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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 71 42
Rank change year-on-year +2 -29 -9
Contract jobs citing Docker 76 57 100
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.28% 3.17% 4.82%
As % of the System Software category 40.43% 39.58% 41.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 47 66
10th Percentile £450 £403 £491
25th Percentile £501 £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 £725
90th Percentile £738 £688 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%

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 188 144 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.11% 8.00% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 101 172
10th Percentile £223 £263 £339
25th Percentile £412 £406 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £690 £688 £730
Central London median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £20.20 £22.48 -
25th Percentile £21.63 £23.19 £77.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £25.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -70.29% +134.48%
75th Percentile £27.50 £28.19 £92.50
90th Percentile £29.60 £29.43 -
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £26.45 £85.00
% change year-on-year +2.08% -68.88% +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 27 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 (6.58%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (6.58%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.95%) Confluence
4 2 (2.63%) Apache
5 1 (1.32%) Camunda
5 1 (1.32%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Magento
1 1 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 44 (57.89%) AWS
2 33 (43.42%) Azure
3 25 (32.89%) GitHub
4 21 (27.63%) GCP
5 13 (17.11%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (14.47%) Serverless
7 9 (11.84%) Amazon S3
7 9 (11.84%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (9.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (7.89%) dbt
9 6 (7.89%) OpenShift
10 5 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (6.58%) Azure AI
10 5 (6.58%) Azure AKS
10 5 (6.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (6.58%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (6.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) Firewall
2 5 (6.58%) DNS
3 3 (3.95%) DHCP
3 3 (3.95%) SMTP
3 3 (3.95%) VPN
4 1 (1.32%) BGP
4 1 (1.32%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.32%) Multicast
4 1 (1.32%) Network Security
4 1 (1.32%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.32%) TACACS
4 1 (1.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.42%) NoSQL
2 12 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.53%) MongoDB
4 7 (9.21%) DynamoDB
5 6 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (6.58%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (6.58%) Big Data
6 5 (6.58%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (6.58%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.95%) Pinecone
8 3 (3.95%) Redis
8 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.95%) Weaviate
9 2 (2.63%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (2.63%) Delta Lake
9 2 (2.63%) Metadata
9 2 (2.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (23.68%) Git
2 17 (22.37%) Jenkins
3 15 (19.74%) GitLab
4 8 (10.53%) JUnit
5 7 (9.21%) JIRA
5 7 (9.21%) Mockito
6 5 (6.58%) Gradle
7 4 (5.26%) Cucumber
7 4 (5.26%) Maven
7 4 (5.26%) Postman
8 3 (3.95%) Selenium
9 2 (2.63%) Liquibase
9 2 (2.63%) Zephyr
10 1 (1.32%) Appium
10 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.32%) MLflow
10 1 (1.32%) PHPUnit
10 1 (1.32%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.32%) TestNG
General
1 30 (39.47%) Finance
2 14 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.79%) Banking
4 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.26%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.63%) Front Office
7 2 (2.63%) Military
7 2 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.32%) Law
8 1 (1.32%) Legal
8 1 (1.32%) Marketing
8 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Police
8 1 (1.32%) Retail
8 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (27.63%) Senior
2 17 (22.37%) Developer
3 8 (10.53%) Java Developer
3 8 (10.53%) Python Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 7 (9.21%) Automation Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Software Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Data Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (6.58%) Architect
6 5 (6.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Java Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Lead
7 4 (5.26%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (31.58%) Kafka
2 23 (30.26%) Terraform
3 21 (27.63%) Spring
3 21 (27.63%) Spring Boot
4 13 (17.11%) REST
5 12 (15.79%) React
6 9 (11.84%) RESTful
7 7 (9.21%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (6.58%) HTML
9 4 (5.26%) AngularJS
9 4 (5.26%) Django
9 4 (5.26%) FastAPI
9 4 (5.26%) LangChain
9 4 (5.26%) PyTorch
9 4 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (5.26%) SOAP
9 4 (5.26%) TensorFlow
9 4 (5.26%) YAML
10 3 (3.95%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.95%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 24 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 13 (17.11%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (11.84%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.95%) Clustering
5 3 (3.95%) PKI
6 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.63%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.63%) Genomics
6 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.63%) Life Science
6 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.32%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.32%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.84%) Linux
2 5 (6.58%) Windows
2 5 (6.58%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.26%) Unix
4 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (81.58%) CI/CD
2 41 (53.95%) Containerisation
2 41 (53.95%) DevOps
3 30 (39.47%) Microservices
4 28 (36.84%) AI
5 24 (31.58%) Observability
5 24 (31.58%) Test Automation
6 23 (30.26%) Agile
7 22 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (28.95%) Software Engineering
8 18 (23.68%) Machine Learning
9 15 (19.74%) Event-Driven
10 13 (17.11%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (15.79%) Analytics
11 12 (15.79%) Data Engineering
12 11 (14.47%) LLM
12 11 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (13.16%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 9 (11.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 9 (11.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (55.26%) Python
2 33 (43.42%) Java
3 18 (23.68%) SQL
4 11 (14.47%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.53%) C#
5 8 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 7 (9.21%) PowerShell
7 5 (6.58%) Bash
7 5 (6.58%) Bicep
8 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.74%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.84%) Degree
4 4 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.11%) QA
2 4 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.26%) GDPR
3 2 (2.63%) EMIR
3 2 (2.63%) MiFID
3 2 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.95%) BitLocker
3 3 (3.95%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (3.95%) Terminal Services
3 3 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.32%) GridGain
4 1 (1.32%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (1.32%) Varnish
4 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 59 (77.63%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.84%) Grafana
2 9 (11.84%) Prometheus
3 8 (10.53%) Ansible
4 4 (5.26%) Puppet
5 3 (3.95%) Nagios
5 3 (3.95%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.95%) vMotion
6 2 (2.63%) Istio
7 1 (1.32%) Bosun
7 1 (1.32%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.32%) linkerd
7 1 (1.32%) Salt
7 1 (1.32%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.47%) Google
3 4 (5.26%) Foundry
3 4 (5.26%) OpenAI
3 4 (5.26%) VMware
4 3 (3.95%) Citrix
4 3 (3.95%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.95%) HP
4 3 (3.95%) IBM
4 3 (3.95%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.95%) Symantec
5 2 (2.63%) Databricks
6 1 (1.32%) Adobe
6 1 (1.32%) Cisco
6 1 (1.32%) Informatica
6 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle
6 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.32%) Solace
6 1 (1.32%) Sybase