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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 42 55
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 +1
Contract jobs citing Docker 76 85 82
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.22% 4.45% 3.36%
As % of the System Software category 48.41% 41.46% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 52 66
10th Percentile £352 £488 £403
25th Percentile £496 £517 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +9.52% -19.23%
75th Percentile £647 £630 £685
90th Percentile £788 £725 £788
Central London median daily rate £575 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -2.13% +11.90% -19.23%

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 157 205 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.72% 10.72% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 126 202
10th Percentile £278 £313 £278
25th Percentile £406 £442 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £566 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% +13.25% -13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £634 £634
90th Percentile £722 £725 £737
Central London median daily rate £546 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -0.68% +12.82% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £84.40 -
25th Percentile £20.82 £94.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.12% +397.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile £23.71 - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £98.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -74.14% +337.78% +9.76%

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 11 January 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 2 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 45 (59.21%) AWS
2 30 (39.47%) Azure
3 27 (35.53%) GitHub
4 23 (30.26%) GCP
5 17 (22.37%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (17.11%) Amazon S3
7 12 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (14.47%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (11.84%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (10.53%) Serverless
11 7 (9.21%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (9.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (7.89%) Apigee
12 6 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (7.89%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (7.89%) Cloud Run
12 6 (7.89%) Google Gemini
12 6 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.58%) DNS
2 4 (5.26%) Firewall
3 2 (2.63%) SAN
3 2 (2.63%) SSL
3 2 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.63%) VPN
4 1 (1.32%) 3GPP
4 1 (1.32%) 4G
4 1 (1.32%) 5G
4 1 (1.32%) BGP
4 1 (1.32%) DHCP
4 1 (1.32%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.32%) IPsec
4 1 (1.32%) MPLS
4 1 (1.32%) NAS
4 1 (1.32%) OSPF
4 1 (1.32%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.32%) SSH
4 1 (1.32%) VLAN
4 1 (1.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.79%) Relational Database
2 10 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (9.21%) MySQL
4 6 (7.89%) DynamoDB
5 5 (6.58%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.58%) Redis
6 4 (5.26%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.95%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.63%) Hazelcast
9 1 (1.32%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.32%) CouchDB
9 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.32%) KDB
9 1 (1.32%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 17 (22.37%) Jenkins
2 16 (21.05%) Git
3 12 (15.79%) GitLab
4 7 (9.21%) SonarQube
5 5 (6.58%) Gradle
6 4 (5.26%) Maven
7 3 (3.95%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.95%) Gatling
7 3 (3.95%) JUnit
7 3 (3.95%) Selenium
7 3 (3.95%) Snyk
7 3 (3.95%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.63%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.63%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.63%) JIRA
8 2 (2.63%) Mockito
8 2 (2.63%) Postman
8 2 (2.63%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.63%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
General
1 22 (28.95%) Finance
2 17 (22.37%) Social Skills
3 13 (17.11%) Banking
4 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.95%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.95%) Front Office
5 3 (3.95%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.95%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Retail
7 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (30.26%) Developer
2 20 (26.32%) Senior
3 13 (17.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Java Developer
4 7 (9.21%) Python Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Senior Developer
5 6 (7.89%) Architect
5 6 (7.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) Lead
6 4 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Backend Developer
7 3 (3.95%) Python Developer
8 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Lead Developer
8 2 (2.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.47%) REST
1 11 (14.47%) RESTful
2 10 (13.16%) React
3 9 (11.84%) Node.js
3 9 (11.84%) Spring
4 8 (10.53%) OAuth
5 7 (9.21%) .NET
5 7 (9.21%) GraphQL
5 7 (9.21%) Kafka
5 7 (9.21%) Spring Boot
6 6 (7.89%) JSON
6 6 (7.89%) JWT
7 5 (6.58%) CSS
7 5 (6.58%) HTML
8 4 (5.26%) FastAPI
8 4 (5.26%) OAuth2
8 4 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (3.95%) HTML5
9 3 (3.95%) SOAP
10 2 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (9.21%) Virtual Team
3 6 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.95%) Life Science
5 3 (3.95%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.63%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.63%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.63%) Replication
7 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Linux
2 2 (2.63%) Windows
3 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.32%) Unix
3 1 (1.32%) VMS
3 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (67.11%) CI/CD
2 45 (59.21%) Containerisation
3 41 (53.95%) DevOps
4 24 (31.58%) Microservices
5 22 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (27.63%) Test Automation
7 17 (22.37%) Software Engineering
8 16 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (19.74%) Agile
9 15 (19.74%) AI
9 15 (19.74%) Design Patterns
10 14 (18.42%) Code Quality
11 12 (15.79%) API Development
11 12 (15.79%) Observability
12 10 (13.16%) Machine Learning
13 9 (11.84%) Generative AI
14 8 (10.53%) Analytics
14 8 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
15 7 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (9.21%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 39 (51.32%) Python
2 27 (35.53%) Java
3 16 (21.05%) SQL
4 9 (11.84%) TypeScript
5 7 (9.21%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.95%) Bash
6 3 (3.95%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.63%) C#
7 2 (2.63%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.63%) PHP
7 2 (2.63%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.63%) Rust
8 1 (1.32%) Bicep
8 1 (1.32%) C
8 1 (1.32%) C++
8 1 (1.32%) Go
8 1 (1.32%) ProC
8 1 (1.32%) Ruby
8 1 (1.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 19 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.95%) MCP
3 2 (2.63%) CISSP
3 2 (2.63%) Degree
4 1 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.32%) CCSP
4 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.32%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.32%) OSCP
4 1 (1.32%) SANS
4 1 (1.32%) VCAP
4 1 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) GDPR
1 5 (6.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (6.58%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.63%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.63%) NIST
2 2 (2.63%) PSD2
2 2 (2.63%) SEPA
2 2 (2.63%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.32%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.32%) GRC
3 1 (1.32%) MiFID
3 1 (1.32%) NCSC
3 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.32%) Firmware
1 1 (1.32%) HDFS
1 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (61.84%) Kubernetes
2 28 (36.84%) Terraform
3 19 (25.00%) Ansible
4 7 (9.21%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.89%) Argo
5 6 (7.89%) Grafana
6 5 (6.58%) Istio
7 3 (3.95%) Kibana
8 2 (2.63%) Karpenter
8 2 (2.63%) Puppet
9 1 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.32%) logstash
9 1 (1.32%) Podman
9 1 (1.32%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (21.05%) Google
2 10 (13.16%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.53%) Oracle
4 4 (5.26%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.26%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.95%) CheckPoint
5 3 (3.95%) Confluent
5 3 (3.95%) Splunk
6 2 (2.63%) Databricks
6 2 (2.63%) F5
6 2 (2.63%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.32%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.32%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.32%) Brocade
7 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.32%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.32%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.32%) Solace
7 1 (1.32%) Tenable