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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 55 61
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -27
Contract jobs citing Docker 86 66 66
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.77% 3.75% 3.00%
As % of the System Software category 53.42% 35.29% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 49 44
10th Percentile £351 £411 £425
25th Percentile £469 £475 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £558
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +3.14% -14.23%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £659
90th Percentile £780 £699 £762
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £558
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.35% -14.23%
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 161 187 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.06% 10.63% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 132 177
10th Percentile £219 £263 £246
25th Percentile £413 £397 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +11.28% -15.22%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £700 £741
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £19.56 £36.05 -
25th Percentile £20.04 £57.13 £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £98.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.40% +146.25% -
75th Percentile £41.72 £146.13 -
90th Percentile £52.52 £170.95 £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £24.48 £40.00
% change year-on-year +4.07% -38.81% +70.21%

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 29 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 5 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.33%) Apache
3 2 (2.33%) Camunda
3 2 (2.33%) Confluence
3 2 (2.33%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.16%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Magento
1 1 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 50 (58.14%) AWS
2 35 (40.70%) Azure
3 30 (34.88%) GitHub
4 24 (27.91%) GCP
5 16 (18.60%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (15.12%) Amazon S3
7 12 (13.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (13.95%) Serverless
8 11 (12.79%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (5.81%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (5.81%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (5.81%) Azure AKS
11 5 (5.81%) dbt
11 5 (5.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) Network Security
1 2 (2.33%) SAN
2 1 (1.16%) DNS
2 1 (1.16%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.16%) Firewall
2 1 (1.16%) Multicast
2 1 (1.16%) NAS
2 1 (1.16%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (16.28%) NoSQL
3 12 (13.95%) Relational Database
4 9 (10.47%) DynamoDB
4 9 (10.47%) MongoDB
5 7 (8.14%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (8.14%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.98%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (6.98%) MySQL
6 6 (6.98%) Redis
7 5 (5.81%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (5.81%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.33%) Big Data
9 2 (2.33%) Hazelcast
9 2 (2.33%) Metadata
10 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 24 (27.91%) Git
2 19 (22.09%) Jenkins
3 14 (16.28%) GitLab
4 8 (9.30%) JUnit
5 7 (8.14%) Mockito
6 6 (6.98%) JIRA
7 5 (5.81%) Gradle
7 5 (5.81%) Maven
8 4 (4.65%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.65%) Liquibase
9 3 (3.49%) Postman
10 2 (2.33%) Ant
10 2 (2.33%) Gatling
11 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.16%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (1.16%) PHPUnit
11 1 (1.16%) PowerBuilder
11 1 (1.16%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (30.23%) Finance
2 16 (18.60%) Social Skills
3 14 (16.28%) Banking
4 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.49%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.33%) Front Office
7 1 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.16%) Law
7 1 (1.16%) Legal
7 1 (1.16%) Marketing
7 1 (1.16%) Military
7 1 (1.16%) Police
7 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Retail
7 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (32.56%) Developer
2 22 (25.58%) Senior
3 12 (13.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (12.79%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.47%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.98%) Architect
6 6 (6.98%) Software Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Lead
7 5 (5.81%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Python Developer
7 5 (5.81%) Python Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.65%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.65%) Java Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (31.40%) Spring
2 23 (26.74%) Kafka
2 23 (26.74%) Spring Boot
3 16 (18.60%) React
4 14 (16.28%) REST
5 10 (11.63%) RESTful
6 8 (9.30%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (6.98%) .NET
7 6 (6.98%) Node.js
8 5 (5.81%) Django
8 5 (5.81%) GraphQL
8 5 (5.81%) OAuth
8 5 (5.81%) SOAP
8 5 (5.81%) WireMock
9 4 (4.65%) AngularJS
9 4 (4.65%) HTML
9 4 (4.65%) JSON
9 4 (4.65%) Playwright
10 3 (3.49%) CSS
10 3 (3.49%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 13 (15.12%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.65%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.49%) Life Science
4 3 (3.49%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.16%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.16%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.16%) Genomics
5 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.16%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.16%) NHS
5 1 (1.16%) Replication
5 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.30%) Linux
2 2 (2.33%) Unix
2 2 (2.33%) VMS
3 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (76.74%) CI/CD
2 51 (59.30%) Containerisation
3 47 (54.65%) DevOps
4 35 (40.70%) Microservices
5 27 (31.40%) Observability
6 24 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (25.58%) Agile
7 22 (25.58%) Test Automation
8 20 (23.26%) Software Engineering
9 18 (20.93%) AI
10 15 (17.44%) Event-Driven
11 14 (16.28%) Machine Learning
12 12 (13.95%) Analytics
12 12 (13.95%) Code Quality
13 11 (12.79%) Full-Stack Development
14 10 (11.63%) API Development
14 10 (11.63%) Performance Tuning
15 9 (10.47%) Data Engineering
15 9 (10.47%) Data Pipeline
15 9 (10.47%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 39 (45.35%) Python
2 35 (40.70%) Java
3 24 (27.91%) SQL
4 10 (11.63%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.98%) C#
5 6 (6.98%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.81%) Bash
7 2 (2.33%) Bicep
7 2 (2.33%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.16%) C
8 1 (1.16%) Go
8 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.16%) PHP
8 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.16%) ProC
8 1 (1.16%) Ruby
8 1 (1.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 21 (24.42%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.33%) Degree
4 1 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.16%) CCSP
4 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.16%) CISSP
4 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.16%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.16%) OSCP
4 1 (1.16%) SANS
4 1 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.16%) VCAP
4 1 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.47%) QA
2 4 (4.65%) GDPR
3 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.33%) EMIR
3 2 (2.33%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.33%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.33%) MiFID
3 2 (2.33%) PSD2
3 2 (2.33%) SEPA
4 1 (1.16%) GRC
4 1 (1.16%) NCSC
4 1 (1.16%) NIST
4 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.16%) Firmware
2 1 (1.16%) GridGain
2 1 (1.16%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (1.16%) Varnish
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.16%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (72.09%) Kubernetes
2 24 (27.91%) Terraform
3 13 (15.12%) Prometheus
4 11 (12.79%) Ansible
4 11 (12.79%) Grafana
5 5 (5.81%) Istio
6 4 (4.65%) Argo
7 3 (3.49%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.16%) Kibana
8 1 (1.16%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.16%) linkerd
8 1 (1.16%) Podman
8 1 (1.16%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.16%) Puppet
8 1 (1.16%) Salt
8 1 (1.16%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.63%) Google
3 7 (8.14%) Oracle
4 5 (5.81%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.81%) IBM
5 3 (3.49%) Databricks
5 3 (3.49%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.49%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.33%) Confluent
6 2 (2.33%) Foundry
6 2 (2.33%) Splunk
6 2 (2.33%) Sybase
7 1 (1.16%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.16%) Informatica
7 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.16%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.16%) Pega
7 1 (1.16%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.16%) Solace