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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing Docker 48 36 27
As % of all contract jobs in South London 15.43% 19.89% 13.24%
As % of the System Software category 87.27% 54.55% 61.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 17 19
10th Percentile £478 £500 £454
25th Percentile £488 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £565 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +5.09% -4.36%
75th Percentile £551 £630 £565
90th Percentile £645 £680 £567
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -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 55 66 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 17.68% 36.46% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 32 34
10th Percentile £478 £284 £200
25th Percentile £502 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £491
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +5.85% -6.43%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £538
90th Percentile £676 £671 £566
London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -2 40 £535 -2.73% 1
Bromley +10 7 £713 -5.00% 1
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £413 -
Merton - 1 £413 - 2
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 9 (18.75%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 36 (75.00%) AWS
2 23 (47.92%) Amazon S3
3 17 (35.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 17 (35.42%) Amazon EC2
4 16 (33.33%) Azure
5 12 (25.00%) GitHub
5 12 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (22.92%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (20.83%) AWS KMS
7 10 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (20.83%) Serverless
8 9 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (14.58%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (14.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (12.50%) GCP
11 5 (10.42%) OpenShift
12 4 (8.33%) Route 53
13 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (4.17%) Amazon ELB
14 2 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.75%) Firewall
2 2 (4.17%) DNS
2 2 (4.17%) FTP
2 2 (4.17%) HTTP
2 2 (4.17%) IMAP
2 2 (4.17%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (4.17%) SMTP
2 2 (4.17%) SSH
2 2 (4.17%) VPN
3 1 (2.08%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (27.08%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (20.83%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (10.42%) Oracle Database
5 3 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.25%) MySQL
5 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (56.25%) Jenkins
2 21 (43.75%) Git
3 9 (18.75%) Bitbucket
3 9 (18.75%) JIRA
4 5 (10.42%) Maven
5 3 (6.25%) Gradle
6 2 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (4.17%) DbUnit
6 2 (4.17%) GitLab
6 2 (4.17%) jMock
6 2 (4.17%) JUnit
6 2 (4.17%) Mockito
6 2 (4.17%) REST Assured
6 2 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.17%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Finance
4 3 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 19 (39.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (31.25%) Developer
2 15 (31.25%) Java Developer
3 9 (18.75%) Senior
4 8 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) Scrum Master
6 6 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) Lead
7 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (10.42%) Senior Developer
7 5 (10.42%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (8.33%) DBA
8 4 (8.33%) Java Scrum Master
8 4 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Technical Leader
9 3 (6.25%) Backend Developer
9 3 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (47.92%) Spring
2 20 (41.67%) Terraform
3 15 (31.25%) Spring Boot
4 11 (22.92%) RESTful
5 5 (10.42%) Jakarta EE
5 5 (10.42%) JDBC
5 5 (10.42%) JMS
6 4 (8.33%) REST
7 3 (6.25%) CSS
7 3 (6.25%) HTML
7 3 (6.25%) J2SE
7 3 (6.25%) Java SE
7 3 (6.25%) Keycloak
7 3 (6.25%) Next.js
7 3 (6.25%) Spring MVC
8 2 (4.17%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (4.17%) Bootstrap
8 2 (4.17%) SOAP
8 2 (4.17%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.08%) Product Ownership
2 9 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 8 (16.67%) Replication
4 5 (10.42%) Spread Betting
5 3 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.17%) Linux
2 8 (16.67%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (6.25%) Windows
4 2 (4.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.08%) VMS
5 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 30 (62.50%) Agile
2 30 (62.50%) DevOps
3 24 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 24 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (47.92%) Microservices
5 19 (39.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (27.08%) Root Cause Analysis
6 13 (27.08%) Scrum
7 12 (25.00%) Design Patterns
7 12 (25.00%) Observability
8 11 (22.92%) Test Automation
9 10 (20.83%) Code Quality
9 10 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (16.67%) Clean Code
10 8 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
10 8 (16.67%) Software Engineering
10 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (14.58%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 30 (62.50%) Java
2 16 (33.33%) SQL
3 15 (31.25%) Python
4 10 (20.83%) PowerShell
5 8 (16.67%) Groovy
6 6 (12.50%) Perl
7 5 (10.42%) Bash
7 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
7 5 (10.42%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 40 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 16 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 10 (20.83%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.08%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) QA
System Software
1 7 (14.58%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.33%) Postfix
3 2 (4.17%) DFS Replication
3 2 (4.17%) Dovecot
3 2 (4.17%) Squid
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (56.25%) Kubernetes
2 14 (29.17%) Grafana
3 12 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 8 (16.67%) Ansible
5 4 (8.33%) Nessus
6 3 (6.25%) Karpenter
6 3 (6.25%) Kibana
7 2 (4.17%) Proxmox
8 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.08%) Puppet
8 1 (2.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (16.67%) Oracle
1 8 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 4 (8.33%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.25%) Google
4 2 (4.17%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.08%) VMware