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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 63 46
Rank change year-on-year +3 -17 -15
Contract jobs citing Docker 78 58 84
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.21% 3.32% 3.91%
As % of the System Software category 46.99% 36.25% 33.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 46 52
10th Percentile £425 £413 £429
25th Percentile £474 £477 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £725
90th Percentile £723 £697 £854
Central London median daily rate £560 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -7.69%
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 166 160 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.83% 9.15% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 113 185
10th Percentile £207 £229 £263
25th Percentile £410 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +3.33% -9.48%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £688
90th Percentile £665 £701 £772
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £21.20 £22.95 -
25th Percentile £24.13 £24.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -28.75% +10.34%
75th Percentile £45.36 £108.88 -
90th Percentile £53.98 £156.05 £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £26.45 £40.00
% change year-on-year +13.42% -33.88% +60.00%

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 27 June 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 (6.41%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (6.41%) Apache Spark
1 5 (6.41%) Confluence
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.56%) Apache
3 2 (2.56%) Camunda
3 2 (2.56%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.28%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.28%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Magento
1 1 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 44 (56.41%) AWS
2 28 (35.90%) Azure
3 26 (33.33%) GitHub
4 16 (20.51%) GCP
4 16 (20.51%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (17.95%) Serverless
6 12 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 12 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (12.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (7.69%) dbt
9 6 (7.69%) OpenShift
10 5 (6.41%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (6.41%) Azure AKS
10 5 (6.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (5.13%) Entra ID
11 4 (5.13%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (5.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) Firewall
2 3 (3.85%) DHCP
2 3 (3.85%) DNS
2 3 (3.85%) SMTP
2 3 (3.85%) VPN
3 2 (2.56%) Network Security
4 1 (1.28%) Multicast
4 1 (1.28%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.51%) NoSQL
2 14 (17.95%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (12.82%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (12.82%) DynamoDB
4 8 (10.26%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (8.97%) MongoDB
5 7 (8.97%) Relational Database
6 6 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (6.41%) Big Data
8 4 (5.13%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (5.13%) Redis
8 4 (5.13%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.85%) BigQuery
9 3 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.85%) Metadata
9 3 (3.85%) MySQL
9 3 (3.85%) Pinecone
9 3 (3.85%) Weaviate
10 2 (2.56%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 22 (28.21%) Git
2 19 (24.36%) Jenkins
3 14 (17.95%) GitLab
4 11 (14.10%) JIRA
4 11 (14.10%) JUnit
5 9 (11.54%) Mockito
6 5 (6.41%) Cucumber
6 5 (6.41%) Gradle
6 5 (6.41%) Maven
6 5 (6.41%) Postman
7 4 (5.13%) Liquibase
8 2 (2.56%) Ant
8 2 (2.56%) Selenium
8 2 (2.56%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.28%) Appium
9 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.28%) Gatling
9 1 (1.28%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.28%) TestNG
General
1 31 (39.74%) Finance
2 13 (16.67%) Banking
2 13 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.41%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.13%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.56%) Military
7 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Front Office
7 1 (1.28%) Law
7 1 (1.28%) Legal
7 1 (1.28%) Marketing
7 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.28%) Police
7 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (29.49%) Senior
2 18 (23.08%) Developer
3 9 (11.54%) Java Developer
4 8 (10.26%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (10.26%) Senior Developer
4 8 (10.26%) Software Engineer
5 7 (8.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Architect
6 6 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Python Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Lead
8 4 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (34.62%) Spring
2 25 (32.05%) Kafka
2 25 (32.05%) Spring Boot
3 15 (19.23%) React
4 13 (16.67%) REST
5 9 (11.54%) RESTful
6 6 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (7.69%) Playwright
6 6 (7.69%) SOAP
6 6 (7.69%) WireMock
7 5 (6.41%) Gherkin
7 5 (6.41%) GraphQL
7 5 (6.41%) HTML
7 5 (6.41%) YAML
8 4 (5.13%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.13%) Django
8 4 (5.13%) LangChain
8 4 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (3.85%) LangGraph
9 3 (3.85%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.36%) Cloud Native
2 12 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.41%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.13%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.85%) Clustering
5 3 (3.85%) PKI
6 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.56%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.28%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.28%) Genomics
7 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.28%) Life Science
7 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.26%) Linux
2 4 (5.13%) Unix
3 3 (3.85%) Windows
3 3 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.28%) VMS
4 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (79.49%) CI/CD
2 43 (55.13%) Containerisation
3 38 (48.72%) DevOps
4 30 (38.46%) Microservices
5 26 (33.33%) Agile
6 23 (29.49%) Observability
7 22 (28.21%) Test Automation
8 20 (25.64%) AI
9 19 (24.36%) Software Engineering
10 18 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (21.79%) Machine Learning
12 14 (17.95%) Event-Driven
13 13 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
14 11 (14.10%) Analytics
15 9 (11.54%) Data Engineering
15 9 (11.54%) MLOps
15 9 (11.54%) OOP
15 9 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
15 9 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (11.54%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 34 (43.59%) Python
2 31 (39.74%) Java
3 21 (26.92%) SQL
4 12 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 9 (11.54%) C#
6 7 (8.97%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.41%) Bash
8 4 (5.13%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.56%) Bicep
9 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.28%) Go
10 1 (1.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.26%) Degree
4 3 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.95%) QA
2 3 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.85%) GDPR
3 2 (2.56%) EMIR
3 2 (2.56%) MiFID
4 1 (1.28%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.28%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.28%) PSD2
4 1 (1.28%) SEPA
4 1 (1.28%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.41%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.85%) BitLocker
2 3 (3.85%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (3.85%) Terminal Services
2 3 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.28%) GridGain
3 1 (1.28%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (1.28%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 59 (75.64%) Kubernetes
2 19 (24.36%) Terraform
3 11 (14.10%) Prometheus
4 10 (12.82%) Grafana
5 8 (10.26%) Ansible
6 4 (5.13%) Puppet
7 3 (3.85%) Istio
7 3 (3.85%) Nagios
7 3 (3.85%) vCenter Server
7 3 (3.85%) vMotion
8 1 (1.28%) Argo
8 1 (1.28%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.28%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.28%) linkerd
8 1 (1.28%) Salt
8 1 (1.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.69%) Google
3 4 (5.13%) IBM
4 3 (3.85%) Citrix
4 3 (3.85%) Databricks
4 3 (3.85%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.85%) HP
4 3 (3.85%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.85%) Symantec
4 3 (3.85%) VMware
5 2 (2.56%) Foundry
5 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.56%) Sybase
6 1 (1.28%) Adobe
6 1 (1.28%) Informatica
6 1 (1.28%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle
6 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.28%) Solace
6 1 (1.28%) Splunk