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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 67 44
Rank change year-on-year +7 -23 -13
Contract jobs citing Docker 83 62 93
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.45% 3.30% 4.50%
As % of the System Software category 42.35% 40.52% 39.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 49 62
10th Percentile £450 £411 £481
25th Percentile £480 £495 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +1.67% -12.73%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £719
90th Percentile £750 £690 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -11.93%

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 196 153 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.15% 8.13% 11.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 109 174
10th Percentile £226 £263 £313
25th Percentile £414 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.63% -9.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £661
90th Percentile £681 £688 £725
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £20.23 £22.95 -
25th Percentile £21.69 £24.38 £77.50
Median hourly rate £24.75 £28.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -66.47% +134.48%
75th Percentile £28.19 £108.88 £92.50
90th Percentile £29.88 £156.05 -
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £27.48 £85.00
% change year-on-year +9.19% -67.68% +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 9 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 5 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (6.02%) Apache Spark
1 5 (6.02%) Confluence
2 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.41%) Apache
3 2 (2.41%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.20%) Camunda
4 1 (1.20%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.20%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Magento
1 1 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 50 (60.24%) AWS
2 34 (40.96%) Azure
3 30 (36.14%) GitHub
4 22 (26.51%) GCP
5 17 (20.48%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (15.66%) Serverless
7 11 (13.25%) Amazon S3
7 11 (13.25%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (10.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (9.64%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (7.23%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (7.23%) dbt
10 6 (7.23%) OpenShift
11 5 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (6.02%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (6.02%) Azure AKS
11 5 (6.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (6.02%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (6.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.23%) Firewall
2 5 (6.02%) DNS
3 3 (3.61%) DHCP
3 3 (3.61%) SMTP
3 3 (3.61%) VPN
4 2 (2.41%) Network Security
5 1 (1.20%) BGP
5 1 (1.20%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.20%) Multicast
5 1 (1.20%) NX-OS
5 1 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.20%) TACACS
5 1 (1.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.07%) NoSQL
2 14 (16.87%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (10.84%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (10.84%) DynamoDB
4 8 (9.64%) MongoDB
5 7 (8.43%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (7.23%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (7.23%) Relational Database
7 5 (6.02%) Big Data
8 4 (4.82%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (4.82%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.61%) Pinecone
9 3 (3.61%) Redis
9 3 (3.61%) Weaviate
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (2.41%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.41%) Metadata
10 2 (2.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (26.51%) Git
2 21 (25.30%) Jenkins
3 16 (19.28%) GitLab
4 10 (12.05%) JIRA
4 10 (12.05%) JUnit
5 8 (9.64%) Mockito
6 5 (6.02%) Cucumber
6 5 (6.02%) Gradle
6 5 (6.02%) Postman
7 4 (4.82%) Liquibase
7 4 (4.82%) Maven
8 3 (3.61%) Selenium
9 2 (2.41%) Ant
9 2 (2.41%) Zephyr
10 1 (1.20%) Appium
10 1 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (1.20%) MLflow
10 1 (1.20%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.20%) TestNG
General
1 32 (38.55%) Finance
2 15 (18.07%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.66%) Banking
4 5 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.82%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Front Office
7 2 (2.41%) Military
7 2 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Law
8 1 (1.20%) Legal
8 1 (1.20%) Marketing
8 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Police
8 1 (1.20%) Retail
8 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (27.71%) Senior
2 18 (21.69%) Developer
3 9 (10.84%) Java Developer
3 9 (10.84%) Senior Developer
4 8 (9.64%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) Python Engineer
5 7 (8.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 7 (8.43%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (8.43%) Software Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Architect
6 6 (7.23%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Lead
8 4 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 3 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (32.53%) Kafka
2 24 (28.92%) Spring
3 23 (27.71%) Spring Boot
4 15 (18.07%) REST
5 14 (16.87%) React
6 11 (13.25%) RESTful
7 7 (8.43%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (6.02%) HTML
8 5 (6.02%) Playwright
8 5 (6.02%) SOAP
8 5 (6.02%) WireMock
8 5 (6.02%) YAML
9 4 (4.82%) AngularJS
9 4 (4.82%) Django
9 4 (4.82%) FastAPI
9 4 (4.82%) Gherkin
9 4 (4.82%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.82%) PyTorch
9 4 (4.82%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (4.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (32.53%) Cloud Native
2 13 (15.66%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (10.84%) AI Agents
4 5 (6.02%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.82%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.61%) Clustering
6 3 (3.61%) PKI
7 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.41%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.41%) Genomics
7 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.41%) Life Science
7 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.20%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.84%) Linux
2 5 (6.02%) Windows
2 5 (6.02%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.82%) Unix
4 1 (1.20%) VMS
4 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (83.13%) CI/CD
2 47 (56.63%) Containerisation
3 45 (54.22%) DevOps
4 32 (38.55%) Microservices
5 27 (32.53%) Agile
5 27 (32.53%) Observability
6 26 (31.33%) AI
7 25 (30.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (30.12%) Test Automation
8 22 (26.51%) Software Engineering
9 18 (21.69%) Machine Learning
10 17 (20.48%) Event-Driven
11 14 (16.87%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (14.46%) Analytics
12 12 (14.46%) Data Engineering
13 11 (13.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 11 (13.25%) LLM
13 11 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (12.05%) Mentoring
14 10 (12.05%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 42 (50.60%) Python
2 33 (39.76%) Java
3 19 (22.89%) SQL
4 13 (15.66%) TypeScript
5 9 (10.84%) C#
6 8 (9.64%) JavaScript
7 7 (8.43%) Bash
8 6 (7.23%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.61%) Bicep
10 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.20%) Go
11 1 (1.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (28.92%) Security Cleared
2 19 (22.89%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.84%) Degree
4 4 (4.82%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.66%) QA
2 4 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.61%) GDPR
4 2 (2.41%) EMIR
4 2 (2.41%) MiFID
5 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.61%) BitLocker
3 3 (3.61%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.61%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (3.61%) Terminal Services
3 3 (3.61%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.20%) GridGain
4 1 (1.20%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (1.20%) Varnish
4 1 (1.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 62 (74.70%) Kubernetes
2 26 (31.33%) Terraform
3 10 (12.05%) Ansible
3 10 (12.05%) Grafana
3 10 (12.05%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.82%) Puppet
5 3 (3.61%) Nagios
5 3 (3.61%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.61%) vMotion
6 2 (2.41%) Istio
7 1 (1.20%) Bosun
7 1 (1.20%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.20%) linkerd
7 1 (1.20%) Salt
7 1 (1.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.25%) Google
3 5 (6.02%) IBM
4 4 (4.82%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.82%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.82%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.82%) VMware
5 3 (3.61%) Citrix
5 3 (3.61%) Databricks
5 3 (3.61%) HP
5 3 (3.61%) Symantec
6 2 (2.41%) Foundry
6 2 (2.41%) Sybase
7 1 (1.20%) Adobe
7 1 (1.20%) Informatica
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle
7 1 (1.20%) Pega
7 1 (1.20%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.20%) Splunk