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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 53 61
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,987 1,436 1,346
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.74% 4.36% 3.33%
As % of the System Software category 37.91% 37.14% 29.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,321 946 1,004
10th Percentile £380 £375 £389
25th Percentile £438 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -6.14% -8.33%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 12 9
10th Percentile £55.00 £62.13 £60.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £66.63 £63.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -16.25% +9.97%
75th Percentile £77.50 £82.19 £85.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.13 £86.00
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 5,241 3,866 4,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.88% 11.74% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,451 2,483 3,183
10th Percentile £222 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £383 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 103 173
10th Percentile £13.97 £13.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.33 £14.48
Median hourly rate £51.75 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.50% +36.36% -56.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £75.60 £58.49
90th Percentile £80.78 £91.20 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £57.50 £19.18
% change year-on-year -11.30% +199.87% -28.98%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -5 1,681 £525 +0.96% 735
UK excluding London -2 853 £500 - 451
London -4 837 £550 +4.27% 382
Work from Home -8 637 £525 - 357
North of England +17 331 £484 -3.25% 141
Midlands -6 176 £498 +4.74% 54
Yorkshire +13 154 £500 - 27
West Midlands +2 154 £498 -0.50% 37
South West +11 127 £550 - 69
South East -36 127 £525 +7.69% 132
North West -27 123 £525 +5.00% 85
North East 0 58 £425 +4.29% 30
Scotland -10 55 £450 -4.96% 19
East of England -23 32 £550 +12.24% 22
East Midlands -24 20 £450 +4.77% 17
Wales -18 14 £650 +36.84% 12
Northern Ireland +4 3 £375 -31.82% 10

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
1 110 (5.54%) Apache Spark
2 109 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
3 104 (5.23%) Confluence
4 87 (4.38%) Apache
5 30 (1.51%) SAS
6 28 (1.41%) Jupyter
7 25 (1.26%) nginx
8 12 (0.60%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.45%) WebLogic
9 9 (0.45%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.35%) WordPress
11 6 (0.30%) Camunda
12 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.25%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.20%) CMS
14 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.40%) CPLEX
3 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.15%) Trello
6 1 (0.050%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.050%) Maya
6 1 (0.050%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.050%) Notion
6 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.050%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.050%) Magento
3 1 (0.050%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.050%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.050%) Shopify
3 1 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.050%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.050%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,215 (61.15%) AWS
2 884 (44.49%) Azure
3 492 (24.76%) GitHub
4 410 (20.63%) GCP
5 378 (19.02%) GitHub Actions
6 270 (13.59%) Serverless
7 248 (12.48%) Azure DevOps
8 214 (10.77%) Amazon S3
9 188 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
10 178 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
11 152 (7.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 145 (7.30%) Amazon EC2
13 135 (6.79%) Amazon ECS
14 131 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 108 (5.44%) Azure AKS
16 83 (4.18%) OpenShift
17 81 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 73 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
19 60 (3.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 52 (2.62%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (3.12%) Firewall
2 44 (2.21%) DNS
3 29 (1.46%) Network Security
4 23 (1.16%) DHCP
4 23 (1.16%) TCP/IP
4 23 (1.16%) VPN
5 21 (1.06%) HTTP
6 16 (0.81%) Internet
7 11 (0.55%) Wireshark
8 10 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
9 9 (0.45%) 3GPP
10 8 (0.40%) SSL
10 8 (0.40%) VSAN
11 7 (0.35%) MQTT
11 7 (0.35%) RTP
11 7 (0.35%) SMTP
12 5 (0.25%) IPv4
12 5 (0.25%) IPv6
13 4 (0.20%) BGP
13 4 (0.20%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 342 (17.21%) PostgreSQL
2 168 (8.45%) MongoDB
3 166 (8.35%) NoSQL
4 143 (7.20%) Relational Database
5 92 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
6 85 (4.28%) SQL Server
7 75 (3.77%) Redis
8 73 (3.67%) DynamoDB
9 57 (2.87%) MySQL
10 52 (2.62%) Big Data
11 48 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
12 44 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
13 40 (2.01%) BigQuery
14 34 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
15 32 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
16 31 (1.56%) Data Lake
17 30 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
18 29 (1.46%) Flink
19 27 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
20 20 (1.01%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 548 (27.58%) Jenkins
2 460 (23.15%) Git
3 404 (20.33%) GitLab
4 169 (8.51%) JIRA
5 110 (5.54%) JUnit
6 82 (4.13%) Selenium
7 75 (3.77%) Maven
8 65 (3.27%) SonarQube
9 64 (3.22%) Mockito
10 52 (2.62%) Gradle
11 49 (2.47%) Cucumber
12 47 (2.37%) Gatling
12 47 (2.37%) JMeter
13 41 (2.06%) Bitbucket
13 41 (2.06%) MLflow
14 35 (1.76%) REST Assured
15 27 (1.36%) Liquibase
16 23 (1.16%) Artifactory
16 23 (1.16%) Postman
17 22 (1.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 448 (22.55%) Social Skills
2 386 (19.43%) Public Sector
3 280 (14.09%) Finance
4 172 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 131 (6.59%) Banking
6 51 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (1.81%) Retail
8 33 (1.66%) Military
9 25 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (1.21%) Law
11 19 (0.96%) Publishing
12 18 (0.91%) Financial Institution
12 18 (0.91%) Investment Banking
12 18 (0.91%) Legal
12 18 (0.91%) Telecoms
13 15 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (0.60%) Police
15 11 (0.55%) Front Office
16 10 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 599 (30.15%) Developer
2 357 (17.97%) Senior
3 304 (15.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 213 (10.72%) Java Developer
5 169 (8.51%) Lead
6 154 (7.75%) Software Engineer
7 124 (6.24%) Architect
7 124 (6.24%) Senior Developer
8 121 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
9 119 (5.99%) Python Developer
10 106 (5.33%) Data Engineer
11 98 (4.93%) Full-Stack Developer
12 89 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
13 86 (4.33%) Java Engineer
14 83 (4.18%) AWS DevOps
15 73 (3.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 72 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
17 70 (3.52%) Python Engineer
18 68 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
19 53 (2.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 405 (20.38%) Spring
2 350 (17.61%) Kafka
3 340 (17.11%) Spring Boot
4 314 (15.80%) REST
5 298 (15.00%) RESTful
6 245 (12.33%) React
7 191 (9.61%) Node.js
8 152 (7.65%) .NET
9 113 (5.69%) AngularJS
10 111 (5.59%) FastAPI
11 95 (4.78%) OAuth
12 85 (4.28%) RabbitMQ
13 80 (4.03%) CSS
13 80 (4.03%) HTML
14 76 (3.82%) Flask
15 73 (3.67%) Playwright
16 68 (3.42%) OAuth2
17 64 (3.22%) Django
17 64 (3.22%) JSON
18 62 (3.12%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 446 (22.45%) Cloud Native
2 245 (12.33%) Distributed Systems
3 116 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 59 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
5 54 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
6 48 (2.42%) AI Agents
7 42 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 41 (2.06%) Algorithms
9 39 (1.96%) PKI
10 33 (1.66%) Management Information System
11 30 (1.51%) Security Posture
12 29 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
12 29 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
13 28 (1.41%) Data Structures
13 28 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
13 28 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
14 24 (1.21%) Data Centre
15 23 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
15 23 (1.16%) Public Cloud
16 22 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 331 (16.66%) Linux
2 102 (5.13%) Windows
3 60 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 52 (2.62%) Unix
5 39 (1.96%) Windows Server
6 20 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.65%) VMS
8 9 (0.45%) Android
9 8 (0.40%) Solaris
10 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.25%) CentOS
12 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.20%) Debian
13 4 (0.20%) Rocky
14 1 (0.050%) AIX
14 1 (0.050%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,547 (77.86%) CI/CD
2 1,109 (55.81%) DevOps
3 1,074 (54.05%) Containerisation
4 799 (40.21%) Agile
5 742 (37.34%) Microservices
6 691 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 428 (21.54%) Observability
8 424 (21.34%) Software Engineering
9 419 (21.09%) Test Automation
10 371 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
11 327 (16.46%) AI
12 279 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 273 (13.74%) Event-Driven
14 265 (13.34%) Scrum
15 258 (12.98%) Full-Stack Development
16 226 (11.37%) Data Pipeline
17 224 (11.27%) Machine Learning
18 216 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
19 208 (10.47%) TDD
20 192 (9.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 898 (45.19%) Python
2 623 (31.35%) Java
3 502 (25.26%) SQL
4 248 (12.48%) JavaScript
5 247 (12.43%) Bash
6 229 (11.52%) TypeScript
7 178 (8.96%) C#
8 154 (7.75%) PowerShell
9 89 (4.48%) Go
10 80 (4.03%) Bicep
11 54 (2.72%) Shell Script
12 41 (2.06%) Scala
13 26 (1.31%) PL/SQL
14 24 (1.21%) Groovy
15 21 (1.06%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.91%) Ruby
17 17 (0.86%) C++
18 16 (0.81%) C
19 15 (0.75%) PHP
20 11 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 784 (39.46%) Security Cleared
2 657 (33.06%) SC Cleared
3 126 (6.34%) Degree
3 126 (6.34%) DV Cleared
4 95 (4.78%) AWS Certification
5 87 (4.38%) Azure Certification
6 80 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 62 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (1.51%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.21%) CISSP
10 19 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (0.75%) ISTQB
12 15 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.55%) PhD
14 11 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 10 (0.50%) CCNA
16 8 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (6.79%) QA
2 104 (5.23%) Accessibility
3 77 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 40 (2.01%) WCAG
5 30 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.46%) GDPR
7 25 (1.26%) NIST
8 18 (0.91%) NCSC
9 10 (0.50%) ISO 20022
10 9 (0.45%) PSD2
11 8 (0.40%) SEPA
12 6 (0.30%) SLA
13 5 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.20%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.15%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 54 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.41%) Hyper-V
3 28 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (0.70%) vSphere
6 11 (0.55%) Postfix
7 9 (0.45%) KVM
7 9 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (0.45%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.35%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.15%) Firmware
11 3 (0.15%) HDFS
11 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.10%) NFS
12 2 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,399 (70.41%) Kubernetes
2 736 (37.04%) Terraform
3 302 (15.20%) Grafana
4 278 (13.99%) Prometheus
5 239 (12.03%) Ansible
6 50 (2.52%) Argo
7 48 (2.42%) Puppet
8 40 (2.01%) Progress Chef
9 26 (1.31%) Podman
10 25 (1.26%) Kibana
11 24 (1.21%) Istio
12 17 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 16 (0.81%) Control-M
13 16 (0.81%) IBM Guardium
13 16 (0.81%) Nessus
14 14 (0.70%) Kustomize
14 14 (0.70%) Packer
15 11 (0.55%) HAProxy
15 11 (0.55%) linkerd
16 9 (0.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 235 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 112 (5.64%) Oracle
3 111 (5.59%) Google
4 97 (4.88%) Splunk
5 63 (3.17%) Databricks
6 62 (3.12%) Dynatrace
7 61 (3.07%) VMware
8 48 (2.42%) Red Hat
9 44 (2.21%) OpenAI
10 33 (1.66%) IBM
11 25 (1.26%) New Relic
11 25 (1.26%) ServiceNow
12 22 (1.11%) Atlassian
12 22 (1.11%) Tenable
13 17 (0.86%) Denodo
13 17 (0.86%) Jaspersoft
13 17 (0.86%) Talend
13 17 (0.86%) Trend Micro
14 13 (0.65%) AppDynamics
14 13 (0.65%) Confluent