Docker Contract Job Trends in England

Docker
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 55 63
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,656 1,151 1,170
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.70% 4.23% 3.20%
As % of the System Software category 36.94% 35.03% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 780 866
10th Percentile £393 £375 £400
25th Percentile £438 £439 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £691 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 11 12
10th Percentile £55.65 £27.50 £47.08
25th Percentile £61.13 £61.50 £59.38
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year - -7.90% -3.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 £72.85 £85.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £72.75
% change year-on-year -2.99% -7.90% -1.69%

All System Software Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,483 3,286 4,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.02% 12.09% 11.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,976 2,150 2,884
10th Percentile £213 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 88 189
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.14 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.74 £22.50 £14.48
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% +55.76% -50.64%
75th Percentile £74.07 £79.03 £58.49
90th Percentile £85.00 £90.19 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £30.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +70.00% +26.05% -52.40%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Docker job vacancy trend in England

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in England over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in England

Docker
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Docker.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Docker

Docker
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker in England over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in England

Docker
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the England region over the 6 months to 16 July 2026. 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
London 0 833 £550 +3.77% 250
North of England +10 319 £488 -2.50% 114
Midlands -6 179 £500 +5.26% 38
West Midlands 0 157 £500 - 27
Yorkshire +7 152 £500 - 26
South West +12 125 £550 - 73
South East -28 124 £525 +5.00% 124
North West -27 118 £544 +9.85% 64
North East 0 53 £425 +4.29% 25
East of England -20 29 £550 +12.24% 21
East Midlands -22 20 £450 +4.77% 11
Docker
UK

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 100 (6.04%) Confluence
2 99 (5.98%) Apache Spark
3 96 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
4 69 (4.17%) Apache
5 27 (1.63%) SAS
6 26 (1.57%) Jupyter
7 22 (1.33%) nginx
8 10 (0.60%) Camunda
8 10 (0.60%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.48%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.42%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.36%) WordPress
12 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.30%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.24%) Appian
14 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.18%) CMS
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.48%) CPLEX
3 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.060%) Maya
4 1 (0.060%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.060%) Trello
4 1 (0.060%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.060%) Magento
3 1 (0.060%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.060%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 998 (60.27%) AWS
2 721 (43.54%) Azure
3 378 (22.83%) GitHub
4 334 (20.17%) GCP
5 287 (17.33%) GitHub Actions
6 243 (14.67%) Serverless
7 197 (11.90%) Amazon S3
8 192 (11.59%) Azure DevOps
9 162 (9.78%) AWS Lambda
10 149 (9.00%) Amazon EKS
11 140 (8.45%) Amazon EC2
12 110 (6.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 107 (6.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 104 (6.28%) Amazon ECS
15 91 (5.50%) Azure AKS
16 78 (4.71%) OpenShift
17 70 (4.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 65 (3.93%) Amazon SQS
19 54 (3.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 45 (2.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.44%) Firewall
2 38 (2.29%) DNS
3 24 (1.45%) Network Security
4 21 (1.27%) VPN
5 20 (1.21%) DHCP
5 20 (1.21%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.15%) HTTP
7 13 (0.79%) Internet
8 9 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
9 8 (0.48%) 3GPP
9 8 (0.48%) Wireshark
10 7 (0.42%) MQTT
10 7 (0.42%) SMTP
11 6 (0.36%) RTP
11 6 (0.36%) VSAN
12 5 (0.30%) SSL
13 4 (0.24%) OpenLDAP
14 3 (0.18%) BGP
14 3 (0.18%) IPv4
14 3 (0.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (16.55%) PostgreSQL
2 131 (7.91%) NoSQL
3 113 (6.82%) Relational Database
4 111 (6.70%) MongoDB
5 83 (5.01%) Amazon RDS
6 75 (4.53%) SQL Server
7 61 (3.68%) DynamoDB
8 50 (3.02%) Big Data
8 50 (3.02%) Redis
9 43 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
10 38 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
11 33 (1.99%) BigQuery
12 32 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
12 32 (1.93%) MySQL
13 30 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
14 29 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
15 25 (1.51%) Data Lake
16 22 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
17 21 (1.27%) Flink
18 17 (1.03%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 442 (26.69%) Jenkins
2 374 (22.58%) Git
3 344 (20.77%) GitLab
4 146 (8.82%) JIRA
5 99 (5.98%) JUnit
6 68 (4.11%) Selenium
7 57 (3.44%) Maven
8 56 (3.38%) Mockito
8 56 (3.38%) SonarQube
9 43 (2.60%) Cucumber
10 42 (2.54%) MLflow
11 40 (2.42%) JMeter
12 39 (2.36%) Gatling
12 39 (2.36%) Gradle
13 28 (1.69%) Bitbucket
14 27 (1.63%) REST Assured
15 25 (1.51%) Liquibase
16 19 (1.15%) Artifactory
16 19 (1.15%) WebDriver
17 15 (0.91%) LoadRunner
General
1 370 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 293 (17.69%) Public Sector
3 243 (14.67%) Finance
4 146 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 117 (7.07%) Banking
6 42 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (1.93%) Retail
8 23 (1.39%) Military
9 21 (1.27%) Law
10 20 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
11 19 (1.15%) Investment Banking
12 15 (0.91%) Legal
12 15 (0.91%) Publishing
13 14 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 14 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (0.72%) Telecoms
15 11 (0.66%) Police
16 10 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.54%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.54%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 473 (28.56%) Developer
2 299 (18.06%) Senior
3 252 (15.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 164 (9.90%) Java Developer
5 134 (8.09%) Lead
6 130 (7.85%) Software Engineer
7 103 (6.22%) Senior Developer
8 101 (6.10%) Python Developer
9 98 (5.92%) Architect
10 92 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
10 92 (5.56%) Data Engineer
11 78 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
12 76 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
13 68 (4.11%) Java Engineer
14 67 (4.05%) AWS DevOps
15 58 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
16 57 (3.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 55 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
18 52 (3.14%) Python Engineer
19 48 (2.90%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (19.69%) Spring
2 288 (17.39%) Kafka
3 271 (16.36%) Spring Boot
4 241 (14.55%) REST
5 222 (13.41%) RESTful
6 203 (12.26%) React
7 136 (8.21%) Node.js
8 126 (7.61%) .NET
9 94 (5.68%) FastAPI
10 93 (5.62%) AngularJS
11 79 (4.77%) OAuth
12 68 (4.11%) RabbitMQ
13 60 (3.62%) HTML
14 59 (3.56%) CSS
14 59 (3.56%) Playwright
15 58 (3.50%) Flask
16 57 (3.44%) OpenTelemetry
17 55 (3.32%) Pandas
18 53 (3.20%) OAuth2
19 52 (3.14%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 368 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 201 (12.14%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (4.53%) Product Ownership
4 44 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (2.42%) AI Agents
7 38 (2.29%) Algorithms
8 32 (1.93%) PKI
9 31 (1.87%) Management Information System
10 30 (1.81%) Onboarding
11 27 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
12 26 (1.57%) Data Structures
13 25 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
13 25 (1.51%) Security Posture
14 24 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
15 22 (1.33%) Public Cloud
16 21 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
17 19 (1.15%) Data Centre
18 18 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
18 18 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 291 (17.57%) Linux
2 93 (5.62%) Windows
3 51 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (2.66%) Unix
5 36 (2.17%) Windows Server
6 20 (1.21%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.72%) VMS
8 10 (0.60%) Android
9 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.36%) CentOS
10 6 (0.36%) Solaris
10 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.30%) Rocky
11 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (0.24%) Debian
12 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.060%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,269 (76.63%) CI/CD
2 914 (55.19%) DevOps
3 872 (52.66%) Containerisation
4 630 (38.04%) Agile
5 587 (35.45%) Microservices
6 563 (34.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 355 (21.44%) Observability
8 343 (20.71%) Software Engineering
9 335 (20.23%) Test Automation
10 302 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
11 262 (15.82%) AI
12 222 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 213 (12.86%) Event-Driven
14 207 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
15 201 (12.14%) Scrum
16 198 (11.96%) Data Pipeline
17 194 (11.71%) Machine Learning
18 175 (10.57%) Platform Engineering
19 172 (10.39%) TDD
20 150 (9.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 768 (46.38%) Python
2 504 (30.43%) Java
3 434 (26.21%) SQL
4 207 (12.50%) Bash
5 199 (12.02%) JavaScript
6 184 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 151 (9.12%) C#
8 134 (8.09%) PowerShell
9 88 (5.31%) Go
10 62 (3.74%) Bicep
11 49 (2.96%) Shell Script
12 37 (2.23%) Scala
13 20 (1.21%) Groovy
13 20 (1.21%) Kotlin
13 20 (1.21%) PL/SQL
14 17 (1.03%) Ruby
15 16 (0.97%) C++
16 14 (0.85%) C
16 14 (0.85%) PHP
17 10 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 641 (38.71%) Security Cleared
2 531 (32.07%) SC Cleared
3 113 (6.82%) Degree
3 113 (6.82%) DV Cleared
4 82 (4.95%) AWS Certification
5 74 (4.47%) Azure Certification
6 56 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 48 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 21 (1.27%) CISSP
10 18 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.66%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.60%) CCNA
15 9 (0.54%) PhD
16 8 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.42%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (6.58%) QA
2 79 (4.77%) Accessibility
3 67 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 34 (2.05%) WCAG
5 24 (1.45%) GDPR
6 22 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.27%) NIST
8 14 (0.85%) NCSC
9 9 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.42%) PSD2
11 6 (0.36%) SEPA
12 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.30%) SLA
13 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 46 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.51%) Hyper-V
3 25 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (0.79%) vSphere
6 11 (0.66%) Postfix
7 9 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (0.42%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.36%) KVM
9 6 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 6 (0.36%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.18%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.12%) GridGain
12 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,163 (70.23%) Kubernetes
2 612 (36.96%) Terraform
3 267 (16.12%) Grafana
4 244 (14.73%) Prometheus
5 202 (12.20%) Ansible
6 45 (2.72%) Puppet
7 41 (2.48%) Argo
8 37 (2.23%) Progress Chef
9 25 (1.51%) Kibana
10 24 (1.45%) Istio
11 21 (1.27%) Podman
12 17 (1.03%) Control-M
12 17 (1.03%) IBM Guardium
12 17 (1.03%) Nessus
13 15 (0.91%) Packer
14 14 (0.85%) Kustomize
14 14 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.60%) HAProxy
16 9 (0.54%) linkerd
16 9 (0.54%) Nagios
Vendors
1 209 (12.62%) Microsoft
2 89 (5.37%) Google
3 86 (5.19%) Splunk
4 84 (5.07%) Oracle
5 52 (3.14%) Databricks
6 51 (3.08%) Dynatrace
7 50 (3.02%) VMware
8 41 (2.48%) Red Hat
9 34 (2.05%) OpenAI
10 28 (1.69%) IBM
11 23 (1.39%) Tenable
12 21 (1.27%) ServiceNow
13 20 (1.21%) Atlassian
14 19 (1.15%) New Relic
15 17 (1.03%) Jaspersoft
16 16 (0.97%) Talend
17 15 (0.91%) Denodo
17 15 (0.91%) Trend Micro
18 13 (0.79%) AppDynamics
19 9 (0.54%) CyberArk