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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 51 65
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 -12
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,870 1,312 1,311
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 4.42% 3.01%
As % of the System Software category 38.10% 36.08% 27.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,240 902 984
10th Percentile £371 £394 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £650
90th Percentile £675 £717 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 7 12
10th Percentile £55.00 £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% -0.34%
75th Percentile £75.00 £90.63 £85.00
90th Percentile £84.63 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% - +14.29%

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 4,908 3,636 4,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.75% 12.25% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,268 2,390 3,261
10th Percentile £213 £215 £205
25th Percentile £400 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £694 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 89 227
10th Percentile £15.97 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.68%
75th Percentile £73.00 £70.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £91.50 £76.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% +36.36% -39.94%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -6 1,611 £514 -3.02% 1,364
London +1 840 £540 -1.82% 293
UK excluding London -5 761 £498 -0.50% 1,440
Work from Home -14 549 £508 -4.25% 1,385
North of England +7 315 £480 -4.00% 300
Midlands -5 179 £492 +3.58% 156
West Midlands +3 154 £496 -3.17% 78
Yorkshire +12 144 £500 -2.44% 96
North West -14 124 £525 +5.00% 151
South West +2 107 £544 -9.38% 154
South East -46 92 £503 +0.50% 339
North East +2 53 £425 -5.56% 53
Scotland -15 45 £450 -3.69% 145
East Midlands -23 23 £435 +1.16% 78
East of England -25 23 £550 +12.24% 178
Wales -7 13 £525 - 87
Northern Ireland +7 5 - - 99

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
1 101 (5.40%) Apache Spark
2 92 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (4.92%) Confluence
3 73 (3.90%) Apache
4 34 (1.82%) Jupyter
5 32 (1.71%) SAS
6 27 (1.44%) nginx
7 13 (0.70%) Camunda
7 13 (0.70%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.43%) Appian
8 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 7 (0.37%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.37%) WordPress
10 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.32%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.21%) CMS
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.43%) CPLEX
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.053%) Maya
5 1 (0.053%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.053%) Notion
5 1 (0.053%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.11%) Shopify
3 1 (0.053%) Magento
3 1 (0.053%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,111 (59.41%) AWS
2 807 (43.16%) Azure
3 434 (23.21%) GitHub
4 378 (20.21%) GCP
5 326 (17.43%) GitHub Actions
6 275 (14.71%) Serverless
7 228 (12.19%) Azure DevOps
8 205 (10.96%) Amazon S3
9 182 (9.73%) AWS Lambda
10 161 (8.61%) Amazon EKS
11 150 (8.02%) Amazon EC2
12 146 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 133 (7.11%) Amazon ECS
14 132 (7.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 111 (5.94%) Azure AKS
16 80 (4.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 76 (4.06%) OpenShift
18 70 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
19 66 (3.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 48 (2.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 56 (2.99%) Firewall
2 36 (1.93%) DNS
3 24 (1.28%) HTTP
3 24 (1.28%) Network Security
4 21 (1.12%) VPN
5 15 (0.80%) DHCP
6 14 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.53%) Internet
7 10 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
8 9 (0.48%) 3GPP
8 9 (0.48%) SMTP
9 7 (0.37%) SSL
9 7 (0.37%) Wireshark
10 6 (0.32%) MQTT
10 6 (0.32%) RTP
11 5 (0.27%) IPv4
11 5 (0.27%) IPv6
12 4 (0.21%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.21%) OpenLDAP
12 4 (0.21%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 309 (16.52%) PostgreSQL
2 179 (9.57%) NoSQL
3 141 (7.54%) MongoDB
4 129 (6.90%) Relational Database
5 104 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
6 95 (5.08%) SQL Server
7 75 (4.01%) DynamoDB
8 67 (3.58%) Redis
9 54 (2.89%) Big Data
10 51 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
11 49 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
12 47 (2.51%) MySQL
13 46 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
14 37 (1.98%) BigQuery
15 30 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
16 26 (1.39%) Data Lake
17 25 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
18 24 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
18 24 (1.28%) Flink
19 22 (1.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 496 (26.52%) Jenkins
2 410 (21.93%) Git
3 401 (21.44%) GitLab
4 165 (8.82%) JIRA
5 105 (5.61%) JUnit
6 74 (3.96%) Selenium
7 59 (3.16%) Mockito
8 58 (3.10%) SonarQube
9 56 (2.99%) Maven
10 51 (2.73%) Cucumber
11 49 (2.62%) JMeter
12 46 (2.46%) Gatling
13 42 (2.25%) MLflow
14 37 (1.98%) Gradle
15 34 (1.82%) REST Assured
16 30 (1.60%) Bitbucket
17 27 (1.44%) Liquibase
18 25 (1.34%) Postman
19 24 (1.28%) WebDriver
20 21 (1.12%) Artifactory
General
1 427 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 342 (18.29%) Public Sector
3 280 (14.97%) Finance
4 157 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
5 133 (7.11%) Banking
6 50 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (1.39%) Retail
9 25 (1.34%) Law
10 24 (1.28%) Military
11 19 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 16 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 16 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (0.75%) Legal
13 14 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (0.75%) Publishing
14 11 (0.59%) Police
14 11 (0.59%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 564 (30.16%) Developer
2 333 (17.81%) Senior
3 286 (15.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 183 (9.79%) Java Developer
5 147 (7.86%) Lead
6 141 (7.54%) Software Engineer
7 130 (6.95%) Python Developer
8 119 (6.36%) Senior Developer
9 116 (6.20%) AWS Engineer
10 106 (5.67%) Architect
11 102 (5.45%) Data Engineer
12 93 (4.97%) Full-Stack Developer
13 81 (4.33%) AWS DevOps
13 81 (4.33%) Java Engineer
14 71 (3.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 71 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
15 64 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
16 63 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
17 49 (2.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 48 (2.57%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 373 (19.95%) Spring
2 331 (17.70%) Spring Boot
3 322 (17.22%) Kafka
4 257 (13.74%) RESTful
5 251 (13.42%) REST
6 237 (12.67%) React
7 179 (9.57%) Node.js
8 153 (8.18%) .NET
9 112 (5.99%) FastAPI
10 110 (5.88%) AngularJS
11 94 (5.03%) OAuth
12 76 (4.06%) Flask
13 74 (3.96%) OpenTelemetry
14 73 (3.90%) Django
15 72 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
16 66 (3.53%) OAuth2
17 65 (3.48%) CSS
17 65 (3.48%) HTML
18 64 (3.42%) Elastic Stack
18 64 (3.42%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 395 (21.12%) Cloud Native
2 210 (11.23%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 49 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (2.19%) Algorithms
5 41 (2.19%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (2.03%) AI Agents
8 30 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
9 28 (1.50%) Data Structures
9 28 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 28 (1.50%) Public Cloud
10 27 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
12 25 (1.34%) PKI
13 23 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
14 22 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
14 22 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
15 20 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
16 19 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 316 (16.90%) Linux
2 94 (5.03%) Windows
3 58 (3.10%) Unix
4 51 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (2.14%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.91%) Ubuntu
6 17 (0.91%) VMS
7 11 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.48%) Android
8 9 (0.48%) Solaris
8 9 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
9 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.32%) CentOS
10 6 (0.32%) Rocky
11 5 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
11 5 (0.27%) Debian
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.053%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,409 (75.35%) CI/CD
2 1,020 (54.55%) DevOps
3 1,008 (53.90%) Containerisation
4 711 (38.02%) Agile
5 696 (37.22%) Microservices
6 606 (32.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 405 (21.66%) Observability
8 363 (19.41%) Test Automation
9 356 (19.04%) Software Engineering
10 330 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
11 293 (15.67%) AI
12 246 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
13 245 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 234 (12.51%) Event-Driven
15 232 (12.41%) Scrum
16 206 (11.02%) Data Pipeline
17 199 (10.64%) Machine Learning
18 188 (10.05%) TDD
19 170 (9.09%) Analytics
20 168 (8.98%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 827 (44.22%) Python
2 570 (30.48%) Java
3 530 (28.34%) SQL
4 218 (11.66%) JavaScript
5 197 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 189 (10.11%) Bash
7 172 (9.20%) C#
8 126 (6.74%) PowerShell
9 107 (5.72%) Go
10 70 (3.74%) Bicep
11 53 (2.83%) Shell Script
12 39 (2.09%) Scala
13 24 (1.28%) Ruby
14 23 (1.23%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.02%) Groovy
16 18 (0.96%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.80%) C++
17 15 (0.80%) PHP
17 15 (0.80%) Rust
18 9 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 692 (37.01%) Security Cleared
2 579 (30.96%) SC Cleared
3 137 (7.33%) Degree
4 103 (5.51%) DV Cleared
5 86 (4.60%) Azure Certification
6 82 (4.39%) AWS Certification
7 73 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 71 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.66%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.23%) CISSP
11 20 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 16 (0.86%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.59%) SAFe Agilist
17 10 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 9 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
19 8 (0.43%) CCNA
19 8 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (5.83%) QA
2 90 (4.81%) Accessibility
3 72 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 36 (1.93%) GDPR
5 35 (1.87%) WCAG
6 32 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.55%) NIST
8 17 (0.91%) NCSC
9 14 (0.75%) ISO 20022
10 12 (0.64%) PSD2
11 11 (0.59%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.53%) SEPA
12 10 (0.53%) SLA
13 8 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.27%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.16%) HL7
16 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (2.19%) Active Directory
1 41 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
2 21 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
3 19 (1.02%) Hyper-V
4 13 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 11 (0.59%) Microsoft App-V
5 11 (0.59%) Postfix
6 9 (0.48%) BitLocker
6 9 (0.48%) KVM
6 9 (0.48%) vSphere
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.21%) Firmware
10 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.11%) GPFS
11 2 (0.11%) GridGain
11 2 (0.11%) Lustre
11 2 (0.11%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,296 (69.30%) Kubernetes
2 667 (35.67%) Terraform
3 294 (15.72%) Grafana
4 281 (15.03%) Prometheus
5 207 (11.07%) Ansible
6 46 (2.46%) Puppet
7 42 (2.25%) Argo
8 34 (1.82%) Progress Chef
9 32 (1.71%) Istio
10 27 (1.44%) Podman
11 23 (1.23%) Kibana
12 20 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
13 16 (0.86%) Control-M
13 16 (0.86%) IBM Guardium
13 16 (0.86%) Nessus
14 15 (0.80%) Kustomize
14 15 (0.80%) Packer
15 11 (0.59%) HAProxy
15 11 (0.59%) linkerd
16 9 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 214 (11.44%) Microsoft
2 99 (5.29%) Splunk
3 87 (4.65%) Google
3 87 (4.65%) Oracle
4 60 (3.21%) Dynatrace
5 58 (3.10%) Databricks
6 45 (2.41%) VMware
7 43 (2.30%) Red Hat
8 42 (2.25%) OpenAI
9 29 (1.55%) IBM
10 23 (1.23%) Atlassian
11 22 (1.18%) Tenable
12 21 (1.12%) New Relic
12 21 (1.12%) ServiceNow
12 21 (1.12%) Talend
13 20 (1.07%) AppDynamics
13 20 (1.07%) Denodo
14 17 (0.91%) Jaspersoft
15 16 (0.86%) Trend Micro
16 12 (0.64%) NVIDIA