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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 100 183
Rank change year-on-year +41 +83 -9
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 692 348 246
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 3.79% 2.39% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 2.73% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 211 168
10th Percentile £386 £360 £440
25th Percentile £438 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £588 £623 £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 & 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 15,633 12,740 17,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.61% 87.32% 87.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,564 7,476 11,022
10th Percentile £220 £240 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,732 732 1,229
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.78 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.41% -31.60% +43.91%
75th Percentile £51.21 £64.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +34 293 £500 +6.67% 513
Midlands +43 145 £530 -13.40% 365
Yorkshire +23 138 £487 +14.59% 198
West Midlands +49 135 £540 -11.76% 193
North West +25 132 £505 +6.32% 277
South East -2 103 £505 -11.49% 546
South West +22 83 £625 +4.17% 249
Scotland +17 75 £500 - 109
East of England -2 31 £573 +90.83% 315
North East +18 28 £488 -23.08% 38
East Midlands -16 10 £483 +8.67% 149
Northern Ireland -7 5 - - 40
Wales -3 3 £511 -10.66% 52
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 (3.47%) SAS
2 18 (2.60%) Confluence
3 15 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.73%) OpenStack
6 11 (1.59%) Apache
7 9 (1.30%) nginx
8 6 (0.87%) IIS
9 4 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.43%) Drupal
10 3 (0.43%) iPlanet
10 3 (0.43%) JBoss
10 3 (0.43%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.29%) Mule
12 1 (0.14%) FileNet
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
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
1 364 (52.60%) AWS
2 280 (40.46%) Azure
3 180 (26.01%) GCP
4 146 (21.10%) GitHub
5 138 (19.94%) Serverless
6 127 (18.35%) OpenShift
7 78 (11.27%) GitHub Actions
8 73 (10.55%) AWS Lambda
9 69 (9.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 67 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
11 62 (8.96%) Amazon S3
12 61 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (7.23%) Amazon EC2
14 46 (6.65%) Amazon ECS
15 38 (5.49%) Azure AKS
16 34 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 22 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
18 21 (3.03%) Datadog
19 20 (2.89%) Azure Key Vault
20 17 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 58 (8.38%) Firewall
2 25 (3.61%) DNS
3 18 (2.60%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.17%) VPN
5 10 (1.45%) Software-Defined Networking
6 9 (1.30%) Network Security
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
9 6 (0.87%) SAN
10 4 (0.58%) SNMP
11 3 (0.43%) SSH
11 3 (0.43%) SSL
12 1 (0.14%) AMQP
12 1 (0.14%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (17.34%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (12.57%) NoSQL
3 44 (6.36%) Relational Database
4 36 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (4.62%) MongoDB
5 32 (4.62%) Redis
6 29 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
7 22 (3.18%) MySQL
8 19 (2.75%) DynamoDB
9 16 (2.31%) SQL Server
10 12 (1.73%) 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
1 202 (29.19%) Jenkins
2 198 (28.61%) GitLab
3 157 (22.69%) Git
4 76 (10.98%) JIRA
5 39 (5.64%) JUnit
6 35 (5.06%) SonarQube
7 34 (4.91%) Liquibase
8 28 (4.05%) Selenium
9 22 (3.18%) Artifactory
9 22 (3.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 20 (2.89%) Maven
11 19 (2.75%) Gradle
12 18 (2.60%) Bitbucket
13 17 (2.46%) CircleCI
14 16 (2.31%) Cucumber
14 16 (2.31%) Cypress.io
15 13 (1.88%) Postman
16 12 (1.73%) Visual Studio
17 9 (1.30%) MLflow
17 9 (1.30%) Mockito
General
1 227 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 125 (18.06%) Finance
3 111 (16.04%) Banking
4 102 (14.74%) Public Sector
5 65 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.90%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.02%) Telecoms
8 13 (1.88%) Aerospace
9 9 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.72%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.58%) Digital Healthcare
12 4 (0.58%) Games
12 4 (0.58%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.58%) Law
12 4 (0.58%) Legal
12 4 (0.58%) Military
12 4 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 145 (20.95%) Developer
2 92 (13.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 91 (13.15%) Senior
4 74 (10.69%) Architect
5 66 (9.54%) Software Engineer
6 48 (6.94%) Java Developer
7 40 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
8 32 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
9 30 (4.34%) Cloud Engineer
9 30 (4.34%) Python Developer
10 29 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
11 28 (4.05%) Lead
12 25 (3.61%) Data Engineer
12 25 (3.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 23 (3.32%) Senior Developer
14 21 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
14 21 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
14 21 (3.03%) Python Engineer
14 21 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
15 20 (2.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (18.64%) REST
2 113 (16.33%) RESTful
3 96 (13.87%) Elastic Stack
4 85 (12.28%) Spring Boot
5 76 (10.98%) Spring
6 71 (10.26%) React
7 70 (10.12%) Kafka
8 56 (8.09%) Node.js
9 51 (7.37%) AngularJS
10 48 (6.94%) .NET
11 31 (4.48%) FastAPI
12 27 (3.90%) HTML
13 26 (3.76%) OAuth
14 24 (3.47%) YAML
15 22 (3.18%) CSS
16 21 (3.03%) GraphQL
16 21 (3.03%) Keycloak
17 20 (2.89%) Jest
17 20 (2.89%) JSON
18 19 (2.75%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 139 (20.09%) Cloud Native
2 77 (11.13%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.64%) Public Cloud
4 29 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 28 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (3.32%) Algorithms
7 19 (2.75%) Data Structures
8 16 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.02%) Data Centre
10 14 (2.02%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.73%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.73%) Private Cloud
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%) N-Tier
15 5 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 215 (31.07%) Linux
2 44 (6.36%) Windows
3 30 (4.34%) Unix
4 25 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.46%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.88%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.59%) VMS
8 4 (0.58%) Debian
9 2 (0.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (72.69%) CI/CD
2 428 (61.85%) DevOps
3 287 (41.47%) Agile
4 251 (36.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 231 (33.38%) Microservices
6 163 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
7 132 (19.08%) Software Engineering
8 120 (17.34%) Test Automation
9 110 (15.90%) Observability
10 91 (13.15%) Computer Science
11 90 (13.01%) High Availability
12 76 (10.98%) DevSecOps
13 71 (10.26%) Migration
14 68 (9.83%) Infrastructure Automation
15 66 (9.54%) Full-Stack Development
16 64 (9.25%) Cybersecurity
17 62 (8.96%) SDLC
18 60 (8.67%) Platform Engineering
19 59 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
19 59 (8.53%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 357 (51.59%) Python
2 180 (26.01%) Java
3 129 (18.64%) Bash
4 102 (14.74%) SQL
5 90 (13.01%) Go
6 66 (9.54%) PowerShell
7 56 (8.09%) JavaScript
8 52 (7.51%) TypeScript
9 47 (6.79%) C#
10 27 (3.90%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.75%) C++
12 16 (2.31%) Perl
13 15 (2.17%) Ruby
14 14 (2.02%) PHP
15 12 (1.73%) Groovy
16 11 (1.59%) Bicep
16 11 (1.59%) C
17 6 (0.87%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.87%) R
18 4 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 226 (32.66%) Security Cleared
2 168 (24.28%) SC Cleared
3 91 (13.15%) Degree
4 77 (11.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (8.09%) AWS Certification
6 51 (7.37%) DV Cleared
7 41 (5.92%) Master's Degree
8 33 (4.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (3.76%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.88%) 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 50 (7.23%) QA
2 23 (3.32%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.89%) NCSC
4 17 (2.46%) ISO 20022
5 15 (2.17%) NIST
6 13 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.59%) GDPR
8 10 (1.45%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.45%) PSD2
8 10 (1.45%) SEPA
9 8 (1.16%) WCAG
10 6 (0.87%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.87%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.72%) HL7
12 3 (0.43%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.43%) IEC 61508
12 3 (0.43%) IEC 62304
12 3 (0.43%) ISO 26262
12 3 (0.43%) SLA
13 2 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 470 (67.92%) Docker
2 41 (5.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.31%) vSphere
4 8 (1.16%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.87%) KVM
6 6 (0.87%) NFS
7 4 (0.58%) QEMU
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
1 494 (71.39%) Kubernetes
2 274 (39.60%) Terraform
3 198 (28.61%) Ansible
4 149 (21.53%) Grafana
5 133 (19.22%) Prometheus
6 38 (5.49%) Puppet
7 36 (5.20%) Argo
8 24 (3.47%) Podman
9 23 (3.32%) Progress Chef
10 19 (2.75%) Kibana
11 12 (1.73%) 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
15 6 (0.87%) Fluentd
15 6 (0.87%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 92 (13.29%) Splunk
2 89 (12.86%) Microsoft
3 61 (8.82%) Oracle
4 57 (8.24%) VMware
5 53 (7.66%) Red Hat
6 50 (7.23%) Google
7 16 (2.31%) IBM
8 12 (1.73%) Pure Storage
8 12 (1.73%) Tenable
9 9 (1.30%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.16%) Databricks
10 8 (1.16%) NVIDIA
11 7 (1.01%) Cisco
11 7 (1.01%) Palo Alto
12 6 (0.87%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.87%) F5
12 6 (0.87%) Gigya
12 6 (0.87%) NetApp
12 6 (0.87%) SAP
12 6 (0.87%) Veritas