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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 50 63
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing Docker 2,004 1,422 1,379
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.79% 4.38% 3.21%
As % of the System Software category 38.32% 36.65% 28.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,338 960 1,032
10th Percentile £381 £380 £400
25th Percentile £435 £439 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 13 12
10th Percentile £54.25 £34.25 £47.08
25th Percentile £58.43 £61.75 £59.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -7.90% -
75th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £91.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -16.25% +12.28%

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 5,230 3,880 4,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.89% 11.96% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 2,511 3,339
10th Percentile £213 £221 £210
25th Percentile £400 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £670 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £477
% change year-on-year - -0.42% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 102 211
10th Percentile £15.39 £13.87 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.33 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £29.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +74.36% +22.90% -54.67%
75th Percentile £73.38 £67.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.80 £91.23 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £57.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -11.69% +156.67% -17.43%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -5 1,702 £525 - 528
London +2 867 £548 +3.30% 234
UK excluding London -3 842 £500 - 381
Work from Home -9 634 £525 - 291
North of England +6 331 £481 -3.88% 98
Midlands -7 184 £500 +5.26% 35
West Midlands -6 161 £513 +2.65% 25
Yorkshire +10 158 £500 - 23
South West +4 123 £550 - 63
North West -21 123 £525 +5.00% 52
South East -29 119 £525 +5.00% 123
North East +6 56 £425 - 23
Scotland -5 53 £450 -4.96% 14
East of England -27 26 £550 +12.24% 23
East Midlands -28 21 £450 +4.90% 10
Wales -12 17 £525 +10.53% 14
Northern Ireland +8 4 £375 -31.82% 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
1 113 (5.64%) Apache Spark
2 107 (5.34%) Confluence
3 106 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
4 86 (4.29%) Apache
5 33 (1.65%) SAS
6 31 (1.55%) Jupyter
7 30 (1.50%) nginx
8 14 (0.70%) Tomcat
9 11 (0.55%) Camunda
10 9 (0.45%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.45%) WebSphere
11 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 7 (0.35%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.35%) WordPress
13 6 (0.30%) SharePoint
14 4 (0.20%) Appian
14 4 (0.20%) CMS
15 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.40%) CPLEX
2 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.100%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.050%) Maya
5 1 (0.050%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.050%) Notion
5 1 (0.050%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.050%) Trello
5 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.100%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.100%) Shopify
3 1 (0.050%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.050%) Magento
3 1 (0.050%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,212 (60.48%) AWS
2 874 (43.61%) Azure
3 480 (23.95%) GitHub
4 403 (20.11%) GCP
5 362 (18.06%) GitHub Actions
6 276 (13.77%) Serverless
7 239 (11.93%) Azure DevOps
8 221 (11.03%) Amazon S3
9 180 (8.98%) AWS Lambda
10 176 (8.78%) Amazon EKS
11 159 (7.93%) Amazon EC2
12 155 (7.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 134 (6.69%) Amazon ECS
14 132 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 108 (5.39%) Azure AKS
16 85 (4.24%) OpenShift
17 81 (4.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 66 (3.29%) Amazon SQS
19 62 (3.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 50 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.74%) Firewall
2 36 (1.80%) DNS
3 26 (1.30%) HTTP
3 26 (1.30%) Network Security
4 21 (1.05%) VPN
5 19 (0.95%) DHCP
6 17 (0.85%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.70%) Internet
8 11 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
9 9 (0.45%) 3GPP
9 9 (0.45%) Wireshark
10 7 (0.35%) MQTT
10 7 (0.35%) SMTP
11 6 (0.30%) RTP
11 6 (0.30%) SSL
12 5 (0.25%) IPv4
12 5 (0.25%) IPv6
12 5 (0.25%) VSAN
13 4 (0.20%) AMQP
13 4 (0.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 336 (16.77%) PostgreSQL
2 166 (8.28%) NoSQL
3 160 (7.98%) MongoDB
4 146 (7.29%) Relational Database
5 101 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
6 95 (4.74%) SQL Server
7 71 (3.54%) Redis
8 70 (3.49%) DynamoDB
9 58 (2.89%) Big Data
10 51 (2.54%) MySQL
11 48 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
12 47 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
13 36 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
14 35 (1.75%) BigQuery
15 33 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
16 32 (1.60%) Data Lake
16 32 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
17 27 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
18 26 (1.30%) Flink
19 19 (0.95%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 539 (26.90%) Jenkins
2 440 (21.96%) Git
3 410 (20.46%) GitLab
4 178 (8.88%) JIRA
5 110 (5.49%) JUnit
6 77 (3.84%) Selenium
7 64 (3.19%) Maven
8 62 (3.09%) Mockito
9 60 (2.99%) SonarQube
10 48 (2.40%) Cucumber
11 46 (2.30%) JMeter
12 44 (2.20%) Gradle
12 44 (2.20%) MLflow
13 43 (2.15%) Gatling
14 36 (1.80%) Bitbucket
15 34 (1.70%) REST Assured
16 27 (1.35%) Liquibase
17 23 (1.15%) Postman
18 22 (1.10%) Artifactory
19 21 (1.05%) WebDriver
General
1 451 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 379 (18.91%) Public Sector
3 285 (14.22%) Finance
4 171 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 136 (6.79%) Banking
6 51 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (1.55%) Military
8 29 (1.45%) Retail
9 28 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (1.20%) Law
11 22 (1.10%) Investment Banking
12 18 (0.90%) Legal
12 18 (0.90%) Publishing
13 17 (0.85%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (0.70%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.55%) Front Office
17 11 (0.55%) Police
18 10 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 603 (30.09%) Developer
2 346 (17.27%) Senior
3 312 (15.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 212 (10.58%) Java Developer
5 168 (8.38%) Lead
6 151 (7.53%) Software Engineer
7 127 (6.34%) Architect
7 127 (6.34%) Python Developer
8 126 (6.29%) AWS Engineer
9 118 (5.89%) Senior Developer
10 109 (5.44%) Data Engineer
11 95 (4.74%) Full-Stack Developer
12 90 (4.49%) AWS DevOps
13 85 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
14 83 (4.14%) Java Engineer
15 80 (3.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 72 (3.59%) Cloud Engineer
17 67 (3.34%) Azure Engineer
18 62 (3.09%) Python Engineer
19 54 (2.69%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 410 (20.46%) Spring
2 344 (17.17%) Spring Boot
3 330 (16.47%) Kafka
4 286 (14.27%) RESTful
5 285 (14.22%) REST
6 248 (12.38%) React
7 184 (9.18%) Node.js
8 160 (7.98%) .NET
9 117 (5.84%) AngularJS
10 108 (5.39%) FastAPI
11 96 (4.79%) OAuth
12 80 (3.99%) RabbitMQ
13 75 (3.74%) HTML
14 73 (3.64%) CSS
15 72 (3.59%) Flask
16 71 (3.54%) Playwright
17 68 (3.39%) Django
18 65 (3.24%) Swagger
19 64 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
19 64 (3.19%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 436 (21.76%) Cloud Native
2 227 (11.33%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 54 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.10%) Algorithms
7 41 (2.05%) AI Agents
8 39 (1.95%) Onboarding
9 36 (1.80%) Management Information System
10 34 (1.70%) PKI
11 31 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
12 29 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
13 28 (1.40%) Data Structures
14 27 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
15 26 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
16 25 (1.25%) Public Cloud
17 24 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
17 24 (1.20%) Security Posture
17 24 (1.20%) Virtual Team
18 21 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 342 (17.07%) Linux
2 101 (5.04%) Windows
3 57 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 52 (2.59%) Unix
5 39 (1.95%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.65%) VMS
8 10 (0.50%) Android
8 10 (0.50%) Solaris
8 10 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.30%) CentOS
11 6 (0.30%) Rocky
12 5 (0.25%) Debian
12 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.100%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.050%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,531 (76.40%) CI/CD
2 1,105 (55.14%) DevOps
3 1,100 (54.89%) Containerisation
4 766 (38.22%) Agile
5 730 (36.43%) Microservices
6 657 (32.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 413 (20.61%) Observability
8 405 (20.21%) Test Automation
9 395 (19.71%) Software Engineering
10 372 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
11 312 (15.57%) AI
12 261 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 256 (12.77%) Full-Stack Development
14 252 (12.57%) Event-Driven
15 251 (12.52%) Scrum
16 227 (11.33%) Data Pipeline
17 219 (10.93%) Machine Learning
18 204 (10.18%) TDD
19 202 (10.08%) Platform Engineering
20 175 (8.73%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 895 (44.66%) Python
2 620 (30.94%) Java
3 515 (25.70%) SQL
4 243 (12.13%) JavaScript
5 224 (11.18%) Bash
6 218 (10.88%) TypeScript
7 185 (9.23%) C#
8 136 (6.79%) PowerShell
9 101 (5.04%) Go
10 73 (3.64%) Bicep
11 54 (2.69%) Shell Script
12 43 (2.15%) Scala
13 24 (1.20%) Groovy
13 24 (1.20%) PL/SQL
14 21 (1.05%) Ruby
15 20 (1.00%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.85%) C++
17 15 (0.75%) C
17 15 (0.75%) PHP
18 11 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 786 (39.22%) Security Cleared
2 659 (32.88%) SC Cleared
3 138 (6.89%) Degree
4 121 (6.04%) DV Cleared
5 91 (4.54%) AWS Certification
6 83 (4.14%) Azure Certification
7 82 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 75 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.75%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.20%) CISSP
11 23 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (0.75%) ISTQB
12 15 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 10 (0.50%) CCNA
16 9 (0.45%) PhD
17 8 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (6.24%) QA
2 97 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 73 (3.64%) Data Quality
4 36 (1.80%) WCAG
5 32 (1.60%) GDPR
6 31 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.40%) NIST
8 18 (0.90%) NCSC
9 11 (0.55%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.50%) PSD2
11 9 (0.45%) SEPA
12 8 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.35%) SLA
14 6 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.20%) SOC 2
17 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
17 3 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 47 (2.35%) Active Directory
1 47 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (1.15%) Hyper-V
4 19 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (0.60%) vSphere
6 11 (0.55%) Postfix
7 9 (0.45%) KVM
7 9 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 7 (0.35%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.25%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.15%) Firmware
13 3 (0.15%) HDFS
13 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.100%) GPFS
14 2 (0.100%) NFS
14 2 (0.100%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,418 (70.76%) Kubernetes
2 727 (36.28%) Terraform
3 300 (14.97%) Grafana
4 281 (14.02%) Prometheus
5 230 (11.48%) Ansible
6 49 (2.45%) Puppet
7 47 (2.35%) Argo
8 40 (2.00%) Progress Chef
9 26 (1.30%) Kibana
10 24 (1.20%) Istio
11 22 (1.10%) Podman
12 17 (0.85%) Control-M
12 17 (0.85%) IBM Guardium
12 17 (0.85%) Nessus
12 17 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
13 16 (0.80%) Packer
14 15 (0.75%) Kustomize
15 11 (0.55%) HAProxy
15 11 (0.55%) linkerd
16 10 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 238 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 107 (5.34%) Oracle
3 97 (4.84%) Google
4 92 (4.59%) Splunk
5 64 (3.19%) Databricks
6 54 (2.69%) Dynatrace
7 53 (2.64%) VMware
8 44 (2.20%) Red Hat
9 40 (2.00%) OpenAI
10 32 (1.60%) IBM
11 23 (1.15%) Atlassian
11 23 (1.15%) Tenable
12 22 (1.10%) ServiceNow
13 21 (1.05%) New Relic
14 20 (1.00%) Talend
15 19 (0.95%) Denodo
16 17 (0.85%) Jaspersoft
16 17 (0.85%) Trend Micro
17 13 (0.65%) AppDynamics
18 11 (0.55%) Foundry