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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 51 61
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,960 1,431 1,367
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.71% 4.36% 3.27%
As % of the System Software category 37.75% 36.96% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,297 957 1,021
10th Percentile £381 £372 £400
25th Percentile £440 £435 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £689 £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 12
10th Percentile £55.00 £62.13 £47.08
25th Percentile £58.43 £66.63 £59.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -7.90% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £82.19 £85.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.13 -
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 5,192 3,872 4,713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.84% 11.81% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,430 2,496 3,261
10th Percentile £220 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £673 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 103 194
10th Percentile £13.97 £13.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.33 £14.74
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.77 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year +60.21% +45.97% -55.10%
75th Percentile £74.00 £69.75 £58.64
90th Percentile £79.50 £91.13 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £59.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +183.33% -22.22%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -9 1,651 £525 - 637
UK excluding London +2 838 £500 - 382
London -5 823 £550 +3.77% 334
Work from Home -9 625 £525 - 322
North of England +13 319 £488 -2.50% 111
Midlands -3 175 £498 +4.74% 43
West Midlands -5 153 £498 -0.50% 29
Yorkshire +8 152 £500 - 23
South West +9 129 £550 - 65
South East -30 125 £525 +10.53% 115
North West -28 117 £538 +8.59% 66
North East +1 54 £425 +4.29% 23
Scotland -12 54 £450 -4.66% 10
East of England -13 31 £550 +12.24% 22
East Midlands -24 20 £450 +4.77% 14
Wales -16 15 £588 +23.68% 13
Northern Ireland +5 3 £375 -31.82% 10

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
1 110 (5.61%) Apache Spark
2 107 (5.46%) Apache Airflow
3 103 (5.26%) Confluence
4 84 (4.29%) Apache
5 30 (1.53%) SAS
6 29 (1.48%) Jupyter
7 27 (1.38%) nginx
8 14 (0.71%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.51%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.46%) WebSphere
11 8 (0.41%) Camunda
11 8 (0.41%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.36%) WordPress
13 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.26%) SharePoint
14 4 (0.20%) CMS
15 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.15%) Appian
15 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.41%) CPLEX
2 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.10%) Trello
5 1 (0.051%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.051%) Maya
5 1 (0.051%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.051%) Notion
5 1 (0.051%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.051%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.051%) Magento
3 1 (0.051%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.051%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.051%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.051%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,191 (60.77%) AWS
2 872 (44.49%) Azure
3 480 (24.49%) GitHub
4 402 (20.51%) GCP
5 369 (18.83%) GitHub Actions
6 271 (13.83%) Serverless
7 238 (12.14%) Azure DevOps
8 217 (11.07%) Amazon S3
9 177 (9.03%) AWS Lambda
10 175 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
11 150 (7.65%) Amazon EC2
12 147 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 129 (6.58%) Amazon ECS
14 128 (6.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 108 (5.51%) Azure AKS
16 86 (4.39%) OpenShift
17 80 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 68 (3.47%) Amazon SQS
19 58 (2.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 50 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 58 (2.96%) Firewall
2 41 (2.09%) DNS
3 27 (1.38%) Network Security
4 24 (1.22%) HTTP
5 22 (1.12%) DHCP
6 21 (1.07%) TCP/IP
6 21 (1.07%) VPN
7 15 (0.77%) Internet
8 11 (0.56%) Wireshark
9 10 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
10 9 (0.46%) 3GPP
11 7 (0.36%) MQTT
11 7 (0.36%) RTP
11 7 (0.36%) SMTP
11 7 (0.36%) VSAN
12 6 (0.31%) SSL
13 5 (0.26%) IPv4
13 5 (0.26%) IPv6
14 4 (0.20%) HTTPS
14 4 (0.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (16.94%) PostgreSQL
2 159 (8.11%) NoSQL
3 157 (8.01%) MongoDB
4 139 (7.09%) Relational Database
5 94 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
6 86 (4.39%) SQL Server
7 71 (3.62%) Redis
8 69 (3.52%) DynamoDB
9 56 (2.86%) Big Data
10 49 (2.50%) MySQL
11 48 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
12 47 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
13 38 (1.94%) BigQuery
14 33 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
15 32 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
16 31 (1.58%) Data Lake
16 31 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
17 27 (1.38%) Flink
18 25 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
19 20 (1.02%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 534 (27.24%) Jenkins
2 439 (22.40%) Git
3 397 (20.26%) GitLab
4 170 (8.67%) JIRA
5 108 (5.51%) JUnit
6 80 (4.08%) Selenium
7 69 (3.52%) Maven
8 62 (3.16%) Mockito
9 61 (3.11%) SonarQube
10 50 (2.55%) Gradle
11 49 (2.50%) Cucumber
12 46 (2.35%) JMeter
13 45 (2.30%) Gatling
14 43 (2.19%) MLflow
15 39 (1.99%) Bitbucket
16 35 (1.79%) REST Assured
17 27 (1.38%) Liquibase
18 23 (1.17%) Postman
19 21 (1.07%) Artifactory
19 21 (1.07%) WebDriver
General
1 438 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 369 (18.83%) Public Sector
3 270 (13.78%) Finance
4 171 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
5 129 (6.58%) Banking
6 51 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (1.63%) Retail
8 31 (1.58%) Military
9 26 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (1.22%) Law
11 19 (0.97%) Investment Banking
12 18 (0.92%) Legal
12 18 (0.92%) Publishing
13 16 (0.82%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (0.77%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.61%) Police
16 10 (0.51%) Front Office
17 9 (0.46%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 587 (29.95%) Developer
2 348 (17.76%) Senior
3 304 (15.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 208 (10.61%) Java Developer
5 161 (8.21%) Lead
6 150 (7.65%) Software Engineer
7 126 (6.43%) Architect
8 120 (6.12%) Senior Developer
9 119 (6.07%) AWS Engineer
10 117 (5.97%) Python Developer
11 103 (5.26%) Data Engineer
12 93 (4.74%) Full-Stack Developer
13 84 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
13 84 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
14 81 (4.13%) Java Engineer
15 74 (3.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 68 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
17 67 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
18 65 (3.32%) Python Engineer
19 54 (2.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 395 (20.15%) Spring
2 332 (16.94%) Spring Boot
3 329 (16.79%) Kafka
4 292 (14.90%) REST
5 278 (14.18%) RESTful
6 243 (12.40%) React
7 182 (9.29%) Node.js
8 152 (7.76%) .NET
9 113 (5.77%) AngularJS
10 111 (5.66%) FastAPI
11 96 (4.90%) OAuth
12 80 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
13 74 (3.78%) CSS
13 74 (3.78%) HTML
14 73 (3.72%) Flask
15 72 (3.67%) Playwright
16 66 (3.37%) OAuth2
17 61 (3.11%) Django
18 60 (3.06%) Swagger
19 59 (3.01%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 426 (21.73%) Cloud Native
2 231 (11.79%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
4 55 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
5 44 (2.24%) AI Agents
6 43 (2.19%) Algorithms
7 40 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 37 (1.89%) PKI
9 32 (1.63%) Management Information System
10 31 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
11 29 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.43%) Data Structures
12 28 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
13 27 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
13 27 (1.38%) Security Posture
14 24 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
15 23 (1.17%) Data Centre
15 23 (1.17%) Public Cloud
16 22 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 329 (16.79%) Linux
2 102 (5.20%) Windows
3 60 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (2.50%) Unix
5 40 (2.04%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.07%) Ubuntu
7 14 (0.71%) VMS
8 10 (0.51%) Android
8 10 (0.51%) Solaris
8 10 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.31%) CentOS
12 5 (0.26%) Rocky
12 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (0.20%) Debian
14 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.051%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,516 (77.35%) CI/CD
2 1,083 (55.26%) DevOps
3 1,059 (54.03%) Containerisation
4 777 (39.64%) Agile
5 712 (36.33%) Microservices
6 658 (33.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 411 (20.97%) Observability
8 407 (20.77%) Test Automation
9 402 (20.51%) Software Engineering
10 361 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
11 314 (16.02%) AI
12 265 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 256 (13.06%) Scrum
14 255 (13.01%) Event-Driven
15 247 (12.60%) Full-Stack Development
16 225 (11.48%) Data Pipeline
17 223 (11.38%) Machine Learning
18 208 (10.61%) Platform Engineering
19 203 (10.36%) TDD
20 178 (9.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 888 (45.31%) Python
2 607 (30.97%) Java
3 497 (25.36%) SQL
4 240 (12.24%) JavaScript
5 238 (12.14%) Bash
6 224 (11.43%) TypeScript
7 180 (9.18%) C#
8 149 (7.60%) PowerShell
9 95 (4.85%) Go
10 73 (3.72%) Bicep
11 55 (2.81%) Shell Script
12 41 (2.09%) Scala
13 26 (1.33%) PL/SQL
14 25 (1.28%) Groovy
15 21 (1.07%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.92%) Ruby
17 17 (0.87%) C++
18 16 (0.82%) C
19 15 (0.77%) PHP
20 11 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 776 (39.59%) Security Cleared
2 651 (33.21%) SC Cleared
3 127 (6.48%) Degree
4 124 (6.33%) DV Cleared
5 95 (4.85%) AWS Certification
6 86 (4.39%) Azure Certification
7 81 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 65 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (1.63%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.17%) CISSP
11 19 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 15 (0.77%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
17 10 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 10 (0.51%) CCNA
18 9 (0.46%) PhD
19 8 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (6.58%) QA
2 101 (5.15%) Accessibility
3 72 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 38 (1.94%) WCAG
5 30 (1.53%) GDPR
5 30 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (1.28%) NIST
7 17 (0.87%) NCSC
8 9 (0.46%) ISO 20022
9 8 (0.41%) PSD2
10 7 (0.36%) SEPA
11 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 6 (0.31%) SLA
12 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.26%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.20%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 53 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.71%) vSphere
7 11 (0.56%) Postfix
8 9 (0.46%) KVM
8 9 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (0.36%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.36%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.15%) Firmware
12 3 (0.15%) HDFS
12 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.10%) GPFS
13 2 (0.10%) GridGain
13 2 (0.10%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,378 (70.31%) Kubernetes
2 715 (36.48%) Terraform
3 302 (15.41%) Grafana
4 277 (14.13%) Prometheus
5 234 (11.94%) Ansible
6 48 (2.45%) Argo
7 46 (2.35%) Puppet
8 38 (1.94%) Progress Chef
9 26 (1.33%) Kibana
10 24 (1.22%) Istio
10 24 (1.22%) Podman
11 17 (0.87%) Control-M
11 17 (0.87%) IBM Guardium
11 17 (0.87%) Nessus
11 17 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (0.71%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.71%) Packer
13 11 (0.56%) HAProxy
13 11 (0.56%) linkerd
14 9 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 232 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 110 (5.61%) Oracle
3 103 (5.26%) Google
4 92 (4.69%) Splunk
5 63 (3.21%) Databricks
6 60 (3.06%) VMware
7 57 (2.91%) Dynatrace
8 47 (2.40%) Red Hat
9 39 (1.99%) OpenAI
10 34 (1.73%) IBM
11 24 (1.22%) ServiceNow
12 23 (1.17%) Tenable
13 22 (1.12%) Atlassian
14 20 (1.02%) New Relic
15 17 (0.87%) Denodo
15 17 (0.87%) Jaspersoft
15 17 (0.87%) Talend
15 17 (0.87%) Trend Micro
16 13 (0.66%) AppDynamics
17 12 (0.61%) Confluent