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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 37 54
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 -4
Contract jobs citing Docker 81 98 89
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.44% 4.74% 3.50%
As % of the System Software category 47.65% 42.61% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 59 75
10th Percentile £356 £486 £400
25th Percentile £507 £523 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £664 £663 £720
90th Percentile £788 £732 £844
Central London median daily rate £588 £600 £544
% change year-on-year -2.08% +10.29% -16.31%

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 170 230 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.32% 11.13% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 144 215
10th Percentile £280 £313 £268
25th Percentile £413 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +11.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £644
90th Percentile £689 £729 £788
Central London median daily rate £546 £550 £490
% change year-on-year -0.68% +12.24% -14.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £84.40 -
25th Percentile £20.82 £94.75 £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 - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 20 December 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 2 (2.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 43 (53.09%) AWS
2 28 (34.57%) Azure
3 25 (30.86%) GitHub
4 23 (28.40%) GCP
5 15 (18.52%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (16.05%) Amazon S3
7 12 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (13.58%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (9.88%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (9.88%) Serverless
11 7 (8.64%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (7.41%) Apigee
12 6 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (7.41%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (7.41%) Cloud Run
12 6 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (6.17%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.17%) DNS
2 4 (4.94%) Firewall
3 2 (2.47%) SSL
3 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.47%) VPN
4 1 (1.23%) 3GPP
4 1 (1.23%) 4G
4 1 (1.23%) 5G
4 1 (1.23%) BGP
4 1 (1.23%) DHCP
4 1 (1.23%) IPsec
4 1 (1.23%) MPLS
4 1 (1.23%) NAS
4 1 (1.23%) OSPF
4 1 (1.23%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.23%) SAN
4 1 (1.23%) SNMP
4 1 (1.23%) SSH
4 1 (1.23%) VLAN
4 1 (1.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.81%) Relational Database
2 10 (12.35%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.64%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (8.64%) MySQL
4 6 (7.41%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.94%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.70%) Tableau
7 2 (2.47%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.23%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.23%) Big Data
8 1 (1.23%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.23%) KDB
8 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (23.46%) Jenkins
2 17 (20.99%) Git
3 14 (17.28%) GitLab
4 9 (11.11%) SonarQube
5 7 (8.64%) Gradle
6 6 (7.41%) Maven
7 5 (6.17%) Selenium
8 3 (3.70%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.70%) JUnit
8 3 (3.70%) Snyk
8 3 (3.70%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.47%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.47%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.47%) JIRA
9 2 (2.47%) Mockito
9 2 (2.47%) Postman
9 2 (2.47%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.47%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.23%) jMock
10 1 (1.23%) MSTest
General
1 24 (29.63%) Finance
1 24 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.52%) Banking
3 7 (8.64%) Investment Banking
4 4 (4.94%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.70%) Front Office
5 3 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.23%) Retail
7 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (27.16%) Developer
2 19 (23.46%) Senior
3 13 (16.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (8.64%) Python Engineer
4 7 (8.64%) Senior Developer
5 6 (7.41%) Architect
5 6 (7.41%) GCP Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (6.17%) Java Developer
7 4 (4.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Lead
7 4 (4.94%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Backend Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Python Developer
9 2 (2.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.47%) Lead Developer
9 2 (2.47%) Senior Python Developer
9 2 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.81%) RESTful
2 11 (13.58%) REST
3 10 (12.35%) React
4 9 (11.11%) Node.js
5 8 (9.88%) CSS
5 8 (9.88%) HTML
6 7 (8.64%) .NET
6 7 (8.64%) GraphQL
6 7 (8.64%) Spring
7 6 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (7.41%) JWT
7 6 (7.41%) OAuth
8 5 (6.17%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (6.17%) Kafka
8 5 (6.17%) Spring Boot
9 4 (4.94%) FastAPI
9 4 (4.94%) JSON
10 3 (3.70%) Flask
10 3 (3.70%) HTML5
10 3 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 23 (28.40%) Cloud Native
2 11 (13.58%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.64%) Virtual Team
4 6 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (6.17%) Data Centre
5 5 (6.17%) Fixed Income
5 5 (6.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (4.94%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.70%) Life Science
7 3 (3.70%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.47%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.47%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.47%) Replication
9 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.23%) Genomics
9 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.81%) Linux
2 2 (2.47%) Windows
3 1 (1.23%) Unix
3 1 (1.23%) VMS
3 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (61.73%) CI/CD
2 47 (58.02%) DevOps
3 43 (53.09%) Containerisation
4 22 (27.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (25.93%) Test Automation
6 20 (24.69%) Microservices
7 18 (22.22%) Agile
8 17 (20.99%) Software Engineering
9 16 (19.75%) AI
9 16 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (18.52%) Design Patterns
10 15 (18.52%) Observability
11 14 (17.28%) Code Quality
12 12 (14.81%) Machine Learning
13 10 (12.35%) API Development
14 9 (11.11%) Event-Driven
15 8 (9.88%) Analytics
15 8 (9.88%) Full-Stack Development
15 8 (9.88%) Migration
15 8 (9.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (55.56%) Python
2 27 (33.33%) Java
3 17 (20.99%) SQL
4 10 (12.35%) JavaScript
5 9 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.64%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.70%) Bash
8 2 (2.47%) C#
8 2 (2.47%) Go
8 2 (2.47%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.47%) PHP
8 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.47%) Rust
9 1 (1.23%) Bicep
9 1 (1.23%) C
9 1 (1.23%) C++
9 1 (1.23%) ProC
9 1 (1.23%) PromQL
9 1 (1.23%) Ruby
9 1 (1.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 18 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.47%) CISSP
3 2 (2.47%) Degree
4 1 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.23%) CCSP
4 1 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.23%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.23%) MCP
4 1 (1.23%) OSCP
4 1 (1.23%) SANS
4 1 (1.23%) VCAP
4 1 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) GDPR
1 5 (6.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.70%) QA
3 2 (2.47%) NIST
3 2 (2.47%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.23%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.23%) GRC
4 1 (1.23%) MiFID
4 1 (1.23%) NCSC
4 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.23%) HDFS
1 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.23%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (59.26%) Kubernetes
2 29 (35.80%) Terraform
3 16 (19.75%) Ansible
4 7 (8.64%) Kibana
5 6 (7.41%) Argo
6 5 (6.17%) Grafana
6 5 (6.17%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (6.17%) logstash
7 3 (3.70%) Istio
7 3 (3.70%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.47%) Karpenter
8 2 (2.47%) Puppet
9 1 (1.23%) Podman
9 1 (1.23%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (22.22%) Google
2 10 (12.35%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.88%) Oracle
4 5 (6.17%) Solace
5 4 (4.94%) OpenAI
6 3 (3.70%) Bloomberg
6 3 (3.70%) CheckPoint
6 3 (3.70%) Cloudera
6 3 (3.70%) Splunk
7 2 (2.47%) Databricks
7 2 (2.47%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.47%) F5
7 2 (2.47%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.23%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.23%) Confluent
8 1 (1.23%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.23%) OutSystems
8 1 (1.23%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.23%) Tenable