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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 24 10
Rank change year-on-year +16 -14 0
Contract jobs citing Docker 49 17 36
As % of all contract jobs in South London 23.90% 7.46% 14.34%
As % of the System Software category 66.22% 60.71% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 10 29
10th Percentile £492 £532 £463
25th Percentile £500 £538 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -4.18% -6.25%
75th Percentile £558 £564 £638
90th Percentile £634 £582 £675
London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -11.54%

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 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 36.10% 12.28% 23.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 20 48
10th Percentile £413 £181 £185
25th Percentile £462 £198 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.16% -7.32% -10.87%
75th Percentile £550 £539 £609
90th Percentile £598 £565 £666
London median daily rate £540 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £24.22
25th Percentile - - £40.82
Median hourly rate £67.70 - £43.84
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.21%
75th Percentile - - £49.88
90th Percentile - - £63.45
London median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £32.50
% change year-on-year +5.67% -26.77% +30.00%

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 January 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 January 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 +7 38 £520 -3.35% 1
Sutton - 5 £530 -
Bromley -4 2 £750 +3.45% 9
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 15 (30.61%) Confluence
2 13 (26.53%) nginx
3 5 (10.20%) SAS
4 1 (2.04%) Apache
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 35 (71.43%) AWS
2 31 (63.27%) Azure
3 17 (34.69%) Amazon S3
4 16 (32.65%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (30.61%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (24.49%) Entra ID
6 12 (24.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (20.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (20.41%) Amazon ELB
7 10 (20.41%) AWS KMS
7 10 (20.41%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (20.41%) Route 53
8 8 (16.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (16.33%) GCP
8 8 (16.33%) GitHub
9 7 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
9 7 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.41%) DNS
1 10 (20.41%) Firewall
1 10 (20.41%) FTP
1 10 (20.41%) HTTP
1 10 (20.41%) IMAP
1 10 (20.41%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (20.41%) SMTP
1 10 (20.41%) SSH
2 5 (10.20%) Network Security
3 1 (2.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (30.61%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (20.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (32.65%) Git
2 15 (30.61%) JIRA
3 14 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 10 (20.41%) Vagrant
5 4 (8.16%) GitLab
6 1 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.04%) JUnit
General
1 16 (32.65%) Public Sector
2 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
3 10 (20.41%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Finance
5 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (22.45%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (22.45%) Developer
3 10 (20.41%) AWS DevOps
3 10 (20.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 10 (20.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 10 (20.41%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (18.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 8 (16.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Senior
7 5 (10.20%) Site Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 4 (8.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Azure Developer
8 4 (8.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Backend Developer
10 2 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (4.08%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.53%) Node.js
2 12 (24.49%) React
3 10 (20.41%) LDAP
4 7 (14.29%) .NET
4 7 (14.29%) .NET Core
4 7 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 7 (14.29%) PyTorch
4 7 (14.29%) Spring
4 7 (14.29%) TensorFlow
5 5 (10.20%) ARM Templates
5 5 (10.20%) Entity Framework
5 5 (10.20%) Kafka
5 5 (10.20%) SailPoint
5 5 (10.20%) YAML
6 1 (2.04%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.04%) OAuth
6 1 (2.04%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.04%) OpenID
6 1 (2.04%) Playwright
6 1 (2.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Replication
2 7 (14.29%) AI Agents
3 6 (12.24%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.04%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (38.78%) Linux
2 10 (20.41%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (20.41%) Ubuntu
2 10 (20.41%) VMS
2 10 (20.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (91.84%) CI/CD
2 33 (67.35%) DevOps
3 21 (42.86%) Agile
3 21 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 20 (40.82%) Microservices
5 15 (30.61%) Configuration Management
6 13 (26.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (22.45%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (20.41%) Change Management
8 10 (20.41%) Cloud Security
8 10 (20.41%) Patch Management
8 10 (20.41%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (18.37%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (16.33%) Analytics
10 8 (16.33%) RBAC
10 8 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
11 7 (14.29%) Machine Learning
11 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 32 (65.31%) Python
2 22 (44.90%) SQL
3 12 (24.49%) JavaScript
4 11 (22.45%) PowerShell
5 10 (20.41%) Groovy
6 8 (16.33%) Bash
6 8 (16.33%) Java
7 7 (14.29%) Bicep
7 7 (14.29%) C#
8 6 (12.24%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (67.35%) SC Cleared
1 33 (67.35%) Security Cleared
2 14 (28.57%) Degree
3 12 (24.49%) AWS Certification
3 12 (24.49%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 11 (22.45%) Active Directory
1 11 (22.45%) Squid
2 10 (20.41%) DFS Replication
2 10 (20.41%) Dovecot
2 10 (20.41%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 27 (55.10%) Terraform
2 26 (53.06%) Kubernetes
3 18 (36.73%) Grafana
4 12 (24.49%) Prometheus
5 10 (20.41%) Nessus
5 10 (20.41%) Proxmox
6 6 (12.24%) Ansible
6 6 (12.24%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (10.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (10.20%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (10.20%) Puppet
8 2 (4.08%) Consul
8 2 (4.08%) Packer
9 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (30.61%) Microsoft
2 10 (20.41%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (20.41%) ServiceNow
3 7 (14.29%) Databricks
3 7 (14.29%) OpenAI
4 5 (10.20%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace