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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 40 52
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 +4
Contract jobs citing Docker 2,099 1,672 1,404
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.80% 5.04% 3.75%
As % of the System Software category 38.42% 41.51% 32.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,454 1,089 970
10th Percentile £368 £378 £375
25th Percentile £426 £438 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.25% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 11 3
10th Percentile £55.00 £61.25 £61.00
25th Percentile £62.50 £63.63 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -16.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £85.00 £73.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £95.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +7.46% -16.25% +14.29%

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 5,464 4,028 4,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.89% 12.14% 11.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,603 2,561 2,794
10th Percentile £225 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £669 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 124 90
10th Percentile £16.90 £14.12 £14.24
25th Percentile £25.75 £17.66 £20.64
Median hourly rate £60.92 £30.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +103.05% -1.64% -39.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £67.25 £68.20
90th Percentile £90.00 £88.53 £80.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +6.84% +17.00% +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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -20 1,727 £525 - 1,905
UK excluding London -23 890 £489 -2.25% 947
London -16 886 £550 - 1,067
Work from Home -12 668 £525 +5.00% 908
North of England -20 307 £475 - 253
Midlands -34 165 £469 -10.67% 90
South East -14 145 £541 +13.95% 194
West Midlands -31 135 £470 -11.65% 60
Yorkshire -16 132 £500 - 66
South West +3 127 £550 -10.20% 160
North West -44 112 £500 +11.11% 149
Scotland -22 81 £445 -11.00% 98
North East -6 66 £425 -11.69% 41
East of England -11 51 £475 -9.52% 80
East Midlands -10 29 £402 -6.29% 30
Wales -5 21 £538 +13.16% 30
Northern Ireland +6 3 £375 - 45

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
1 116 (5.53%) Apache Spark
2 114 (5.43%) Apache Airflow
3 105 (5.00%) Apache
4 104 (4.95%) Confluence
5 34 (1.62%) Jupyter
5 34 (1.62%) nginx
6 22 (1.05%) SAS
7 18 (0.86%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.62%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.48%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.38%) Camunda
10 8 (0.38%) Traefik
10 8 (0.38%) WebLogic
10 8 (0.38%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.29%) IIS
12 5 (0.24%) WordPress
13 4 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
13 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.14%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.29%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.19%) Trello
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.095%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.095%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.048%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.048%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.095%) Finacle
4 2 (0.095%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.048%) Magento
5 1 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.048%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.048%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.048%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,271 (60.55%) AWS
2 945 (45.02%) Azure
3 568 (27.06%) GitHub
4 431 (20.53%) GCP
5 399 (19.01%) GitHub Actions
6 310 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
7 273 (13.01%) Serverless
8 221 (10.53%) Amazon S3
9 211 (10.05%) Amazon EKS
10 193 (9.19%) AWS Lambda
11 163 (7.77%) Amazon ECS
11 163 (7.77%) AWS CloudFormation
12 154 (7.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 136 (6.48%) Amazon EC2
14 114 (5.43%) Azure AKS
15 106 (5.05%) OpenShift
16 85 (4.05%) Amazon SQS
17 83 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 71 (3.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 69 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 83 (3.95%) Firewall
2 73 (3.48%) DNS
3 39 (1.86%) Network Security
4 37 (1.76%) TCP/IP
5 28 (1.33%) DHCP
5 28 (1.33%) HTTP
6 25 (1.19%) VPN
7 20 (0.95%) Internet
8 18 (0.86%) SSL
9 16 (0.76%) 4G
10 15 (0.71%) 5G
11 13 (0.62%) SSH
12 12 (0.57%) VSAN
13 11 (0.52%) Wireshark
14 10 (0.48%) BGP
14 10 (0.48%) Broadband
14 10 (0.48%) RTP
14 10 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.43%) IPv4
15 9 (0.43%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 360 (17.15%) PostgreSQL
2 210 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 173 (8.24%) NoSQL
4 138 (6.57%) Relational Database
5 110 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
6 98 (4.67%) MySQL
7 90 (4.29%) Redis
8 83 (3.95%) SQL Server
9 58 (2.76%) DynamoDB
10 42 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
10 42 (2.00%) BigQuery
10 42 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
11 41 (1.95%) Big Data
12 40 (1.91%) Data Lake
13 37 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
14 31 (1.48%) Flink
15 27 (1.29%) Delta Lake
16 25 (1.19%) Metadata
17 24 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
17 24 (1.14%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 614 (29.25%) Jenkins
2 612 (29.16%) Git
3 495 (23.58%) GitLab
4 161 (7.67%) JIRA
5 127 (6.05%) JUnit
6 122 (5.81%) Selenium
7 101 (4.81%) Cucumber
8 97 (4.62%) Maven
9 86 (4.10%) SonarQube
10 70 (3.33%) Gradle
11 66 (3.14%) Mockito
12 63 (3.00%) Gatling
13 47 (2.24%) Bitbucket
14 37 (1.76%) JMeter
15 35 (1.67%) REST Assured
15 35 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
16 30 (1.43%) Claude Code
17 28 (1.33%) Cypress.io
18 27 (1.29%) Postman
19 21 (1.00%) MLflow
General
1 496 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 387 (18.44%) Public Sector
3 285 (13.58%) Finance
4 199 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
5 160 (7.62%) Banking
6 65 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (1.72%) Military
7 36 (1.72%) Telecoms
8 34 (1.62%) Retail
9 28 (1.33%) Investment Banking
10 23 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (1.00%) Law
12 19 (0.91%) Publishing
13 17 (0.81%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
15 15 (0.71%) Legal
15 15 (0.71%) Local Government
16 14 (0.67%) Aerospace
16 14 (0.67%) Front Office
17 13 (0.62%) Police
Job Titles
1 558 (26.58%) Developer
2 388 (18.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 387 (18.44%) Senior
4 209 (9.96%) Java Developer
5 207 (9.86%) Lead
6 130 (6.19%) Software Engineer
7 126 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
8 114 (5.43%) Architect
9 107 (5.10%) Data Engineer
9 107 (5.10%) Senior Developer
10 103 (4.91%) Python Developer
11 100 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
12 94 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
13 92 (4.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 88 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
15 81 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
15 81 (3.86%) Java Engineer
16 75 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
17 74 (3.53%) Python Engineer
18 65 (3.10%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 867 (41.31%) Terraform
2 412 (19.63%) Spring
3 403 (19.20%) REST
4 395 (18.82%) Kafka
5 341 (16.25%) Spring Boot
6 310 (14.77%) RESTful
7 264 (12.58%) React
8 147 (7.00%) Node.js
9 141 (6.72%) .NET
10 119 (5.67%) FastAPI
11 118 (5.62%) AngularJS
12 117 (5.57%) HTML
13 112 (5.34%) CSS
14 106 (5.05%) Playwright
15 105 (5.00%) OAuth
16 95 (4.53%) RabbitMQ
17 86 (4.10%) pytest
18 77 (3.67%) Flask
19 76 (3.62%) OAuth2
20 68 (3.24%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 523 (24.92%) Cloud Native
2 227 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
3 158 (7.53%) Product Ownership
4 90 (4.29%) AI Agents
5 89 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
6 60 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 49 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 48 (2.29%) Security Posture
9 47 (2.24%) PKI
10 37 (1.76%) Data Centre
11 36 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
12 31 (1.48%) Data Structures
13 30 (1.43%) Replication
14 28 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
15 27 (1.29%) Algorithms
16 26 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
16 26 (1.24%) Management Information System
16 26 (1.24%) Virtual Team
17 25 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
18 24 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 404 (19.25%) Linux
2 133 (6.34%) Windows
3 80 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 61 (2.91%) Unix
5 44 (2.10%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.48%) Ubuntu
7 20 (0.95%) VMS
8 11 (0.52%) CentOS
9 10 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (0.38%) Rocky
11 6 (0.29%) Android
12 5 (0.24%) macOS
12 5 (0.24%) Solaris
13 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.14%) Debian
14 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
15 2 (0.095%) AIX
15 2 (0.095%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,712 (81.56%) CI/CD
2 1,212 (57.74%) DevOps
3 1,060 (50.50%) Containerisation
4 898 (42.78%) Agile
5 838 (39.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 717 (34.16%) Microservices
7 539 (25.68%) Test Automation
8 481 (22.92%) Software Engineering
9 464 (22.11%) Observability
10 397 (18.91%) AI
11 383 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
12 367 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 330 (15.72%) Event-Driven
14 310 (14.77%) Scrum
15 268 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
16 260 (12.39%) DevSecOps
17 251 (11.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 242 (11.53%) Technical Leadership
19 227 (10.81%) Deployment Automation
20 222 (10.58%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,024 (48.79%) Python
2 703 (33.49%) Java
3 488 (23.25%) SQL
4 365 (17.39%) Bash
5 289 (13.77%) JavaScript
6 257 (12.24%) TypeScript
7 208 (9.91%) PowerShell
8 148 (7.05%) C#
9 113 (5.38%) Bicep
10 78 (3.72%) Go
11 76 (3.62%) Shell Script
12 63 (3.00%) Scala
13 55 (2.62%) Groovy
14 25 (1.19%) Kotlin
14 25 (1.19%) PL/SQL
15 17 (0.81%) C++
16 15 (0.71%) Perl
17 11 (0.52%) PHP
18 10 (0.48%) C
19 9 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 861 (41.02%) Security Cleared
2 722 (34.40%) SC Cleared
3 151 (7.19%) DV Cleared
4 126 (6.00%) AWS Certification
5 122 (5.81%) Degree
6 112 (5.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 87 (4.14%) Azure Certification
8 65 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (1.33%) CISSP
10 26 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 25 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 23 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 15 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.57%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.43%) PhD
17 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 8 (0.38%) SAFe Agilist
18 7 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 7 (0.33%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (10.24%) QA
2 123 (5.86%) Accessibility
3 84 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 55 (2.62%) WCAG
5 27 (1.29%) GDPR
6 24 (1.14%) NIST
7 21 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (0.95%) NCSC
9 10 (0.48%) ISO 20022
10 9 (0.43%) SEPA
11 8 (0.38%) PSD2
12 7 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.33%) SLA
13 5 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (0.24%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.19%) ISO 15022
15 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.14%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.14%) HL7
15 3 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 52 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.29%) Hyper-V
3 27 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.91%) VMware NSX
4 19 (0.91%) vSphere
5 10 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.33%) KVM
6 7 (0.33%) NFS
7 6 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.24%) Postfix
8 5 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.19%) GPFS
9 4 (0.19%) HDFS
10 3 (0.14%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.14%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.095%) Firmware
11 2 (0.095%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,538 (73.27%) Kubernetes
2 314 (14.96%) Grafana
3 293 (13.96%) Ansible
4 244 (11.62%) Prometheus
5 57 (2.72%) Argo
5 57 (2.72%) Kibana
6 43 (2.05%) Puppet
7 39 (1.86%) Progress Chef
8 29 (1.38%) Podman
9 25 (1.19%) Istio
10 14 (0.67%) Packer
10 14 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (0.62%) Karpenter
12 12 (0.57%) Kustomize
13 11 (0.52%) Nessus
13 11 (0.52%) VxRail
14 10 (0.48%) Control-M
14 10 (0.48%) systemd
15 9 (0.43%) HAProxy
16 8 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 250 (11.91%) Microsoft
2 174 (8.29%) Google
3 138 (6.57%) Oracle
4 101 (4.81%) Splunk
5 92 (4.38%) Databricks
6 75 (3.57%) Dynatrace
7 67 (3.19%) VMware
8 60 (2.86%) OpenAI
9 52 (2.48%) Red Hat
10 48 (2.29%) ServiceNow
11 44 (2.10%) IBM
12 31 (1.48%) New Relic
13 27 (1.29%) Foundry
14 20 (0.95%) Talend
14 20 (0.95%) webMethods
15 18 (0.86%) Denodo
15 18 (0.86%) Trend Micro
16 17 (0.81%) Cisco
17 15 (0.71%) AppDynamics
17 15 (0.71%) Confluent