (1.69%) Solaris
5 1 (1.69%) VMS
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (67.80%) DevOps
2 33 (55.93%) CI/CD
3 28 (47.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (35.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 17 (28.81%) Agile
6 13 (22.03%) High Availability
7 11 (18.64%) Microservices
8 10 (16.95%) Observability
9 9 (15.25%) SDLC
10 8 (13.56%) Configuration Management
10 8 (13.56%) Migration
11 7 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (11.86%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (11.86%) GitOps
11 7 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (11.86%) Test Automation
12 6 (10.17%) Analytics
12 6 (10.17%) Machine Learning
12 6 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (10.17%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 33 (55.93%) Python
2 14 (23.73%) Java
3 10 (16.95%) JavaScript
3 10 (16.95%) SQL
4 9 (15.25%) Bash
5 8 (13.56%) Go
6 5 (8.47%) Shell Script
7 4 (6.78%) Perl
7 4 (6.78%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.08%) C#
9 2 (3.39%) Bicep
9 2 (3.39%) C++
9 2 (3.39%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (3.39%) PromQL
9 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.69%) COBOL
10 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.69%) SPARQL
10 1 (1.69%) Swift
10 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (13.56%) SC Cleared
1 8 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) Degree
3 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.69%) EMIR
2 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.69%) MiFID
2 1 (1.69%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (55.93%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) HDFS
2 1 (1.69%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 38 (64.41%) Kubernetes
2 36 (61.02%) Terraform
3 18 (30.51%) Ansible
4 12 (20.34%) Grafana
5 8 (13.56%) Argo
5 8 (13.56%) Prometheus
5 8 (13.56%) Puppet
6 5 (8.47%) Istio
7 4 (6.78%) Progress Chef
8 3 (5.08%) Kibana
9 1 (1.69%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.69%) Podman
9 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) Google
1 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) Splunk
3 3 (5.08%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.39%) F5
4 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.69%) CQG
5 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.69%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.69%) NetApp
5 1 (1.69%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.69%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.69%) Reuters
5 1 (1.69%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) Tenable
5 1 (1.69%) TIBCO