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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 47 56
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Docker 2,012 1,549 1,361
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.71% 4.70% 3.56%
As % of the System Software category 37.46% 39.82% 31.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,369 1,004 971
10th Percentile £366 £379 £381
25th Percentile £432 £439 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -6.94%
75th Percentile £600 £607 £650
90th Percentile £676 £688 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 13 6
10th Percentile £56.90 £62.50 £66.25
25th Percentile £61.62 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £69.11 £67.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -16.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £79.06 £92.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £94.50 £87.50
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 5,371 3,890 4,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 11.81% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,517 2,455 2,943
10th Percentile £220 £219 £213
25th Percentile £400 £376 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £607
90th Percentile £675 £669 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 112 112
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £17.44
Median hourly rate £63.14 £33.39 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year +89.11% +37.10% -51.30%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £60.53
90th Percentile £92.11 £91.35 £74.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.24 £65.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -1.17% +136.36% -30.56%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -14 1,680 £525 - 2,737
UK excluding London -20 863 £500 - 1,405
London -14 851 £550 +1.62% 1,561
Work from Home -6 636 £525 +5.00% 1,240
North of England -9 318 £475 - 368
Midlands -28 157 £488 -5.66% 142
Yorkshire -6 152 £500 - 93
South East -18 133 £525 +5.00% 301
South West +2 128 £550 - 241
West Midlands -31 126 £489 -6.90% 90
North West -48 107 £500 +5.26% 221
Scotland -23 69 £450 -10.00% 134
North East +6 62 £419 -6.42% 58
East of England -3 47 £475 -9.52% 124
East Midlands -4 30 £463 +7.81% 51
Wales -9 17 £450 -5.26% 25
Northern Ireland +6 3 £375 - 72

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
1 119 (5.91%) Apache Spark
2 112 (5.57%) Apache Airflow
3 100 (4.97%) Apache
4 97 (4.82%) Confluence
5 32 (1.59%) Jupyter
6 28 (1.39%) nginx
7 22 (1.09%) SAS
8 18 (0.89%) SharePoint
9 13 (0.65%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.50%) OpenStack
11 9 (0.45%) Camunda
11 9 (0.45%) WebLogic
12 6 (0.30%) WebSphere
13 5 (0.25%) WordPress
14 4 (0.20%) MQSeries
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.15%) IIS
15 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.30%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.20%) Trello
4 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.050%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.15%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.099%) Finacle
4 2 (0.099%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.099%) Magento
5 1 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.050%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.050%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.050%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,206 (59.94%) AWS
2 914 (45.43%) Azure
3 534 (26.54%) GitHub
4 403 (20.03%) GCP
5 393 (19.53%) GitHub Actions
6 295 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
7 270 (13.42%) Serverless
8 215 (10.69%) Amazon S3
9 195 (9.69%) AWS Lambda
10 194 (9.64%) Amazon EKS
11 154 (7.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 147 (7.31%) Amazon ECS
13 143 (7.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 132 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
15 120 (5.96%) Azure AKS
16 100 (4.97%) OpenShift
17 80 (3.98%) Amazon SQS
18 79 (3.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 70 (3.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 67 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.73%) Firewall
2 65 (3.23%) DNS
3 33 (1.64%) Network Security
3 33 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 27 (1.34%) HTTP
5 25 (1.24%) DHCP
6 23 (1.14%) VPN
7 18 (0.89%) Internet
8 16 (0.80%) SSL
9 13 (0.65%) SSH
10 12 (0.60%) Wireshark
11 11 (0.55%) RTP
11 11 (0.55%) VSAN
12 10 (0.50%) 4G
12 10 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
13 9 (0.45%) 5G
14 7 (0.35%) HTTPS
14 7 (0.35%) MQTT
15 6 (0.30%) BGP
15 6 (0.30%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (17.69%) PostgreSQL
2 182 (9.05%) MongoDB
3 168 (8.35%) NoSQL
4 147 (7.31%) Relational Database
5 98 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
6 92 (4.57%) Redis
7 86 (4.27%) SQL Server
8 81 (4.03%) MySQL
9 63 (3.13%) DynamoDB
10 49 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
11 46 (2.29%) BigQuery
11 46 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
12 44 (2.19%) Big Data
13 42 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
14 39 (1.94%) Data Lake
15 30 (1.49%) Flink
16 29 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
17 26 (1.29%) Delta Lake
18 25 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
18 25 (1.24%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 565 (28.08%) Jenkins
2 545 (27.09%) Git
3 444 (22.07%) GitLab
4 144 (7.16%) JIRA
5 111 (5.52%) JUnit
6 99 (4.92%) Maven
7 96 (4.77%) Selenium
8 81 (4.03%) SonarQube
9 66 (3.28%) Mockito
10 64 (3.18%) Cucumber
11 61 (3.03%) Gradle
12 58 (2.88%) Gatling
13 47 (2.34%) Bitbucket
14 40 (1.99%) JMeter
15 33 (1.64%) REST Assured
16 29 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
17 26 (1.29%) Cypress.io
18 22 (1.09%) LoadRunner
18 22 (1.09%) Postman
19 20 (0.99%) MLflow
General
1 474 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 376 (18.69%) Public Sector
3 278 (13.82%) Finance
4 178 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
5 142 (7.06%) Banking
6 62 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (1.79%) Military
8 34 (1.69%) Retail
9 26 (1.29%) Telecoms
10 25 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (1.19%) Law
12 20 (0.99%) Publishing
13 19 (0.94%) Investment Banking
14 17 (0.84%) Financial Institution
14 17 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
15 16 (0.80%) Aerospace
16 15 (0.75%) Legal
17 14 (0.70%) Police
18 12 (0.60%) Front Office
19 11 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 575 (28.58%) Developer
2 360 (17.89%) Senior
3 349 (17.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 219 (10.88%) Java Developer
5 204 (10.14%) Lead
6 140 (6.96%) Software Engineer
7 119 (5.91%) AWS Engineer
8 117 (5.82%) Senior Developer
9 113 (5.62%) Data Engineer
10 111 (5.52%) Python Developer
11 109 (5.42%) Architect
12 93 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
13 90 (4.47%) Full-Stack Developer
14 88 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
15 82 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
16 81 (4.03%) Java Engineer
17 80 (3.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 78 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
19 75 (3.73%) Python Engineer
20 61 (3.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 800 (39.76%) Terraform
2 413 (20.53%) Spring
3 375 (18.64%) Kafka
4 369 (18.34%) REST
5 345 (17.15%) Spring Boot
6 309 (15.36%) RESTful
7 241 (11.98%) React
8 156 (7.75%) Node.js
9 150 (7.46%) .NET
10 111 (5.52%) AngularJS
11 110 (5.47%) FastAPI
12 103 (5.12%) HTML
13 99 (4.92%) CSS
14 97 (4.82%) OAuth
15 94 (4.67%) Playwright
15 94 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
16 81 (4.03%) Flask
17 78 (3.88%) pytest
18 74 (3.68%) OAuth2
19 67 (3.33%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 491 (24.40%) Cloud Native
2 221 (10.98%) Distributed Systems
3 143 (7.11%) Product Ownership
4 78 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
5 72 (3.58%) AI Agents
6 53 (2.63%) Onboarding
7 49 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (1.99%) PKI
9 37 (1.84%) Security Posture
10 34 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
10 34 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
11 32 (1.59%) Replication
12 30 (1.49%) Data Centre
13 28 (1.39%) Management Information System
14 26 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
15 24 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
16 23 (1.14%) Algorithms
16 23 (1.14%) Virtual Team
17 22 (1.09%) Data Structures
17 22 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 365 (18.14%) Linux
2 116 (5.77%) Windows
3 73 (3.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 71 (3.53%) Unix
5 47 (2.34%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.44%) Ubuntu
7 16 (0.80%) VMS
8 10 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
9 9 (0.45%) CentOS
9 9 (0.45%) Rocky
10 7 (0.35%) Solaris
11 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.20%) Android
12 4 (0.20%) Debian
12 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.099%) AIX
13 2 (0.099%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.099%) SUSE
13 2 (0.099%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,616 (80.32%) CI/CD
2 1,161 (57.70%) DevOps
3 1,040 (51.69%) Containerisation
4 844 (41.95%) Agile
5 787 (39.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 715 (35.54%) Microservices
7 479 (23.81%) Test Automation
8 462 (22.96%) Software Engineering
9 431 (21.42%) Observability
10 368 (18.29%) AI
11 364 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
12 318 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 316 (15.71%) Event-Driven
14 287 (14.26%) Scrum
15 243 (12.08%) Platform Engineering
16 236 (11.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 232 (11.53%) Full-Stack Development
18 230 (11.43%) DevSecOps
19 221 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
20 212 (10.54%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 958 (47.61%) Python
2 677 (33.65%) Java
3 483 (24.01%) SQL
4 319 (15.85%) Bash
5 266 (13.22%) JavaScript
6 236 (11.73%) TypeScript
7 193 (9.59%) PowerShell
8 162 (8.05%) C#
9 105 (5.22%) Bicep
10 73 (3.63%) Shell Script
11 66 (3.28%) Go
12 51 (2.53%) Scala
13 42 (2.09%) Groovy
14 27 (1.34%) PL/SQL
15 22 (1.09%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.80%) C++
17 13 (0.65%) Perl
18 12 (0.60%) Ruby
19 11 (0.55%) C
19 11 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 815 (40.51%) Security Cleared
2 690 (34.29%) SC Cleared
3 134 (6.66%) DV Cleared
4 121 (6.01%) Degree
5 102 (5.07%) AWS Certification
6 96 (4.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 92 (4.57%) Azure Certification
8 63 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (1.44%) CISSP
10 24 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (0.99%) Master's Degree
12 19 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 17 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.60%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.45%) PhD
15 9 (0.45%) SAFe Agilist
16 8 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 7 (0.35%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (9.34%) QA
2 111 (5.52%) Accessibility
3 82 (4.08%) Data Quality
4 47 (2.34%) WCAG
5 22 (1.09%) NIST
6 21 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (0.99%) GDPR
7 20 (0.99%) NCSC
8 12 (0.60%) ISO 20022
9 11 (0.55%) SEPA
10 9 (0.45%) PSD2
11 7 (0.35%) SLA
12 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
14 4 (0.20%) ISO 15022
14 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.20%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.15%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 59 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 54 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.49%) Hyper-V
4 26 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.89%) vSphere
6 15 (0.75%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.35%) KVM
8 7 (0.35%) Postfix
9 6 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.25%) NFS
10 5 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 4 (0.20%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.15%) GPFS
12 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.099%) GridGain
13 2 (0.099%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1,452 (72.17%) Kubernetes
2 290 (14.41%) Grafana
3 274 (13.62%) Ansible
4 241 (11.98%) Prometheus
5 50 (2.49%) Argo
6 48 (2.39%) Puppet
7 42 (2.09%) Progress Chef
8 34 (1.69%) Kibana
9 28 (1.39%) Podman
10 21 (1.04%) Istio
11 14 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (0.65%) HAProxy
12 13 (0.65%) Kustomize
13 12 (0.60%) Karpenter
13 12 (0.60%) Packer
14 10 (0.50%) Nessus
14 10 (0.50%) VxRail
15 9 (0.45%) Control-M
15 9 (0.45%) Nagios
15 9 (0.45%) systemd
Vendors
1 253 (12.57%) Microsoft
2 144 (7.16%) Google
3 129 (6.41%) Oracle
4 98 (4.87%) Splunk
5 90 (4.47%) Databricks
6 76 (3.78%) Dynatrace
7 70 (3.48%) VMware
8 50 (2.49%) OpenAI
8 50 (2.49%) Red Hat
9 42 (2.09%) IBM
10 38 (1.89%) ServiceNow
11 34 (1.69%) New Relic
12 20 (0.99%) Foundry
13 19 (0.94%) AppDynamics
14 18 (0.89%) Trend Micro
15 16 (0.80%) Cisco
15 16 (0.80%) Confluent
15 16 (0.80%) Talend
16 14 (0.70%) Denodo
17 13 (0.65%) webMethods