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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 36 55
Rank change year-on-year -18 +19 -4
Contract jobs citing Docker 74 108 103
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.15% 5.12% 3.82%
As % of the System Software category 43.02% 43.37% 31.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 64 82
10th Percentile £356 £483 £400
25th Percentile £513 £547 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £668 £681 £788
90th Percentile £788 £775 £850
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -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 172 249 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.66% 11.80% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 157 229
10th Percentile £281 £350 £273
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -8.70%
75th Percentile £644 £657 £675
90th Percentile £689 £730 £813
Central London median daily rate £539 £560 £518
% change year-on-year -3.71% +8.21% -7.80%
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%

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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 20 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 (4.05%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.35%) Drupal
2 1 (1.35%) nginx
2 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 36 (48.65%) AWS
2 26 (35.14%) Azure
3 20 (27.03%) GCP
3 20 (27.03%) GitHub
4 13 (17.57%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (14.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (13.51%) Amazon S3
7 9 (12.16%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (12.16%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (10.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (8.11%) Apigee
9 6 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (8.11%) Serverless
10 5 (6.76%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (6.76%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (6.76%) Cloud Run
11 4 (5.41%) Azure AKS
11 4 (5.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.76%) Firewall
2 4 (5.41%) DNS
3 2 (2.70%) SSL
3 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.70%) VPN
4 1 (1.35%) 3GPP
4 1 (1.35%) 4G
4 1 (1.35%) BGP
4 1 (1.35%) DHCP
4 1 (1.35%) IPsec
4 1 (1.35%) MPLS
4 1 (1.35%) NAS
4 1 (1.35%) Network Security
4 1 (1.35%) OSPF
4 1 (1.35%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.35%) SAN
4 1 (1.35%) SNMP
4 1 (1.35%) SSH
4 1 (1.35%) VLAN
4 1 (1.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.51%) Relational Database
2 6 (8.11%) DynamoDB
2 6 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (8.11%) MySQL
3 5 (6.76%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.05%) Tableau
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.70%) Redis
6 1 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.35%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.35%) Big Data
6 1 (1.35%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.35%) Impala
6 1 (1.35%) KDB
6 1 (1.35%) Kdb+
6 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.35%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 18 (24.32%) Jenkins
2 17 (22.97%) Git
3 12 (16.22%) GitLab
4 8 (10.81%) Gradle
4 8 (10.81%) SonarQube
5 7 (9.46%) Maven
6 5 (6.76%) Selenium
7 4 (5.41%) JIRA
8 3 (4.05%) Cucumber
8 3 (4.05%) JUnit
8 3 (4.05%) Snyk
8 3 (4.05%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.70%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.70%) Mockito
9 2 (2.70%) Postman
9 2 (2.70%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.70%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.35%) Hamcrest
10 1 (1.35%) MSTest
General
1 24 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 22 (29.73%) Finance
3 12 (16.22%) Banking
4 7 (9.46%) Investment Banking
5 6 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.41%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.05%) Front Office
8 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.70%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (24.32%) Developer
2 17 (22.97%) Senior
3 10 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (9.46%) Python Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Architect
5 5 (6.76%) Java Developer
5 5 (6.76%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.05%) Applications Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.05%) Lead
8 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (2.70%) Front Office Developer
8 2 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Security Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.86%) REST
1 11 (14.86%) RESTful
2 9 (12.16%) CSS
2 9 (12.16%) HTML
2 9 (12.16%) Node.js
3 7 (9.46%) GraphQL
4 6 (8.11%) JWT
4 6 (8.11%) OAuth
4 6 (8.11%) React
5 5 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (6.76%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (5.41%) .NET
6 4 (5.41%) Pandas
6 4 (5.41%) Spring
7 3 (4.05%) FastAPI
7 3 (4.05%) Flask
7 3 (4.05%) HTML5
7 3 (4.05%) JSON
7 3 (4.05%) SOAP
7 3 (4.05%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.68%) Cloud Native
2 10 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (9.46%) Virtual Team
4 6 (8.11%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (6.76%) Data Centre
5 5 (6.76%) Fixed Income
5 5 (6.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (5.41%) Onboarding
7 3 (4.05%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.70%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.70%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.70%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (2.70%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.70%) IVR
8 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.70%) Life Science
8 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.51%) Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Windows
3 1 (1.35%) Unix
3 1 (1.35%) VMS
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (60.81%) CI/CD
2 38 (51.35%) Containerisation
2 38 (51.35%) DevOps
3 21 (28.38%) Agile
4 18 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (24.32%) Microservices
5 16 (21.62%) Design Patterns
5 16 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (21.62%) Test Automation
6 15 (20.27%) Software Engineering
7 13 (17.57%) AI
7 13 (17.57%) Code Quality
8 12 (16.22%) Machine Learning
9 10 (13.51%) Observability
10 9 (12.16%) Analytics
10 9 (12.16%) API Development
11 8 (10.81%) Event-Driven
12 7 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (9.46%) Full-Stack Development
12 7 (9.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (54.05%) Python
2 21 (28.38%) Java
3 12 (16.22%) SQL
4 10 (13.51%) JavaScript
5 8 (10.81%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.46%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.41%) Bash
8 3 (4.05%) Bicep
9 2 (2.70%) C#
9 2 (2.70%) Go
9 2 (2.70%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.70%) PHP
9 2 (2.70%) Rust
10 1 (1.35%) C++
10 1 (1.35%) PromQL
10 1 (1.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (20.27%) SC Cleared
1 15 (20.27%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.41%) Degree
3 3 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.70%) CISSP
5 1 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.35%) CCSP
5 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.35%) MCP
5 1 (1.35%) OSCP
5 1 (1.35%) PhD
5 1 (1.35%) SANS
5 1 (1.35%) VCAP
5 1 (1.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.11%) GDPR
1 6 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.76%) QA
3 3 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.05%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.70%) NIST
5 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.35%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.35%) GRC
5 1 (1.35%) MiFID
5 1 (1.35%) NCSC
5 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.35%) HDFS
1 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.35%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (58.11%) Kubernetes
2 27 (36.49%) Terraform
3 15 (20.27%) Ansible
4 6 (8.11%) Argo
4 6 (8.11%) Kibana
5 5 (6.76%) ITRS Geneos
5 5 (6.76%) logstash
6 4 (5.41%) Istio
7 3 (4.05%) Grafana
7 3 (4.05%) Puppet
8 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.35%) Consul
9 1 (1.35%) Kubeflow
9 1 (1.35%) Packer
9 1 (1.35%) Podman
9 1 (1.35%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (21.62%) Google
2 7 (9.46%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.76%) OpenAI
3 5 (6.76%) Solace
4 4 (5.41%) Oracle
5 3 (4.05%) Bloomberg
5 3 (4.05%) CheckPoint
5 3 (4.05%) Cloudera
5 3 (4.05%) Databricks
5 3 (4.05%) Splunk
6 2 (2.70%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.70%) F5
6 2 (2.70%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.70%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.35%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.35%) Dell
7 1 (1.35%) Foundry
7 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.35%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.35%) VMware