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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 20 14
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Docker 37 17 35
As % of all contract jobs in South London 19.89% 8.10% 12.96%
As % of the System Software category 55.22% 56.67% 54.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 28
10th Percentile £480 £475 £485
25th Percentile £504 £519 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £538 £569
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -5.41% -5.21%
75th Percentile £608 £551 £638
90th Percentile £697 £565 £675
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%

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 67 30 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 36.02% 14.29% 23.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 22 45
10th Percentile £398 £190 £185
25th Percentile £422 £200 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.42% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £591 £538 £600
90th Percentile £680 £559 £653
London median daily rate £525 £526 £538
% change year-on-year -0.19% -2.14% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £26.26
25th Percentile - - £37.91
Median hourly rate - - £43.84
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.54%
75th Percentile - - £57.49
90th Percentile - - £68.06
London median hourly rate £24.00 £23.80 £49.94
% change year-on-year +0.84% -52.34% +76.78%

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 November 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 7 November 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 +9 35 £528 -1.95% 9
Bromley - 2 £750 - 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 12 (32.43%) Confluence
1 12 (32.43%) nginx
2 5 (13.51%) SAS
3 4 (10.81%) MQSeries
4 1 (2.70%) Apache
4 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 30 (81.08%) AWS
2 19 (51.35%) Azure
3 15 (40.54%) Amazon S3
4 14 (37.84%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (29.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (29.73%) AWS KMS
5 11 (29.73%) Route 53
5 11 (29.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (27.03%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (27.03%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (27.03%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (18.92%) GCP
8 5 (13.51%) Serverless
9 4 (10.81%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (5.41%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.03%) DNS
1 10 (27.03%) Firewall
1 10 (27.03%) FTP
1 10 (27.03%) HTTP
1 10 (27.03%) IMAP
1 10 (27.03%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (27.03%) SMTP
1 10 (27.03%) SSH
2 2 (5.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (62.16%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (37.84%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (35.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (10.81%) Redis
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (48.65%) Git
2 15 (40.54%) Jenkins
3 12 (32.43%) JIRA
4 10 (27.03%) Vagrant
5 3 (8.11%) JUnit
5 3 (8.11%) Maven
5 3 (8.11%) Mockito
5 3 (8.11%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (2.70%) DbUnit
6 1 (2.70%) GitLab
6 1 (2.70%) jMock
6 1 (2.70%) Storybook
General
1 16 (43.24%) Public Sector
2 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
3 10 (27.03%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (32.43%) Developer
3 11 (29.73%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (27.03%) AWS DevOps
4 10 (27.03%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (27.03%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 10 (27.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 8 (21.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 8 (21.62%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 8 (21.62%) Java Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Lead
6 3 (8.11%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Specialist
7 2 (5.41%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.03%) LDAP
1 10 (27.03%) Spring
2 8 (21.62%) Node.js
2 8 (21.62%) React
3 5 (13.51%) AngularJS
4 4 (10.81%) EDIFACT
4 4 (10.81%) JSON
4 4 (10.81%) Kafka
4 4 (10.81%) REST
4 4 (10.81%) XML
5 3 (8.11%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (8.11%) Bootstrap
5 3 (8.11%) JPA
5 3 (8.11%) SOAP
5 3 (8.11%) Spring Boot
5 3 (8.11%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (5.41%) .NET
6 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
6 2 (5.41%) PyTorch
6 2 (5.41%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (37.84%) Replication
2 4 (10.81%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.41%) AI Agents
3 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (35.14%) Linux
2 10 (27.03%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (27.03%) Ubuntu
2 10 (27.03%) VMS
2 10 (27.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (78.38%) CI/CD
2 24 (64.86%) DevOps
3 14 (37.84%) Containerisation
4 13 (35.14%) Microservices
5 12 (32.43%) Agile
6 11 (29.73%) Cloud Security
6 11 (29.73%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (27.03%) Change Management
7 10 (27.03%) Configuration Management
7 10 (27.03%) Patch Management
7 10 (27.03%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (27.03%) TDD
8 7 (18.92%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (16.22%) Design Patterns
10 5 (13.51%) Code Quality
10 5 (13.51%) CQRS
10 5 (13.51%) Domain-Driven Design
10 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) Python
2 14 (37.84%) Java
2 14 (37.84%) SQL
3 10 (27.03%) Groovy
3 10 (27.03%) PowerShell
4 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
5 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.41%) Bicep
6 2 (5.41%) C#
7 1 (2.70%) Bash
7 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (81.08%) SC Cleared
1 30 (81.08%) Security Cleared
2 12 (32.43%) AWS Certification
2 12 (32.43%) Azure Certification
2 12 (32.43%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.41%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 11 (29.73%) Postfix
2 10 (27.03%) DFS Replication
2 10 (27.03%) Dovecot
2 10 (27.03%) Squid
3 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (62.16%) Kubernetes
2 16 (43.24%) Terraform
3 13 (35.14%) Grafana
3 13 (35.14%) Prometheus
4 10 (27.03%) Nessus
4 10 (27.03%) Proxmox
5 5 (13.51%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (5.41%) Consul
6 2 (5.41%) Packer
7 1 (2.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (27.03%) ServiceNow
3 4 (10.81%) Confluent
4 2 (5.41%) Databricks
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.41%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.70%) Atlassian