Docker Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Docker
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 69 80
Rank change year-on-year +23 +11 -17
Contract jobs citing Docker 829 462 542
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 4.54% 3.17% 2.78%
As % of the System Software category 35.31% 22.97% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 299 388
10th Percentile £358 £360 £407
25th Percentile £425 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £677 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £558 £550
% change year-on-year -5.83% +1.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 18
10th Percentile £54.65 - £54.89
25th Percentile £61.50 - £61.44
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £66.88
75th Percentile £76.63 - £76.53
90th Percentile £87.80 - £76.82
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £67.95
% change year-on-year +11.67% -11.70% -2.93%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,348 2,011 2,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.86% 13.78% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,614 1,305 1,879
10th Percentile £190 £185 £170
25th Percentile £315 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £468
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -3.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £588
90th Percentile £643 £652 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 66 189
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.64 £18.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £31.25 £47.90
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -34.75% +122.77%
75th Percentile £76.25 £64.50 £67.25
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £27.96 £50.00
% change year-on-year +69.92% -44.09% +100.00%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Docker job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Docker.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Docker

Docker
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
North of England +16 327 £475 -5.00% 784
Midlands +50 212 £525 -8.70% 535
West Midlands +51 201 £530 -13.40% 282
North West +18 155 £450 -10.00% 399
Yorkshire +10 143 £500 +1.27% 318
South East +8 102 £513 +13.89% 801
South West +4 100 £625 +4.17% 363
Scotland +12 77 £475 +5.56% 148
East of England +2 40 £550 -8.33% 488
North East +6 34 £475 -9.74% 67
Wales +1 14 £475 -11.63% 79
East Midlands -15 11 £450 +1.35% 225
Northern Ireland -10 5 - - 52
Docker
UK

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 55 (6.63%) SAS
2 34 (4.10%) Confluence
3 26 (3.14%) Apache
4 21 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (2.41%) JBoss
6 19 (2.29%) Apache Spark
6 19 (2.29%) nginx
6 19 (2.29%) OpenStack
7 12 (1.45%) IIS
8 9 (1.09%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.97%) iPlanet
9 8 (0.97%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.97%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (0.48%) Drupal
10 4 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.24%) Appian
12 2 (0.24%) Mule
13 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (1.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (0.60%) Weka
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 464 (55.97%) AWS
2 326 (39.32%) Azure
3 181 (21.83%) GCP
4 172 (20.75%) GitHub
5 135 (16.28%) Serverless
6 102 (12.30%) Amazon S3
7 97 (11.70%) OpenShift
8 95 (11.46%) Amazon EC2
8 95 (11.46%) GitHub Actions
9 87 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
10 83 (10.01%) AWS Lambda
11 78 (9.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 72 (8.69%) Amazon ECS
13 62 (7.48%) Amazon EKS
14 61 (7.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 49 (5.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 43 (5.19%) Azure AKS
17 30 (3.62%) AWS KMS
18 29 (3.50%) Amazon ELB
18 29 (3.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 90 (10.86%) Firewall
2 57 (6.88%) DNS
3 36 (4.34%) TCP/IP
4 25 (3.02%) HTTP
5 22 (2.65%) VPN
6 20 (2.41%) SSH
7 18 (2.17%) FTP
7 18 (2.17%) Network Security
8 17 (2.05%) SMTP
9 14 (1.69%) SSL
10 10 (1.21%) IMAP
10 10 (1.21%) Kerberos
10 10 (1.21%) OpenLDAP
11 8 (0.97%) DHCP
12 7 (0.84%) AMQP
13 5 (0.60%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.60%) Software-Defined Networking
14 4 (0.48%) SNMP
14 4 (0.48%) VLAN
15 3 (0.36%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (15.92%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (11.94%) NoSQL
3 66 (7.96%) Amazon RDS
4 52 (6.27%) Relational Database
5 51 (6.15%) MongoDB
6 35 (4.22%) Elasticsearch
7 34 (4.10%) Pentaho
8 30 (3.62%) DynamoDB
9 29 (3.50%) Amazon Aurora
10 28 (3.38%) Redis
11 26 (3.14%) SQL Server
12 25 (3.02%) MySQL
13 23 (2.77%) Oracle Database
14 16 (1.93%) RDBMS
15 15 (1.81%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 13 (1.57%) Big Data
17 12 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
18 10 (1.21%) Data Lake
18 10 (1.21%) Power BI
19 8 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 308 (37.15%) Jenkins
2 260 (31.36%) Git
3 208 (25.09%) GitLab
4 140 (16.89%) JIRA
5 49 (5.91%) SonarQube
6 44 (5.31%) JUnit
7 43 (5.19%) Selenium
8 33 (3.98%) Sonatype Nexus
9 29 (3.50%) Bitbucket
9 29 (3.50%) Liquibase
10 25 (3.02%) Cypress.io
10 25 (3.02%) Maven
11 24 (2.90%) Cucumber
12 20 (2.41%) Artifactory
12 20 (2.41%) Gradle
13 19 (2.29%) Postman
14 17 (2.05%) CircleCI
14 17 (2.05%) Vagrant
15 14 (1.69%) MLflow
16 13 (1.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 231 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 141 (17.01%) Public Sector
3 127 (15.32%) Finance
4 91 (10.98%) Banking
5 63 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.50%) Financial Institution
7 17 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (1.45%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (0.84%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.72%) Health Technology
12 6 (0.72%) Law
12 6 (0.72%) Military
13 4 (0.48%) Digital Healthcare
13 4 (0.48%) Games
13 4 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.36%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 182 (21.95%) Developer
2 134 (16.16%) DevOps Engineer
3 126 (15.20%) Senior
4 91 (10.98%) Software Engineer
5 71 (8.56%) AWS Engineer
6 54 (6.51%) Java Developer
7 51 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
8 45 (5.43%) Architect
8 45 (5.43%) Data Engineer
9 42 (5.07%) AWS DevOps
10 38 (4.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 36 (4.34%) Python Developer
12 33 (3.98%) Senior DevOps
12 33 (3.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 32 (3.86%) Lead
13 32 (3.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 31 (3.74%) Senior Developer
15 29 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
16 28 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
17 27 (3.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (18.58%) REST
2 124 (14.96%) RESTful
3 110 (13.27%) Spring Boot
4 103 (12.42%) Spring
5 82 (9.89%) Elastic Stack
6 81 (9.77%) React
7 80 (9.65%) Node.js
8 65 (7.84%) Kafka
9 64 (7.72%) .NET
10 55 (6.63%) AngularJS
11 47 (5.67%) HTML
12 35 (4.22%) JSON
13 33 (3.98%) FastAPI
14 32 (3.86%) OAuth
15 30 (3.62%) Jest
16 28 (3.38%) CSS
16 28 (3.38%) YAML
17 26 (3.14%) Flask
18 25 (3.02%) GraphQL
18 25 (3.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 134 (16.16%) Cloud Native
2 65 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.67%) Public Cloud
4 25 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.65%) Algorithms
7 19 (2.29%) Replication
8 17 (2.05%) Management Information System
9 16 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.81%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.69%) Private Cloud
12 13 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.33%) NHS
13 11 (1.33%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.21%) Data Centre
15 9 (1.09%) PKI
15 9 (1.09%) Security Posture
15 9 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 7 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 249 (30.04%) Linux
2 86 (10.37%) Windows
3 56 (6.76%) Unix
4 28 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.90%) Windows Server
6 20 (2.41%) Amazon Linux
7 18 (2.17%) VMS
8 15 (1.81%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.97%) CentOS
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 603 (72.74%) CI/CD
2 522 (62.97%) DevOps
3 470 (56.69%) Containerisation
4 358 (43.18%) Agile
5 272 (32.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 268 (32.33%) Microservices
7 221 (26.66%) Problem-Solving
8 183 (22.07%) Test Automation
9 160 (19.30%) Software Engineering
10 110 (13.27%) Observability
11 106 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 98 (11.82%) Mentoring
12 98 (11.82%) Scrum
13 94 (11.34%) Analytics
14 93 (11.22%) Computer Science
15 92 (11.10%) DevSecOps
16 84 (10.13%) Infrastructure Automation
17 83 (10.01%) Data Pipeline
18 80 (9.65%) Deployment Automation
19 79 (9.53%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 412 (49.70%) Python
2 221 (26.66%) Java
3 188 (22.68%) SQL
4 153 (18.46%) Bash
5 94 (11.34%) PowerShell
6 87 (10.49%) Go
7 78 (9.41%) JavaScript
8 66 (7.96%) C#
9 64 (7.72%) TypeScript
10 43 (5.19%) Shell Script
11 37 (4.46%) Groovy
12 31 (3.74%) C++
12 31 (3.74%) Perl
13 24 (2.90%) Ruby
14 21 (2.53%) Bicep
14 21 (2.53%) PHP
15 12 (1.45%) C
16 9 (1.09%) Rust
16 9 (1.09%) Scala
17 6 (0.72%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 305 (36.79%) Security Cleared
2 221 (26.66%) SC Cleared
3 98 (11.82%) Degree
4 72 (8.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (8.08%) AWS Certification
6 60 (7.24%) DV Cleared
7 46 (5.55%) Azure Certification
8 29 (3.50%) Master's Degree
9 24 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.84%) CISSP
13 5 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.60%) CCSP
13 5 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.19%) QA
2 34 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.86%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.81%) ISO 20022
4 15 (1.81%) PSD2
4 15 (1.81%) WCAG
5 13 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.57%) NCSC
6 10 (1.21%) NIST
6 10 (1.21%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.09%) SEPA
8 8 (0.97%) GDPR
9 5 (0.60%) HL7
9 5 (0.60%) SLA
10 4 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.24%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 40 (4.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.05%) DFS Replication
3 17 (2.05%) vSphere
4 10 (1.21%) Dovecot
4 10 (1.21%) Postfix
4 10 (1.21%) Squid
5 9 (1.09%) KVM
6 8 (0.97%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 8 (0.97%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 8 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.84%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.72%) Lustre
8 6 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.60%) GPFS
9 5 (0.60%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.24%) HDFS
10 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.12%) Ceph
11 1 (0.12%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 594 (71.65%) Kubernetes
2 320 (38.60%) Terraform
3 197 (23.76%) Ansible
4 180 (21.71%) Grafana
5 148 (17.85%) Prometheus
6 46 (5.55%) Puppet
7 37 (4.46%) Progress Chef
8 29 (3.50%) Argo
9 25 (3.02%) Podman
10 24 (2.90%) Kibana
11 20 (2.41%) Nessus
12 17 (2.05%) Proxmox
13 12 (1.45%) Control-M
14 10 (1.21%) IBM Guardium
15 9 (1.09%) CA Single Sign-On
15 9 (1.09%) Packer
15 9 (1.09%) Red Hat Satellite
16 8 (0.97%) CA Wily
16 8 (0.97%) Istio
16 8 (0.97%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 105 (12.67%) Oracle
2 102 (12.30%) Splunk
3 91 (10.98%) Microsoft
4 51 (6.15%) Google
5 44 (5.31%) VMware
6 40 (4.83%) Red Hat
7 34 (4.10%) Denodo
7 34 (4.10%) Talend
8 27 (3.26%) AppDynamics
9 21 (2.53%) ServiceNow
10 18 (2.17%) F5
11 15 (1.81%) Palo Alto
12 12 (1.45%) IBM
13 11 (1.33%) CheckPoint
13 11 (1.33%) Tenable
14 10 (1.21%) Jaspersoft
15 9 (1.09%) Broadcom
15 9 (1.09%) Dynatrace
16 8 (0.97%) Databricks
16 8 (0.97%) Veracode