Docker Contracts

Docker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 65 53
Rank change year-on-year +15 -12 -12
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,353 1,337 2,325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.41% 3.10% 4.17%
As % of the System Software category 36.41% 28.11% 32.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,006 1,641
10th Percentile £387 £400 £438
25th Percentile £445 £460 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £615 £650 £700
90th Percentile £700 £725 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 43
10th Percentile £26.60 £47.08 £60.81
25th Percentile £51.88 £59.38 £66.38
Median hourly rate £80.00 £72.75 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.97% +0.34% +51.40%
75th Percentile £90.63 £85.00 £75.25
90th Percentile £92.50 - £86.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £71.25
% change year-on-year - +12.28% +50.00%

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 3,716 4,757 7,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 11.02% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,426 3,283 5,060
10th Percentile £225 £205 £200
25th Percentile £385 £363 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £479
% change year-on-year - -0.89% +6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 220 255
10th Percentile £14.49 £14.06 £15.21
25th Percentile £15.44 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £23.99 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.72% -55.03% +166.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £59.20 £66.75
90th Percentile £89.85 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.45 £24.34 £33.50
% change year-on-year +70.30% -27.34% +81.08%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker.

Daily rate trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the UK

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in the UK

Docker
Top 17 Contract 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 30 June 2025. 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 +16 1,109 £525 -4.55% 5,288
London +12 620 £538 -3.72% 2,702
Work from Home +25 533 £525 -4.55% 2,883
UK excluding London +20 479 £500 -4.76% 2,851
North of England +11 161 £500 -3.85% 806
Midlands +59 101 £475 -8.65% 327
North West +35 96 £500 -6.37% 514
South East +48 77 £500 -13.04% 676
West Midlands +53 71 £513 -6.82% 207
South West -6 67 £550 - 392
Yorkshire -13 53 £500 +0.50% 242
Scotland -15 49 £469 +3.42% 205
East Midlands +13 29 £429 -4.67% 120
East of England +30 21 £490 -26.04% 314
North East +6 13 £438 +8.02% 51
Wales +3 12 £475 -6.17% 62
Northern Ireland -7 1 £550 - 89

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 59 (4.36%) Apache
2 56 (4.14%) Confluence
3 44 (3.25%) Apache Spark
4 41 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (2.07%) nginx
6 21 (1.55%) JBoss
7 13 (0.96%) WebSphere
8 11 (0.81%) Camunda
9 10 (0.74%) OpenStack
10 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.67%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.67%) WebSphere Application Server
11 8 (0.59%) Alfresco
12 6 (0.44%) Drupal
12 6 (0.44%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.37%) Moodle
13 5 (0.37%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.37%) WordPress
14 4 (0.30%) IBM Domino
14 4 (0.30%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.074%) InVision
3 1 (0.074%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.37%) Endur
1 5 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.074%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.074%) Magento
5 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 823 (60.83%) AWS
2 396 (29.27%) Azure
3 237 (17.52%) GCP
4 172 (12.71%) Serverless
5 159 (11.75%) GitHub
6 124 (9.16%) Amazon S3
7 123 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
8 107 (7.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 106 (7.83%) OpenShift
10 97 (7.17%) GitHub Actions
11 95 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
12 93 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
13 73 (5.40%) Amazon ECS
14 67 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 64 (4.73%) Amazon EKS
16 48 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
17 46 (3.40%) PaaS
18 40 (2.96%) IaaS
19 36 (2.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 31 (2.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.10%) DNS
2 60 (4.43%) Firewall
3 47 (3.47%) HTTP
4 38 (2.81%) VPN
5 34 (2.51%) DHCP
6 32 (2.37%) TCP/IP
7 22 (1.63%) Network Security
8 17 (1.26%) SMTP
9 13 (0.96%) SSL
10 12 (0.89%) Internet
11 8 (0.59%) BGP
11 8 (0.59%) SSH
11 8 (0.59%) VLAN
12 7 (0.52%) 3GPP
12 7 (0.52%) 4G
12 7 (0.52%) 5G
12 7 (0.52%) HTTPS
12 7 (0.52%) Kerberos
12 7 (0.52%) MPLS
12 7 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (16.11%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (10.13%) Relational Database
3 108 (7.98%) Amazon RDS
4 98 (7.24%) NoSQL
5 95 (7.02%) MongoDB
6 71 (5.25%) MySQL
7 59 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
8 54 (3.99%) DynamoDB
9 53 (3.92%) Apache Cassandra
10 47 (3.47%) SQL Server
11 41 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
12 34 (2.51%) Redis
13 28 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
14 25 (1.85%) Big Data
15 22 (1.63%) Data Lake
16 21 (1.55%) Oracle Database
16 21 (1.55%) RDBMS
17 19 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
17 19 (1.40%) Apache Iceberg
18 18 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 396 (29.27%) Jenkins
2 278 (20.55%) Git
3 201 (14.86%) GitLab
4 127 (9.39%) JIRA
5 104 (7.69%) JUnit
6 78 (5.76%) Maven
7 70 (5.17%) SonarQube
8 65 (4.80%) Mockito
9 64 (4.73%) Gradle
10 48 (3.55%) Liquibase
11 40 (2.96%) Cucumber
12 36 (2.66%) Artifactory
13 34 (2.51%) Selenium
14 31 (2.29%) Bitbucket
15 29 (2.14%) Sonatype Nexus
16 27 (2.00%) Cypress.io
17 26 (1.92%) REST Assured
18 25 (1.85%) Postman
19 21 (1.55%) Bitbucket Server
19 21 (1.55%) TeamCity
General
1 280 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 234 (17.29%) Finance
3 198 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 115 (8.50%) Banking
5 113 (8.35%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (4.29%) Investment Banking
7 41 (3.03%) Marketing
8 39 (2.88%) Telecoms
9 30 (2.22%) Manufacturing
10 26 (1.92%) Electronics
11 22 (1.63%) Front Office
12 20 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (1.11%) Law
13 15 (1.11%) Legal
13 15 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (0.96%) Financial Institution
15 12 (0.89%) Retail
16 10 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 485 (35.85%) Developer
2 227 (16.78%) Senior
3 208 (15.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 132 (9.76%) Java Developer
5 105 (7.76%) Senior Developer
6 103 (7.61%) AWS Engineer
7 101 (7.46%) Lead
8 95 (7.02%) Python Developer
9 81 (5.99%) Software Engineer
10 78 (5.76%) Full-Stack Developer
11 77 (5.69%) Architect
12 73 (5.40%) AWS DevOps
13 68 (5.03%) Data Engineer
14 62 (4.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 54 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
16 53 (3.92%) Python Engineer
17 42 (3.10%) .NET Developer
18 40 (2.96%) AWS Developer
19 39 (2.88%) React Developer
20 38 (2.81%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (18.03%) Kafka
2 209 (15.45%) Spring
3 198 (14.63%) React
4 187 (13.82%) Spring Boot
5 138 (10.20%) RESTful
6 131 (9.68%) REST
7 129 (9.53%) Node.js
8 114 (8.43%) .NET
9 99 (7.32%) AngularJS
10 72 (5.32%) HTML
11 70 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
11 70 (5.17%) Swagger
12 65 (4.80%) FastAPI
12 65 (4.80%) gRPC
13 63 (4.66%) OpenAPI
14 50 (3.70%) Web Services
15 48 (3.55%) Hibernate
16 46 (3.40%) CSS
16 46 (3.40%) OAuth
17 41 (3.03%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 107 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
2 94 (6.95%) Cloud Native
3 34 (2.51%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (2.29%) PKI
5 31 (2.29%) Public Cloud
6 28 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 26 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 22 (1.63%) Hedge funds
8 22 (1.63%) Onboarding
9 20 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.40%) Replication
11 18 (1.33%) Algorithms
12 15 (1.11%) Clustering
13 14 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (0.96%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (0.74%) Data Structures
16 10 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
17 9 (0.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 315 (23.28%) Linux
2 111 (8.20%) Windows
3 63 (4.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 48 (3.55%) Unix
5 42 (3.10%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.40%) VMS
7 15 (1.11%) CentOS
8 12 (0.89%) Android
9 8 (0.59%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.59%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.52%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.52%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.52%) Rocky
11 5 (0.37%) Debian
12 4 (0.30%) AIX
12 4 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.15%) Solaris
14 2 (0.15%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (58.24%) CI/CD
2 651 (48.12%) Containerisation
3 634 (46.86%) DevOps
4 461 (34.07%) Agile
5 432 (31.93%) Microservices
6 325 (24.02%) Infrastructure as Code
7 270 (19.96%) Software Engineering
8 261 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
9 194 (14.34%) TDD
10 164 (12.12%) Test Automation
11 154 (11.38%) Continuous Integration
12 136 (10.05%) Full-Stack Development
13 121 (8.94%) Scrum
14 118 (8.72%) Artificial Intelligence
15 115 (8.50%) Mentoring
16 108 (7.98%) SDLC
17 105 (7.76%) Event-Driven
17 105 (7.76%) Migration
18 100 (7.39%) Open Source
19 95 (7.02%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 634 (46.86%) Python
2 449 (33.19%) Java
3 269 (19.88%) SQL
4 197 (14.56%) JavaScript
5 183 (13.53%) Bash
6 168 (12.42%) TypeScript
7 125 (9.24%) C#
8 124 (9.16%) Go
9 117 (8.65%) PowerShell
10 66 (4.88%) Shell Script
11 55 (4.07%) C++
12 42 (3.10%) Perl
13 30 (2.22%) PHP
14 29 (2.14%) Bicep
15 25 (1.85%) Ruby
16 23 (1.70%) Scala
17 20 (1.48%) Groovy
18 19 (1.40%) Rust
19 18 (1.33%) PL/SQL
20 13 (0.96%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 399 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 338 (24.98%) SC Cleared
3 92 (6.80%) Degree
4 59 (4.36%) DV Cleared
5 51 (3.77%) AWS Certification
5 51 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 13 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.44%) CISSP
12 6 (0.44%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.37%) IBM Certification
13 5 (0.37%) PhD
14 4 (0.30%) CEH
14 4 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.22%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.91%) QA
2 52 (3.84%) Accessibility
3 34 (2.51%) GDPR
4 21 (1.55%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.40%) HIPAA
6 15 (1.11%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.81%) WCAG
9 8 (0.59%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.37%) NCSC
11 5 (0.37%) NIST
12 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.30%) SLA
13 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.15%) HL7
15 1 (0.074%) EMIR
15 1 (0.074%) MiFID
System Software
1 53 (3.92%) Active Directory
2 51 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.85%) Hyper-V
4 12 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (0.81%) Postfix
6 10 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 9 (0.67%) BitLocker
7 9 (0.67%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (0.67%) Terminal Services
8 8 (0.59%) vSphere
9 7 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.37%) DFS Replication
11 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.22%) Lustre
12 3 (0.22%) LXC
12 3 (0.22%) Platform Symphony
12 3 (0.22%) Squid
12 3 (0.22%) vCloud
12 3 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 993 (73.39%) Kubernetes
2 461 (34.07%) Terraform
3 243 (17.96%) Ansible
4 126 (9.31%) Grafana
5 111 (8.20%) Prometheus
6 82 (6.06%) Puppet
7 59 (4.36%) Progress Chef
8 39 (2.88%) Kibana
9 29 (2.14%) Podman
10 23 (1.70%) Consul
11 22 (1.63%) Packer
12 21 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (1.48%) Istio
14 16 (1.18%) Nagios
15 15 (1.11%) Argo
16 14 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
17 11 (0.81%) logstash
17 11 (0.81%) Nessus
18 9 (0.67%) vCenter Server
18 9 (0.67%) vMotion
Vendors
1 88 (6.50%) Google
2 81 (5.99%) Oracle
3 79 (5.84%) Microsoft
4 72 (5.32%) Splunk
5 70 (5.17%) Red Hat
6 62 (4.58%) VMware
7 34 (2.51%) SAP
8 32 (2.37%) IBM
9 29 (2.14%) AppDynamics
10 26 (1.92%) Dynatrace
11 21 (1.55%) ServiceNow
12 20 (1.48%) Databricks
13 15 (1.11%) Atlassian
13 15 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
14 13 (0.96%) Cisco
14 13 (0.96%) TIBCO
15 12 (0.89%) Jaspersoft
15 12 (0.89%) Symantec
16 10 (0.74%) Citrix
16 10 (0.74%) Salesforce