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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 44 57
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 -1
Contract jobs citing Docker 2,051 1,581 1,377
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.74% 4.79% 3.59%
As % of the System Software category 37.63% 40.15% 31.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 1,024 973
10th Percentile £363 £379 £381
25th Percentile £430 £439 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.98%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £682 £694 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 13 6
10th Percentile £55.25 £62.50 £66.25
25th Percentile £61.37 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £68.22 £67.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -16.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £80.38 £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 5,451 3,938 4,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 11.93% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,574 2,483 2,906
10th Percentile £220 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £599 £588 £600
90th Percentile £680 £670 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +0.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 121 108
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £18.04
Median hourly rate £63.14 £32.77 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +92.66% +19.16% -45.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £90.00 £81.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.48 £62.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +1.98% +107.50% -25.00%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -18 1,700 £525 - 2,234
UK excluding London -22 879 £500 - 1,146
London -15 860 £550 - 1,274
Work from Home -6 649 £525 +5.00% 1,081
North of England -13 317 £475 - 311
Midlands -30 163 £488 -5.98% 101
Yorkshire -2 145 £500 - 77
South East -29 137 £535 +9.74% 250
West Midlands -27 134 £488 -8.02% 65
South West +8 126 £550 - 210
North West -50 109 £525 +13.64% 191
Scotland -25 72 £450 -10.00% 96
North East -2 66 £425 -11.69% 45
East of England -11 53 £475 -11.63% 96
East Midlands -6 28 £500 +16.55% 36
Wales -7 18 £375 -21.05% 26
Northern Ireland +4 3 £375 - 58

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 (5.90%) Apache Airflow
2 120 (5.85%) Apache Spark
3 103 (5.02%) Apache
4 101 (4.92%) Confluence
5 33 (1.61%) Jupyter
6 29 (1.41%) nginx
7 22 (1.07%) SAS
8 18 (0.88%) SharePoint
9 13 (0.63%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.49%) Camunda
10 10 (0.49%) OpenStack
11 9 (0.44%) WebLogic
12 8 (0.39%) Traefik
13 7 (0.34%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.24%) WordPress
15 4 (0.20%) MQSeries
15 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 4 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
16 3 (0.15%) CMS
16 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.29%) 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 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.15%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.098%) Finacle
4 2 (0.098%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.098%) 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 1,232 (60.07%) AWS
2 923 (45.00%) Azure
3 539 (26.28%) GitHub
4 408 (19.89%) GCP
5 384 (18.72%) GitHub Actions
6 292 (14.24%) Azure DevOps
7 274 (13.36%) Serverless
8 224 (10.92%) Amazon S3
9 197 (9.61%) Amazon EKS
9 197 (9.61%) AWS Lambda
10 156 (7.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 153 (7.46%) Amazon ECS
12 148 (7.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 129 (6.29%) Amazon EC2
14 114 (5.56%) Azure AKS
15 104 (5.07%) OpenShift
16 86 (4.19%) Amazon SQS
17 77 (3.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 70 (3.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 68 (3.32%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 76 (3.71%) Firewall
2 65 (3.17%) DNS
3 34 (1.66%) Network Security
4 33 (1.61%) TCP/IP
5 27 (1.32%) HTTP
6 25 (1.22%) DHCP
7 22 (1.07%) VPN
8 19 (0.93%) Internet
9 17 (0.83%) SSL
10 14 (0.68%) 4G
11 13 (0.63%) 5G
11 13 (0.63%) SSH
11 13 (0.63%) Wireshark
12 12 (0.59%) RTP
12 12 (0.59%) VSAN
13 10 (0.49%) BGP
13 10 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
14 8 (0.39%) Broadband
14 8 (0.39%) HTTPS
14 8 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (17.16%) PostgreSQL
2 196 (9.56%) MongoDB
3 171 (8.34%) NoSQL
4 142 (6.92%) Relational Database
5 98 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
6 95 (4.63%) Redis
7 92 (4.49%) MySQL
8 80 (3.90%) SQL Server
9 62 (3.02%) DynamoDB
10 48 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
11 47 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
11 47 (2.29%) BigQuery
12 43 (2.10%) Big Data
12 43 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
13 41 (2.00%) Data Lake
14 33 (1.61%) Flink
15 28 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
16 26 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
16 26 (1.27%) Delta Lake
17 25 (1.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 568 (27.69%) Jenkins
2 567 (27.65%) Git
3 469 (22.87%) GitLab
4 156 (7.61%) JIRA
5 117 (5.70%) JUnit
6 108 (5.27%) Selenium
7 93 (4.53%) Maven
8 84 (4.10%) SonarQube
9 79 (3.85%) Cucumber
10 64 (3.12%) Mockito
11 63 (3.07%) Gatling
11 63 (3.07%) Gradle
12 46 (2.24%) Bitbucket
13 40 (1.95%) JMeter
14 32 (1.56%) REST Assured
15 27 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
16 25 (1.22%) Cypress.io
17 24 (1.17%) Postman
18 22 (1.07%) LoadRunner
19 20 (0.98%) MLflow
General
1 475 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 383 (18.67%) Public Sector
3 267 (13.02%) Finance
4 186 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
5 145 (7.07%) Banking
6 66 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (1.80%) Military
8 35 (1.71%) Retail
9 33 (1.61%) Telecoms
10 25 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (1.02%) Law
12 20 (0.98%) Investment Banking
12 20 (0.98%) Publishing
13 17 (0.83%) Legal
14 16 (0.78%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
15 15 (0.73%) Aerospace
16 13 (0.63%) Local Government
17 12 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 578 (28.18%) Developer
2 372 (18.14%) Senior
3 352 (17.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 217 (10.58%) Java Developer
5 201 (9.80%) Lead
6 134 (6.53%) Software Engineer
7 122 (5.95%) AWS Engineer
8 114 (5.56%) Data Engineer
9 113 (5.51%) Senior Developer
10 112 (5.46%) Architect
11 107 (5.22%) Python Developer
12 94 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
13 93 (4.53%) AWS DevOps
14 90 (4.39%) Full-Stack Developer
15 85 (4.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 83 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
17 82 (4.00%) Java Engineer
18 75 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
19 73 (3.56%) Python Engineer
20 69 (3.36%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 818 (39.88%) Terraform
2 417 (20.33%) Spring
3 387 (18.87%) Kafka
4 383 (18.67%) REST
5 346 (16.87%) Spring Boot
6 304 (14.82%) RESTful
7 244 (11.90%) React
8 159 (7.75%) Node.js
9 148 (7.22%) .NET
10 113 (5.51%) AngularJS
11 110 (5.36%) FastAPI
12 105 (5.12%) HTML
12 105 (5.12%) OAuth
13 100 (4.88%) CSS
14 98 (4.78%) Playwright
15 93 (4.53%) RabbitMQ
16 84 (4.10%) pytest
17 82 (4.00%) Flask
18 77 (3.75%) OAuth2
19 68 (3.32%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 499 (24.33%) Cloud Native
2 221 (10.78%) Distributed Systems
3 154 (7.51%) Product Ownership
4 81 (3.95%) AI Agents
5 80 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
6 58 (2.83%) Onboarding
7 47 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 44 (2.15%) Security Posture
9 40 (1.95%) PKI
10 35 (1.71%) Data Centre
10 35 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
11 34 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
12 33 (1.61%) Replication
13 27 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
13 27 (1.32%) Management Information System
14 25 (1.22%) Data Structures
14 25 (1.22%) Virtual Team
15 24 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
15 24 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
16 23 (1.12%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 373 (18.19%) Linux
2 123 (6.00%) Windows
3 75 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 65 (3.17%) Unix
5 47 (2.29%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.41%) Ubuntu
7 18 (0.88%) VMS
8 11 (0.54%) CentOS
9 10 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (0.39%) Rocky
11 7 (0.34%) Solaris
12 5 (0.24%) Android
12 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.15%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.15%) Debian
15 2 (0.098%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.098%) SUSE
15 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,645 (80.20%) CI/CD
2 1,165 (56.80%) DevOps
3 1,060 (51.68%) Containerisation
4 866 (42.22%) Agile
5 801 (39.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 718 (35.01%) Microservices
7 512 (24.96%) Test Automation
8 462 (22.53%) Software Engineering
9 439 (21.40%) Observability
10 383 (18.67%) AI
11 371 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
12 331 (16.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 321 (15.65%) Event-Driven
14 297 (14.48%) Scrum
15 242 (11.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 242 (11.80%) Platform Engineering
16 236 (11.51%) DevSecOps
17 232 (11.31%) Full-Stack Development
18 223 (10.87%) Technical Leadership
19 213 (10.39%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 971 (47.34%) Python
2 691 (33.69%) Java
3 488 (23.79%) SQL
4 322 (15.70%) Bash
5 275 (13.41%) JavaScript
6 242 (11.80%) TypeScript
7 192 (9.36%) PowerShell
8 160 (7.80%) C#
9 107 (5.22%) Bicep
10 73 (3.56%) Shell Script
11 71 (3.46%) Go
12 58 (2.83%) Scala
13 44 (2.15%) Groovy
14 27 (1.32%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.12%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.78%) C++
17 14 (0.68%) Perl
18 12 (0.59%) PHP
19 11 (0.54%) Ruby
20 10 (0.49%) C
Qualifications
1 837 (40.81%) Security Cleared
2 707 (34.47%) SC Cleared
3 141 (6.87%) DV Cleared
4 123 (6.00%) Degree
5 105 (5.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 104 (5.07%) AWS Certification
7 88 (4.29%) Azure Certification
8 63 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (1.37%) CISSP
10 25 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (1.07%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 17 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.59%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.44%) PhD
16 8 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
16 8 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 7 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 7 (0.34%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (10.00%) QA
2 115 (5.61%) Accessibility
3 80 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 51 (2.49%) WCAG
5 25 (1.22%) NIST
6 22 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (0.98%) NCSC
8 17 (0.83%) GDPR
9 12 (0.59%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.49%) SEPA
11 8 (0.39%) PSD2
12 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.34%) SLA
13 5 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
14 4 (0.20%) ISO 15022
14 4 (0.20%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.15%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.15%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 55 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 27 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.93%) VMware NSX
6 18 (0.88%) vSphere
7 13 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.34%) KVM
9 6 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (0.29%) Postfix
9 6 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 5 (0.24%) NFS
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%) HDFS
12 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.098%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,479 (72.11%) Kubernetes
2 302 (14.72%) Grafana
3 278 (13.55%) Ansible
4 245 (11.95%) Prometheus
5 49 (2.39%) Argo
6 46 (2.24%) Kibana
7 41 (2.00%) Puppet
8 35 (1.71%) Progress Chef
9 28 (1.37%) Podman
10 25 (1.22%) Istio
11 15 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (0.63%) Kustomize
13 12 (0.59%) Karpenter
14 11 (0.54%) Nessus
14 11 (0.54%) Packer
14 11 (0.54%) VxRail
15 10 (0.49%) Control-M
15 10 (0.49%) systemd
16 9 (0.44%) Nagios
17 8 (0.39%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 255 (12.43%) Microsoft
2 157 (7.65%) Google
3 138 (6.73%) Oracle
4 103 (5.02%) Splunk
5 88 (4.29%) Databricks
6 80 (3.90%) Dynatrace
7 73 (3.56%) VMware
8 56 (2.73%) OpenAI
9 53 (2.58%) Red Hat
10 46 (2.24%) IBM
11 43 (2.10%) ServiceNow
12 35 (1.71%) New Relic
13 20 (0.98%) Foundry
14 19 (0.93%) AppDynamics
14 19 (0.93%) Cisco
14 19 (0.93%) webMethods
15 18 (0.88%) Trend Micro
16 17 (0.83%) Confluent
17 16 (0.78%) Talend
18 14 (0.68%) Denodo