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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 58 38
Rank change year-on-year -15 -20 +5
Contract jobs citing Docker 68 60 104
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.09% 3.45% 4.90%
As % of the System Software category 37.99% 39.47% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 49 64
10th Percentile £446 £417 £481
25th Percentile £475 £500 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £726
90th Percentile £693 £718 £810
Central London median daily rate £538 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -11.16% +0.83% -4.00%

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 179 152 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.13% 8.74% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 106 161
10th Percentile £225 £288 £338
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £626 £660 £688
90th Percentile £675 £688 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £12.78 £22.48 £84.40
25th Percentile £16.94 £23.19 £94.75
Median hourly rate £21.75 £25.25 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% -77.46% +208.97%
75th Percentile £25.75 £28.19 -
90th Percentile £28.90 £29.43 -
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £25.25 £112.00
% change year-on-year -4.95% -77.46% +208.97%

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 2 October 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 (7.35%) Confluence
2 4 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.47%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 40 (58.82%) AWS
2 32 (47.06%) Azure
3 26 (38.24%) GitHub
4 19 (27.94%) GCP
5 12 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (16.18%) Serverless
7 9 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (10.29%) Amazon S3
8 7 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (8.82%) OpenShift
10 5 (7.35%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (5.88%) Azure AI
11 4 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (5.88%) IaaS
11 4 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.82%) Firewall
2 5 (7.35%) DNS
3 3 (4.41%) DHCP
3 3 (4.41%) SMTP
3 3 (4.41%) VPN
4 1 (1.47%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (1.47%) BGP
4 1 (1.47%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.47%) Network Security
4 1 (1.47%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.47%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.47%) RTCP
4 1 (1.47%) RTP
4 1 (1.47%) TACACS
4 1 (1.47%) VoIP
4 1 (1.47%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.65%) NoSQL
1 12 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (8.82%) MongoDB
2 6 (8.82%) Relational Database
3 5 (7.35%) Big Data
3 5 (7.35%) DynamoDB
4 4 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.41%) Delta Lake
5 3 (4.41%) Pinecone
5 3 (4.41%) Weaviate
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.94%) Milvus
6 2 (2.94%) Redis
7 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (30.88%) Git
2 18 (26.47%) Jenkins
3 12 (17.65%) GitLab
4 10 (14.71%) JIRA
5 8 (11.76%) JUnit
6 7 (10.29%) Gradle
6 7 (10.29%) Maven
6 7 (10.29%) Mockito
7 4 (5.88%) Cucumber
7 4 (5.88%) Postman
7 4 (5.88%) Selenium
8 2 (2.94%) Claude Code
8 2 (2.94%) Liquibase
8 2 (2.94%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.94%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.94%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.47%) Appium
9 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.47%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 26 (38.24%) Finance
2 13 (19.12%) Social Skills
3 12 (17.65%) Banking
4 7 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Military
7 2 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.47%) Back Office
8 1 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Front Office
8 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Law
8 1 (1.47%) Police
8 1 (1.47%) Retail
8 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (32.35%) Senior
2 16 (23.53%) Developer
3 9 (13.24%) Java Developer
3 9 (13.24%) Senior Developer
4 7 (10.29%) Automation Engineer
4 7 (10.29%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (8.82%) Architect
6 5 (7.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Lead
7 4 (5.88%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 3 (4.41%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (4.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (35.29%) Terraform
2 22 (32.35%) Spring
2 22 (32.35%) Spring Boot
3 20 (29.41%) Kafka
4 13 (19.12%) REST
4 13 (19.12%) RESTful
5 10 (14.71%) React
6 6 (8.82%) AngularJS
7 5 (7.35%) FastAPI
7 5 (7.35%) HTML
7 5 (7.35%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (7.35%) SOAP
8 4 (5.88%) LangChain
8 4 (5.88%) PyTorch
8 4 (5.88%) TensorFlow
8 4 (5.88%) Web Services
9 3 (4.41%) JPA
9 3 (4.41%) Node.js
9 3 (4.41%) Playwright
9 3 (4.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (35.29%) Cloud Native
2 11 (16.18%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (13.24%) AI Agents
4 5 (7.35%) Onboarding
4 5 (7.35%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.88%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.41%) Clustering
6 3 (4.41%) PKI
7 2 (2.94%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.94%) Genomics
7 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.94%) Life Science
7 2 (2.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Linux
2 5 (7.35%) Windows
2 5 (7.35%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.88%) Unix
4 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (83.82%) CI/CD
2 41 (60.29%) Containerisation
3 33 (48.53%) DevOps
4 27 (39.71%) AI
5 26 (38.24%) Microservices
6 25 (36.76%) Agile
6 25 (36.76%) Test Automation
7 22 (32.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (32.35%) Software Engineering
8 19 (27.94%) Observability
9 14 (20.59%) Machine Learning
10 12 (17.65%) Event-Driven
11 11 (16.18%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (14.71%) Analytics
12 10 (14.71%) LLM
13 9 (13.24%) Data Engineering
13 9 (13.24%) Mentoring
13 9 (13.24%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 9 (13.24%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 37 (54.41%) Python
2 34 (50.00%) Java
3 16 (23.53%) SQL
4 10 (14.71%) JavaScript
4 10 (14.71%) TypeScript
5 7 (10.29%) C#
5 7 (10.29%) PowerShell
6 5 (7.35%) Bash
7 4 (5.88%) Bicep
8 1 (1.47%) Korn
8 1 (1.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.06%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.71%) Degree
4 4 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.41%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.47%) CISA
7 1 (1.47%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.47%) GSEC
7 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.47%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.65%) QA
2 4 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.88%) GDPR
3 2 (2.94%) EMIR
3 2 (2.94%) MiFID
4 1 (1.47%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.47%) PSD2
4 1 (1.47%) SEPA
4 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.41%) BitLocker
3 3 (4.41%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.41%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (4.41%) Terminal Services
3 3 (4.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (76.47%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.24%) Grafana
3 8 (11.76%) Ansible
3 8 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.88%) Puppet
5 3 (4.41%) Nagios
5 3 (4.41%) vCenter Server
5 3 (4.41%) vMotion
6 1 (1.47%) Bosun
6 1 (1.47%) Istio
6 1 (1.47%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.18%) Google
3 6 (8.82%) Databricks
4 4 (5.88%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.88%) VMware
5 3 (4.41%) Citrix
5 3 (4.41%) Foundry
5 3 (4.41%) HP
5 3 (4.41%) IBM
5 3 (4.41%) OpenAI
5 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.41%) Symantec
6 2 (2.94%) New Relic
6 2 (2.94%) Oracle
7 1 (1.47%) Cisco
7 1 (1.47%) FIS
7 1 (1.47%) Metaswitch
7 1 (1.47%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.47%) Murex
7 1 (1.47%) SAP