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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 61 37
Rank change year-on-year -18 -24 +8
Contract jobs citing Docker 63 61 103
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.91% 3.53% 4.87%
As % of the System Software category 36.42% 39.61% 43.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 50 62
10th Percentile £440 £421 £489
25th Percentile £469 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.30% +1.67% -5.88%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £729
90th Percentile £702 £709 £820
Central London median daily rate £538 £610 £606
% change year-on-year -11.89% +0.62% -4.90%

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 173 154 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.00% 8.91% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 108 158
10th Percentile £222 £290 £333
25th Percentile £392 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.48% +1.50%
75th Percentile £629 £665 £684
90th Percentile £677 £688 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% -1.95% +2.04%
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 5 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 (7.94%) Confluence
2 3 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.59%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 37 (58.73%) AWS
2 28 (44.44%) Azure
3 23 (36.51%) GitHub
4 18 (28.57%) GCP
5 11 (17.46%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (17.46%) Serverless
6 8 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 7 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (9.52%) OpenShift
9 4 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (6.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (6.35%) Azure AI
9 4 (6.35%) IaaS
9 4 (6.35%) Snowflake
10 3 (4.76%) dbt
10 3 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.52%) Firewall
2 5 (7.94%) DNS
3 3 (4.76%) DHCP
3 3 (4.76%) SMTP
3 3 (4.76%) VPN
4 1 (1.59%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (1.59%) BGP
4 1 (1.59%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.59%) Network Security
4 1 (1.59%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.59%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.59%) RTCP
4 1 (1.59%) RTP
4 1 (1.59%) TACACS
4 1 (1.59%) VoIP
4 1 (1.59%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.46%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 6 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (7.94%) Relational Database
5 4 (6.35%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (6.35%) Big Data
5 4 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (6.35%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (6.35%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.76%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.76%) Pinecone
6 3 (4.76%) Weaviate
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.17%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.17%) Milvus
7 2 (3.17%) Redis
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.59%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (30.16%) Git
2 17 (26.98%) Jenkins
3 12 (19.05%) GitLab
4 10 (15.87%) JIRA
5 7 (11.11%) JUnit
6 6 (9.52%) Mockito
7 5 (7.94%) Maven
8 4 (6.35%) Cucumber
8 4 (6.35%) Gradle
8 4 (6.35%) Postman
8 4 (6.35%) Selenium
9 2 (3.17%) Claude Code
9 2 (3.17%) SoapUI
9 2 (3.17%) SonarQube
9 2 (3.17%) Zephyr
10 1 (1.59%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.59%) Gatling
10 1 (1.59%) Jasmine
10 1 (1.59%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (1.59%) REST Assured
General
1 26 (41.27%) Finance
2 12 (19.05%) Banking
3 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
4 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.35%) Financial Institution
6 4 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Military
7 2 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.59%) Back Office
8 1 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Front Office
8 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Law
8 1 (1.59%) Police
8 1 (1.59%) Retail
8 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (31.75%) Senior
2 13 (20.63%) Developer
3 7 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 6 (9.52%) Architect
4 6 (9.52%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Lead
6 4 (6.35%) Python Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (36.51%) Terraform
2 18 (28.57%) Spring
2 18 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 17 (26.98%) Kafka
4 12 (19.05%) REST
5 11 (17.46%) RESTful
6 9 (14.29%) React
7 6 (9.52%) AngularJS
8 5 (7.94%) FastAPI
8 5 (7.94%) HTML
8 5 (7.94%) SOAP
9 4 (6.35%) LangChain
9 4 (6.35%) PyTorch
9 4 (6.35%) TensorFlow
9 4 (6.35%) Web Services
10 3 (4.76%) JPA
10 3 (4.76%) Node.js
10 3 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (4.76%) Playwright
10 3 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.92%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.29%) AI Agents
2 9 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.94%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.35%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.35%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.76%) Clustering
5 3 (4.76%) PKI
6 2 (3.17%) Client/Server
6 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.17%) Genomics
6 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.17%) Life Science
6 2 (3.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.29%) Linux
2 5 (7.94%) Windows
2 5 (7.94%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.35%) Unix
4 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (84.13%) CI/CD
2 36 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 29 (46.03%) DevOps
4 26 (41.27%) AI
5 23 (36.51%) Agile
5 23 (36.51%) Test Automation
6 22 (34.92%) Microservices
7 21 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (31.75%) Software Engineering
9 16 (25.40%) Observability
10 14 (22.22%) Machine Learning
11 11 (17.46%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (15.87%) LLM
12 10 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (14.29%) Analytics
13 9 (14.29%) Event-Driven
13 9 (14.29%) Mentoring
13 9 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 9 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
14 8 (12.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 36 (57.14%) Python
2 30 (47.62%) Java
3 15 (23.81%) SQL
4 10 (15.87%) JavaScript
5 9 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 7 (11.11%) C#
7 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
8 4 (6.35%) Bash
8 4 (6.35%) Bicep
9 1 (1.59%) Korn
9 1 (1.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (31.75%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 10 (15.87%) Degree
4 4 (6.35%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.17%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.59%) CISA
7 1 (1.59%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.59%) GSEC
7 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.59%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.87%) QA
2 4 (6.35%) GDPR
3 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.17%) EMIR
4 2 (3.17%) MiFID
5 1 (1.59%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.59%) PSD2
5 1 (1.59%) SEPA
5 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.35%) Active Directory
1 4 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.76%) BitLocker
2 3 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (4.76%) Terminal Services
2 3 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 49 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.70%) Ansible
3 7 (11.11%) Grafana
4 6 (9.52%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.35%) Puppet
6 3 (4.76%) Nagios
6 3 (4.76%) vCenter Server
6 3 (4.76%) vMotion
7 1 (1.59%) Bosun
7 1 (1.59%) Istio
7 1 (1.59%) Salt
Vendors
1 14 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.46%) Google
3 5 (7.94%) Databricks
4 4 (6.35%) Dynatrace
4 4 (6.35%) VMware
5 3 (4.76%) Citrix
5 3 (4.76%) Foundry
5 3 (4.76%) HP
5 3 (4.76%) IBM
5 3 (4.76%) OpenAI
5 3 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.76%) Symantec
6 2 (3.17%) New Relic
6 2 (3.17%) Oracle
7 1 (1.59%) Cisco
7 1 (1.59%) FIS
7 1 (1.59%) Metaswitch
7 1 (1.59%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.59%) Murex
7 1 (1.59%) SAP