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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 21 11
Rank change year-on-year +15 -10 -1
Contract jobs citing Docker 45 16 36
As % of all contract jobs in South London 22.73% 7.58% 13.38%
As % of the System Software category 60.81% 57.14% 58.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 10 28
10th Percentile £494 £498 £485
25th Percentile £505 - £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £569
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% -5.41% -5.21%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £638
90th Percentile £694 £565 £675
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -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 74 28 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 37.37% 13.27% 23.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 20 43
10th Percentile £413 £189 £185
25th Percentile £458 £200 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £571 £538 £600
90th Percentile £654 £562 £658
London median daily rate £525 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -2.42% +0.09% -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% +99.76%

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 19 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 19 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 +10 37 £528 -1.95% 12
Sutton - 4 £530 - 1
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 15 (33.33%) Confluence
2 14 (31.11%) nginx
3 5 (11.11%) SAS
4 4 (8.89%) MQSeries
5 1 (2.22%) Apache
5 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (22.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 35 (77.78%) AWS
2 24 (53.33%) Azure
3 17 (37.78%) Amazon S3
4 16 (35.56%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (31.11%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (24.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (24.44%) AWS KMS
6 11 (24.44%) Route 53
6 11 (24.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (22.22%) Amazon ELB
7 10 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (17.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (17.78%) GCP
9 6 (13.33%) GitHub
10 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
10 5 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.22%) DNS
1 10 (22.22%) Firewall
1 10 (22.22%) FTP
1 10 (22.22%) HTTP
1 10 (22.22%) IMAP
1 10 (22.22%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (22.22%) SMTP
1 10 (22.22%) SSH
2 3 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (24.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (8.89%) Redis
4 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (40.00%) Git
2 15 (33.33%) JIRA
3 14 (31.11%) Jenkins
4 10 (22.22%) Vagrant
5 2 (4.44%) GitLab
6 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (2.22%) DbUnit
6 1 (2.22%) jMock
6 1 (2.22%) JUnit
6 1 (2.22%) Maven
6 1 (2.22%) Mockito
6 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (37.78%) Public Sector
2 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 10 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Finance
5 2 (4.44%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Developer
2 12 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (24.44%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
4 10 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (22.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 10 (22.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 8 (17.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 8 (17.78%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 6 (13.33%) Java Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Senior
7 4 (8.89%) Site Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Azure Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Backend Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) DevOps Specialist
9 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) Node.js
2 10 (22.22%) LDAP
2 10 (22.22%) React
3 8 (17.78%) Spring
4 7 (15.56%) Kafka
5 6 (13.33%) AngularJS
6 5 (11.11%) .NET
6 5 (11.11%) .NET Core
6 5 (11.11%) PyTorch
6 5 (11.11%) TensorFlow
7 4 (8.89%) EDIFACT
7 4 (8.89%) JSON
7 4 (8.89%) XML
8 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
8 1 (2.22%) JPA
8 1 (2.22%) PowerMock
8 1 (2.22%) REST
8 1 (2.22%) RESTful
8 1 (2.22%) Spring Batch
8 1 (2.22%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) Replication
2 6 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 5 (11.11%) AI Agents
4 4 (8.89%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (42.22%) Linux
2 10 (22.22%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (22.22%) Ubuntu
2 10 (22.22%) VMS
2 10 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 25 (55.56%) DevOps
3 18 (40.00%) Agile
3 18 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 14 (31.11%) Configuration Management
4 14 (31.11%) Microservices
5 12 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
6 11 (24.44%) Cloud Security
7 10 (22.22%) Change Management
7 10 (22.22%) Patch Management
7 10 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (17.78%) TDD
10 7 (15.56%) Continuous Delivery
10 7 (15.56%) Design Patterns
11 6 (13.33%) Code Quality
11 6 (13.33%) Domain-Driven Design
11 6 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 28 (62.22%) Python
2 16 (35.56%) SQL
3 12 (26.67%) Java
4 10 (22.22%) Groovy
4 10 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 10 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 6 (13.33%) Bash
6 5 (11.11%) Bicep
6 5 (11.11%) C#
6 5 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (68.89%) SC Cleared
1 31 (68.89%) Security Cleared
2 14 (31.11%) Degree
3 12 (26.67%) AWS Certification
3 12 (26.67%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.44%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 11 (24.44%) Postfix
2 10 (22.22%) DFS Replication
2 10 (22.22%) Dovecot
2 10 (22.22%) Squid
3 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (62.22%) Kubernetes
2 24 (53.33%) Terraform
3 16 (35.56%) Grafana
4 11 (24.44%) Prometheus
5 10 (22.22%) Nessus
5 10 (22.22%) Proxmox
6 5 (11.11%) Ansible
6 5 (11.11%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (8.89%) Puppet
8 3 (6.67%) Consul
8 3 (6.67%) Packer
9 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
4 5 (11.11%) Databricks
4 5 (11.11%) OpenAI
5 4 (8.89%) Confluent
5 4 (8.89%) PagerDuty
6 2 (4.44%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace