Docker Contract Job Trends

Docker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 42 53
Rank change year-on-year -18 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Docker 2,040 1,627 1,403
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.73% 4.90% 3.69%
As % of the System Software category 37.93% 40.88% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 1,062 975
10th Percentile £364 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £650
90th Percentile £688 £692 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 11 6
10th Percentile £55.69 £61.25 £66.25
25th Percentile £62.12 £63.63 £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -16.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £80.38 £73.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £95.00 £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -16.25% +10.34%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,379 3,980 4,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.85% 11.99% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,527 2,520 2,847
10th Percentile £225 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £669 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 122 101
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £17.47 £19.64
Median hourly rate £62.50 £33.39 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.21% +21.40% -42.54%
75th Percentile £74.00 £67.19 £69.69
90th Percentile £90.00 £88.68 £83.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £58.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +7.92% +88.71% -21.72%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Docker job vacancy trend in the UK

Docker
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the UK

Docker
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Docker
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in the UK

Docker
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 October 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
England -19 1,681 £525 - 3,186
UK excluding London -21 869 £500 - 2,544
London -16 858 £550 - 1,304
Work from Home -8 655 £525 +5.00% 2,449
North of England -18 311 £475 - 556
Midlands -31 156 £477 -8.71% 294
Yorkshire -8 138 £488 -2.50% 164
South East -18 137 £537 +13.05% 469
South West +8 129 £550 -8.33% 327
West Midlands -30 127 £476 -11.11% 159
North West -41 109 £525 +16.67% 288
Scotland -25 75 £450 -10.00% 370
North East -4 67 £425 -11.69% 109
East of England -3 50 £475 -13.64% 222
East Midlands -3 28 £500 +16.55% 136
Wales -7 18 £375 -21.05% 208
Northern Ireland +4 3 £375 - 107

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 117 (5.74%) Apache Spark
2 115 (5.64%) Apache Airflow
3 106 (5.20%) Apache
4 103 (5.05%) Confluence
5 33 (1.62%) Jupyter
6 25 (1.23%) nginx
7 17 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.64%) SAS
8 13 (0.64%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.49%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.39%) Camunda
10 8 (0.39%) WebLogic
10 8 (0.39%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.34%) Traefik
12 5 (0.25%) IIS
12 5 (0.25%) WordPress
13 4 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
13 4 (0.20%) MQSeries
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 10 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.29%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.20%) Trello
4 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.049%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.15%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.098%) Finacle
4 2 (0.098%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.049%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.049%) Magento
5 1 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.049%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.049%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.049%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.049%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,237 (60.64%) AWS
2 922 (45.20%) Azure
3 546 (26.76%) GitHub
4 414 (20.29%) GCP
5 388 (19.02%) GitHub Actions
6 295 (14.46%) Azure DevOps
7 271 (13.28%) Serverless
8 224 (10.98%) Amazon S3
9 209 (10.25%) Amazon EKS
10 192 (9.41%) AWS Lambda
11 155 (7.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 154 (7.55%) Amazon ECS
13 148 (7.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 133 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
15 114 (5.59%) Azure AKS
16 100 (4.90%) OpenShift
17 85 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
18 83 (4.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 73 (3.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 66 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.02%) Firewall
2 68 (3.33%) DNS
3 38 (1.86%) Network Security
4 36 (1.76%) TCP/IP
5 26 (1.27%) DHCP
6 25 (1.23%) HTTP
7 22 (1.08%) VPN
8 20 (0.98%) Internet
9 18 (0.88%) SSL
10 14 (0.69%) 4G
11 13 (0.64%) 5G
11 13 (0.64%) SSH
11 13 (0.64%) Wireshark
12 12 (0.59%) RTP
12 12 (0.59%) VSAN
13 10 (0.49%) BGP
14 9 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
15 8 (0.39%) Broadband
15 8 (0.39%) HTTPS
15 8 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (17.25%) PostgreSQL
2 201 (9.85%) MongoDB
3 171 (8.38%) NoSQL
4 138 (6.76%) Relational Database
5 103 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
6 95 (4.66%) Redis
7 93 (4.56%) MySQL
8 80 (3.92%) SQL Server
9 56 (2.75%) DynamoDB
10 46 (2.25%) BigQuery
11 45 (2.21%) Amazon Aurora
12 42 (2.06%) Big Data
13 41 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
14 40 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
15 39 (1.91%) Data Lake
16 32 (1.57%) Flink
17 29 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
18 26 (1.27%) Delta Lake
19 25 (1.23%) Metadata
20 24 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 576 (28.24%) Jenkins
2 575 (28.19%) Git
3 474 (23.24%) GitLab
4 157 (7.70%) JIRA
5 115 (5.64%) JUnit
6 113 (5.54%) Selenium
7 92 (4.51%) Maven
8 89 (4.36%) Cucumber
9 83 (4.07%) SonarQube
10 63 (3.09%) Gradle
10 63 (3.09%) Mockito
11 61 (2.99%) Gatling
12 48 (2.35%) Bitbucket
13 39 (1.91%) JMeter
14 34 (1.67%) REST Assured
15 32 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
16 26 (1.27%) Postman
17 25 (1.23%) Cypress.io
18 22 (1.08%) Claude Code
19 21 (1.03%) LoadRunner
General
1 468 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 378 (18.53%) Public Sector
3 267 (13.09%) Finance
4 190 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
5 148 (7.25%) Banking
6 65 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (1.81%) Military
8 35 (1.72%) Retail
8 35 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 25 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 24 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (1.03%) Law
12 18 (0.88%) Publishing
13 16 (0.78%) Financial Institution
13 16 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
14 15 (0.74%) Legal
14 15 (0.74%) Local Government
15 13 (0.64%) Aerospace
15 13 (0.64%) Police
16 12 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 567 (27.79%) Developer
2 370 (18.14%) Senior
3 368 (18.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 215 (10.54%) Java Developer
5 201 (9.85%) Lead
6 132 (6.47%) Software Engineer
7 122 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
8 107 (5.25%) Architect
9 105 (5.15%) Python Developer
10 104 (5.10%) Data Engineer
10 104 (5.10%) Senior Developer
11 97 (4.75%) AWS DevOps
12 94 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
13 89 (4.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 89 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
14 83 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
15 81 (3.97%) Java Engineer
16 72 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
17 71 (3.48%) Python Engineer
18 66 (3.24%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 830 (40.69%) Terraform
2 412 (20.20%) Spring
3 390 (19.12%) Kafka
4 384 (18.82%) REST
5 341 (16.72%) Spring Boot
6 305 (14.95%) RESTful
7 245 (12.01%) React
8 149 (7.30%) Node.js
9 140 (6.86%) .NET
10 117 (5.74%) AngularJS
11 113 (5.54%) FastAPI
12 112 (5.49%) HTML
13 107 (5.25%) CSS
14 101 (4.95%) OAuth
15 97 (4.75%) Playwright
16 92 (4.51%) RabbitMQ
17 79 (3.87%) Flask
17 79 (3.87%) pytest
18 72 (3.53%) OAuth2
19 67 (3.28%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 500 (24.51%) Cloud Native
2 217 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
3 157 (7.70%) Product Ownership
4 84 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
5 83 (4.07%) AI Agents
6 58 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 45 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (2.21%) Security Posture
8 44 (2.16%) PKI
9 36 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
10 35 (1.72%) Data Centre
11 33 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
11 33 (1.62%) Replication
12 28 (1.37%) Algorithms
12 28 (1.37%) Data Structures
13 26 (1.27%) Management Information System
14 25 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
15 24 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
15 24 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 381 (18.68%) Linux
2 122 (5.98%) Windows
3 77 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 64 (3.14%) Unix
5 44 (2.16%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 18 (0.88%) VMS
8 11 (0.54%) CentOS
9 10 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (0.39%) Rocky
11 6 (0.29%) Android
12 5 (0.25%) Solaris
13 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.15%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.15%) Debian
14 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
15 2 (0.098%) AIX
15 2 (0.098%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.098%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,655 (81.13%) CI/CD
2 1,169 (57.30%) DevOps
3 1,042 (51.08%) Containerisation
4 879 (43.09%) Agile
5 812 (39.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 714 (35.00%) Microservices
7 507 (24.85%) Test Automation
8 471 (23.09%) Software Engineering
9 442 (21.67%) Observability
10 383 (18.77%) AI
11 367 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
12 346 (16.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 318 (15.59%) Event-Driven
14 303 (14.85%) Scrum
15 251 (12.30%) Platform Engineering
16 249 (12.21%) DevSecOps
17 240 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 227 (11.13%) Technical Leadership
19 225 (11.03%) Full-Stack Development
20 216 (10.59%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 979 (47.99%) Python
2 693 (33.97%) Java
3 484 (23.73%) SQL
4 345 (16.91%) Bash
5 278 (13.63%) JavaScript
6 241 (11.81%) TypeScript
7 197 (9.66%) PowerShell
8 154 (7.55%) C#
9 109 (5.34%) Bicep
10 76 (3.73%) Shell Script
11 73 (3.58%) Go
12 62 (3.04%) Scala
13 46 (2.25%) Groovy
14 25 (1.23%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.13%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.88%) C++
17 14 (0.69%) Perl
18 11 (0.54%) PHP
19 10 (0.49%) C
19 10 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 834 (40.88%) Security Cleared
2 703 (34.46%) SC Cleared
3 143 (7.01%) DV Cleared
4 122 (5.98%) Degree
5 111 (5.44%) AWS Certification
5 111 (5.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 84 (4.12%) Azure Certification
7 63 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (1.37%) CISSP
9 25 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (1.18%) Master's Degree
11 21 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 16 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.54%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.44%) PhD
15 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 8 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 7 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (9.85%) QA
2 120 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 73 (3.58%) Data Quality
4 53 (2.60%) WCAG
5 24 (1.18%) NIST
6 22 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (0.98%) NCSC
8 18 (0.88%) GDPR
9 10 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 9 (0.44%) SEPA
11 8 (0.39%) PSD2
12 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.34%) SLA
13 5 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.20%) ISO 15022
15 3 (0.15%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
16 2 (0.098%) EMIR
System Software
1 57 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 54 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (1.27%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.93%) VMware NSX
6 18 (0.88%) vSphere
7 10 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.34%) KVM
9 6 (0.29%) NFS
10 5 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.25%) Postfix
10 5 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 4 (0.20%) GPFS
12 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.15%) HDFS
12 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.098%) Firmware
13 2 (0.098%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,489 (72.99%) Kubernetes
2 315 (15.44%) Grafana
3 288 (14.12%) Ansible
4 250 (12.25%) Prometheus
5 56 (2.75%) Argo
6 52 (2.55%) Kibana
7 43 (2.11%) Puppet
8 37 (1.81%) Progress Chef
9 28 (1.37%) Podman
10 27 (1.32%) Istio
11 15 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (0.69%) Packer
13 13 (0.64%) Karpenter
13 13 (0.64%) Kustomize
14 11 (0.54%) Nessus
14 11 (0.54%) VxRail
15 10 (0.49%) Control-M
15 10 (0.49%) systemd
16 8 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
16 8 (0.39%) Nagios
Vendors
1 250 (12.25%) Microsoft
2 162 (7.94%) Google
3 130 (6.37%) Oracle
4 105 (5.15%) Splunk
5 89 (4.36%) Databricks
6 78 (3.82%) Dynatrace
7 67 (3.28%) VMware
8 57 (2.79%) OpenAI
9 49 (2.40%) Red Hat
10 43 (2.11%) IBM
10 43 (2.11%) ServiceNow
11 34 (1.67%) New Relic
12 22 (1.08%) Foundry
13 20 (0.98%) webMethods
14 19 (0.93%) AppDynamics
15 18 (0.88%) Cisco
15 18 (0.88%) Trend Micro
16 16 (0.78%) Confluent
17 13 (0.64%) CyberArk
17 13 (0.64%) Tenable