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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 65 34
Rank change year-on-year -6 -31 0
Contract jobs citing Docker 72 58 107
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.16% 3.25% 5.14%
As % of the System Software category 39.13% 40.56% 42.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 47 68
10th Percentile £450 £403 £494
25th Percentile £481 £495 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +1.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £725
90th Percentile £734 £688 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -7.69%

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 184 143 253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.07% 8.02% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 101 177
10th Percentile £225 £263 £345
25th Percentile £411 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £681 £688 £730
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £20.20 £22.48 -
25th Percentile £21.63 £23.19 £77.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £25.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -70.29% +134.48%
75th Percentile £27.50 £28.19 £92.50
90th Percentile £29.60 £29.43 -
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £26.45 £85.00
% change year-on-year +2.08% -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 2 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 (6.94%) Confluence
2 4 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.39%) Apache
5 1 (1.39%) Camunda
5 1 (1.39%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Magento
1 1 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (59.72%) AWS
2 31 (43.06%) Azure
3 24 (33.33%) GitHub
4 20 (27.78%) GCP
5 12 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (11.11%) Serverless
8 7 (9.72%) Amazon S3
8 7 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (6.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (6.94%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (6.94%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (6.94%) OpenShift
11 4 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (5.56%) Azure AI
11 4 (5.56%) Azure AKS
12 3 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.33%) Firewall
2 5 (6.94%) DNS
3 3 (4.17%) DHCP
3 3 (4.17%) SMTP
3 3 (4.17%) VPN
4 1 (1.39%) BGP
4 1 (1.39%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.39%) Multicast
4 1 (1.39%) Network Security
4 1 (1.39%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.39%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.39%) TACACS
4 1 (1.39%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 12 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.72%) DynamoDB
3 6 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 6 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.94%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (6.94%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.56%) Big Data
6 3 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (4.17%) Pinecone
6 3 (4.17%) Redis
6 3 (4.17%) Weaviate
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.78%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.78%) Milvus
7 2 (2.78%) MySQL
8 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (27.78%) Git
2 17 (23.61%) Jenkins
3 13 (18.06%) GitLab
4 9 (12.50%) JIRA
4 9 (12.50%) JUnit
5 8 (11.11%) Mockito
6 6 (8.33%) Maven
7 5 (6.94%) Gradle
8 4 (5.56%) Cucumber
8 4 (5.56%) Postman
9 3 (4.17%) Selenium
10 2 (2.78%) Liquibase
10 2 (2.78%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.78%) Zephyr
11 1 (1.39%) Appium
11 1 (1.39%) Claude Code
11 1 (1.39%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.39%) MLflow
11 1 (1.39%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (38.89%) Finance
2 16 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.67%) Banking
4 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.78%) Front Office
7 2 (2.78%) Military
7 2 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.39%) Law
8 1 (1.39%) Legal
8 1 (1.39%) Marketing
8 1 (1.39%) Police
8 1 (1.39%) Retail
8 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (29.17%) Senior
2 18 (25.00%) Developer
3 10 (13.89%) Java Developer
3 10 (13.89%) Senior Developer
4 8 (11.11%) Python Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (9.72%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Lead
6 6 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Architect
7 5 (6.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Support Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support
9 3 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (30.56%) Spring
1 22 (30.56%) Spring Boot
1 22 (30.56%) Terraform
2 21 (29.17%) Kafka
3 14 (19.44%) REST
4 11 (15.28%) React
4 11 (15.28%) RESTful
5 6 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 6 (8.33%) SOAP
6 5 (6.94%) AngularJS
6 5 (6.94%) HTML
7 4 (5.56%) Django
7 4 (5.56%) FastAPI
7 4 (5.56%) LangChain
7 4 (5.56%) PyTorch
7 4 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (5.56%) TensorFlow
7 4 (5.56%) Web Services
7 4 (5.56%) YAML
8 3 (4.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 25 (34.72%) Cloud Native
2 13 (18.06%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (12.50%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.17%) Clustering
5 3 (4.17%) PKI
5 3 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.78%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.78%) Genomics
6 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.78%) Life Science
6 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.50%) Linux
2 5 (6.94%) Windows
2 5 (6.94%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.56%) Unix
4 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 41 (56.94%) Containerisation
3 38 (52.78%) DevOps
4 31 (43.06%) Microservices
5 27 (37.50%) AI
6 25 (34.72%) Test Automation
7 23 (31.94%) Agile
8 22 (30.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (30.56%) Observability
9 21 (29.17%) Software Engineering
10 17 (23.61%) Machine Learning
11 15 (20.83%) Event-Driven
12 12 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (13.89%) Analytics
13 10 (13.89%) Data Engineering
13 10 (13.89%) LLM
14 9 (12.50%) Code Quality
14 9 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 9 (12.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 39 (54.17%) Python
2 34 (47.22%) Java
3 16 (22.22%) SQL
4 12 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 8 (11.11%) C#
5 8 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 7 (9.72%) PowerShell
7 5 (6.94%) Bash
7 5 (6.94%) Bicep
8 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.50%) Degree
4 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.06%) QA
2 4 (5.56%) GDPR
3 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.78%) EMIR
4 2 (2.78%) MiFID
5 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.94%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.17%) BitLocker
3 3 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.17%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (4.17%) Terminal Services
3 3 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.39%) GridGain
4 1 (1.39%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (1.39%) Varnish
4 1 (1.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 55 (76.39%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.50%) Grafana
2 9 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 8 (11.11%) Ansible
4 4 (5.56%) Puppet
5 3 (4.17%) Nagios
5 3 (4.17%) vCenter Server
5 3 (4.17%) vMotion
6 1 (1.39%) Bosun
6 1 (1.39%) Istio
6 1 (1.39%) Salt
6 1 (1.39%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.28%) Google
3 4 (5.56%) VMware
4 3 (4.17%) Citrix
4 3 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.17%) Foundry
4 3 (4.17%) HP
4 3 (4.17%) IBM
4 3 (4.17%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.17%) Symantec
5 2 (2.78%) Databricks
6 1 (1.39%) Adobe
6 1 (1.39%) Cisco
6 1 (1.39%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.39%) New Relic
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle
6 1 (1.39%) Pega
6 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.39%) Solace