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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 61 47
Rank change year-on-year -4 -14 -17
Contract jobs citing Docker 76 61 89
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.16% 3.26% 4.26%
As % of the System Software category 42.46% 37.20% 36.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 48 57
10th Percentile £450 £418 £470
25th Percentile £478 £492 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +1.67% -12.73%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £725
90th Percentile £763 £706 £795
Central London median daily rate £555 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -3.48% -8.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 - -
Median hourly rate £57.77 - -
75th Percentile £59.72 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 - -

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 179 164 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.45% 8.76% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 115 175
10th Percentile £210 £251 £284
25th Percentile £410 £409 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £655 £675
90th Percentile £679 £698 £735
Central London median daily rate £525 £536 £513
% change year-on-year -2.05% +4.59% -10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £21.20 £22.95 -
25th Percentile £24.13 £24.38 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -28.75% +10.34%
75th Percentile £45.36 £108.88 £66.25
90th Percentile £53.98 £156.05 £82.00
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.48 £40.00
% change year-on-year +18.29% -31.31% +60.00%

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 24 July 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 (6.58%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (6.58%) Apache Spark
1 5 (6.58%) Confluence
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.63%) Apache
3 2 (2.63%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.32%) Camunda
4 1 (1.32%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.32%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Magento
1 1 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (60.53%) AWS
2 29 (38.16%) Azure
3 25 (32.89%) GitHub
4 17 (22.37%) GCP
5 15 (19.74%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (17.11%) Serverless
7 11 (14.47%) Amazon S3
7 11 (14.47%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (11.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (7.89%) dbt
11 5 (6.58%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (6.58%) Azure AKS
11 5 (6.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (6.58%) Snowflake
12 4 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (5.26%) Entra ID
12 4 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) Firewall
2 3 (3.95%) DHCP
2 3 (3.95%) DNS
2 3 (3.95%) SMTP
2 3 (3.95%) VPN
3 2 (2.63%) Network Security
4 1 (1.32%) Multicast
4 1 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.74%) NoSQL
2 14 (18.42%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (11.84%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (11.84%) DynamoDB
4 8 (10.53%) MongoDB
5 7 (9.21%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (7.89%) Relational Database
7 5 (6.58%) Big Data
8 4 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.95%) Pinecone
9 3 (3.95%) Redis
9 3 (3.95%) Weaviate
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (2.63%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.63%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 20 (26.32%) Git
2 17 (22.37%) Jenkins
3 12 (15.79%) GitLab
4 10 (13.16%) JIRA
4 10 (13.16%) JUnit
5 8 (10.53%) Mockito
6 5 (6.58%) Gradle
7 4 (5.26%) Cucumber
7 4 (5.26%) Liquibase
7 4 (5.26%) Maven
7 4 (5.26%) Postman
8 2 (2.63%) Ant
8 2 (2.63%) Selenium
8 2 (2.63%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.32%) Jasmine
9 1 (1.32%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (1.32%) PHPUnit
9 1 (1.32%) TestNG
General
1 30 (39.47%) Finance
2 14 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.47%) Banking
4 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.26%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.63%) Front Office
7 2 (2.63%) Military
8 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Law
8 1 (1.32%) Legal
8 1 (1.32%) Marketing
8 1 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.32%) Police
8 1 (1.32%) Retail
8 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (30.26%) Senior
2 17 (22.37%) Developer
3 9 (11.84%) Java Developer
3 9 (11.84%) Senior Developer
4 8 (10.53%) Python Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Software Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Architect
7 5 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Lead
9 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 3 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure Support
9 3 (3.95%) Java Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (32.89%) Kafka
2 24 (31.58%) Spring
3 23 (30.26%) Spring Boot
4 14 (18.42%) React
4 14 (18.42%) REST
5 9 (11.84%) RESTful
6 5 (6.58%) AngularJS
6 5 (6.58%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (6.58%) Playwright
6 5 (6.58%) SOAP
6 5 (6.58%) WireMock
7 4 (5.26%) Django
7 4 (5.26%) Gherkin
7 4 (5.26%) GraphQL
7 4 (5.26%) HTML
7 4 (5.26%) LangChain
7 4 (5.26%) PyTorch
7 4 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (5.26%) TensorFlow
7 4 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (30.26%) Cloud Native
2 14 (18.42%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.89%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.95%) Clustering
5 3 (3.95%) PKI
6 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.63%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.32%) Genomics
7 1 (1.32%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.32%) Life Science
7 1 (1.32%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.21%) Linux
2 4 (5.26%) Unix
3 3 (3.95%) Windows
3 3 (3.95%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.32%) VMS
4 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (80.26%) CI/CD
2 43 (56.58%) Containerisation
3 39 (51.32%) DevOps
4 30 (39.47%) Microservices
5 26 (34.21%) Agile
6 22 (28.95%) AI
6 22 (28.95%) Observability
7 21 (27.63%) Test Automation
8 20 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (26.32%) Software Engineering
9 17 (22.37%) Machine Learning
10 16 (21.05%) Event-Driven
11 13 (17.11%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (15.79%) Analytics
13 11 (14.47%) Data Engineering
14 10 (13.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 10 (13.16%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
15 9 (11.84%) LLM
15 9 (11.84%) MLOps
15 9 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 35 (46.05%) Python
2 30 (39.47%) Java
3 20 (26.32%) SQL
4 12 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.53%) C#
6 7 (9.21%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.58%) Bash
8 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.95%) Bicep
10 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.32%) Go
11 1 (1.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.53%) Degree
4 4 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.11%) QA
2 4 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.95%) GDPR
4 2 (2.63%) EMIR
4 2 (2.63%) MiFID
5 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.95%) BitLocker
2 3 (3.95%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (3.95%) Terminal Services
2 3 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.32%) GridGain
3 1 (1.32%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (1.32%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 57 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (26.32%) Terraform
3 9 (11.84%) Grafana
3 9 (11.84%) Prometheus
4 7 (9.21%) Ansible
5 4 (5.26%) Puppet
6 3 (3.95%) Nagios
6 3 (3.95%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.95%) vMotion
7 2 (2.63%) Istio
8 1 (1.32%) Bosun
8 1 (1.32%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.32%) linkerd
8 1 (1.32%) Salt
8 1 (1.32%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.89%) Google
3 4 (5.26%) IBM
4 3 (3.95%) Citrix
4 3 (3.95%) Databricks
4 3 (3.95%) HP
4 3 (3.95%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.95%) Symantec
4 3 (3.95%) VMware
5 2 (2.63%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.63%) Foundry
5 2 (2.63%) Sybase
6 1 (1.32%) Adobe
6 1 (1.32%) Informatica
6 1 (1.32%) New Relic
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle
6 1 (1.32%) Pega
6 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.32%) Splunk