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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 58 55
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -23
Contract jobs citing Docker 80 62 76
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.47% 3.57% 3.51%
As % of the System Software category 55.17% 37.35% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 48 48
10th Percentile £377 £411 £425
25th Percentile £460 £465 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £564 £558
Median % change year-on-year -1.06% +1.08% -14.23%
75th Percentile £647 £650 £652
90th Percentile £771 £701 £755
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £565
% change year-on-year +4.55% -2.65% -13.08%
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 145 166 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.29% 9.56% 11.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 117 182
10th Percentile £211 £242 £250
25th Percentile £412 £388 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +8.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £667
90th Percentile £729 £697 £744
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £488
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -14.29%
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 £22.27 £24.48 £40.00
% change year-on-year -9.03% -38.81% +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 19 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 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.50%) Apache
2 2 (2.50%) Camunda
2 2 (2.50%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.25%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.25%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Magento
1 1 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (56.25%) AWS
2 31 (38.75%) Azure
3 26 (32.50%) GitHub
4 20 (25.00%) GCP
5 15 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (13.75%) Amazon S3
6 11 (13.75%) Serverless
7 10 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (11.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (11.25%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (7.50%) dbt
11 5 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (5.00%) Azure AKS
12 4 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (5.00%) OpenShift
12 4 (5.00%) Snowflake
12 4 (5.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Network Security
2 1 (1.25%) DNS
2 1 (1.25%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) Multicast
2 1 (1.25%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.50%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 9 (11.25%) Relational Database
4 7 (8.75%) DynamoDB
4 7 (8.75%) SQL Server
5 6 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (7.50%) MongoDB
5 6 (7.50%) Redis
6 5 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (6.25%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.75%) Metadata
7 3 (3.75%) MySQL
7 3 (3.75%) Pinecone
7 3 (3.75%) Weaviate
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (2.50%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.50%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 20 (25.00%) Git
2 18 (22.50%) Jenkins
3 15 (18.75%) GitLab
4 7 (8.75%) JUnit
5 6 (7.50%) JIRA
5 6 (7.50%) Mockito
6 5 (6.25%) Gradle
6 5 (6.25%) Maven
7 4 (5.00%) Liquibase
8 3 (3.75%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.75%) Postman
9 2 (2.50%) Ant
9 2 (2.50%) Gatling
10 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (1.25%) PHPUnit
10 1 (1.25%) PowerBuilder
10 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (33.75%) Finance
2 14 (17.50%) Banking
2 14 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.25%) Front Office
5 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.25%) Law
5 1 (1.25%) Legal
5 1 (1.25%) Marketing
5 1 (1.25%) Military
5 1 (1.25%) Police
5 1 (1.25%) Retail
5 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) Developer
2 22 (27.50%) Senior
3 10 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 9 (11.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) Architect
5 8 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Lead
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (32.50%) Spring
2 24 (30.00%) Kafka
3 23 (28.75%) Spring Boot
4 16 (20.00%) React
5 11 (13.75%) REST
6 8 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (10.00%) RESTful
7 6 (7.50%) .NET
8 5 (6.25%) Django
8 5 (6.25%) JSON
8 5 (6.25%) WireMock
9 4 (5.00%) GraphQL
9 4 (5.00%) HTML
9 4 (5.00%) LangChain
9 4 (5.00%) Node.js
9 4 (5.00%) Playwright
9 4 (5.00%) SOAP
10 3 (3.75%) OpenID
10 3 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (3.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.25%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.50%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.50%) Life Science
4 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.25%) Genomics
5 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (77.50%) CI/CD
2 49 (61.25%) Containerisation
3 42 (52.50%) DevOps
4 28 (35.00%) Microservices
5 27 (33.75%) Observability
6 22 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (23.75%) Software Engineering
7 19 (23.75%) Test Automation
8 18 (22.50%) Agile
8 18 (22.50%) AI
9 15 (18.75%) Event-Driven
9 15 (18.75%) Machine Learning
10 11 (13.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (13.75%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (12.50%) Analytics
11 10 (12.50%) Data Engineering
11 10 (12.50%) Roadmaps
12 9 (11.25%) API Development
12 9 (11.25%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (11.25%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 37 (46.25%) Python
2 33 (41.25%) Java
3 26 (32.50%) SQL
4 9 (11.25%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.75%) C#
5 7 (8.75%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.00%) Bash
7 2 (2.50%) Bicep
7 2 (2.50%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.25%) C
8 1 (1.25%) Go
8 1 (1.25%) PHP
8 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.25%) ProC
8 1 (1.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) Security Cleared
2 18 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.50%) Degree
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.75%) GDPR
3 2 (2.50%) EMIR
3 2 (2.50%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.50%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.50%) MiFID
3 2 (2.50%) PSD2
3 2 (2.50%) SEPA
4 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.25%) Firmware
2 1 (1.25%) GridGain
2 1 (1.25%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (1.25%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 58 (72.50%) Kubernetes
2 22 (27.50%) Terraform
3 13 (16.25%) Prometheus
4 11 (13.75%) Grafana
5 8 (10.00%) Ansible
6 5 (6.25%) Istio
7 4 (5.00%) Argo
8 3 (3.75%) Karpenter
9 1 (1.25%) Kibana
9 1 (1.25%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.25%) linkerd
9 1 (1.25%) Podman
9 1 (1.25%) Puppet
9 1 (1.25%) Salt
9 1 (1.25%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) Google
3 5 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 5 (6.25%) IBM
3 5 (6.25%) Oracle
4 3 (3.75%) Databricks
4 3 (3.75%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.75%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.50%) Confluent
5 2 (2.50%) Foundry
5 2 (2.50%) Splunk
5 2 (2.50%) Sybase
6 1 (1.25%) Adobe
6 1 (1.25%) Brocade
6 1 (1.25%) Informatica
6 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.25%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.25%) Pega
6 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.25%) Solace