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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 45 62
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 -7
Contract jobs citing Docker 82 77 69
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.06% 4.26% 2.93%
As % of the System Software category 51.90% 36.67% 28.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 54 47
10th Percentile £344 £413 £423
25th Percentile £462 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% +9.52% -19.23%
75th Percentile £636 £638 £619
90th Percentile £788 £712 £753
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £525
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 - £48.50
75th Percentile £59.72 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 - £48.50

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 158 210 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.81% 11.63% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 136 185
10th Percentile £256 £253 £240
25th Percentile £400 £406 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +12.82% -11.36%
75th Percentile £618 £641 £625
90th Percentile £703 £731 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £543 £475
% change year-on-year -3.23% +14.21% -11.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £24.32 - -
25th Percentile £29.57 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.02 £112.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.27% +180.00% +105.13%
75th Percentile £50.72 £149.75 -
90th Percentile £56.12 £172.40 £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -77.26% +180.00% +95.12%

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 9 March 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 4 (4.88%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.44%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.22%) Apache
4 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.22%) Camunda
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 50 (60.98%) AWS
2 29 (35.37%) Azure
3 27 (32.93%) GitHub
4 19 (23.17%) GCP
5 16 (19.51%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (17.07%) Amazon S3
7 12 (14.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (14.63%) Serverless
8 11 (13.41%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (10.98%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (10.98%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (8.54%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (8.54%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (6.10%) Amazon ECR
13 5 (6.10%) Apigee
13 5 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (4.88%) Datadog
14 4 (4.88%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) DNS
1 2 (2.44%) SAN
2 1 (1.22%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.22%) NAS
2 1 (1.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.51%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (18.29%) Relational Database
3 8 (9.76%) MySQL
3 8 (9.76%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.54%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (8.54%) DynamoDB
4 7 (8.54%) MongoDB
4 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
5 5 (6.10%) Redis
6 4 (4.88%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (3.66%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.66%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.44%) Big Data
8 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.44%) Hazelcast
8 2 (2.44%) Metadata
9 1 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.22%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 19 (23.17%) Git
1 19 (23.17%) Jenkins
2 15 (18.29%) GitLab
3 7 (8.54%) JUnit
4 6 (7.32%) JIRA
5 5 (6.10%) Cucumber
5 5 (6.10%) Mockito
6 4 (4.88%) Postman
7 3 (3.66%) Gatling
8 2 (2.44%) Ant
8 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.44%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.44%) Gradle
8 2 (2.44%) Liquibase
8 2 (2.44%) Maven
8 2 (2.44%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.44%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.44%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.44%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 25 (30.49%) Finance
2 16 (19.51%) Banking
2 16 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.66%) Front Office
4 3 (3.66%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (3.66%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.44%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.44%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.44%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (29.27%) Senior
2 23 (28.05%) Developer
3 16 (19.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (9.76%) Python Engineer
4 8 (9.76%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.54%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.32%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Architect
8 4 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Backend Developer
9 3 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Java Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Lead
9 3 (3.66%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (3.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.29%) Spring
2 14 (17.07%) React
3 13 (15.85%) Kafka
3 13 (15.85%) REST
4 11 (13.41%) RESTful
4 11 (13.41%) Spring Boot
5 9 (10.98%) .NET
5 9 (10.98%) Node.js
6 8 (9.76%) OAuth
7 6 (7.32%) GraphQL
8 5 (6.10%) CSS
8 5 (6.10%) HTML
8 5 (6.10%) JSON
8 5 (6.10%) JWT
8 5 (6.10%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (6.10%) SOAP
8 5 (6.10%) WireMock
9 4 (4.88%) AngularJS
9 4 (4.88%) OAuth2
9 4 (4.88%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.51%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.98%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.54%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (8.54%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.66%) Life Science
4 3 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.44%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.44%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.44%) Replication
5 2 (2.44%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.22%) Derivative
6 1 (1.22%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.22%) Equities
6 1 (1.22%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.22%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.98%) Linux
2 2 (2.44%) VMS
3 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.22%) Unix
3 1 (1.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (74.39%) CI/CD
2 45 (54.88%) Containerisation
3 41 (50.00%) DevOps
4 28 (34.15%) Microservices
5 26 (31.71%) Test Automation
6 21 (25.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (24.39%) Software Engineering
8 19 (23.17%) Agile
8 19 (23.17%) Observability
9 15 (18.29%) Code Quality
9 15 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (17.07%) API Development
11 13 (15.85%) AI
12 12 (14.63%) Design Patterns
13 10 (12.20%) Analytics
13 10 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (12.20%) Machine Learning
14 9 (10.98%) Performance Tuning
15 8 (9.76%) Clean Code
15 8 (9.76%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 40 (48.78%) Python
2 28 (34.15%) Java
3 20 (24.39%) SQL
4 11 (13.41%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.54%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.10%) C#
7 4 (4.88%) Bash
8 2 (2.44%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.44%) PHP
8 2 (2.44%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.44%) Rust
9 1 (1.22%) C
9 1 (1.22%) C++
9 1 (1.22%) Go
9 1 (1.22%) ProC
9 1 (1.22%) Ruby
9 1 (1.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (25.61%) SC Cleared
1 21 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.44%) CISSP
2 2 (2.44%) Degree
3 1 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.22%) CCSP
3 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.22%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.22%) OSCP
3 1 (1.22%) SANS
3 1 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (1.22%) VCAP
3 1 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) QA
2 3 (3.66%) GDPR
2 3 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.44%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.44%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.44%) PSD2
3 2 (2.44%) SEPA
4 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.22%) GRC
4 1 (1.22%) MiFID
4 1 (1.22%) NCSC
4 1 (1.22%) NIST
4 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.22%) Firmware
1 1 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.22%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (67.07%) Kubernetes
2 24 (29.27%) Terraform
3 16 (19.51%) Ansible
4 8 (9.76%) Prometheus
5 7 (8.54%) Grafana
6 4 (4.88%) Argo
6 4 (4.88%) Istio
7 3 (3.66%) Karpenter
8 2 (2.44%) Kibana
9 1 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.22%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.22%) linkerd
9 1 (1.22%) logstash
9 1 (1.22%) Podman
9 1 (1.22%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.20%) Google
3 8 (9.76%) Oracle
4 4 (4.88%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.66%) Databricks
5 3 (3.66%) IBM
5 3 (3.66%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.66%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.66%) Splunk
6 2 (2.44%) Confluent
6 2 (2.44%) Foundry
6 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.22%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.22%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.22%) Informatica
7 1 (1.22%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.22%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.22%) Solace
7 1 (1.22%) Sybase
7 1 (1.22%) TIBCO