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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 46 58
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 -17
Contract jobs citing Docker 88 78 72
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.01% 4.49% 3.15%
As % of the System Software category 53.99% 38.61% 28.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 57 48
10th Percentile £343 £413 £425
25th Percentile £469 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% +2.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £619
90th Percentile £788 £683 £709
Central London median daily rate £569 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +3.41% - -15.38%
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 163 202 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.43% 11.62% 10.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 139 186
10th Percentile £228 £259 £245
25th Percentile £405 £410 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £489
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +12.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £709 £725 £731
Central London median daily rate £525 £535 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +12.63% -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 £26.45 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.71% -33.88% +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 5 April 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 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.27%) Apache
2 2 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.27%) Camunda
2 2 (2.27%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.14%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Magento
1 1 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 53 (60.23%) AWS
2 37 (42.05%) Azure
3 31 (35.23%) GitHub
4 22 (25.00%) GCP
5 16 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (15.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (15.91%) Amazon S3
7 13 (14.77%) Serverless
8 12 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (10.23%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (7.95%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (5.68%) Amazon ECR
13 5 (5.68%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (5.68%) Apigee
13 5 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (5.68%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (5.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) SAN
2 1 (1.14%) DNS
2 1 (1.14%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.14%) Multicast
2 1 (1.14%) NAS
2 1 (1.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.45%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (17.05%) Relational Database
3 12 (13.64%) NoSQL
4 11 (12.50%) DynamoDB
5 9 (10.23%) MongoDB
6 8 (9.09%) SQL Server
7 7 (7.95%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (6.82%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (6.82%) MySQL
9 5 (5.68%) Redis
10 4 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (4.55%) BigQuery
11 3 (3.41%) Big Data
11 3 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (2.27%) Hazelcast
12 2 (2.27%) Metadata
13 1 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (1.14%) Pinecone
13 1 (1.14%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 23 (26.14%) Git
2 17 (19.32%) Jenkins
3 13 (14.77%) GitLab
4 8 (9.09%) JUnit
5 7 (7.95%) Mockito
6 6 (6.82%) Maven
7 5 (5.68%) Cucumber
7 5 (5.68%) JIRA
8 4 (4.55%) Gradle
8 4 (4.55%) Postman
9 3 (3.41%) Liquibase
10 2 (2.27%) Ant
10 2 (2.27%) Gatling
10 2 (2.27%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.27%) SoapUI
11 1 (1.14%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (1.14%) PowerBuilder
11 1 (1.14%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (28.41%) Finance
2 20 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.05%) Banking
4 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Front Office
6 3 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Legal
8 1 (1.14%) Marketing
8 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Retail
8 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (31.82%) Developer
2 24 (27.27%) Senior
3 14 (15.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 10 (11.36%) Java Developer
6 8 (9.09%) Python Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Architect
8 5 (5.68%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Lead
8 5 (5.68%) Python Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Data Engineer
11 2 (2.27%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (27.27%) Spring
2 20 (22.73%) Kafka
2 20 (22.73%) Spring Boot
3 16 (18.18%) REST
4 15 (17.05%) React
5 12 (13.64%) RESTful
6 8 (9.09%) Node.js
6 8 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (7.95%) .NET
7 7 (7.95%) OAuth
7 7 (7.95%) SOAP
8 6 (6.82%) JSON
9 5 (5.68%) Django
9 5 (5.68%) GraphQL
9 5 (5.68%) WireMock
10 4 (4.55%) AngularJS
10 4 (4.55%) CSS
10 4 (4.55%) HTML
10 4 (4.55%) JWT
10 4 (4.55%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 16 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.82%) Virtual Team
4 5 (5.68%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.41%) Life Science
6 2 (2.27%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.27%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.14%) Derivative
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.14%) Equities
7 1 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.14%) Genomics
7 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.14%) NHS
7 1 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.23%) Linux
2 2 (2.27%) Unix
2 2 (2.27%) VMS
3 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 50 (56.82%) Containerisation
3 47 (53.41%) DevOps
4 36 (40.91%) Microservices
5 26 (29.55%) Test Automation
6 25 (28.41%) Observability
7 22 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (23.86%) Agile
9 20 (22.73%) Software Engineering
10 16 (18.18%) AI
11 15 (17.05%) Code Quality
11 15 (17.05%) Event-Driven
12 13 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (13.64%) Analytics
13 12 (13.64%) API Development
13 12 (13.64%) Machine Learning
13 12 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
14 10 (11.36%) Full-Stack Development
15 9 (10.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 8 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 39 (44.32%) Python
2 34 (38.64%) Java
3 22 (25.00%) SQL
4 9 (10.23%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.82%) C#
5 6 (6.82%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.55%) Bash
7 2 (2.27%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.14%) Bicep
8 1 (1.14%) C
8 1 (1.14%) C++
8 1 (1.14%) Go
8 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.14%) PHP
8 1 (1.14%) ProC
8 1 (1.14%) Ruby
8 1 (1.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 22 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.41%) Degree
3 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.14%) CCSP
4 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.14%) CISSP
4 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.14%) OSCP
4 1 (1.14%) SANS
4 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.14%) VCAP
4 1 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.23%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.27%) GDPR
2 2 (2.27%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.27%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.27%) PSD2
2 2 (2.27%) SEPA
3 1 (1.14%) GRC
3 1 (1.14%) MiFID
3 1 (1.14%) NCSC
3 1 (1.14%) NIST
3 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.14%) Firmware
1 1 (1.14%) GridGain
1 1 (1.14%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 1 (1.14%) Varnish
1 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.14%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (69.32%) Kubernetes
2 24 (27.27%) Terraform
3 13 (14.77%) Ansible
4 11 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 10 (11.36%) Grafana
6 4 (4.55%) Argo
6 4 (4.55%) Istio
7 3 (3.41%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.14%) Kibana
8 1 (1.14%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.14%) linkerd
8 1 (1.14%) Podman
8 1 (1.14%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.14%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.36%) Google
3 8 (9.09%) Oracle
4 5 (5.68%) IBM
5 4 (4.55%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.41%) Databricks
6 3 (3.41%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.27%) Confluent
7 2 (2.27%) Foundry
7 2 (2.27%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.27%) Splunk
7 2 (2.27%) Sybase
8 1 (1.14%) Brocade
8 1 (1.14%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.14%) OutSystems
8 1 (1.14%) Pega
8 1 (1.14%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.14%) Solace
8 1 (1.14%) VMware