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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 54 60
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing Docker 2,002 1,454 1,330
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.76% 4.42% 3.37%
As % of the System Software category 38.16% 37.74% 29.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,341 959 990
10th Percentile £381 £375 £387
25th Percentile £440 £440 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.79% -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 41 12 8
10th Percentile £55.00 £62.13 £59.63
25th Percentile £58.43 £66.63 £72.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -16.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £77.00 £82.19 £85.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £92.13 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -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 5,246 3,853 4,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.84% 11.72% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,447 2,474 3,117
10th Percentile £225 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 100 157
10th Percentile £15.39 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.65 £15.65
Median hourly rate £52.50 £31.39 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +67.28% +31.87% -52.40%
75th Percentile £74.00 £79.03 £58.69
90th Percentile £79.10 £91.50 £70.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £59.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +176.74% -20.37%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1,695 £525 - 1,004
UK excluding London 0 861 £500 - 600
London -4 849 £550 +3.77% 521
Work from Home -7 646 £525 - 576
North of England +13 319 £484 -3.25% 184
Midlands -7 182 £498 +4.74% 64
West Midlands -7 163 £494 +1.24% 46
Yorkshire +14 151 £500 - 40
South East -23 134 £525 +7.69% 142
South West +11 126 £563 +2.27% 106
North West -29 113 £525 +5.00% 117
Scotland -12 59 £450 -8.72% 28
North East +3 58 £419 -1.47% 28
East of England -10 35 £550 +12.24% 33
East Midlands -27 17 £500 +16.41% 18
Wales -12 15 £650 +36.84% 31
Northern Ireland +2 3 £375 -31.82% 17

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
1 113 (5.64%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (5.59%) Apache Spark
3 104 (5.19%) Confluence
4 91 (4.55%) Apache
5 34 (1.70%) SAS
6 28 (1.40%) Jupyter
7 22 (1.10%) nginx
8 11 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.45%) WebLogic
9 9 (0.45%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.30%) Camunda
11 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.25%) SharePoint
11 5 (0.25%) WordPress
12 4 (0.20%) CMS
13 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.15%) IIS
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.40%) CPLEX
3 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.20%) Trello
6 1 (0.050%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.050%) Maya
6 1 (0.050%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.100%) 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 1,230 (61.44%) AWS
2 906 (45.25%) Azure
3 506 (25.27%) GitHub
4 419 (20.93%) GCP
5 389 (19.43%) GitHub Actions
6 267 (13.34%) Serverless
7 264 (13.19%) Azure DevOps
8 212 (10.59%) Amazon S3
9 197 (9.84%) Amazon EKS
10 174 (8.69%) AWS Lambda
11 156 (7.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 143 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
13 138 (6.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 135 (6.74%) Amazon ECS
15 113 (5.64%) Azure AKS
16 83 (4.15%) OpenShift
17 82 (4.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 73 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
19 58 (2.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 54 (2.70%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 67 (3.35%) Firewall
2 50 (2.50%) DNS
3 28 (1.40%) Network Security
4 25 (1.25%) DHCP
4 25 (1.25%) TCP/IP
5 22 (1.10%) VPN
6 20 (1.00%) HTTP
7 17 (0.85%) Internet
8 11 (0.55%) VSAN
8 11 (0.55%) Wireshark
9 9 (0.45%) 3GPP
9 9 (0.45%) SSL
10 8 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
11 7 (0.35%) MQTT
11 7 (0.35%) RTP
11 7 (0.35%) SMTP
12 5 (0.25%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.25%) IPv4
12 5 (0.25%) IPv6
13 4 (0.20%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 348 (17.38%) PostgreSQL
2 170 (8.49%) NoSQL
3 169 (8.44%) MongoDB
4 138 (6.89%) Relational Database
5 87 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
6 86 (4.30%) SQL Server
7 77 (3.85%) Redis
8 72 (3.60%) DynamoDB
9 61 (3.05%) MySQL
10 51 (2.55%) Big Data
11 48 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 43 (2.15%) BigQuery
12 43 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
13 36 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
14 34 (1.70%) Apache Cassandra
15 32 (1.60%) Data Lake
16 31 (1.55%) Flink
17 30 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
18 29 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
19 21 (1.05%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 561 (28.02%) Jenkins
2 476 (23.78%) Git
3 412 (20.58%) GitLab
4 166 (8.29%) JIRA
5 115 (5.74%) JUnit
6 85 (4.25%) Selenium
7 74 (3.70%) Maven
8 68 (3.40%) Mockito
8 68 (3.40%) SonarQube
9 54 (2.70%) Cucumber
10 50 (2.50%) Gradle
11 49 (2.45%) JMeter
12 47 (2.35%) Gatling
13 44 (2.20%) Bitbucket
14 37 (1.85%) MLflow
15 30 (1.50%) REST Assured
16 27 (1.35%) Liquibase
17 24 (1.20%) Cypress.io
18 22 (1.10%) Artifactory
18 22 (1.10%) Postman
General
1 446 (22.28%) Social Skills
2 394 (19.68%) Public Sector
3 272 (13.59%) Finance
4 169 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
5 130 (6.49%) Banking
6 52 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (1.80%) Retail
8 33 (1.65%) Military
9 25 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (1.20%) Law
11 20 (1.00%) Publishing
11 20 (1.00%) Telecoms
12 19 (0.95%) Financial Institution
12 19 (0.95%) Investment Banking
13 18 (0.90%) Legal
14 15 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.60%) Front Office
15 12 (0.60%) Police
16 11 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 601 (30.02%) Developer
2 354 (17.68%) Senior
3 298 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 216 (10.79%) Java Developer
5 175 (8.74%) Lead
6 153 (7.64%) Software Engineer
7 126 (6.29%) Architect
8 124 (6.19%) Senior Developer
9 118 (5.89%) AWS Engineer
10 116 (5.79%) Data Engineer
10 116 (5.79%) Python Developer
11 101 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
12 88 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
13 83 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
14 82 (4.10%) Java Engineer
15 76 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
16 72 (3.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 71 (3.55%) Python Engineer
18 69 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
19 54 (2.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 403 (20.13%) Spring
2 353 (17.63%) Kafka
3 334 (16.68%) Spring Boot
4 321 (16.03%) REST
5 300 (14.99%) RESTful
6 249 (12.44%) React
7 193 (9.64%) Node.js
8 154 (7.69%) .NET
9 115 (5.74%) AngularJS
10 107 (5.34%) FastAPI
11 94 (4.70%) OAuth
12 87 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
13 85 (4.25%) CSS
13 85 (4.25%) HTML
14 79 (3.95%) Flask
15 75 (3.75%) Playwright
16 68 (3.40%) OAuth2
17 66 (3.30%) Django
18 65 (3.25%) JSON
19 62 (3.10%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 448 (22.38%) Cloud Native
2 244 (12.19%) Distributed Systems
3 115 (5.74%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
5 52 (2.60%) AI Agents
5 52 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (2.10%) Onboarding
7 41 (2.05%) PKI
8 40 (2.00%) Algorithms
9 32 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 31 (1.55%) Security Posture
11 29 (1.45%) Data Structures
11 29 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
12 28 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
12 28 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
13 27 (1.35%) Data Centre
13 27 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
14 22 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
14 22 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 328 (16.38%) Linux
2 107 (5.34%) Windows
3 60 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 52 (2.60%) Unix
5 41 (2.05%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.05%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.55%) VMS
8 9 (0.45%) Android
9 7 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.35%) Solaris
10 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.25%) CentOS
11 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.20%) Debian
12 4 (0.20%) Rocky
12 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.100%) SUSE
14 1 (0.050%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,562 (78.02%) CI/CD
2 1,114 (55.64%) DevOps
3 1,059 (52.90%) Containerisation
4 829 (41.41%) Agile
5 739 (36.91%) Microservices
6 705 (35.21%) Infrastructure as Code
7 429 (21.43%) Test Automation
8 427 (21.33%) Observability
8 427 (21.33%) Software Engineering
9 368 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
10 336 (16.78%) AI
11 292 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 281 (14.04%) Event-Driven
13 276 (13.79%) Scrum
14 267 (13.34%) Full-Stack Development
15 234 (11.69%) Data Pipeline
16 226 (11.29%) Platform Engineering
17 222 (11.09%) Machine Learning
18 215 (10.74%) TDD
19 199 (9.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 908 (45.35%) Python
2 623 (31.12%) Java
3 507 (25.32%) SQL
4 258 (12.89%) Bash
5 255 (12.74%) JavaScript
6 237 (11.84%) TypeScript
7 178 (8.89%) C#
8 162 (8.09%) PowerShell
9 84 (4.20%) Go
10 82 (4.10%) Bicep
11 55 (2.75%) Shell Script
12 43 (2.15%) Scala
13 26 (1.30%) Groovy
14 25 (1.25%) PL/SQL
15 22 (1.10%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.85%) C++
16 17 (0.85%) Ruby
17 16 (0.80%) C
18 13 (0.65%) PHP
19 10 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 800 (39.96%) Security Cleared
2 671 (33.52%) SC Cleared
3 128 (6.39%) DV Cleared
4 123 (6.14%) Degree
5 100 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 88 (4.40%) Azure Certification
7 82 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 61 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.20%) CISSP
11 23 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 18 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 15 (0.75%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.60%) PhD
17 11 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
18 10 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 10 (0.50%) CCNA
19 8 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (7.09%) QA
2 107 (5.34%) Accessibility
3 86 (4.30%) Data Quality
4 44 (2.20%) WCAG
5 31 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.35%) GDPR
7 25 (1.25%) NIST
8 19 (0.95%) NCSC
9 8 (0.40%) ISO 20022
9 8 (0.40%) PSD2
10 7 (0.35%) SEPA
11 6 (0.30%) SLA
12 5 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.20%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.15%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 55 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 53 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.55%) Hyper-V
4 27 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.80%) vSphere
6 15 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.60%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.55%) Postfix
9 9 (0.45%) KVM
9 9 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (0.35%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.15%) Firmware
12 3 (0.15%) HDFS
12 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.100%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.100%) GridGain
13 2 (0.100%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.100%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,422 (71.03%) Kubernetes
2 743 (37.11%) Terraform
3 292 (14.59%) Grafana
4 264 (13.19%) Prometheus
5 247 (12.34%) Ansible
6 50 (2.50%) Argo
7 47 (2.35%) Puppet
8 39 (1.95%) Progress Chef
9 26 (1.30%) Podman
10 25 (1.25%) Kibana
11 23 (1.15%) Istio
12 16 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
13 14 (0.70%) Kustomize
13 14 (0.70%) Packer
14 13 (0.65%) Control-M
14 13 (0.65%) IBM Guardium
14 13 (0.65%) Nessus
15 11 (0.55%) HAProxy
15 11 (0.55%) linkerd
16 10 (0.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 234 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 118 (5.89%) Google
3 115 (5.74%) Oracle
4 96 (4.80%) Splunk
5 68 (3.40%) Dynatrace
6 66 (3.30%) Databricks
7 64 (3.20%) VMware
8 49 (2.45%) Red Hat
9 45 (2.25%) OpenAI
10 32 (1.60%) IBM
11 28 (1.40%) New Relic
11 28 (1.40%) ServiceNow
12 22 (1.10%) Atlassian
13 21 (1.05%) Denodo
13 21 (1.05%) Talend
14 19 (0.95%) Tenable
15 17 (0.85%) AppDynamics
15 17 (0.85%) Jaspersoft
15 17 (0.85%) Trend Micro
16 14 (0.70%) Confluent