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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 41 54
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 +1
Contract jobs citing Docker 80 89 87
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.37% 4.53% 3.56%
As % of the System Software category 48.78% 42.58% 32.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 55 70
10th Percentile £356 £488 £406
25th Percentile £501 £523 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £531
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +12.94% -18.27%
75th Percentile £647 £651 £688
90th Percentile £788 £730 £803
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -19.23%

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 164 209 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.97% 10.64% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 129 199
10th Percentile £282 £323 £300
25th Percentile £409 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £650
90th Percentile £697 £726 £752
Central London median daily rate £550 £566 £500
% change year-on-year -2.87% +13.25% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £84.40 -
25th Percentile £20.82 £94.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.12% +397.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile £23.71 - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £98.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -74.14% +337.78% +9.76%

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 4 January 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 2 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 45 (56.25%) AWS
2 30 (37.50%) Azure
3 27 (33.75%) GitHub
4 24 (30.00%) GCP
5 17 (21.25%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (16.25%) Amazon S3
7 12 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (13.75%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (11.25%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (10.00%) Serverless
11 7 (8.75%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (7.50%) Apigee
12 6 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (7.50%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (7.50%) Cloud Run
12 6 (7.50%) Google Gemini
12 6 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) DNS
2 4 (5.00%) Firewall
3 2 (2.50%) SAN
3 2 (2.50%) SSL
3 2 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.50%) VPN
4 1 (1.25%) 3GPP
4 1 (1.25%) 4G
4 1 (1.25%) BGP
4 1 (1.25%) DHCP
4 1 (1.25%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.25%) IPsec
4 1 (1.25%) MPLS
4 1 (1.25%) NAS
4 1 (1.25%) OSPF
4 1 (1.25%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.25%) SNMP
4 1 (1.25%) SSH
4 1 (1.25%) VLAN
4 1 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 10 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.75%) MySQL
4 6 (7.50%) DynamoDB
5 5 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.25%) Redis
6 4 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.75%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.50%) Hazelcast
8 2 (2.50%) Tableau
9 1 (1.25%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.25%) Big Data
9 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.25%) KDB
9 1 (1.25%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 18 (22.50%) Git
1 18 (22.50%) Jenkins
2 13 (16.25%) GitLab
3 8 (10.00%) SonarQube
4 6 (7.50%) Gradle
5 5 (6.25%) Maven
6 4 (5.00%) Selenium
7 3 (3.75%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.75%) Gatling
7 3 (3.75%) JUnit
7 3 (3.75%) Snyk
7 3 (3.75%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.50%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.50%) JIRA
8 2 (2.50%) Mockito
8 2 (2.50%) Postman
8 2 (2.50%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.50%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.25%) jMock
General
1 23 (28.75%) Finance
2 20 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (17.50%) Banking
4 4 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.75%) Front Office
5 3 (3.75%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Retail
7 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (30.00%) Developer
2 20 (25.00%) Senior
3 13 (16.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Java Developer
4 7 (8.75%) Python Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Senior Developer
5 6 (7.50%) Architect
5 6 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Lead
7 4 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Backend Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Python Developer
9 2 (2.50%) Apigee Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) AWS Architect
9 2 (2.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Senior Backend Developer
9 2 (2.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.75%) REST
1 11 (13.75%) RESTful
2 10 (12.50%) React
3 9 (11.25%) Node.js
3 9 (11.25%) Spring
4 8 (10.00%) OAuth
5 7 (8.75%) .NET
5 7 (8.75%) CSS
5 7 (8.75%) GraphQL
5 7 (8.75%) HTML
5 7 (8.75%) Kafka
5 7 (8.75%) Spring Boot
6 6 (7.50%) JSON
6 6 (7.50%) JWT
7 4 (5.00%) FastAPI
7 4 (5.00%) OAuth2
7 4 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (3.75%) HTML5
8 3 (3.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.50%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.75%) Virtual Team
4 6 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.00%) AI Agents
5 4 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.75%) Life Science
6 3 (3.75%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.50%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.50%) Replication
8 1 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.25%) Genomics
8 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.25%) Linux
2 2 (2.50%) Windows
3 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.25%) Unix
3 1 (1.25%) VMS
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (65.00%) CI/CD
2 46 (57.50%) Containerisation
3 43 (53.75%) DevOps
4 24 (30.00%) Microservices
5 23 (28.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (26.25%) Test Automation
7 17 (21.25%) Agile
7 17 (21.25%) AI
7 17 (21.25%) Software Engineering
8 16 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (18.75%) Design Patterns
10 14 (17.50%) Code Quality
11 13 (16.25%) Observability
12 12 (15.00%) API Development
13 11 (13.75%) Machine Learning
14 9 (11.25%) Generative AI
15 8 (10.00%) Analytics
15 8 (10.00%) Event-Driven
15 8 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
15 8 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 42 (52.50%) Python
2 28 (35.00%) Java
3 18 (22.50%) SQL
4 9 (11.25%) JavaScript
4 9 (11.25%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.75%) Bash
7 2 (2.50%) C#
7 2 (2.50%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.50%) PHP
7 2 (2.50%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.50%) Rust
8 1 (1.25%) Bicep
8 1 (1.25%) C
8 1 (1.25%) C++
8 1 (1.25%) Go
8 1 (1.25%) ProC
8 1 (1.25%) Ruby
8 1 (1.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) SC Cleared
1 19 (23.75%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.75%) MCP
3 2 (2.50%) CISSP
3 2 (2.50%) Degree
4 1 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.25%) CCSP
4 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.25%) OSCP
4 1 (1.25%) SANS
4 1 (1.25%) VCAP
4 1 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) GDPR
1 5 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (6.25%) QA
2 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.50%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.50%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.50%) NIST
2 2 (2.50%) PSD2
2 2 (2.50%) SEPA
2 2 (2.50%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.25%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.25%) GRC
3 1 (1.25%) MiFID
3 1 (1.25%) NCSC
3 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.25%) Firmware
1 1 (1.25%) HDFS
1 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.25%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (61.25%) Kubernetes
2 29 (36.25%) Terraform
3 19 (23.75%) Ansible
4 7 (8.75%) Argo
4 7 (8.75%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.50%) Grafana
6 5 (6.25%) Istio
7 4 (5.00%) Kibana
8 2 (2.50%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (2.50%) Karpenter
8 2 (2.50%) logstash
8 2 (2.50%) Puppet
9 1 (1.25%) Podman
9 1 (1.25%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (21.25%) Google
2 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.00%) Oracle
4 4 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.00%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.75%) CheckPoint
5 3 (3.75%) Confluent
5 3 (3.75%) Splunk
6 2 (2.50%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.50%) Cloudera
6 2 (2.50%) Databricks
6 2 (2.50%) F5
6 2 (2.50%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.50%) Solace
7 1 (1.25%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.25%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.25%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow