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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 49 69
Rank change year-on-year -10 +20 -15
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,803 1,283 1,250
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.71% 4.49% 2.93%
As % of the System Software category 37.45% 35.80% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 902 935
10th Percentile £374 £391 £405
25th Percentile £428 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £687 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 8 12
10th Percentile £47.25 £25.25 £47.08
25th Percentile £58.43 £26.94 £59.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £79.35 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +9.07% -1.69%
75th Percentile £73.00 £89.69 £85.00
90th Percentile £82.80 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% - +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 4,815 3,584 4,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.92% 12.53% 10.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,208 2,414 3,209
10th Percentile £213 £214 £200
25th Percentile £400 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% +0.35% -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £606 £600
90th Percentile £680 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 83 225
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £14.48
Median hourly rate £51.75 £28.41 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.15% +26.27% -58.76%
75th Percentile £71.76 £63.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £79.15 £88.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £36.65 £22.00
% change year-on-year +39.17% +66.57% -52.28%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 1,567 £525 -2.23% 619
London -1 818 £550 - 248
UK excluding London -6 724 £500 - 418
Work from Home -16 520 £509 -5.21% 322
North of England +6 291 £500 -2.72% 148
Midlands +3 183 £492 +3.61% 40
West Midlands +6 158 £500 -4.76% 22
Yorkshire +4 142 £500 -4.76% 31
North West -7 118 £513 -0.29% 88
South West -4 107 £575 -4.17% 79
South East -48 90 £511 +2.15% 101
Scotland -28 40 £420 -7.69% 13
North East -2 39 £450 -5.26% 31
East Midlands -28 23 £435 -1.02% 18
East of England -35 21 £550 +14.29% 24
Wales -11 10 £422 -20.75% 7
Northern Ireland +5 4 - - 8

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 89 (4.94%) Confluence
2 81 (4.49%) Apache Spark
3 71 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
4 53 (2.94%) Apache
5 34 (1.89%) SAS
6 24 (1.33%) nginx
7 18 (1.00%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.72%) Camunda
9 10 (0.55%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.44%) Appian
10 8 (0.44%) SharePoint
11 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.39%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.33%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.22%) CMS
13 4 (0.22%) IIS
13 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.44%) Chatbot
1 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.22%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.055%) Maya
5 1 (0.055%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.055%) Notion
5 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.055%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.11%) Shopify
3 1 (0.055%) Magento
3 1 (0.055%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.055%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,075 (59.62%) AWS
2 768 (42.60%) Azure
3 435 (24.13%) GitHub
4 356 (19.74%) GCP
5 314 (17.42%) GitHub Actions
6 262 (14.53%) Serverless
7 211 (11.70%) Azure DevOps
8 197 (10.93%) Amazon S3
9 169 (9.37%) AWS Lambda
10 160 (8.87%) Amazon EKS
11 154 (8.54%) Amazon EC2
12 153 (8.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 122 (6.77%) Amazon ECS
14 120 (6.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 111 (6.16%) Azure AKS
16 79 (4.38%) OpenShift
17 73 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 67 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
19 54 (3.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 51 (2.83%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.94%) Firewall
2 43 (2.38%) DNS
3 23 (1.28%) VPN
4 22 (1.22%) HTTP
5 20 (1.11%) Network Security
6 19 (1.05%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.78%) DHCP
8 10 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
8 10 (0.55%) SSL
9 8 (0.44%) 3GPP
10 7 (0.39%) SMTP
11 6 (0.33%) Wireshark
12 5 (0.28%) IPv4
12 5 (0.28%) IPv6
12 5 (0.28%) Kerberos
12 5 (0.28%) RTP
13 4 (0.22%) AMQP
13 4 (0.22%) Internet
13 4 (0.22%) OpenLDAP
13 4 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (15.75%) PostgreSQL
2 178 (9.87%) NoSQL
3 143 (7.93%) MongoDB
4 131 (7.27%) Relational Database
5 105 (5.82%) SQL Server
6 102 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
7 68 (3.77%) DynamoDB
8 58 (3.22%) Redis
9 57 (3.16%) Apache Cassandra
10 52 (2.88%) Amazon Aurora
11 50 (2.77%) Big Data
11 50 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
12 42 (2.33%) MySQL
13 33 (1.83%) BigQuery
14 31 (1.72%) Data Lake
15 27 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
16 26 (1.44%) Power BI
17 25 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
18 24 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
18 24 (1.33%) Flink
Development Applications
1 478 (26.51%) Jenkins
2 392 (21.74%) Git
3 377 (20.91%) GitLab
4 163 (9.04%) JIRA
5 100 (5.55%) JUnit
6 68 (3.77%) Selenium
7 59 (3.27%) Mockito
8 57 (3.16%) Maven
9 56 (3.11%) SonarQube
10 46 (2.55%) Gatling
11 45 (2.50%) Cucumber
12 44 (2.44%) JMeter
13 41 (2.27%) MLflow
14 36 (2.00%) Gradle
15 30 (1.66%) Bitbucket
15 30 (1.66%) REST Assured
16 25 (1.39%) Liquibase
17 23 (1.28%) Postman
18 21 (1.16%) WebDriver
19 20 (1.11%) CircleCI
General
1 407 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 302 (16.75%) Public Sector
3 270 (14.98%) Finance
4 151 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
5 134 (7.43%) Banking
6 31 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.28%) Retail
9 20 (1.11%) Investment Banking
10 19 (1.05%) Military
11 18 (1.00%) Law
12 17 (0.94%) Financial Institution
13 15 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (0.72%) Legal
14 13 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.67%) Publishing
16 11 (0.61%) Front Office
16 11 (0.61%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.55%) Aerospace
18 9 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 557 (30.89%) Developer
2 316 (17.53%) Senior
3 257 (14.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 173 (9.60%) Java Developer
5 137 (7.60%) Software Engineer
6 135 (7.49%) Lead
7 122 (6.77%) Python Developer
7 122 (6.77%) Senior Developer
8 104 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
8 104 (5.77%) Data Engineer
9 102 (5.66%) Architect
10 97 (5.38%) Full-Stack Developer
11 70 (3.88%) Java Engineer
12 68 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
13 67 (3.72%) AWS DevOps
14 63 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
15 58 (3.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 55 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
17 51 (2.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 49 (2.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 357 (19.80%) Spring
2 322 (17.86%) Kafka
3 317 (17.58%) Spring Boot
4 245 (13.59%) RESTful
5 234 (12.98%) REST
6 229 (12.70%) React
7 188 (10.43%) Node.js
8 149 (8.26%) .NET
9 108 (5.99%) AngularJS
10 104 (5.77%) FastAPI
11 93 (5.16%) OAuth
12 82 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
13 76 (4.22%) Flask
14 73 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
15 69 (3.83%) Playwright
16 67 (3.72%) OAuth2
17 66 (3.66%) Django
18 65 (3.61%) PyTorch
19 62 (3.44%) HTML
20 60 (3.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 341 (18.91%) Cloud Native
2 195 (10.82%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (4.16%) Product Ownership
4 43 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 40 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 38 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 34 (1.89%) AI Agents
8 32 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
10 27 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 24 (1.33%) Data Structures
11 24 (1.33%) Public Cloud
12 23 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
13 22 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
13 22 (1.22%) Onboarding
14 20 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
14 20 (1.11%) PKI
15 19 (1.05%) Hedge funds
16 18 (1.00%) Equities
16 18 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 308 (17.08%) Linux
2 82 (4.55%) Windows
3 62 (3.44%) Unix
4 39 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 38 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (0.89%) VMS
7 12 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (0.61%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.44%) Android
9 8 (0.44%) Solaris
9 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
9 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.33%) CentOS
11 6 (0.33%) Rocky
12 5 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.28%) Debian
13 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.055%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,334 (73.99%) CI/CD
2 966 (53.58%) DevOps
3 957 (53.08%) Containerisation
4 667 (36.99%) Microservices
5 661 (36.66%) Agile
6 553 (30.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 392 (21.74%) Observability
8 343 (19.02%) Test Automation
9 335 (18.58%) Software Engineering
10 316 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
11 266 (14.75%) AI
12 238 (13.20%) Full-Stack Development
13 224 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 210 (11.65%) Event-Driven
15 204 (11.31%) Scrum
16 197 (10.93%) Data Pipeline
17 187 (10.37%) Machine Learning
18 186 (10.32%) TDD
19 171 (9.48%) Analytics
20 149 (8.26%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 765 (42.43%) Python
2 540 (29.95%) Java
3 522 (28.95%) SQL
4 215 (11.92%) JavaScript
5 183 (10.15%) TypeScript
6 170 (9.43%) Bash
7 166 (9.21%) C#
8 124 (6.88%) Go
9 122 (6.77%) PowerShell
10 69 (3.83%) Bicep
11 54 (3.00%) Shell Script
12 43 (2.38%) Scala
13 24 (1.33%) Ruby
14 22 (1.22%) C++
15 20 (1.11%) Groovy
16 18 (1.00%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.78%) PHP
17 14 (0.78%) Rust
18 11 (0.61%) C
19 9 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 651 (36.11%) Security Cleared
2 533 (29.56%) SC Cleared
3 132 (7.32%) Degree
4 96 (5.32%) DV Cleared
5 78 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 74 (4.10%) Azure Certification
7 66 (3.66%) AWS Certification
8 65 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.61%) Master's Degree
10 17 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (0.72%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.67%) CISSP
13 11 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
15 9 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.44%) CCNA
16 8 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (5.82%) QA
2 75 (4.16%) Accessibility
3 68 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 39 (2.16%) GDPR
5 29 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.61%) WCAG
6 25 (1.39%) NIST
7 15 (0.83%) ISO 20022
8 13 (0.72%) PSD2
8 13 (0.72%) SLA
9 12 (0.67%) NCSC
10 11 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.61%) SEPA
11 10 (0.55%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.28%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.22%) HL7
15 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
16 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 43 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.00%) Hyper-V
3 18 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 11 (0.61%) Postfix
6 9 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (0.39%) BitLocker
7 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.33%) KVM
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (0.33%) vSphere
9 5 (0.28%) Firmware
10 4 (0.22%) Lustre
11 3 (0.17%) HDFS
12 2 (0.11%) Ceph
12 2 (0.11%) GPFS
12 2 (0.11%) GridGain
12 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,265 (70.16%) Kubernetes
2 607 (33.67%) Terraform
3 292 (16.20%) Grafana
4 275 (15.25%) Prometheus
5 201 (11.15%) Ansible
6 51 (2.83%) Puppet
7 41 (2.27%) Argo
8 32 (1.77%) Kibana
8 32 (1.77%) Progress Chef
9 29 (1.61%) Podman
10 28 (1.55%) Istio
11 18 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (0.89%) Control-M
12 16 (0.89%) IBM Guardium
12 16 (0.89%) Nessus
13 15 (0.83%) Packer
14 14 (0.78%) Kustomize
15 11 (0.61%) HAProxy
16 10 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 10 (0.55%) Kiali
Vendors
1 210 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 112 (6.21%) Splunk
3 84 (4.66%) Oracle
4 73 (4.05%) Google
5 59 (3.27%) Databricks
6 55 (3.05%) Dynatrace
7 45 (2.50%) VMware
8 39 (2.16%) OpenAI
9 35 (1.94%) Red Hat
10 25 (1.39%) IBM
11 24 (1.33%) AppDynamics
12 23 (1.28%) Atlassian
13 21 (1.16%) Talend
13 21 (1.16%) Tenable
14 20 (1.11%) Denodo
14 20 (1.11%) ServiceNow
15 19 (1.05%) New Relic
16 17 (0.94%) Jaspersoft
17 13 (0.72%) Foundry
18 12 (0.67%) NVIDIA