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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 61 50
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 -18
Contract jobs citing Docker 76 59 87
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.14% 3.41% 3.98%
As % of the System Software category 48.10% 37.58% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 47 53
10th Percentile £424 £410 £425
25th Percentile £474 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £657 £725
90th Percentile £731 £708 £845
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 158 157 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.52% 9.09% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 112 192
10th Percentile £217 £227 £263
25th Percentile £410 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +2.10% -10.26%
75th Percentile £617 £641 £688
90th Percentile £671 £701 £774
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +4.95% -13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £19.72 £22.95 -
25th Percentile £20.43 £24.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.13 £28.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% -28.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £38.18 £108.88 -
90th Percentile £51.11 £156.05 £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.13 £26.45 £40.00
% change year-on-year -1.20% -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 18 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 (6.58%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (6.58%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.26%) 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 44 (57.89%) AWS
2 26 (34.21%) Azure
3 23 (30.26%) GitHub
4 17 (22.37%) GCP
5 15 (19.74%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (17.11%) Serverless
7 12 (15.79%) Amazon S3
7 12 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (11.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (11.84%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (9.21%) OpenShift
10 6 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (7.89%) dbt
11 5 (6.58%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (6.58%) Azure AKS
12 4 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (5.26%) Entra ID
12 4 (5.26%) Snowflake
12 4 (5.26%) Vertex AI
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%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.32%) Multicast
4 1 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.05%) NoSQL
2 13 (17.11%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (11.84%) DynamoDB
5 7 (9.21%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (9.21%) Relational Database
6 6 (7.89%) MongoDB
6 6 (7.89%) Redis
7 5 (6.58%) Big Data
7 5 (6.58%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (5.26%) BigQuery
8 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.95%) Metadata
9 3 (3.95%) Pinecone
9 3 (3.95%) Weaviate
10 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.63%) Hazelcast
10 2 (2.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (27.63%) Git
2 18 (23.68%) Jenkins
3 13 (17.11%) GitLab
4 9 (11.84%) JIRA
4 9 (11.84%) JUnit
5 8 (10.53%) Mockito
6 5 (6.58%) Gradle
6 5 (6.58%) Maven
7 4 (5.26%) Cucumber
7 4 (5.26%) Liquibase
7 4 (5.26%) Postman
8 2 (2.63%) Ant
8 2 (2.63%) Gatling
9 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.32%) PHPUnit
9 1 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.32%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (36.84%) Finance
2 15 (19.74%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.79%) Banking
4 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.63%) Military
6 1 (1.32%) Front Office
6 1 (1.32%) Law
6 1 (1.32%) Legal
6 1 (1.32%) Marketing
6 1 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.32%) Police
6 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (30.26%) Senior
2 18 (23.68%) Developer
3 9 (11.84%) Java Developer
4 8 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 7 (9.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Software Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Architect
6 6 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Lead
8 4 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.95%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (34.21%) Spring
2 25 (32.89%) Kafka
3 24 (31.58%) Spring Boot
4 15 (19.74%) React
5 12 (15.79%) REST
6 8 (10.53%) RESTful
7 7 (9.21%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (6.58%) JSON
8 5 (6.58%) SOAP
8 5 (6.58%) WireMock
9 4 (5.26%) Django
9 4 (5.26%) Gherkin
9 4 (5.26%) HTML
9 4 (5.26%) LangChain
9 4 (5.26%) OAuth
9 4 (5.26%) OAuth2
9 4 (5.26%) Playwright
9 4 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (5.26%) YAML
10 3 (3.95%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.37%) Cloud Native
2 10 (13.16%) 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%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.32%) Genomics
7 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.32%) Life Science
7 1 (1.32%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Linux
2 3 (3.95%) Unix
2 3 (3.95%) Windows
2 3 (3.95%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.32%) VMS
3 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (77.63%) CI/CD
2 45 (59.21%) Containerisation
3 36 (47.37%) DevOps
4 30 (39.47%) Microservices
5 23 (30.26%) Observability
6 22 (28.95%) Agile
7 19 (25.00%) AI
7 19 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (23.68%) Software Engineering
8 18 (23.68%) Test Automation
9 17 (22.37%) Machine Learning
10 16 (21.05%) Event-Driven
11 11 (14.47%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (13.16%) Analytics
12 10 (13.16%) MLOps
12 10 (13.16%) Performance Tuning
13 9 (11.84%) Data Pipeline
13 9 (11.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 9 (11.84%) LLM
13 9 (11.84%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 33 (43.42%) Python
2 30 (39.47%) Java
3 21 (27.63%) SQL
4 10 (13.16%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.53%) 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 6 (7.89%) Degree
4 3 (3.95%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.47%) QA
2 3 (3.95%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.95%) GDPR
3 2 (2.63%) EMIR
3 2 (2.63%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.63%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.63%) MiFID
3 2 (2.63%) PSD2
3 2 (2.63%) SEPA
4 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 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%) Firmware
3 1 (1.32%) GridGain
3 1 (1.32%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (1.32%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 56 (73.68%) Kubernetes
2 19 (25.00%) Terraform
3 13 (17.11%) Prometheus
4 11 (14.47%) Grafana
5 10 (13.16%) Ansible
6 4 (5.26%) Istio
6 4 (5.26%) Puppet
7 3 (3.95%) Nagios
7 3 (3.95%) vCenter Server
7 3 (3.95%) vMotion
8 2 (2.63%) Argo
9 1 (1.32%) Karpenter
9 1 (1.32%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.32%) linkerd
9 1 (1.32%) Podman
9 1 (1.32%) Salt
9 1 (1.32%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.89%) Google
3 5 (6.58%) IBM
4 4 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.95%) Citrix
5 3 (3.95%) Databricks
5 3 (3.95%) HP
5 3 (3.95%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.95%) Symantec
5 3 (3.95%) VMware
6 2 (2.63%) Confluent
6 2 (2.63%) Foundry
6 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.63%) Sybase
7 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.32%) Oracle
7 1 (1.32%) Pega
7 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.32%) Solace
7 1 (1.32%) Splunk