Docker Contracts in the City of London

Docker
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 60 34
Rank change year-on-year +5 -26 -17
Contract jobs citing Docker 68 66 204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.87% 3.00% 5.61%
As % of the System Software category 36.56% 27.97% 46.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 44 131
10th Percentile £413 £425 £513
25th Percentile £481 £495 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £558 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -14.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £775
90th Percentile £694 £762 £800
Central London median daily rate £552 £558 £650
% change year-on-year -0.99% -14.23% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £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 186 236 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.59% 10.74% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 174 294
10th Percentile £263 £250 £213
25th Percentile £405 £388 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £725
90th Percentile £701 £743 £788
Central London median daily rate £531 £475 £561
% change year-on-year +11.68% -15.37% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £36.05 - -
25th Percentile £57.13 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £98.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +146.25% - -
75th Percentile £146.13 - -
90th Percentile £170.95 £46.15 -
Central London median hourly rate £24.48 £40.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -38.81% +70.21% -7.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Docker in the City of London

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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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) Apache
2 2 (2.94%) nginx
3 1 (1.47%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.47%) Camunda
3 1 (1.47%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 37 (54.41%) AWS
2 19 (27.94%) Azure
3 11 (16.18%) GitHub
4 10 (14.71%) GCP
5 6 (8.82%) Serverless
6 5 (7.35%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (7.35%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.35%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.41%) Slack
9 2 (2.94%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.94%) Azure App Service
9 2 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.47%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) DNS
1 3 (4.41%) VPN
2 2 (2.94%) DHCP
2 2 (2.94%) Firewall
2 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.24%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.35%) Relational Database
2 5 (7.35%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.88%) MySQL
4 3 (4.41%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.41%) Redis
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.94%) Big Data
5 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.47%) KDB
6 1 (1.47%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 20 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 14 (20.59%) GitLab
3 7 (10.29%) JIRA
4 6 (8.82%) Git
5 5 (7.35%) Bitbucket
5 5 (7.35%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.88%) JUnit
7 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.94%) Postman
8 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.47%) Gatling
8 1 (1.47%) Hamcrest
8 1 (1.47%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.47%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.47%) Liquibase
8 1 (1.47%) Mocha
8 1 (1.47%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (1.47%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.47%) Travis CI
General
1 20 (29.41%) Finance
2 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.29%) Banking
4 6 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.88%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.41%) Publishing
8 2 (2.94%) Back Office
8 2 (2.94%) Front Office
9 1 (1.47%) Billing
9 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.47%) Military
9 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (36.76%) Developer
2 17 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (17.65%) Senior
4 7 (10.29%) Java Developer
4 7 (10.29%) Senior Developer
5 6 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Lead
7 4 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (5.88%) Python Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) .NET Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Angular Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) C# Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (4.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.59%) .NET
2 10 (14.71%) Spring
3 9 (13.24%) Kafka
4 7 (10.29%) Spring Boot
5 5 (7.35%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (7.35%) HTML
5 5 (7.35%) Node.js
5 5 (7.35%) React
6 4 (5.88%) .NET Core
6 4 (5.88%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.88%) FastAPI
6 4 (5.88%) REST
6 4 (5.88%) RESTful
7 3 (4.41%) .NET Framework
7 3 (4.41%) ASP.NET
7 3 (4.41%) CSS
7 3 (4.41%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (2.94%) Entity Framework
8 2 (2.94%) Swagger
8 2 (2.94%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.35%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.41%) Hedge funds
3 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.94%) DataPower
4 2 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.94%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.47%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.47%) Equities
5 1 (1.47%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.47%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (26.47%) Linux
2 5 (7.35%) Unix
2 5 (7.35%) Windows
3 3 (4.41%) Rocky
4 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.47%) SUSE
5 1 (1.47%) VMS
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (66.18%) CI/CD
2 40 (58.82%) DevOps
3 33 (48.53%) Containerisation
4 22 (32.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (27.94%) Agile
6 15 (22.06%) Software Engineering
7 14 (20.59%) Test Automation
8 13 (19.12%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (17.65%) Microservices
10 10 (14.71%) Configuration Management
10 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (8.82%) Code Quality
12 6 (8.82%) SDLC
13 5 (7.35%) Deployment Automation
13 5 (7.35%) Event-Driven
13 5 (7.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 5 (7.35%) High Availability
13 5 (7.35%) TDD
14 4 (5.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 35 (51.47%) Python
2 21 (30.88%) Java
3 16 (23.53%) C#
4 10 (14.71%) SQL
5 7 (10.29%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.82%) Bash
7 5 (7.35%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.88%) C++
8 4 (5.88%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.94%) Go
9 2 (2.94%) Perl
9 2 (2.94%) Scala
9 2 (2.94%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.47%) Ada
10 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.47%) PHP
10 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.47%) Ruby
10 1 (1.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 16 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.41%) Degree
3 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.94%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) EMIR
2 2 (2.94%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (2.94%) MiFID
3 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) Lustre
2 1 (1.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.47%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 56 (82.35%) Kubernetes
2 31 (45.59%) Terraform
3 14 (20.59%) Ansible
4 8 (11.76%) Grafana
5 5 (7.35%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.88%) Podman
7 3 (4.41%) Consul
8 2 (2.94%) Karpenter
8 2 (2.94%) Kibana
8 2 (2.94%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.94%) Puppet
9 1 (1.47%) Argo
9 1 (1.47%) Istio
9 1 (1.47%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.47%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (5.88%) Google
2 3 (4.41%) Red Hat
2 3 (4.41%) Splunk
3 2 (2.94%) Databricks
4 1 (1.47%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.47%) IBM
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.47%) OpenLink
4 1 (1.47%) Pega
4 1 (1.47%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.47%) TOWER Software
4 1 (1.47%) WSO2