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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 42 62
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 -16
Contract jobs citing Docker 86 77 68
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.06% 4.42% 2.92%
As % of the System Software category 53.42% 36.84% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 54 44
10th Percentile £341 £413 £425
25th Percentile £459 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% +5.75% -16.35%
75th Percentile £632 £638 £625
90th Percentile £788 £712 £718
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £538
% change year-on-year +1.77% +5.12% -17.31%
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 161 209 253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.59% 12.00% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 138 189
10th Percentile £245 £233 £240
25th Percentile £375 £404 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £546 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +12.05% -13.14%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £625
90th Percentile £680 £729 £725
Central London median daily rate £525 £530 £475
% change year-on-year -0.94% +11.58% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £24.32 - -
25th Percentile £29.57 £162.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.02 £175.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.13% +337.50% +136.20%
75th Percentile £50.72 £187.50 -
90th Percentile £56.12 - £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.71% -33.88% +81.82%

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 26 March 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 3 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.49%) Confluence
2 2 (2.33%) Camunda
2 2 (2.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.16%) Apache
3 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 54 (62.79%) AWS
2 33 (38.37%) Azure
3 29 (33.72%) GitHub
4 20 (23.26%) GCP
5 16 (18.60%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (17.44%) Amazon S3
7 13 (15.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (15.12%) Serverless
8 12 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (12.79%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (10.47%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (8.14%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (8.14%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (5.81%) Amazon ECR
14 5 (5.81%) Apigee
14 5 (5.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (5.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (4.65%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) DNS
1 2 (2.33%) SAN
2 1 (1.16%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.16%) Multicast
2 1 (1.16%) NAS
2 1 (1.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.77%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (17.44%) Relational Database
3 9 (10.47%) DynamoDB
3 9 (10.47%) NoSQL
4 8 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (9.30%) SQL Server
5 7 (8.14%) MongoDB
5 7 (8.14%) MySQL
6 5 (5.81%) Redis
7 4 (4.65%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (4.65%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (4.65%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.33%) Big Data
9 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.33%) Hazelcast
9 2 (2.33%) Metadata
10 1 (1.16%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.16%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (24.42%) Git
2 18 (20.93%) Jenkins
3 14 (16.28%) GitLab
4 7 (8.14%) JUnit
5 6 (6.98%) JIRA
5 6 (6.98%) Mockito
6 5 (5.81%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.65%) Maven
7 4 (4.65%) Postman
8 2 (2.33%) Ant
8 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.33%) Gatling
8 2 (2.33%) Gradle
8 2 (2.33%) Liquibase
8 2 (2.33%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.33%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.16%) jMock
9 1 (1.16%) MSTest
9 1 (1.16%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (30.23%) Finance
2 20 (23.26%) Social Skills
3 17 (19.77%) Banking
4 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.49%) Front Office
6 3 (3.49%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Legal
8 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Retail
8 1 (1.16%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (29.07%) Developer
2 24 (27.91%) Senior
3 15 (17.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (11.63%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.47%) Python Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.98%) Architect
7 6 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Lead
8 5 (5.81%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.65%) Java Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.33%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (23.26%) Spring
2 17 (19.77%) Kafka
3 16 (18.60%) Spring Boot
4 14 (16.28%) REST
5 13 (15.12%) React
6 11 (12.79%) RESTful
7 8 (9.30%) .NET
7 8 (9.30%) Node.js
8 7 (8.14%) OAuth
9 6 (6.98%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (6.98%) SOAP
10 5 (5.81%) Django
10 5 (5.81%) JSON
10 5 (5.81%) WireMock
11 4 (4.65%) AngularJS
11 4 (4.65%) CSS
11 4 (4.65%) GraphQL
11 4 (4.65%) HTML
11 4 (4.65%) JWT
11 4 (4.65%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.26%) Cloud Native
2 13 (15.12%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.14%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (8.14%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.49%) Life Science
5 2 (2.33%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.33%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.33%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.33%) Replication
5 2 (2.33%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.16%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.16%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.16%) Genomics
6 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.47%) Linux
2 3 (3.49%) Unix
3 2 (2.33%) VMS
4 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (73.26%) CI/CD
2 49 (56.98%) Containerisation
3 43 (50.00%) DevOps
4 32 (37.21%) Microservices
5 25 (29.07%) Test Automation
6 23 (26.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (24.42%) Observability
8 20 (23.26%) Agile
9 19 (22.09%) Software Engineering
10 15 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (16.28%) AI
12 13 (15.12%) Code Quality
13 12 (13.95%) API Development
13 12 (13.95%) Event-Driven
14 11 (12.79%) Machine Learning
15 10 (11.63%) Analytics
15 10 (11.63%) Design Patterns
16 9 (10.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 9 (10.47%) Full-Stack Development
16 9 (10.47%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 41 (47.67%) Python
2 30 (34.88%) Java
3 20 (23.26%) SQL
4 9 (10.47%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.14%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.98%) C#
7 4 (4.65%) Bash
8 2 (2.33%) PHP
8 2 (2.33%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.16%) Bicep
9 1 (1.16%) C
9 1 (1.16%) C++
9 1 (1.16%) Go
9 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.16%) ProC
9 1 (1.16%) Ruby
9 1 (1.16%) Rust
9 1 (1.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (24.42%) SC Cleared
1 21 (24.42%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.49%) Degree
3 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.33%) CISSP
3 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.16%) CCSP
4 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.16%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
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 6 (6.98%) QA
2 2 (2.33%) GDPR
2 2 (2.33%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.33%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.33%) PSD2
2 2 (2.33%) SEPA
3 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.16%) GRC
3 1 (1.16%) MiFID
3 1 (1.16%) NCSC
3 1 (1.16%) NIST
3 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.16%) Firmware
1 1 (1.16%) GridGain
1 1 (1.16%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.16%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (68.60%) Kubernetes
2 25 (29.07%) Terraform
3 15 (17.44%) Ansible
4 9 (10.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (9.30%) Grafana
6 4 (4.65%) Argo
6 4 (4.65%) Istio
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%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.63%) Google
3 8 (9.30%) Oracle
4 5 (5.81%) IBM
5 4 (4.65%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.49%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.33%) Confluent
7 2 (2.33%) Databricks
7 2 (2.33%) Foundry
7 2 (2.33%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.33%) Splunk
7 2 (2.33%) Sybase
8 1 (1.16%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.16%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.16%) OutSystems
8 1 (1.16%) Pega
8 1 (1.16%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.16%) Solace