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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 57 59
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -26
Contract jobs citing Docker 85 65 74
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.72% 3.72% 3.39%
As % of the System Software category 54.84% 37.14% 30.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 50 49
10th Percentile £355 £412 £425
25th Percentile £459 £478 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +1.77% -13.08%
75th Percentile £650 £647 £650
90th Percentile £775 £696 £754
Central London median daily rate £575 £564 £565
% change year-on-year +2.04% -0.27% -13.08%
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 155 175 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.78% 10.02% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 123 179
10th Percentile £239 £248 £250
25th Percentile £413 £375 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £663
90th Percentile £733 £699 £739
Central London median daily rate £525 £536 £488
% change year-on-year -2.05% +9.95% -12.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £19.56 £36.05 -
25th Percentile £20.04 £57.13 £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £98.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.40% +146.25% -
75th Percentile £41.72 £146.13 -
90th Percentile £52.52 £170.95 £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 £24.48 £40.00
% change year-on-year -9.03% -38.81% +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 12 May 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 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.35%) Apache
2 2 (2.35%) Camunda
2 2 (2.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.35%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.18%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.18%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Magento
1 1 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 48 (56.47%) AWS
2 34 (40.00%) Azure
3 29 (34.12%) GitHub
4 23 (27.06%) GCP
5 15 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (14.12%) Amazon S3
6 12 (14.12%) Serverless
7 11 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (10.59%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (7.06%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (7.06%) dbt
11 5 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (5.88%) Azure AKS
11 5 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (4.71%) Entra ID
12 4 (4.71%) Vertex AI
12 4 (4.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) Network Security
1 2 (2.35%) SAN
2 1 (1.18%) DNS
2 1 (1.18%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.18%) Firewall
2 1 (1.18%) Multicast
2 1 (1.18%) NAS
2 1 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (17.65%) NoSQL
3 10 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 8 (9.41%) DynamoDB
4 8 (9.41%) MongoDB
5 7 (8.24%) SQL Server
6 6 (7.06%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (7.06%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (7.06%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (7.06%) Redis
7 5 (5.88%) BigQuery
8 4 (4.71%) MySQL
9 3 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (3.53%) Metadata
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (2.35%) Big Data
10 2 (2.35%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.35%) Hazelcast
10 2 (2.35%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 22 (25.88%) Git
2 19 (22.35%) Jenkins
3 15 (17.65%) GitLab
4 8 (9.41%) JUnit
5 7 (8.24%) Mockito
6 6 (7.06%) JIRA
7 5 (5.88%) Gradle
7 5 (5.88%) Maven
8 4 (4.71%) Liquibase
9 3 (3.53%) Cucumber
9 3 (3.53%) Postman
10 2 (2.35%) Ant
10 2 (2.35%) Gatling
11 1 (1.18%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (1.18%) PHPUnit
11 1 (1.18%) PowerBuilder
11 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 27 (31.76%) Finance
2 15 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 14 (16.47%) Banking
4 3 (3.53%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (3.53%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.18%) Front Office
6 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Law
6 1 (1.18%) Legal
6 1 (1.18%) Marketing
6 1 (1.18%) Military
6 1 (1.18%) Police
6 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Retail
6 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (31.76%) Developer
2 23 (27.06%) Senior
3 11 (12.94%) Senior Developer
4 10 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (10.59%) Java Developer
6 7 (8.24%) Architect
7 6 (7.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Lead
8 5 (5.88%) Python Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Java Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (32.94%) Spring
2 24 (28.24%) Kafka
2 24 (28.24%) Spring Boot
3 18 (21.18%) React
4 13 (15.29%) REST
5 9 (10.59%) RESTful
6 8 (9.41%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (8.24%) .NET
8 5 (5.88%) Django
8 5 (5.88%) HTML
8 5 (5.88%) JSON
8 5 (5.88%) Node.js
8 5 (5.88%) WireMock
9 4 (4.71%) AngularJS
9 4 (4.71%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.71%) OAuth
9 4 (4.71%) Playwright
9 4 (4.71%) SOAP
10 3 (3.53%) CSS
10 3 (3.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (27.06%) Cloud Native
2 12 (14.12%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.88%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.53%) Life Science
5 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.18%) Genomics
6 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.18%) NHS
6 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.41%) Linux
2 2 (2.35%) Unix
2 2 (2.35%) VMS
3 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (76.47%) CI/CD
2 52 (61.18%) Containerisation
3 45 (52.94%) DevOps
4 32 (37.65%) Microservices
5 27 (31.76%) Observability
6 23 (27.06%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (24.71%) Test Automation
8 20 (23.53%) Software Engineering
9 19 (22.35%) Agile
9 19 (22.35%) AI
10 15 (17.65%) Event-Driven
10 15 (17.65%) Machine Learning
11 13 (15.29%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (12.94%) Analytics
12 11 (12.94%) Performance Tuning
13 10 (11.76%) Data Engineering
14 9 (10.59%) API Development
14 9 (10.59%) Data Pipeline
14 9 (10.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 9 (10.59%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 39 (45.88%) Python
2 36 (42.35%) Java
3 26 (30.59%) SQL
4 10 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 8 (9.41%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.24%) C#
7 4 (4.71%) Bash
8 2 (2.35%) Bicep
8 2 (2.35%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.18%) C
9 1 (1.18%) Go
9 1 (1.18%) PHP
9 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.18%) ProC
9 1 (1.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (24.71%) Security Cleared
2 20 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.35%) Degree
4 1 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.18%) CCSP
4 1 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.18%) CISSP
4 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.18%) OSCP
4 1 (1.18%) SANS
4 1 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.18%) VCAP
4 1 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.41%) QA
2 4 (4.71%) GDPR
3 3 (3.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.35%) EMIR
4 2 (2.35%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.35%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.35%) MiFID
4 2 (2.35%) PSD2
4 2 (2.35%) SEPA
5 1 (1.18%) GRC
5 1 (1.18%) NCSC
5 1 (1.18%) NIST
5 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.18%) Firmware
2 1 (1.18%) GridGain
2 1 (1.18%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (1.18%) Varnish
2 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.18%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (71.76%) Kubernetes
2 23 (27.06%) Terraform
3 13 (15.29%) Prometheus
4 11 (12.94%) Grafana
5 9 (10.59%) Ansible
6 5 (5.88%) Istio
7 4 (4.71%) Argo
8 3 (3.53%) Karpenter
9 1 (1.18%) Kibana
9 1 (1.18%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.18%) linkerd
9 1 (1.18%) Podman
9 1 (1.18%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.18%) Puppet
9 1 (1.18%) Salt
9 1 (1.18%) Tivoli
9 1 (1.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.76%) Google
3 6 (7.06%) Oracle
4 5 (5.88%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.88%) IBM
5 3 (3.53%) Databricks
5 3 (3.53%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.35%) Confluent
6 2 (2.35%) Foundry
6 2 (2.35%) Splunk
6 2 (2.35%) Sybase
7 1 (1.18%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.18%) Informatica
7 1 (1.18%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.18%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.18%) Pega
7 1 (1.18%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.18%) Solace