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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 34 31
Rank change year-on-year -34 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Docker 55 108 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.13% 5.22% 5.52%
As % of the System Software category 39.57% 43.20% 43.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 67 111
10th Percentile £435 £481 £413
25th Percentile £499 £526 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £675 £725 £788
90th Percentile £696 £775 £850
Central London median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 139 250 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.90% 12.08% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 173 257
10th Percentile £275 £340 £290
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% -2.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £738
90th Percentile £688 £736 £822
Central London median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - +0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £22.48 - £23.88
25th Percentile £23.19 £77.50 £27.81
Median hourly rate £25.25 £85.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -70.29% +134.48% +76.83%
75th Percentile £28.19 £92.50 £45.31
90th Percentile £29.43 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £85.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -68.88% +134.48% +76.83%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Docker 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 16 September 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.82%) Confluence
1 1 (1.82%) Drupal
1 1 (1.82%) nginx
1 1 (1.82%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.18%) AWS
2 14 (25.45%) Azure
2 14 (25.45%) GCP
3 13 (23.64%) GitHub
4 9 (16.36%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (14.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 6 (10.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (7.27%) Amazon S3
8 4 (7.27%) Cloud Run
8 4 (7.27%) Slack
8 4 (7.27%) Snowflake
8 4 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (5.45%) Azure AKS
9 3 (5.45%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (5.45%) Google Gemini
9 3 (5.45%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.73%) Firewall
2 5 (9.09%) DNS
3 4 (7.27%) VPN
4 2 (3.64%) SSL
4 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.82%) 3GPP
5 1 (1.82%) 4G
5 1 (1.82%) 5G
5 1 (1.82%) BGP
5 1 (1.82%) DHCP
5 1 (1.82%) IPsec
5 1 (1.82%) MPLS
5 1 (1.82%) Network Security
5 1 (1.82%) OSPF
5 1 (1.82%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.82%) SNMP
5 1 (1.82%) SSH
5 1 (1.82%) VLAN
5 1 (1.82%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.45%) Tableau
3 2 (3.64%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.82%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.82%) Big Data
4 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.82%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.82%) Impala
4 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.82%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.82%) Redis
4 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (29.09%) Jenkins
2 12 (21.82%) GitLab
3 9 (16.36%) Git
4 7 (12.73%) Gradle
4 7 (12.73%) Maven
4 7 (12.73%) SonarQube
5 4 (7.27%) Selenium
6 3 (5.45%) JIRA
6 3 (5.45%) Snyk
7 2 (3.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (3.64%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.82%) Ant
8 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.82%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.82%) git-flow
8 1 (1.82%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.82%) MLflow
8 1 (1.82%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (32.73%) Finance
2 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.36%) Banking
4 8 (14.55%) Investment Banking
5 4 (7.27%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.82%) Billing
7 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Developer
2 9 (16.36%) Senior
3 8 (14.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) GCP Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Senior Developer
6 3 (5.45%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.45%) Lead
7 2 (3.64%) .NET Developer
7 2 (3.64%) AWS Specialist
7 2 (3.64%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 2 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) GraphQL
2 6 (10.91%) CSS
2 6 (10.91%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (10.91%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (10.91%) HTML
2 6 (10.91%) Node.js
2 6 (10.91%) REST
2 6 (10.91%) RESTful
3 4 (7.27%) Pandas
4 3 (5.45%) Flask
4 3 (5.45%) React
4 3 (5.45%) Spring
4 3 (5.45%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.64%) CSS3
5 2 (3.64%) HTML5
5 2 (3.64%) Kafka
5 2 (3.64%) OAuth
5 2 (3.64%) OAuth2
5 2 (3.64%) WebSockets
5 2 (3.64%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 19 (34.55%) Cloud Native
2 10 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (10.91%) Data Centre
3 6 (10.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (9.09%) Fixed Income
5 3 (5.45%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (5.45%) IVR
5 3 (5.45%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.64%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.64%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.82%) DataPower
7 1 (1.82%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.82%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (23.64%) Linux
2 3 (5.45%) Unix
3 2 (3.64%) Windows
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (63.64%) DevOps
2 30 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 27 (49.09%) Containerisation
4 19 (34.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (27.27%) Agile
6 12 (21.82%) Observability
7 10 (18.18%) Event-Driven
8 9 (16.36%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (16.36%) Machine Learning
8 9 (16.36%) Microservices
8 9 (16.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 8 (14.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (14.55%) Scrum
10 7 (12.73%) Project Management
10 7 (12.73%) RBAC
11 6 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (10.91%) Data Science
11 6 (10.91%) Design Patterns
11 6 (10.91%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (49.09%) Python
2 14 (25.45%) Java
3 9 (16.36%) SQL
4 6 (10.91%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.91%) PowerShell
5 4 (7.27%) C#
5 4 (7.27%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.45%) Bash
6 3 (5.45%) Bicep
6 3 (5.45%) Go
6 3 (5.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.82%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
1 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.27%) Degree
3 3 (5.45%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.64%) PhD
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.82%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (9.09%) GDPR
3 4 (7.27%) QA
3 4 (7.27%) SOC 2
4 3 (5.45%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.82%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.82%) NIST
5 1 (1.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (69.09%) Kubernetes
2 29 (52.73%) Terraform
3 9 (16.36%) Ansible
4 7 (12.73%) Grafana
5 6 (10.91%) Argo
5 6 (10.91%) Kibana
5 6 (10.91%) Puppet
6 5 (9.09%) Istio
6 5 (9.09%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (9.09%) logstash
6 5 (9.09%) Prometheus
7 3 (5.45%) Progress Chef
8 2 (3.64%) Podman
9 1 (1.82%) Consul
9 1 (1.82%) Kubeflow
9 1 (1.82%) Packer
9 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (23.64%) Google
2 5 (9.09%) Solace
3 4 (7.27%) OpenAI
4 3 (5.45%) Bloomberg
4 3 (5.45%) Cloudera
4 3 (5.45%) MuleSoft
4 3 (5.45%) Splunk
5 2 (3.64%) CheckPoint
5 2 (3.64%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.64%) F5
5 2 (3.64%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.64%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.82%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.82%) Confluent
6 1 (1.82%) Databricks
6 1 (1.82%) Dell
6 1 (1.82%) Tenable