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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 36 51
Rank change year-on-year -19 +15 -4
Contract jobs citing Docker 71 108 110
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.05% 5.09% 3.96%
As % of the System Software category 43.56% 43.03% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 62 88
10th Percentile £361 £482 £400
25th Percentile £513 £536 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £668 £694 £788
90th Percentile £788 £775 £850
Central London median daily rate £588 £600 £608
% change year-on-year -2.08% -1.23% -6.54%

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 163 251 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.29% 11.82% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 157 241
10th Percentile £282 £350 £260
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £557 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.17% +6.00% -8.70%
75th Percentile £651 £656 £678
90th Percentile £692 £730 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £84.40 £23.88
25th Percentile £26.75 £94.75 £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £112.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -74.55% +208.97% +76.83%
75th Percentile £30.25 - £45.31
90th Percentile - - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -77.26% +208.97% +76.83%

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 15 November 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 3 (4.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.41%) Drupal
2 1 (1.41%) nginx
2 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 34 (47.89%) AWS
2 23 (32.39%) Azure
3 19 (26.76%) GCP
4 18 (25.35%) GitHub
5 13 (18.31%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (14.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (12.68%) Amazon S3
8 8 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (9.86%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (9.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (7.04%) Apigee
10 5 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (7.04%) Cloud Run
10 5 (7.04%) Serverless
11 4 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (5.63%) Slack
11 4 (5.63%) Snowflake
11 4 (5.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) Firewall
2 4 (5.63%) DNS
3 2 (2.82%) SSL
3 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.82%) VPN
4 1 (1.41%) 3GPP
4 1 (1.41%) 4G
4 1 (1.41%) BGP
4 1 (1.41%) DHCP
4 1 (1.41%) IPsec
4 1 (1.41%) MPLS
4 1 (1.41%) NAS
4 1 (1.41%) Network Security
4 1 (1.41%) OSPF
4 1 (1.41%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.41%) SAN
4 1 (1.41%) SNMP
4 1 (1.41%) SSH
4 1 (1.41%) VLAN
4 1 (1.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) Relational Database
2 6 (8.45%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (8.45%) MySQL
3 5 (7.04%) DynamoDB
3 5 (7.04%) MongoDB
3 5 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.23%) Tableau
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.82%) Redis
6 1 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.41%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.41%) Big Data
6 1 (1.41%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.41%) Impala
6 1 (1.41%) KDB
6 1 (1.41%) Kdb+
6 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.41%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 18 (25.35%) Jenkins
2 16 (22.54%) Git
3 12 (16.90%) GitLab
4 8 (11.27%) Gradle
4 8 (11.27%) SonarQube
5 7 (9.86%) Maven
6 5 (7.04%) Selenium
7 4 (5.63%) JIRA
8 3 (4.23%) Cucumber
8 3 (4.23%) JUnit
8 3 (4.23%) Snyk
8 3 (4.23%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.82%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.82%) Mockito
9 2 (2.82%) Postman
9 2 (2.82%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.82%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.41%) Hamcrest
10 1 (1.41%) MSTest
General
1 24 (33.80%) Social Skills
2 22 (30.99%) Finance
3 12 (16.90%) Banking
4 7 (9.86%) Investment Banking
5 6 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.63%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.23%) Front Office
8 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.82%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) Developer
1 17 (23.94%) Senior
2 9 (12.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (9.86%) Python Engineer
4 5 (7.04%) Architect
4 5 (7.04%) Java Developer
4 5 (7.04%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) GCP Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.23%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.23%) Lead
7 2 (2.82%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (2.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (2.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.49%) RESTful
2 10 (14.08%) REST
3 9 (12.68%) CSS
3 9 (12.68%) HTML
4 8 (11.27%) Node.js
5 7 (9.86%) GraphQL
6 6 (8.45%) React
7 5 (7.04%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (7.04%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (7.04%) JWT
7 5 (7.04%) OAuth
8 4 (5.63%) Pandas
9 3 (4.23%) .NET
9 3 (4.23%) FastAPI
9 3 (4.23%) Flask
9 3 (4.23%) HTML5
9 3 (4.23%) JSON
9 3 (4.23%) SOAP
9 3 (4.23%) Spring
9 3 (4.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.35%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.68%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (9.86%) Virtual Team
4 5 (7.04%) Data Centre
4 5 (7.04%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (7.04%) Fixed Income
4 5 (7.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (5.63%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.82%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.82%) IVR
6 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.82%) Life Science
6 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.82%) Replication
6 2 (2.82%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.41%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.08%) Linux
2 2 (2.82%) Windows
3 1 (1.41%) Unix
3 1 (1.41%) VMS
3 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (60.56%) CI/CD
2 37 (52.11%) Containerisation
2 37 (52.11%) DevOps
3 20 (28.17%) Agile
4 17 (23.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (22.54%) Microservices
5 16 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (21.13%) Design Patterns
6 15 (21.13%) Software Engineering
6 15 (21.13%) Test Automation
7 13 (18.31%) Code Quality
8 11 (15.49%) AI
8 11 (15.49%) Machine Learning
9 10 (14.08%) Observability
10 8 (11.27%) API Development
10 8 (11.27%) Event-Driven
11 7 (9.86%) Analytics
11 7 (9.86%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (9.86%) Migration
11 7 (9.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (52.11%) Python
2 20 (28.17%) Java
3 12 (16.90%) SQL
4 10 (14.08%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.27%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.86%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.63%) Bash
8 3 (4.23%) Bicep
9 2 (2.82%) C#
9 2 (2.82%) Go
9 2 (2.82%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.82%) PHP
9 2 (2.82%) Rust
10 1 (1.41%) C++
10 1 (1.41%) PromQL
10 1 (1.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (19.72%) SC Cleared
1 14 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.63%) Degree
3 3 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.41%) CISSP
5 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.41%) MCP
5 1 (1.41%) PhD
5 1 (1.41%) VCAP
5 1 (1.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) GDPR
1 5 (7.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (7.04%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.23%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.41%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.41%) MiFID
3 1 (1.41%) NIST
3 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.41%) HDFS
1 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.41%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (57.75%) Kubernetes
2 26 (36.62%) Terraform
3 15 (21.13%) Ansible
4 6 (8.45%) Argo
4 6 (8.45%) Kibana
5 5 (7.04%) ITRS Geneos
5 5 (7.04%) logstash
6 4 (5.63%) Istio
7 3 (4.23%) Grafana
7 3 (4.23%) Puppet
8 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.41%) Consul
9 1 (1.41%) Kubeflow
9 1 (1.41%) Packer
9 1 (1.41%) Podman
9 1 (1.41%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (21.13%) Google
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.04%) Solace
4 4 (5.63%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.63%) Oracle
5 3 (4.23%) Bloomberg
5 3 (4.23%) Cloudera
5 3 (4.23%) Databricks
5 3 (4.23%) Splunk
6 2 (2.82%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.82%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.82%) F5
6 2 (2.82%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.82%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.41%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.41%) Dell
7 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.41%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.41%) VMware