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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 61 37
Rank change year-on-year -6 -24 -20
Contract jobs citing Docker 68 75 204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.45% 3.13% 5.46%
As % of the System Software category 33.01% 27.47% 44.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 49 132
10th Percentile £405 £425 £513
25th Percentile £428 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -13.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £775
90th Percentile £692 £769 £788
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% +4.57%

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 206 273 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.45% 11.38% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 208 318
10th Percentile £220 £219 £207
25th Percentile £363 £350 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £561
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.14% +2.05%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £700
90th Percentile £688 £738 £788
London median daily rate £544 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +8.75% -13.04% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile £21.48 - -
25th Percentile £21.81 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £24.48 £40.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.81% +60.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £66.71 - -
90th Percentile £139.19 £46.15 -
London median hourly rate £34.00 £22.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +51.11% -62.50% +122.22%

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 16 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 16 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 +1 63 £575 +3.14% 48
City of Westminster - 2 £488 - 1
West End of London - 1 £425 - 19
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 4 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) Apache
2 2 (2.94%) nginx
3 1 (1.47%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.47%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 38 (55.88%) AWS
2 20 (29.41%) Azure
3 13 (19.12%) GitHub
4 11 (16.18%) GCP
5 6 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.35%) Serverless
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.88%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.94%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.94%) Azure App Service
9 2 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.94%) Datadog
9 2 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.94%) Slack
9 2 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) DNS
1 4 (5.88%) VPN
2 3 (4.41%) Firewall
3 2 (2.94%) DHCP
3 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.18%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.82%) Redis
3 5 (7.35%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
4 4 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.41%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.41%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.41%) MySQL
5 3 (4.41%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.94%) Big Data
6 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.47%) KDB
7 1 (1.47%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 22 (32.35%) Jenkins
2 14 (20.59%) GitLab
3 9 (13.24%) JIRA
4 8 (11.76%) Git
4 8 (11.76%) SonarQube
5 6 (8.82%) JUnit
6 5 (7.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (7.35%) Bitbucket
6 5 (7.35%) Maven
6 5 (7.35%) Postman
7 3 (4.41%) Mockito
7 3 (4.41%) REST Assured
7 3 (4.41%) SoapUI
7 3 (4.41%) Subversion
7 3 (4.41%) Xcode
7 3 (4.41%) XCTest
8 2 (2.94%) Terragrunt
9 1 (1.47%) ESLint
9 1 (1.47%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (1.47%) Snyk
General
1 22 (32.35%) Finance
2 20 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.24%) Banking
4 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.41%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.41%) Publishing
6 1 (1.47%) Back Office
6 1 (1.47%) Billing
6 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.47%) Front Office
6 1 (1.47%) Military
6 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (36.76%) Developer
2 16 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (16.18%) Senior
4 8 (11.76%) Java Developer
5 7 (10.29%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (5.88%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) .NET Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Angular Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Lead
9 3 (4.41%) Senior .NET Developer
10 2 (2.94%) C# Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 2 (2.94%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.65%) .NET
2 11 (16.18%) Spring
3 9 (13.24%) Kafka
4 8 (11.76%) HTML
4 8 (11.76%) REST
4 8 (11.76%) Spring Boot
5 6 (8.82%) AngularJS
5 6 (8.82%) CSS
5 6 (8.82%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (8.82%) Node.js
6 5 (7.35%) React
7 4 (5.88%) Bootstrap
7 4 (5.88%) Swagger
8 3 (4.41%) .NET Core
8 3 (4.41%) CSS3
8 3 (4.41%) FastAPI
8 3 (4.41%) HTML5
8 3 (4.41%) JPA
8 3 (4.41%) Material-UI
8 3 (4.41%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.88%) Hedge funds
4 3 (4.41%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.41%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.94%) DataPower
5 2 (2.94%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.94%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.47%) CUDA
6 1 (1.47%) Derivative
6 1 (1.47%) Equities
6 1 (1.47%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.47%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (26.47%) Linux
2 9 (13.24%) Unix
3 5 (7.35%) Windows
4 3 (4.41%) Rocky
5 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.47%) SUSE
5 1 (1.47%) VMS
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (66.18%) CI/CD
2 42 (61.76%) DevOps
3 34 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 23 (33.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (29.41%) Agile
6 16 (23.53%) Microservices
7 14 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (20.59%) Software Engineering
8 13 (19.12%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (17.65%) Test Automation
10 10 (14.71%) Code Quality
10 10 (14.71%) Configuration Management
11 9 (13.24%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (11.76%) SDLC
13 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Automation
13 7 (10.29%) TDD
14 6 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (8.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 6 (8.82%) Mentoring
14 6 (8.82%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (52.94%) Python
2 22 (32.35%) Java
3 15 (22.06%) C#
4 10 (14.71%) JavaScript
4 10 (14.71%) SQL
5 9 (13.24%) Shell Script
6 6 (8.82%) Bash
7 4 (5.88%) C++
8 3 (4.41%) Groovy
8 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.94%) Go
9 2 (2.94%) Perl
9 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.94%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.47%) Ada
10 1 (1.47%) COBOL
10 1 (1.47%) JCL
10 1 (1.47%) PHP
10 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (22.06%) SC Cleared
1 15 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.41%) AWS Certification
2 3 (4.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (4.41%) Degree
3 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 2 (2.94%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.47%) EMIR
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.47%) MiFID
3 1 (1.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) Lustre
2 1 (1.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.47%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 56 (82.35%) Kubernetes
2 33 (48.53%) Terraform
3 13 (19.12%) Ansible
4 8 (11.76%) Grafana
5 5 (7.35%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.88%) Podman
6 4 (5.88%) Puppet
7 3 (4.41%) Consul
7 3 (4.41%) Kibana
7 3 (4.41%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.94%) Istio
8 2 (2.94%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (2.94%) Karpenter
9 1 (1.47%) Argo
9 1 (1.47%) logstash
9 1 (1.47%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (10.29%) Splunk
2 6 (8.82%) Google
3 3 (4.41%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (4.41%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.41%) Oracle
4 2 (2.94%) Databricks
4 2 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.47%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.47%) IBM
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.47%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.47%) New Relic
5 1 (1.47%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.47%) Pega
5 1 (1.47%) Solace
5 1 (1.47%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.47%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.47%) WSO2