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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 46 62
Rank change year-on-year -10 +16 -11
Contract jobs citing Docker 82 77 67
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.98% 4.28% 2.86%
As % of the System Software category 51.57% 36.32% 27.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 54 44
10th Percentile £343 £413 £421
25th Percentile £459 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.24% -18.27%
75th Percentile £627 £638 £619
90th Percentile £788 £712 £718
Central London median daily rate £569 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -0.22% +8.57% -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 159 212 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.71% 11.78% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 138 183
10th Percentile £246 £233 £242
25th Percentile £381 £404 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £543 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% +11.28% -11.36%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £635
90th Percentile £679 £725 £729
Central London median daily rate £525 £528 £475
% change year-on-year -0.47% +11.05% -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% +119.57%
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% +92.77%

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 16 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 4 (4.88%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.44%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.22%) Apache
4 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.22%) Camunda
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 51 (62.20%) AWS
2 29 (35.37%) Azure
3 27 (32.93%) GitHub
4 18 (21.95%) GCP
5 15 (18.29%) Amazon S3
5 15 (18.29%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (15.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (15.85%) Serverless
7 12 (14.63%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (12.20%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (10.98%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (8.54%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (8.54%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (6.10%) Amazon ECR
13 5 (6.10%) Apigee
13 5 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (4.88%) Datadog
14 4 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) DNS
1 2 (2.44%) SAN
2 1 (1.22%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.22%) NAS
2 1 (1.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.51%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (18.29%) Relational Database
3 8 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (9.76%) DynamoDB
3 8 (9.76%) MySQL
3 8 (9.76%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.54%) MongoDB
4 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
5 5 (6.10%) Redis
6 4 (4.88%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (4.88%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.66%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.66%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.44%) Big Data
8 2 (2.44%) Hazelcast
8 2 (2.44%) Metadata
9 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.22%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.22%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 20 (24.39%) Git
1 20 (24.39%) Jenkins
2 16 (19.51%) GitLab
3 8 (9.76%) JUnit
4 7 (8.54%) JIRA
5 6 (7.32%) Cucumber
5 6 (7.32%) Mockito
6 5 (6.10%) Postman
7 3 (3.66%) Gatling
8 2 (2.44%) Ant
8 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.44%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.44%) Gradle
8 2 (2.44%) Liquibase
8 2 (2.44%) Maven
8 2 (2.44%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.44%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.44%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.44%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 24 (29.27%) Finance
2 16 (19.51%) Banking
2 16 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.66%) Front Office
4 3 (3.66%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (3.66%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.44%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (29.27%) Senior
2 22 (26.83%) Developer
3 16 (19.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (9.76%) Python Engineer
4 8 (9.76%) Senior Developer
5 6 (7.32%) Java Developer
5 6 (7.32%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) Architect
6 5 (6.10%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Java Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Lead
8 3 (3.66%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (3.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.51%) Spring
2 14 (17.07%) Kafka
3 13 (15.85%) React
4 12 (14.63%) REST
4 12 (14.63%) Spring Boot
5 11 (13.41%) RESTful
6 9 (10.98%) .NET
7 8 (9.76%) Node.js
8 7 (8.54%) OAuth
9 6 (7.32%) SOAP
9 6 (7.32%) WireMock
10 5 (6.10%) JSON
10 5 (6.10%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (4.88%) AngularJS
11 4 (4.88%) CSS
11 4 (4.88%) GraphQL
11 4 (4.88%) HTML
11 4 (4.88%) JWT
11 4 (4.88%) Playwright
12 3 (3.66%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.73%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.98%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.54%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (8.54%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.66%) Life Science
4 3 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.44%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.44%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.44%) Replication
5 2 (2.44%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.22%) Derivative
6 1 (1.22%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.22%) Equities
6 1 (1.22%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.22%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.98%) Linux
2 2 (2.44%) VMS
3 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.22%) Unix
3 1 (1.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (74.39%) CI/CD
2 45 (54.88%) Containerisation
3 41 (50.00%) DevOps
4 28 (34.15%) Microservices
5 27 (32.93%) Test Automation
6 22 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (24.39%) Software Engineering
8 19 (23.17%) Agile
8 19 (23.17%) Observability
9 14 (17.07%) Code Quality
9 14 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (15.85%) AI
10 13 (15.85%) API Development
11 12 (14.63%) Design Patterns
12 11 (13.41%) Machine Learning
13 10 (12.20%) Analytics
14 9 (10.98%) Full-Stack Development
14 9 (10.98%) Performance Tuning
15 8 (9.76%) Clean Code
15 8 (9.76%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 41 (50.00%) Python
2 28 (34.15%) Java
3 19 (23.17%) SQL
4 9 (10.98%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.54%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.32%) C#
7 4 (4.88%) Bash
8 2 (2.44%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.44%) PHP
8 2 (2.44%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.44%) Rust
9 1 (1.22%) Bicep
9 1 (1.22%) C
9 1 (1.22%) C++
9 1 (1.22%) Go
9 1 (1.22%) ProC
9 1 (1.22%) Ruby
9 1 (1.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (25.61%) SC Cleared
1 21 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.44%) CISSP
2 2 (2.44%) Degree
3 1 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.22%) CCSP
3 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.22%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.22%) OSCP
3 1 (1.22%) SANS
3 1 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (1.22%) VCAP
3 1 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) QA
2 2 (2.44%) GDPR
2 2 (2.44%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.44%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.44%) PSD2
2 2 (2.44%) SEPA
3 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.22%) GRC
3 1 (1.22%) MiFID
3 1 (1.22%) NCSC
3 1 (1.22%) NIST
3 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.22%) Firmware
1 1 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.22%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (68.29%) Kubernetes
2 25 (30.49%) Terraform
3 16 (19.51%) Ansible
4 8 (9.76%) Prometheus
5 7 (8.54%) Grafana
6 4 (4.88%) Argo
6 4 (4.88%) Istio
7 3 (3.66%) Karpenter
8 2 (2.44%) Kibana
9 1 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.22%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.22%) linkerd
9 1 (1.22%) logstash
9 1 (1.22%) Podman
9 1 (1.22%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.98%) Google
3 8 (9.76%) Oracle
4 4 (4.88%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.66%) Databricks
5 3 (3.66%) IBM
5 3 (3.66%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.66%) Splunk
6 2 (2.44%) Confluent
6 2 (2.44%) Foundry
6 2 (2.44%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.22%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.22%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.22%) Informatica
7 1 (1.22%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.22%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.22%) Solace
7 1 (1.22%) Sybase
7 1 (1.22%) TIBCO