Containerisation Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Containerization
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 108 187
Rank change year-on-year +48 +79 -14
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 690 337 238
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 3.80% 2.25% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 2.58% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 202 162
10th Percentile £385 £356 £441
25th Percentile £438 £409 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £521 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -9.39% -
75th Percentile £588 £612 £675
90th Percentile £675 £700 £726
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 5
10th Percentile £55.08 - £56.90
25th Percentile £67.00 £59.39 £61.25
Median hourly rate £74.26 £63.79 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.42% +2.06% -10.71%
75th Percentile £84.50 £68.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £119.00 - £72.80
UK median hourly rate £71.13 £44.64 £63.75
% change year-on-year +59.33% -29.97% -8.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,617 13,041 17,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.01% 86.97% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,535 7,668 11,224
10th Percentile £220 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,767 762 1,227
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.03 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% -26.97% +39.06%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Containerisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
North of England +41 298 £500 +5.26% 165
Midlands +39 144 £530 -13.40% 108
Yorkshire +28 141 £487 +14.59% 64
North West +29 134 £505 +2.07% 87
West Midlands +41 132 £540 -11.76% 59
South East -9 105 £513 -9.29% 189
South West +29 83 £625 +6.84% 108
Scotland +18 72 £500 +1.52% 30
North East +18 28 £488 -23.08% 14
East of England -6 28 £525 +75.00% 96
East Midlands -11 12 £443 -0.34% 41
Northern Ireland -5 4 - - 10
Wales +2 2 £600 +4.90% 19
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 24 (3.48%) SAS
2 18 (2.61%) Confluence
3 15 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.74%) Apache
5 12 (1.74%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.30%) nginx
7 6 (0.87%) IIS
7 6 (0.87%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.43%) Drupal
9 3 (0.43%) iPlanet
9 3 (0.43%) JBoss
9 3 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.29%) Mule
10 2 (0.29%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.14%) FileNet
11 1 (0.14%) Mule ESB
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 367 (53.19%) AWS
2 284 (41.16%) Azure
3 189 (27.39%) GCP
4 145 (21.01%) GitHub
5 139 (20.14%) Serverless
6 128 (18.55%) OpenShift
7 76 (11.01%) GitHub Actions
8 74 (10.72%) AWS Lambda
9 69 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 65 (9.42%) Azure DevOps
11 62 (8.99%) Amazon S3
12 61 (8.84%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (7.25%) Amazon EC2
14 45 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
15 37 (5.36%) Azure AKS
16 34 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 22 (3.19%) Amazon SQS
18 21 (3.04%) Datadog
19 19 (2.75%) Azure Key Vault
20 18 (2.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (8.70%) Firewall
2 25 (3.62%) DNS
3 18 (2.61%) TCP/IP
4 16 (2.32%) VPN
5 10 (1.45%) Software-Defined Networking
6 9 (1.30%) Network Security
6 9 (1.30%) SAN
7 8 (1.16%) BGP
7 8 (1.16%) VLAN
8 7 (1.01%) HTTP
8 7 (1.01%) Kerberos
9 6 (0.87%) DHCP
9 6 (0.87%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (0.87%) iSCSI
9 6 (0.87%) NAS
10 4 (0.58%) SNMP
11 3 (0.43%) SSH
11 3 (0.43%) SSL
12 1 (0.14%) DSL
12 1 (0.14%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (17.97%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (12.75%) NoSQL
3 42 (6.09%) Relational Database
4 36 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
5 33 (4.78%) MongoDB
5 33 (4.78%) Redis
6 28 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (3.33%) MySQL
8 18 (2.61%) DynamoDB
9 17 (2.46%) SQL Server
10 12 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (1.45%) Big Data
12 9 (1.30%) BigQuery
12 9 (1.30%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.30%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.30%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 8 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.16%) Hadoop
13 8 (1.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 204 (29.57%) Jenkins
2 197 (28.55%) GitLab
3 152 (22.03%) Git
4 76 (11.01%) JIRA
5 38 (5.51%) JUnit
6 35 (5.07%) SonarQube
7 34 (4.93%) Liquibase
8 28 (4.06%) Selenium
9 22 (3.19%) Artifactory
9 22 (3.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 20 (2.90%) Maven
11 19 (2.75%) Gradle
12 18 (2.61%) Bitbucket
13 17 (2.46%) CircleCI
14 16 (2.32%) Cucumber
15 15 (2.17%) Cypress.io
16 13 (1.88%) Postman
17 12 (1.74%) Visual Studio
18 9 (1.30%) MLflow
18 9 (1.30%) Mockito
General
1 230 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 125 (18.12%) Finance
3 113 (16.38%) Banking
4 99 (14.35%) Public Sector
5 64 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.91%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.74%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.59%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.72%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.58%) Digital Healthcare
11 4 (0.58%) Games
11 4 (0.58%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.58%) Law
11 4 (0.58%) Legal
11 4 (0.58%) Military
11 4 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 142 (20.58%) Developer
2 91 (13.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 86 (12.46%) Senior
4 78 (11.30%) Architect
5 66 (9.57%) Software Engineer
6 46 (6.67%) Java Developer
7 41 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
8 33 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
9 30 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
9 30 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
9 30 (4.35%) Python Developer
10 27 (3.91%) Lead
11 25 (3.62%) Data Engineer
12 24 (3.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 21 (3.04%) Python Engineer
13 21 (3.04%) Senior Software Engineer
14 20 (2.90%) AWS DevOps
14 20 (2.90%) GCP Engineer
14 20 (2.90%) Senior Developer
14 20 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (18.70%) REST
2 115 (16.67%) RESTful
3 96 (13.91%) Elastic Stack
4 84 (12.17%) Spring Boot
5 76 (11.01%) Spring
6 72 (10.43%) Kafka
7 69 (10.00%) React
8 55 (7.97%) Node.js
9 48 (6.96%) AngularJS
10 47 (6.81%) .NET
11 33 (4.78%) FastAPI
12 28 (4.06%) OAuth
13 25 (3.62%) HTML
14 24 (3.48%) GraphQL
14 24 (3.48%) YAML
15 22 (3.19%) Keycloak
16 21 (3.04%) Flask
17 20 (2.90%) CSS
17 20 (2.90%) JSON
18 19 (2.75%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 137 (19.86%) Cloud Native
2 77 (11.16%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.65%) Public Cloud
4 31 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 28 (4.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (3.48%) Algorithms
7 19 (2.75%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.46%) Private Cloud
9 15 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (2.17%) Onboarding
10 14 (2.03%) Data Centre
10 14 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.59%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.45%) PKI
12 10 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 8 (1.16%) Enterprise Storage
13 8 (1.16%) Replication
14 6 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (0.87%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 214 (31.01%) Linux
2 47 (6.81%) Windows
3 32 (4.64%) Unix
4 22 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (2.90%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.01%) VMS
8 3 (0.43%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (73.19%) CI/CD
2 423 (61.30%) DevOps
3 291 (42.17%) Agile
4 249 (36.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 234 (33.91%) Microservices
6 165 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
7 132 (19.13%) Software Engineering
8 120 (17.39%) Test Automation
9 108 (15.65%) Observability
10 90 (13.04%) Computer Science
10 90 (13.04%) High Availability
11 76 (11.01%) DevSecOps
12 72 (10.43%) Migration
13 67 (9.71%) Infrastructure Automation
14 64 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
14 64 (9.28%) Full-Stack Development
15 61 (8.84%) Mentoring
15 61 (8.84%) Platform Engineering
16 60 (8.70%) SDLC
16 60 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 355 (51.45%) Python
2 182 (26.38%) Java
3 129 (18.70%) Bash
4 107 (15.51%) SQL
5 89 (12.90%) Go
6 69 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 58 (8.41%) JavaScript
8 53 (7.68%) TypeScript
9 47 (6.81%) C#
10 28 (4.06%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.75%) C++
12 16 (2.32%) Perl
13 14 (2.03%) PHP
13 14 (2.03%) Ruby
14 12 (1.74%) Groovy
15 11 (1.59%) C
16 10 (1.45%) Bicep
17 6 (0.87%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.87%) R
18 4 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 226 (32.75%) Security Cleared
2 168 (24.35%) SC Cleared
3 90 (13.04%) Degree
4 76 (11.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (8.12%) AWS Certification
6 51 (7.39%) DV Cleared
7 41 (5.94%) Master's Degree
8 33 (4.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (3.77%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (1.16%) CISSP
13 7 (1.01%) CISM
13 7 (1.01%) RHCE
14 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.87%) OCP
14 6 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.58%) CSPO
15 4 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.96%) QA
2 22 (3.19%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.90%) NCSC
4 17 (2.46%) ISO 20022
5 15 (2.17%) NIST
6 13 (1.88%) GDPR
6 13 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.45%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.45%) PSD2
7 10 (1.45%) SEPA
8 8 (1.16%) WCAG
9 6 (0.87%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.87%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.72%) HL7
11 3 (0.43%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.43%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.43%) IEC 62304
11 3 (0.43%) ISO 26262
11 3 (0.43%) SLA
12 2 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 470 (68.12%) Docker
2 42 (6.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (2.46%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.32%) vSphere
5 8 (1.16%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.87%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.87%) KVM
7 6 (0.87%) NFS
8 3 (0.43%) Tivoli Directory Server
9 1 (0.14%) HDFS
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 497 (72.03%) Kubernetes
2 272 (39.42%) Terraform
3 192 (27.83%) Ansible
4 149 (21.59%) Grafana
5 133 (19.28%) Prometheus
6 37 (5.36%) Puppet
7 35 (5.07%) Argo
8 24 (3.48%) Progress Chef
9 20 (2.90%) Podman
10 18 (2.61%) Kibana
11 12 (1.74%) Istio
12 10 (1.45%) Control-M
12 10 (1.45%) IBM Guardium
12 10 (1.45%) Nessus
12 10 (1.45%) SCOM
13 8 (1.16%) logstash
13 8 (1.16%) vCenter Server
14 7 (1.01%) linkerd
14 7 (1.01%) NetBackup
14 7 (1.01%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 92 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 92 (13.33%) Splunk
2 66 (9.57%) Oracle
3 61 (8.84%) VMware
4 53 (7.68%) Red Hat
5 51 (7.39%) Google
6 22 (3.19%) IBM
7 12 (1.74%) Pure Storage
7 12 (1.74%) Tenable
8 9 (1.30%) AppDynamics
8 9 (1.30%) F5
9 7 (1.01%) Cisco
9 7 (1.01%) CyberArk
9 7 (1.01%) Databricks
9 7 (1.01%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.01%) Veritas
10 6 (0.87%) Citrix
10 6 (0.87%) Gigya
10 6 (0.87%) NetApp
10 6 (0.87%) SAP