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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 19 13
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing Docker 52 16 28
As % of all contract jobs in South London 16.15% 8.21% 11.24%
As % of the System Software category 70.27% 57.14% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 6 19
10th Percentile £478 £448 £360
25th Percentile £500 £453 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -1.04% -26.15%
75th Percentile £561 £575 £567
90th Percentile £724 £669 £574
London median daily rate £541 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -5.93% +4.55% -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 74 28 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 22.98% 14.36% 19.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 14 37
10th Percentile £340 £177 £185
25th Percentile £484 £222 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £460 £375
Median % change year-on-year +12.34% +22.67% -35.62%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £550
90th Percentile £634 £581 £571
London median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £18.69
25th Percentile - - £26.99
Median hourly rate £67.70 £34.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +99.12% -22.45% -30.06%
75th Percentile - - £48.37
90th Percentile - - £49.28
London median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £22.23
% change year-on-year -3.71% +19.01% -19.18%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +4 41 £528 +11.05% 1
Sutton - 5 £530 -
Bromley 0 1 - -
Merton - 1 £413 - 1
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £413 - 1
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 (11.54%) Confluence
2 3 (5.77%) nginx
2 3 (5.77%) SAS
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 35 (67.31%) AWS
2 26 (50.00%) Azure
3 13 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 13 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 12 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (23.08%) GCP
4 12 (23.08%) GitHub
5 11 (21.15%) Serverless
6 10 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (17.31%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (13.46%) Azure AKS
9 7 (13.46%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 7 (13.46%) Azure Data Factory
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 Monitor
9 7 (13.46%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.54%) Network Security
2 2 (3.85%) IPv4
2 2 (3.85%) IPv6
3 1 (1.92%) Firewall
3 1 (1.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (13.46%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.85%) Big Data
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 10 (19.23%) Git
2 9 (17.31%) GitLab
2 9 (17.31%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.54%) JIRA
4 4 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 4 (7.69%) JUnit
5 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (3.85%) DbUnit
5 2 (3.85%) jMock
5 2 (3.85%) Maven
5 2 (3.85%) Mockito
5 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.92%) JMeter
6 1 (1.92%) Selenium
6 1 (1.92%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (21.15%) Public Sector
2 6 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Finance
5 2 (3.85%) Legal
5 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Military
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) 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%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
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 12 (23.08%) Node.js
2 10 (19.23%) React
2 10 (19.23%) Spring
3 9 (17.31%) AngularJS
4 8 (15.38%) .NET
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 4 (7.69%) Spring Boot
9 3 (5.77%) AWS CDK
9 3 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (5.77%) REST
10 2 (3.85%) Next.js
10 2 (3.85%) Spring Batch
10 2 (3.85%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Cloud Native
2 7 (13.46%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
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
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (80.77%) CI/CD
2 32 (61.54%) DevOps
3 28 (53.85%) Containerisation
4 24 (46.15%) Agile
4 24 (46.15%) Microservices
5 20 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (17.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (15.38%) AI
8 8 (15.38%) Analytics
8 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (15.38%) RBAC
8 8 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 8 (15.38%) TDD
9 7 (13.46%) Machine Learning
9 7 (13.46%) Software Engineering
10 6 (11.54%) Continuous Delivery
10 6 (11.54%) Data Science
10 6 (11.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (50.00%) Python
2 17 (32.69%) SQL
3 11 (21.15%) Java
3 11 (21.15%) JavaScript
4 9 (17.31%) Bash
5 8 (15.38%) C#
6 7 (13.46%) Bicep
7 4 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 3 (5.77%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.92%) Ruby
9 1 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (71.15%) Security Cleared
2 35 (67.31%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.54%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (7.69%) Degree
4 4 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) GDPR
2 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) NIST
2 2 (3.85%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.92%) PSD2
System Software
1 13 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.92%) Postfix
2 1 (1.92%) Squid
Systems Management
1 31 (59.62%) Kubernetes
2 22 (42.31%) Terraform
3 14 (26.92%) Grafana
4 7 (13.46%) Ansible
4 7 (13.46%) Prometheus
4 7 (13.46%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (11.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (9.62%) Puppet
7 3 (5.77%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (3.85%) Consul
8 2 (3.85%) Packer
9 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
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
5 2 (3.85%) Google
5 2 (3.85%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.92%) VMware