Docker Contract Job Trends in South London

Docker
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +7
Contract jobs citing Docker 44 30 25
As % of all contract jobs in South London 13.54% 16.95% 13.02%
As % of the System Software category 69.84% 57.69% 65.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 15 19
10th Percentile £479 £455 £360
25th Percentile £500 £481 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% +10.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £745 £630 £567
London median daily rate £550 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -13.16%

All System Software Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 63 52 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 19.38% 29.38% 19.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 27 31
10th Percentile £413 £235 £200
25th Percentile £500 £425 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £430
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% +22.09% -18.10%
75th Percentile £564 £600 £528
90th Percentile £721 £631 £567
London median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -8.44%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Docker job vacancy trend in South London

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in South London over the 6 months to 22 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in South London

Docker
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 22 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
Croydon -5 38 £541 -1.66%
Bromley - 5 £650 - 2
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £413 -
Merton - 1 £413 -
Docker
London

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 6 (13.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (77.27%) AWS
2 21 (47.73%) Azure
3 16 (36.36%) Amazon S3
4 14 (31.82%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (31.82%) GCP
5 13 (29.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (22.73%) GitHub
7 9 (20.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (20.45%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (20.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (18.18%) AWS KMS
9 6 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (13.64%) Serverless
10 5 (11.36%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (11.36%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (9.09%) Route 53
12 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (6.82%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) IPv4
2 2 (4.55%) IPv6
3 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.82%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.09%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.82%) MySQL
4 3 (6.82%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.55%) Big Data
5 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 18 (40.91%) Git
2 17 (38.64%) Jenkins
3 7 (15.91%) GitLab
3 7 (15.91%) Maven
4 6 (13.64%) Bitbucket
4 6 (13.64%) JIRA
5 5 (11.36%) JUnit
6 4 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (9.09%) DbUnit
6 4 (9.09%) jMock
6 4 (9.09%) Mockito
6 4 (9.09%) SonarQube
7 3 (6.82%) Gradle
8 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.27%) JMeter
8 1 (2.27%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.27%) Selenium
8 1 (2.27%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (34.09%) Public Sector
2 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Finance
5 2 (4.55%) Legal
5 2 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) Developer
1 14 (31.82%) Java Developer
2 12 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (15.91%) Architect
4 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Senior
5 3 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Backend Developer
5 3 (6.82%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 3 (6.82%) Technical Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Applications Architect
6 2 (4.55%) DBA
6 2 (4.55%) Scrum Master
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.91%) Spring
2 12 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 8 (18.18%) RESTful
4 6 (13.64%) REST
5 4 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 4 (9.09%) Bootstrap
5 4 (9.09%) Hibernate
5 4 (9.09%) JPA
5 4 (9.09%) PowerMock
5 4 (9.09%) SOAP
5 4 (9.09%) Spring Batch
5 4 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
5 4 (9.09%) Spring Integration
5 4 (9.09%) Web Services
6 3 (6.82%) CSS
6 3 (6.82%) HTML
6 3 (6.82%) Java SE
6 3 (6.82%) Next.js
6 3 (6.82%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Cloud Native
1 6 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.09%) Replication
3 3 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.55%) Spread Betting
5 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.73%) Linux
2 5 (11.36%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (79.55%) CI/CD
2 25 (56.82%) DevOps
3 23 (52.27%) Agile
4 22 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 19 (43.18%) Microservices
6 18 (40.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (22.73%) Scrum
8 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (18.18%) Observability
9 8 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (18.18%) TDD
9 8 (18.18%) Test Automation
10 7 (15.91%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (15.91%) Design Patterns
10 7 (15.91%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (13.64%) Software Engineering
12 5 (11.36%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 21 (47.73%) Java
2 14 (31.82%) Python
2 14 (31.82%) SQL
3 5 (11.36%) PowerShell
4 4 (9.09%) Bash
4 4 (9.09%) Groovy
4 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.09%) Perl
5 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.55%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.27%) C#
7 1 (2.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (88.64%) Security Cleared
2 37 (84.09%) SC Cleared
3 13 (29.55%) AWS Certification
4 10 (22.73%) Azure Certification
5 4 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.55%) Degree
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) GDPR
1 3 (6.82%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.55%) NIST
3 1 (2.27%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.82%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 27 (61.36%) Kubernetes
2 14 (31.82%) Terraform
3 13 (29.55%) Grafana
4 10 (22.73%) Prometheus
5 4 (9.09%) Ansible
6 2 (4.55%) Karpenter
7 1 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.27%) Puppet
7 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) Google
1 5 (11.36%) Oracle
2 4 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 4 (9.09%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.27%) VMware