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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 35 48
Rank change year-on-year -23 +13 -5
Contract jobs citing Docker 68 107 109
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.91% 5.11% 3.95%
As % of the System Software category 43.04% 42.97% 32.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 61 87
10th Percentile £360 £481 £400
25th Percentile £513 £530 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £788
90th Percentile £788 £775 £850
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.44% -5.38%

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 158 249 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.08% 11.90% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 156 241
10th Percentile £280 £350 £260
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £553 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +5.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £651 £658 £688
90th Percentile £689 £730 £813
Central London median daily rate £546 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -0.68% +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £84.40 £23.88
25th Percentile £26.75 £94.75 £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £112.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -74.55% +208.97% +76.83%
75th Percentile £30.25 - £45.31
90th Percentile - - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -77.26% +208.97% +76.83%

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 12 November 2025.

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 (4.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.47%) Drupal
2 1 (1.47%) nginx
2 1 (1.47%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 32 (47.06%) AWS
2 21 (30.88%) Azure
3 18 (26.47%) GCP
3 18 (26.47%) GitHub
4 13 (19.12%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (14.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (13.24%) Amazon S3
7 8 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (10.29%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (8.82%) Apigee
10 5 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (7.35%) Cloud Run
10 5 (7.35%) Serverless
11 4 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (5.88%) Slack
11 4 (5.88%) Snowflake
11 4 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) Firewall
2 4 (5.88%) DNS
3 2 (2.94%) SSL
3 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.94%) VPN
4 1 (1.47%) 3GPP
4 1 (1.47%) 4G
4 1 (1.47%) 5G
4 1 (1.47%) BGP
4 1 (1.47%) DHCP
4 1 (1.47%) IPsec
4 1 (1.47%) MPLS
4 1 (1.47%) Network Security
4 1 (1.47%) OSPF
4 1 (1.47%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.47%) SNMP
4 1 (1.47%) SSH
4 1 (1.47%) VLAN
4 1 (1.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.24%) Relational Database
2 6 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (7.35%) DynamoDB
3 5 (7.35%) MySQL
4 3 (4.41%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.41%) Tableau
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.94%) Redis
6 1 (1.47%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.47%) Big Data
6 1 (1.47%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.47%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.47%) Impala
6 1 (1.47%) KDB
6 1 (1.47%) Kdb+
6 1 (1.47%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 15 (22.06%) Git
3 13 (19.12%) GitLab
4 9 (13.24%) Gradle
5 8 (11.76%) Maven
5 8 (11.76%) SonarQube
6 5 (7.35%) Selenium
7 4 (5.88%) JIRA
8 3 (4.41%) Cucumber
8 3 (4.41%) Snyk
8 3 (4.41%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.94%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.94%) JUnit
9 2 (2.94%) Postman
9 2 (2.94%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.94%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.47%) Ant
10 1 (1.47%) jMock
10 1 (1.47%) Mockito
10 1 (1.47%) MSTest
General
1 23 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 21 (30.88%) Finance
3 12 (17.65%) Banking
4 7 (10.29%) Investment Banking
5 6 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.88%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.41%) Front Office
7 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.94%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (23.53%) Senior
2 15 (22.06%) Developer
3 9 (13.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (10.29%) Python Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Architect
5 5 (7.35%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.41%) Applications Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Lead
7 3 (4.41%) Senior Developer
8 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (2.94%) Front Office Developer
8 2 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.71%) RESTful
2 9 (13.24%) Node.js
2 9 (13.24%) REST
3 8 (11.76%) CSS
3 8 (11.76%) GraphQL
3 8 (11.76%) HTML
4 5 (7.35%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (7.35%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (7.35%) JWT
4 5 (7.35%) OAuth
5 4 (5.88%) Pandas
5 4 (5.88%) React
6 3 (4.41%) .NET
6 3 (4.41%) Flask
6 3 (4.41%) HTML5
6 3 (4.41%) JSON
6 3 (4.41%) SOAP
7 2 (2.94%) Spring
7 2 (2.94%) WebSockets
7 2 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (10.29%) Virtual Team
4 5 (7.35%) Data Centre
4 5 (7.35%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (7.35%) Fixed Income
4 5 (7.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (5.88%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.41%) IVR
7 2 (2.94%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.94%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.94%) Replication
7 2 (2.94%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.71%) Linux
2 2 (2.94%) Windows
3 1 (1.47%) Unix
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (60.29%) CI/CD
2 36 (52.94%) DevOps
3 35 (51.47%) Containerisation
4 19 (27.94%) Agile
5 17 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (22.06%) Design Patterns
6 15 (22.06%) Microservices
6 15 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (20.59%) Test Automation
8 13 (19.12%) Software Engineering
9 12 (17.65%) Code Quality
10 10 (14.71%) AI
10 10 (14.71%) Machine Learning
10 10 (14.71%) Observability
11 8 (11.76%) API Development
11 8 (11.76%) Event-Driven
12 7 (10.29%) Analytics
12 7 (10.29%) Migration
12 7 (10.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (8.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 36 (52.94%) Python
2 18 (26.47%) Java
3 11 (16.18%) SQL
4 9 (13.24%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.29%) PowerShell
5 7 (10.29%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.88%) Bash
7 3 (4.41%) Bicep
8 2 (2.94%) C#
8 2 (2.94%) Go
8 2 (2.94%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.94%) PHP
8 2 (2.94%) Rust
9 1 (1.47%) C++
9 1 (1.47%) PromQL
9 1 (1.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (19.12%) SC Cleared
1 13 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.88%) Degree
3 3 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.47%) CISSP
5 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.47%) MCP
5 1 (1.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) GDPR
1 5 (7.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (7.35%) QA
2 3 (4.41%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.41%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.47%) MiFID
3 1 (1.47%) NIST
3 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.47%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (57.35%) Kubernetes
2 27 (39.71%) Terraform
3 15 (22.06%) Ansible
4 6 (8.82%) Argo
4 6 (8.82%) Kibana
5 5 (7.35%) Istio
5 5 (7.35%) ITRS Geneos
5 5 (7.35%) logstash
6 4 (5.88%) Puppet
7 3 (4.41%) Grafana
8 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.47%) Consul
9 1 (1.47%) Kubeflow
9 1 (1.47%) Packer
9 1 (1.47%) Podman
9 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (20.59%) Google
2 6 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.35%) Solace
4 4 (5.88%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.88%) Splunk
5 3 (4.41%) Bloomberg
5 3 (4.41%) Cloudera
5 3 (4.41%) Databricks
5 3 (4.41%) MuleSoft
5 3 (4.41%) Oracle
6 2 (2.94%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.94%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.94%) F5
6 2 (2.94%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.47%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.47%) Confluent
7 1 (1.47%) Dell
7 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.47%) TIBCO