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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 60 39
Rank change year-on-year -16 -21 +11
Contract jobs citing Docker 64 64 103
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.99% 3.71% 4.87%
As % of the System Software category 36.78% 40.76% 42.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 52 62
10th Percentile £441 £426 £489
25th Percentile £472 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.11% +1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £729
90th Percentile £700 £779 £820
Central London median daily rate £538 £610 £606
% change year-on-year -11.89% +0.62% -3.00%

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 174 157 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.12% 9.11% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 110 158
10th Percentile £222 £293 £333
25th Percentile £400 £428 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.48% +3.86%
75th Percentile £626 £667 £684
90th Percentile £677 £688 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% +4.76%
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 £25.25 £112.00
% change year-on-year -4.95% -77.46% +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 8 October 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 (7.81%) Confluence
2 3 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.56%) IIS
4 1 (1.56%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 37 (57.81%) AWS
2 30 (46.88%) Azure
3 25 (39.06%) GitHub
4 19 (29.69%) GCP
5 12 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (17.19%) Serverless
7 9 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (10.94%) Amazon S3
8 7 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (9.38%) OpenShift
10 5 (7.81%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (6.25%) Azure AI
11 4 (6.25%) IaaS
11 4 (6.25%) Snowflake
12 3 (4.69%) dbt
12 3 (4.69%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (4.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) Firewall
2 5 (7.81%) DNS
3 3 (4.69%) DHCP
3 3 (4.69%) SMTP
3 3 (4.69%) VPN
4 1 (1.56%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (1.56%) BGP
4 1 (1.56%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.56%) Network Security
4 1 (1.56%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.56%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.56%) RTCP
4 1 (1.56%) RTP
4 1 (1.56%) TACACS
4 1 (1.56%) VoIP
4 1 (1.56%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.19%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 6 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (7.81%) Relational Database
5 4 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (6.25%) Big Data
5 4 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.69%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.69%) Pinecone
6 3 (4.69%) Weaviate
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.13%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.13%) Milvus
7 2 (3.13%) Redis
7 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (29.69%) Git
2 18 (28.13%) Jenkins
3 13 (20.31%) GitLab
4 9 (14.06%) JIRA
5 7 (10.94%) JUnit
6 6 (9.38%) Mockito
7 5 (7.81%) Maven
8 4 (6.25%) Cucumber
8 4 (6.25%) Gradle
8 4 (6.25%) Postman
8 4 (6.25%) Selenium
9 2 (3.13%) Artifactory
9 2 (3.13%) Claude Code
9 2 (3.13%) SoapUI
9 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
9 2 (3.13%) Zephyr
10 1 (1.56%) Jasmine
10 1 (1.56%) MSBuild
10 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.56%) TestNG
General
1 26 (40.63%) Finance
2 13 (20.31%) Banking
3 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 4 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Military
7 2 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.56%) Back Office
8 1 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Front Office
8 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Law
8 1 (1.56%) Police
8 1 (1.56%) Retail
8 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (32.81%) Senior
2 12 (18.75%) Developer
3 7 (10.94%) Automation Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) Senior Developer
4 6 (9.38%) Architect
4 6 (9.38%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Lead
6 4 (6.25%) Python Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (4.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (39.06%) Terraform
2 18 (28.13%) Spring
2 18 (28.13%) Spring Boot
3 17 (26.56%) Kafka
4 13 (20.31%) REST
5 11 (17.19%) RESTful
6 9 (14.06%) React
7 6 (9.38%) AngularJS
8 5 (7.81%) FastAPI
8 5 (7.81%) HTML
8 5 (7.81%) SOAP
9 4 (6.25%) LangChain
9 4 (6.25%) PyTorch
9 4 (6.25%) TensorFlow
9 4 (6.25%) Web Services
10 3 (4.69%) .NET
10 3 (4.69%) Hibernate
10 3 (4.69%) Middleware
10 3 (4.69%) Node.js
10 3 (4.69%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.38%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.06%) AI Agents
2 9 (14.06%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.81%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.81%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.69%) Clustering
5 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.69%) PKI
6 2 (3.13%) Client/Server
6 2 (3.13%) Genomics
6 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.13%) Life Science
6 2 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.19%) Linux
2 6 (9.38%) Windows
2 6 (9.38%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.25%) Unix
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (84.38%) CI/CD
2 35 (54.69%) Containerisation
3 31 (48.44%) DevOps
4 26 (40.63%) AI
5 22 (34.38%) Agile
5 22 (34.38%) Test Automation
6 21 (32.81%) Microservices
7 20 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (31.25%) Software Engineering
8 16 (25.00%) Observability
9 14 (21.88%) Machine Learning
10 11 (17.19%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (15.63%) LLM
11 10 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (14.06%) Analytics
12 9 (14.06%) Event-Driven
12 9 (14.06%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 9 (14.06%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 36 (56.25%) Python
2 30 (46.88%) Java
3 15 (23.44%) SQL
4 10 (15.63%) JavaScript
5 9 (14.06%) TypeScript
6 8 (12.50%) PowerShell
7 7 (10.94%) C#
8 6 (9.38%) Bash
9 4 (6.25%) Bicep
10 1 (1.56%) CodeQL
10 1 (1.56%) Korn
10 1 (1.56%) Scala
10 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 10 (15.63%) Degree
4 4 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.56%) CISA
7 1 (1.56%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.56%) GSEC
7 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.63%) QA
2 4 (6.25%) GDPR
3 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.13%) EMIR
4 2 (3.13%) MiFID
5 1 (1.56%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.56%) PSD2
5 1 (1.56%) SEPA
5 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 4 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.69%) BitLocker
2 3 (4.69%) Hyper-V
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (4.69%) Terminal Services
2 3 (4.69%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (78.13%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.50%) Ansible
3 7 (10.94%) Grafana
4 6 (9.38%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.25%) Puppet
6 3 (4.69%) Nagios
6 3 (4.69%) vCenter Server
6 3 (4.69%) vMotion
7 1 (1.56%) Bosun
7 1 (1.56%) Istio
7 1 (1.56%) Salt
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.19%) Google
3 5 (7.81%) Databricks
4 4 (6.25%) Dynatrace
4 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.25%) VMware
5 3 (4.69%) Citrix
5 3 (4.69%) Foundry
5 3 (4.69%) HP
5 3 (4.69%) IBM
5 3 (4.69%) OpenAI
5 3 (4.69%) Symantec
6 2 (3.13%) New Relic
6 2 (3.13%) Oracle
7 1 (1.56%) Cisco
7 1 (1.56%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.56%) FIS
7 1 (1.56%) Metaswitch
7 1 (1.56%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.56%) SAP