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

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 78 100
Rank change year-on-year +6 +22 +7
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Containerisation 52 42 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.83% 2.04% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 2.22% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 24 51
10th Percentile £467 £442 £575
25th Percentile £509 £500 £616
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 £775 £775 £875
Central London median daily rate £610 £631 £685
% change year-on-year -3.37% -7.85% +5.38%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,730 1,890 2,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.23% 91.88% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 1,254 1,990
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
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 £775 £788 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £598
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% +3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 15
10th Percentile £17.62 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.21 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.15 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% -3.18% -36.40%
75th Percentile £50.25 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £28.79 £26.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.49% -23.49% -17.65%

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
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 23 August 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 1 (1.92%) CICS
1 1 (1.92%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.92%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 18 (34.62%) AWS
2 14 (26.92%) Azure
2 14 (26.92%) GCP
3 13 (25.00%) GitHub
4 8 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 7 (13.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (13.46%) Serverless
6 6 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (7.69%) PaaS
7 4 (7.69%) SaaS
7 4 (7.69%) Slack
8 3 (5.77%) Apigee
8 3 (5.77%) Azure AKS
8 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.77%) Stackdriver
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) DNS
1 4 (7.69%) Firewall
1 4 (7.69%) HTTP
1 4 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 4 (7.69%) VPN
2 2 (3.85%) DHCP
2 2 (3.85%) SSL
3 1 (1.92%) NAS
3 1 (1.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.77%) Big Data
2 3 (5.77%) DynamoDB
2 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.92%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.92%) Impala
4 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.92%) OLAP
4 1 (1.92%) OLTP
4 1 (1.92%) Redis
4 1 (1.92%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.92%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.92%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (25.00%) GitLab
2 8 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 7 (13.46%) Gradle
3 7 (13.46%) Maven
3 7 (13.46%) SonarQube
4 6 (11.54%) Git
5 4 (7.69%) Selenium
6 3 (5.77%) JIRA
7 2 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (3.85%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.92%) git-flow
8 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (34.62%) Finance
2 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Social Skills
4 6 (11.54%) Banking
5 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.77%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.92%) Back Office
7 1 (1.92%) Billing
7 1 (1.92%) Front Office
7 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (15.38%) Architect
3 7 (13.46%) Developer
4 6 (11.54%) Senior
5 4 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Lead
6 3 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Specialist
7 2 (3.85%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) GCP Architect
7 2 (3.85%) GCP Data Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.46%) Node.js
2 5 (9.62%) GraphQL
2 5 (9.62%) REST
3 3 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.77%) Kafka
3 3 (5.77%) RESTful
3 3 (5.77%) Spring
3 3 (5.77%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.85%) FastAPI
4 2 (3.85%) OAuth
4 2 (3.85%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.92%) Apollo GraphQL
5 1 (1.92%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.92%) JWT
5 1 (1.92%) LangChain
5 1 (1.92%) ONNX
5 1 (1.92%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.92%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.92%) Redux
5 1 (1.92%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.54%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.77%) IVR
4 3 (5.77%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.85%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.85%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.85%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.85%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.85%) Replication
6 1 (1.92%) Equities
6 1 (1.92%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.92%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 14 (26.92%) Linux
2 8 (15.38%) Unix
3 3 (5.77%) Windows
4 2 (3.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.92%) AIX
5 1 (1.92%) Android
5 1 (1.92%) Solaris
5 1 (1.92%) VMS
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (65.38%) DevOps
2 30 (57.69%) CI/CD
3 24 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (32.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 15 (28.85%) Agile
6 11 (21.15%) High Availability
7 8 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (15.38%) Microservices
7 8 (15.38%) Migration
7 8 (15.38%) Observability
7 8 (15.38%) SDLC
8 7 (13.46%) Configuration Management
8 7 (13.46%) Machine Learning
8 7 (13.46%) Test Automation
9 6 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (11.54%) Software Engineering
9 6 (11.54%) Task Automation
10 5 (9.62%) DevSecOps
10 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (57.69%) Python
2 12 (23.08%) Java
3 8 (15.38%) Go
3 8 (15.38%) SQL
4 7 (13.46%) Bash
4 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.62%) Shell Script
6 4 (7.69%) Perl
7 2 (3.85%) C#
7 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.85%) PromQL
7 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.92%) C++
8 1 (1.92%) COBOL
8 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.92%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.92%) Ruby
8 1 (1.92%) SPARQL
8 1 (1.92%) Swift
8 1 (1.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.69%) Degree
3 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) EMIR
3 1 (1.92%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) MiFID
3 1 (1.92%) NIST
3 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (55.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (63.46%) Kubernetes
2 32 (61.54%) Terraform
3 15 (28.85%) Ansible
4 8 (15.38%) Argo
4 8 (15.38%) Grafana
5 7 (13.46%) Prometheus
5 7 (13.46%) Puppet
6 5 (9.62%) Istio
7 4 (7.69%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.92%) Kibana
8 1 (1.92%) Podman
8 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) Google
2 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.62%) Splunk
4 3 (5.77%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.85%) F5
5 2 (3.85%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.92%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.92%) CQG
6 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.92%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.92%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.92%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.92%) NetApp
6 1 (1.92%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.92%) Reuters
6 1 (1.92%) SAP
6 1 (1.92%) Tenable