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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 55 56
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -22
Contract jobs citing Docker 86 69 70
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.74% 3.93% 3.22%
As % of the System Software category 53.75% 37.10% 29.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 52 46
10th Percentile £357 £413 £425
25th Percentile £462 £484 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +0.88% -12.31%
75th Percentile £652 £638 £678
90th Percentile £779 £693 £771
Central London median daily rate £575 £564 £570
% change year-on-year +2.04% -1.14% -12.31%
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 160 186 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.96% 10.59% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 131 173
10th Percentile £235 £263 £250
25th Percentile £413 £402 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £670
90th Percentile £738 £694 £749
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £488
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -12.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £19.56 £36.05 -
25th Percentile £20.04 £57.13 £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £98.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.40% +146.25% -
75th Percentile £41.72 £146.13 -
90th Percentile £52.52 £170.95 £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £23.87 £24.48 £40.00
% change year-on-year -2.48% -38.81% +70.21%

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 6 May 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 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (5.81%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.33%) Apache
2 2 (2.33%) Camunda
2 2 (2.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.16%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Magento
1 1 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 48 (55.81%) AWS
2 34 (39.53%) Azure
3 29 (33.72%) GitHub
4 24 (27.91%) GCP
5 15 (17.44%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (13.95%) Amazon S3
6 12 (13.95%) Serverless
7 11 (12.79%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (10.47%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (6.98%) dbt
11 5 (5.81%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (5.81%) Azure AKS
11 5 (5.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (4.65%) OpenShift
12 4 (4.65%) Snowflake
12 4 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) Network Security
1 2 (2.33%) SAN
2 1 (1.16%) DNS
2 1 (1.16%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.16%) Firewall
2 1 (1.16%) Multicast
2 1 (1.16%) NAS
2 1 (1.16%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (24.42%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (16.28%) NoSQL
3 11 (12.79%) Relational Database
4 9 (10.47%) MongoDB
5 8 (9.30%) DynamoDB
6 7 (8.14%) SQL Server
7 6 (6.98%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (6.98%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (6.98%) Redis
8 5 (5.81%) BigQuery
8 5 (5.81%) MySQL
9 3 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (3.49%) Metadata
10 2 (2.33%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (2.33%) Big Data
10 2 (2.33%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.33%) Hazelcast
11 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 24 (27.91%) Git
2 19 (22.09%) Jenkins
3 15 (17.44%) GitLab
4 8 (9.30%) JUnit
5 7 (8.14%) Mockito
6 6 (6.98%) JIRA
7 5 (5.81%) Gradle
7 5 (5.81%) Maven
8 4 (4.65%) Liquibase
9 3 (3.49%) Cucumber
9 3 (3.49%) Postman
10 2 (2.33%) Ant
10 2 (2.33%) Gatling
11 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.16%) PHPUnit
11 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 27 (31.40%) Finance
2 15 (17.44%) Social Skills
3 14 (16.28%) Banking
4 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.49%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Front Office
7 1 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.16%) Law
7 1 (1.16%) Legal
7 1 (1.16%) Marketing
7 1 (1.16%) Military
7 1 (1.16%) Police
7 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Retail
7 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (33.72%) Developer
2 24 (27.91%) Senior
3 12 (13.95%) Senior Developer
4 10 (11.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (10.47%) Java Developer
6 7 (8.14%) Architect
7 6 (6.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Lead
8 5 (5.81%) Python Developer
8 5 (5.81%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.65%) Java Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (32.56%) Spring
2 24 (27.91%) Kafka
2 24 (27.91%) Spring Boot
3 18 (20.93%) React
4 14 (16.28%) REST
5 9 (10.47%) RESTful
6 8 (9.30%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (8.14%) .NET
8 5 (5.81%) Django
8 5 (5.81%) GraphQL
8 5 (5.81%) HTML
8 5 (5.81%) JSON
8 5 (5.81%) Node.js
8 5 (5.81%) WireMock
9 4 (4.65%) AngularJS
9 4 (4.65%) OAuth
9 4 (4.65%) Playwright
9 4 (4.65%) SOAP
10 3 (3.49%) CSS
10 3 (3.49%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.74%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.65%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.49%) Life Science
5 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.16%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.16%) Genomics
6 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.16%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.16%) NHS
6 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.30%) Linux
2 2 (2.33%) Unix
2 2 (2.33%) VMS
3 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (75.58%) CI/CD
2 52 (60.47%) Containerisation
3 45 (52.33%) DevOps
4 34 (39.53%) Microservices
5 27 (31.40%) Observability
6 23 (26.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (24.42%) Agile
7 21 (24.42%) Test Automation
8 19 (22.09%) Software Engineering
9 18 (20.93%) AI
10 16 (18.60%) Event-Driven
11 14 (16.28%) Machine Learning
12 13 (15.12%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (13.95%) Analytics
14 11 (12.79%) Code Quality
15 10 (11.63%) API Development
15 10 (11.63%) Data Engineering
15 10 (11.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 10 (11.63%) Performance Tuning
16 9 (10.47%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 39 (45.35%) Python
2 37 (43.02%) Java
3 25 (29.07%) SQL
4 10 (11.63%) TypeScript
5 8 (9.30%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.14%) C#
7 4 (4.65%) Bash
8 2 (2.33%) Bicep
8 2 (2.33%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.16%) C
9 1 (1.16%) Go
9 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.16%) PHP
9 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.16%) ProC
9 1 (1.16%) Ruby
9 1 (1.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 21 (24.42%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.33%) Degree
4 1 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.16%) CCSP
4 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.16%) CISSP
4 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.16%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.16%) OSCP
4 1 (1.16%) SANS
4 1 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.16%) VCAP
4 1 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) QA
2 4 (4.65%) GDPR
3 3 (3.49%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.33%) EMIR
4 2 (2.33%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.33%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.33%) MiFID
4 2 (2.33%) PSD2
4 2 (2.33%) SEPA
5 1 (1.16%) GRC
5 1 (1.16%) NCSC
5 1 (1.16%) NIST
5 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.16%) Firmware
2 1 (1.16%) GridGain
2 1 (1.16%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (1.16%) Varnish
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.16%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (72.09%) Kubernetes
2 23 (26.74%) Terraform
3 13 (15.12%) Prometheus
4 11 (12.79%) Grafana
5 9 (10.47%) Ansible
6 5 (5.81%) Istio
7 4 (4.65%) Argo
8 3 (3.49%) Karpenter
9 1 (1.16%) Kibana
9 1 (1.16%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.16%) linkerd
9 1 (1.16%) Podman
9 1 (1.16%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.16%) Puppet
9 1 (1.16%) Salt
9 1 (1.16%) Tivoli
9 1 (1.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.63%) Google
3 7 (8.14%) Oracle
4 5 (5.81%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.81%) IBM
5 4 (4.65%) Databricks
6 3 (3.49%) OpenAI
6 3 (3.49%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.33%) Confluent
7 2 (2.33%) Foundry
7 2 (2.33%) Splunk
7 2 (2.33%) Sybase
8 1 (1.16%) Brocade
8 1 (1.16%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.16%) OutSystems
8 1 (1.16%) Pega
8 1 (1.16%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.16%) Solace