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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Docker 31 30 25
As % of all contract jobs in South London 10.20% 17.86% 11.85%
As % of the System Software category 62.00% 58.82% 60.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 19
10th Percentile £469 £454 £360
25th Percentile £492 £476 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £541 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +8.25% -16.67%
75th Percentile £581 £597 £550
90th Percentile £739 £621 £567
London median daily rate £545 £539 £550
% change year-on-year +1.16% -2.05% -12.00%

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 50 51 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 16.45% 30.36% 19.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 26 34
10th Percentile £185 £231 £200
25th Percentile £462 £425 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £510 £428
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% +19.30% -18.57%
75th Percentile £576 £597 £522
90th Percentile £716 £632 £562
London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.82
Median hourly rate £67.70 £34.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +99.12% -22.45% -
75th Percentile - - £46.86
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +98.49% +17.56% -62.50%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -6 29 £538 -0.61% 1
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £413 -
Merton - 1 £413 -
Bromley - 1 - - 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 5 (16.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (74.19%) AWS
2 18 (58.06%) Azure
3 12 (38.71%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (38.71%) Amazon S3
4 11 (35.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (25.81%) GCP
5 8 (25.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (22.58%) AWS KMS
7 6 (19.35%) Azure Service Fabric
7 6 (19.35%) Entra ID
7 6 (19.35%) PaaS
8 5 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (16.13%) GitHub
8 5 (16.13%) Serverless
9 4 (12.90%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (12.90%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (12.90%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (12.90%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) IPv4
2 2 (6.45%) IPv6
3 1 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (22.58%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (22.58%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (12.90%) DynamoDB
4 2 (6.45%) Big Data
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Jenkins
2 9 (29.03%) Git
3 6 (19.35%) GitLab
4 5 (16.13%) JIRA
4 5 (16.13%) JUnit
5 4 (12.90%) Bitbucket
5 4 (12.90%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (12.90%) DbUnit
5 4 (12.90%) jMock
5 4 (12.90%) Maven
5 4 (12.90%) Mockito
5 4 (12.90%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.23%) JMeter
6 1 (3.23%) Selenium
6 1 (3.23%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Public Sector
3 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Legal
5 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.23%) Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Finance
6 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Architect
3 6 (19.35%) Developer
3 6 (19.35%) Java Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Technical Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Applications Architect
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Technical Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) DBA
6 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) Spring
2 7 (22.58%) Spring Boot
3 6 (19.35%) ARM Templates
3 6 (19.35%) Entity Framework
3 6 (19.35%) SailPoint
3 6 (19.35%) YAML
4 5 (16.13%) REST
5 4 (12.90%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (12.90%) AngularJS
5 4 (12.90%) Bootstrap
5 4 (12.90%) Hibernate
5 4 (12.90%) JPA
5 4 (12.90%) PowerMock
5 4 (12.90%) RESTful
5 4 (12.90%) SOAP
5 4 (12.90%) Spring Batch
5 4 (12.90%) Spring Cloud
5 4 (12.90%) Spring Integration
5 4 (12.90%) Web Services
6 3 (9.68%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.68%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (9.68%) Replication
3 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Linux
2 4 (12.90%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (74.19%) CI/CD
2 22 (70.97%) DevOps
3 17 (54.84%) Microservices
4 14 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (41.94%) Containerisation
6 12 (38.71%) Agile
6 12 (38.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (29.03%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (19.35%) B2C
8 6 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (16.13%) BDD
9 5 (16.13%) Observability
9 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (16.13%) Scrum
9 5 (16.13%) TDD
9 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
9 5 (16.13%) TOGAF
10 4 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (12.90%) Kanban
10 4 (12.90%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) SQL
2 11 (35.48%) Java
3 9 (29.03%) Python
4 3 (9.68%) Groovy
4 3 (9.68%) Perl
4 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.68%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.23%) Bash
5 1 (3.23%) C#
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (93.55%) Security Cleared
2 27 (87.10%) SC Cleared
3 10 (32.26%) AWS Certification
4 8 (25.81%) Azure Certification
5 4 (12.90%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (6.45%) Degree
6 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.23%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) GDPR
2 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.45%) NIST
3 1 (3.23%) ISO 20022
3 1 (3.23%) PSD2
3 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.68%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 12 (38.71%) Kubernetes
2 11 (35.48%) Grafana
3 8 (25.81%) Prometheus
3 8 (25.81%) Terraform
4 6 (19.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 6 (19.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Atlassian
2 4 (12.90%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.45%) Google
5 1 (3.23%) VMware