Containerisation Contracts in the City of London

Containerization
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 63 102 114
Rank change year-on-year +39 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 56 25 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.19% 1.14% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 1.26% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 16 43
10th Percentile £449 £513 £525
25th Percentile £500 £534 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £668 £688
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% -2.91% +13.17%
75th Percentile £664 £754 £800
90th Percentile £708 £775 £835
Central London median daily rate £575 £668 £700
% change year-on-year -13.86% -4.64% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the City of London

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the City of London

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the City of London

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (3.57%) Apache
1 2 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Actimize
1 2 (3.57%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.79%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 26 (46.43%) AWS
2 19 (33.93%) Azure
3 10 (17.86%) Serverless
4 7 (12.50%) GitHub
5 5 (8.93%) GCP
6 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 4 (7.14%) PaaS
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.36%) Azure AKS
7 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon Macie
8 2 (3.57%) AWS KMS
8 2 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.57%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.93%) VPN
2 3 (5.36%) DNS
2 3 (5.36%) Firewall
3 2 (3.57%) DHCP
3 2 (3.57%) HTTP
3 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.93%) NoSQL
3 4 (7.14%) Big Data
3 4 (7.14%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.36%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.36%) MySQL
4 3 (5.36%) OLAP
4 3 (5.36%) OLTP
4 3 (5.36%) SAP BW
4 3 (5.36%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (5.36%) SAP HANA
4 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.57%) DataStage
5 2 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (19.64%) GitLab
1 11 (19.64%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.14%) Git
3 3 (5.36%) JIRA
4 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.79%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.79%) JUnit
4 1 (1.79%) Travis CI
4 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (30.36%) Finance
2 10 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Banking
4 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Publishing
6 2 (3.57%) Front Office
6 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Back Office
7 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (16.07%) Senior
3 8 (14.29%) Architect
3 8 (14.29%) Developer
4 6 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Lead
6 4 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Azure Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.36%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Consultant
7 3 (5.36%) Principal Data Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (5.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.71%) REST
2 5 (8.93%) .NET
2 5 (8.93%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (8.93%) Node.js
2 5 (8.93%) Web Services
3 3 (5.36%) FastAPI
3 3 (5.36%) Kafka
3 3 (5.36%) Spring
4 2 (3.57%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.57%) HTML
4 2 (3.57%) JSON
4 2 (3.57%) OpenAPI
4 2 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (3.57%) React
4 2 (3.57%) RESTful
4 2 (3.57%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.57%) Swagger
5 1 (1.79%) CSS
5 1 (1.79%) OAuth
5 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.93%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.36%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.57%) DataPower
4 2 (3.57%) Derivative
4 2 (3.57%) Equities
4 2 (3.57%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.57%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.79%) CUDA
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.79%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.79%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.36%) Linux
2 8 (14.29%) Unix
3 5 (8.93%) Windows
4 3 (5.36%) Rocky
5 1 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.79%) SUSE
5 1 (1.79%) VMS
5 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 35 (62.50%) DevOps
3 25 (44.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (23.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 12 (21.43%) Agile
6 10 (17.86%) Configuration Management
7 8 (14.29%) Analytics
7 8 (14.29%) Observability
7 8 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 8 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 7 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (12.50%) Microservices
8 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (10.71%) Service-Level Objective
10 5 (8.93%) API Integration
10 5 (8.93%) Cloud Security
10 5 (8.93%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (8.93%) High Availability
10 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (8.93%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 35 (62.50%) Python
2 9 (16.07%) Bash
3 8 (14.29%) Java
3 8 (14.29%) SQL
4 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.71%) C#
6 5 (8.93%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.36%) C++
7 3 (5.36%) Go
8 2 (3.57%) Bicep
8 2 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (3.57%) Perl
8 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.57%) Ruby
8 2 (3.57%) SPARQL
9 1 (1.79%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.79%) Scala
9 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (23.21%) SC Cleared
1 13 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 4 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (5.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (5.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 3 (5.36%) Degree
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.79%) EMIR
2 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.79%) MiFID
2 1 (1.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (58.93%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Lustre
2 1 (1.79%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 39 (69.64%) Kubernetes
2 27 (48.21%) Terraform
3 17 (30.36%) Ansible
4 8 (14.29%) Grafana
5 6 (10.71%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.36%) Consul
6 3 (5.36%) Progress Chef
6 3 (5.36%) Puppet
7 2 (3.57%) Kibana
7 2 (3.57%) Podman
8 1 (1.79%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (1.79%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.79%) Rancher
8 1 (1.79%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.36%) SAP
3 2 (3.57%) Databricks
3 2 (3.57%) Informatica
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle
3 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.79%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.79%) CQG
4 1 (1.79%) Google
4 1 (1.79%) IBM
4 1 (1.79%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.79%) Reuters
4 1 (1.79%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.79%) TOWER Software