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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 47 57
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Docker 2,020 1,528 1,370
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 4.64% 3.55%
As % of the System Software category 37.46% 39.59% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,372 997 980
10th Percentile £375 £381 £381
25th Percentile £436 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £650
90th Percentile £675 £688 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 13 6
10th Percentile £55.50 £62.50 £66.25
25th Percentile £61.25 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -16.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 £92.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £94.50 £87.50
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 5,393 3,860 4,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.92% 11.73% 11.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,538 2,442 2,963
10th Percentile £220 £220 £218
25th Percentile £400 £381 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.72%
75th Percentile £592 £590 £608
90th Percentile £675 £670 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 111 117
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.92 £18.87 £17.44
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.77 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +90.72% +35.53% -51.64%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £92.11 £91.50 £73.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.31 £64.25 £26.00
% change year-on-year -1.47% +147.12% -35.00%

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 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 13 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 13 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 -14 1,693 £525 - 1,548
UK excluding London -18 866 £500 - 778
London -14 861 £550 +2.09% 936
Work from Home -7 631 £525 +5.00% 2,338
North of England -7 322 £475 - 187
Midlands -26 159 £489 -5.42% 71
Yorkshire +6 151 £500 - 42
South East -16 134 £525 +5.00% 198
West Midlands -30 128 £490 -6.67% 42
South West +4 127 £563 +2.27% 147
North West -50 112 £500 +5.26% 111
Scotland -25 68 £450 -9.64% 73
North East +5 62 £419 -6.42% 36
East of England -3 46 £488 -7.14% 61
East Midlands -9 30 £463 +7.81% 28
Wales -13 16 £450 -5.26% 20
Northern Ireland +5 3 £375 - 25

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
1 118 (5.84%) Apache Spark
2 115 (5.69%) Apache Airflow
3 100 (4.95%) Confluence
4 98 (4.85%) Apache
5 32 (1.58%) Jupyter
6 27 (1.34%) nginx
7 22 (1.09%) SAS
8 18 (0.89%) SharePoint
9 13 (0.64%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.45%) Camunda
10 9 (0.45%) OpenStack
10 9 (0.45%) WebLogic
11 7 (0.35%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.25%) WordPress
13 4 (0.20%) MQSeries
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.15%) CMS
14 3 (0.15%) IIS
14 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
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 (0.099%) Finacle
4 2 (0.099%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.099%) Magento
5 1 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.050%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.050%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.050%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,207 (59.75%) AWS
2 922 (45.64%) Azure
3 544 (26.93%) GitHub
4 404 (20.00%) GCP
4 404 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 300 (14.85%) Azure DevOps
6 274 (13.56%) Serverless
7 215 (10.64%) Amazon S3
8 196 (9.70%) AWS Lambda
9 193 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
10 158 (7.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 147 (7.28%) Amazon ECS
12 144 (7.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 134 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
14 119 (5.89%) Azure AKS
15 98 (4.85%) OpenShift
16 81 (4.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 76 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
18 71 (3.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 67 (3.32%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 78 (3.86%) Firewall
2 65 (3.22%) DNS
3 33 (1.63%) Network Security
4 32 (1.58%) TCP/IP
5 26 (1.29%) DHCP
5 26 (1.29%) HTTP
6 23 (1.14%) VPN
7 19 (0.94%) Internet
8 15 (0.74%) SSL
9 12 (0.59%) SSH
9 12 (0.59%) Wireshark
10 11 (0.54%) RTP
11 10 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
11 10 (0.50%) VSAN
12 9 (0.45%) 4G
13 8 (0.40%) 5G
14 7 (0.35%) HTTPS
14 7 (0.35%) MQTT
14 7 (0.35%) SMTP
15 6 (0.30%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (17.62%) PostgreSQL
2 181 (8.96%) MongoDB
3 171 (8.47%) NoSQL
4 149 (7.38%) Relational Database
5 96 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
6 90 (4.46%) Redis
7 84 (4.16%) SQL Server
8 79 (3.91%) MySQL
9 63 (3.12%) DynamoDB
10 50 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
11 47 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
12 45 (2.23%) BigQuery
13 43 (2.13%) Big Data
14 42 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
15 39 (1.93%) Data Lake
16 29 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
16 29 (1.44%) Flink
17 26 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
17 26 (1.29%) Delta Lake
18 25 (1.24%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 571 (28.27%) Jenkins
2 543 (26.88%) Git
3 441 (21.83%) GitLab
4 150 (7.43%) JIRA
5 113 (5.59%) JUnit
6 96 (4.75%) Maven
7 91 (4.50%) Selenium
8 79 (3.91%) SonarQube
9 71 (3.51%) Mockito
10 63 (3.12%) Gradle
11 61 (3.02%) Cucumber
12 54 (2.67%) Gatling
13 49 (2.43%) Bitbucket
14 39 (1.93%) JMeter
15 33 (1.63%) REST Assured
16 30 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
17 26 (1.29%) Cypress.io
18 25 (1.24%) MLflow
19 23 (1.14%) Postman
20 21 (1.04%) Artifactory
General
1 478 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 384 (19.01%) Public Sector
3 275 (13.61%) Finance
4 180 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
5 139 (6.88%) Banking
6 62 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (1.78%) Military
8 33 (1.63%) Retail
9 25 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (1.24%) Law
9 25 (1.24%) Telecoms
10 20 (0.99%) Publishing
11 18 (0.89%) Investment Banking
12 17 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 17 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
13 16 (0.79%) Aerospace
14 15 (0.74%) Legal
15 14 (0.69%) Police
16 12 (0.59%) Front Office
17 11 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 578 (28.61%) Developer
2 361 (17.87%) Senior
3 348 (17.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 215 (10.64%) Java Developer
5 204 (10.10%) Lead
6 146 (7.23%) Software Engineer
7 119 (5.89%) AWS Engineer
8 118 (5.84%) Senior Developer
9 113 (5.59%) Python Developer
10 112 (5.54%) Architect
11 110 (5.45%) Data Engineer
12 94 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
13 88 (4.36%) AWS DevOps
13 88 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
14 83 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
15 81 (4.01%) Java Engineer
15 81 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
16 79 (3.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 75 (3.71%) Python Engineer
18 64 (3.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 804 (39.80%) Terraform
2 410 (20.30%) Spring
3 378 (18.71%) Kafka
4 362 (17.92%) REST
5 344 (17.03%) Spring Boot
6 311 (15.40%) RESTful
7 241 (11.93%) React
8 157 (7.77%) Node.js
9 150 (7.43%) .NET
10 109 (5.40%) AngularJS
10 109 (5.40%) FastAPI
11 103 (5.10%) HTML
12 99 (4.90%) CSS
13 97 (4.80%) OAuth
14 93 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
15 91 (4.50%) Playwright
16 82 (4.06%) Flask
17 77 (3.81%) pytest
18 73 (3.61%) OAuth2
19 69 (3.42%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 490 (24.26%) Cloud Native
2 221 (10.94%) Distributed Systems
3 145 (7.18%) Product Ownership
4 78 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
5 68 (3.37%) AI Agents
6 51 (2.52%) Onboarding
7 49 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
8 41 (2.03%) PKI
9 36 (1.78%) Security Posture
10 35 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
11 33 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
12 32 (1.58%) Replication
13 30 (1.49%) Data Centre
14 28 (1.39%) Management Information System
15 26 (1.29%) Algorithms
15 26 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
16 25 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
17 24 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
18 23 (1.14%) Data Structures
18 23 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 365 (18.07%) Linux
2 114 (5.64%) Windows
3 72 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 71 (3.51%) Unix
5 48 (2.38%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.39%) Ubuntu
7 17 (0.84%) VMS
8 10 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
9 9 (0.45%) Rocky
10 7 (0.35%) CentOS
10 7 (0.35%) Solaris
11 5 (0.25%) Android
11 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.20%) Debian
12 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.15%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.099%) AIX
14 2 (0.099%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,625 (80.45%) CI/CD
2 1,166 (57.72%) DevOps
3 1,050 (51.98%) Containerisation
4 850 (42.08%) Agile
5 790 (39.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 719 (35.59%) Microservices
7 482 (23.86%) Test Automation
8 471 (23.32%) Software Engineering
9 431 (21.34%) Observability
10 365 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
11 364 (18.02%) AI
12 318 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 317 (15.69%) Event-Driven
14 284 (14.06%) Scrum
15 247 (12.23%) Platform Engineering
16 238 (11.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 234 (11.58%) Full-Stack Development
18 231 (11.44%) DevSecOps
19 219 (10.84%) Data Pipeline
19 219 (10.84%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 959 (47.48%) Python
2 672 (33.27%) Java
3 489 (24.21%) SQL
4 319 (15.79%) Bash
5 264 (13.07%) JavaScript
6 238 (11.78%) TypeScript
7 195 (9.65%) PowerShell
8 164 (8.12%) C#
9 107 (5.30%) Bicep
10 73 (3.61%) Shell Script
11 65 (3.22%) Go
12 50 (2.48%) Scala
13 41 (2.03%) Groovy
14 27 (1.34%) PL/SQL
15 22 (1.09%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.79%) C++
17 13 (0.64%) Perl
18 12 (0.59%) Ruby
19 11 (0.54%) C
19 11 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 822 (40.69%) Security Cleared
2 694 (34.36%) SC Cleared
3 135 (6.68%) DV Cleared
4 122 (6.04%) Degree
5 100 (4.95%) AWS Certification
6 94 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 92 (4.55%) Azure Certification
8 61 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (1.44%) CISSP
10 25 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 23 (1.14%) Master's Degree
12 19 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 17 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.59%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
16 10 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 10 (0.50%) PhD
17 8 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 7 (0.35%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (8.96%) QA
2 109 (5.40%) Accessibility
3 81 (4.01%) Data Quality
4 45 (2.23%) WCAG
5 23 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (1.09%) NIST
7 21 (1.04%) NCSC
8 20 (0.99%) GDPR
9 12 (0.59%) ISO 20022
10 11 (0.54%) SEPA
11 9 (0.45%) PSD2
12 7 (0.35%) SLA
13 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
15 4 (0.20%) ISO 15022
15 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.20%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.15%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 59 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 55 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.53%) Hyper-V
4 28 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.89%) vSphere
6 14 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.69%) 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%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.15%) GPFS
10 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.099%) Firmware
11 2 (0.099%) Squid
11 2 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1,451 (71.83%) Kubernetes
2 290 (14.36%) Grafana
3 277 (13.71%) Ansible
4 242 (11.98%) Prometheus
5 50 (2.48%) Argo
6 49 (2.43%) Puppet
7 42 (2.08%) Progress Chef
8 32 (1.58%) Kibana
9 28 (1.39%) Podman
10 19 (0.94%) Istio
11 17 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (0.64%) HAProxy
12 13 (0.64%) Kustomize
13 12 (0.59%) Karpenter
13 12 (0.59%) Packer
14 10 (0.50%) Nessus
15 9 (0.45%) Control-M
15 9 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
15 9 (0.45%) Nagios
15 9 (0.45%) systemd
Vendors
1 258 (12.77%) Microsoft
2 143 (7.08%) Google
3 126 (6.24%) Oracle
4 98 (4.85%) Splunk
5 91 (4.50%) Databricks
6 76 (3.76%) Dynatrace
7 70 (3.47%) VMware
8 53 (2.62%) Red Hat
9 50 (2.48%) OpenAI
10 42 (2.08%) IBM
11 37 (1.83%) ServiceNow
12 32 (1.58%) New Relic
13 20 (0.99%) Foundry
14 19 (0.94%) AppDynamics
15 18 (0.89%) Confluent
15 18 (0.89%) Trend Micro
16 16 (0.79%) Cisco
16 16 (0.79%) Talend
17 14 (0.69%) Denodo
18 13 (0.64%) CyberArk