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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 12 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -12
Contract jobs citing Docker 36 27 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 20.34% 13.37% 8.83%
As % of the System Software category 52.94% 62.79% 56.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 25
10th Percentile £499 £454 £463
25th Percentile £511 £506 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £538 £563
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -4.36% -6.25%
75th Percentile £608 £565 £638
90th Percentile £632 £567 £675
London median daily rate £541 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -5.87% -8.00% -

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 68 43 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 38.42% 21.29% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 34 35
10th Percentile £299 £200 £200
25th Percentile £413 £407 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £491 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% -6.43% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £600
90th Percentile £632 £566 £675
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £37.33
25th Percentile - - £40.82
Median hourly rate - - £43.84
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.05%
75th Percentile - - £65.11
90th Percentile - - £69.54
London median hourly rate £25.58 £23.80 £60.00
% change year-on-year +7.46% -60.33% +45.45%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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
Croydon +2 35 £550 +2.23% 2
Bromley - 1 £750 - 2
Docker
London

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 11 (30.56%) Confluence
1 11 (30.56%) nginx
2 4 (11.11%) MQSeries
3 2 (5.56%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (27.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 27 (75.00%) AWS
2 16 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
2 16 (44.44%) Azure
3 14 (38.89%) Amazon S3
4 12 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (30.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (30.56%) AWS KMS
5 11 (30.56%) Route 53
5 11 (30.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (27.78%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (16.67%) GCP
8 4 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (11.11%) Serverless
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.78%) DNS
1 10 (27.78%) Firewall
1 10 (27.78%) FTP
1 10 (27.78%) HTTP
1 10 (27.78%) IMAP
1 10 (27.78%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (27.78%) SMTP
1 10 (27.78%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (38.89%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (36.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (19.44%) Relational Database
5 4 (11.11%) Redis
6 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (61.11%) Jenkins
2 16 (44.44%) Git
3 11 (30.56%) JIRA
3 11 (30.56%) Vagrant
4 10 (27.78%) JUnit
4 10 (27.78%) Mockito
5 5 (13.89%) Gradle
5 5 (13.89%) Liquibase
6 3 (8.33%) Maven
6 3 (8.33%) SonarQube
7 2 (5.56%) JMeter
8 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (2.78%) DbUnit
8 1 (2.78%) GitLab
8 1 (2.78%) jMock
8 1 (2.78%) Storybook
General
1 22 (61.11%) Public Sector
2 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
3 10 (27.78%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (16.67%) Finance
5 5 (13.89%) Electronics
5 5 (13.89%) Manufacturing
5 5 (13.89%) Marketing
5 5 (13.89%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) Developer
3 11 (30.56%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (27.78%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (27.78%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 10 (27.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 10 (27.78%) Java Developer
5 9 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 8 (22.22%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 5 (13.89%) Java Engineer
7 5 (13.89%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 5 (13.89%) Software Engineer
8 4 (11.11%) Lead
9 3 (8.33%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 3 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (8.33%) Senior
9 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
9 3 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (44.44%) Spring
2 10 (27.78%) LDAP
2 10 (27.78%) Spring Boot
3 9 (25.00%) Kafka
4 8 (22.22%) React
5 6 (16.67%) JSON
5 6 (16.67%) REST
5 6 (16.67%) XML
6 5 (13.89%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (13.89%) OpenAPI
6 5 (13.89%) Swagger
7 4 (11.11%) EDIFACT
7 4 (11.11%) Hibernate
8 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
8 3 (8.33%) Bootstrap
8 3 (8.33%) JPA
8 3 (8.33%) Node.js
8 3 (8.33%) SOAP
8 3 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (38.89%) Replication
2 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 12 (33.33%) Linux
2 10 (27.78%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (27.78%) Ubuntu
2 10 (27.78%) VMS
2 10 (27.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (80.56%) CI/CD
2 25 (69.44%) DevOps
3 17 (47.22%) Microservices
4 16 (44.44%) TDD
5 14 (38.89%) Agile
5 14 (38.89%) Containerisation
6 11 (30.56%) Cloud Security
6 11 (30.56%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (27.78%) Change Management
7 10 (27.78%) Configuration Management
7 10 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (27.78%) Patch Management
7 10 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (13.89%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (13.89%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (13.89%) Digital Marketing
8 5 (13.89%) Domain-Driven Design
8 5 (13.89%) Migration
8 5 (13.89%) Programme Management
8 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (55.56%) Java
2 16 (44.44%) SQL
3 15 (41.67%) Python
4 10 (27.78%) Groovy
4 10 (27.78%) PowerShell
5 7 (19.44%) TypeScript
6 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.78%) Bash
Qualifications
1 31 (86.11%) SC Cleared
1 31 (86.11%) Security Cleared
2 11 (30.56%) AWS Certification
2 11 (30.56%) Azure Certification
2 11 (30.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 11 (30.56%) Postfix
2 10 (27.78%) DFS Replication
2 10 (27.78%) Dovecot
2 10 (27.78%) Squid
Systems Management
1 18 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (36.11%) Grafana
2 13 (36.11%) Prometheus
2 13 (36.11%) Terraform
3 10 (27.78%) Nessus
3 10 (27.78%) Proxmox
4 2 (5.56%) Ansible
4 2 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (5.56%) Kibana
5 1 (2.78%) Consul
5 1 (2.78%) Packer
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (27.78%) ServiceNow
3 5 (13.89%) SAP
4 4 (11.11%) Confluent
5 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.56%) Splunk
6 1 (2.78%) Atlassian