Docker Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Docker
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 13 10
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing Docker 40 16 33
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 43.96% 14.16% 19.76%
As % of the System Software category 97.56% 94.12% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 9 25
10th Percentile £489 £525 £455
25th Percentile £500 - £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% -4.36% -6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £561 £638
90th Percentile £630 £565 £675
South London median daily rate £530 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -1.67% -2.00% -8.33%

All System Software Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 41 17 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 45.05% 15.04% 23.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 10 30
10th Percentile £474 £474 £411
25th Percentile £500 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% +2.48% -12.50%
75th Percentile £582 £556 £638
90th Percentile £630 £565 £675
South London median daily rate £525 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.32% -10.87%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Docker job vacancy trend in Croydon

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Croydon over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Croydon

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 15 (37.50%) Confluence
2 14 (35.00%) nginx
3 5 (12.50%) SAS
4 4 (10.00%) MQSeries
5 1 (2.50%) Apache
5 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 31 (77.50%) AWS
2 22 (55.00%) Azure
3 13 (32.50%) Amazon S3
4 12 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
5 10 (25.00%) AWS KMS
5 10 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (25.00%) Route 53
6 8 (20.00%) GCP
7 6 (15.00%) Serverless
8 4 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (10.00%) GitHub
9 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (7.50%) Azure Functions
9 3 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (7.50%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (7.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.00%) DNS
1 10 (25.00%) Firewall
1 10 (25.00%) FTP
1 10 (25.00%) HTTP
1 10 (25.00%) IMAP
1 10 (25.00%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (25.00%) SMTP
1 10 (25.00%) SSH
2 3 (7.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (10.00%) Redis
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (42.50%) Git
2 15 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 15 (37.50%) JIRA
3 10 (25.00%) Vagrant
4 4 (10.00%) GitLab
5 1 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 16 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 10 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) AWS DevOps
2 11 (27.50%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (25.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 10 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 9 (22.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (22.50%) Developer
5 8 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Specialist
7 2 (5.00%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Python Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) LDAP
2 9 (22.50%) Node.js
2 9 (22.50%) Spring
3 8 (20.00%) React
4 6 (15.00%) Kafka
5 4 (10.00%) EDIFACT
5 4 (10.00%) JSON
5 4 (10.00%) XML
6 3 (7.50%) .NET
6 3 (7.50%) .NET Core
6 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
6 3 (7.50%) PyTorch
6 3 (7.50%) TensorFlow
7 1 (2.50%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.50%) Playwright
7 1 (2.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.00%) Replication
2 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.50%) AI Agents
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.00%) Linux
2 10 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 10 (25.00%) VMS
2 10 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (77.50%) CI/CD
2 25 (62.50%) DevOps
3 14 (35.00%) Containerisation
4 11 (27.50%) Cloud Security
4 11 (27.50%) Microservices
4 11 (27.50%) Platform Engineering
5 10 (25.00%) Agile
5 10 (25.00%) Change Management
5 10 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 10 (25.00%) Patch Management
5 10 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (22.50%) Continuous Delivery
6 9 (22.50%) Design Patterns
6 9 (22.50%) TDD
7 8 (20.00%) Code Quality
7 8 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (20.00%) CQRS
7 8 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
8 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 23 (57.50%) Python
2 15 (37.50%) SQL
3 14 (35.00%) Java
4 10 (25.00%) Groovy
4 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 8 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (15.00%) TypeScript
7 3 (7.50%) Bash
7 3 (7.50%) Bicep
7 3 (7.50%) C#
8 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 35 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 10 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 10 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 10 (25.00%) DFS Replication
1 10 (25.00%) Dovecot
1 10 (25.00%) Postfix
1 10 (25.00%) Squid
2 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (67.50%) Kubernetes
2 19 (47.50%) Terraform
3 12 (30.00%) Grafana
4 11 (27.50%) Prometheus
5 10 (25.00%) Nessus
5 10 (25.00%) Proxmox
6 5 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (7.50%) Consul
7 3 (7.50%) Packer
8 2 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (10.00%) Confluent
3 3 (7.50%) Databricks
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace