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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 42 66
Rank change year-on-year -16 +24 -20
Contract jobs citing Docker 84 77 68
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.98% 4.41% 2.91%
As % of the System Software category 52.83% 36.84% 27.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 54 44
10th Percentile £340 £413 £425
25th Percentile £458 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £544
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +5.75% -16.35%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £625
90th Percentile £788 £712 £718
Central London median daily rate £569 £565 £538
% change year-on-year +0.66% +5.12% -17.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 - £48.50
75th Percentile £59.72 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 - £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 159 209 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.52% 11.98% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 137 186
10th Percentile £244 £231 £240
25th Percentile £372 £404 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +11.28% -13.14%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £640
90th Percentile £680 £725 £725
Central London median daily rate £525 £528 £475
% change year-on-year -0.47% +11.05% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £24.32 - -
25th Percentile £29.57 £162.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.02 £175.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.13% +337.50% +136.20%
75th Percentile £50.72 £187.50 -
90th Percentile £56.12 - £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £98.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year -74.21% +146.88% +81.82%

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 25 March 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 3 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.57%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.19%) Apache
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.19%) Camunda
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 52 (61.90%) AWS
2 32 (38.10%) Azure
3 28 (33.33%) GitHub
4 19 (22.62%) GCP
5 15 (17.86%) Amazon S3
5 15 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (15.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (15.48%) Serverless
7 12 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (13.10%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (5.95%) Amazon ECR
13 5 (5.95%) Apigee
13 5 (5.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (5.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (4.76%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) DNS
1 2 (2.38%) SAN
2 1 (1.19%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.19%) Multicast
2 1 (1.19%) NAS
2 1 (1.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.24%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (17.86%) Relational Database
3 9 (10.71%) DynamoDB
3 9 (10.71%) NoSQL
4 8 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (9.52%) SQL Server
5 7 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 7 (8.33%) MySQL
6 5 (5.95%) Redis
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (4.76%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.38%) Big Data
9 2 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.38%) Hazelcast
9 2 (2.38%) Metadata
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.19%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (23.81%) Git
2 18 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 14 (16.67%) GitLab
4 7 (8.33%) JUnit
5 6 (7.14%) JIRA
5 6 (7.14%) Mockito
6 5 (5.95%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.76%) Maven
7 4 (4.76%) Postman
8 2 (2.38%) Ant
8 2 (2.38%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.38%) Gatling
8 2 (2.38%) Gradle
8 2 (2.38%) Liquibase
8 2 (2.38%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.38%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.19%) jMock
9 1 (1.19%) MSTest
9 1 (1.19%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (29.76%) Finance
2 19 (22.62%) Social Skills
3 17 (20.24%) Banking
4 4 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Front Office
5 3 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Legal
7 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Retail
7 1 (1.19%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (28.57%) Senior
2 23 (27.38%) Developer
3 15 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (11.90%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.71%) Python Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) Java Developer
7 6 (7.14%) Architect
7 6 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Lead
9 4 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.76%) Java Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.76%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (22.62%) Spring
2 16 (19.05%) Kafka
3 15 (17.86%) Spring Boot
4 13 (15.48%) React
4 13 (15.48%) REST
5 11 (13.10%) RESTful
6 8 (9.52%) .NET
6 8 (9.52%) Node.js
7 7 (8.33%) OAuth
8 6 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (7.14%) SOAP
9 5 (5.95%) JSON
9 5 (5.95%) WireMock
10 4 (4.76%) AngularJS
10 4 (4.76%) CSS
10 4 (4.76%) Django
10 4 (4.76%) GraphQL
10 4 (4.76%) HTML
10 4 (4.76%) JWT
10 4 (4.76%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.62%) Cloud Native
2 12 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (8.33%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.57%) Life Science
5 2 (2.38%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.38%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.38%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.38%) Replication
5 2 (2.38%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.19%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.19%) Genomics
6 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.52%) Linux
2 2 (2.38%) Unix
2 2 (2.38%) VMS
3 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (72.62%) CI/CD
2 47 (55.95%) Containerisation
3 43 (51.19%) DevOps
4 31 (36.90%) Microservices
5 25 (29.76%) Test Automation
6 22 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (23.81%) Observability
8 18 (21.43%) Agile
8 18 (21.43%) Software Engineering
9 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (16.67%) AI
11 13 (15.48%) Code Quality
12 12 (14.29%) API Development
13 11 (13.10%) Event-Driven
13 11 (13.10%) Machine Learning
14 10 (11.90%) Analytics
14 10 (11.90%) Design Patterns
15 9 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
15 9 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
16 8 (9.52%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 40 (47.62%) Python
2 29 (34.52%) Java
3 20 (23.81%) SQL
4 9 (10.71%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.14%) C#
7 4 (4.76%) Bash
8 2 (2.38%) PHP
8 2 (2.38%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.19%) Bicep
9 1 (1.19%) C
9 1 (1.19%) C++
9 1 (1.19%) Go
9 1 (1.19%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.19%) ProC
9 1 (1.19%) Ruby
9 1 (1.19%) Rust
9 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 20 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.57%) Degree
3 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.38%) CISSP
3 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.19%) CCSP
4 1 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.19%) OSCP
4 1 (1.19%) SANS
4 1 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.19%) VCAP
4 1 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (2.38%) GDPR
2 2 (2.38%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.38%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.38%) PSD2
2 2 (2.38%) SEPA
3 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.19%) GRC
3 1 (1.19%) MiFID
3 1 (1.19%) NCSC
3 1 (1.19%) NIST
3 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.19%) Firmware
1 1 (1.19%) GridGain
1 1 (1.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.19%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (69.05%) Kubernetes
2 25 (29.76%) Terraform
3 15 (17.86%) Ansible
4 9 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 8 (9.52%) Grafana
6 4 (4.76%) Argo
6 4 (4.76%) Istio
7 3 (3.57%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.19%) Kibana
8 1 (1.19%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.19%) linkerd
8 1 (1.19%) Podman
8 1 (1.19%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.19%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.90%) Google
3 8 (9.52%) Oracle
4 4 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.76%) IBM
5 3 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.38%) Confluent
6 2 (2.38%) Databricks
6 2 (2.38%) Foundry
6 2 (2.38%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.38%) Splunk
6 2 (2.38%) Sybase
7 1 (1.19%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.19%) Brocade
7 1 (1.19%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.19%) Informatica
7 1 (1.19%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.19%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.19%) Solace