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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 67 37
Rank change year-on-year -2 -30 +2
Contract jobs citing Docker 73 58 105
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.26% 3.34% 5.06%
As % of the System Software category 40.11% 40.28% 43.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 47 65
10th Percentile £432 £431 £481
25th Percentile £475 £498 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.30% +1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £725
90th Percentile £710 £693 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - -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 182 144 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.14% 8.29% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 100 167
10th Percentile £238 £282 £345
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £559 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% -0.22% +1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £681
90th Percentile £678 £688 £743
Central London median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -
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 £26.45 £112.00
% change year-on-year -9.26% -76.38% +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 23 September 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 (6.85%) Confluence
2 4 (5.48%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.37%) Apache
5 1 (1.37%) Camunda
5 1 (1.37%) MQSeries
5 1 (1.37%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Magento
1 1 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (58.90%) AWS
2 33 (45.21%) Azure
3 26 (35.62%) GitHub
4 22 (30.14%) GCP
5 13 (17.81%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (12.33%) Serverless
7 8 (10.96%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (8.22%) Amazon S3
8 6 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (8.22%) OpenShift
9 5 (6.85%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (5.48%) Azure AI
10 4 (5.48%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (5.48%) IaaS
10 4 (5.48%) Snowflake
11 3 (4.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.22%) Firewall
2 5 (6.85%) DNS
3 3 (4.11%) DHCP
3 3 (4.11%) SMTP
3 3 (4.11%) VPN
4 1 (1.37%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (1.37%) BGP
4 1 (1.37%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.37%) Network Security
4 1 (1.37%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.37%) RTCP
4 1 (1.37%) RTP
4 1 (1.37%) TACACS
4 1 (1.37%) VoIP
4 1 (1.37%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.44%) NoSQL
2 11 (15.07%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.22%) MongoDB
3 6 (8.22%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.85%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (6.85%) Big Data
4 5 (6.85%) DynamoDB
4 5 (6.85%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.11%) Delta Lake
6 3 (4.11%) Pinecone
6 3 (4.11%) Redis
6 3 (4.11%) Weaviate
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.74%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.74%) Milvus
7 2 (2.74%) MySQL
8 1 (1.37%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 22 (30.14%) Git
2 17 (23.29%) Jenkins
3 12 (16.44%) GitLab
4 9 (12.33%) JIRA
5 8 (10.96%) JUnit
6 7 (9.59%) Mockito
7 6 (8.22%) Gradle
7 6 (8.22%) Maven
8 4 (5.48%) Cucumber
8 4 (5.48%) Postman
8 4 (5.48%) Selenium
9 2 (2.74%) Claude Code
9 2 (2.74%) Liquibase
9 2 (2.74%) SoapUI
9 2 (2.74%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.74%) Zephyr
10 1 (1.37%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.37%) Gatling
10 1 (1.37%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (1.37%) REST Assured
General
1 29 (39.73%) Finance
2 15 (20.55%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.44%) Banking
4 7 (9.59%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.48%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Military
7 2 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Front Office
8 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Law
8 1 (1.37%) Legal
8 1 (1.37%) Marketing
8 1 (1.37%) Police
8 1 (1.37%) Retail
8 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (30.14%) Senior
2 17 (23.29%) Developer
3 8 (10.96%) Java Developer
3 8 (10.96%) Senior Developer
4 7 (9.59%) Architect
4 7 (9.59%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (6.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Lead
6 5 (6.85%) Python Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Java Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Python Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.51%) Spring
1 23 (31.51%) Spring Boot
1 23 (31.51%) Terraform
2 21 (28.77%) Kafka
3 16 (21.92%) REST
4 11 (15.07%) React
4 11 (15.07%) RESTful
5 6 (8.22%) HTML
5 6 (8.22%) SOAP
6 5 (6.85%) AngularJS
6 5 (6.85%) FastAPI
6 5 (6.85%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (5.48%) LangChain
7 4 (5.48%) Middleware
7 4 (5.48%) PyTorch
7 4 (5.48%) TensorFlow
7 4 (5.48%) Web Services
8 3 (4.11%) GraphQL
8 3 (4.11%) JSON
8 3 (4.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (34.25%) Cloud Native
2 13 (17.81%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (12.33%) AI Agents
4 5 (6.85%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.85%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.48%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.11%) Clustering
6 3 (4.11%) PKI
7 2 (2.74%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.74%) Genomics
7 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.74%) Life Science
7 2 (2.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.37%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.70%) Linux
2 5 (6.85%) Unix
2 5 (6.85%) Windows
2 5 (6.85%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (83.56%) CI/CD
2 44 (60.27%) Containerisation
3 34 (46.58%) DevOps
4 28 (38.36%) Microservices
5 27 (36.99%) AI
6 26 (35.62%) Agile
7 25 (34.25%) Test Automation
8 24 (32.88%) Software Engineering
9 21 (28.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (28.77%) Observability
10 15 (20.55%) Machine Learning
11 12 (16.44%) Event-Driven
11 12 (16.44%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (15.07%) Analytics
12 11 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (13.70%) Data Engineering
13 10 (13.70%) LLM
13 10 (13.70%) Mentoring
14 9 (12.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 9 (12.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (53.42%) Python
2 36 (49.32%) Java
3 17 (23.29%) SQL
4 10 (13.70%) TypeScript
5 9 (12.33%) JavaScript
6 7 (9.59%) C#
6 7 (9.59%) PowerShell
7 5 (6.85%) Bash
8 4 (5.48%) Bicep
9 1 (1.37%) Korn
9 1 (1.37%) PHP
9 1 (1.37%) Scala
9 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.92%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.70%) Degree
4 4 (5.48%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.74%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.37%) CISA
7 1 (1.37%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.37%) GSEC
7 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.37%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.81%) QA
2 4 (5.48%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.48%) GDPR
3 2 (2.74%) EMIR
3 2 (2.74%) MiFID
4 1 (1.37%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.37%) PSD2
4 1 (1.37%) SEPA
4 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.11%) BitLocker
3 3 (4.11%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.11%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (4.11%) Terminal Services
3 3 (4.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.37%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (1.37%) Varnish
4 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 55 (75.34%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.33%) Grafana
3 8 (10.96%) Ansible
3 8 (10.96%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.48%) Puppet
5 3 (4.11%) Nagios
5 3 (4.11%) vCenter Server
5 3 (4.11%) vMotion
6 1 (1.37%) Bosun
6 1 (1.37%) Istio
6 1 (1.37%) Salt
6 1 (1.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.44%) Google
3 6 (8.22%) Databricks
4 5 (6.85%) IBM
5 4 (5.48%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.48%) VMware
6 3 (4.11%) Citrix
6 3 (4.11%) Foundry
6 3 (4.11%) HP
6 3 (4.11%) OpenAI
6 3 (4.11%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.11%) Symantec
7 2 (2.74%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.74%) New Relic
7 2 (2.74%) Oracle
8 1 (1.37%) Adobe
8 1 (1.37%) Cisco
8 1 (1.37%) FIS
8 1 (1.37%) Metaswitch
8 1 (1.37%) SAP