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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +10
Contract jobs citing Docker 45 35 28
As % of all contract jobs in South London 15.63% 19.77% 14.81%
As % of the System Software category 81.82% 55.56% 63.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 17 18
10th Percentile £478 £458 £448
25th Percentile £490 £475 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% -1.49% -6.43%
75th Percentile £554 £588 £558
90th Percentile £723 £630 £567
London median daily rate £550 £530 £565
% change year-on-year +3.77% -6.19% -9.60%

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 55 63 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 19.10% 35.59% 23.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 34 33
10th Percentile £463 £224 £200
25th Percentile £493 £416 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £483
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -1.55% -11.26%
75th Percentile £563 £578 £538
90th Percentile £684 £630 £566
London median daily rate £525 £523 £518
% change year-on-year +0.48% +0.97% -5.99%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -3 38 £535 +0.94% 4
Bromley - 6 £650 - 1
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 7 (15.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 33 (73.33%) AWS
2 20 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 16 (35.56%) Azure
4 14 (31.11%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (28.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (22.22%) GitHub
7 9 (20.00%) AWS KMS
7 9 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (17.78%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (17.78%) GCP
8 8 (17.78%) Serverless
8 8 (17.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (15.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (8.89%) OpenShift
11 3 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (6.67%) Datadog
11 3 (6.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (4.44%) IPv4
2 2 (4.44%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (8.89%) Oracle Database
5 3 (6.67%) DynamoDB
5 3 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.67%) MySQL
5 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.44%) Big Data
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 22 (48.89%) Jenkins
2 20 (44.44%) Git
3 8 (17.78%) Bitbucket
4 7 (15.56%) JIRA
5 6 (13.33%) Maven
6 4 (8.89%) GitLab
7 3 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (6.67%) DbUnit
7 3 (6.67%) Gradle
7 3 (6.67%) jMock
7 3 (6.67%) JUnit
7 3 (6.67%) Mockito
7 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.22%) REST Assured
General
1 18 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 8 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Finance
5 2 (4.44%) Legal
5 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (37.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (33.33%) Developer
2 15 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 8 (17.78%) Senior
4 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 4 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) DBA
5 4 (8.89%) Scrum Master
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Backend Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Java Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Lead
7 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (44.44%) Spring
2 17 (37.78%) Terraform
3 13 (28.89%) Spring Boot
4 9 (20.00%) RESTful
5 5 (11.11%) REST
6 4 (8.89%) Jakarta EE
6 4 (8.89%) JDBC
6 4 (8.89%) JMS
7 3 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 3 (6.67%) CSS
7 3 (6.67%) Hibernate
7 3 (6.67%) HTML
7 3 (6.67%) J2SE
7 3 (6.67%) JPA
7 3 (6.67%) PowerMock
7 3 (6.67%) SOAP
7 3 (6.67%) Spring Batch
7 3 (6.67%) Spring Integration
7 3 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.33%) Replication
3 4 (8.89%) Spread Betting
4 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.89%) Linux
2 6 (13.33%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (86.67%) CI/CD
2 26 (57.78%) Agile
2 26 (57.78%) DevOps
3 20 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 20 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (44.44%) Microservices
4 18 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (24.44%) Scrum
6 10 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 9 (20.00%) Design Patterns
7 9 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (17.78%) Observability
8 8 (17.78%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (15.56%) Code Quality
9 7 (15.56%) Software Engineering
10 6 (13.33%) Migration
10 6 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (60.00%) Java
2 14 (31.11%) Python
2 14 (31.11%) SQL
3 9 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.33%) Groovy
4 6 (13.33%) Perl
5 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.89%) Bash
6 4 (8.89%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 38 (84.44%) SC Cleared
3 13 (28.89%) AWS Certification
4 10 (22.22%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.44%) Degree
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) GDPR
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.44%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 29 (64.44%) Kubernetes
2 16 (35.56%) Grafana
3 14 (31.11%) Prometheus
4 6 (13.33%) Ansible
5 3 (6.67%) Karpenter
5 3 (6.67%) Kibana
6 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Oracle
2 6 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 5 (11.11%) Google
4 3 (6.67%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.67%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.22%) VMware