Containerisation Contract Job Trends in South London

Containerization
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 36 39
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 13 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in South London 7.51% 0.49% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.50% 0.55% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile £514 - -
25th Percentile £516 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -5.62%
75th Percentile £690 - £563
90th Percentile £750 - £650
London median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +1.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 153 183 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.44% 89.27% 81.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 119 191
10th Percentile £241 £235 £338
25th Percentile £413 £409 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £581 £600
90th Percentile £738 £743 £675
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 15
10th Percentile - - £14.00
25th Percentile £15.84 £17.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £16.91 £44.13 £52.19
Median % change year-on-year -61.68% -15.45% +18.32%
75th Percentile £17.98 £74.22 £55.39
90th Percentile - £76.70 £66.54
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.80 £37.75
% change year-on-year -18.48% -2.52% +5.59%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in South London

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in South London over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in South London

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 4 October 2025. 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
Croydon +8 11 £533 +12.11%
Bromley - 2 £750 - 3
Containerisation
London

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) GCP
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) Route 53
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 5 (38.46%) Git
2 5 (38.46%) JUnit
2 5 (38.46%) Mockito
3 4 (30.77%) SonarQube
4 3 (23.08%) Maven
5 2 (15.38%) Gradle
5 2 (15.38%) Liquibase
6 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (7.69%) DbUnit
6 1 (7.69%) GitLab
6 1 (7.69%) jMock
General
1 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Electronics
4 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 2 (15.38%) Marketing
4 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
1 8 (61.54%) Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) Spring
2 6 (46.15%) Spring Boot
3 3 (23.08%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
3 3 (23.08%) Bootstrap
3 3 (23.08%) JPA
3 3 (23.08%) REST
3 3 (23.08%) SOAP
3 3 (23.08%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
4 2 (15.38%) Kafka
4 2 (15.38%) OpenAPI
4 2 (15.38%) React
4 2 (15.38%) Swagger
5 1 (7.69%) PowerMock
5 1 (7.69%) RESTful
5 1 (7.69%) Spring Batch
5 1 (7.69%) Spring Integration
5 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Microservices
2 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
3 9 (69.23%) TDD
4 8 (61.54%) DevOps
5 7 (53.85%) Agile
5 7 (53.85%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (30.77%) Code Quality
6 4 (30.77%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (30.77%) CQRS
6 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
6 4 (30.77%) Domain-Driven Design
7 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
7 3 (23.08%) Scrum
7 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (15.38%) Migration
8 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
8 2 (15.38%) TOGAF
8 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Grafana
2 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.69%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft