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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 53 60
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 -7
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,978 1,464 1,337
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.74% 4.45% 3.41%
As % of the System Software category 37.96% 38.04% 29.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,326 966 989
10th Percentile £383 £375 £382
25th Percentile £444 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -6.14% -8.33%
75th Percentile £606 £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 8
10th Percentile £55.00 £62.13 £59.63
25th Percentile £58.43 £66.63 £72.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -16.25% +9.97%
75th Percentile £76.00 £82.19 £85.00
90th Percentile £98.06 £92.13 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -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 5,211 3,849 4,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.86% 11.70% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,423 2,477 3,099
10th Percentile £225 £225 £220
25th Percentile £400 £381 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £497
% change year-on-year - -4.33% +4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 100 148
10th Percentile £15.77 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.65 £15.36
Median hourly rate £52.50 £31.39 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +67.28% +31.87% -52.40%
75th Percentile £74.00 £79.03 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.40 £91.50 £70.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £59.50 £23.29
% change year-on-year -11.76% +155.47% -13.74%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -7 1,678 £525 +0.48% 1,236
UK excluding London -3 850 £500 - 675
London -3 843 £550 +3.77% 676
Work from Home -9 642 £525 +0.48% 655
North of England +7 312 £484 -3.25% 217
Midlands -9 182 £498 +4.74% 68
West Midlands -8 163 £494 -1.29% 54
Yorkshire +5 147 £500 - 53
South East -29 131 £525 +10.53% 154
South West +9 127 £550 - 129
North West -32 110 £525 +7.69% 133
North East +1 58 £419 -1.47% 32
Scotland -16 57 £450 -8.72% 39
East of England -12 34 £550 +12.24% 33
East Midlands -21 17 £500 +16.41% 13
Wales -14 16 £650 +36.84% 16
Northern Ireland +7 3 £375 -31.82% 23

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 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
1 113 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 104 (5.26%) Confluence
3 92 (4.65%) Apache
4 35 (1.77%) SAS
5 28 (1.42%) Jupyter
6 22 (1.11%) nginx
7 11 (0.56%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.46%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.46%) WebLogic
8 9 (0.46%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.30%) Camunda
10 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.25%) WordPress
11 4 (0.20%) CMS
11 4 (0.20%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.15%) IIS
12 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.40%) CPLEX
3 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.20%) Trello
6 1 (0.051%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.051%) Maya
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%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.051%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,211 (61.22%) AWS
2 894 (45.20%) Azure
3 502 (25.38%) GitHub
4 409 (20.68%) GCP
5 385 (19.46%) GitHub Actions
6 267 (13.50%) Azure DevOps
7 263 (13.30%) Serverless
8 211 (10.67%) Amazon S3
9 194 (9.81%) Amazon EKS
10 172 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
11 157 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 143 (7.23%) Amazon EC2
13 136 (6.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 135 (6.83%) Amazon ECS
15 111 (5.61%) Azure AKS
16 82 (4.15%) OpenShift
17 80 (4.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 73 (3.69%) Amazon SQS
19 58 (2.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 54 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.44%) Firewall
2 51 (2.58%) DNS
3 28 (1.42%) Network Security
4 26 (1.31%) DHCP
4 26 (1.31%) TCP/IP
5 23 (1.16%) VPN
6 19 (0.96%) HTTP
7 17 (0.86%) Internet
8 11 (0.56%) VSAN
8 11 (0.56%) Wireshark
9 9 (0.46%) 3GPP
9 9 (0.46%) SSL
10 8 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
11 7 (0.35%) MQTT
11 7 (0.35%) RTP
11 7 (0.35%) SMTP
12 5 (0.25%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.25%) IPv4
12 5 (0.25%) IPv6
13 4 (0.20%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 339 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
2 168 (8.49%) MongoDB
3 166 (8.39%) NoSQL
4 137 (6.93%) Relational Database
5 87 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
6 82 (4.15%) SQL Server
7 77 (3.89%) Redis
8 71 (3.59%) DynamoDB
9 59 (2.98%) MySQL
10 50 (2.53%) Big Data
11 48 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
12 43 (2.17%) BigQuery
12 43 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
13 35 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
14 32 (1.62%) Data Lake
15 31 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
15 31 (1.57%) Flink
16 30 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
17 28 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
18 23 (1.16%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 552 (27.91%) Jenkins
2 477 (24.12%) Git
3 406 (20.53%) GitLab
4 168 (8.49%) JIRA
5 113 (5.71%) JUnit
6 82 (4.15%) Selenium
7 74 (3.74%) Maven
8 68 (3.44%) SonarQube
9 67 (3.39%) Mockito
10 52 (2.63%) Cucumber
11 50 (2.53%) JMeter
12 49 (2.48%) Gradle
13 47 (2.38%) Gatling
14 44 (2.22%) Bitbucket
15 34 (1.72%) MLflow
16 28 (1.42%) REST Assured
17 27 (1.37%) Liquibase
18 24 (1.21%) Cypress.io
19 22 (1.11%) Artifactory
19 22 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 447 (22.60%) Social Skills
2 390 (19.72%) Public Sector
3 267 (13.50%) Finance
4 172 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 129 (6.52%) Banking
6 52 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (1.82%) Retail
8 34 (1.72%) Military
9 25 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (1.21%) Law
11 20 (1.01%) Financial Institution
11 20 (1.01%) Publishing
11 20 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 19 (0.96%) Investment Banking
13 18 (0.91%) Legal
14 15 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.61%) Front Office
15 12 (0.61%) Police
16 11 (0.56%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 591 (29.88%) Developer
2 354 (17.90%) Senior
3 296 (14.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 207 (10.47%) Java Developer
5 174 (8.80%) Lead
6 150 (7.58%) Software Engineer
7 125 (6.32%) Architect
8 124 (6.27%) Senior Developer
9 118 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
10 117 (5.92%) Data Engineer
11 115 (5.81%) Python Developer
12 98 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
13 87 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
14 83 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
15 82 (4.15%) Java Engineer
16 75 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
17 73 (3.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 71 (3.59%) Python Engineer
19 68 (3.44%) Azure Engineer
20 54 (2.73%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 396 (20.02%) Spring
2 347 (17.54%) Kafka
3 326 (16.48%) Spring Boot
4 318 (16.08%) REST
5 296 (14.96%) RESTful
6 239 (12.08%) React
7 189 (9.56%) Node.js
8 154 (7.79%) .NET
9 112 (5.66%) AngularJS
10 104 (5.26%) FastAPI
11 94 (4.75%) OAuth
12 86 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
13 84 (4.25%) CSS
13 84 (4.25%) HTML
14 76 (3.84%) Flask
15 75 (3.79%) Playwright
16 69 (3.49%) OAuth2
17 63 (3.19%) Django
17 63 (3.19%) JSON
18 61 (3.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 443 (22.40%) Cloud Native
2 239 (12.08%) Distributed Systems
3 115 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 59 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
5 53 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 52 (2.63%) AI Agents
7 44 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 41 (2.07%) PKI
9 40 (2.02%) Algorithms
10 32 (1.62%) Management Information System
11 31 (1.57%) Security Posture
12 30 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
13 28 (1.42%) Data Structures
14 27 (1.37%) Data Centre
14 27 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
14 27 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
15 24 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
16 22 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
16 22 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
17 21 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 329 (16.63%) Linux
2 107 (5.41%) Windows
3 60 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 52 (2.63%) Unix
5 42 (2.12%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.56%) VMS
8 9 (0.46%) Android
9 7 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.35%) Solaris
10 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.25%) CentOS
11 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.20%) Debian
12 4 (0.20%) Rocky
12 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.10%) SUSE
14 1 (0.051%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,542 (77.96%) CI/CD
2 1,103 (55.76%) DevOps
3 1,043 (52.73%) Containerisation
4 821 (41.51%) Agile
5 726 (36.70%) Microservices
6 698 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 425 (21.49%) Test Automation
8 421 (21.28%) Observability
9 419 (21.18%) Software Engineering
10 364 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
11 332 (16.78%) AI
12 290 (14.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 278 (14.05%) Event-Driven
14 270 (13.65%) Scrum
15 263 (13.30%) Full-Stack Development
16 234 (11.83%) Data Pipeline
17 225 (11.38%) Platform Engineering
18 218 (11.02%) Machine Learning
19 213 (10.77%) TDD
20 197 (9.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 896 (45.30%) Python
2 613 (30.99%) Java
3 503 (25.43%) SQL
4 256 (12.94%) Bash
5 252 (12.74%) JavaScript
6 237 (11.98%) TypeScript
7 178 (9.00%) C#
8 163 (8.24%) PowerShell
9 86 (4.35%) Bicep
10 77 (3.89%) Go
11 54 (2.73%) Shell Script
12 44 (2.22%) Scala
13 26 (1.31%) Groovy
13 26 (1.31%) PL/SQL
14 21 (1.06%) Kotlin
15 16 (0.81%) C
15 16 (0.81%) C++
15 16 (0.81%) Ruby
16 13 (0.66%) PHP
17 10 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 803 (40.60%) Security Cleared
2 677 (34.23%) SC Cleared
3 126 (6.37%) DV Cleared
4 117 (5.92%) Degree
5 99 (5.01%) AWS Certification
6 86 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 77 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 57 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.31%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.16%) CISSP
11 22 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 15 (0.76%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.61%) PhD
17 11 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
18 10 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 10 (0.51%) CCNA
19 8 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (6.93%) QA
2 104 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 87 (4.40%) Data Quality
4 45 (2.28%) WCAG
5 30 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.37%) GDPR
7 25 (1.26%) NIST
8 21 (1.06%) NCSC
9 8 (0.40%) ISO 20022
9 8 (0.40%) PSD2
10 7 (0.35%) SEPA
11 6 (0.30%) SLA
12 5 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.15%) ISO 15022
14 3 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 52 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.62%) Hyper-V
4 27 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.81%) vSphere
6 15 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.61%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.56%) Postfix
9 9 (0.46%) KVM
9 9 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (0.35%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
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%) NFS
13 2 (0.10%) OpenSSH
13 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1,400 (70.78%) Kubernetes
2 734 (37.11%) Terraform
3 288 (14.56%) Grafana
4 260 (13.14%) Prometheus
5 247 (12.49%) Ansible
6 50 (2.53%) Argo
7 47 (2.38%) Puppet
8 39 (1.97%) Progress Chef
9 26 (1.31%) Podman
10 24 (1.21%) Istio
10 24 (1.21%) Kibana
11 16 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (0.71%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.71%) Packer
13 13 (0.66%) Control-M
13 13 (0.66%) IBM Guardium
13 13 (0.66%) Nessus
14 11 (0.56%) HAProxy
14 11 (0.56%) linkerd
15 10 (0.51%) VxRail
Vendors
1 237 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 120 (6.07%) Google
3 113 (5.71%) Oracle
4 94 (4.75%) Splunk
5 69 (3.49%) Dynatrace
6 67 (3.39%) Databricks
7 65 (3.29%) VMware
8 47 (2.38%) Red Hat
9 43 (2.17%) OpenAI
10 32 (1.62%) IBM
11 28 (1.42%) New Relic
11 28 (1.42%) ServiceNow
12 23 (1.16%) Denodo
12 23 (1.16%) Talend
13 20 (1.01%) Atlassian
14 19 (0.96%) Tenable
15 18 (0.91%) AppDynamics
16 17 (0.86%) Jaspersoft
16 17 (0.86%) Trend Micro
17 14 (0.71%) Confluent