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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 47 56
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing Docker 2,020 1,520 1,351
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.71% 4.61% 3.53%
As % of the System Software category 37.31% 39.37% 30.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,370 991 973
10th Percentile £375 £380 £381
25th Percentile £432 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £650
90th Percentile £675 £688 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 14 7
10th Percentile £55.38 £62.88 £54.50
25th Percentile £61.19 £67.00 £66.25
Median hourly rate £67.61 £72.85 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% -8.94% +6.67%
75th Percentile £79.06 £91.56 £85.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £94.25 £87.00
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 5,414 3,861 4,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.94% 11.70% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,550 2,437 2,954
10th Percentile £218 £225 £218
25th Percentile £400 £383 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £589 £590 £608
90th Percentile £675 £669 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 112 117
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.92 £18.87 £17.44
Median hourly rate £62.50 £33.39 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.21% +36.27% -51.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £92.11 £91.35 £73.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -2.87% +136.36% -30.56%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -17 1,694 £525 - 1,739
UK excluding London -15 865 £500 - 860
London -15 860 £550 +3.77% 1,064
Work from Home -11 631 £525 +5.00% 819
North of England -7 328 £475 - 217
Midlands -26 163 £488 -5.34% 87
Yorkshire +5 154 £500 - 50
West Midlands -24 132 £488 -7.14% 53
South East -20 131 £525 +5.00% 199
South West +9 124 £563 +2.27% 165
North West -47 113 £500 +5.71% 135
Scotland -38 65 £450 -9.64% 73
North East +5 64 £419 -6.42% 35
East of England -16 42 £475 -5.00% 66
East Midlands -9 30 £463 +7.81% 33
Wales -7 19 £525 +10.53% 19
Northern Ireland +6 3 £375 - 38

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
1 120 (5.94%) Apache Spark
2 114 (5.64%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (5.05%) Confluence
4 100 (4.95%) Apache
5 31 (1.53%) Jupyter
6 26 (1.29%) nginx
7 22 (1.09%) SAS
8 13 (0.64%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.64%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.50%) OpenStack
10 9 (0.45%) Camunda
10 9 (0.45%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.30%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.30%) WordPress
12 5 (0.25%) CMS
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.15%) IIS
14 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.35%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.20%) Trello
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.050%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.15%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.099%) Finacle
4 2 (0.099%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.099%) Magento
5 1 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.050%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.050%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.050%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.050%) Shopify
5 1 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.050%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,213 (60.05%) AWS
2 924 (45.74%) Azure
3 549 (27.18%) GitHub
4 405 (20.05%) GitHub Actions
5 401 (19.85%) GCP
6 299 (14.80%) Azure DevOps
7 277 (13.71%) Serverless
8 218 (10.79%) Amazon S3
9 197 (9.75%) AWS Lambda
10 193 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
11 156 (7.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 149 (7.38%) Amazon ECS
13 146 (7.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 136 (6.73%) Amazon EC2
15 115 (5.69%) Azure AKS
16 90 (4.46%) OpenShift
17 80 (3.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 76 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
19 67 (3.32%) Azure Monitor
19 67 (3.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 78 (3.86%) Firewall
2 65 (3.22%) DNS
3 33 (1.63%) Network Security
4 32 (1.58%) TCP/IP
5 27 (1.34%) HTTP
6 26 (1.29%) DHCP
7 23 (1.14%) VPN
8 18 (0.89%) Internet
9 14 (0.69%) SSL
10 12 (0.59%) SSH
10 12 (0.59%) Wireshark
11 11 (0.54%) RTP
12 10 (0.50%) VSAN
13 8 (0.40%) 4G
14 7 (0.35%) 3GPP
14 7 (0.35%) 5G
14 7 (0.35%) HTTPS
14 7 (0.35%) MQTT
14 7 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
14 7 (0.35%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 351 (17.38%) PostgreSQL
2 181 (8.96%) MongoDB
3 171 (8.47%) NoSQL
4 146 (7.23%) Relational Database
5 95 (4.70%) Amazon RDS
6 88 (4.36%) Redis
7 85 (4.21%) SQL Server
8 76 (3.76%) MySQL
9 63 (3.12%) DynamoDB
10 49 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
11 45 (2.23%) Big Data
11 45 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
12 44 (2.18%) BigQuery
13 42 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
14 40 (1.98%) Data Lake
15 30 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
15 30 (1.49%) Flink
16 27 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
17 26 (1.29%) Delta Lake
18 25 (1.24%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 564 (27.92%) Jenkins
2 527 (26.09%) Git
3 441 (21.83%) GitLab
4 152 (7.52%) JIRA
5 116 (5.74%) JUnit
6 97 (4.80%) Selenium
7 91 (4.50%) Maven
8 78 (3.86%) SonarQube
9 72 (3.56%) Mockito
10 62 (3.07%) Cucumber
11 60 (2.97%) Gradle
12 56 (2.77%) Gatling
13 50 (2.48%) Bitbucket
14 48 (2.38%) JMeter
15 33 (1.63%) REST Assured
16 30 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
17 26 (1.29%) Cypress.io
18 25 (1.24%) MLflow
19 23 (1.14%) LoadRunner
19 23 (1.14%) Postman
General
1 473 (23.42%) Social Skills
2 384 (19.01%) Public Sector
3 269 (13.32%) Finance
4 177 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 135 (6.68%) Banking
6 61 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (1.83%) Military
8 35 (1.73%) Retail
9 26 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (1.24%) Law
11 24 (1.19%) Telecoms
12 21 (1.04%) Publishing
13 17 (0.84%) Financial Institution
13 17 (0.84%) Investment Banking
13 17 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
14 16 (0.79%) Aerospace
15 14 (0.69%) Legal
15 14 (0.69%) Police
16 12 (0.59%) Front Office
17 11 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 583 (28.86%) Developer
2 364 (18.02%) Senior
3 335 (16.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 212 (10.50%) Java Developer
5 204 (10.10%) Lead
6 149 (7.38%) Software Engineer
7 120 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
8 119 (5.89%) Senior Developer
9 115 (5.69%) Python Developer
10 112 (5.54%) Data Engineer
11 111 (5.50%) Architect
12 90 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
13 87 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
13 87 (4.31%) Full-Stack Developer
14 81 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
14 81 (4.01%) Java Engineer
14 81 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
15 78 (3.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 75 (3.71%) Python Engineer
17 64 (3.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 787 (38.96%) Terraform
2 412 (20.40%) Spring
3 381 (18.86%) Kafka
4 361 (17.87%) REST
5 343 (16.98%) Spring Boot
6 311 (15.40%) RESTful
7 238 (11.78%) React
8 159 (7.87%) Node.js
9 147 (7.28%) .NET
10 110 (5.45%) FastAPI
11 109 (5.40%) AngularJS
12 105 (5.20%) HTML
13 102 (5.05%) CSS
14 97 (4.80%) OAuth
15 95 (4.70%) RabbitMQ
16 90 (4.46%) Playwright
17 83 (4.11%) Flask
18 76 (3.76%) pytest
19 72 (3.56%) OAuth2
20 70 (3.47%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 488 (24.16%) Cloud Native
2 219 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
3 137 (6.78%) Product Ownership
4 76 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
5 67 (3.32%) AI Agents
6 49 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 49 (2.43%) Onboarding
7 42 (2.08%) PKI
8 35 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 34 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 33 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
11 30 (1.49%) Replication
12 29 (1.44%) Data Centre
12 29 (1.44%) Management Information System
13 28 (1.39%) Algorithms
14 25 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
15 24 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
15 24 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
16 23 (1.14%) Data Structures
17 22 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 351 (17.38%) Linux
2 113 (5.59%) Windows
3 68 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 68 (3.37%) Unix
4 48 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.24%) Ubuntu
6 15 (0.74%) VMS
7 10 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.35%) Rocky
8 7 (0.35%) Solaris
9 6 (0.30%) Android
9 6 (0.30%) CentOS
10 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.20%) Debian
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.099%) AIX
13 2 (0.099%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,618 (80.10%) CI/CD
2 1,164 (57.62%) DevOps
3 1,044 (51.68%) Containerisation
4 849 (42.03%) Agile
5 774 (38.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 725 (35.89%) Microservices
7 479 (23.71%) Test Automation
8 463 (22.92%) Software Engineering
9 425 (21.04%) Observability
10 366 (18.12%) AI
11 356 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
12 310 (15.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 307 (15.20%) Event-Driven
14 284 (14.06%) Scrum
15 240 (11.88%) Platform Engineering
16 237 (11.73%) Full-Stack Development
17 229 (11.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 224 (11.09%) DevSecOps
19 220 (10.89%) Data Pipeline
20 214 (10.59%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 960 (47.52%) Python
2 667 (33.02%) Java
3 489 (24.21%) SQL
4 306 (15.15%) Bash
5 268 (13.27%) JavaScript
6 237 (11.73%) TypeScript
7 188 (9.31%) PowerShell
8 171 (8.47%) C#
9 102 (5.05%) Bicep
10 73 (3.61%) Shell Script
11 67 (3.32%) Go
12 52 (2.57%) Scala
13 38 (1.88%) Groovy
14 27 (1.34%) PL/SQL
15 22 (1.09%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.79%) C++
17 12 (0.59%) Perl
17 12 (0.59%) PHP
17 12 (0.59%) Ruby
18 11 (0.54%) C
Qualifications
1 819 (40.54%) Security Cleared
2 690 (34.16%) SC Cleared
3 128 (6.34%) DV Cleared
4 121 (5.99%) Degree
5 98 (4.85%) AWS Certification
6 93 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 92 (4.55%) Azure Certification
8 60 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (1.44%) CISSP
10 22 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.09%) Master's Degree
11 18 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 17 (0.84%) ISTQB
12 17 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 10 (0.50%) PhD
16 8 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 7 (0.35%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (8.71%) QA
2 109 (5.40%) Accessibility
3 80 (3.96%) Data Quality
4 46 (2.28%) WCAG
5 28 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (1.09%) NIST
7 21 (1.04%) GDPR
8 20 (0.99%) NCSC
9 12 (0.59%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.50%) SEPA
11 8 (0.40%) PSD2
11 8 (0.40%) SLA
12 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.20%) ISO 15022
14 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 55 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.53%) Hyper-V
4 28 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.89%) vSphere
6 14 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.69%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.35%) KVM
7 7 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (0.35%) Postfix
8 5 (0.25%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.25%) NFS
9 4 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.15%) Firmware
10 3 (0.15%) GPFS
10 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.099%) Squid
11 2 (0.099%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,442 (71.39%) Kubernetes
2 289 (14.31%) Grafana
3 272 (13.47%) Ansible
4 241 (11.93%) Prometheus
5 49 (2.43%) Argo
6 46 (2.28%) Puppet
7 41 (2.03%) Progress Chef
8 32 (1.58%) Kibana
9 27 (1.34%) Podman
10 19 (0.94%) Istio
11 18 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (0.64%) Kustomize
13 12 (0.59%) HAProxy
13 12 (0.59%) Karpenter
13 12 (0.59%) Packer
14 11 (0.54%) Nessus
15 10 (0.50%) Control-M
16 9 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
16 9 (0.45%) Nagios
16 9 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 256 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 138 (6.83%) Google
3 125 (6.19%) Oracle
4 100 (4.95%) Splunk
5 92 (4.55%) Databricks
6 76 (3.76%) Dynatrace
7 69 (3.42%) VMware
8 52 (2.57%) Red Hat
9 51 (2.52%) OpenAI
10 41 (2.03%) IBM
11 36 (1.78%) ServiceNow
12 34 (1.68%) New Relic
13 21 (1.04%) Foundry
14 20 (0.99%) AppDynamics
15 19 (0.94%) Confluent
16 18 (0.89%) Trend Micro
17 16 (0.79%) Cisco
17 16 (0.79%) Talend
18 14 (0.69%) Denodo
18 14 (0.69%) Tenable