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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 45 62
Rank change year-on-year -10 +17 -23
Contract jobs citing Docker 87 76 73
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.92% 4.35% 3.26%
As % of the System Software category 55.06% 38.00% 29.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 55 48
10th Percentile £343 £413 £425
25th Percentile £458 £490 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £558
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +3.14% -14.23%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £657
90th Percentile £779 £686 £747
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £558
% change year-on-year +2.27% -1.35% -14.23%
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 158 200 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.12% 11.44% 11.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 137 185
10th Percentile £237 £263 £250
25th Percentile £400 £407 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +12.82% -15.22%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £692 £722 £742
Central London median daily rate £525 £536 £475
% change year-on-year -2.05% +12.84% -14.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £24.32 - -
25th Percentile £29.57 £162.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.02 £175.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.13% +337.50% +136.20%
75th Percentile £50.72 £187.50 -
90th Percentile £56.12 - £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.71% -33.88% +81.82%

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 16 April 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 3 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.30%) Apache
2 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.30%) Camunda
2 2 (2.30%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.15%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Magento
1 1 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 52 (59.77%) AWS
2 34 (39.08%) Azure
3 30 (34.48%) GitHub
4 22 (25.29%) GCP
5 15 (17.24%) Amazon S3
5 15 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (16.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (16.09%) Serverless
7 13 (14.94%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (11.49%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (8.05%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (8.05%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (5.75%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (5.75%) Apigee
11 5 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (5.75%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (5.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (5.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) SAN
2 1 (1.15%) DNS
2 1 (1.15%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.15%) Firewall
2 1 (1.15%) Multicast
2 1 (1.15%) NAS
2 1 (1.15%) Network Security
2 1 (1.15%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (16.09%) NoSQL
2 14 (16.09%) Relational Database
3 11 (12.64%) DynamoDB
4 9 (10.34%) MongoDB
5 7 (8.05%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.90%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (6.90%) MySQL
6 6 (6.90%) Redis
7 5 (5.75%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (5.75%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.30%) Big Data
9 2 (2.30%) Hazelcast
9 2 (2.30%) Metadata
10 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 24 (27.59%) Git
2 17 (19.54%) Jenkins
3 14 (16.09%) GitLab
4 7 (8.05%) JUnit
5 6 (6.90%) JIRA
5 6 (6.90%) Mockito
6 5 (5.75%) Cucumber
6 5 (5.75%) Maven
7 4 (4.60%) Gradle
7 4 (4.60%) Postman
8 3 (3.45%) Liquibase
9 2 (2.30%) Ant
9 2 (2.30%) Gatling
9 2 (2.30%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.30%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.15%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.15%) MSTest
10 1 (1.15%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (1.15%) PowerBuilder
General
1 25 (28.74%) Finance
2 18 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.24%) Banking
4 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.30%) Front Office
8 1 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Law
8 1 (1.15%) Legal
8 1 (1.15%) Marketing
8 1 (1.15%) Military
8 1 (1.15%) Police
8 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Retail
8 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (31.03%) Developer
2 23 (26.44%) Senior
3 14 (16.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.34%) Java Developer
6 7 (8.05%) Python Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Architect
8 5 (5.75%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Lead
8 5 (5.75%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Python Developer
8 5 (5.75%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (26.44%) Spring
2 20 (22.99%) Kafka
3 19 (21.84%) Spring Boot
4 15 (17.24%) React
4 15 (17.24%) REST
5 11 (12.64%) RESTful
6 8 (9.20%) Node.js
6 8 (9.20%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (8.05%) .NET
7 7 (8.05%) OAuth
8 6 (6.90%) SOAP
9 5 (5.75%) Django
9 5 (5.75%) GraphQL
9 5 (5.75%) JSON
9 5 (5.75%) WireMock
10 4 (4.60%) AngularJS
10 4 (4.60%) JWT
10 4 (4.60%) Playwright
11 3 (3.45%) OAuth2
11 3 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.99%) Cloud Native
2 15 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.75%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.45%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.45%) Life Science
6 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.15%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.15%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.15%) Genomics
6 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.15%) NHS
6 1 (1.15%) Replication
6 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.20%) Linux
2 2 (2.30%) Unix
2 2 (2.30%) VMS
3 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (75.86%) CI/CD
2 51 (58.62%) Containerisation
3 46 (52.87%) DevOps
4 37 (42.53%) Microservices
5 26 (29.89%) Observability
5 26 (29.89%) Test Automation
6 23 (26.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (25.29%) Agile
8 20 (22.99%) Software Engineering
9 17 (19.54%) AI
10 15 (17.24%) Event-Driven
11 14 (16.09%) Code Quality
12 13 (14.94%) Machine Learning
13 12 (13.79%) API Development
13 12 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (12.64%) Analytics
14 11 (12.64%) Performance Tuning
15 10 (11.49%) Full-Stack Development
16 9 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
16 9 (10.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 40 (45.98%) Python
2 32 (36.78%) Java
3 22 (25.29%) SQL
4 9 (10.34%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.05%) C#
6 5 (5.75%) Bash
6 5 (5.75%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.30%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.15%) Bicep
8 1 (1.15%) C
8 1 (1.15%) Go
8 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.15%) PHP
8 1 (1.15%) ProC
8 1 (1.15%) Ruby
8 1 (1.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (26.44%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.30%) Degree
4 1 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.15%) CCSP
4 1 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.15%) CISSP
4 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.15%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.15%) OSCP
4 1 (1.15%) SANS
4 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.15%) VCAP
4 1 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.49%) QA
2 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.30%) GDPR
2 2 (2.30%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.30%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.30%) PSD2
2 2 (2.30%) SEPA
3 1 (1.15%) GRC
3 1 (1.15%) NCSC
3 1 (1.15%) NIST
3 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.15%) Firmware
2 1 (1.15%) GridGain
2 1 (1.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (1.15%) Varnish
2 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.15%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (71.26%) Kubernetes
2 24 (27.59%) Terraform
3 13 (14.94%) Ansible
3 13 (14.94%) Prometheus
4 11 (12.64%) Grafana
5 5 (5.75%) Istio
6 4 (4.60%) Argo
7 3 (3.45%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.15%) Kibana
8 1 (1.15%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.15%) linkerd
8 1 (1.15%) Podman
8 1 (1.15%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.15%) Puppet
8 1 (1.15%) Salt
8 1 (1.15%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.49%) Google
3 8 (9.20%) Oracle
4 5 (5.75%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.75%) IBM
5 3 (3.45%) Databricks
5 3 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.30%) Confluent
6 2 (2.30%) Foundry
6 2 (2.30%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.30%) Splunk
6 2 (2.30%) Sybase
7 1 (1.15%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.15%) Informatica
7 1 (1.15%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.15%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.15%) Pega
7 1 (1.15%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.15%) Solace