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

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 14 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Docker 34 24 32
As % of all contract jobs in South London 19.65% 11.71% 10.39%
As % of the System Software category 53.13% 61.54% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 29
10th Percentile £500 £471 £475
25th Percentile £513 £500 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £538 £563
Median % change year-on-year +5.09% -4.36% -6.25%
75th Percentile £630 £545 £638
90th Percentile £680 £565 £675
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%

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 64 39 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 36.99% 19.02% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 29 42
10th Percentile £284 £200 £200
25th Percentile £413 £405 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.77% -8.10% -6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £628
90th Percentile £671 £562 £674
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £37.33
25th Percentile - - £40.82
Median hourly rate - - £43.84
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.50%
75th Percentile - - £65.11
90th Percentile - - £69.54
London median hourly rate £24.58 £23.99 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.44% -60.02% +41.18%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +1 32 £550 +2.23%
Bromley - 2 £750 - 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 11 (32.35%) Confluence
1 11 (32.35%) nginx
2 4 (11.76%) MQSeries
3 2 (5.88%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (29.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 28 (82.35%) AWS
2 17 (50.00%) Azure
3 16 (47.06%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (41.18%) Amazon S3
5 12 (35.29%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (32.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (32.35%) AWS KMS
6 11 (32.35%) Route 53
6 11 (32.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (29.41%) Amazon ELB
7 10 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (20.59%) GCP
9 4 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (11.76%) Serverless
10 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (29.41%) DNS
1 10 (29.41%) Firewall
1 10 (29.41%) FTP
1 10 (29.41%) HTTP
1 10 (29.41%) IMAP
1 10 (29.41%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (29.41%) SMTP
1 10 (29.41%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (70.59%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (41.18%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (38.24%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (11.76%) Redis
4 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.88%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (55.88%) Jenkins
2 16 (47.06%) Git
3 11 (32.35%) JIRA
3 11 (32.35%) Vagrant
4 7 (20.59%) JUnit
4 7 (20.59%) Mockito
5 3 (8.82%) Maven
5 3 (8.82%) SonarQube
6 2 (5.88%) Gradle
6 2 (5.88%) JMeter
6 2 (5.88%) Liquibase
7 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (2.94%) DbUnit
7 1 (2.94%) GitLab
7 1 (2.94%) jMock
7 1 (2.94%) Storybook
General
1 19 (55.88%) Public Sector
2 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 10 (29.41%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Finance
5 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Banking
6 2 (5.88%) Electronics
6 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.88%) Marketing
6 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (35.29%) Developer
3 11 (32.35%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (29.41%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (29.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 10 (29.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 10 (29.41%) Java Developer
5 9 (26.47%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (23.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 8 (23.53%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 4 (11.76%) Lead
8 3 (8.82%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 3 (8.82%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (8.82%) Senior
8 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
8 3 (8.82%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (5.88%) Architect
9 2 (5.88%) Java Engineer
9 2 (5.88%) Lead Developer
9 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (38.24%) Spring
2 10 (29.41%) LDAP
3 7 (20.59%) Spring Boot
4 6 (17.65%) JSON
4 6 (17.65%) Kafka
4 6 (17.65%) REST
4 6 (17.65%) XML
5 5 (14.71%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (14.71%) React
6 4 (11.76%) EDIFACT
6 4 (11.76%) Hibernate
7 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
7 3 (8.82%) Bootstrap
7 3 (8.82%) JPA
7 3 (8.82%) Node.js
7 3 (8.82%) SOAP
7 3 (8.82%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (8.82%) Web Services
8 2 (5.88%) Swagger
8 2 (5.88%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (41.18%) Replication
2 4 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Linux
2 10 (29.41%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (29.41%) Ubuntu
2 10 (29.41%) VMS
2 10 (29.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (79.41%) CI/CD
2 23 (67.65%) DevOps
3 15 (44.12%) Microservices
4 13 (38.24%) TDD
5 12 (35.29%) Agile
5 12 (35.29%) Containerisation
6 11 (32.35%) Cloud Security
6 11 (32.35%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (29.41%) Change Management
7 10 (29.41%) Configuration Management
7 10 (29.41%) Patch Management
7 10 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (14.71%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (14.71%) CQRS
9 5 (14.71%) Design Patterns
9 5 (14.71%) Domain-Driven Design
10 4 (11.76%) Code Quality
10 4 (11.76%) SDLC
11 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) Java
2 15 (44.12%) Python
3 13 (38.24%) SQL
4 10 (29.41%) Groovy
4 10 (29.41%) PowerShell
5 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.94%) Bash
Qualifications
1 28 (82.35%) SC Cleared
1 28 (82.35%) Security Cleared
2 12 (35.29%) AWS Certification
2 12 (35.29%) Azure Certification
2 12 (35.29%) Degree
3 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Postfix
2 10 (29.41%) DFS Replication
2 10 (29.41%) Dovecot
2 10 (29.41%) Squid
Systems Management
1 19 (55.88%) Kubernetes
2 13 (38.24%) Grafana
2 13 (38.24%) Prometheus
2 13 (38.24%) Terraform
3 10 (29.41%) Nessus
3 10 (29.41%) Proxmox
4 2 (5.88%) Ansible
4 2 (5.88%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (5.88%) Kibana
5 1 (2.94%) Consul
5 1 (2.94%) Packer
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (29.41%) ServiceNow
3 4 (11.76%) Confluent
4 2 (5.88%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.88%) SAP
4 2 (5.88%) Splunk
5 1 (2.94%) Atlassian