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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 47 69
Rank change year-on-year -9 +22 -15
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,854 1,293 1,298
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.75% 4.42% 2.99%
As % of the System Software category 37.73% 35.93% 27.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 894 970
10th Percentile £370 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £675 £726 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 7 12
10th Percentile £53.50 £26.60 £47.08
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.88 £59.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +9.97% -1.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £90.63 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.90 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% - +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 4,914 3,599 4,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 12.31% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,270 2,393 3,288
10th Percentile £220 £215 £203
25th Percentile £400 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £592 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 84 223
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £14.99
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.46 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +84.50% +17.68% -55.90%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.65 £88.00 £79.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.07 £25.84
% change year-on-year +37.57% +43.47% -46.30%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -3 1,599 £525 -0.94% 780
London -2 823 £540 -1.82% 336
UK excluding London -1 758 £500 - 500
Work from Home -16 545 £500 -6.28% 413
North of England +4 309 £488 -2.50% 154
Midlands +3 185 £488 +2.63% 41
West Midlands +2 160 £495 -1.00% 23
Yorkshire +13 147 £500 -2.44% 32
North West -14 123 £513 +2.50% 88
South West -1 107 £563 -6.25% 88
South East -40 94 £505 +1.00% 140
North East +4 47 £426 -5.44% 34
Scotland -17 43 £450 -3.69% 19
East of England -20 23 £550 +12.24% 31
East Midlands -28 23 £435 +0.06% 18
Wales -13 13 £525 -1.41% 15
Northern Ireland +9 5 - - 18

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 92 (4.96%) Apache Spark
2 90 (4.85%) Confluence
3 84 (4.53%) Apache Airflow
4 67 (3.61%) Apache
5 34 (1.83%) SAS
6 28 (1.51%) nginx
7 27 (1.46%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.70%) Camunda
9 12 (0.65%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.43%) Appian
11 8 (0.43%) SharePoint
12 7 (0.38%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.32%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.27%) WebLogic
15 4 (0.22%) CMS
15 4 (0.22%) IIS
15 4 (0.22%) WordPress
16 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 3 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 10 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.38%) CPLEX
2 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.054%) Maya
4 1 (0.054%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.054%) Notion
4 1 (0.054%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.054%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.11%) Shopify
3 1 (0.054%) Magento
3 1 (0.054%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.054%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,102 (59.44%) AWS
2 794 (42.83%) Azure
3 436 (23.52%) GitHub
4 377 (20.33%) GCP
5 321 (17.31%) GitHub Actions
6 270 (14.56%) Serverless
7 218 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
8 199 (10.73%) Amazon S3
9 176 (9.49%) AWS Lambda
10 163 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
11 152 (8.20%) Amazon EC2
12 151 (8.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 130 (7.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 123 (6.63%) Amazon ECS
15 109 (5.88%) Azure AKS
16 81 (4.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 79 (4.26%) OpenShift
18 67 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
19 64 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 53 (2.86%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 61 (3.29%) Firewall
2 43 (2.32%) DNS
3 22 (1.19%) HTTP
3 22 (1.19%) VPN
4 20 (1.08%) Network Security
5 17 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 16 (0.86%) DHCP
7 10 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
8 9 (0.49%) 3GPP
8 9 (0.49%) SMTP
9 8 (0.43%) SSL
10 7 (0.38%) Internet
10 7 (0.38%) Wireshark
11 6 (0.32%) RTP
12 5 (0.27%) IPv4
12 5 (0.27%) IPv6
12 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
12 5 (0.27%) MQTT
13 4 (0.22%) NetScaler
13 4 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 296 (15.97%) PostgreSQL
2 178 (9.60%) NoSQL
3 141 (7.61%) MongoDB
4 132 (7.12%) Relational Database
5 106 (5.72%) SQL Server
6 103 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
7 73 (3.94%) DynamoDB
8 55 (2.97%) Redis
9 53 (2.86%) Big Data
10 52 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
11 51 (2.75%) Apache Cassandra
12 50 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
13 43 (2.32%) MySQL
14 34 (1.83%) BigQuery
15 28 (1.51%) Data Lake
16 27 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
17 25 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
18 24 (1.29%) Flink
18 24 (1.29%) Power BI
19 23 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 484 (26.11%) Jenkins
2 397 (21.41%) GitLab
3 392 (21.14%) Git
4 163 (8.79%) JIRA
5 103 (5.56%) JUnit
6 74 (3.99%) Selenium
7 59 (3.18%) Mockito
7 59 (3.18%) SonarQube
8 57 (3.07%) Maven
9 49 (2.64%) Cucumber
9 49 (2.64%) JMeter
10 46 (2.48%) Gatling
11 41 (2.21%) MLflow
12 38 (2.05%) Gradle
13 34 (1.83%) Bitbucket
14 32 (1.73%) REST Assured
15 27 (1.46%) Liquibase
16 24 (1.29%) WebDriver
17 23 (1.24%) Postman
18 22 (1.19%) Artifactory
General
1 425 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 327 (17.64%) Public Sector
3 284 (15.32%) Finance
4 156 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
5 136 (7.34%) Banking
6 41 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (1.24%) Retail
9 22 (1.19%) Law
9 22 (1.19%) Military
10 21 (1.13%) Investment Banking
11 18 (0.97%) Financial Institution
12 15 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (0.70%) Legal
14 13 (0.70%) Publishing
15 11 (0.59%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.54%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.54%) Police
17 9 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 556 (29.99%) Developer
2 325 (17.53%) Senior
3 270 (14.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 176 (9.49%) Java Developer
5 146 (7.87%) Lead
6 142 (7.66%) Software Engineer
7 126 (6.80%) Python Developer
8 121 (6.53%) Senior Developer
9 108 (5.83%) Architect
9 108 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
10 103 (5.56%) Data Engineer
11 97 (5.23%) Full-Stack Developer
12 77 (4.15%) Java Engineer
13 71 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
14 69 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
15 63 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
15 63 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
16 62 (3.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 52 (2.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 47 (2.54%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 365 (19.69%) Spring
2 325 (17.53%) Spring Boot
3 322 (17.37%) Kafka
4 244 (13.16%) RESTful
5 240 (12.94%) REST
6 237 (12.78%) React
7 183 (9.87%) Node.js
8 155 (8.36%) .NET
9 112 (6.04%) AngularJS
10 110 (5.93%) FastAPI
11 93 (5.02%) OAuth
12 81 (4.37%) OpenTelemetry
13 76 (4.10%) Flask
14 73 (3.94%) Elastic Stack
15 69 (3.72%) Django
16 68 (3.67%) Playwright
17 67 (3.61%) OAuth2
18 66 (3.56%) RabbitMQ
19 63 (3.40%) HTML
20 60 (3.24%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 375 (20.23%) Cloud Native
2 203 (10.95%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (4.37%) Product Ownership
4 46 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
5 44 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.16%) Algorithms
7 38 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (1.94%) AI Agents
9 29 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
10 27 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (1.46%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.40%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.40%) PKI
12 24 (1.29%) Distributed Architecture
13 22 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
14 21 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
14 21 (1.13%) Onboarding
15 19 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
15 19 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
16 18 (0.97%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 321 (17.31%) Linux
2 94 (5.07%) Windows
3 59 (3.18%) Unix
4 45 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (2.32%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.81%) VMS
7 12 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (0.59%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.49%) Solaris
9 9 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
10 8 (0.43%) Android
10 8 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
11 7 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.32%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.32%) CentOS
12 6 (0.32%) Rocky
13 5 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.27%) Debian
14 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.054%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,386 (74.76%) CI/CD
2 999 (53.88%) DevOps
3 991 (53.45%) Containerisation
4 688 (37.11%) Microservices
5 682 (36.79%) Agile
6 582 (31.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 414 (22.33%) Observability
8 360 (19.42%) Test Automation
9 349 (18.82%) Software Engineering
10 319 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
11 279 (15.05%) AI
12 243 (13.11%) Full-Stack Development
13 237 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
14 225 (12.14%) Event-Driven
15 223 (12.03%) Scrum
16 203 (10.95%) Data Pipeline
17 193 (10.41%) Machine Learning
18 191 (10.30%) TDD
19 172 (9.28%) Analytics
20 161 (8.68%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 807 (43.53%) Python
2 561 (30.26%) Java
3 538 (29.02%) SQL
4 218 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 191 (10.30%) TypeScript
6 182 (9.82%) Bash
7 167 (9.01%) C#
8 132 (7.12%) PowerShell
9 113 (6.09%) Go
10 69 (3.72%) Bicep
11 52 (2.80%) Shell Script
12 41 (2.21%) Scala
13 24 (1.29%) PL/SQL
13 24 (1.29%) Ruby
14 20 (1.08%) C++
15 19 (1.02%) Groovy
16 16 (0.86%) Rust
17 15 (0.81%) PHP
18 12 (0.65%) C
18 12 (0.65%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 676 (36.46%) Security Cleared
2 559 (30.15%) SC Cleared
3 138 (7.44%) Degree
4 100 (5.39%) DV Cleared
5 83 (4.48%) Azure Certification
6 78 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 76 (4.10%) AWS Certification
8 67 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (1.62%) Master's Degree
10 20 (1.08%) CISSP
11 17 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 16 (0.86%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.59%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 9 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
17 8 (0.43%) CCNA
18 7 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (5.99%) QA
2 79 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 69 (3.72%) Data Quality
4 37 (2.00%) GDPR
5 30 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.56%) WCAG
7 26 (1.40%) NIST
8 14 (0.76%) ISO 20022
9 13 (0.70%) SLA
10 12 (0.65%) NCSC
10 12 (0.65%) PSD2
11 10 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.54%) SEPA
12 9 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.27%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.16%) HL7
16 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 43 (2.32%) Active Directory
1 43 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
2 21 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
3 20 (1.08%) Hyper-V
4 14 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 11 (0.59%) Microsoft App-V
5 11 (0.59%) Postfix
6 9 (0.49%) BitLocker
7 7 (0.38%) KVM
7 7 (0.38%) vSphere
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.27%) Firmware
10 3 (0.16%) Lustre
11 2 (0.11%) GPFS
11 2 (0.11%) GridGain
11 2 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.11%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1,295 (69.85%) Kubernetes
2 641 (34.57%) Terraform
3 297 (16.02%) Grafana
4 283 (15.26%) Prometheus
5 206 (11.11%) Ansible
6 49 (2.64%) Puppet
7 40 (2.16%) Argo
8 35 (1.89%) Progress Chef
9 30 (1.62%) Istio
9 30 (1.62%) Kibana
10 28 (1.51%) Podman
11 19 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (0.86%) Control-M
12 16 (0.86%) IBM Guardium
12 16 (0.86%) Nessus
13 15 (0.81%) Packer
14 14 (0.76%) Kustomize
15 11 (0.59%) HAProxy
16 10 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 10 (0.54%) Kiali
Vendors
1 214 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 107 (5.77%) Splunk
3 91 (4.91%) Oracle
4 85 (4.58%) Google
5 60 (3.24%) Dynatrace
6 55 (2.97%) Databricks
7 47 (2.54%) VMware
8 40 (2.16%) OpenAI
8 40 (2.16%) Red Hat
9 27 (1.46%) IBM
10 23 (1.24%) AppDynamics
10 23 (1.24%) Atlassian
11 21 (1.13%) Talend
11 21 (1.13%) Tenable
12 20 (1.08%) Denodo
12 20 (1.08%) New Relic
12 20 (1.08%) ServiceNow
13 17 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
14 13 (0.70%) Foundry
15 12 (0.65%) NVIDIA