Docker Contract Job Trends in London

Docker
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 41 53
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 -17
Contract jobs citing Docker 874 660 687
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.10% 4.73% 3.83%
As % of the System Software category 53.75% 46.84% 35.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 461 510
10th Percentile £400 £425 £413
25th Percentile £460 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £775 £681
90th Percentile £760 £838 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £61.25 £63.00
25th Percentile £66.00 £66.88 £67.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £77.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.26% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £86.88 £82.50
90th Percentile - £91.75 £87.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £67.27
% change year-on-year +11.67% -10.80% +0.40%

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 1,626 1,409 1,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.35% 10.10% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,082 923 1,388
10th Percentile £328 £260 £210
25th Percentile £431 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £524
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +5.01% -8.91%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £750 £810 £727
England median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 22
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.60 £21.25
25th Percentile £21.50 £23.59 £22.74
Median hourly rate £25.31 £23.80 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.34% -26.77% +23.81%
75th Percentile £44.94 £35.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.70 £101.80 £71.75
England median hourly rate £42.31 £28.41 £50.00
% change year-on-year +48.94% -43.18% +53.85%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Docker job vacancy trend in London

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in London

Docker
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Docker

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 14 January 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
Central London -7 90 £575 -2.13% 80
South London +12 48 £525 -2.60% 22
West London +13 39 £375 -8.31% 20
East London -3 3 £540 -4.85% 22
Docker
England

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 46 (5.26%) Confluence
2 41 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (3.20%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.20%) nginx
4 15 (1.72%) Apache
5 8 (0.92%) SAS
6 7 (0.80%) Appian
7 5 (0.57%) Camunda
7 5 (0.57%) Ethereum
7 5 (0.57%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.34%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.34%) Traefik
9 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (1.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Actimize
1 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.11%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 488 (55.84%) AWS
2 339 (38.79%) Azure
3 217 (24.83%) GCP
4 207 (23.68%) GitHub
5 133 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
6 103 (11.78%) Amazon S3
7 102 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
8 101 (11.56%) Serverless
9 76 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
9 76 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
10 75 (8.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 73 (8.35%) AWS Lambda
12 71 (8.12%) Amazon ECS
13 68 (7.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 52 (5.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 46 (5.26%) Azure AKS
16 45 (5.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 35 (4.00%) Datadog
18 30 (3.43%) SaaS
19 29 (3.32%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 45 (5.15%) Firewall
2 37 (4.23%) DNS
3 19 (2.17%) VPN
4 17 (1.95%) Network Security
4 17 (1.95%) SSL
5 16 (1.83%) HTTP
6 13 (1.49%) SMTP
7 11 (1.26%) SSH
7 11 (1.26%) TCP/IP
8 9 (1.03%) FTP
8 9 (1.03%) IMAP
8 9 (1.03%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (0.57%) DHCP
10 4 (0.46%) BGP
11 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.34%) LAN
11 3 (0.34%) MPLS
11 3 (0.34%) OSPF
11 3 (0.34%) SNMP
11 3 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (13.50%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (10.18%) NoSQL
3 56 (6.41%) Relational Database
4 53 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
4 53 (6.06%) MongoDB
5 50 (5.72%) SQL Server
6 42 (4.81%) Apache Cassandra
7 34 (3.89%) MySQL
8 30 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
9 28 (3.20%) Redis
10 26 (2.97%) BigQuery
10 26 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
11 23 (2.63%) Big Data
12 21 (2.40%) DynamoDB
13 19 (2.17%) Data Lake
14 17 (1.95%) Power BI
15 14 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (1.49%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 236 (27.00%) Jenkins
2 205 (23.46%) Git
3 137 (15.68%) GitLab
4 67 (7.67%) JIRA
5 31 (3.55%) JUnit
6 29 (3.32%) SonarQube
7 23 (2.63%) Selenium
8 20 (2.29%) Maven
8 20 (2.29%) MLflow
9 19 (2.17%) Cypress.io
9 19 (2.17%) Mockito
10 18 (2.06%) Cucumber
10 18 (2.06%) TeamCity
11 16 (1.83%) Bitbucket
12 14 (1.60%) CircleCI
12 14 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (1.49%) Gatling
13 13 (1.49%) Gradle
13 13 (1.49%) JMeter
13 13 (1.49%) Postman
General
1 228 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 185 (21.17%) Finance
3 110 (12.59%) Banking
4 92 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 57 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.09%) Investment Banking
7 22 (2.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 20 (2.29%) Front Office
9 17 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.26%) Retail
12 8 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.92%) Military
13 6 (0.69%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.57%) Law
14 5 (0.57%) Publishing
15 3 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.34%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 277 (31.69%) Developer
2 182 (20.82%) Senior
3 117 (13.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 84 (9.61%) Senior Developer
5 63 (7.21%) Java Developer
6 60 (6.86%) Architect
7 59 (6.75%) Python Developer
8 52 (5.95%) Lead
9 50 (5.72%) AWS Engineer
9 50 (5.72%) Full-Stack Developer
10 42 (4.81%) Software Engineer
11 40 (4.58%) AWS DevOps
12 39 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 38 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
14 35 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 35 (4.00%) Python Engineer
15 28 (3.20%) Data Engineer
16 27 (3.09%) Cloud Engineer
16 27 (3.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 25 (2.86%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (21.17%) Kafka
2 137 (15.68%) React
3 133 (15.22%) Node.js
4 119 (13.62%) Spring
5 110 (12.59%) RESTful
6 93 (10.64%) Spring Boot
7 88 (10.07%) REST
8 66 (7.55%) AngularJS
9 65 (7.44%) FastAPI
10 59 (6.75%) GraphQL
11 55 (6.29%) .NET
11 55 (6.29%) Playwright
12 50 (5.72%) HTML
13 48 (5.49%) CSS
14 47 (5.38%) gRPC
15 39 (4.46%) OAuth
15 39 (4.46%) PyTorch
15 39 (4.46%) YAML
16 35 (4.00%) Vue
17 33 (3.78%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 194 (22.20%) Cloud Native
2 88 (10.07%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (2.75%) Product Ownership
4 23 (2.63%) AI Agents
4 23 (2.63%) Replication
5 21 (2.40%) Hedge funds
6 18 (2.06%) Genomics
7 17 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.95%) Life Science
8 16 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
11 12 (1.37%) Equities
11 12 (1.37%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.37%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.26%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.14%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.03%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 126 (14.42%) Linux
2 29 (3.32%) Windows
3 24 (2.75%) Unix
4 21 (2.40%) VMS
5 16 (1.83%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.26%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.23%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Android
11 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 605 (69.22%) CI/CD
2 472 (54.00%) DevOps
3 412 (47.14%) Containerisation
4 332 (37.99%) Agile
5 276 (31.58%) Microservices
6 248 (28.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 196 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
8 187 (21.40%) Software Engineering
9 147 (16.82%) Test Automation
10 142 (16.25%) Observability
11 139 (15.90%) AI
12 115 (13.16%) Machine Learning
13 110 (12.59%) Full-Stack Development
14 85 (9.73%) Mentoring
15 84 (9.61%) Analytics
16 83 (9.50%) Data Pipeline
17 79 (9.04%) Event-Driven
18 75 (8.58%) Data Engineering
18 75 (8.58%) TDD
19 68 (7.78%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 439 (50.23%) Python
2 252 (28.83%) Java
3 209 (23.91%) SQL
4 127 (14.53%) TypeScript
5 123 (14.07%) JavaScript
6 92 (10.53%) Bash
7 79 (9.04%) Go
8 65 (7.44%) C#
9 50 (5.72%) PowerShell
10 30 (3.43%) Bicep
11 29 (3.32%) C++
12 27 (3.09%) Scala
13 22 (2.52%) Groovy
14 21 (2.40%) Rust
15 20 (2.29%) Ruby
16 12 (1.37%) Kotlin
17 11 (1.26%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.92%) Perl
19 7 (0.80%) C
19 7 (0.80%) PHP
Qualifications
1 234 (26.77%) Security Cleared
2 210 (24.03%) SC Cleared
3 74 (8.47%) Degree
4 40 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (4.23%) AWS Certification
6 32 (3.66%) Azure Certification
7 20 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (2.29%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.95%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.69%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.57%) CISSP
11 5 (0.57%) MCP
11 5 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.46%) PhD
13 3 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.34%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.49%) QA
2 22 (2.52%) Data Quality
2 22 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (2.29%) GDPR
4 19 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.60%) NIST
6 8 (0.92%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.57%) NCSC
8 5 (0.57%) WCAG
9 4 (0.46%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.46%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.34%) HL7
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.34%) MiFID
11 2 (0.23%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.23%) PSD2
11 2 (0.23%) SEPA
11 2 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.60%) Squid
3 11 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.03%) DFS Replication
4 9 (1.03%) Dovecot
4 9 (1.03%) Postfix
5 6 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.46%) Snort
6 4 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.34%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.34%) Firmware
7 3 (0.34%) HDFS
7 3 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.23%) Ceph
8 2 (0.23%) Lustre
8 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 643 (73.57%) Kubernetes
2 288 (32.95%) Terraform
3 92 (10.53%) Ansible
4 89 (10.18%) Grafana
5 85 (9.73%) Prometheus
6 29 (3.32%) Argo
7 21 (2.40%) Puppet
8 19 (2.17%) Kibana
9 16 (1.83%) Istio
10 14 (1.60%) Nessus
11 13 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (1.14%) Progress Chef
13 9 (1.03%) Consul
13 9 (1.03%) Packer
13 9 (1.03%) Proxmox
14 8 (0.92%) ITRS Geneos
15 7 (0.80%) Karpenter
16 6 (0.69%) logstash
16 6 (0.69%) Rancher
17 5 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 94 (10.76%) Google
2 85 (9.73%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.58%) Databricks
4 36 (4.12%) Splunk
5 34 (3.89%) Oracle
6 32 (3.66%) OpenAI
7 23 (2.63%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.83%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.37%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.26%) CheckPoint
11 11 (1.26%) VMware
12 10 (1.14%) Atlassian
12 10 (1.14%) F5
13 9 (1.03%) Cisco
13 9 (1.03%) Jaspersoft
14 8 (0.92%) Solace
15 7 (0.80%) Confluent
15 7 (0.80%) TIBCO
16 6 (0.69%) Zscaler