Containerisation Contract Job Trends

Containerization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 76 140
Rank change year-on-year +8 +64 +25
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 1,652 941 726
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.30% 3.18% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 3.49% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 648 520
10th Percentile £389 £400 £400
25th Percentile £447 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -10.57%
75th Percentile £617 £615 £650
90th Percentile £687 £688 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.90% -2.78% -8.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 4
10th Percentile £41.66 £26.60 £52.63
25th Percentile £53.13 £48.75 £62.19
Median hourly rate £63.14 £78.70 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.78% +12.43% -4.11%
75th Percentile £76.50 £82.25 £72.50
90th Percentile £79.20 £88.70 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £79.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -20.08% +34.47% -24.68%

All Process & 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 42,464 26,928 37,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.77% 91.04% 85.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,499 17,092 23,693
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,543 1,207 2,592
10th Percentile £14.81 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.00 £37.09
Median % change year-on-year +62.81% -27.20% +5.97%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +17.29%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in the UK

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Top 17 Contract Job 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 14 June 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
England +6 1,379 £525 -0.94% 347
London +11 716 £543 -1.36% 147
UK excluding London +10 707 £510 -2.90% 245
Work from Home -12 465 £525 - 191
North of England -7 235 £500 - 63
Midlands +14 145 £525 +5.00% 23
South East -15 125 £550 +7.32% 75
Yorkshire +17 123 £500 - 13
West Midlands +11 117 £540 -1.82% 17
South West +8 103 £563 -6.25% 55
North West -46 77 £550 +10.00% 36
Scotland -7 54 £498 -5.24% 8
North East -2 34 £413 -33.47% 14
East Midlands -11 28 £500 +13.77% 6
East of England -23 28 £495 +1.02% 18
Wales -4 18 £425 -21.30% 6
Northern Ireland +10 9 £448 -18.55% 4

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 81 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 75 (4.54%) Apache Airflow
3 66 (4.00%) Confluence
4 64 (3.87%) Apache
5 31 (1.88%) Jupyter
6 21 (1.27%) SAS
7 15 (0.91%) nginx
8 8 (0.48%) Appian
8 8 (0.48%) Camunda
9 7 (0.42%) SharePoint
10 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.30%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.18%) IIS
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.18%) WordPress
13 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (0.54%) CPLEX
2 8 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.12%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.061%) Maya
6 1 (0.061%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.061%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.18%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.18%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.12%) Endur
3 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.061%) Magento
4 1 (0.061%) Maximo
4 1 (0.061%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.061%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.061%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.061%) Shopify
4 1 (0.061%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 881 (53.33%) AWS
2 703 (42.55%) Azure
3 355 (21.49%) GitHub
4 292 (17.68%) GCP
5 266 (16.10%) GitHub Actions
6 233 (14.10%) Serverless
7 197 (11.92%) Azure DevOps
8 183 (11.08%) Amazon EKS
9 152 (9.20%) Amazon S3
10 146 (8.84%) OpenShift
11 145 (8.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 124 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
13 123 (7.45%) Azure AKS
14 113 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
15 110 (6.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 103 (6.23%) Amazon EC2
17 66 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 57 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 51 (3.09%) Entra ID
20 47 (2.85%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.33%) DNS
2 47 (2.85%) Firewall
3 29 (1.76%) Network Security
4 26 (1.57%) VPN
5 15 (0.91%) HTTP
6 13 (0.79%) SAN
7 12 (0.73%) NAS
7 12 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
8 11 (0.67%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.48%) SSL
10 6 (0.36%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.36%) iSCSI
10 6 (0.36%) VSAN
11 5 (0.30%) MQTT
12 4 (0.24%) 3GPP
12 4 (0.24%) Internet
12 4 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.18%) 5G
13 3 (0.18%) OpenLDAP
13 3 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (12.47%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 89 (5.39%) Relational Database
4 84 (5.08%) MongoDB
5 68 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
6 61 (3.69%) DynamoDB
7 57 (3.45%) SQL Server
8 43 (2.60%) Big Data
9 37 (2.24%) Redis
10 31 (1.88%) BigQuery
10 31 (1.88%) MySQL
11 29 (1.76%) Data Lake
12 25 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 25 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
13 23 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
15 20 (1.21%) Power BI
16 17 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
16 17 (1.03%) Flink
Development Applications
1 341 (20.64%) Jenkins
2 325 (19.67%) GitLab
3 267 (16.16%) Git
4 109 (6.60%) JIRA
5 74 (4.48%) JUnit
6 46 (2.78%) SonarQube
7 45 (2.72%) Mockito
8 38 (2.30%) MLflow
9 37 (2.24%) Maven
10 36 (2.18%) Gradle
11 32 (1.94%) Selenium
12 31 (1.88%) JMeter
13 30 (1.82%) Cucumber
14 26 (1.57%) Bitbucket
15 25 (1.51%) Postman
16 21 (1.27%) Gatling
17 16 (0.97%) Liquibase
18 15 (0.91%) REST Assured
19 14 (0.85%) Artifactory
19 14 (0.85%) Snyk
General
1 393 (23.79%) Social Skills
2 324 (19.61%) Public Sector
3 233 (14.10%) Finance
4 146 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (5.57%) Banking
6 32 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (1.27%) Law
9 21 (1.27%) Publishing
10 20 (1.21%) Retail
11 19 (1.15%) Military
12 15 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (0.67%) Legal
14 9 (0.54%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (0.54%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.48%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 415 (25.12%) Developer
2 276 (16.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 256 (15.50%) Senior
4 210 (12.71%) Architect
5 154 (9.32%) Java Developer
6 114 (6.90%) Lead
7 108 (6.54%) AWS Engineer
8 101 (6.11%) Python Developer
9 88 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
10 85 (5.15%) Software Engineer
11 83 (5.02%) Senior Developer
12 79 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
13 75 (4.54%) Cloud Engineer
14 74 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
15 72 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
16 68 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 58 (3.51%) Data Engineer
18 53 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
19 52 (3.15%) Technical Architect
20 51 (3.09%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (15.56%) Spring
2 254 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 209 (12.65%) RESTful
4 206 (12.47%) Kafka
5 199 (12.05%) REST
6 170 (10.29%) React
7 136 (8.23%) Node.js
8 103 (6.23%) .NET
9 93 (5.63%) AngularJS
10 84 (5.08%) FastAPI
11 82 (4.96%) OAuth
12 63 (3.81%) OpenTelemetry
13 55 (3.33%) OAuth2
14 52 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
14 52 (3.15%) Flask
15 51 (3.09%) HTML
16 49 (2.97%) Django
16 49 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
17 48 (2.91%) OpenID
17 48 (2.91%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 457 (27.66%) Cloud Native
2 171 (10.35%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (4.24%) Product Ownership
4 53 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 47 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (2.36%) Algorithms
6 39 (2.36%) Public Cloud
7 35 (2.12%) Onboarding
8 33 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
9 32 (1.94%) Data Structures
10 28 (1.69%) Private Cloud
11 26 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
12 25 (1.51%) Management Information System
13 21 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
14 18 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (1.09%) Virtual Team
15 17 (1.03%) AI Agents
15 17 (1.03%) Security Posture
15 17 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
16 15 (0.91%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 244 (14.77%) Linux
2 60 (3.63%) Windows
3 44 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 44 (2.66%) Unix
4 26 (1.57%) Ubuntu
5 15 (0.91%) VMS
6 13 (0.79%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.54%) Debian
8 5 (0.30%) Android
8 5 (0.30%) Rocky
8 5 (0.30%) Solaris
8 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.18%) CentOS
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.12%) SUSE
11 1 (0.061%) AIX
11 1 (0.061%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,228 (74.33%) CI/CD
2 855 (51.76%) DevOps
3 679 (41.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 569 (34.44%) Microservices
5 564 (34.14%) Agile
6 357 (21.61%) Observability
7 275 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
8 263 (15.92%) Test Automation
9 260 (15.74%) Software Engineering
10 259 (15.68%) AI
11 206 (12.47%) Platform Engineering
12 191 (11.56%) Event-Driven
13 189 (11.44%) Migration
14 180 (10.90%) Full-Stack Development
15 175 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 153 (9.26%) DevSecOps
17 152 (9.20%) Machine Learning
18 148 (8.96%) Scrum
19 147 (8.90%) TDD
20 145 (8.78%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 718 (43.46%) Python
2 435 (26.33%) Java
3 323 (19.55%) SQL
4 195 (11.80%) Bash
5 138 (8.35%) JavaScript
6 132 (7.99%) TypeScript
7 88 (5.33%) PowerShell
8 77 (4.66%) C#
9 75 (4.54%) Go
10 72 (4.36%) Bicep
11 42 (2.54%) Shell Script
12 36 (2.18%) Ruby
13 24 (1.45%) Scala
14 15 (0.91%) PL/SQL
14 15 (0.91%) Rust
15 9 (0.54%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.54%) PHP
16 8 (0.48%) Groovy
17 7 (0.42%) C++
18 5 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 624 (37.77%) Security Cleared
2 538 (32.57%) SC Cleared
3 105 (6.36%) Degree
4 85 (5.15%) DV Cleared
5 66 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 65 (3.93%) AWS Certification
6 65 (3.93%) Azure Certification
7 56 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 36 (2.18%) CISSP
9 30 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (1.45%) CISM
10 24 (1.45%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 16 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 14 (0.85%) CCSP
15 14 (0.85%) OSCP
16 12 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
17 11 (0.67%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.33%) QA
2 69 (4.18%) Accessibility
3 60 (3.63%) NIST
4 50 (3.03%) Data Quality
5 39 (2.36%) NCSC
6 38 (2.30%) PCI DSS
7 34 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (2.00%) GDPR
9 24 (1.45%) WCAG
10 12 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (0.73%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.54%) COBIT
11 9 (0.54%) NIST 800
12 8 (0.48%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.48%) PSD2
13 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.36%) SEPA
13 6 (0.36%) SLA
14 5 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,001 (60.59%) Docker
2 44 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (1.69%) vSphere
4 24 (1.45%) VMware NSX
5 23 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (1.21%) Active Directory
7 13 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 12 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.67%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.67%) Postfix
10 10 (0.61%) KVM
11 8 (0.48%) NFS
12 5 (0.30%) QEMU
13 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.18%) SRDF
15 2 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.12%) Firmware
15 2 (0.12%) GPFS
15 2 (0.12%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,047 (63.38%) Kubernetes
2 609 (36.86%) Terraform
3 258 (15.62%) Grafana
4 232 (14.04%) Ansible
5 229 (13.86%) Prometheus
6 74 (4.48%) Argo
7 40 (2.42%) Puppet
8 39 (2.36%) Istio
9 29 (1.76%) Podman
10 23 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
11 21 (1.27%) vCenter Server
12 17 (1.03%) linkerd
13 16 (0.97%) Control-M
13 16 (0.97%) IBM Guardium
13 16 (0.97%) Kibana
13 16 (0.97%) Nessus
14 15 (0.91%) Kustomize
14 15 (0.91%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
16 6 (0.36%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 177 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 86 (5.21%) Splunk
3 78 (4.72%) Red Hat
4 67 (4.06%) Oracle
4 67 (4.06%) VMware
5 60 (3.63%) Databricks
5 60 (3.63%) Google
6 44 (2.66%) Dynatrace
7 27 (1.63%) Pure Storage
8 26 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 26 (1.57%) Tenable
9 22 (1.33%) IBM
10 20 (1.21%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.15%) Atlassian
12 17 (1.03%) Jaspersoft
13 16 (0.97%) AppDynamics
14 13 (0.79%) Cisco
15 12 (0.73%) Trend Micro
16 11 (0.67%) Salesforce
17 9 (0.54%) Foundry