Docker Contracts in London

Docker
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 67 42
Rank change year-on-year +21 -25 -15
Contract jobs citing Docker 624 589 1,416
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.97% 3.30% 5.24%
As % of the System Software category 45.09% 33.15% 45.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 426 1,032
10th Percentile £413 £413 £475
25th Percentile £488 £463 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £738 £650 £738
90th Percentile £838 £775 £820
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 11
10th Percentile - £49.90 -
25th Percentile - £54.63 £75.00
Median hourly rate £95.00 £62.50 £83.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.00% -24.70% +5.40%
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - £90.00
England median hourly rate £53.10 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -21.33% -10.00% +14.47%

All System Software Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,384 1,777 3,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.03% 9.97% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 1,262 2,297
10th Percentile £300 £213 £250
25th Percentile £438 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £671 £615 £688
90th Percentile £800 £719 £775
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 35 42
10th Percentile £22.64 £17.23 £15.73
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.50 £22.85
Median hourly rate £28.41 £22.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.27% -50.00% +83.67%
75th Percentile £35.75 £25.00 £73.63
90th Percentile £91.50 £48.89 £85.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in London

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in London

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in London

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Docker in London

Docker
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +11 73 £552 -0.99% 70
South London -1 19 £475 -1.04% 2
West London -1 5 £409 -3.76% 24
East London +15 2 £535 +9.63% 15
Docker
England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 52 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 48 (7.69%) Apache
3 33 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (4.17%) Confluence
5 22 (3.53%) nginx
6 8 (1.28%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.64%) Camunda
7 4 (0.64%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.48%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.32%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.32%) JBoss
9 2 (0.32%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.32%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.16%) CMS
10 1 (0.16%) IBM Domino
10 1 (0.16%) IIS
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.80%) Sketch
2 4 (0.64%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) InVision
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Endur
2 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 377 (60.42%) AWS
2 178 (28.53%) Azure
3 100 (16.03%) Serverless
4 98 (15.71%) GCP
5 73 (11.70%) AWS Lambda
6 71 (11.38%) GitHub
7 66 (10.58%) OpenShift
8 58 (9.29%) Amazon ECS
9 55 (8.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 52 (8.33%) Amazon S3
11 50 (8.01%) Azure DevOps
12 39 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (5.93%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (5.29%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (5.13%) dbt
16 25 (4.01%) Amazon SQS
17 23 (3.69%) Cloud Computing
18 20 (3.21%) IaaS
19 19 (3.04%) PaaS
20 17 (2.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.01%) DNS
2 23 (3.69%) HTTP
3 21 (3.37%) Firewall
4 19 (3.04%) TCP/IP
5 17 (2.72%) VPN
6 8 (1.28%) DHCP
7 7 (1.12%) Internet
8 5 (0.80%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.48%) Network Security
9 3 (0.48%) SSL
10 2 (0.32%) BGP
10 2 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
10 2 (0.32%) MPLS
10 2 (0.32%) SSH
11 1 (0.16%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.16%) IPsec
11 1 (0.16%) IPv4
11 1 (0.16%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (16.19%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (8.97%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (7.37%) NoSQL
4 45 (7.21%) MongoDB
5 39 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 34 (5.45%) Apache Iceberg
7 33 (5.29%) Amazon Athena
8 32 (5.13%) MySQL
9 29 (4.65%) Redis
9 29 (4.65%) SQL Server
10 28 (4.49%) Apache Arrow
10 28 (4.49%) Apache Cassandra
10 28 (4.49%) Apache Ignite
10 28 (4.49%) Dremio
11 24 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 23 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (3.04%) Data Lake
14 15 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
15 14 (2.24%) Amazon Aurora
16 13 (2.08%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 175 (28.04%) Jenkins
2 85 (13.62%) GitLab
3 83 (13.30%) Git
4 43 (6.89%) JIRA
5 40 (6.41%) Artifactory
6 35 (5.61%) JUnit
7 23 (3.69%) Maven
8 20 (3.21%) Gradle
9 19 (3.04%) SonarQube
10 18 (2.88%) Mockito
11 16 (2.56%) Cucumber
12 15 (2.40%) Bitbucket
13 13 (2.08%) Liquibase
14 9 (1.44%) Jasmine
14 9 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (1.28%) CircleCI
15 8 (1.28%) MLflow
16 7 (1.12%) Postman
17 6 (0.96%) Selenium
18 5 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 185 (29.65%) Finance
2 118 (18.91%) Social Skills
3 94 (15.06%) Banking
4 61 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (9.29%) Public Sector
6 52 (8.33%) Front Office
6 52 (8.33%) Investment Banking
7 24 (3.85%) Marketing
8 20 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.08%) Electronics
10 13 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.76%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.28%) Law
13 7 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.96%) Publishing
14 6 (0.96%) Retail
15 5 (0.80%) Billing
16 4 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 232 (37.18%) Developer
2 145 (23.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 101 (16.19%) Senior
4 83 (13.30%) AWS Engineer
5 74 (11.86%) AWS DevOps
6 71 (11.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 65 (10.42%) Python Developer
8 55 (8.81%) Java Developer
9 53 (8.49%) Python Engineer
10 51 (8.17%) Data Engineer
11 44 (7.05%) Senior Developer
12 42 (6.73%) Lead
13 40 (6.41%) Architect
14 31 (4.97%) Full-Stack Developer
15 30 (4.81%) Software Engineer
16 27 (4.33%) .NET Developer
16 27 (4.33%) Gen AI Developer
17 25 (4.01%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
18 24 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
19 23 (3.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (23.08%) Kafka
2 110 (17.63%) Spring
3 103 (16.51%) React
4 87 (13.94%) Spring Boot
5 81 (12.98%) .NET
6 57 (9.13%) FastAPI
7 45 (7.21%) RESTful
8 41 (6.57%) J2EE
9 40 (6.41%) Node.js
10 39 (6.25%) Django
11 38 (6.09%) HTML
11 38 (6.09%) REST
12 35 (5.61%) AngularJS
13 34 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
13 34 (5.45%) PySpark
14 30 (4.81%) Swagger
15 28 (4.49%) CSS
15 28 (4.49%) OpenAPI
16 24 (3.85%) .NET Framework
17 19 (3.04%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.17%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (5.77%) Cloud Native
3 16 (2.56%) Hedge funds
4 15 (2.40%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.40%) Public Cloud
5 12 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (1.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 10 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (1.60%) PKI
6 10 (1.60%) Private Cloud
7 9 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.44%) Replication
8 8 (1.28%) Derivative
8 8 (1.28%) Onboarding
9 6 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (0.96%) Product Ownership
10 5 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 124 (19.87%) Linux
2 40 (6.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (4.01%) Unix
4 23 (3.69%) Windows
5 15 (2.40%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.44%) CentOS
7 6 (0.96%) Rocky
8 4 (0.64%) VMS
9 3 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (0.48%) SUSE
9 3 (0.48%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.16%) AIX
10 1 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.16%) Solaris
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (60.90%) CI/CD
2 348 (55.77%) DevOps
3 252 (40.38%) Containerisation
4 215 (34.46%) Agile
5 171 (27.40%) Microservices
6 150 (24.04%) Software Engineering
7 140 (22.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 108 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
9 73 (11.70%) Artificial Intelligence
10 71 (11.38%) Full-Stack Development
11 69 (11.06%) Data Engineering
11 69 (11.06%) Test Automation
12 64 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
13 62 (9.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 62 (9.94%) TDD
14 61 (9.78%) Machine Learning
15 58 (9.29%) High Availability
16 57 (9.13%) Open Source
17 52 (8.33%) Event-Driven
17 52 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 310 (49.68%) Python
2 223 (35.74%) Java
3 155 (24.84%) SQL
4 88 (14.10%) C#
5 85 (13.62%) JavaScript
6 81 (12.98%) TypeScript
7 71 (11.38%) Go
8 69 (11.06%) Bash
9 27 (4.33%) PowerShell
10 24 (3.85%) Shell Script
11 21 (3.37%) C++
12 16 (2.56%) Scala
13 15 (2.40%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.92%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.92%) Rust
15 11 (1.76%) Bicep
15 11 (1.76%) RPG
15 11 (1.76%) RPG IV
16 8 (1.28%) Groovy
16 8 (1.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 142 (22.76%) Security Cleared
2 136 (21.79%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.45%) Degree
4 23 (3.69%) AWS Certification
5 15 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.92%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.60%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.80%) RHCSA
12 3 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.48%) RHCE
13 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.32%) CISSP
13 2 (0.32%) PhD
14 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.16%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.49%) QA
2 22 (3.53%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.28%) GDPR
5 7 (1.12%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.64%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.48%) EMIR
8 3 (0.48%) MiFID
8 3 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.48%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.32%) NIST
10 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.16%) COBIT
10 1 (0.16%) FedRAMP
10 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.64%) Lustre
4 3 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.48%) Platform Symphony
4 3 (0.48%) vCloud
4 3 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
4 3 (0.48%) vSphere
5 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) Ceph
6 1 (0.16%) HDFS
6 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.16%) RACF
6 1 (0.16%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 501 (80.29%) Kubernetes
2 244 (39.10%) Terraform
3 125 (20.03%) Ansible
4 52 (8.33%) Grafana
5 46 (7.37%) Prometheus
6 32 (5.13%) Puppet
7 22 (3.53%) Progress Chef
8 14 (2.24%) Istio
8 14 (2.24%) Kibana
9 10 (1.60%) Argo
10 9 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.28%) Podman
12 5 (0.80%) Nagios
12 5 (0.80%) Packer
13 4 (0.64%) Consul
13 4 (0.64%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.64%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.48%) logstash
14 3 (0.48%) Rancher
14 3 (0.48%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 37 (5.93%) Google
2 36 (5.77%) Red Hat
3 29 (4.65%) Oracle
4 26 (4.17%) Microsoft
5 22 (3.53%) VMware
6 20 (3.21%) Databricks
6 20 (3.21%) Splunk
7 13 (2.08%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.08%) SAP
8 11 (1.76%) TIBCO
9 8 (1.28%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.28%) IBM
10 7 (1.12%) Cisco
11 5 (0.80%) Adobe
12 4 (0.64%) Confluent
12 4 (0.64%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.64%) Solace
13 3 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (0.48%) Dataiku
13 3 (0.48%) Informatica