Docker Contracts in Central London

Docker
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 68 32
Rank change year-on-year +11 -36 -15
Contract jobs citing Docker 73 68 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.66% 2.78% 5.55%
As % of the System Software category 32.59% 25.47% 44.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 46 140
10th Percentile £407 £425 £513
25th Percentile £435 £486 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £558 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -14.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £631 £678 £775
90th Percentile £691 £771 £802
London median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
London median hourly rate £95.00 £62.50 £83.00
% change year-on-year +52.00% -24.70% +5.40%

All System Software Skills
Central London

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 224 267 476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.22% 10.92% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 203 325
10th Percentile £237 £214 £213
25th Percentile £383 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -15.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £700
90th Percentile £688 £738 £788
London median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £21.48 - £21.40
25th Percentile £21.81 £21.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £24.48 £40.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.81% +70.21% -7.84%
75th Percentile £66.71 - £24.50
90th Percentile £139.19 £46.15 £24.80
London median hourly rate £28.41 £22.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +26.27% -50.00% +83.67%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in Central London

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Docker in Central London

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Central London

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in Central London

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +8 68 £575 +3.14% 47
City of Westminster - 2 £488 -
West End of London - 1 £425 - 14
Docker
London

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (6.85%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) Apache
2 2 (2.74%) nginx
3 1 (1.37%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) Camunda
3 1 (1.37%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 39 (53.42%) AWS
2 21 (28.77%) Azure
3 12 (16.44%) GitHub
4 11 (15.07%) GCP
5 6 (8.22%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (8.22%) Serverless
6 5 (6.85%) Amazon S3
6 5 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (6.85%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.11%) Slack
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.74%) Azure App Service
9 2 (2.74%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.74%) Datadog
9 2 (2.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.11%) DNS
1 3 (4.11%) VPN
2 2 (2.74%) DHCP
2 2 (2.74%) Firewall
2 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.07%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.85%) Redis
2 5 (6.85%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.85%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.48%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (5.48%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.48%) MySQL
4 3 (4.11%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.74%) Big Data
5 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.37%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.37%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 22 (30.14%) Jenkins
2 15 (20.55%) GitLab
3 9 (12.33%) Git
3 9 (12.33%) JIRA
4 7 (9.59%) SonarQube
5 6 (8.22%) JUnit
6 5 (6.85%) Bitbucket
7 4 (5.48%) Maven
7 4 (5.48%) Postman
8 3 (4.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.74%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.74%) Mockito
9 2 (2.74%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.74%) SoapUI
9 2 (2.74%) Subversion
9 2 (2.74%) Terragrunt
9 2 (2.74%) Xcode
9 2 (2.74%) XCTest
10 1 (1.37%) Jaeger
10 1 (1.37%) Snyk
General
1 22 (30.14%) Finance
2 19 (26.03%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.33%) Banking
4 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.48%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.11%) Publishing
8 2 (2.74%) Back Office
8 2 (2.74%) Front Office
9 1 (1.37%) Billing
9 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.37%) Military
9 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (36.99%) Developer
2 18 (24.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (16.44%) Senior
4 8 (10.96%) Java Developer
5 7 (9.59%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.22%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (8.22%) Lead
7 5 (6.85%) Python Developer
7 5 (6.85%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (4.11%) .NET Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Angular Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) C# Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Senior .NET Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.18%) .NET
2 13 (17.81%) Spring
3 12 (16.44%) Kafka
4 10 (13.70%) Spring Boot
5 7 (9.59%) HTML
5 7 (9.59%) REST
6 6 (8.22%) AngularJS
6 6 (8.22%) React
7 5 (6.85%) CSS
7 5 (6.85%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (6.85%) Node.js
8 4 (5.48%) .NET Core
8 4 (5.48%) FastAPI
8 4 (5.48%) RESTful
8 4 (5.48%) Swagger
9 3 (4.11%) .NET Framework
9 3 (4.11%) ASP.NET
9 3 (4.11%) Bootstrap
9 3 (4.11%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (2.74%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.85%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.48%) Hedge funds
4 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.11%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.74%) DataPower
5 2 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.37%) CUDA
6 1 (1.37%) Derivative
6 1 (1.37%) Equities
6 1 (1.37%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.37%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.37%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (24.66%) Linux
2 7 (9.59%) Unix
3 5 (6.85%) Windows
4 3 (4.11%) Rocky
5 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.37%) SUSE
6 1 (1.37%) VMS
6 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (65.75%) CI/CD
2 42 (57.53%) DevOps
3 35 (47.95%) Containerisation
4 24 (32.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (31.51%) Agile
6 16 (21.92%) Software Engineering
7 14 (19.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (19.18%) Microservices
7 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (19.18%) Test Automation
8 10 (13.70%) Configuration Management
9 9 (12.33%) Code Quality
9 9 (12.33%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (10.96%) SDLC
11 7 (9.59%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (9.59%) TDD
12 6 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (8.22%) Event-Driven
12 6 (8.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 6 (8.22%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 37 (50.68%) Python
2 24 (32.88%) Java
3 16 (21.92%) C#
4 12 (16.44%) SQL
5 9 (12.33%) JavaScript
6 7 (9.59%) Bash
6 7 (9.59%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.48%) C++
7 4 (5.48%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.74%) Go
8 2 (2.74%) Groovy
8 2 (2.74%) Perl
8 2 (2.74%) Scala
8 2 (2.74%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.37%) Ada
9 1 (1.37%) COBOL
9 1 (1.37%) PHP
9 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (21.92%) SC Cleared
1 16 (21.92%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.48%) Degree
3 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (1.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) QA
2 2 (2.74%) EMIR
2 2 (2.74%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (2.74%) MiFID
3 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.74%) Lustre
2 1 (1.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.37%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 60 (82.19%) Kubernetes
2 34 (46.58%) Terraform
3 15 (20.55%) Ansible
4 9 (12.33%) Grafana
5 6 (8.22%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.48%) Podman
7 3 (4.11%) Consul
8 2 (2.74%) Argo
8 2 (2.74%) Istio
8 2 (2.74%) Karpenter
8 2 (2.74%) Kibana
8 2 (2.74%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.74%) Puppet
9 1 (1.37%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.37%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (6.85%) Google
1 5 (6.85%) Splunk
2 3 (4.11%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.74%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (2.74%) Databricks
3 2 (2.74%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.74%) Oracle
4 1 (1.37%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.37%) IBM
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.37%) New Relic
4 1 (1.37%) OpenLink
4 1 (1.37%) Pega
4 1 (1.37%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.37%) TOWER Software
4 1 (1.37%) WSO2