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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 48 55
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Docker 2,006 1,491 1,356
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.71% 4.56% 3.54%
As % of the System Software category 37.26% 39.23% 30.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,367 972 985
10th Percentile £375 £380 £384
25th Percentile £432 £440 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £687 £675 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 14 8
10th Percentile £55.13 £62.88 £55.25
25th Percentile £61.06 £67.00 £62.19
Median hourly rate £66.00 £72.85 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% -8.94% +6.67%
75th Percentile £77.00 £91.56 £85.00
90th Percentile £98.44 £94.25 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +1.81% -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 5,384 3,801 4,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.96% 11.62% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,547 2,396 2,996
10th Percentile £218 £225 £219
25th Percentile £400 £381 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £590 £590 £607
90th Percentile £675 £669 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 110 123
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £14.08
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.02 £17.57
Median hourly rate £61.50 £33.39 £24.20
Median % change year-on-year +84.21% +37.95% -51.60%
75th Percentile £75.00 £79.68 £61.19
90th Percentile £92.11 £91.50 £72.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £64.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year -1.74% +133.64% -20.29%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -11 1,682 £525 +1.25% 1,535
UK excluding London -15 859 £500 - 780
London -14 852 £550 +3.77% 937
Work from Home -10 630 £525 +5.00% 723
North of England -6 326 £475 - 185
Midlands -24 160 £488 -2.74% 78
Yorkshire +7 152 £500 - 38
West Midlands -23 130 £488 -5.98% 46
South West +11 128 £575 +4.55% 153
South East -24 127 £525 +5.00% 190
North West -48 112 £500 +5.26% 117
North East +8 65 £425 -5.03% 32
Scotland -29 65 £450 -9.27% 62
East of England -10 42 £475 -7.32% 64
East Midlands -9 29 £456 +6.35% 31
Wales -13 19 £525 +10.53% 16
Northern Ireland +5 3 £375 - 34

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
1 119 (5.93%) Apache Spark
2 113 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
3 100 (4.99%) Confluence
4 99 (4.94%) Apache
5 31 (1.55%) Jupyter
6 26 (1.30%) nginx
7 22 (1.10%) SAS
8 13 (0.65%) SharePoint
9 12 (0.60%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.50%) OpenStack
11 9 (0.45%) Camunda
11 9 (0.45%) WebLogic
12 6 (0.30%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.30%) WordPress
13 5 (0.25%) CMS
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
15 3 (0.15%) MQSeries
15 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.35%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.20%) Trello
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.050%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.15%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.100%) Finacle
4 2 (0.100%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.100%) Magento
5 1 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.050%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.050%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.050%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.050%) Shopify
5 1 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.050%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,204 (60.02%) AWS
2 920 (45.86%) Azure
3 545 (27.17%) GitHub
4 402 (20.04%) GitHub Actions
5 400 (19.94%) GCP
6 299 (14.91%) Azure DevOps
7 276 (13.76%) Serverless
8 213 (10.62%) Amazon S3
9 195 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
10 190 (9.47%) Amazon EKS
11 156 (7.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 145 (7.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 145 (7.23%) Amazon ECS
13 134 (6.68%) Amazon EC2
14 115 (5.73%) Azure AKS
15 89 (4.44%) OpenShift
16 80 (3.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 75 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
18 67 (3.34%) Azure Monitor
19 64 (3.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.84%) Firewall
2 64 (3.19%) DNS
3 32 (1.60%) Network Security
3 32 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 27 (1.35%) HTTP
5 26 (1.30%) DHCP
6 23 (1.15%) VPN
7 18 (0.90%) Internet
8 14 (0.70%) SSL
9 12 (0.60%) SSH
9 12 (0.60%) Wireshark
10 11 (0.55%) RTP
11 10 (0.50%) VSAN
12 8 (0.40%) 4G
13 7 (0.35%) 3GPP
13 7 (0.35%) 5G
13 7 (0.35%) HTTPS
13 7 (0.35%) MQTT
13 7 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
13 7 (0.35%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 348 (17.35%) PostgreSQL
2 178 (8.87%) MongoDB
3 168 (8.37%) NoSQL
4 142 (7.08%) Relational Database
5 96 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
6 90 (4.49%) Redis
7 83 (4.14%) SQL Server
8 75 (3.74%) MySQL
9 63 (3.14%) DynamoDB
10 50 (2.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 50 (2.49%) Big Data
11 44 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
12 43 (2.14%) BigQuery
13 40 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
14 39 (1.94%) Data Lake
15 29 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
15 29 (1.45%) Flink
16 27 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
17 26 (1.30%) Delta Lake
17 26 (1.30%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 555 (27.67%) Jenkins
2 517 (25.77%) Git
3 436 (21.73%) GitLab
4 150 (7.48%) JIRA
5 111 (5.53%) JUnit
6 96 (4.79%) Selenium
7 86 (4.29%) Maven
8 76 (3.79%) SonarQube
9 69 (3.44%) Mockito
10 59 (2.94%) Cucumber
11 58 (2.89%) Gradle
12 57 (2.84%) Gatling
13 51 (2.54%) JMeter
14 49 (2.44%) Bitbucket
15 32 (1.60%) REST Assured
16 30 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
17 26 (1.30%) Cypress.io
17 26 (1.30%) LoadRunner
17 26 (1.30%) MLflow
18 22 (1.10%) Postman
General
1 473 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 379 (18.89%) Public Sector
3 265 (13.21%) Finance
4 177 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 132 (6.58%) Banking
6 61 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (1.79%) Military
8 35 (1.74%) Retail
9 29 (1.45%) Telecoms
10 26 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (1.20%) Law
12 21 (1.05%) Publishing
13 18 (0.90%) Legal
14 17 (0.85%) Financial Institution
14 17 (0.85%) Investment Banking
14 17 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
15 14 (0.70%) Aerospace
16 13 (0.65%) Police
17 11 (0.55%) Front Office
18 10 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 576 (28.71%) Developer
2 359 (17.90%) Senior
3 337 (16.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 206 (10.27%) Java Developer
5 198 (9.87%) Lead
6 147 (7.33%) Software Engineer
7 122 (6.08%) AWS Engineer
8 117 (5.83%) Senior Developer
9 114 (5.68%) Architect
9 114 (5.68%) Python Developer
10 111 (5.53%) Data Engineer
11 89 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
11 89 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
11 89 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
12 81 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
13 80 (3.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 80 (3.99%) Java Engineer
14 79 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
15 75 (3.74%) Python Engineer
16 61 (3.04%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 782 (38.98%) Terraform
2 402 (20.04%) Spring
3 377 (18.79%) Kafka
4 355 (17.70%) REST
5 333 (16.60%) Spring Boot
6 305 (15.20%) RESTful
7 238 (11.86%) React
8 157 (7.83%) Node.js
9 147 (7.33%) .NET
10 110 (5.48%) FastAPI
11 105 (5.23%) AngularJS
12 104 (5.18%) HTML
13 101 (5.03%) CSS
14 97 (4.84%) OAuth
15 93 (4.64%) RabbitMQ
16 87 (4.34%) Playwright
17 83 (4.14%) Flask
18 73 (3.64%) pytest
19 72 (3.59%) OAuth2
20 69 (3.44%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 481 (23.98%) Cloud Native
2 220 (10.97%) Distributed Systems
3 132 (6.58%) Product Ownership
4 75 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
5 66 (3.29%) AI Agents
6 49 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 48 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
8 41 (2.04%) PKI
9 35 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 33 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
10 33 (1.65%) Security Posture
11 32 (1.60%) Data Centre
12 29 (1.45%) Management Information System
12 29 (1.45%) Replication
13 28 (1.40%) Algorithms
14 23 (1.15%) Data Structures
14 23 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
14 23 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
15 22 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
16 21 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 348 (17.35%) Linux
2 112 (5.58%) Windows
3 68 (3.39%) Unix
4 67 (3.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (2.34%) Windows Server
6 25 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 15 (0.75%) VMS
8 10 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.35%) Rocky
9 7 (0.35%) Solaris
10 6 (0.30%) Android
10 6 (0.30%) CentOS
11 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.20%) Debian
12 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.100%) AIX
14 2 (0.100%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,608 (80.16%) CI/CD
2 1,155 (57.58%) DevOps
3 1,031 (51.40%) Containerisation
4 839 (41.82%) Agile
5 765 (38.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 716 (35.69%) Microservices
7 470 (23.43%) Test Automation
8 459 (22.88%) Software Engineering
9 423 (21.09%) Observability
10 359 (17.90%) AI
11 352 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
12 305 (15.20%) Event-Driven
13 303 (15.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 276 (13.76%) Scrum
15 238 (11.86%) Full-Stack Development
15 238 (11.86%) Platform Engineering
16 227 (11.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 220 (10.97%) Data Pipeline
18 216 (10.77%) DevSecOps
19 213 (10.62%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 954 (47.56%) Python
2 650 (32.40%) Java
3 492 (24.53%) SQL
4 304 (15.15%) Bash
5 262 (13.06%) JavaScript
6 227 (11.32%) TypeScript
7 186 (9.27%) PowerShell
8 169 (8.42%) C#
9 102 (5.08%) Bicep
10 73 (3.64%) Shell Script
11 65 (3.24%) Go
12 50 (2.49%) Scala
13 39 (1.94%) Groovy
14 27 (1.35%) PL/SQL
15 21 (1.05%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.80%) C++
17 12 (0.60%) Perl
17 12 (0.60%) PHP
17 12 (0.60%) Ruby
18 11 (0.55%) C
Qualifications
1 815 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 687 (34.25%) SC Cleared
3 127 (6.33%) DV Cleared
4 123 (6.13%) Degree
5 97 (4.84%) AWS Certification
6 92 (4.59%) Azure Certification
7 91 (4.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 61 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.30%) CISSP
10 23 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 21 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 18 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 17 (0.85%) ISTQB
14 16 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.55%) PhD
15 11 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
16 10 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 8 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 7 (0.35%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (8.47%) QA
2 105 (5.23%) Accessibility
3 81 (4.04%) Data Quality
4 45 (2.24%) WCAG
5 33 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.35%) NIST
7 25 (1.25%) GDPR
8 20 (1.00%) NCSC
9 12 (0.60%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.50%) SEPA
11 8 (0.40%) PSD2
12 7 (0.35%) SLA
13 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (0.25%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.20%) ISO 15022
15 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
16 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 55 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.55%) Hyper-V
4 28 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.90%) vSphere
6 14 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.70%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.35%) KVM
7 7 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (0.35%) Postfix
8 5 (0.25%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.25%) NFS
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.15%) Firmware
10 3 (0.15%) GPFS
10 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.100%) Squid
11 2 (0.100%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,431 (71.34%) Kubernetes
2 291 (14.51%) Grafana
3 271 (13.51%) Ansible
4 244 (12.16%) Prometheus
5 49 (2.44%) Argo
6 46 (2.29%) Puppet
7 41 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 32 (1.60%) Kibana
9 27 (1.35%) Podman
10 19 (0.95%) Istio
11 18 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (0.65%) Kustomize
13 12 (0.60%) HAProxy
13 12 (0.60%) Karpenter
13 12 (0.60%) Packer
14 11 (0.55%) Nessus
15 10 (0.50%) Control-M
16 9 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
16 9 (0.45%) Nagios
16 9 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 256 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 139 (6.93%) Google
3 122 (6.08%) Oracle
4 102 (5.08%) Splunk
5 91 (4.54%) Databricks
6 79 (3.94%) Dynatrace
7 69 (3.44%) VMware
8 51 (2.54%) Red Hat
9 50 (2.49%) OpenAI
10 41 (2.04%) IBM
11 37 (1.84%) New Relic
11 37 (1.84%) ServiceNow
12 23 (1.15%) AppDynamics
13 21 (1.05%) Foundry
14 18 (0.90%) Confluent
14 18 (0.90%) Trend Micro
15 16 (0.80%) Cisco
15 16 (0.80%) Talend
16 14 (0.70%) Denodo
16 14 (0.70%) Tenable