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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 72 41
Rank change year-on-year +11 -31 -10
Contract jobs citing Docker 79 60 97
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.35% 3.22% 4.68%
As % of the System Software category 42.02% 39.47% 41.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 47 64
10th Percentile £450 £417 £487
25th Percentile £501 £495 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +1.67% -12.73%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £725
90th Percentile £738 £688 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £613
% change year-on-year -6.38% -4.08% -8.41%

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 188 152 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.97% 8.17% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 106 171
10th Percentile £222 £263 £321
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £546 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -0.68% -5.98%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £688
90th Percentile £680 £688 £730
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £20.23 £22.95 -
25th Percentile £21.69 £24.38 £77.50
Median hourly rate £24.75 £28.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -66.47% +134.48%
75th Percentile £28.19 £108.88 £92.50
90th Percentile £29.88 £156.05 -
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £27.48 £85.00
% change year-on-year +9.19% -67.68% +134.48%

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 15 August 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 (6.33%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (6.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.80%) Confluence
4 2 (2.53%) Apache
5 1 (1.27%) Camunda
5 1 (1.27%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Magento
1 1 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (59.49%) AWS
2 33 (41.77%) Azure
3 29 (36.71%) GitHub
4 21 (26.58%) GCP
5 16 (20.25%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (16.46%) Serverless
7 11 (13.92%) Amazon S3
7 11 (13.92%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (11.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (10.13%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (7.59%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (7.59%) dbt
10 6 (7.59%) OpenShift
11 5 (6.33%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (6.33%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (6.33%) Azure AKS
11 5 (6.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (6.33%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (6.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.59%) Firewall
2 5 (6.33%) DNS
3 3 (3.80%) DHCP
3 3 (3.80%) SMTP
3 3 (3.80%) VPN
4 1 (1.27%) BGP
4 1 (1.27%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.27%) Multicast
4 1 (1.27%) Network Security
4 1 (1.27%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.27%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.27%) TACACS
4 1 (1.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.99%) NoSQL
2 12 (15.19%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (11.39%) DynamoDB
4 8 (10.13%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (10.13%) MongoDB
5 6 (7.59%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (6.33%) Big Data
6 5 (6.33%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (6.33%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.06%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.80%) Pinecone
8 3 (3.80%) Redis
8 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.80%) Weaviate
9 2 (2.53%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (2.53%) Delta Lake
9 2 (2.53%) Metadata
9 2 (2.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (24.05%) Git
1 19 (24.05%) Jenkins
2 16 (20.25%) GitLab
3 10 (12.66%) JUnit
4 8 (10.13%) JIRA
4 8 (10.13%) Mockito
5 5 (6.33%) Cucumber
5 5 (6.33%) Gradle
5 5 (6.33%) Postman
6 4 (5.06%) Maven
7 3 (3.80%) Selenium
8 2 (2.53%) Liquibase
8 2 (2.53%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.27%) Appium
9 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.27%) MLflow
9 1 (1.27%) PHPUnit
9 1 (1.27%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.27%) TestNG
General
1 32 (40.51%) Finance
2 14 (17.72%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.46%) Banking
4 5 (6.33%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.06%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Front Office
7 2 (2.53%) Military
7 2 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.27%) Law
8 1 (1.27%) Legal
8 1 (1.27%) Marketing
8 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Police
8 1 (1.27%) Retail
8 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (27.85%) Senior
2 18 (22.78%) Developer
3 9 (11.39%) Java Developer
3 9 (11.39%) Senior Developer
4 8 (10.13%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (10.13%) Python Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (8.86%) Software Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Architect
8 4 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Lead
8 4 (5.06%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (32.91%) Kafka
2 23 (29.11%) Spring
2 23 (29.11%) Spring Boot
3 14 (17.72%) REST
4 13 (16.46%) React
5 11 (13.92%) RESTful
6 7 (8.86%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (6.33%) HTML
7 5 (6.33%) SOAP
7 5 (6.33%) YAML
8 4 (5.06%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.06%) Django
8 4 (5.06%) FastAPI
8 4 (5.06%) Gherkin
8 4 (5.06%) GraphQL
8 4 (5.06%) Playwright
8 4 (5.06%) PyTorch
8 4 (5.06%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (5.06%) TensorFlow
8 4 (5.06%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 25 (31.65%) Cloud Native
2 13 (16.46%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (11.39%) AI Agents
4 5 (6.33%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.06%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.80%) Clustering
6 3 (3.80%) PKI
7 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.53%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.53%) Genomics
7 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.53%) Life Science
7 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.27%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.39%) Linux
2 5 (6.33%) Windows
2 5 (6.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.06%) Unix
4 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (82.28%) CI/CD
2 44 (55.70%) Containerisation
3 41 (51.90%) DevOps
4 32 (40.51%) Microservices
5 27 (34.18%) AI
6 26 (32.91%) Agile
7 25 (31.65%) Observability
7 25 (31.65%) Test Automation
8 23 (29.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (27.85%) Software Engineering
10 18 (22.78%) Machine Learning
11 17 (21.52%) Event-Driven
12 14 (17.72%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (15.19%) Analytics
13 12 (15.19%) Data Engineering
14 11 (13.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 11 (13.92%) LLM
14 11 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (12.66%) Mentoring
15 10 (12.66%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 42 (53.16%) Python
2 34 (43.04%) Java
3 19 (24.05%) SQL
4 12 (15.19%) TypeScript
5 9 (11.39%) C#
6 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
7 7 (8.86%) PowerShell
8 5 (6.33%) Bash
9 4 (5.06%) Bicep
10 2 (2.53%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (25.32%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.39%) Degree
4 4 (5.06%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.46%) QA
2 4 (5.06%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.06%) GDPR
3 2 (2.53%) EMIR
3 2 (2.53%) MiFID
3 2 (2.53%) SLA
4 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (6.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.80%) BitLocker
3 3 (3.80%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (3.80%) Terminal Services
3 3 (3.80%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.27%) GridGain
4 1 (1.27%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (1.27%) Varnish
4 1 (1.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 61 (77.22%) Kubernetes
2 23 (29.11%) Terraform
3 9 (11.39%) Grafana
3 9 (11.39%) Prometheus
4 8 (10.13%) Ansible
5 4 (5.06%) Puppet
6 3 (3.80%) Nagios
6 3 (3.80%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.80%) vMotion
7 2 (2.53%) Istio
8 1 (1.27%) Bosun
8 1 (1.27%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.27%) linkerd
8 1 (1.27%) Salt
8 1 (1.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.92%) Google
3 4 (5.06%) OpenAI
3 4 (5.06%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.06%) VMware
4 3 (3.80%) Citrix
4 3 (3.80%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.80%) Foundry
4 3 (3.80%) HP
4 3 (3.80%) IBM
4 3 (3.80%) Symantec
5 2 (2.53%) Databricks
5 2 (2.53%) Sybase
6 1 (1.27%) Cisco
6 1 (1.27%) Informatica
6 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.27%) New Relic
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle
6 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.27%) Solace