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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 62 42
Rank change year-on-year -2 -20 -13
Contract jobs citing Docker 76 63 93
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.12% 3.38% 4.36%
As % of the System Software category 43.68% 37.28% 36.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 49 60
10th Percentile £450 £419 £474
25th Percentile £480 £495 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £606
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -1.03% -11.82%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £725
90th Percentile £760 £695 £829
Central London median daily rate £560 £575 £613
% change year-on-year -2.61% -6.12% -9.26%
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 174 169 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.15% 9.07% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 119 188
10th Percentile £215 £240 £264
25th Percentile £411 £409 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £655 £688
90th Percentile £678 £700 £754
Central London median daily rate £525 £536 £514
% change year-on-year -2.05% +4.33% -10.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £21.20 £22.95 -
25th Percentile £24.13 £24.38 £40.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.50 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -35.59% +22.07%
75th Percentile £45.36 £108.88 £60.81
90th Percentile £53.98 £156.05 £79.83
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £27.48 £44.25
% change year-on-year +9.19% -37.91% +77.00%

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 18 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%) Camunda
3 2 (2.63%) WebSphere
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 45 (59.21%) AWS
2 28 (36.84%) Azure
3 25 (32.89%) GitHub
4 16 (21.05%) GCP
5 15 (19.74%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (18.42%) Serverless
7 12 (15.79%) Amazon S3
7 12 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (11.84%) 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%) OpenShift
11 5 (6.58%) Snowflake
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 13 (17.11%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (13.16%) DynamoDB
4 8 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (9.21%) MongoDB
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%) Weaviate
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (2.63%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.63%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.63%) Metadata
10 2 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (27.63%) Git
2 18 (23.68%) Jenkins
3 13 (17.11%) GitLab
4 11 (14.47%) JIRA
4 11 (14.47%) JUnit
5 9 (11.84%) Mockito
6 5 (6.58%) Cucumber
6 5 (6.58%) Gradle
6 5 (6.58%) Postman
7 4 (5.26%) Liquibase
7 4 (5.26%) Maven
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 31 (40.79%) Finance
2 13 (17.11%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.79%) 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%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (28.95%) Senior
2 16 (21.05%) Developer
3 8 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Java Developer
3 8 (10.53%) Senior Developer
3 8 (10.53%) Software Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Python Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Architect
5 6 (7.89%) Data Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Lead
8 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 3 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure Support
8 3 (3.95%) Java Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (32.89%) Kafka
1 25 (32.89%) Spring
2 24 (31.58%) Spring Boot
3 14 (18.42%) React
4 13 (17.11%) REST
5 8 (10.53%) RESTful
6 6 (7.89%) SOAP
6 6 (7.89%) WireMock
7 5 (6.58%) AngularJS
7 5 (6.58%) Gherkin
7 5 (6.58%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (6.58%) Playwright
7 5 (6.58%) YAML
8 4 (5.26%) GraphQL
8 4 (5.26%) HTML
8 4 (5.26%) LangChain
8 4 (5.26%) PyTorch
8 4 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (5.26%) TensorFlow
9 3 (3.95%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 21 (27.63%) Cloud Native
2 13 (17.11%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.58%) 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%) Genomics
7 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
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 42 (55.26%) Containerisation
3 38 (50.00%) DevOps
4 29 (38.16%) Microservices
5 26 (34.21%) Agile
6 23 (30.26%) Test Automation
7 22 (28.95%) Observability
8 20 (26.32%) AI
8 20 (26.32%) Software Engineering
9 18 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (22.37%) Machine Learning
11 15 (19.74%) Event-Driven
12 13 (17.11%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (15.79%) Analytics
14 11 (14.47%) Data Engineering
15 9 (11.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 9 (11.84%) MLOps
15 9 (11.84%) OOP
15 9 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (11.84%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 34 (44.74%) Python
2 30 (39.47%) Java
3 19 (25.00%) SQL
4 12 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 9 (11.84%) C#
6 7 (9.21%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.58%) Bash
8 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.63%) Bicep
9 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.32%) Go
10 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 18 (23.68%) 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%) 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%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.32%) Informatica
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