Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Containerization
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 27 30
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 13 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 15.48% 1.75% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.33% 1.90% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 6
10th Percentile £500 - £494
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -25.00%
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £564 - £563
South London median daily rate £528 £725 £525
% change year-on-year -27.24% +38.10% -25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 75 105 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 89.29% 92.11% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 68 94
10th Percentile £412 £380 £231
25th Percentile £485 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% +1.89% -8.17%
75th Percentile £566 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £619 £675
South London median daily rate £510 £534 £516
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.44% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.02% -
75th Percentile - £21.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £19.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year +213.94% -52.43% -7.06%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Croydon

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Containerisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Serverless
3 5 (38.46%) GCP
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (23.08%) Azure App Service
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Functions
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Backend Developer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Spring
2 4 (30.77%) Node.js
3 3 (23.08%) .NET
3 3 (23.08%) .NET Core
3 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
3 3 (23.08%) PyTorch
3 3 (23.08%) React
3 3 (23.08%) TensorFlow
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) AI Agents
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) CSOC
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) DevOps
3 8 (61.54%) Microservices
4 7 (53.85%) Continuous Delivery
5 6 (46.15%) Code Quality
5 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (46.15%) Design Patterns
5 6 (46.15%) TDD
6 5 (38.46%) CQRS
6 5 (38.46%) Domain-Driven Design
7 4 (30.77%) Agile
7 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (23.08%) AI
8 3 (23.08%) Analytics
8 3 (23.08%) Compliance Management
8 3 (23.08%) Data Science
8 3 (23.08%) Deep Learning
8 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
8 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 3 (23.08%) Bicep
4 3 (23.08%) C#
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 2 (15.38%) Bash
6 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) CEH
2 1 (7.69%) CHECK Team Leader
2 1 (7.69%) CREST Certified
2 1 (7.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NCSC
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Docker
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
2 6 (46.15%) Terraform
3 2 (15.38%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Databricks
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
1 3 (23.08%) OpenAI