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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 52 63
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 -11
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,985 1,429 1,369
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.77% 4.37% 3.20%
As % of the System Software category 38.18% 36.66% 28.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,328 966 1,024
10th Percentile £384 £378 £400
25th Percentile £437 £438 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 13 12
10th Percentile £54.25 £34.25 £47.08
25th Percentile £58.43 £61.75 £59.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -7.90% -1.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £91.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -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 5,199 3,898 4,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.87% 11.93% 11.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,459 2,522 3,303
10th Percentile £213 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £379 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £600
90th Percentile £670 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 102 210
10th Percentile £15.39 £13.87 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.33 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £29.25 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +74.36% +21.93% -52.02%
75th Percentile £73.38 £67.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.80 £91.23 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £57.75 £24.18
% change year-on-year -11.69% +138.83% -10.44%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 1,683 £525 - 763
London +1 857 £550 +3.77% 361
UK excluding London -4 835 £500 - 501
Work from Home -10 630 £525 - 418
North of England +10 328 £481 -3.88% 139
Midlands -6 181 £500 +5.26% 48
West Midlands -4 159 £513 +2.50% 32
Yorkshire +8 157 £500 - 27
South West +7 122 £550 - 97
North West -25 121 £525 +5.03% 83
South East -37 119 £525 +5.00% 136
North East +6 56 £425 - 30
Scotland -13 53 £450 -4.66% 24
East of England -23 26 £550 +12.24% 23
East Midlands -23 20 £450 +4.90% 16
Wales -12 17 £525 +10.53% 14
Northern Ireland +5 4 £375 -31.82% 24

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
1 111 (5.59%) Apache Spark
2 107 (5.39%) Confluence
3 105 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
4 84 (4.23%) Apache
5 33 (1.66%) SAS
6 30 (1.51%) nginx
7 29 (1.46%) Jupyter
8 14 (0.71%) Tomcat
9 11 (0.55%) Camunda
10 9 (0.45%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.45%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.35%) WordPress
12 6 (0.30%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.20%) Appian
13 4 (0.20%) CMS
14 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.40%) CPLEX
2 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.050%) Maya
5 1 (0.050%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.050%) Notion
5 1 (0.050%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.050%) Trello
5 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.10%) Shopify
3 1 (0.050%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.050%) Magento
3 1 (0.050%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,200 (60.45%) AWS
2 869 (43.78%) Azure
3 478 (24.08%) GitHub
4 400 (20.15%) GCP
5 361 (18.19%) GitHub Actions
6 273 (13.75%) Serverless
7 238 (11.99%) Azure DevOps
8 216 (10.88%) Amazon S3
9 177 (8.92%) AWS Lambda
10 176 (8.87%) Amazon EKS
11 156 (7.86%) Amazon EC2
12 153 (7.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 131 (6.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 131 (6.60%) Amazon ECS
14 107 (5.39%) Azure AKS
15 84 (4.23%) OpenShift
16 81 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 65 (3.27%) Amazon SQS
18 61 (3.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 50 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.77%) Firewall
2 36 (1.81%) DNS
3 26 (1.31%) HTTP
3 26 (1.31%) Network Security
4 21 (1.06%) VPN
5 19 (0.96%) DHCP
6 17 (0.86%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.71%) Internet
8 11 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
9 9 (0.45%) 3GPP
9 9 (0.45%) Wireshark
10 7 (0.35%) MQTT
10 7 (0.35%) SMTP
11 6 (0.30%) RTP
11 6 (0.30%) SSL
12 5 (0.25%) IPv4
12 5 (0.25%) IPv6
12 5 (0.25%) VSAN
13 4 (0.20%) AMQP
13 4 (0.20%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (16.73%) PostgreSQL
2 161 (8.11%) NoSQL
3 158 (7.96%) MongoDB
4 141 (7.10%) Relational Database
5 98 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
6 94 (4.74%) SQL Server
7 72 (3.63%) Redis
8 69 (3.48%) DynamoDB
9 58 (2.92%) Big Data
10 49 (2.47%) MySQL
11 48 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
12 47 (2.37%) Amazon Aurora
13 34 (1.71%) BigQuery
14 33 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
14 33 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
15 32 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
16 31 (1.56%) Data Lake
17 26 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
18 25 (1.26%) Flink
19 19 (0.96%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 536 (27.00%) Jenkins
2 438 (22.07%) Git
3 409 (20.60%) GitLab
4 177 (8.92%) JIRA
5 108 (5.44%) JUnit
6 76 (3.83%) Selenium
7 65 (3.27%) Maven
8 62 (3.12%) Mockito
9 60 (3.02%) SonarQube
10 48 (2.42%) Cucumber
11 46 (2.32%) JMeter
12 45 (2.27%) Gradle
13 43 (2.17%) Gatling
13 43 (2.17%) MLflow
14 36 (1.81%) Bitbucket
15 34 (1.71%) REST Assured
16 27 (1.36%) Liquibase
17 23 (1.16%) Postman
18 22 (1.11%) Artifactory
19 21 (1.06%) WebDriver
General
1 449 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 379 (19.09%) Public Sector
3 281 (14.16%) Finance
4 172 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 134 (6.75%) Banking
6 51 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (1.56%) Military
8 29 (1.46%) Retail
9 28 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (1.21%) Law
11 21 (1.06%) Investment Banking
12 18 (0.91%) Legal
12 18 (0.91%) Publishing
13 17 (0.86%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (0.71%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.55%) Front Office
17 11 (0.55%) Police
18 10 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 598 (30.13%) Developer
2 342 (17.23%) Senior
3 310 (15.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 210 (10.58%) Java Developer
5 167 (8.41%) Lead
6 148 (7.46%) Software Engineer
7 127 (6.40%) Architect
8 124 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
8 124 (6.25%) Python Developer
9 115 (5.79%) Senior Developer
10 107 (5.39%) Data Engineer
11 95 (4.79%) Full-Stack Developer
12 89 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
13 85 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
14 83 (4.18%) Java Engineer
15 79 (3.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 71 (3.58%) Cloud Engineer
17 67 (3.38%) Azure Engineer
18 61 (3.07%) Python Engineer
19 54 (2.72%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 406 (20.45%) Spring
2 339 (17.08%) Spring Boot
3 325 (16.37%) Kafka
4 284 (14.31%) REST
5 283 (14.26%) RESTful
6 246 (12.39%) React
7 184 (9.27%) Node.js
8 158 (7.96%) .NET
9 117 (5.89%) AngularJS
10 108 (5.44%) FastAPI
11 96 (4.84%) OAuth
12 80 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
13 76 (3.83%) HTML
14 74 (3.73%) CSS
15 71 (3.58%) Flask
15 71 (3.58%) Playwright
16 66 (3.32%) Django
16 66 (3.32%) Swagger
17 64 (3.22%) Elastic Stack
17 64 (3.22%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 433 (21.81%) Cloud Native
2 225 (11.34%) Distributed Systems
3 102 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 54 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.12%) Algorithms
7 41 (2.07%) AI Agents
8 40 (2.02%) Onboarding
9 35 (1.76%) Management Information System
10 34 (1.71%) PKI
11 31 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
12 29 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
13 27 (1.36%) Data Structures
13 27 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
14 26 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
15 24 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
15 24 (1.21%) Public Cloud
15 24 (1.21%) Security Posture
15 24 (1.21%) Virtual Team
16 21 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 338 (17.03%) Linux
2 101 (5.09%) Windows
3 56 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (2.57%) Unix
5 39 (1.96%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.65%) VMS
8 10 (0.50%) Android
8 10 (0.50%) Solaris
8 10 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.30%) CentOS
12 5 (0.25%) Rocky
12 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (0.20%) Debian
14 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.050%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,520 (76.57%) CI/CD
2 1,100 (55.42%) DevOps
3 1,089 (54.86%) Containerisation
4 762 (38.39%) Agile
5 723 (36.42%) Microservices
6 654 (32.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 410 (20.65%) Observability
8 400 (20.15%) Test Automation
9 390 (19.65%) Software Engineering
10 370 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
11 308 (15.52%) AI
12 260 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 256 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
14 251 (12.64%) Event-Driven
15 250 (12.59%) Scrum
16 226 (11.39%) Data Pipeline
17 217 (10.93%) Machine Learning
18 201 (10.13%) Platform Engineering
19 199 (10.03%) TDD
20 171 (8.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 888 (44.74%) Python
2 614 (30.93%) Java
3 507 (25.54%) SQL
4 241 (12.14%) JavaScript
5 224 (11.28%) Bash
6 218 (10.98%) TypeScript
7 183 (9.22%) C#
8 136 (6.85%) PowerShell
9 98 (4.94%) Go
10 72 (3.63%) Bicep
11 52 (2.62%) Shell Script
12 42 (2.12%) Scala
13 24 (1.21%) PL/SQL
14 23 (1.16%) Groovy
15 21 (1.06%) Ruby
16 20 (1.01%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.86%) C++
18 15 (0.76%) C
18 15 (0.76%) PHP
19 11 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 781 (39.35%) Security Cleared
2 656 (33.05%) SC Cleared
3 137 (6.90%) Degree
4 121 (6.10%) DV Cleared
5 90 (4.53%) AWS Certification
6 83 (4.18%) Azure Certification
7 82 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 74 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.76%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.21%) CISSP
11 22 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (0.76%) ISTQB
12 15 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 10 (0.50%) CCNA
16 9 (0.45%) PhD
17 8 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (6.25%) QA
2 97 (4.89%) Accessibility
3 72 (3.63%) Data Quality
4 36 (1.81%) WCAG
5 32 (1.61%) GDPR
6 31 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.41%) NIST
8 18 (0.91%) NCSC
9 11 (0.55%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.50%) PSD2
11 9 (0.45%) SEPA
12 8 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (0.30%) SLA
14 5 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.20%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 47 (2.37%) Active Directory
1 47 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (1.16%) Hyper-V
4 19 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (0.60%) vSphere
6 11 (0.55%) Postfix
7 9 (0.45%) KVM
7 9 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (0.35%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 5 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.15%) Firmware
12 3 (0.15%) HDFS
12 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.10%) NFS
13 2 (0.10%) OpenSSH
13 2 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,404 (70.73%) Kubernetes
2 721 (36.32%) Terraform
3 298 (15.01%) Grafana
4 279 (14.06%) Prometheus
5 229 (11.54%) Ansible
6 48 (2.42%) Puppet
7 47 (2.37%) Argo
8 39 (1.96%) Progress Chef
9 26 (1.31%) Kibana
10 24 (1.21%) Istio
11 20 (1.01%) Podman
12 17 (0.86%) Control-M
12 17 (0.86%) IBM Guardium
12 17 (0.86%) Nessus
12 17 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 16 (0.81%) Packer
14 15 (0.76%) Kustomize
15 11 (0.55%) HAProxy
15 11 (0.55%) linkerd
16 10 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 236 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 108 (5.44%) Oracle
3 97 (4.89%) Google
4 92 (4.63%) Splunk
5 64 (3.22%) Databricks
6 54 (2.72%) Dynatrace
7 53 (2.67%) VMware
8 44 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 40 (2.02%) OpenAI
10 32 (1.61%) IBM
11 23 (1.16%) Atlassian
11 23 (1.16%) Tenable
12 22 (1.11%) ServiceNow
13 21 (1.06%) New Relic
14 20 (1.01%) Talend
15 19 (0.96%) Denodo
16 17 (0.86%) Jaspersoft
16 17 (0.86%) Trend Micro
17 13 (0.65%) AppDynamics
18 11 (0.55%) Foundry