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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 62 39
Rank change year-on-year -10 -23 -9
Contract jobs citing Docker 74 58 106
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.30% 3.32% 5.02%
As % of the System Software category 41.11% 40.28% 42.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 47 66
10th Percentile £435 £431 £481
25th Percentile £475 £498 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +1.67% -5.88%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £725
90th Percentile £707 £693 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - -5.88%

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 180 144 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.03% 8.23% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 100 171
10th Percentile £235 £282 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £559 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% -0.22% -1.02%
75th Percentile £632 £668 £681
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £12.78 £22.48 -
25th Percentile £16.94 £23.19 £77.50
Median hourly rate £21.75 £25.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% -70.29% +134.48%
75th Percentile £25.75 £28.19 £92.50
90th Percentile £28.90 £29.43 -
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £26.45 £85.00
% change year-on-year -9.26% -68.88% +134.48%

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 20 September 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 (6.76%) Confluence
2 4 (5.41%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.35%) Apache
5 1 (1.35%) Camunda
5 1 (1.35%) MQSeries
5 1 (1.35%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Magento
1 1 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 44 (59.46%) AWS
2 34 (45.95%) Azure
3 27 (36.49%) GitHub
4 22 (29.73%) GCP
5 13 (17.57%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (12.16%) Serverless
7 8 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (8.11%) Amazon S3
8 6 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (8.11%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (8.11%) OpenShift
9 5 (6.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (6.76%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (5.41%) Azure AI
10 4 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (5.41%) IaaS
10 4 (5.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.11%) Firewall
2 5 (6.76%) DNS
3 3 (4.05%) DHCP
3 3 (4.05%) SMTP
3 3 (4.05%) VPN
4 1 (1.35%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (1.35%) BGP
4 1 (1.35%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.35%) Network Security
4 1 (1.35%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.35%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.35%) RTCP
4 1 (1.35%) RTP
4 1 (1.35%) TACACS
4 1 (1.35%) VoIP
4 1 (1.35%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.57%) NoSQL
2 11 (14.86%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (9.46%) MongoDB
4 6 (8.11%) DynamoDB
4 6 (8.11%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.76%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (6.76%) Big Data
5 5 (6.76%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (4.05%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (4.05%) Delta Lake
7 3 (4.05%) Pinecone
7 3 (4.05%) Redis
7 3 (4.05%) Weaviate
8 2 (2.70%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.70%) Milvus
8 2 (2.70%) MySQL
9 1 (1.35%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 23 (31.08%) Git
2 17 (22.97%) Jenkins
3 12 (16.22%) GitLab
4 9 (12.16%) JIRA
5 8 (10.81%) JUnit
6 7 (9.46%) Gradle
6 7 (9.46%) Maven
6 7 (9.46%) Mockito
7 4 (5.41%) Cucumber
7 4 (5.41%) Postman
7 4 (5.41%) Selenium
8 2 (2.70%) Claude Code
8 2 (2.70%) Liquibase
8 2 (2.70%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.70%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.70%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.35%) Appium
9 1 (1.35%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.35%) Gatling
9 1 (1.35%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 29 (39.19%) Finance
2 16 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.22%) Banking
4 7 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.41%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Military
7 2 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Front Office
8 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Law
8 1 (1.35%) Legal
8 1 (1.35%) Marketing
8 1 (1.35%) Police
8 1 (1.35%) Retail
8 1 (1.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (31.08%) Senior
2 18 (24.32%) Developer
3 9 (12.16%) Java Developer
3 9 (12.16%) Senior Developer
4 7 (9.46%) Architect
4 7 (9.46%) Automation Engineer
4 7 (9.46%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Data Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Lead
5 5 (6.76%) Python Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Java Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (4.05%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.43%) Spring
1 24 (32.43%) Spring Boot
2 23 (31.08%) Terraform
3 22 (29.73%) Kafka
4 16 (21.62%) REST
5 12 (16.22%) RESTful
6 11 (14.86%) React
7 6 (8.11%) HTML
7 6 (8.11%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (8.11%) SOAP
8 5 (6.76%) AngularJS
8 5 (6.76%) FastAPI
9 4 (5.41%) LangChain
9 4 (5.41%) Middleware
9 4 (5.41%) PyTorch
9 4 (5.41%) TensorFlow
9 4 (5.41%) Web Services
10 3 (4.05%) AWS CDK
10 3 (4.05%) CrewAI
10 3 (4.05%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 26 (35.14%) Cloud Native
2 14 (18.92%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (12.16%) AI Agents
4 5 (6.76%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.76%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.41%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.05%) Clustering
6 3 (4.05%) PKI
7 2 (2.70%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.70%) Genomics
7 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.70%) Life Science
7 2 (2.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.35%) Equities
8 1 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.35%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.51%) Linux
2 5 (6.76%) Unix
2 5 (6.76%) Windows
2 5 (6.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (83.78%) CI/CD
2 45 (60.81%) Containerisation
3 35 (47.30%) DevOps
4 29 (39.19%) Microservices
5 27 (36.49%) AI
6 26 (35.14%) Agile
6 26 (35.14%) Test Automation
7 24 (32.43%) Software Engineering
8 22 (29.73%) Observability
9 21 (28.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (20.27%) Machine Learning
11 13 (17.57%) Event-Driven
12 12 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (14.86%) Analytics
13 11 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (13.51%) Data Engineering
14 10 (13.51%) LLM
14 10 (13.51%) Mentoring
15 9 (12.16%) Code Quality
15 9 (12.16%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 39 (52.70%) Python
2 37 (50.00%) Java
3 17 (22.97%) SQL
4 10 (13.51%) TypeScript
5 9 (12.16%) JavaScript
6 7 (9.46%) C#
6 7 (9.46%) PowerShell
7 5 (6.76%) Bash
8 4 (5.41%) Bicep
9 1 (1.35%) Korn
9 1 (1.35%) PHP
9 1 (1.35%) Scala
9 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.51%) Degree
4 4 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.05%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.35%) CISA
7 1 (1.35%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.35%) GSEC
7 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.35%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.92%) QA
2 4 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.41%) GDPR
3 2 (2.70%) EMIR
3 2 (2.70%) MiFID
4 1 (1.35%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.35%) PSD2
4 1 (1.35%) SEPA
4 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.05%) BitLocker
3 3 (4.05%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.05%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (4.05%) Terminal Services
3 3 (4.05%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.35%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (1.35%) Varnish
4 1 (1.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (75.68%) Kubernetes
2 10 (13.51%) Grafana
3 9 (12.16%) Prometheus
4 8 (10.81%) Ansible
5 4 (5.41%) Puppet
6 3 (4.05%) Nagios
6 3 (4.05%) vCenter Server
6 3 (4.05%) vMotion
7 1 (1.35%) Bosun
7 1 (1.35%) Istio
7 1 (1.35%) Salt
7 1 (1.35%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.22%) Google
3 6 (8.11%) Databricks
4 5 (6.76%) IBM
5 4 (5.41%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.41%) VMware
6 3 (4.05%) Citrix
6 3 (4.05%) Foundry
6 3 (4.05%) HP
6 3 (4.05%) OpenAI
6 3 (4.05%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.05%) Symantec
7 2 (2.70%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.70%) New Relic
7 2 (2.70%) Oracle
8 1 (1.35%) Adobe
8 1 (1.35%) Calypso
8 1 (1.35%) FIS
8 1 (1.35%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.35%) SAP