Docker Contracts in the City of London

Docker
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 51 32
Rank change year-on-year -10 -19 -8
Contract jobs citing Docker 58 84 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.31% 3.91% 6.06%
As % of the System Software category 36.25% 32.81% 44.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 52 131
10th Percentile £413 £425 £500
25th Percentile £477 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £660 £725 £775
90th Percentile £697 £854 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £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 160 256 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.13% 11.92% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 187 305
10th Percentile £229 £263 £205
25th Percentile £406 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £585
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.26% +6.36%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £738
90th Percentile £701 £771 £808
Central London median daily rate £525 £507 £575
% change year-on-year +3.65% -11.91% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £22.95 - £23.88
25th Percentile £24.38 £21.25 £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £40.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% +10.34% +36.79%
75th Percentile £108.88 - £45.31
90th Percentile £156.05 £46.15 £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £40.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -33.88% +60.00% +7.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Docker in the City of London

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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 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.90%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) Apache
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.45%) nginx
3 1 (1.72%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.72%) Camunda
3 1 (1.72%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 31 (53.45%) AWS
2 16 (27.59%) Azure
3 12 (20.69%) GCP
4 11 (18.97%) GitHub
5 5 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (8.62%) Serverless
6 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.17%) OpenShift
7 3 (5.17%) Slack
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (3.45%) Azure App Service
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.45%) Stackdriver
8 2 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) DNS
1 4 (6.90%) Firewall
1 4 (6.90%) VPN
2 2 (3.45%) DHCP
2 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.72%) HTTP
3 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.62%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.17%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.17%) MySQL
4 3 (5.17%) Redis
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.72%) Big Data
6 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.72%) KDB
6 1 (1.72%) Kdb+
6 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (29.31%) GitLab
1 17 (29.31%) Jenkins
2 7 (12.07%) JIRA
3 6 (10.34%) Git
4 4 (6.90%) Maven
5 3 (5.17%) Gradle
5 3 (5.17%) JUnit
5 3 (5.17%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.45%) Postman
6 2 (3.45%) Selenium
7 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.72%) Gatling
7 1 (1.72%) git-flow
7 1 (1.72%) Hamcrest
7 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.72%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.72%) Travis CI
General
1 16 (27.59%) Finance
2 15 (25.86%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Banking
3 7 (12.07%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.62%) Investment Banking
5 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.72%) Billing
7 1 (1.72%) Military
7 1 (1.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Developer
2 11 (18.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (13.79%) Senior
4 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (10.34%) Java Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Angular Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Applications Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.17%) Lead
7 3 (5.17%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (3.45%) AWS Specialist
8 2 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 2 (3.45%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.07%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (12.07%) Spring
2 6 (10.34%) .NET
3 5 (8.62%) Node.js
3 5 (8.62%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.90%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (6.90%) REST
5 3 (5.17%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.17%) HTML
5 3 (5.17%) Kafka
5 3 (5.17%) React
6 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.45%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.45%) FastAPI
6 2 (3.45%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.45%) PyTorch
6 2 (3.45%) RESTful
6 2 (3.45%) TensorFlow
6 2 (3.45%) WireMock
7 1 (1.72%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (17.24%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.90%) Fixed Income
3 4 (6.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (5.17%) Hedge funds
5 2 (3.45%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.45%) IVR
5 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.72%) CUDA
6 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.72%) DataPower
6 1 (1.72%) Derivative
6 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.72%) PKI
6 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (32.76%) Linux
2 5 (8.62%) Unix
3 3 (5.17%) Rocky
3 3 (5.17%) Windows
4 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.72%) VMS
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (63.79%) CI/CD
2 36 (62.07%) DevOps
3 29 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 20 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (27.59%) Agile
6 13 (22.41%) Microservices
7 10 (17.24%) Configuration Management
7 10 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (15.52%) Software Engineering
9 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (12.07%) Event-Driven
10 7 (12.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (12.07%) Machine Learning
10 7 (12.07%) Observability
11 5 (8.62%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (8.62%) Data Science
11 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (8.62%) Low Latency
11 5 (8.62%) Scrum
11 5 (8.62%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 33 (56.90%) Python
2 16 (27.59%) Java
3 8 (13.79%) C#
4 6 (10.34%) Bash
4 6 (10.34%) SQL
5 5 (8.62%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.62%) Shell Script
6 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.45%) Bicep
8 2 (3.45%) C++
8 2 (3.45%) Go
8 2 (3.45%) Perl
9 1 (1.72%) Ada
9 1 (1.72%) PHP
9 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.72%) Ruby
9 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (20.69%) SC Cleared
1 12 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.90%) Degree
3 3 (5.17%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (3.45%) PhD
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.45%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (1.72%) Lustre
1 1 (1.72%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 47 (81.03%) Kubernetes
2 31 (53.45%) Terraform
3 12 (20.69%) Ansible
4 8 (13.79%) Grafana
5 5 (8.62%) Kibana
5 5 (8.62%) Prometheus
5 5 (8.62%) Puppet
6 4 (6.90%) Argo
6 4 (6.90%) Consul
6 4 (6.90%) Istio
6 4 (6.90%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (5.17%) logstash
7 3 (5.17%) Podman
7 3 (5.17%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.72%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.72%) Kubeflow
8 1 (1.72%) Packer
8 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Google
2 5 (8.62%) Splunk
3 3 (5.17%) Solace
4 2 (3.45%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.72%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.72%) Databricks
5 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.72%) IBM
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.72%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.72%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.72%) Pega
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.72%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.72%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.72%) WSO2