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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 64 38
Rank change year-on-year -13 -26 +10
Contract jobs citing Docker 64 63 105
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.96% 3.65% 4.93%
As % of the System Software category 36.16% 40.38% 43.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 52 63
10th Percentile £423 £426 £483
25th Percentile £475 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% +1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £725
90th Percentile £698 £779 £815
Central London median daily rate £538 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -11.89% +1.67% -4.00%

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 177 156 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.19% 9.05% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 111 160
10th Percentile £222 £283 £320
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.59% +2.93%
75th Percentile £626 £666 £666
90th Percentile £677 £688 £732
Central London median daily rate £525 £539 £544
% change year-on-year -2.64% -0.83% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £12.78 £22.48 £84.40
25th Percentile £16.94 £23.19 £94.75
Median hourly rate £21.75 £25.25 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% -77.46% +208.97%
75th Percentile £25.75 £28.19 -
90th Percentile £28.90 £29.43 -
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £25.25 £112.00
% change year-on-year -4.95% -77.46% +208.97%

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 October 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 (7.81%) Confluence
2 3 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.56%) IIS
4 1 (1.56%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 39 (60.94%) AWS
2 31 (48.44%) Azure
3 25 (39.06%) GitHub
4 17 (26.56%) GCP
5 13 (20.31%) Serverless
6 12 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (14.06%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (10.94%) Amazon S3
11 6 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (9.38%) OpenShift
12 4 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (6.25%) Azure AI
12 4 (6.25%) IaaS
12 4 (6.25%) Snowflake
13 3 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (4.69%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (4.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) DNS
1 5 (7.81%) Firewall
2 3 (4.69%) DHCP
2 3 (4.69%) SMTP
2 3 (4.69%) VPN
3 1 (1.56%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.56%) BGP
3 1 (1.56%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.56%) Network Security
3 1 (1.56%) NX-OS
3 1 (1.56%) RTCP
3 1 (1.56%) RTP
3 1 (1.56%) TACACS
3 1 (1.56%) VoIP
3 1 (1.56%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.31%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.94%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (10.94%) NoSQL
3 6 (9.38%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.81%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.25%) Big Data
5 4 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 4 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (4.69%) Pinecone
6 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.69%) Weaviate
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.13%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.13%) Milvus
7 2 (3.13%) Redis
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (28.13%) Jenkins
2 16 (25.00%) Git
3 12 (18.75%) GitLab
4 9 (14.06%) JIRA
5 7 (10.94%) JUnit
6 6 (9.38%) Mockito
7 5 (7.81%) Maven
8 4 (6.25%) Cucumber
8 4 (6.25%) Gradle
8 4 (6.25%) Postman
8 4 (6.25%) Selenium
9 2 (3.13%) Claude Code
9 2 (3.13%) SoapUI
9 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
9 2 (3.13%) Zephyr
10 1 (1.56%) Appium
10 1 (1.56%) Gatling
10 1 (1.56%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (1.56%) Liquibase
10 1 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 27 (42.19%) Finance
2 13 (20.31%) Banking
3 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 4 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Retail
8 1 (1.56%) Back Office
8 1 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Front Office
8 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.56%) Military
8 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (31.25%) Senior
2 14 (21.88%) Developer
3 7 (10.94%) Automation Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) Senior Developer
4 6 (9.38%) Architect
4 6 (9.38%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Lead
5 5 (7.81%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Python Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 3 (4.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Java Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (42.19%) Terraform
2 19 (29.69%) Spring
2 19 (29.69%) Spring Boot
3 18 (28.13%) Kafka
4 13 (20.31%) REST
4 13 (20.31%) RESTful
5 8 (12.50%) React
6 7 (10.94%) AngularJS
7 5 (7.81%) HTML
7 5 (7.81%) SOAP
8 4 (6.25%) .NET
8 4 (6.25%) FastAPI
8 4 (6.25%) LangChain
8 4 (6.25%) Node.js
8 4 (6.25%) Web Services
9 3 (4.69%) CrewAI
9 3 (4.69%) JPA
9 3 (4.69%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (4.69%) TensorFlow
9 3 (4.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (35.94%) Cloud Native
2 11 (17.19%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (12.50%) AI Agents
4 5 (7.81%) Onboarding
4 5 (7.81%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.25%) Data Centre
5 4 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.69%) Clustering
6 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.69%) PKI
7 2 (3.13%) Client/Server
7 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.56%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.56%) Genomics
8 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.19%) Linux
2 6 (9.38%) Windows
2 6 (9.38%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.25%) Unix
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (85.94%) CI/CD
2 34 (53.13%) Containerisation
3 31 (48.44%) DevOps
4 24 (37.50%) AI
5 22 (34.38%) Agile
5 22 (34.38%) Microservices
5 22 (34.38%) Test Automation
6 21 (32.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (32.81%) Software Engineering
7 16 (25.00%) Observability
8 12 (18.75%) Machine Learning
9 11 (17.19%) Event-Driven
9 11 (17.19%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (15.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 10 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (14.06%) Analytics
11 9 (14.06%) LLM
11 9 (14.06%) Mentoring
11 9 (14.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 34 (53.13%) Python
2 31 (48.44%) Java
3 15 (23.44%) SQL
4 10 (15.63%) JavaScript
5 9 (14.06%) TypeScript
6 8 (12.50%) C#
6 8 (12.50%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.81%) Bash
8 4 (6.25%) Bicep
9 1 (1.56%) CodeQL
9 1 (1.56%) Korn
9 1 (1.56%) Scala
9 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (29.69%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.06%) Degree
4 4 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.56%) CISA
7 1 (1.56%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.56%) GSEC
7 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.06%) QA
2 4 (6.25%) GDPR
3 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.13%) EMIR
4 2 (3.13%) MiFID
5 1 (1.56%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.56%) PSD2
5 1 (1.56%) SEPA
5 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.69%) BitLocker
2 3 (4.69%) Hyper-V
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (4.69%) Terminal Services
2 3 (4.69%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 48 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.94%) Ansible
2 7 (10.94%) Grafana
3 5 (7.81%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.69%) Nagios
4 3 (4.69%) Puppet
4 3 (4.69%) vCenter Server
4 3 (4.69%) vMotion
5 1 (1.56%) Bosun
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.63%) Google
3 5 (7.81%) Databricks
4 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.25%) VMware
5 3 (4.69%) Citrix
5 3 (4.69%) Dynatrace
5 3 (4.69%) Foundry
5 3 (4.69%) HP
5 3 (4.69%) IBM
5 3 (4.69%) OpenAI
5 3 (4.69%) Symantec
6 2 (3.13%) New Relic
6 2 (3.13%) Oracle
6 2 (3.13%) Splunk
7 1 (1.56%) Calypso
7 1 (1.56%) Cisco
7 1 (1.56%) Murex
7 1 (1.56%) SAP
7 1 (1.56%) Temenos