Docker Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Docker
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 64 53
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 -22
Contract jobs citing Docker 79 61 85
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.29% 3.57% 3.90%
As % of the System Software category 50.64% 39.10% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 47 50
10th Percentile £410 £410 £425
25th Percentile £463 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £657 £689
90th Percentile £728 £708 £785
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 - £48.50
75th Percentile £59.72 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 - £48.50

All System Software Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 156 156 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.51% 9.13% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 107 190
10th Percentile £222 £223 £263
25th Percentile £410 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £507
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +5.82% -13.42%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £686
90th Percentile £672 £708 £768
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £19.56 £22.95 -
25th Percentile £20.04 £24.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £28.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% -28.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £41.72 £108.88 -
90th Percentile £52.52 £156.05 £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 £26.45 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.82% -33.88% +6.67%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Docker job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Docker

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Docker.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Docker

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 5 (6.33%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (6.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.80%) Confluence
2 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.53%) Apache
3 2 (2.53%) Camunda
3 2 (2.53%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.27%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.27%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Magento
1 1 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (56.96%) AWS
2 28 (35.44%) Azure
3 25 (31.65%) GitHub
4 18 (22.78%) GCP
5 15 (18.99%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (16.46%) Amazon S3
6 13 (16.46%) Serverless
7 12 (15.19%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (12.66%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (11.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (7.59%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (7.59%) dbt
10 6 (7.59%) OpenShift
11 5 (6.33%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (6.33%) Azure AKS
12 4 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (5.06%) Entra ID
12 4 (5.06%) Google Gemini
12 4 (5.06%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) Firewall
2 2 (2.53%) DHCP
2 2 (2.53%) DNS
2 2 (2.53%) Network Security
2 2 (2.53%) SMTP
2 2 (2.53%) VPN
3 1 (1.27%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.27%) Multicast
3 1 (1.27%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.25%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (18.99%) NoSQL
3 9 (11.39%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (11.39%) DynamoDB
4 8 (10.13%) Relational Database
5 7 (8.86%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (7.59%) MongoDB
6 6 (7.59%) Redis
6 6 (7.59%) SQL Server
7 5 (6.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (6.33%) BigQuery
7 5 (6.33%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (5.06%) Big Data
9 3 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.80%) Metadata
9 3 (3.80%) Pinecone
9 3 (3.80%) Weaviate
10 2 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (2.53%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (2.53%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 22 (27.85%) Git
2 18 (22.78%) Jenkins
3 14 (17.72%) GitLab
4 8 (10.13%) JIRA
4 8 (10.13%) JUnit
5 7 (8.86%) Mockito
6 5 (6.33%) Gradle
6 5 (6.33%) Maven
7 4 (5.06%) Cucumber
7 4 (5.06%) Liquibase
7 4 (5.06%) Postman
8 2 (2.53%) Ant
8 2 (2.53%) Gatling
9 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.27%) PHPUnit
9 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.27%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (36.71%) Finance
2 14 (17.72%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.46%) Banking
4 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.53%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.53%) Military
6 1 (1.27%) Front Office
6 1 (1.27%) Law
6 1 (1.27%) Legal
6 1 (1.27%) Marketing
6 1 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.27%) Police
6 1 (1.27%) Retail
6 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (30.38%) Senior
2 19 (24.05%) Developer
3 9 (11.39%) Senior Developer
4 8 (10.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (10.13%) Java Developer
5 7 (8.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Software Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Architect
7 5 (6.33%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Python Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Lead
8 4 (5.06%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (34.18%) Spring
2 25 (31.65%) Kafka
3 24 (30.38%) Spring Boot
4 17 (21.52%) React
5 12 (15.19%) REST
6 9 (11.39%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (8.86%) RESTful
8 6 (7.59%) WireMock
9 5 (6.33%) .NET
9 5 (6.33%) JSON
9 5 (6.33%) LangChain
9 5 (6.33%) Node.js
9 5 (6.33%) SOAP
10 4 (5.06%) Django
10 4 (5.06%) Gherkin
10 4 (5.06%) HTML
10 4 (5.06%) OAuth
10 4 (5.06%) OAuth2
10 4 (5.06%) Playwright
10 4 (5.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.05%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.66%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.59%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.80%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.53%) Clustering
5 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.53%) PKI
5 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.27%) Genomics
6 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.27%) Life Science
6 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.27%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.39%) Linux
2 3 (3.80%) Unix
3 2 (2.53%) Windows
3 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.27%) VMS
4 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (78.48%) CI/CD
2 47 (59.49%) Containerisation
3 39 (49.37%) DevOps
4 30 (37.97%) Microservices
5 26 (32.91%) Observability
6 21 (26.58%) Agile
7 20 (25.32%) AI
7 20 (25.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (24.05%) Software Engineering
8 19 (24.05%) Test Automation
9 16 (20.25%) Machine Learning
10 15 (18.99%) Event-Driven
11 11 (13.92%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (13.92%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (12.66%) Analytics
12 10 (12.66%) MLOps
13 9 (11.39%) Data Engineering
13 9 (11.39%) Data Pipeline
13 9 (11.39%) LLM
13 9 (11.39%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 36 (45.57%) Python
2 32 (40.51%) Java
3 23 (29.11%) SQL
4 11 (13.92%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.13%) C#
5 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.33%) Bash
7 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.53%) Bicep
8 2 (2.53%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.27%) Go
9 1 (1.27%) PHP
9 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (25.32%) Security Cleared
2 17 (21.52%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) Degree
4 2 (2.53%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.66%) QA
2 3 (3.80%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.80%) GDPR
3 2 (2.53%) EMIR
3 2 (2.53%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.53%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.53%) MiFID
3 2 (2.53%) PSD2
3 2 (2.53%) SEPA
4 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.53%) BitLocker
2 2 (2.53%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (2.53%) Terminal Services
2 2 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.27%) Firmware
3 1 (1.27%) GridGain
3 1 (1.27%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (1.27%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 59 (74.68%) Kubernetes
2 20 (25.32%) Terraform
3 13 (16.46%) Prometheus
4 12 (15.19%) Grafana
5 9 (11.39%) Ansible
6 5 (6.33%) Istio
7 4 (5.06%) Argo
8 3 (3.80%) Puppet
9 2 (2.53%) Karpenter
9 2 (2.53%) Nagios
9 2 (2.53%) vCenter Server
9 2 (2.53%) vMotion
10 1 (1.27%) Kustomize
10 1 (1.27%) linkerd
10 1 (1.27%) Podman
10 1 (1.27%) Salt
10 1 (1.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.86%) Google
3 5 (6.33%) Dynatrace
3 5 (6.33%) IBM
4 3 (3.80%) Databricks
4 3 (3.80%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.80%) Oracle
5 2 (2.53%) Citrix
5 2 (2.53%) Confluent
5 2 (2.53%) Foundry
5 2 (2.53%) HP
5 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.53%) Splunk
5 2 (2.53%) Sybase
5 2 (2.53%) Symantec
5 2 (2.53%) VMware
6 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.27%) Pega
6 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.27%) Solace