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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 71 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 -35 -1
Contract jobs citing Docker 73 53 110
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.20% 2.95% 5.28%
As % of the System Software category 39.89% 38.41% 42.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 42 69
10th Percentile £450 £435 £481
25th Percentile £486 £496 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +1.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £725
90th Percentile £732 £688 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - -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 183 138 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.02% 7.69% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 95 178
10th Percentile £238 £263 £346
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -3.42%
75th Percentile £638 £657 £688
90th Percentile £678 £688 £732
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £20.20 £22.48 -
25th Percentile £21.63 £23.19 £77.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £25.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -70.29% +134.48%
75th Percentile £27.50 £28.19 £92.50
90th Percentile £29.60 £29.43 -
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £26.45 £85.00
% change year-on-year +2.08% -68.88% +134.48%

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 11 September 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 (6.85%) Confluence
2 4 (5.48%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.37%) Apache
5 1 (1.37%) Camunda
5 1 (1.37%) MQSeries
5 1 (1.37%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Magento
1 1 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (61.64%) AWS
2 33 (45.21%) Azure
3 25 (34.25%) GitHub
4 21 (28.77%) GCP
5 11 (15.07%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (10.96%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (10.96%) Serverless
7 7 (9.59%) Amazon S3
7 7 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (8.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (8.22%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (8.22%) OpenShift
9 5 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (6.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (6.85%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (5.48%) Azure AI
11 3 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (4.11%) dbt
11 3 (4.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.22%) Firewall
2 5 (6.85%) DNS
3 3 (4.11%) DHCP
3 3 (4.11%) SMTP
3 3 (4.11%) VPN
4 1 (1.37%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (1.37%) BGP
4 1 (1.37%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.37%) Multicast
4 1 (1.37%) Network Security
4 1 (1.37%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.37%) RTCP
4 1 (1.37%) RTP
4 1 (1.37%) TACACS
4 1 (1.37%) VoIP
4 1 (1.37%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.81%) NoSQL
2 11 (15.07%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (9.59%) DynamoDB
4 6 (8.22%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (8.22%) MongoDB
4 6 (8.22%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.85%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (6.85%) Big Data
5 5 (6.85%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.11%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.11%) Pinecone
6 3 (4.11%) Redis
6 3 (4.11%) Weaviate
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.74%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.74%) Milvus
7 2 (2.74%) MySQL
8 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 20 (27.40%) Git
2 17 (23.29%) Jenkins
3 13 (17.81%) GitLab
4 9 (12.33%) JIRA
4 9 (12.33%) JUnit
5 8 (10.96%) Mockito
6 6 (8.22%) Maven
7 5 (6.85%) Gradle
8 4 (5.48%) Cucumber
8 4 (5.48%) Postman
9 3 (4.11%) Selenium
10 2 (2.74%) Claude Code
10 2 (2.74%) Liquibase
10 2 (2.74%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.74%) Zephyr
11 1 (1.37%) Appium
11 1 (1.37%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (1.37%) MLflow
11 1 (1.37%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (39.73%) Finance
2 18 (24.66%) Social Skills
3 13 (17.81%) Banking
4 7 (9.59%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.48%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Front Office
8 2 (2.74%) Military
8 2 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Law
9 1 (1.37%) Legal
9 1 (1.37%) Marketing
9 1 (1.37%) Police
9 1 (1.37%) Retail
9 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (30.14%) Senior
2 19 (26.03%) Developer
3 10 (13.70%) Java Developer
3 10 (13.70%) Senior Developer
4 8 (10.96%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (9.59%) Architect
5 7 (9.59%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Python Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Lead
8 4 (5.48%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Support Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) 3rd Line Support
9 3 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.88%) Spring
1 24 (32.88%) Spring Boot
2 22 (30.14%) Kafka
2 22 (30.14%) Terraform
3 15 (20.55%) REST
4 12 (16.44%) RESTful
5 11 (15.07%) React
6 7 (9.59%) SOAP
7 6 (8.22%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (6.85%) AngularJS
8 5 (6.85%) HTML
9 4 (5.48%) FastAPI
9 4 (5.48%) LangChain
9 4 (5.48%) PyTorch
9 4 (5.48%) TensorFlow
9 4 (5.48%) Web Services
9 4 (5.48%) YAML
10 3 (4.11%) CrewAI
10 3 (4.11%) GraphQL
10 3 (4.11%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 27 (36.99%) Cloud Native
2 14 (19.18%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (12.33%) AI Agents
4 5 (6.85%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.48%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.11%) Clustering
6 3 (4.11%) PKI
6 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
6 3 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.74%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.74%) Genomics
7 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.74%) Life Science
7 2 (2.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.37%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.33%) Linux
2 5 (6.85%) Windows
2 5 (6.85%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.48%) Unix
4 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (82.19%) CI/CD
2 43 (58.90%) Containerisation
3 38 (52.05%) DevOps
4 32 (43.84%) Microservices
5 27 (36.99%) AI
6 26 (35.62%) Test Automation
7 23 (31.51%) Agile
8 22 (30.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (30.14%) Software Engineering
9 20 (27.40%) Observability
10 16 (21.92%) Event-Driven
10 16 (21.92%) Machine Learning
11 12 (16.44%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (13.70%) Analytics
12 10 (13.70%) Data Engineering
12 10 (13.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 10 (13.70%) LLM
12 10 (13.70%) Mentoring
13 9 (12.33%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 37 (50.68%) Java
1 37 (50.68%) Python
2 16 (21.92%) SQL
3 11 (15.07%) TypeScript
4 8 (10.96%) C#
4 8 (10.96%) JavaScript
5 7 (9.59%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.85%) Bash
7 4 (5.48%) Bicep
8 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.37%) Korn
9 1 (1.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (26.03%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.18%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.70%) Degree
4 4 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.48%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.74%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.81%) QA
2 4 (5.48%) GDPR
3 3 (4.11%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.74%) EMIR
4 2 (2.74%) MiFID
5 1 (1.37%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.37%) PSD2
5 1 (1.37%) SEPA
5 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.11%) BitLocker
3 3 (4.11%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.11%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (4.11%) Terminal Services
3 3 (4.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.37%) GridGain
4 1 (1.37%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (1.37%) Varnish
4 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (76.71%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.33%) Grafana
2 9 (12.33%) Prometheus
3 8 (10.96%) Ansible
4 4 (5.48%) Puppet
5 3 (4.11%) Nagios
5 3 (4.11%) vCenter Server
5 3 (4.11%) vMotion
6 1 (1.37%) Bosun
6 1 (1.37%) Istio
6 1 (1.37%) Salt
6 1 (1.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) Google
1 12 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.48%) VMware
3 3 (4.11%) Citrix
3 3 (4.11%) Databricks
3 3 (4.11%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.11%) Foundry
3 3 (4.11%) HP
3 3 (4.11%) IBM
3 3 (4.11%) OpenAI
3 3 (4.11%) Oracle
3 3 (4.11%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.11%) Symantec
4 2 (2.74%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.37%) FIS
5 1 (1.37%) Metaswitch
5 1 (1.37%) New Relic
5 1 (1.37%) Pega
5 1 (1.37%) Solace
5 1 (1.37%) Sybase