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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 54 61
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,962 1,416 1,359
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 4.34% 3.31%
As % of the System Software category 37.78% 36.87% 29.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,299 940 1,017
10th Percentile £381 £377 £400
25th Percentile £439 £438 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £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 43 12 10
10th Percentile £55.00 £62.13 £61.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £66.63 £62.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £79.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -15.19% +8.22%
75th Percentile £77.50 £82.19 £85.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.13 £85.50
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 5,193 3,841 4,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.85% 11.76% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,421 2,468 3,236
10th Percentile £220 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 105 184
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.24 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.19 £17.33 £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £22.35
Median % change year-on-year +52.17% +54.36% -55.30%
75th Percentile £74.00 £72.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £82.48 £90.90 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -8.70% +173.81% -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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -6 1,654 £525 +0.96% 783
UK excluding London +6 842 £500 - 491
London -4 821 £550 +3.77% 389
Work from Home -10 629 £525 - 391
North of England +10 324 £488 -2.50% 141
Midlands -6 173 £496 +4.47% 55
Yorkshire +11 151 £500 - 29
West Midlands -5 151 £496 -0.75% 36
South West +11 127 £550 - 86
South East -30 126 £525 +5.00% 140
North West -25 121 £525 +5.00% 85
North East +2 56 £425 +4.29% 28
Scotland +2 55 £450 -4.96% 22
East of England -21 32 £550 +12.24% 29
East Midlands -22 20 £450 +4.65% 19
Wales -19 14 £650 +36.84% 14
Northern Ireland +8 3 £375 -31.82% 12

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
1 108 (5.50%) Apache Spark
2 106 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
3 103 (5.25%) Confluence
4 83 (4.23%) Apache
5 30 (1.53%) SAS
6 29 (1.48%) Jupyter
7 25 (1.27%) nginx
8 12 (0.61%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.46%) WebLogic
9 9 (0.46%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.36%) WordPress
11 6 (0.31%) Camunda
12 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.25%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.20%) CMS
14 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.41%) CPLEX
3 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.10%) Trello
6 1 (0.051%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.051%) Maya
6 1 (0.051%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.051%) Notion
6 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
3 1 (0.051%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.051%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,195 (60.91%) AWS
2 870 (44.34%) Azure
3 487 (24.82%) GitHub
4 404 (20.59%) GCP
5 374 (19.06%) GitHub Actions
6 268 (13.66%) Serverless
7 242 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
8 214 (10.91%) Amazon S3
9 186 (9.48%) Amazon EKS
10 178 (9.07%) AWS Lambda
11 152 (7.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 146 (7.44%) Amazon EC2
13 132 (6.73%) Amazon ECS
14 131 (6.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 108 (5.50%) Azure AKS
16 82 (4.18%) OpenShift
17 81 (4.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 72 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
19 60 (3.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 51 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 61 (3.11%) Firewall
2 44 (2.24%) DNS
3 29 (1.48%) Network Security
4 24 (1.22%) DHCP
4 24 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 23 (1.17%) VPN
6 21 (1.07%) HTTP
7 16 (0.82%) Internet
8 11 (0.56%) Wireshark
9 10 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
10 9 (0.46%) 3GPP
11 8 (0.41%) VSAN
12 7 (0.36%) MQTT
12 7 (0.36%) RTP
12 7 (0.36%) SMTP
13 6 (0.31%) SSL
14 5 (0.25%) IPv4
14 5 (0.25%) IPv6
15 4 (0.20%) BGP
15 4 (0.20%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 341 (17.38%) PostgreSQL
2 166 (8.46%) MongoDB
3 163 (8.31%) NoSQL
4 141 (7.19%) Relational Database
5 92 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
6 84 (4.28%) SQL Server
7 74 (3.77%) Redis
8 73 (3.72%) DynamoDB
9 57 (2.91%) MySQL
10 53 (2.70%) Big Data
11 48 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
12 43 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
13 36 (1.83%) BigQuery
14 34 (1.73%) Apache Cassandra
15 31 (1.58%) Data Lake
15 31 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
16 30 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
17 27 (1.38%) Flink
18 25 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
19 20 (1.02%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 542 (27.62%) Jenkins
2 451 (22.99%) Git
3 400 (20.39%) GitLab
4 167 (8.51%) JIRA
5 110 (5.61%) JUnit
6 82 (4.18%) Selenium
7 72 (3.67%) Maven
8 63 (3.21%) Mockito
9 62 (3.16%) SonarQube
10 52 (2.65%) Gradle
11 49 (2.50%) Cucumber
12 47 (2.40%) Gatling
12 47 (2.40%) JMeter
13 41 (2.09%) MLflow
14 39 (1.99%) Bitbucket
15 35 (1.78%) REST Assured
16 27 (1.38%) Liquibase
17 23 (1.17%) Postman
18 22 (1.12%) Artifactory
18 22 (1.12%) Cypress.io
General
1 436 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 377 (19.22%) Public Sector
3 271 (13.81%) Finance
4 173 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 125 (6.37%) Banking
6 51 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (1.78%) Retail
8 32 (1.63%) Military
9 26 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (1.22%) Law
11 19 (0.97%) Publishing
12 18 (0.92%) Investment Banking
12 18 (0.92%) Legal
12 18 (0.92%) Telecoms
13 16 (0.82%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.61%) Police
16 10 (0.51%) Front Office
16 10 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 590 (30.07%) Developer
2 350 (17.84%) Senior
3 304 (15.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 210 (10.70%) Java Developer
5 163 (8.31%) Lead
6 150 (7.65%) Software Engineer
7 121 (6.17%) Architect
7 121 (6.17%) Senior Developer
8 120 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
9 116 (5.91%) Python Developer
10 101 (5.15%) Data Engineer
11 93 (4.74%) Full-Stack Developer
12 86 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
13 84 (4.28%) AWS DevOps
14 83 (4.23%) Java Engineer
15 74 (3.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 68 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
17 67 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
18 66 (3.36%) Python Engineer
19 53 (2.70%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 398 (20.29%) Spring
2 344 (17.53%) Kafka
3 336 (17.13%) Spring Boot
4 304 (15.49%) REST
5 291 (14.83%) RESTful
6 241 (12.28%) React
7 187 (9.53%) Node.js
8 150 (7.65%) .NET
9 112 (5.71%) AngularJS
10 110 (5.61%) FastAPI
11 93 (4.74%) OAuth
12 81 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
13 76 (3.87%) CSS
13 76 (3.87%) HTML
14 73 (3.72%) Flask
14 73 (3.72%) Playwright
15 67 (3.41%) OAuth2
16 64 (3.26%) JSON
17 62 (3.16%) Django
17 62 (3.16%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 435 (22.17%) Cloud Native
2 243 (12.39%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
5 53 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 47 (2.40%) AI Agents
7 42 (2.14%) Algorithms
8 41 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 39 (1.99%) PKI
10 33 (1.68%) Management Information System
11 29 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
11 29 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
11 29 (1.48%) Security Posture
12 28 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
13 27 (1.38%) Data Structures
13 27 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
14 24 (1.22%) Data Centre
14 24 (1.22%) Public Cloud
15 23 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
16 22 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 333 (16.97%) Linux
2 103 (5.25%) Windows
3 61 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 52 (2.65%) Unix
5 39 (1.99%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.07%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.66%) VMS
8 9 (0.46%) Android
9 8 (0.41%) Solaris
9 8 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
11 6 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.31%) CentOS
12 5 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.25%) Rocky
12 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.20%) Debian
14 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.051%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,525 (77.73%) CI/CD
2 1,095 (55.81%) DevOps
3 1,061 (54.08%) Containerisation
4 782 (39.86%) Agile
5 730 (37.21%) Microservices
6 671 (34.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 423 (21.56%) Observability
8 412 (21.00%) Test Automation
9 409 (20.85%) Software Engineering
10 365 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
11 323 (16.46%) AI
12 274 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 267 (13.61%) Event-Driven
14 260 (13.25%) Scrum
15 250 (12.74%) Full-Stack Development
16 222 (11.31%) Data Pipeline
17 221 (11.26%) Machine Learning
18 213 (10.86%) Platform Engineering
19 206 (10.50%) TDD
20 188 (9.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 885 (45.11%) Python
2 611 (31.14%) Java
3 490 (24.97%) SQL
4 246 (12.54%) Bash
5 242 (12.33%) JavaScript
6 225 (11.47%) TypeScript
7 176 (8.97%) C#
8 154 (7.85%) PowerShell
9 91 (4.64%) Go
10 78 (3.98%) Bicep
11 54 (2.75%) Shell Script
12 40 (2.04%) Scala
13 25 (1.27%) PL/SQL
14 24 (1.22%) Groovy
15 20 (1.02%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.92%) Ruby
17 17 (0.87%) C++
18 16 (0.82%) C
19 15 (0.76%) PHP
20 11 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 776 (39.55%) Security Cleared
2 649 (33.08%) SC Cleared
3 127 (6.47%) Degree
4 125 (6.37%) DV Cleared
5 93 (4.74%) AWS Certification
6 86 (4.38%) Azure Certification
7 81 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 63 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (1.53%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.22%) CISSP
11 19 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 16 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 15 (0.76%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.56%) PhD
15 11 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
16 10 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 10 (0.51%) CCNA
17 8 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (6.78%) QA
2 103 (5.25%) Accessibility
3 73 (3.72%) Data Quality
4 40 (2.04%) WCAG
5 31 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.48%) GDPR
7 25 (1.27%) NIST
8 18 (0.92%) NCSC
9 10 (0.51%) ISO 20022
10 8 (0.41%) PSD2
11 7 (0.36%) SEPA
12 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 6 (0.31%) SLA
13 5 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.20%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.15%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 55 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 49 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.43%) Hyper-V
3 28 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (0.76%) vSphere
6 11 (0.56%) Postfix
7 9 (0.46%) KVM
7 9 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.36%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 5 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
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%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.10%) GPFS
13 2 (0.10%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,384 (70.54%) Kubernetes
2 720 (36.70%) Terraform
3 301 (15.34%) Grafana
4 276 (14.07%) Prometheus
5 235 (11.98%) Ansible
6 48 (2.45%) Argo
6 48 (2.45%) Puppet
7 40 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 27 (1.38%) Podman
9 25 (1.27%) Kibana
10 24 (1.22%) Istio
11 17 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (0.82%) Control-M
12 16 (0.82%) IBM Guardium
12 16 (0.82%) Nessus
13 14 (0.71%) Kustomize
13 14 (0.71%) Packer
14 11 (0.56%) HAProxy
14 11 (0.56%) linkerd
15 9 (0.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 232 (11.82%) Microsoft
2 110 (5.61%) Oracle
3 108 (5.50%) Google
4 94 (4.79%) Splunk
5 62 (3.16%) VMware
6 61 (3.11%) Dynatrace
7 60 (3.06%) Databricks
8 48 (2.45%) Red Hat
9 43 (2.19%) OpenAI
10 33 (1.68%) IBM
11 24 (1.22%) ServiceNow
12 23 (1.17%) New Relic
13 22 (1.12%) Atlassian
13 22 (1.12%) Tenable
14 17 (0.87%) Denodo
14 17 (0.87%) Jaspersoft
14 17 (0.87%) Talend
14 17 (0.87%) Trend Micro
15 13 (0.66%) AppDynamics
15 13 (0.66%) Confluent