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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 12
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Docker 52 15 33
As % of all contract jobs in South London 17.63% 7.14% 12.31%
As % of the System Software category 68.42% 57.69% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 9 22
10th Percentile £492 £449 £363
25th Percentile £500 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% -7.32% -14.58%
75th Percentile £566 £565 £550
90th Percentile £724 £628 £634
London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -15.38%

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 76 26 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 25.76% 12.38% 20.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 17 40
10th Percentile £322 £179 £182
25th Percentile £492 £190 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £473 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.74% -0.53% -20.83%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £531
90th Percentile £645 £579 £638
London median daily rate £525 £560 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +12.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - £21.46
25th Percentile - - £33.91
Median hourly rate £67.70 £34.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +99.12% -22.45% -17.50%
75th Percentile - - £47.62
90th Percentile - - £48.97
London median hourly rate £25.15 £28.71 £24.99
% change year-on-year -12.38% +14.89% -18.75%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +6 40 £528 +11.05% 7
Sutton - 5 £530 -
Bromley +3 3 £750 +3.45% 14
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 7 (13.46%) Confluence
2 5 (9.62%) SAS
3 4 (7.69%) nginx
4 1 (1.92%) Apache
4 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 36 (69.23%) AWS
2 27 (51.92%) Azure
3 14 (26.92%) Amazon S3
4 13 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 12 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (23.08%) GCP
5 12 (23.08%) GitHub
6 11 (21.15%) Serverless
7 10 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (17.31%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (17.31%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (13.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (13.46%) Azure Event Grid
9 7 (13.46%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (13.46%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (13.46%) Azure Machine Learning
9 7 (13.46%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (13.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.54%) Network Security
2 2 (3.85%) Firewall
3 1 (1.92%) DNS
3 1 (1.92%) FTP
3 1 (1.92%) HTTP
3 1 (1.92%) IMAP
3 1 (1.92%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.92%) SMTP
3 1 (1.92%) SSH
3 1 (1.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.85%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.77%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.85%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (21.15%) Git
2 10 (19.23%) Jenkins
3 9 (17.31%) GitLab
4 7 (13.46%) JIRA
5 4 (7.69%) Bitbucket
5 4 (7.69%) JUnit
6 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (3.85%) DbUnit
6 2 (3.85%) jMock
6 2 (3.85%) Maven
6 2 (3.85%) Mockito
6 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.92%) JMeter
7 1 (1.92%) Selenium
7 1 (1.92%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.92%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 7 (13.46%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Finance
4 3 (5.77%) Banking
4 3 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (21.15%) Developer
3 7 (13.46%) Architect
3 7 (13.46%) Senior
4 5 (9.62%) Site Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Azure Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Backend Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 3 (5.77%) Technical Manager
6 3 (5.77%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (26.92%) Node.js
2 12 (23.08%) React
3 9 (17.31%) AngularJS
4 8 (15.38%) .NET
4 8 (15.38%) Spring
5 7 (13.46%) .NET Core
5 7 (13.46%) PyTorch
5 7 (13.46%) TensorFlow
6 6 (11.54%) ARM Templates
6 6 (11.54%) Entity Framework
6 6 (11.54%) SailPoint
6 6 (11.54%) YAML
7 5 (9.62%) Kafka
8 3 (5.77%) AWS CDK
9 2 (3.85%) Bootstrap
9 2 (3.85%) JPA
9 2 (3.85%) RESTful
9 2 (3.85%) Spring Boot
9 2 (3.85%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (3.85%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Cloud Native
2 7 (13.46%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.92%) PKI
5 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.92%) VMS
3 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (82.69%) CI/CD
2 35 (67.31%) DevOps
3 27 (51.92%) Containerisation
4 25 (48.08%) Agile
5 24 (46.15%) Microservices
6 20 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (17.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (15.38%) AI
9 8 (15.38%) Analytics
9 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (15.38%) RBAC
9 8 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 8 (15.38%) TDD
10 7 (13.46%) Machine Learning
10 7 (13.46%) TOGAF
11 6 (11.54%) B2C
11 6 (11.54%) Configuration Management
11 6 (11.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (55.77%) Python
2 16 (30.77%) SQL
3 13 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (17.31%) Bash
4 9 (17.31%) Java
5 8 (15.38%) C#
6 7 (13.46%) Bicep
7 6 (11.54%) TypeScript
8 3 (5.77%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.92%) Groovy
10 1 (1.92%) Ruby
10 1 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (67.31%) Security Cleared
2 33 (63.46%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.46%) AWS Certification
4 6 (11.54%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (9.62%) Azure Certification
5 5 (9.62%) Degree
6 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) GDPR
2 1 (1.92%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.92%) PSD2
System Software
1 12 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.85%) Postfix
2 2 (3.85%) Squid
3 1 (1.92%) DFS Replication
3 1 (1.92%) Dovecot
Systems Management
1 31 (59.62%) Kubernetes
2 23 (44.23%) Terraform
3 13 (25.00%) Grafana
4 7 (13.46%) Ansible
4 7 (13.46%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (11.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (11.54%) Prometheus
6 5 (9.62%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (9.62%) Puppet
7 2 (3.85%) Consul
7 2 (3.85%) Packer
8 1 (1.92%) Nessus
8 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.92%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.46%) Databricks
2 7 (13.46%) OpenAI
3 5 (9.62%) PagerDuty
4 3 (5.77%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.77%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow