Containerisation Contracts

Containerization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Containerisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Containerisation over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 158 157
Rank change year-on-year +82 -1 +14
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 931 673 998
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.18% 1.54% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 1.79% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 467 742
10th Percentile £409 £413 £463
25th Percentile £465 £500 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £725
90th Percentile £700 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 8
10th Percentile - £52.63 £54.83
25th Percentile £25.25 £62.19 £62.97
Median hourly rate £26.50 £70.00 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.14% +2.19% +26.27%
75th Percentile £40.30 £72.50 £76.13
90th Percentile £63.34 - £85.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.70 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +33.96% -9.62% +26.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +87 761 £550 -4.35% 853
London +74 413 £575 -4.17% 409
UK excluding London +78 362 £537 -2.36% 491
Work from Home +94 355 £540 -1.82% 633
North of England +51 121 £500 -9.09% 180
South East +40 84 £628 +0.49% 78
North West +38 83 £500 -9.09% 118
South West +70 60 £606 +10.23% 72
Scotland +27 54 £525 +1.69% 28
Yorkshire +16 34 £588 +6.82% 50
Midlands +41 31 £537 +13.05% 76
West Midlands +33 24 £650 +73.33% 51
East of England +29 13 £490 -4.39% 36
East Midlands +13 7 £459 -33.24% 24
Wales -2 7 £570 +10.68% 13
North East +3 4 £635 +20.95% 12
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 16

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 42 (4.51%) Confluence
2 37 (3.97%) Apache
3 34 (3.65%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.40%) nginx
6 9 (0.97%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.64%) Camunda
8 5 (0.54%) JBoss
8 5 (0.54%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.32%) CMS
10 3 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.32%) WebLogic Portal
10 3 (0.32%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.21%) IIS
11 2 (0.21%) Mule
11 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Notion
1 2 (0.21%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) InVision
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (0.32%) Shopify
2 2 (0.21%) Actimize
2 2 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.21%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.21%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.11%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 483 (51.88%) AWS
2 314 (33.73%) Azure
3 170 (18.26%) GCP
4 139 (14.93%) Serverless
5 93 (9.99%) GitHub
6 92 (9.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 90 (9.67%) Amazon S3
8 83 (8.92%) AWS Lambda
9 78 (8.38%) Amazon EKS
10 76 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
11 62 (6.66%) Amazon EC2
12 61 (6.55%) OpenShift
13 57 (6.12%) PaaS
14 54 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (5.26%) IaaS
16 38 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 35 (3.76%) Azure AKS
18 31 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
19 30 (3.22%) SaaS
19 30 (3.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 56 (6.02%) DNS
2 46 (4.94%) HTTP
3 43 (4.62%) TCP/IP
4 31 (3.33%) Firewall
5 26 (2.79%) DHCP
6 21 (2.26%) VPN
7 15 (1.61%) Network Security
8 10 (1.07%) BGP
8 10 (1.07%) SSL
8 10 (1.07%) VLAN
8 10 (1.07%) VSAN
9 9 (0.97%) MPLS
10 8 (0.86%) Wireless
11 7 (0.75%) Internet
12 6 (0.64%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.64%) SAN
13 5 (0.54%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.54%) WAN
14 4 (0.43%) NAS
14 4 (0.43%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (16.11%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (8.81%) Relational Database
3 78 (8.38%) Amazon RDS
4 66 (7.09%) NoSQL
5 58 (6.23%) MongoDB
6 55 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (5.48%) MySQL
8 39 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
9 34 (3.65%) SQL Server
10 33 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 31 (3.33%) Big Data
12 25 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
13 24 (2.58%) DynamoDB
14 23 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
14 23 (2.47%) Data Lake
14 23 (2.47%) Hadoop
15 21 (2.26%) Redis
16 16 (1.72%) KDB
16 16 (1.72%) Kdb+
17 12 (1.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 208 (22.34%) Jenkins
2 144 (15.47%) GitLab
3 127 (13.64%) Git
4 74 (7.95%) JIRA
5 65 (6.98%) JUnit
6 43 (4.62%) Mockito
7 40 (4.30%) Gradle
8 33 (3.54%) Bitbucket
8 33 (3.54%) Liquibase
9 29 (3.11%) Cucumber
10 25 (2.69%) SonarQube
11 18 (1.93%) Jasmine
12 17 (1.83%) Maven
13 15 (1.61%) Selenium
14 14 (1.50%) REST Assured
15 12 (1.29%) Artifactory
15 12 (1.29%) CircleCI
16 11 (1.18%) JMeter
17 7 (0.75%) LoadRunner
18 6 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 227 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 145 (15.57%) Finance
2 145 (15.57%) Public Sector
3 95 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (6.34%) Banking
5 45 (4.83%) Telecoms
6 28 (3.01%) Manufacturing
6 28 (3.01%) Marketing
7 24 (2.58%) Electronics
8 21 (2.26%) Investment Banking
9 20 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (1.61%) Legal
11 12 (1.29%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.86%) Law
12 8 (0.86%) Publishing
13 7 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.64%) Front Office
14 6 (0.64%) Military
14 6 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 235 (25.24%) Developer
2 161 (17.29%) Senior
3 145 (15.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 113 (12.14%) Architect
5 77 (8.27%) Lead
6 70 (7.52%) Java Developer
7 64 (6.87%) Software Engineer
8 59 (6.34%) Senior Developer
9 58 (6.23%) AWS Engineer
10 53 (5.69%) Data Engineer
11 40 (4.30%) Python Developer
12 36 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
13 33 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
14 32 (3.44%) Python Engineer
15 31 (3.33%) AWS Architect
16 30 (3.22%) Senior DevOps
17 29 (3.11%) .NET Developer
17 29 (3.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 29 (3.11%) Lead Developer
18 28 (3.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (13.64%) Kafka
2 113 (12.14%) Spring
3 103 (11.06%) Spring Boot
4 100 (10.74%) RESTful
5 80 (8.59%) React
6 72 (7.73%) .NET
7 70 (7.52%) Swagger
8 69 (7.41%) OpenAPI
9 66 (7.09%) REST
10 53 (5.69%) Elastic Stack
11 50 (5.37%) Node.js
12 37 (3.97%) OAuth
13 28 (3.01%) ARM Templates
14 27 (2.90%) AngularJS
14 27 (2.90%) Spring Security
15 25 (2.69%) Spring Batch
16 24 (2.58%) HTML
17 22 (2.36%) YAML
18 21 (2.26%) FastAPI
18 21 (2.26%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 75 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 43 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
2 43 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
3 35 (3.76%) Public Cloud
4 34 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (2.36%) Product Ownership
6 18 (1.93%) PKI
7 17 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 17 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.29%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.29%) Data Centre
9 9 (0.97%) Management Information System
9 9 (0.97%) Private Cloud
10 8 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (0.86%) Replication
11 7 (0.75%) Clustering
12 6 (0.64%) Hedge funds
12 6 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 220 (23.63%) Linux
2 71 (7.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 66 (7.09%) Windows
4 25 (2.69%) Unix
5 22 (2.36%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.86%) Rocky
6 8 (0.86%) VMS
7 6 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.54%) CentOS
9 4 (0.43%) Android
9 4 (0.43%) SUSE
9 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.32%) AIX
11 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.11%) Solaris
12 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (57.25%) CI/CD
2 436 (46.83%) DevOps
3 315 (33.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 278 (29.86%) Microservices
5 269 (28.89%) Agile
6 223 (23.95%) Problem-Solving
7 159 (17.08%) Software Engineering
8 153 (16.43%) Test Automation
9 132 (14.18%) Continuous Integration
10 100 (10.74%) High Availability
11 97 (10.42%) TDD
12 90 (9.67%) Migration
13 87 (9.34%) Configuration Management
13 87 (9.34%) Full-Stack Development
14 77 (8.27%) Event-Driven
15 76 (8.16%) Analytics
16 72 (7.73%) Data Pipeline
17 66 (7.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 65 (6.98%) Mentoring
19 63 (6.77%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 445 (47.80%) Python
2 229 (24.60%) Java
3 184 (19.76%) SQL
4 166 (17.83%) Bash
5 105 (11.28%) JavaScript
6 81 (8.70%) PowerShell
7 80 (8.59%) TypeScript
8 79 (8.49%) C#
9 36 (3.87%) Go
10 30 (3.22%) Shell Script
11 29 (3.11%) C++
12 19 (2.04%) Perl
13 18 (1.93%) Scala
14 17 (1.83%) Bicep
15 14 (1.50%) R
16 13 (1.40%) PHP
17 11 (1.18%) PL/SQL
17 11 (1.18%) Ruby
18 9 (0.97%) Groovy
19 8 (0.86%) RPG
Qualifications
1 326 (35.02%) Security Cleared
2 267 (28.68%) SC Cleared
3 64 (6.87%) AWS Certification
4 53 (5.69%) DV Cleared
5 49 (5.26%) Degree
6 47 (5.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 32 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (2.58%) Azure Certification
9 20 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 14 (1.50%) MCSE
12 12 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.07%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.64%) CCNP
17 5 (0.54%) RHCSA
18 4 (0.43%) OCP
18 4 (0.43%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (4.40%) QA
2 32 (3.44%) Accessibility
3 24 (2.58%) NCSC
4 19 (2.04%) NIST
5 17 (1.83%) GDPR
6 15 (1.61%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.54%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.43%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.32%) SLA
12 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.11%) EMIR
13 1 (0.11%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 613 (65.84%) Docker
2 55 (5.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.93%) Active Directory
4 16 (1.72%) Hyper-V
5 14 (1.50%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.43%) Postfix
9 3 (0.32%) LXC
9 3 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.32%) Platform Symphony
9 3 (0.32%) vSphere
10 2 (0.21%) Lustre
11 1 (0.11%) Ceph
11 1 (0.11%) Firmware
11 1 (0.11%) GPFS
11 1 (0.11%) HDFS
11 1 (0.11%) NFS
11 1 (0.11%) Samba
11 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 627 (67.35%) Kubernetes
2 330 (35.45%) Terraform
3 229 (24.60%) Ansible
4 106 (11.39%) Grafana
5 94 (10.10%) Prometheus
6 69 (7.41%) Puppet
7 34 (3.65%) Progress Chef
8 20 (2.15%) Argo
9 19 (2.04%) Podman
10 15 (1.61%) Istio
10 15 (1.61%) Kibana
11 14 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (0.97%) Packer
13 7 (0.75%) logstash
14 6 (0.64%) Consul
14 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.54%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.54%) Perfmon
15 5 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 74 (7.95%) Google
2 70 (7.52%) VMware
3 59 (6.34%) Red Hat
4 50 (5.37%) Microsoft
5 43 (4.62%) Oracle
6 37 (3.97%) SAP
7 27 (2.90%) Splunk
8 19 (2.04%) Cisco
9 16 (1.72%) Databricks
10 12 (1.29%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.07%) IBM
11 10 (1.07%) New Relic
11 10 (1.07%) Palo Alto
11 10 (1.07%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.86%) TIBCO
13 7 (0.75%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.75%) Confluent
13 7 (0.75%) NetApp
14 5 (0.54%) Salesforce
15 4 (0.43%) Commvault