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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 42 61
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 -8
Contract jobs citing Docker 79 88 78
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.21% 4.67% 3.17%
As % of the System Software category 48.77% 42.11% 29.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 54 59
10th Percentile £343 £456 £405
25th Percentile £459 £508 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -19.23%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £622
90th Percentile £788 £688 £745
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £525
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £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 162 209 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.64% 11.08% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 130 199
10th Percentile £279 £274 £258
25th Percentile £408 £442 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £559 £490
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +13.98% -14.78%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £687 £726 £732
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -4.55% +12.82% -15.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.82 - £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 - £37.00
90th Percentile - - £44.95
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -77.26% +397.78% +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 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the City of London

Docker
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 (2.53%) Confluence
2 1 (1.27%) Camunda
2 1 (1.27%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 47 (59.49%) AWS
2 28 (35.44%) Azure
3 27 (34.18%) GitHub
4 22 (27.85%) GCP
5 16 (20.25%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (17.72%) Amazon S3
7 13 (16.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (13.92%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (11.39%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (11.39%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (11.39%) Serverless
10 8 (10.13%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (10.13%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (8.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (7.59%) Apigee
12 6 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (7.59%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (7.59%) Cloud Run
12 6 (7.59%) Google Gemini
12 6 (7.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) DNS
2 4 (5.06%) Firewall
3 2 (2.53%) SAN
3 2 (2.53%) SSL
3 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.53%) VPN
4 1 (1.27%) 3GPP
4 1 (1.27%) 4G
4 1 (1.27%) BGP
4 1 (1.27%) DHCP
4 1 (1.27%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.27%) IPsec
4 1 (1.27%) MPLS
4 1 (1.27%) NAS
4 1 (1.27%) OSPF
4 1 (1.27%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.27%) SNMP
4 1 (1.27%) SSH
4 1 (1.27%) VLAN
4 1 (1.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.46%) Relational Database
2 11 (13.92%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.13%) MySQL
4 7 (8.86%) DynamoDB
5 5 (6.33%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.33%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.33%) Redis
6 4 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.80%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.53%) Hazelcast
9 1 (1.27%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.27%) Big Data
9 1 (1.27%) CouchDB
9 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.27%) KDB
9 1 (1.27%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 18 (22.78%) Git
1 18 (22.78%) Jenkins
2 15 (18.99%) GitLab
3 7 (8.86%) SonarQube
4 5 (6.33%) Gradle
4 5 (6.33%) Maven
5 4 (5.06%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.06%) JUnit
6 3 (3.80%) Gatling
6 3 (3.80%) JIRA
6 3 (3.80%) Mockito
6 3 (3.80%) Postman
6 3 (3.80%) Selenium
6 3 (3.80%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.53%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.53%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.53%) Snyk
7 2 (2.53%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.27%) Hamcrest
General
1 24 (30.38%) Finance
2 17 (21.52%) Social Skills
3 14 (17.72%) Banking
4 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.80%) Front Office
5 3 (3.80%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.53%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.53%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Retail
7 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (30.38%) Developer
2 20 (25.32%) Senior
3 14 (17.72%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (8.86%) Java Developer
4 7 (8.86%) Python Engineer
4 7 (8.86%) Senior Developer
5 6 (7.59%) Architect
6 5 (6.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.06%) GCP Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Backend Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Lead
8 3 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.53%) AWS Architect
9 2 (2.53%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (2.53%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.19%) React
1 12 (15.19%) RESTful
1 12 (15.19%) Spring
2 11 (13.92%) REST
3 9 (11.39%) Node.js
3 9 (11.39%) Spring Boot
4 8 (10.13%) GraphQL
4 8 (10.13%) Kafka
4 8 (10.13%) OAuth
5 7 (8.86%) .NET
6 6 (7.59%) CSS
6 6 (7.59%) HTML
6 6 (7.59%) JSON
6 6 (7.59%) JWT
7 4 (5.06%) FastAPI
7 4 (5.06%) OAuth2
7 4 (5.06%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (5.06%) SOAP
8 3 (3.80%) HTML5
8 3 (3.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.99%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.86%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (8.86%) Virtual Team
3 6 (7.59%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.06%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.80%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.80%) Life Science
5 3 (3.80%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.53%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.53%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.53%) Replication
7 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.27%) Genomics
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.27%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.39%) Linux
2 2 (2.53%) Windows
3 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.27%) Unix
3 1 (1.27%) VMS
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (68.35%) CI/CD
2 46 (58.23%) Containerisation
3 41 (51.90%) DevOps
4 26 (32.91%) Microservices
5 24 (30.38%) Test Automation
6 21 (26.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (21.52%) Software Engineering
8 16 (20.25%) Agile
8 16 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (18.99%) Code Quality
9 15 (18.99%) Design Patterns
10 14 (17.72%) AI
10 14 (17.72%) Observability
11 13 (16.46%) API Development
12 9 (11.39%) Machine Learning
13 8 (10.13%) Analytics
13 8 (10.13%) Clean Code
13 8 (10.13%) Full-Stack Development
13 8 (10.13%) Generative AI
13 8 (10.13%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 40 (50.63%) Python
2 29 (36.71%) Java
3 17 (21.52%) SQL
4 9 (11.39%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.86%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.80%) Bash
6 3 (3.80%) C#
6 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.53%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.53%) PHP
7 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.53%) Rust
8 1 (1.27%) C
8 1 (1.27%) C++
8 1 (1.27%) Go
8 1 (1.27%) ProC
8 1 (1.27%) Ruby
8 1 (1.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (22.78%) SC Cleared
1 18 (22.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.80%) MCP
3 2 (2.53%) CISSP
3 2 (2.53%) Degree
4 1 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.27%) CCSP
4 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.27%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.27%) OSCP
4 1 (1.27%) SANS
4 1 (1.27%) VCAP
4 1 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.33%) QA
2 4 (5.06%) GDPR
2 4 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.53%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.53%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.53%) NIST
3 2 (2.53%) PSD2
3 2 (2.53%) SEPA
4 1 (1.27%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.27%) GRC
4 1 (1.27%) MiFID
4 1 (1.27%) NCSC
4 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.27%) Firmware
1 1 (1.27%) HDFS
1 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.27%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (63.29%) Kubernetes
2 27 (34.18%) Terraform
3 19 (24.05%) Ansible
4 7 (8.86%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.59%) Argo
5 6 (7.59%) Grafana
6 5 (6.33%) Istio
7 3 (3.80%) Karpenter
7 3 (3.80%) Kibana
8 2 (2.53%) Puppet
9 1 (1.27%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.27%) logstash
9 1 (1.27%) Podman
9 1 (1.27%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.27%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (18.99%) Google
2 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.13%) Oracle
4 4 (5.06%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.06%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.80%) CheckPoint
5 3 (3.80%) Confluent
5 3 (3.80%) Splunk
6 2 (2.53%) Databricks
6 2 (2.53%) F5
6 2 (2.53%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.27%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.27%) IBM
7 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.27%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.27%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.27%) Solace
7 1 (1.27%) TIBCO