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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 44 56
Rank change year-on-year -17 +12 0
Contract jobs citing Docker 2,022 1,545 1,369
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.71% 4.76% 3.60%
As % of the System Software category 37.42% 39.99% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,386 998 975
10th Percentile £364 £380 £381
25th Percentile £431 £443 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £650
90th Percentile £684 £688 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £524
% change year-on-year - -4.58% -4.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 13 6
10th Percentile £55.38 £62.50 £66.25
25th Percentile £61.56 - £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 5,404 3,863 4,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 11.89% 11.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,540 2,432 2,906
10th Percentile £221 £214 £213
25th Percentile £400 £376 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £680 £669 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 117 110
10th Percentile £15.95 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £17.81
Median hourly rate £63.14 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.69% +23.64% -45.00%
75th Percentile £74.83 £80.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £90.60 £81.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £28.75
% change year-on-year +1.17% +123.48% -28.13%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -16 1,683 £525 - 2,033
UK excluding London -26 864 £500 - 1,113
London -10 855 £550 - 1,097
Work from Home -5 637 £525 +5.00% 987
North of England -16 312 £475 - 291
Midlands -30 158 £490 -5.50% 105
Yorkshire -5 145 £500 - 69
South East -12 136 £535 +7.00% 260
West Midlands -31 129 £490 -7.11% 67
South West +10 127 £550 - 202
North West -51 106 £525 +15.89% 174
Scotland -25 70 £450 -10.00% 94
North East +2 64 £425 -13.92% 50
East of England -10 50 £475 -11.63% 91
East Midlands -9 28 £500 +16.55% 38
Wales -4 18 £375 -21.05% 25
Northern Ireland +6 3 £375 - 48

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
1 121 (5.98%) Apache Spark
2 120 (5.93%) Apache Airflow
3 100 (4.95%) Apache
4 97 (4.80%) Confluence
5 33 (1.63%) Jupyter
6 28 (1.38%) nginx
7 22 (1.09%) SAS
8 18 (0.89%) SharePoint
9 13 (0.64%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.49%) Camunda
10 10 (0.49%) OpenStack
11 9 (0.45%) WebLogic
12 7 (0.35%) 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%) CMS
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 (0.049%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.049%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.30%) 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 (0.049%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.049%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.049%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.049%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.049%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,210 (59.84%) AWS
2 910 (45.00%) Azure
3 529 (26.16%) GitHub
4 404 (19.98%) GCP
5 384 (18.99%) GitHub Actions
6 293 (14.49%) Azure DevOps
7 271 (13.40%) Serverless
8 217 (10.73%) Amazon S3
9 196 (9.69%) Amazon EKS
10 195 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
11 152 (7.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 148 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
13 146 (7.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 132 (6.53%) Amazon EC2
15 114 (5.64%) Azure AKS
16 106 (5.24%) OpenShift
17 82 (4.06%) Amazon SQS
18 78 (3.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 70 (3.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 67 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.71%) Firewall
2 64 (3.17%) DNS
3 34 (1.68%) Network Security
4 33 (1.63%) TCP/IP
5 27 (1.34%) HTTP
6 25 (1.24%) DHCP
7 21 (1.04%) VPN
8 19 (0.94%) Internet
9 16 (0.79%) SSL
10 13 (0.64%) SSH
10 13 (0.64%) Wireshark
11 12 (0.59%) 4G
11 12 (0.59%) RTP
12 11 (0.54%) 5G
12 11 (0.54%) VSAN
13 10 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
14 8 (0.40%) BGP
14 8 (0.40%) HTTPS
15 7 (0.35%) MQTT
16 6 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 347 (17.16%) PostgreSQL
2 188 (9.30%) MongoDB
3 170 (8.41%) NoSQL
4 143 (7.07%) Relational Database
5 100 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
6 92 (4.55%) Redis
7 83 (4.10%) MySQL
8 74 (3.66%) SQL Server
9 63 (3.12%) DynamoDB
10 49 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
11 47 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
12 46 (2.27%) BigQuery
13 44 (2.18%) Big Data
14 43 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
15 39 (1.93%) Data Lake
16 30 (1.48%) Flink
17 27 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
18 26 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
18 26 (1.29%) Delta Lake
19 25 (1.24%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 568 (28.09%) Jenkins
2 560 (27.70%) Git
3 453 (22.40%) GitLab
4 149 (7.37%) JIRA
5 114 (5.64%) JUnit
6 103 (5.09%) Selenium
7 94 (4.65%) Maven
8 82 (4.06%) SonarQube
9 72 (3.56%) Cucumber
10 66 (3.26%) Mockito
11 61 (3.02%) Gradle
12 57 (2.82%) Gatling
13 46 (2.27%) Bitbucket
14 40 (1.98%) JMeter
15 32 (1.58%) REST Assured
16 27 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
17 26 (1.29%) Cypress.io
18 23 (1.14%) Postman
19 22 (1.09%) LoadRunner
20 21 (1.04%) MLflow
General
1 467 (23.10%) Social Skills
2 381 (18.84%) Public Sector
3 267 (13.20%) Finance
4 183 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
5 139 (6.87%) Banking
6 64 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (1.83%) Military
8 35 (1.73%) Retail
9 30 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 25 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (1.14%) Law
12 19 (0.94%) Investment Banking
12 19 (0.94%) Publishing
13 18 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 16 (0.79%) Aerospace
15 15 (0.74%) Financial Institution
15 15 (0.74%) Legal
16 14 (0.69%) Police
17 13 (0.64%) Local Government
18 12 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 570 (28.19%) Developer
2 363 (17.95%) Senior
3 350 (17.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 217 (10.73%) Java Developer
5 203 (10.04%) Lead
6 134 (6.63%) Software Engineer
7 121 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
8 115 (5.69%) Data Engineer
9 112 (5.54%) Senior Developer
10 110 (5.44%) Architect
11 109 (5.39%) Python Developer
12 95 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
13 92 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
14 90 (4.45%) Full-Stack Developer
15 84 (4.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 83 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
17 79 (3.91%) Java Engineer
18 72 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
18 72 (3.56%) Python Engineer
19 65 (3.21%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 802 (39.66%) Terraform
2 412 (20.38%) Spring
3 379 (18.74%) Kafka
4 376 (18.60%) REST
5 344 (17.01%) Spring Boot
6 304 (15.03%) RESTful
7 240 (11.87%) React
8 155 (7.67%) Node.js
9 149 (7.37%) .NET
10 111 (5.49%) AngularJS
10 111 (5.49%) FastAPI
11 105 (5.19%) HTML
12 100 (4.95%) CSS
13 99 (4.90%) OAuth
14 94 (4.65%) Playwright
15 93 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
16 82 (4.06%) pytest
17 81 (4.01%) Flask
18 76 (3.76%) OAuth2
19 66 (3.26%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 487 (24.09%) Cloud Native
2 217 (10.73%) Distributed Systems
3 146 (7.22%) Product Ownership
4 81 (4.01%) AI Agents
5 79 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
6 55 (2.72%) Onboarding
7 47 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (1.98%) PKI
9 38 (1.88%) Security Posture
10 34 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
10 34 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
11 33 (1.63%) Data Centre
11 33 (1.63%) Replication
12 27 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
12 27 (1.34%) Management Information System
13 25 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
14 24 (1.19%) Data Structures
14 24 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.19%) Virtual Team
15 23 (1.14%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 367 (18.15%) Linux
2 120 (5.93%) Windows
3 74 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (3.31%) Unix
5 47 (2.32%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.43%) Ubuntu
7 18 (0.89%) VMS
8 10 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
8 10 (0.49%) CentOS
9 8 (0.40%) 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%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.15%) Debian
14 2 (0.099%) AIX
14 2 (0.099%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.099%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.099%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,620 (80.12%) CI/CD
2 1,155 (57.12%) DevOps
3 1,049 (51.88%) Containerisation
4 854 (42.24%) Agile
5 791 (39.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 708 (35.01%) Microservices
7 496 (24.53%) Test Automation
8 460 (22.75%) Software Engineering
9 435 (21.51%) Observability
10 382 (18.89%) AI
11 365 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
12 325 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 319 (15.78%) Event-Driven
14 293 (14.49%) Scrum
15 242 (11.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 238 (11.77%) Platform Engineering
17 229 (11.33%) DevSecOps
17 229 (11.33%) Full-Stack Development
18 221 (10.93%) Technical Leadership
19 214 (10.58%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 965 (47.73%) Python
2 682 (33.73%) Java
3 485 (23.99%) SQL
4 318 (15.73%) Bash
5 269 (13.30%) JavaScript
6 238 (11.77%) TypeScript
7 191 (9.45%) PowerShell
8 162 (8.01%) C#
9 103 (5.09%) Bicep
10 73 (3.61%) Shell Script
11 68 (3.36%) Go
12 58 (2.87%) Scala
13 44 (2.18%) Groovy
14 27 (1.34%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.14%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.84%) C++
17 14 (0.69%) Perl
18 11 (0.54%) C
18 11 (0.54%) PHP
18 11 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 828 (40.95%) Security Cleared
2 700 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 139 (6.87%) DV Cleared
4 122 (6.03%) Degree
5 103 (5.09%) AWS Certification
6 99 (4.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 89 (4.40%) Azure Certification
8 62 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (1.38%) CISSP
10 24 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (1.09%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 17 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.59%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.45%) PhD
16 8 (0.40%) SAFe Agilist
16 8 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 7 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 7 (0.35%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (9.64%) QA
2 112 (5.54%) Accessibility
3 81 (4.01%) Data Quality
4 48 (2.37%) WCAG
5 24 (1.19%) NIST
6 22 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.04%) NCSC
8 17 (0.84%) GDPR
9 11 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.49%) SEPA
11 8 (0.40%) PSD2
12 7 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.35%) SLA
13 5 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
14 4 (0.20%) ISO 15022
14 4 (0.20%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.15%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
16 2 (0.099%) HL7
System Software
1 60 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 54 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.43%) Hyper-V
4 26 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.89%) vSphere
6 17 (0.84%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.64%) 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%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.099%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1,452 (71.81%) Kubernetes
2 300 (14.84%) Grafana
3 278 (13.75%) Ansible
4 243 (12.02%) Prometheus
5 49 (2.42%) Argo
6 44 (2.18%) Kibana
7 41 (2.03%) Puppet
8 37 (1.83%) Progress Chef
9 28 (1.38%) Podman
10 19 (0.94%) Istio
11 14 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (0.64%) Kustomize
13 12 (0.59%) Karpenter
14 11 (0.54%) Nessus
14 11 (0.54%) Packer
15 10 (0.49%) Control-M
15 10 (0.49%) systemd
15 10 (0.49%) VxRail
16 9 (0.45%) Nagios
17 8 (0.40%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 253 (12.51%) Microsoft
2 153 (7.57%) Google
3 130 (6.43%) Oracle
4 102 (5.04%) Splunk
5 90 (4.45%) Databricks
6 78 (3.86%) Dynatrace
7 71 (3.51%) VMware
8 55 (2.72%) OpenAI
9 52 (2.57%) Red Hat
10 47 (2.32%) IBM
11 40 (1.98%) ServiceNow
12 35 (1.73%) New Relic
13 23 (1.14%) Foundry
14 19 (0.94%) AppDynamics
15 18 (0.89%) Cisco
15 18 (0.89%) Trend Micro
16 16 (0.79%) Confluent
16 16 (0.79%) Talend
17 14 (0.69%) Denodo
18 13 (0.64%) Tenable