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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 42 64
Rank change year-on-year -12 +22 -4
Contract jobs citing Docker 78 83 71
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.97% 4.60% 3.00%
As % of the System Software category 49.68% 38.25% 27.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 54 49
10th Percentile £351 £429 £424
25th Percentile £459 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -19.23%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £619
90th Percentile £788 £712 £745
Central London median daily rate £563 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -2.17% +9.52% -19.23%
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 157 217 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.99% 12.03% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 138 186
10th Percentile £253 £263 £245
25th Percentile £400 £421 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £559 £489
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +14.27% -11.14%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £683 £739 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £24.32 - -
25th Percentile £29.57 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.02 £112.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.27% +180.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £50.72 £149.75 -
90th Percentile £56.12 £172.40 £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -77.26% +180.00% +88.24%

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 24 February 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 4 (5.13%) Confluence
2 2 (2.56%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.28%) Camunda
3 1 (1.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 48 (61.54%) AWS
2 27 (34.62%) Azure
3 26 (33.33%) GitHub
4 19 (24.36%) GCP
5 16 (20.51%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (15.38%) Amazon S3
7 11 (14.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (11.54%) Serverless
10 7 (8.97%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (8.97%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (8.97%) AWS Fargate
11 6 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (6.41%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (6.41%) Apigee
12 5 (6.41%) Cloud Run
12 5 (6.41%) Google Gemini
12 5 (6.41%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) DNS
2 2 (2.56%) SAN
3 1 (1.28%) 3GPP
3 1 (1.28%) 4G
3 1 (1.28%) 5G
3 1 (1.28%) BGP
3 1 (1.28%) DHCP
3 1 (1.28%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.28%) Firewall
3 1 (1.28%) IPsec
3 1 (1.28%) MPLS
3 1 (1.28%) NAS
3 1 (1.28%) Network Security
3 1 (1.28%) OSPF
3 1 (1.28%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.28%) SNMP
3 1 (1.28%) VLAN
3 1 (1.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.95%) Relational Database
2 13 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.26%) MySQL
4 7 (8.97%) DynamoDB
5 6 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 5 (6.41%) MongoDB
6 5 (6.41%) Redis
6 5 (6.41%) SQL Server
7 4 (5.13%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.56%) Hazelcast
10 1 (1.28%) Kdb+
10 1 (1.28%) Metadata
10 1 (1.28%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (1.28%) Pinecone
10 1 (1.28%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 18 (23.08%) Git
2 17 (21.79%) Jenkins
3 11 (14.10%) GitLab
4 5 (6.41%) JIRA
4 5 (6.41%) JUnit
5 4 (5.13%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.85%) Ant
6 3 (3.85%) Gatling
6 3 (3.85%) Mockito
6 3 (3.85%) Postman
7 2 (2.56%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.56%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.56%) Gradle
7 2 (2.56%) Liquibase
7 2 (2.56%) Maven
7 2 (2.56%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.56%) Snyk
7 2 (2.56%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.56%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.56%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (28.21%) Finance
2 17 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 14 (17.95%) Banking
4 4 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.85%) Front Office
5 3 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.56%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.56%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.56%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (29.49%) Developer
2 21 (26.92%) Senior
3 16 (20.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (10.26%) Java Developer
4 8 (10.26%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.97%) Architect
5 7 (8.97%) Python Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.13%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Backend Developer
8 3 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Lead
8 3 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.95%) React
1 14 (17.95%) Spring
2 13 (16.67%) RESTful
3 12 (15.38%) REST
4 10 (12.82%) Spring Boot
5 9 (11.54%) .NET
5 9 (11.54%) Kafka
5 9 (11.54%) Node.js
6 8 (10.26%) OAuth
7 7 (8.97%) GraphQL
8 6 (7.69%) CSS
8 6 (7.69%) HTML
8 6 (7.69%) JWT
9 5 (6.41%) JSON
10 4 (5.13%) OAuth2
10 4 (5.13%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (5.13%) Playwright
10 4 (5.13%) SOAP
10 4 (5.13%) WireMock
11 3 (3.85%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.51%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.97%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (7.69%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.85%) Life Science
5 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.85%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.56%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.56%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.56%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.56%) Replication
7 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.28%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.54%) Linux
2 2 (2.56%) VMS
3 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.28%) Unix
3 1 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (73.08%) CI/CD
2 44 (56.41%) Containerisation
3 38 (48.72%) DevOps
4 28 (35.90%) Microservices
5 24 (30.77%) Test Automation
6 21 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (24.36%) Agile
7 19 (24.36%) Software Engineering
8 16 (20.51%) Observability
9 15 (19.23%) Code Quality
9 15 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (17.95%) Design Patterns
11 13 (16.67%) AI
11 13 (16.67%) API Development
12 9 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (11.54%) Machine Learning
12 9 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
13 8 (10.26%) Analytics
13 8 (10.26%) Clean Code
13 8 (10.26%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 37 (47.44%) Python
2 28 (35.90%) Java
3 18 (23.08%) SQL
4 10 (12.82%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.26%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.13%) Bash
6 4 (5.13%) C#
7 2 (2.56%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.56%) PHP
7 2 (2.56%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.56%) Rust
8 1 (1.28%) C
8 1 (1.28%) C++
8 1 (1.28%) Go
8 1 (1.28%) ProC
8 1 (1.28%) Ruby
8 1 (1.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (26.92%) SC Cleared
1 21 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.56%) CISSP
3 2 (2.56%) Degree
4 1 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.28%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.28%) OSCP
4 1 (1.28%) SANS
4 1 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.28%) VCAP
4 1 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) GDPR
1 4 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (5.13%) QA
2 2 (2.56%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.56%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.56%) PSD2
2 2 (2.56%) SEPA
3 1 (1.28%) GRC
3 1 (1.28%) MiFID
3 1 (1.28%) NCSC
3 1 (1.28%) NIST
3 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.28%) Firmware
1 1 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.28%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (64.10%) Kubernetes
2 24 (30.77%) Terraform
3 16 (20.51%) Ansible
4 6 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 5 (6.41%) Grafana
6 4 (5.13%) Argo
7 3 (3.85%) Istio
7 3 (3.85%) Karpenter
8 2 (2.56%) Kibana
9 1 (1.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.28%) logstash
9 1 (1.28%) Podman
9 1 (1.28%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (14.10%) Google
2 10 (12.82%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.26%) Oracle
4 5 (6.41%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.85%) Databricks
5 3 (3.85%) IBM
5 3 (3.85%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.56%) Confluent
6 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.56%) Splunk
7 1 (1.28%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.28%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.28%) Dell
7 1 (1.28%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.28%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.28%) Solace
7 1 (1.28%) Sybase
7 1 (1.28%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.28%) VMware