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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 49 68
Rank change year-on-year -9 +19 -15
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,877 1,332 1,312
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.70% 4.45% 3.01%
As % of the System Software category 37.94% 36.38% 27.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,240 911 990
10th Percentile £371 £393 £400
25th Percentile £425 £449 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £650
90th Percentile £676 £710 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 7 12
10th Percentile £53.13 £26.60 £47.08
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.88 £59.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +9.97% -
75th Percentile £75.00 £90.63 £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% - +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 4,947 3,661 4,760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 12.22% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,291 2,402 3,281
10th Percentile £219 £215 £205
25th Percentile £400 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £695 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 86 232
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.91 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.25 £24.34
Median % change year-on-year +80.53% +16.06% -54.93%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £90.13 £74.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £39.48 £27.50
% change year-on-year +29.20% +43.55% -36.05%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -6 1,610 £525 - 462
London -3 836 £540 +0.55% 209
UK excluding London -11 764 £500 - 343
Work from Home -11 568 £505 -3.90% 247
North of England +3 311 £479 -4.25% 88
Midlands -5 179 £494 +3.91% 28
West Midlands -7 154 £498 -5.24% 16
Yorkshire +8 139 £500 -4.76% 21
North West -19 124 £525 +5.00% 49
South West -3 107 £544 -9.38% 50
South East -42 95 £513 +2.50% 129
North East +1 54 £425 -2.86% 18
Scotland -17 45 £450 -3.69% 10
East of England -25 24 £550 +13.11% 23
East Midlands -22 23 £446 +3.96% 12
Wales -9 15 £474 -5.30% 6
Northern Ireland +4 5 - - 16

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
1 105 (5.59%) Apache Spark
2 99 (5.27%) Apache Airflow
3 90 (4.79%) Confluence
4 75 (4.00%) Apache
5 33 (1.76%) Jupyter
6 32 (1.70%) SAS
7 29 (1.55%) nginx
8 13 (0.69%) Camunda
8 13 (0.69%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.37%) Appian
10 7 (0.37%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.37%) WordPress
11 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.32%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.21%) CMS
13 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.43%) CPLEX
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.053%) Maya
5 1 (0.053%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.053%) Notion
5 1 (0.053%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.11%) Shopify
3 1 (0.053%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.053%) Magento
3 1 (0.053%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,124 (59.88%) AWS
2 811 (43.21%) Azure
3 432 (23.02%) GitHub
4 376 (20.03%) GCP
5 326 (17.37%) GitHub Actions
6 276 (14.70%) Serverless
7 229 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
8 204 (10.87%) Amazon S3
9 182 (9.70%) AWS Lambda
10 160 (8.52%) Amazon EKS
11 152 (8.10%) Amazon EC2
12 148 (7.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 132 (7.03%) Amazon ECS
14 131 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 112 (5.97%) Azure AKS
16 81 (4.32%) OpenShift
16 81 (4.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 70 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
18 62 (3.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 46 (2.45%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.72%) Firewall
2 32 (1.70%) DNS
3 24 (1.28%) HTTP
3 24 (1.28%) Network Security
4 20 (1.07%) VPN
5 13 (0.69%) DHCP
6 11 (0.59%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.53%) Internet
7 10 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
8 9 (0.48%) 3GPP
9 8 (0.43%) SMTP
10 7 (0.37%) Wireshark
11 6 (0.32%) MQTT
11 6 (0.32%) RTP
11 6 (0.32%) SSL
12 5 (0.27%) IPv4
12 5 (0.27%) IPv6
13 4 (0.21%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.21%) OpenLDAP
14 3 (0.16%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 314 (16.73%) PostgreSQL
2 179 (9.54%) NoSQL
3 145 (7.73%) MongoDB
4 135 (7.19%) Relational Database
5 103 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
6 93 (4.95%) SQL Server
7 76 (4.05%) DynamoDB
8 74 (3.94%) Redis
9 55 (2.93%) Big Data
10 49 (2.61%) Amazon Aurora
11 48 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
12 46 (2.45%) Apache Cassandra
12 46 (2.45%) MySQL
13 34 (1.81%) BigQuery
14 32 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
15 30 (1.60%) Data Lake
16 27 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
17 25 (1.33%) Flink
18 21 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 501 (26.69%) Jenkins
2 409 (21.79%) Git
3 403 (21.47%) GitLab
4 168 (8.95%) JIRA
5 106 (5.65%) JUnit
6 72 (3.84%) Selenium
7 61 (3.25%) Mockito
8 59 (3.14%) SonarQube
9 58 (3.09%) Maven
10 50 (2.66%) Cucumber
11 47 (2.50%) JMeter
12 45 (2.40%) MLflow
13 44 (2.34%) Gatling
14 38 (2.02%) Gradle
15 32 (1.70%) REST Assured
16 31 (1.65%) Bitbucket
17 27 (1.44%) Liquibase
18 24 (1.28%) Postman
19 22 (1.17%) Artifactory
19 22 (1.17%) WebDriver
General
1 425 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 346 (18.43%) Public Sector
3 279 (14.86%) Finance
4 157 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
5 132 (7.03%) Banking
6 49 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
8 28 (1.49%) Military
9 24 (1.28%) Law
10 23 (1.23%) Retail
11 20 (1.07%) Investment Banking
12 16 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 15 (0.80%) Legal
14 14 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (0.75%) Publishing
15 12 (0.64%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.59%) Police
17 10 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (0.48%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 564 (30.05%) Developer
2 325 (17.31%) Senior
3 290 (15.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 187 (9.96%) Java Developer
5 152 (8.10%) Lead
5 152 (8.10%) Software Engineer
6 127 (6.77%) Python Developer
7 118 (6.29%) AWS Engineer
8 116 (6.18%) Senior Developer
9 107 (5.70%) Architect
10 105 (5.59%) Data Engineer
11 93 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
12 84 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
13 81 (4.32%) Java Engineer
14 74 (3.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 72 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
16 62 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
17 60 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
18 56 (2.98%) Python Engineer
19 49 (2.61%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (19.82%) Spring
2 328 (17.47%) Spring Boot
3 321 (17.10%) Kafka
4 261 (13.91%) REST
5 260 (13.85%) RESTful
6 232 (12.36%) React
7 174 (9.27%) Node.js
8 151 (8.04%) .NET
9 112 (5.97%) FastAPI
10 105 (5.59%) AngularJS
11 95 (5.06%) OAuth
12 76 (4.05%) Flask
13 74 (3.94%) RabbitMQ
14 71 (3.78%) Django
15 67 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
16 65 (3.46%) OAuth2
17 64 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
17 64 (3.41%) Swagger
18 63 (3.36%) HTML
18 63 (3.36%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 400 (21.31%) Cloud Native
2 216 (11.51%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (4.53%) Product Ownership
4 49 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 43 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.24%) Algorithms
7 40 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 39 (2.08%) AI Agents
9 30 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
10 28 (1.49%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.44%) PKI
11 27 (1.44%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
12 26 (1.39%) Onboarding
13 24 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
14 22 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
14 22 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
14 22 (1.17%) Security Posture
15 18 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 321 (17.10%) Linux
2 90 (4.79%) Windows
3 57 (3.04%) Unix
4 53 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (2.02%) Windows Server
6 20 (1.07%) Ubuntu
7 17 (0.91%) VMS
8 10 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.48%) Android
9 9 (0.48%) Solaris
9 9 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.32%) CentOS
11 6 (0.32%) Rocky
11 6 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.27%) Debian
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.053%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,418 (75.55%) CI/CD
2 1,023 (54.50%) DevOps
3 1,017 (54.18%) Containerisation
4 715 (38.09%) Agile
5 700 (37.29%) Microservices
6 596 (31.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 398 (21.20%) Observability
8 365 (19.45%) Software Engineering
9 362 (19.29%) Test Automation
10 332 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
11 294 (15.66%) AI
12 243 (12.95%) Full-Stack Development
13 240 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 240 (12.79%) Event-Driven
14 232 (12.36%) Scrum
15 212 (11.29%) Data Pipeline
16 209 (11.13%) Machine Learning
17 188 (10.02%) TDD
18 175 (9.32%) Platform Engineering
19 168 (8.95%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 842 (44.86%) Python
2 573 (30.53%) Java
3 521 (27.76%) SQL
4 219 (11.67%) JavaScript
5 197 (10.50%) TypeScript
6 193 (10.28%) Bash
7 177 (9.43%) C#
8 118 (6.29%) PowerShell
9 108 (5.75%) Go
10 69 (3.68%) Bicep
11 53 (2.82%) Shell Script
12 39 (2.08%) Scala
13 23 (1.23%) PL/SQL
14 21 (1.12%) Ruby
15 19 (1.01%) Groovy
16 18 (0.96%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.91%) C++
18 15 (0.80%) PHP
19 14 (0.75%) Rust
20 10 (0.53%) C
Qualifications
1 705 (37.56%) Security Cleared
2 592 (31.54%) SC Cleared
3 137 (7.30%) Degree
4 105 (5.59%) DV Cleared
5 83 (4.42%) AWS Certification
5 83 (4.42%) Azure Certification
6 73 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 68 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 23 (1.23%) CISSP
10 21 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (0.85%) ISTQB
12 14 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.59%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.43%) CCNA
16 8 (0.43%) PhD
16 8 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (5.75%) QA
2 88 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 73 (3.89%) Data Quality
4 35 (1.86%) GDPR
5 33 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.76%) WCAG
6 30 (1.60%) NIST
7 17 (0.91%) NCSC
8 13 (0.69%) ISO 20022
9 12 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.59%) PSD2
11 10 (0.53%) SEPA
12 8 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.43%) SLA
13 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.27%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
16 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 40 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (0.96%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 11 (0.59%) Postfix
8 10 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
9 9 (0.48%) KVM
10 8 (0.43%) BitLocker
10 8 (0.43%) vSphere
11 6 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.16%) Firmware
13 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.11%) GPFS
14 2 (0.11%) GridGain
14 2 (0.11%) HDFS
14 2 (0.11%) Lustre
14 2 (0.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,309 (69.74%) Kubernetes
2 667 (35.54%) Terraform
3 289 (15.40%) Grafana
4 278 (14.81%) Prometheus
5 209 (11.13%) Ansible
6 47 (2.50%) Puppet
7 36 (1.92%) Argo
8 34 (1.81%) Progress Chef
9 27 (1.44%) Kibana
10 26 (1.39%) Istio
11 25 (1.33%) Podman
12 17 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
13 16 (0.85%) Control-M
13 16 (0.85%) IBM Guardium
13 16 (0.85%) Nessus
14 15 (0.80%) Kustomize
14 15 (0.80%) Packer
15 11 (0.59%) HAProxy
15 11 (0.59%) linkerd
16 10 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 217 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 98 (5.22%) Splunk
3 87 (4.64%) Google
4 85 (4.53%) Oracle
5 60 (3.20%) Databricks
6 58 (3.09%) Dynatrace
7 45 (2.40%) VMware
8 43 (2.29%) OpenAI
8 43 (2.29%) Red Hat
9 28 (1.49%) IBM
10 23 (1.23%) Atlassian
11 22 (1.17%) Tenable
12 21 (1.12%) New Relic
12 21 (1.12%) ServiceNow
12 21 (1.12%) Talend
13 20 (1.07%) Denodo
14 17 (0.91%) AppDynamics
14 17 (0.91%) Jaspersoft
15 16 (0.85%) Trend Micro
16 11 (0.59%) Foundry