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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 37 46
Rank change year-on-year -21 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing Docker 67 107 112
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.89% 5.09% 4.04%
As % of the System Software category 42.95% 42.80% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 62 88
10th Percentile £359 £482 £400
25th Percentile £509 £527 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £668 £694 £788
90th Percentile £744 £775 £850
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £608
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.23% -6.54%

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 156 250 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.06% 11.90% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 158 239
10th Percentile £285 £333 £260
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £546 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +4.05% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £683
90th Percentile £688 £730 £803
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £84.40 £23.88
25th Percentile £26.75 £94.75 £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £112.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -74.55% +208.97% +76.83%
75th Percentile £30.25 - £45.31
90th Percentile - - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -77.26% +208.97% +79.01%

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 5 November 2025.

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 (4.48%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) Drupal
2 1 (1.49%) nginx
2 1 (1.49%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 31 (46.27%) AWS
2 20 (29.85%) Azure
3 18 (26.87%) GitHub
4 17 (25.37%) GCP
5 13 (19.40%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (14.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (13.43%) Amazon S3
8 8 (11.94%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (11.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (10.45%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (8.96%) Apigee
11 5 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (7.46%) Cloud Run
11 5 (7.46%) Serverless
12 4 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (5.97%) Slack
12 4 (5.97%) Snowflake
12 4 (5.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.46%) Firewall
2 4 (5.97%) DNS
3 2 (2.99%) SSL
3 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.99%) VPN
4 1 (1.49%) 3GPP
4 1 (1.49%) 4G
4 1 (1.49%) 5G
4 1 (1.49%) BGP
4 1 (1.49%) DHCP
4 1 (1.49%) IPsec
4 1 (1.49%) MPLS
4 1 (1.49%) Network Security
4 1 (1.49%) OSPF
4 1 (1.49%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.49%) SNMP
4 1 (1.49%) SSH
4 1 (1.49%) VLAN
4 1 (1.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.94%) Relational Database
2 7 (10.45%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (7.46%) DynamoDB
4 4 (5.97%) MySQL
5 3 (4.48%) Tableau
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.99%) Redis
7 1 (1.49%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.49%) Big Data
7 1 (1.49%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.49%) Impala
7 1 (1.49%) KDB
7 1 (1.49%) Kdb+
7 1 (1.49%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (26.87%) Jenkins
2 13 (19.40%) Git
2 13 (19.40%) GitLab
3 9 (13.43%) Gradle
4 8 (11.94%) Maven
4 8 (11.94%) SonarQube
5 5 (7.46%) Selenium
6 4 (5.97%) JIRA
7 3 (4.48%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.48%) Snyk
7 3 (4.48%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.99%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.99%) JUnit
8 2 (2.99%) Postman
8 2 (2.99%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.99%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.49%) Ant
9 1 (1.49%) Hamcrest
9 1 (1.49%) jMock
9 1 (1.49%) Mockito
General
1 24 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 21 (31.34%) Finance
3 13 (19.40%) Banking
4 8 (11.94%) Investment Banking
5 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.97%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Front Office
8 2 (2.99%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (22.39%) Senior
2 13 (19.40%) Developer
3 9 (13.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) Python Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Architect
5 5 (7.46%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Lead
8 2 (2.99%) Apigee Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (2.99%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 2 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (2.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) RESTful
2 9 (13.43%) Node.js
3 8 (11.94%) CSS
3 8 (11.94%) HTML
3 8 (11.94%) REST
4 7 (10.45%) GraphQL
5 6 (8.96%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (8.96%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (7.46%) JWT
6 5 (7.46%) OAuth
7 4 (5.97%) Pandas
7 4 (5.97%) React
8 3 (4.48%) .NET
8 3 (4.48%) Flask
8 3 (4.48%) HTML5
8 3 (4.48%) JSON
8 3 (4.48%) SOAP
9 2 (2.99%) Spring
9 2 (2.99%) WebSockets
9 2 (2.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.87%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.43%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (10.45%) Virtual Team
4 6 (8.96%) Fixed Income
4 6 (8.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (7.46%) Data Centre
5 5 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (5.97%) Onboarding
7 3 (4.48%) IVR
8 2 (2.99%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.99%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.99%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.99%) Replication
8 2 (2.99%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.49%) Genomics
9 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.42%) Linux
2 2 (2.99%) Windows
3 1 (1.49%) Unix
3 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (59.70%) CI/CD
2 37 (55.22%) DevOps
3 34 (50.75%) Containerisation
4 17 (25.37%) Agile
4 17 (25.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (22.39%) Design Patterns
5 15 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (20.90%) Test Automation
7 13 (19.40%) Microservices
7 13 (19.40%) Software Engineering
8 11 (16.42%) Machine Learning
8 11 (16.42%) Observability
9 10 (14.93%) AI
9 10 (14.93%) Code Quality
10 8 (11.94%) Event-Driven
11 7 (10.45%) API Development
11 7 (10.45%) Low Latency
11 7 (10.45%) RBAC
11 7 (10.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 36 (53.73%) Python
2 17 (25.37%) Java
3 11 (16.42%) SQL
4 9 (13.43%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.94%) PowerShell
6 7 (10.45%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.97%) Bash
8 3 (4.48%) Bicep
9 2 (2.99%) C#
9 2 (2.99%) Go
9 2 (2.99%) PHP
9 2 (2.99%) Rust
10 1 (1.49%) C++
10 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.49%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 12 (17.91%) SC Cleared
1 12 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.97%) Degree
3 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.49%) CISSP
4 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.49%) MCP
4 1 (1.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) GDPR
1 5 (7.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (7.46%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.48%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.49%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.49%) MiFID
3 1 (1.49%) NIST
3 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (56.72%) Kubernetes
2 27 (40.30%) Terraform
3 15 (22.39%) Ansible
4 7 (10.45%) Kibana
5 6 (8.96%) Argo
5 6 (8.96%) ITRS Geneos
5 6 (8.96%) logstash
6 5 (7.46%) Istio
7 4 (5.97%) Puppet
8 3 (4.48%) Grafana
9 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.49%) Consul
10 1 (1.49%) Kubeflow
10 1 (1.49%) Packer
10 1 (1.49%) Podman
10 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) Google
2 6 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.96%) Solace
3 4 (5.97%) OpenAI
3 4 (5.97%) Splunk
4 3 (4.48%) Bloomberg
4 3 (4.48%) Cloudera
4 3 (4.48%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.99%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.99%) Databricks
5 2 (2.99%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.99%) F5
5 2 (2.99%) Oracle
5 2 (2.99%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.49%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.49%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.49%) Confluent
6 1 (1.49%) Dell
6 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.49%) TIBCO