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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 50 75
Rank change year-on-year -1 +25 -23
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,857 1,297 1,216
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.89% 4.41% 2.82%
As % of the System Software category 38.12% 35.66% 26.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,243 918 898
10th Percentile £364 £403 £405
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £788 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.06% -2.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 8 13
10th Percentile £52.16 £25.25 £47.40
25th Percentile £58.43 £26.94 £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.60 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +19.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £92.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £93.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £80.60 £79.00
% change year-on-year -19.35% +2.03% +12.86%

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 4,871 3,637 4,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.19% 12.38% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,278 2,475 3,182
10th Percentile £213 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% -4.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 87 234
10th Percentile £16.33 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.73 £15.44 £14.74
Median hourly rate £53.00 £28.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +89.29% +24.44% -58.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.50 £60.56
90th Percentile £91.50 £88.00 £77.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £19.95
% change year-on-year +87.50% +40.35% -56.73%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 1,608 £525 -4.55% 665
London +2 840 £548 -4.78% 263
UK excluding London -3 743 £500 -2.06% 436
Work from Home -12 550 £502 -8.68% 327
North of England +7 294 £488 -7.14% 148
Midlands +5 192 £514 +2.70% 55
West Midlands +16 167 £515 -4.19% 29
Yorkshire +7 137 £488 -9.30% 43
North West -7 131 £494 -1.23% 74
South West -8 105 £550 -8.33% 68
South East -42 94 £507 +1.35% 127
Scotland -25 42 £420 -8.94% 12
North East -5 31 £464 -7.94% 32
East Midlands -30 24 £449 +2.05% 26
East of England -30 22 £550 +12.24% 17
Wales -8 10 £422 -21.85% 3
Northern Ireland +5 5 - - 7

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 88 (4.74%) Confluence
2 78 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 69 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (2.69%) Apache
5 39 (2.10%) SAS
6 26 (1.40%) nginx
7 15 (0.81%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.70%) Camunda
9 11 (0.59%) OpenStack
10 10 (0.54%) Tomcat
11 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
12 8 (0.43%) Appian
12 8 (0.43%) SharePoint
13 5 (0.27%) CMS
14 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
14 4 (0.22%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.16%) IIS
15 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.22%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.11%) Weka
6 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.054%) Maya
6 1 (0.054%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.054%) Notion
6 1 (0.054%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.11%) Shopify
3 1 (0.054%) Actimize
3 1 (0.054%) Magento
3 1 (0.054%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.054%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,113 (59.94%) AWS
2 809 (43.56%) Azure
3 456 (24.56%) GitHub
4 372 (20.03%) GCP
5 326 (17.56%) GitHub Actions
6 275 (14.81%) Serverless
7 230 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
8 207 (11.15%) Amazon S3
9 181 (9.75%) AWS Lambda
10 178 (9.59%) Amazon EKS
11 176 (9.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 153 (8.24%) Amazon EC2
13 143 (7.70%) Amazon ECS
14 123 (6.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 120 (6.46%) Azure AKS
16 79 (4.25%) OpenShift
17 78 (4.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 61 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
18 61 (3.28%) Datadog
19 57 (3.07%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (3.34%) Firewall
2 45 (2.42%) DNS
3 24 (1.29%) VPN
4 23 (1.24%) HTTP
4 23 (1.24%) TCP/IP
5 18 (0.97%) DHCP
6 15 (0.81%) Network Security
7 12 (0.65%) SSL
8 10 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
9 7 (0.38%) 3GPP
9 7 (0.38%) SMTP
10 6 (0.32%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.27%) IPv4
11 5 (0.27%) IPv6
11 5 (0.27%) SAN
11 5 (0.27%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.22%) Internet
12 4 (0.22%) NAS
12 4 (0.22%) NetScaler
12 4 (0.22%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 294 (15.83%) PostgreSQL
2 179 (9.64%) NoSQL
3 136 (7.32%) Relational Database
4 129 (6.95%) MongoDB
5 116 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 107 (5.76%) Amazon RDS
7 65 (3.50%) DynamoDB
8 63 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
9 61 (3.28%) Redis
10 54 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
11 53 (2.85%) Amazon Aurora
12 50 (2.69%) MySQL
13 49 (2.64%) Big Data
14 32 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
14 32 (1.72%) Data Lake
15 29 (1.56%) BigQuery
15 29 (1.56%) Power BI
16 26 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
17 25 (1.35%) DocumentDB
17 25 (1.35%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 498 (26.82%) Jenkins
2 413 (22.24%) Git
3 382 (20.57%) GitLab
4 172 (9.26%) JIRA
5 91 (4.90%) JUnit
6 55 (2.96%) Maven
6 55 (2.96%) Selenium
7 54 (2.91%) Mockito
7 54 (2.91%) SonarQube
8 44 (2.37%) MLflow
9 42 (2.26%) JMeter
10 40 (2.15%) Cucumber
10 40 (2.15%) Gatling
11 39 (2.10%) Bitbucket
12 34 (1.83%) Gradle
13 23 (1.24%) CircleCI
14 22 (1.18%) Artifactory
14 22 (1.18%) Liquibase
14 22 (1.18%) Postman
15 21 (1.13%) WebDriver
General
1 418 (22.51%) Social Skills
2 314 (16.91%) Public Sector
3 287 (15.46%) Finance
4 158 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 137 (7.38%) Banking
6 27 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (0.97%) Investment Banking
8 18 (0.97%) Military
8 18 (0.97%) Retail
9 16 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 15 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (0.75%) Law
12 13 (0.70%) Front Office
12 13 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (0.65%) Publishing
13 12 (0.65%) Telecoms
14 11 (0.59%) Legal
15 10 (0.54%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 578 (31.13%) Developer
2 325 (17.50%) Senior
3 251 (13.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 172 (9.26%) Java Developer
5 137 (7.38%) Software Engineer
6 133 (7.16%) Lead
7 123 (6.62%) Python Developer
8 120 (6.46%) Senior Developer
9 112 (6.03%) Data Engineer
10 110 (5.92%) Architect
11 107 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
12 105 (5.65%) Full-Stack Developer
13 72 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
14 71 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
15 65 (3.50%) Java Engineer
16 61 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 61 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
17 55 (2.96%) Cloud Engineer
18 52 (2.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 50 (2.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (19.06%) Spring
2 322 (17.34%) Kafka
3 311 (16.75%) Spring Boot
4 245 (13.19%) RESTful
5 234 (12.60%) REST
6 224 (12.06%) React
7 217 (11.69%) Node.js
8 161 (8.67%) .NET
9 113 (6.09%) AngularJS
10 104 (5.60%) FastAPI
11 94 (5.06%) OAuth
12 89 (4.79%) Elastic Stack
13 84 (4.52%) OpenTelemetry
14 75 (4.04%) Flask
14 75 (4.04%) PyTorch
15 70 (3.77%) HTML
15 70 (3.77%) Playwright
16 66 (3.55%) GraphQL
17 65 (3.50%) Django
18 64 (3.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 358 (19.28%) Cloud Native
2 193 (10.39%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 40 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
5 39 (2.10%) Algorithms
5 39 (2.10%) Management Information System
6 33 (1.78%) AI Agents
7 32 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 29 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
9 28 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 25 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 23 (1.24%) Onboarding
12 22 (1.18%) PKI
13 21 (1.13%) Data Structures
13 21 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
13 21 (1.13%) Equities
13 21 (1.13%) NHS
14 20 (1.08%) Hedge funds
15 19 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 326 (17.56%) Linux
2 91 (4.90%) Windows
3 67 (3.61%) Unix
4 39 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 35 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.92%) VMS
7 12 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (0.59%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.43%) Android
10 8 (0.43%) Solaris
10 8 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
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 1,361 (73.29%) CI/CD
2 1,009 (54.33%) Containerisation
3 990 (53.31%) DevOps
4 679 (36.56%) Agile
5 668 (35.97%) Microservices
6 565 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 382 (20.57%) Observability
8 358 (19.28%) Test Automation
9 342 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
10 339 (18.26%) Software Engineering
11 274 (14.75%) AI
12 245 (13.19%) Full-Stack Development
13 219 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
14 205 (11.04%) Data Pipeline
15 199 (10.72%) Event-Driven
16 198 (10.66%) Analytics
17 190 (10.23%) Machine Learning
18 188 (10.12%) Scrum
19 175 (9.42%) TDD
20 154 (8.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 811 (43.67%) Python
2 539 (29.03%) Java
3 526 (28.33%) SQL
4 221 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 195 (10.50%) TypeScript
6 185 (9.96%) Bash
7 178 (9.59%) C#
8 134 (7.22%) PowerShell
9 127 (6.84%) Go
10 70 (3.77%) Bicep
11 55 (2.96%) Shell Script
12 46 (2.48%) Scala
13 27 (1.45%) Ruby
14 21 (1.13%) C++
14 21 (1.13%) Groovy
14 21 (1.13%) PHP
15 15 (0.81%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.65%) Rust
17 11 (0.59%) C
17 11 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 672 (36.19%) Security Cleared
2 548 (29.51%) SC Cleared
3 139 (7.49%) Degree
4 93 (5.01%) DV Cleared
5 89 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 83 (4.47%) Azure Certification
7 76 (4.09%) AWS Certification
8 59 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 25 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (0.75%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.65%) CISSP
15 9 (0.48%) SAFe Agilist
15 9 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 8 (0.43%) CCNA
16 8 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (5.55%) QA
2 73 (3.93%) Accessibility
2 73 (3.93%) Data Quality
3 41 (2.21%) GDPR
4 30 (1.62%) WCAG
5 29 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (1.35%) NIST
7 18 (0.97%) ISO 20022
8 15 (0.81%) PSD2
9 13 (0.70%) SEPA
10 12 (0.65%) NCSC
11 11 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.59%) SLA
12 6 (0.32%) HL7
12 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.27%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 52 (2.80%) Active Directory
2 47 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.18%) Hyper-V
4 18 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 10 (0.54%) Postfix
8 9 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.38%) BitLocker
11 6 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.32%) vSphere
12 5 (0.27%) Lustre
13 4 (0.22%) Firmware
13 4 (0.22%) HDFS
13 4 (0.22%) KVM
14 3 (0.16%) GPFS
15 2 (0.11%) Ceph
15 2 (0.11%) GridGain
15 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,321 (71.14%) Kubernetes
2 629 (33.87%) Terraform
3 298 (16.05%) Grafana
4 268 (14.43%) Prometheus
5 212 (11.42%) Ansible
6 56 (3.02%) Puppet
7 44 (2.37%) Argo
8 36 (1.94%) Kibana
9 35 (1.88%) Progress Chef
10 27 (1.45%) Istio
11 26 (1.40%) Podman
12 18 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
13 17 (0.92%) Nessus
14 16 (0.86%) Control-M
14 16 (0.86%) IBM Guardium
15 14 (0.75%) Packer
16 11 (0.59%) HAProxy
16 11 (0.59%) Rancher
17 10 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 10 (0.54%) Kiali
Vendors
1 232 (12.49%) Microsoft
2 109 (5.87%) Splunk
3 91 (4.90%) Oracle
4 82 (4.42%) Google
5 70 (3.77%) Databricks
6 55 (2.96%) Dynatrace
7 51 (2.75%) VMware
8 42 (2.26%) OpenAI
9 33 (1.78%) Red Hat
10 26 (1.40%) Talend
11 25 (1.35%) Denodo
12 24 (1.29%) AppDynamics
13 23 (1.24%) IBM
14 21 (1.13%) Atlassian
15 19 (1.02%) Tenable
16 18 (0.97%) New Relic
17 15 (0.81%) Foundry
17 15 (0.81%) ServiceNow
18 14 (0.75%) Confluent
18 14 (0.75%) Jaspersoft