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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 50 61
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,911 1,364 1,358
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.71% 4.40% 3.13%
As % of the System Software category 37.89% 36.39% 28.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,273 927 1,017
10th Percentile £377 £383 £400
25th Percentile £430 £440 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £611 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 8 12
10th Percentile £53.13 £26.83 £47.08
25th Percentile £58.43 £52.81 £59.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £79.35 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +9.07% +0.34%
75th Percentile £75.00 £89.69 £85.00
90th Percentile £84.38 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% - +12.28%

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 5,044 3,748 4,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.80% 12.10% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,443 3,308
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £400 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £607
90th Percentile £669 £690 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 87 220
10th Percentile £13.97 £14.49 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.39 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% +16.72% -55.03%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.00 £59.20
90th Percentile £77.50 £89.85 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £54.88 £24.34
% change year-on-year -7.06% +125.45% -21.48%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -8 1,639 £525 - 799
London -1 850 £542 +2.21% 380
UK excluding London -8 790 £500 - 515
Work from Home -13 590 £513 -2.38% 422
North of England +4 319 £481 -3.75% 124
Midlands -4 177 £500 +5.26% 48
Yorkshire +11 152 £500 - 33
West Midlands -3 151 £500 -2.44% 32
North West -27 121 £525 +5.00% 65
South West +5 112 £544 -1.14% 101
South East -37 105 £525 +5.00% 169
North East +3 52 £425 -2.86% 26
Scotland -11 47 £450 -3.95% 16
East of England -16 24 £550 +12.24% 26
East Midlands -23 24 £449 +4.55% 16
Wales -11 15 £463 -2.63% 19
Northern Ireland +5 5 £375 -31.82% 18

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
1 106 (5.55%) Apache Spark
2 103 (5.39%) Apache Airflow
3 97 (5.08%) Confluence
4 78 (4.08%) Apache
5 33 (1.73%) Jupyter
6 31 (1.62%) SAS
7 29 (1.52%) nginx
8 13 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 12 (0.63%) Camunda
10 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.42%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.37%) SharePoint
11 7 (0.37%) WordPress
12 6 (0.31%) Appian
12 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.31%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.21%) CMS
14 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.42%) CPLEX
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.052%) Maya
5 1 (0.052%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.052%) Notion
5 1 (0.052%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.052%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.10%) Shopify
3 1 (0.052%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.052%) Magento
3 1 (0.052%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.052%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,142 (59.76%) AWS
2 828 (43.33%) Azure
3 448 (23.44%) GitHub
4 381 (19.94%) GCP
5 334 (17.48%) GitHub Actions
6 275 (14.39%) Serverless
7 234 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
8 212 (11.09%) Amazon S3
9 181 (9.47%) AWS Lambda
10 158 (8.27%) Amazon EC2
10 158 (8.27%) Amazon EKS
11 153 (8.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 130 (6.80%) Amazon ECS
13 129 (6.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 109 (5.70%) Azure AKS
15 82 (4.29%) OpenShift
16 80 (4.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 66 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
18 60 (3.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 48 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.67%) Firewall
2 30 (1.57%) DNS
3 26 (1.36%) Network Security
4 24 (1.26%) HTTP
5 21 (1.10%) VPN
6 13 (0.68%) DHCP
6 13 (0.68%) Internet
7 11 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
8 10 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.47%) 3GPP
10 8 (0.42%) SMTP
11 7 (0.37%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.31%) MQTT
12 6 (0.31%) RTP
12 6 (0.31%) SSL
13 5 (0.26%) IPv4
13 5 (0.26%) IPv6
14 4 (0.21%) OpenLDAP
15 3 (0.16%) AMQP
15 3 (0.16%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 322 (16.85%) PostgreSQL
2 169 (8.84%) NoSQL
3 155 (8.11%) MongoDB
4 134 (7.01%) Relational Database
5 102 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
6 94 (4.92%) SQL Server
7 72 (3.77%) DynamoDB
8 69 (3.61%) Redis
9 54 (2.83%) Big Data
10 46 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 46 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
11 44 (2.30%) MySQL
12 38 (1.99%) Apache Cassandra
13 35 (1.83%) BigQuery
14 32 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
15 28 (1.47%) Data Lake
16 27 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
16 27 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
17 24 (1.26%) Flink
18 19 (0.99%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 517 (27.05%) Jenkins
2 417 (21.82%) Git
3 400 (20.93%) GitLab
4 174 (9.11%) JIRA
5 109 (5.70%) JUnit
6 75 (3.92%) Selenium
7 62 (3.24%) Mockito
8 59 (3.09%) SonarQube
9 57 (2.98%) Maven
10 49 (2.56%) Cucumber
11 46 (2.41%) JMeter
12 45 (2.35%) MLflow
13 42 (2.20%) Gatling
14 37 (1.94%) Gradle
15 34 (1.78%) Bitbucket
16 33 (1.73%) REST Assured
17 27 (1.41%) Liquibase
18 22 (1.15%) Artifactory
18 22 (1.15%) Postman
19 21 (1.10%) WebDriver
General
1 425 (22.24%) Social Skills
2 354 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 279 (14.60%) Finance
4 155 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 131 (6.86%) Banking
6 50 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (1.36%) Military
9 25 (1.31%) Retail
10 24 (1.26%) Law
11 22 (1.15%) Investment Banking
12 17 (0.89%) Financial Institution
12 17 (0.89%) Publishing
13 16 (0.84%) Legal
14 14 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (0.73%) Telecoms
15 11 (0.58%) Front Office
15 11 (0.58%) Police
16 10 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 583 (30.51%) Developer
2 333 (17.43%) Senior
3 301 (15.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 198 (10.36%) Java Developer
5 157 (8.22%) Lead
6 149 (7.80%) Software Engineer
7 130 (6.80%) Python Developer
8 122 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
9 116 (6.07%) Senior Developer
10 109 (5.70%) Architect
11 106 (5.55%) Data Engineer
12 94 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
13 86 (4.50%) AWS DevOps
14 81 (4.24%) Java Engineer
15 78 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
16 76 (3.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 69 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
18 65 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
19 60 (3.14%) Python Engineer
20 52 (2.72%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (20.15%) Spring
2 330 (17.27%) Spring Boot
3 319 (16.69%) Kafka
4 273 (14.29%) REST
5 266 (13.92%) RESTful
6 234 (12.24%) React
7 176 (9.21%) Node.js
8 157 (8.22%) .NET
9 112 (5.86%) AngularJS
10 111 (5.81%) FastAPI
11 86 (4.50%) OAuth
12 78 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
13 74 (3.87%) Flask
14 69 (3.61%) Django
15 67 (3.51%) HTML
15 67 (3.51%) Playwright
16 66 (3.45%) CSS
16 66 (3.45%) Swagger
17 63 (3.30%) OpenTelemetry
18 61 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 411 (21.51%) Cloud Native
2 216 (11.30%) Distributed Systems
3 93 (4.87%) Product Ownership
4 53 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 51 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.20%) Algorithms
7 39 (2.04%) Management Information System
8 38 (1.99%) AI Agents
9 31 (1.62%) Onboarding
10 30 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
11 29 (1.52%) PKI
12 28 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.47%) Data Structures
13 26 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
13 26 (1.36%) Public Cloud
14 24 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
14 24 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
14 24 (1.26%) Security Posture
15 21 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
16 19 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 328 (17.16%) Linux
2 93 (4.87%) Windows
3 56 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 54 (2.83%) Unix
5 40 (2.09%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.15%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.68%) VMS
8 10 (0.52%) Android
8 10 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.47%) Solaris
9 9 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.31%) CentOS
11 6 (0.31%) Rocky
11 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.26%) Debian
13 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.052%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,456 (76.19%) CI/CD
2 1,056 (55.26%) DevOps
3 1,049 (54.89%) Containerisation
4 733 (38.36%) Agile
5 698 (36.53%) Microservices
6 612 (32.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 388 (20.30%) Observability
8 381 (19.94%) Test Automation
9 371 (19.41%) Software Engineering
10 347 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
11 301 (15.75%) AI
12 247 (12.93%) Full-Stack Development
13 242 (12.66%) Event-Driven
14 240 (12.56%) Continuous Improvement
15 235 (12.30%) Scrum
16 215 (11.25%) Data Pipeline
17 213 (11.15%) Machine Learning
18 200 (10.47%) TDD
19 188 (9.84%) Platform Engineering
20 174 (9.11%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 858 (44.90%) Python
2 587 (30.72%) Java
3 511 (26.74%) SQL
4 228 (11.93%) JavaScript
5 205 (10.73%) TypeScript
6 201 (10.52%) Bash
7 182 (9.52%) C#
8 125 (6.54%) PowerShell
9 101 (5.29%) Go
10 73 (3.82%) Bicep
11 51 (2.67%) Shell Script
12 40 (2.09%) Scala
13 23 (1.20%) PL/SQL
14 21 (1.10%) Ruby
15 19 (0.99%) Groovy
15 19 (0.99%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.89%) C++
17 15 (0.78%) PHP
18 13 (0.68%) Rust
19 10 (0.52%) C
Qualifications
1 728 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 616 (32.23%) SC Cleared
3 136 (7.12%) Degree
4 111 (5.81%) DV Cleared
5 85 (4.45%) AWS Certification
6 80 (4.19%) Azure Certification
7 74 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 71 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.62%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.26%) CISSP
11 23 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (0.78%) ISTQB
12 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.58%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 9 (0.47%) CCNA
17 8 (0.42%) PhD
17 8 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (5.97%) QA
2 93 (4.87%) Accessibility
3 71 (3.72%) Data Quality
4 34 (1.78%) WCAG
5 32 (1.67%) GDPR
6 31 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.47%) NIST
8 18 (0.94%) NCSC
9 11 (0.58%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.52%) PSD2
11 9 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.47%) SEPA
12 7 (0.37%) SLA
13 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.26%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.21%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
17 2 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 40 (2.09%) Active Directory
1 40 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
4 18 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.58%) Postfix
5 11 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 10 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (0.47%) KVM
8 8 (0.42%) BitLocker
8 8 (0.42%) vSphere
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.16%) Firmware
11 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.10%) GPFS
12 2 (0.10%) HDFS
12 2 (0.10%) NFS
12 2 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,342 (70.23%) Kubernetes
2 684 (35.79%) Terraform
3 284 (14.86%) Grafana
4 271 (14.18%) Prometheus
5 215 (11.25%) Ansible
6 47 (2.46%) Puppet
7 37 (1.94%) Progress Chef
8 36 (1.88%) Argo
9 26 (1.36%) Kibana
10 25 (1.31%) Podman
11 24 (1.26%) Istio
12 17 (0.89%) Control-M
12 17 (0.89%) IBM Guardium
12 17 (0.89%) Nessus
12 17 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
13 16 (0.84%) Packer
14 15 (0.78%) Kustomize
15 11 (0.58%) HAProxy
15 11 (0.58%) linkerd
16 10 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 229 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 94 (4.92%) Splunk
3 90 (4.71%) Oracle
4 88 (4.60%) Google
5 59 (3.09%) Databricks
6 55 (2.88%) Dynatrace
7 45 (2.35%) VMware
8 44 (2.30%) Red Hat
9 41 (2.15%) OpenAI
10 29 (1.52%) IBM
11 23 (1.20%) Atlassian
11 23 (1.20%) Tenable
12 22 (1.15%) New Relic
13 21 (1.10%) ServiceNow
14 20 (1.05%) Talend
15 19 (0.99%) Denodo
16 17 (0.89%) Jaspersoft
16 17 (0.89%) Trend Micro
17 13 (0.68%) AppDynamics
18 10 (0.52%) Foundry