Containerisation Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Containerization
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 69 91
Rank change year-on-year +12 +22 -5
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 90 53 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.19% 3.07% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 3.25% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 42 22
10th Percentile £450 £465 £431
25th Percentile £475 £513 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £610 £547
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% +11.52% -18.96%
75th Percentile £584 £688 £672
90th Percentile £714 £786 £774
Central London median daily rate £525 £610 £547
% change year-on-year -13.93% +11.52% -18.96%

All Process & 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 1,944 1,631 1,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.46% 94.44% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,350 1,107 1,218
10th Percentile £365 £325 £366
25th Percentile £455 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £768 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 20
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.96 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% -22.54% +13.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £39.88 £97.38
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in the City of London

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Containerisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Containerisation

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 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the City of London

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (4.44%) Confluence
2 3 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.11%) Apache
3 1 (1.11%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 38 (42.22%) AWS
2 32 (35.56%) Azure
3 23 (25.56%) GitHub
4 16 (17.78%) GCP
5 12 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (13.33%) Serverless
6 8 (8.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 6 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 6 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.56%) Azure AKS
8 5 (5.56%) PaaS
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.44%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (4.44%) Google App Engine
9 4 (4.44%) Google Compute Engine
9 4 (4.44%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) DNS
1 4 (4.44%) Internet
2 3 (3.33%) Firewall
2 3 (3.33%) VPN
3 1 (1.11%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.11%) Network Security
3 1 (1.11%) RTCP
3 1 (1.11%) RTP
3 1 (1.11%) VoIP
3 1 (1.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.22%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.78%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.44%) Big Data
6 3 (3.33%) Milvus
6 3 (3.33%) Pinecone
6 3 (3.33%) Power BI
7 2 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.22%) Metadata
7 2 (2.22%) Redis
7 2 (2.22%) Weaviate
8 1 (1.11%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (22.22%) Git
2 19 (21.11%) Jenkins
3 12 (13.33%) GitLab
4 8 (8.89%) JIRA
5 6 (6.67%) Postman
6 5 (5.56%) Gradle
6 5 (5.56%) JMeter
6 5 (5.56%) JUnit
6 5 (5.56%) Maven
7 4 (4.44%) Mockito
8 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.22%) Selenium
8 2 (2.22%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.22%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.22%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.11%) Gatling
9 1 (1.11%) Liquibase
9 1 (1.11%) MLflow
9 1 (1.11%) Vite
General
1 31 (34.44%) Finance
2 20 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.89%) Banking
4 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Back Office
7 2 (2.22%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.22%) Marketing
7 2 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.11%) Front Office
8 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Military
8 1 (1.11%) Retail
8 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (18.89%) Architect
2 15 (16.67%) Senior
3 12 (13.33%) Developer
3 12 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (7.78%) Java Developer
4 7 (7.78%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (7.78%) Senior Developer
5 5 (5.56%) AWS Architect
5 5 (5.56%) Azure Architect
5 5 (5.56%) Lead
5 5 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (5.56%) Tester
6 4 (4.44%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) Platform Architect
7 3 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (32.22%) Terraform
2 15 (16.67%) Spring
2 15 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 12 (13.33%) Kafka
4 10 (11.11%) REST
4 10 (11.11%) RESTful
5 9 (10.00%) Middleware
6 6 (6.67%) React
7 5 (5.56%) HTML
7 5 (5.56%) Swagger
8 4 (4.44%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.44%) FastAPI
8 4 (4.44%) LangChain
8 4 (4.44%) PyTorch
8 4 (4.44%) TensorFlow
8 4 (4.44%) Web Services
9 3 (3.33%) LangGraph
9 3 (3.33%) LlamaIndex
9 3 (3.33%) Node.js
9 3 (3.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 33 (36.67%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.44%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.22%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.22%) Genomics
5 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.22%) Life Science
5 2 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.11%) Derivative
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.11%) Equities
6 1 (1.11%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.11%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.11%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.11%) Linux
2 6 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 5 (5.56%) Unix
4 3 (3.33%) Windows
5 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (68.89%) CI/CD
2 44 (48.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (36.67%) DevOps
4 22 (24.44%) Test Automation
5 21 (23.33%) Observability
6 20 (22.22%) Microservices
7 19 (21.11%) Agile
8 18 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 17 (18.89%) AI
10 16 (17.78%) Migration
11 13 (14.44%) Event-Driven
12 11 (12.22%) LLM
12 11 (12.22%) Machine Learning
13 10 (11.11%) Mentoring
13 10 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (11.11%) Roadmaps
13 10 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
14 8 (8.89%) Data Engineering
14 8 (8.89%) Front End Development
14 8 (8.89%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 34 (37.78%) Python
2 26 (28.89%) Java
3 13 (14.44%) SQL
4 7 (7.78%) JavaScript
4 7 (7.78%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.56%) Bash
7 3 (3.33%) Ruby
8 2 (2.22%) Bicep
8 2 (2.22%) C#
8 2 (2.22%) Go
8 2 (2.22%) Korn
9 1 (1.11%) C++
9 1 (1.11%) Cypher
9 1 (1.11%) Gremlin
9 1 (1.11%) PromQL
9 1 (1.11%) Scala
9 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (47.78%) Security Cleared
2 38 (42.22%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.67%) Degree
5 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.11%) CEH
7 1 (1.11%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (1.11%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.11%) OSCP
7 1 (1.11%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) QA
2 5 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.44%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.22%) NCSC
6 1 (1.11%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.11%) NIST
6 1 (1.11%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.11%) PSD2
6 1 (1.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 34 (37.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (58.89%) Kubernetes
2 14 (15.56%) Grafana
3 13 (14.44%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.67%) Ansible
5 2 (2.22%) Istio
6 1 (1.11%) Bosun
6 1 (1.11%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 11 (12.22%) Google
2 6 (6.67%) Databricks
2 6 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 5 (5.56%) Oracle
3 5 (5.56%) Splunk
4 4 (4.44%) IBM
5 3 (3.33%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (2.22%) New Relic
7 1 (1.11%) Alias
7 1 (1.11%) Calypso
7 1 (1.11%) FIS
7 1 (1.11%) Metaswitch
7 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.11%) Murex
7 1 (1.11%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.11%) SAP
7 1 (1.11%) Sybase
7 1 (1.11%) Temenos