Docker Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Docker
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Docker skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Docker 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 8.89% - 10.34%
As % of the System Software category 33.33% - 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £469 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £688
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.85%
75th Percentile £531 - £844
90th Percentile £558 - £869
Central London median daily rate £600 £600 £638
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -1.92%

All System Software Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12 2 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 26.67% 4.26% 18.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 11
10th Percentile £355 £463 £216
25th Percentile £444 £481 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -18.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £613 £544 £731
90th Percentile £650 £563 £850
Central London median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - +0.23%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the City of Westminster

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Docker

Docker
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Westminster - 2 £475 - 1
Paddington - 1 £475 -
Mayfair - 1 £550 -
Docker
Central London

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 1 (25.00%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Datadog
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Mocha
1 1 (25.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (50.00%) OpenID
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Fastify
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) gRPC
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) Loki
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
2 1 (25.00%) WebRTC
2 1 (25.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Asynchronous Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) GitOps
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Blocking Code
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Argo
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk