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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 40 54
Rank change year-on-year -20 +14 +3
Contract jobs citing Docker 2,069 1,645 1,387
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.77% 4.98% 3.68%
As % of the System Software category 37.99% 41.27% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 1,070 958
10th Percentile £367 £375 £375
25th Percentile £431 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £650
90th Percentile £688 £695 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £524
% change year-on-year - -4.58% -4.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 11 6
10th Percentile £55.00 £61.25 £66.25
25th Percentile £61.74 £63.63 £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -16.25% +8.11%
75th Percentile £83.75 £73.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £95.00 £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 5,446 3,986 4,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.92% 12.07% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,584 2,528 2,787
10th Percentile £225 £212 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £670 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 122 98
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.03 £20.13
Median hourly rate £62.00 £33.39 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% +9.46% -36.32%
75th Percentile £74.00 £67.19 £69.92
90th Percentile £90.00 £88.68 £83.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £60.00 £43.08
% change year-on-year +5.23% +39.27% +8.25%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -19 1,709 £525 - 2,233
London -14 878 £550 - 1,247
UK excluding London -21 871 £500 - 1,156
Work from Home -9 666 £527 +5.45% 1,079
North of England -15 313 £475 - 293
Midlands -30 156 £476 -8.90% 112
South East -21 139 £537 +13.05% 271
Yorkshire -9 137 £488 -2.50% 69
South West +1 127 £550 -8.33% 184
West Midlands -33 127 £475 -11.30% 74
North West -35 112 £525 +16.67% 181
Scotland -25 75 £450 -10.00% 105
North East -2 67 £425 -11.69% 45
East of England -6 50 £475 -13.64% 104
East Midlands -11 28 £500 +16.55% 38
Wales -5 18 £375 -21.05% 35
Northern Ireland +6 3 £375 - 54

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 (5.70%) Apache Spark
2 117 (5.65%) Apache Airflow
3 106 (5.12%) Apache
4 102 (4.93%) Confluence
5 33 (1.59%) Jupyter
5 33 (1.59%) nginx
6 17 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.63%) SAS
7 13 (0.63%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.39%) Camunda
9 8 (0.39%) Traefik
9 8 (0.39%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.29%) IIS
11 5 (0.24%) WordPress
12 4 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.19%) MQSeries
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.29%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.19%) Trello
4 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.048%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.048%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.097%) Finacle
4 2 (0.097%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.048%) Magento
5 1 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.048%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.048%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.048%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,260 (60.90%) AWS
2 938 (45.34%) Azure
3 552 (26.68%) GitHub
4 426 (20.59%) GCP
5 391 (18.90%) GitHub Actions
6 302 (14.60%) Azure DevOps
7 273 (13.19%) Serverless
8 226 (10.92%) Amazon S3
9 210 (10.15%) Amazon EKS
10 194 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
11 159 (7.68%) Amazon ECS
12 158 (7.64%) AWS CloudFormation
13 150 (7.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 139 (6.72%) Amazon EC2
15 117 (5.65%) Azure AKS
16 101 (4.88%) OpenShift
17 85 (4.11%) Amazon SQS
18 84 (4.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 73 (3.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 68 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.96%) Firewall
2 68 (3.29%) DNS
3 38 (1.84%) Network Security
4 36 (1.74%) TCP/IP
5 26 (1.26%) DHCP
5 26 (1.26%) HTTP
6 25 (1.21%) VPN
7 20 (0.97%) Internet
8 18 (0.87%) SSL
9 15 (0.72%) 4G
10 14 (0.68%) 5G
11 13 (0.63%) SSH
11 13 (0.63%) Wireshark
12 12 (0.58%) RTP
12 12 (0.58%) VSAN
13 10 (0.48%) BGP
14 9 (0.43%) Broadband
14 9 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
14 9 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.39%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (17.21%) PostgreSQL
2 203 (9.81%) MongoDB
3 173 (8.36%) NoSQL
4 139 (6.72%) Relational Database
5 108 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
6 96 (4.64%) Redis
7 94 (4.54%) MySQL
8 82 (3.96%) SQL Server
9 56 (2.71%) DynamoDB
10 45 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 45 (2.17%) BigQuery
11 43 (2.08%) Big Data
11 43 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
12 40 (1.93%) Data Lake
13 39 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
14 32 (1.55%) Flink
15 28 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
16 26 (1.26%) Delta Lake
17 24 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
17 24 (1.16%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 597 (28.85%) Jenkins
2 592 (28.61%) Git
3 484 (23.39%) GitLab
4 157 (7.59%) JIRA
5 117 (5.65%) JUnit
6 116 (5.61%) Selenium
7 94 (4.54%) Maven
8 93 (4.49%) Cucumber
9 84 (4.06%) SonarQube
10 63 (3.04%) Gradle
10 63 (3.04%) Mockito
11 60 (2.90%) Gatling
12 48 (2.32%) Bitbucket
13 38 (1.84%) JMeter
14 34 (1.64%) REST Assured
15 33 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
16 26 (1.26%) Postman
17 25 (1.21%) Cypress.io
18 23 (1.11%) Claude Code
19 20 (0.97%) MLflow
General
1 477 (23.05%) Social Skills
2 382 (18.46%) Public Sector
3 270 (13.05%) Finance
4 193 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 149 (7.20%) Banking
6 64 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (1.84%) Military
8 36 (1.74%) Telecoms
9 35 (1.69%) Retail
10 26 (1.26%) Investment Banking
11 24 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (1.11%) Law
13 18 (0.87%) Publishing
14 17 (0.82%) Police
15 16 (0.77%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
16 15 (0.72%) Legal
16 15 (0.72%) Local Government
17 14 (0.68%) Aerospace
18 12 (0.58%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 571 (27.60%) Developer
2 383 (18.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 377 (18.22%) Senior
4 216 (10.44%) Java Developer
5 205 (9.91%) Lead
6 132 (6.38%) Software Engineer
7 124 (5.99%) AWS Engineer
8 109 (5.27%) Architect
9 106 (5.12%) Python Developer
10 105 (5.07%) Senior Developer
11 102 (4.93%) Data Engineer
12 99 (4.78%) AWS DevOps
13 95 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
14 92 (4.45%) Full-Stack Developer
15 91 (4.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 83 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
17 80 (3.87%) Java Engineer
18 73 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
19 71 (3.43%) Python Engineer
20 66 (3.19%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 849 (41.03%) Terraform
2 413 (19.96%) Spring
3 395 (19.09%) REST
4 392 (18.95%) Kafka
5 341 (16.48%) Spring Boot
6 308 (14.89%) RESTful
7 253 (12.23%) React
8 153 (7.39%) Node.js
9 146 (7.06%) .NET
10 119 (5.75%) AngularJS
11 117 (5.65%) HTML
12 112 (5.41%) CSS
12 112 (5.41%) FastAPI
13 102 (4.93%) OAuth
14 99 (4.78%) Playwright
15 93 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
16 80 (3.87%) pytest
17 79 (3.82%) Flask
18 73 (3.53%) OAuth2
19 66 (3.19%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 503 (24.31%) Cloud Native
2 222 (10.73%) Distributed Systems
3 158 (7.64%) Product Ownership
4 86 (4.16%) Enterprise Software
5 83 (4.01%) AI Agents
6 61 (2.95%) Onboarding
7 47 (2.27%) Security Posture
8 46 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 46 (2.22%) PKI
9 38 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 36 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 33 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
11 33 (1.59%) Replication
12 29 (1.40%) Data Structures
13 27 (1.30%) Algorithms
13 27 (1.30%) Management Information System
14 25 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
14 25 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
15 24 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 396 (19.14%) Linux
2 132 (6.38%) Windows
3 76 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 64 (3.09%) Unix
5 45 (2.17%) Windows Server
6 30 (1.45%) Ubuntu
7 19 (0.92%) VMS
8 11 (0.53%) CentOS
9 10 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (0.39%) Rocky
11 6 (0.29%) Android
12 5 (0.24%) Solaris
13 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.14%) Debian
14 3 (0.14%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
15 2 (0.097%) AIX
15 2 (0.097%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,683 (81.34%) CI/CD
2 1,190 (57.52%) DevOps
3 1,058 (51.14%) Containerisation
4 892 (43.11%) Agile
5 824 (39.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 727 (35.14%) Microservices
7 522 (25.23%) Test Automation
8 473 (22.86%) Software Engineering
9 455 (21.99%) Observability
10 387 (18.70%) AI
11 371 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
12 351 (16.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 322 (15.56%) Event-Driven
14 305 (14.74%) Scrum
15 259 (12.52%) Platform Engineering
16 254 (12.28%) DevSecOps
17 244 (11.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 235 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
19 227 (10.97%) Full-Stack Development
20 222 (10.73%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 993 (47.99%) Python
2 697 (33.69%) Java
3 481 (23.25%) SQL
4 354 (17.11%) Bash
5 288 (13.92%) JavaScript
6 248 (11.99%) TypeScript
7 206 (9.96%) PowerShell
8 157 (7.59%) C#
9 111 (5.36%) Bicep
10 77 (3.72%) Shell Script
11 74 (3.58%) Go
12 62 (3.00%) Scala
13 54 (2.61%) Groovy
14 25 (1.21%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.11%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.82%) C++
17 14 (0.68%) Perl
18 11 (0.53%) PHP
19 10 (0.48%) C
19 10 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 854 (41.28%) Security Cleared
2 721 (34.85%) SC Cleared
3 149 (7.20%) DV Cleared
4 122 (5.90%) Degree
5 114 (5.51%) AWS Certification
6 113 (5.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 84 (4.06%) Azure Certification
8 64 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (1.35%) CISSP
10 26 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (1.16%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 16 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.53%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.43%) PhD
16 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 8 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
17 7 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 7 (0.34%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (10.10%) QA
2 123 (5.94%) Accessibility
3 73 (3.53%) Data Quality
4 53 (2.56%) WCAG
5 24 (1.16%) NIST
6 22 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (0.97%) NCSC
8 18 (0.87%) GDPR
9 10 (0.48%) ISO 20022
10 9 (0.43%) SEPA
11 8 (0.39%) PSD2
12 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.34%) SLA
13 5 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (0.24%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.19%) ISO 15022
15 3 (0.14%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.14%) PCI DSS
16 2 (0.097%) HL7
System Software
1 57 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 54 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.30%) Hyper-V
3 27 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.92%) VMware NSX
5 18 (0.87%) vSphere
6 10 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.34%) KVM
8 6 (0.29%) NFS
8 6 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.24%) Postfix
9 5 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.19%) GPFS
10 4 (0.19%) HDFS
11 3 (0.14%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.14%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.097%) Squid
12 2 (0.097%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,508 (72.89%) Kubernetes
2 314 (15.18%) Grafana
3 291 (14.06%) Ansible
4 249 (12.03%) Prometheus
5 60 (2.90%) Kibana
6 56 (2.71%) Argo
7 44 (2.13%) Puppet
8 38 (1.84%) Progress Chef
9 29 (1.40%) Podman
10 27 (1.30%) Istio
11 15 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (0.68%) Packer
13 13 (0.63%) Karpenter
13 13 (0.63%) Kustomize
14 11 (0.53%) Nessus
14 11 (0.53%) VxRail
15 10 (0.48%) Control-M
15 10 (0.48%) systemd
16 9 (0.43%) HAProxy
17 8 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 251 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 166 (8.02%) Google
3 130 (6.28%) Oracle
4 103 (4.98%) Splunk
5 89 (4.30%) Databricks
6 77 (3.72%) Dynatrace
7 67 (3.24%) VMware
8 56 (2.71%) OpenAI
9 49 (2.37%) Red Hat
10 47 (2.27%) ServiceNow
11 43 (2.08%) IBM
12 32 (1.55%) New Relic
13 22 (1.06%) Foundry
14 20 (0.97%) webMethods
15 18 (0.87%) Cisco
15 18 (0.87%) Trend Micro
16 17 (0.82%) AppDynamics
17 16 (0.77%) Confluent
18 14 (0.68%) CyberArk
19 13 (0.63%) Tenable