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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 69 37
Rank change year-on-year +1 -32 -4
Contract jobs citing Docker 74 58 103
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.18% 3.20% 4.97%
As % of the System Software category 39.57% 39.73% 41.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 47 67
10th Percentile £450 £403 £493
25th Percentile £490 £495 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +1.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £725
90th Percentile £730 £688 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -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 187 146 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.05% 8.05% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 102 175
10th Percentile £222 £263 £343
25th Percentile £411 £406 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £546 £560
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -2.46% -2.61%
75th Percentile £632 £638 £688
90th Percentile £680 £688 £730
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -3.34%
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 30 August 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 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.05%) Confluence
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.35%) Apache
3 1 (1.35%) Camunda
3 1 (1.35%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Magento
1 1 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 44 (59.46%) AWS
2 32 (43.24%) Azure
3 25 (33.78%) GitHub
4 21 (28.38%) GCP
5 13 (17.57%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (14.86%) Serverless
7 9 (12.16%) Amazon S3
7 9 (12.16%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (12.16%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (9.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (8.11%) OpenShift
10 5 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (6.76%) Azure AKS
10 5 (6.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (6.76%) dbt
10 5 (6.76%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (6.76%) Snowflake
11 4 (5.41%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.11%) Firewall
2 5 (6.76%) DNS
3 3 (4.05%) DHCP
3 3 (4.05%) SMTP
3 3 (4.05%) VPN
4 1 (1.35%) BGP
4 1 (1.35%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.35%) Multicast
4 1 (1.35%) Network Security
4 1 (1.35%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.35%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.35%) TACACS
4 1 (1.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.57%) NoSQL
2 11 (14.86%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (9.46%) DynamoDB
3 7 (9.46%) MongoDB
4 6 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (6.76%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (6.76%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (5.41%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (5.41%) Big Data
6 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (4.05%) Pinecone
7 3 (4.05%) Redis
7 3 (4.05%) Weaviate
8 2 (2.70%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.70%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.70%) Metadata
8 2 (2.70%) MySQL
8 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (24.32%) Git
2 17 (22.97%) Jenkins
3 15 (20.27%) GitLab
4 8 (10.81%) JUnit
5 7 (9.46%) JIRA
5 7 (9.46%) Mockito
6 5 (6.76%) Gradle
7 4 (5.41%) Cucumber
7 4 (5.41%) Maven
7 4 (5.41%) Postman
8 3 (4.05%) Selenium
9 2 (2.70%) Liquibase
9 2 (2.70%) Zephyr
10 1 (1.35%) Appium
10 1 (1.35%) Claude Code
10 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.35%) MLflow
10 1 (1.35%) PHPUnit
10 1 (1.35%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (39.19%) Finance
2 14 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.22%) Banking
4 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.41%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Front Office
6 2 (2.70%) Military
6 2 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.35%) Law
7 1 (1.35%) Legal
7 1 (1.35%) Marketing
7 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Police
7 1 (1.35%) Retail
7 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (27.03%) Senior
2 16 (21.62%) Developer
3 8 (10.81%) Java Developer
3 8 (10.81%) Python Engineer
3 8 (10.81%) Senior Developer
4 7 (9.46%) Automation Engineer
4 7 (9.46%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (6.76%) Architect
6 5 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Java Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Lead
7 4 (5.41%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 3 (4.05%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.08%) Kafka
1 23 (31.08%) Terraform
2 21 (28.38%) Spring
2 21 (28.38%) Spring Boot
3 13 (17.57%) REST
4 12 (16.22%) React
5 9 (12.16%) RESTful
6 7 (9.46%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (6.76%) HTML
8 4 (5.41%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.41%) Django
8 4 (5.41%) FastAPI
8 4 (5.41%) LangChain
8 4 (5.41%) PyTorch
8 4 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (5.41%) SOAP
8 4 (5.41%) TensorFlow
8 4 (5.41%) YAML
9 3 (4.05%) GraphQL
9 3 (4.05%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 24 (32.43%) Cloud Native
2 13 (17.57%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (12.16%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.41%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.05%) Clustering
5 3 (4.05%) PKI
6 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.70%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.70%) Genomics
6 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.70%) Life Science
6 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.35%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.16%) Linux
2 5 (6.76%) Windows
2 5 (6.76%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.41%) Unix
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (82.43%) CI/CD
2 41 (55.41%) DevOps
3 40 (54.05%) Containerisation
4 30 (40.54%) Microservices
5 27 (36.49%) AI
6 24 (32.43%) Observability
7 23 (31.08%) Test Automation
8 22 (29.73%) Agile
8 22 (29.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (29.73%) Software Engineering
9 17 (22.97%) Machine Learning
10 15 (20.27%) Event-Driven
11 13 (17.57%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (14.86%) Data Engineering
12 11 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (13.51%) Analytics
13 10 (13.51%) LLM
14 9 (12.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 9 (12.16%) Mentoring
14 9 (12.16%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 41 (55.41%) Python
2 33 (44.59%) Java
3 18 (24.32%) SQL
4 11 (14.86%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.81%) C#
5 8 (10.81%) JavaScript
6 7 (9.46%) PowerShell
7 5 (6.76%) Bash
7 5 (6.76%) Bicep
8 2 (2.70%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.16%) Degree
4 4 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.57%) QA
2 4 (5.41%) GDPR
3 3 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.70%) EMIR
4 2 (2.70%) MiFID
4 2 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.05%) BitLocker
3 3 (4.05%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.05%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (4.05%) Terminal Services
3 3 (4.05%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.35%) GridGain
4 1 (1.35%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (1.35%) Varnish
4 1 (1.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 57 (77.03%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.16%) Grafana
2 9 (12.16%) Prometheus
3 8 (10.81%) Ansible
4 4 (5.41%) Puppet
5 3 (4.05%) Nagios
5 3 (4.05%) vCenter Server
5 3 (4.05%) vMotion
6 2 (2.70%) Istio
7 1 (1.35%) Bosun
7 1 (1.35%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.35%) linkerd
7 1 (1.35%) Salt
7 1 (1.35%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.86%) Google
3 4 (5.41%) VMware
4 3 (4.05%) Citrix
4 3 (4.05%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.05%) Foundry
4 3 (4.05%) HP
4 3 (4.05%) IBM
4 3 (4.05%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.05%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.05%) Symantec
5 2 (2.70%) Databricks
6 1 (1.35%) Adobe
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco
6 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.35%) New Relic
6 1 (1.35%) Pega
6 1 (1.35%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.35%) Solace
6 1 (1.35%) Splunk