Containerisation Contract Job Trends in London

Containerization
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 79 134
Rank change year-on-year +7 +55 -3
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 641 421 327
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.70% 3.33% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 3.63% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 293 232
10th Percentile £400 £409 £413
25th Percentile £450 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £733 £713 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% -9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £55.70 - -
25th Percentile £57.41 - -
Median hourly rate £63.47 - £60.00
75th Percentile £68.33 - -
90th Percentile £69.33 - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £26.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +180.23% -55.83% -11.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,475 11,601 15,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.22% 91.69% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,379 7,867 11,338
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £803 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 165 333
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.18 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £66.95
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.03 £34.11
% change year-on-year +24.90% -6.10% -9.05%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in London

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in London over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in London

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Containerisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
Central London +12 78 £555 -1.33% 62
South London -3 31 £515 -4.19% 3
West London -7 22 £500 +22.25% 2
East London -1 6 £533 -8.97% 3
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 29 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.18%) Apache
4 10 (1.56%) Confluence
5 8 (1.25%) Appian
6 4 (0.62%) Camunda
6 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.47%) nginx
8 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.31%) SAS
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.31%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.16%) Maya
5 1 (0.16%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.62%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (0.62%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.16%) Magento
4 1 (0.16%) Maximo
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 370 (57.72%) AWS
2 276 (43.06%) Azure
3 158 (24.65%) GitHub
4 128 (19.97%) GCP
5 107 (16.69%) Serverless
6 99 (15.44%) GitHub Actions
7 82 (12.79%) Azure DevOps
8 77 (12.01%) Amazon EKS
9 76 (11.86%) Amazon S3
9 76 (11.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 64 (9.98%) Amazon ECS
11 61 (9.52%) Azure AKS
12 60 (9.36%) AWS Lambda
13 55 (8.58%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (5.46%) OpenShift
15 30 (4.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (4.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 26 (4.06%) Azure Data Factory
17 26 (4.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 26 (4.06%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.03%) Firewall
2 12 (1.87%) DNS
3 10 (1.56%) Network Security
4 7 (1.09%) VPN
5 4 (0.62%) HTTP
5 4 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.62%) SSL
6 3 (0.47%) 3GPP
6 3 (0.47%) 4G
6 3 (0.47%) 5G
6 3 (0.47%) Internet
7 2 (0.31%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.16%) LTE
8 1 (0.16%) NAS
8 1 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.16%) SAN
8 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (10.92%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (9.20%) NoSQL
3 44 (6.86%) Relational Database
4 38 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
5 35 (5.46%) SQL Server
6 33 (5.15%) MongoDB
7 22 (3.43%) BigQuery
8 20 (3.12%) MySQL
9 16 (2.50%) DynamoDB
9 16 (2.50%) Pinecone
10 15 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (2.34%) Data Lake
11 14 (2.18%) Redis
12 13 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (1.87%) Big Data
14 11 (1.72%) Delta Lake
15 9 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (1.25%) Weaviate
17 7 (1.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 117 (18.25%) Git
1 117 (18.25%) Jenkins
2 91 (14.20%) GitLab
3 31 (4.84%) MLflow
4 28 (4.37%) JUnit
5 18 (2.81%) Mockito
6 16 (2.50%) JIRA
7 12 (1.87%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.87%) Gradle
7 12 (1.87%) Maven
8 10 (1.56%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.56%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.25%) Liquibase
10 7 (1.09%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.78%) Snyk
12 4 (0.62%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.62%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.62%) Postman
12 4 (0.62%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.62%) Selenium
General
1 164 (25.59%) Social Skills
2 124 (19.34%) Public Sector
3 119 (18.56%) Finance
4 50 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (7.49%) Banking
6 11 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
7 10 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (1.56%) Retail
8 9 (1.40%) Investment Banking
8 9 (1.40%) Publishing
9 8 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.09%) Front Office
10 7 (1.09%) Law
11 6 (0.94%) Legal
12 5 (0.78%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.78%) Military
12 5 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.62%) Police
Job Titles
1 188 (29.33%) Developer
2 123 (19.19%) Senior
3 77 (12.01%) DevOps Engineer
4 70 (10.92%) Architect
5 48 (7.49%) Java Developer
6 46 (7.18%) Senior Developer
7 44 (6.86%) Azure Engineer
8 42 (6.55%) Python Developer
9 41 (6.40%) Lead
10 39 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 39 (6.08%) Full-Stack Developer
11 37 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
12 35 (5.46%) Platform Engineer
13 30 (4.68%) Data Engineer
13 30 (4.68%) Software Engineer
14 28 (4.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 23 (3.59%) Python Engineer
16 22 (3.43%) Java Engineer
17 21 (3.28%) AWS DevOps
18 20 (3.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (16.85%) Spring
2 98 (15.29%) Spring Boot
3 91 (14.20%) RESTful
4 90 (14.04%) Kafka
5 88 (13.73%) React
6 85 (13.26%) Node.js
7 74 (11.54%) REST
8 56 (8.74%) AngularJS
9 41 (6.40%) .NET
10 36 (5.62%) FastAPI
11 34 (5.30%) HTML
11 34 (5.30%) PyTorch
12 33 (5.15%) OAuth
13 32 (4.99%) CSS
13 32 (4.99%) Django
14 29 (4.52%) Pandas
15 26 (4.06%) NumPy
15 26 (4.06%) OpenTelemetry
15 26 (4.06%) TensorFlow
16 25 (3.90%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 174 (27.15%) Cloud Native
2 58 (9.05%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (2.81%) Algorithms
5 18 (2.81%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.34%) Public Cloud
7 14 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (2.03%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.72%) Equities
11 10 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (1.40%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.25%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.25%) Life Science
13 8 (1.25%) Low-Code
14 7 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (1.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 65 (10.14%) Linux
2 15 (2.34%) Windows
3 14 (2.18%) Unix
4 11 (1.72%) VMS
5 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Solaris
6 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (78.47%) CI/CD
2 316 (49.30%) DevOps
3 263 (41.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 227 (35.41%) Microservices
5 209 (32.61%) Agile
6 150 (23.40%) Observability
7 127 (19.81%) AI
8 120 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
9 117 (18.25%) Test Automation
10 116 (18.10%) Software Engineering
11 94 (14.66%) Full-Stack Development
12 88 (13.73%) Machine Learning
13 79 (12.32%) Event-Driven
14 78 (12.17%) TDD
15 74 (11.54%) Mentoring
16 72 (11.23%) Platform Engineering
17 71 (11.08%) Analytics
18 68 (10.61%) Data Science
19 67 (10.45%) Migration
20 66 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 308 (48.05%) Python
2 178 (27.77%) Java
3 155 (24.18%) SQL
4 85 (13.26%) TypeScript
5 66 (10.30%) Bash
6 65 (10.14%) JavaScript
7 33 (5.15%) Ruby
8 31 (4.84%) Bicep
9 28 (4.37%) C#
10 25 (3.90%) Go
11 24 (3.74%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.72%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.40%) C++
14 8 (1.25%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.94%) C
16 4 (0.62%) PHP
17 3 (0.47%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.47%) R
18 2 (0.31%) ProC
18 2 (0.31%) Rust
Qualifications
1 218 (34.01%) Security Cleared
2 195 (30.42%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.62%) Degree
4 31 (4.84%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.90%) AWS Certification
5 25 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.50%) Master's Degree
8 13 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.78%) CISSP
12 5 (0.78%) OSCP
13 4 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.47%) CCSP
14 3 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.47%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.93%) QA
2 35 (5.46%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.03%) GDPR
4 13 (2.03%) WCAG
5 12 (1.87%) NIST
6 9 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.09%) ISO 20022
7 7 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.94%) NCSC
9 5 (0.78%) PSD2
10 4 (0.62%) SEPA
11 3 (0.47%) HL7
12 2 (0.31%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.31%) TARGET2
13 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 449 (70.05%) Docker
2 14 (2.18%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.78%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.78%) vSphere
5 4 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.16%) GPFS
7 1 (0.16%) HDFS
7 1 (0.16%) Lustre
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.16%) Postfix
7 1 (0.16%) Squid
7 1 (0.16%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 417 (65.05%) Kubernetes
2 243 (37.91%) Terraform
3 67 (10.45%) Grafana
4 64 (9.98%) Ansible
5 60 (9.36%) Prometheus
6 24 (3.74%) Argo
7 18 (2.81%) Puppet
8 15 (2.34%) Istio
9 9 (1.40%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.09%) Kubeflow
10 7 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.78%) linkerd
11 5 (0.78%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.62%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.62%) Salt
13 3 (0.47%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.31%) Kibana
14 2 (0.31%) Podman
Vendors
1 77 (12.01%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.40%) Google
3 37 (5.77%) Databricks
4 26 (4.06%) Oracle
5 25 (3.90%) Splunk
6 23 (3.59%) OpenAI
7 16 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.87%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.25%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.25%) PagerDuty
10 8 (1.25%) UiPath
10 8 (1.25%) VMware
11 7 (1.09%) IBM
12 6 (0.94%) AppDynamics
12 6 (0.94%) New Relic
12 6 (0.94%) Solace
13 5 (0.78%) Foundry
13 5 (0.78%) Rapid7
13 5 (0.78%) Salesforce