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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 49 58
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Docker 2,005 1,517 1,319
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.76% 4.58% 3.40%
As % of the System Software category 37.94% 39.12% 29.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,348 1,003 967
10th Percentile £381 £369 £381
25th Percentile £438 £438 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -5.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £602 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £727
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 13 8
10th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £59.63
25th Percentile £61.00 - £72.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -16.25% +9.59%
75th Percentile £77.00 £88.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £92.50 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.61 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -0.59% -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 5,285 3,878 4,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.91% 11.70% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,473 2,485 3,076
10th Percentile £225 £230 £220
25th Percentile £400 £388 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £607
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 104 145
10th Percentile £15.77 £14.12 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.29 £18.03 £16.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £33.64 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +56.09% +39.10% -51.64%
75th Percentile £74.00 £80.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £81.60 £91.50 £70.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +140.38% -1.89%

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 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 10 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 10 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 -9 1,697 £525 - 1,246
London -4 860 £550 +3.77% 712
UK excluding London -9 854 £500 - 651
Work from Home -7 649 £525 +0.96% 621
North of England +6 318 £475 -5.00% 187
Midlands -14 179 £495 -1.00% 66
West Midlands -10 161 £492 -4.45% 46
Yorkshire +7 151 £500 - 42
South East -38 128 £525 +7.69% 166
South West +7 127 £563 +2.27% 118
North West -41 107 £525 +7.69% 114
North East +4 63 £425 -5.56% 32
Scotland -14 57 £450 -7.02% 47
East of England -10 36 £513 +4.59% 36
Wales -16 17 £650 +36.84% 16
East Midlands -23 16 £500 +16.41% 20
Northern Ireland +8 3 £375 -31.82% 19

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
1 118 (5.89%) Apache Spark
2 117 (5.84%) Apache Airflow
3 103 (5.14%) Confluence
4 99 (4.94%) Apache
5 35 (1.75%) SAS
6 30 (1.50%) Jupyter
7 22 (1.10%) nginx
8 11 (0.55%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.45%) WebLogic
9 9 (0.45%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.35%) Camunda
11 6 (0.30%) SharePoint
12 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.25%) WordPress
13 4 (0.20%) CMS
14 3 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (0.60%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.35%) 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 (0.050%) Maya
6 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.100%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.100%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.050%) Magento
3 1 (0.050%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.050%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.050%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.050%) Shopify
3 1 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.050%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.050%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,228 (61.25%) AWS
2 910 (45.39%) Azure
3 518 (25.84%) GitHub
4 416 (20.75%) GCP
5 391 (19.50%) GitHub Actions
6 274 (13.67%) Azure DevOps
7 271 (13.52%) Serverless
8 211 (10.52%) Amazon S3
9 199 (9.93%) Amazon EKS
10 178 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
11 159 (7.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 142 (7.08%) Amazon EC2
13 139 (6.93%) Amazon ECS
14 138 (6.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 112 (5.59%) Azure AKS
16 83 (4.14%) OpenShift
17 82 (4.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 72 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
19 59 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 57 (2.84%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.49%) Firewall
2 56 (2.79%) DNS
3 31 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 27 (1.35%) Network Security
5 26 (1.30%) DHCP
6 23 (1.15%) HTTP
6 23 (1.15%) VPN
7 18 (0.90%) Internet
8 11 (0.55%) VSAN
8 11 (0.55%) Wireshark
9 10 (0.50%) SSL
10 9 (0.45%) 3GPP
11 8 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
12 7 (0.35%) MQTT
12 7 (0.35%) RTP
12 7 (0.35%) SSH
13 6 (0.30%) 4G
13 6 (0.30%) SMTP
14 5 (0.25%) BGP
14 5 (0.25%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 339 (16.91%) PostgreSQL
2 168 (8.38%) MongoDB
3 164 (8.18%) NoSQL
4 133 (6.63%) Relational Database
5 89 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
6 82 (4.09%) SQL Server
7 79 (3.94%) Redis
8 66 (3.29%) DynamoDB
9 61 (3.04%) MySQL
10 50 (2.49%) Big Data
11 48 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 45 (2.24%) BigQuery
13 41 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
14 39 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
15 35 (1.75%) Data Lake
16 30 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
16 30 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
16 30 (1.50%) Flink
17 29 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
18 25 (1.25%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 561 (27.98%) Jenkins
2 488 (24.34%) Git
3 422 (21.05%) GitLab
4 166 (8.28%) JIRA
5 111 (5.54%) JUnit
6 87 (4.34%) Selenium
7 73 (3.64%) Maven
8 68 (3.39%) SonarQube
9 64 (3.19%) Mockito
10 54 (2.69%) Cucumber
11 52 (2.59%) Gradle
11 52 (2.59%) JMeter
12 50 (2.49%) Gatling
13 45 (2.24%) Bitbucket
14 31 (1.55%) MLflow
15 27 (1.35%) REST Assured
16 26 (1.30%) Liquibase
17 25 (1.25%) Cypress.io
18 24 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
19 22 (1.10%) Artifactory
General
1 448 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 395 (19.70%) Public Sector
3 268 (13.37%) Finance
4 176 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
5 129 (6.43%) Banking
6 54 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (1.80%) Retail
8 34 (1.70%) Military
9 25 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (1.25%) Telecoms
10 24 (1.20%) Law
11 20 (1.00%) Financial Institution
11 20 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 20 (1.00%) Publishing
12 18 (0.90%) Legal
13 16 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (0.60%) Front Office
15 12 (0.60%) Police
16 11 (0.55%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 595 (29.68%) Developer
2 361 (18.00%) Senior
3 305 (15.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 205 (10.22%) Java Developer
5 180 (8.98%) Lead
6 151 (7.53%) Software Engineer
7 126 (6.28%) Architect
8 124 (6.18%) Senior Developer
9 121 (6.03%) AWS Engineer
9 121 (6.03%) Data Engineer
10 119 (5.94%) Python Developer
11 97 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
12 87 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
13 85 (4.24%) AWS DevOps
14 84 (4.19%) Java Engineer
15 75 (3.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 75 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
15 75 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
16 72 (3.59%) Python Engineer
17 54 (2.69%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 397 (19.80%) Spring
2 356 (17.76%) Kafka
3 325 (16.21%) REST
4 324 (16.16%) Spring Boot
5 302 (15.06%) RESTful
6 239 (11.92%) React
7 184 (9.18%) Node.js
8 155 (7.73%) .NET
9 111 (5.54%) AngularJS
10 105 (5.24%) FastAPI
11 94 (4.69%) OAuth
12 89 (4.44%) HTML
13 88 (4.39%) CSS
14 87 (4.34%) RabbitMQ
15 79 (3.94%) Playwright
16 75 (3.74%) Flask
17 70 (3.49%) OAuth2
18 63 (3.14%) JSON
19 60 (2.99%) Django
20 58 (2.89%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 450 (22.44%) Cloud Native
2 234 (11.67%) Distributed Systems
3 117 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (2.89%) AI Agents
6 50 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (2.24%) Onboarding
8 40 (2.00%) PKI
9 38 (1.90%) Algorithms
10 32 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 32 (1.60%) Security Posture
11 31 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
12 30 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
13 28 (1.40%) Data Centre
14 27 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
15 26 (1.30%) Data Structures
16 25 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
17 22 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
17 22 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
18 21 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 331 (16.51%) Linux
2 107 (5.34%) Windows
3 61 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 56 (2.79%) Unix
5 42 (2.09%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.50%) VMS
8 9 (0.45%) 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%) Debian
11 5 (0.25%) Rocky
11 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.100%) SUSE
14 1 (0.050%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,573 (78.45%) CI/CD
2 1,128 (56.26%) DevOps
3 1,049 (52.32%) Containerisation
4 828 (41.30%) Agile
5 728 (36.31%) Microservices
6 715 (35.66%) Infrastructure as Code
7 447 (22.29%) Test Automation
8 436 (21.75%) Software Engineering
9 429 (21.40%) Observability
10 365 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
11 344 (17.16%) AI
12 299 (14.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 279 (13.92%) Event-Driven
14 273 (13.62%) Scrum
15 258 (12.87%) Full-Stack Development
16 236 (11.77%) Data Pipeline
17 230 (11.47%) Platform Engineering
18 221 (11.02%) Machine Learning
19 212 (10.57%) TDD
20 199 (9.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 919 (45.84%) Python
2 621 (30.97%) Java
3 507 (25.29%) SQL
4 270 (13.47%) Bash
5 260 (12.97%) JavaScript
6 236 (11.77%) TypeScript
7 179 (8.93%) C#
8 167 (8.33%) PowerShell
9 87 (4.34%) Bicep
10 76 (3.79%) Go
11 61 (3.04%) Shell Script
12 46 (2.29%) Scala
13 30 (1.50%) Groovy
14 26 (1.30%) PL/SQL
15 21 (1.05%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.85%) C++
17 16 (0.80%) C
17 16 (0.80%) Ruby
18 13 (0.65%) PHP
19 10 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 810 (40.40%) Security Cleared
2 683 (34.06%) SC Cleared
3 123 (6.13%) DV Cleared
4 121 (6.03%) Degree
5 98 (4.89%) AWS Certification
6 87 (4.34%) Azure Certification
7 77 (3.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 60 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.15%) CISSP
11 22 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 15 (0.75%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.60%) PhD
16 11 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
17 10 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 9 (0.45%) CCNA
19 8 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (7.18%) QA
2 105 (5.24%) Accessibility
3 88 (4.39%) Data Quality
4 46 (2.29%) WCAG
5 30 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (1.40%) GDPR
7 25 (1.25%) NIST
8 21 (1.05%) NCSC
9 8 (0.40%) ISO 20022
9 8 (0.40%) PSD2
9 8 (0.40%) SLA
10 7 (0.35%) SEPA
11 5 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 53 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.60%) Hyper-V
4 27 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.80%) vSphere
6 14 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.65%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.45%) KVM
8 9 (0.45%) Postfix
9 8 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.30%) 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 (0.100%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.100%) NFS
13 2 (0.100%) OpenSSH
13 2 (0.100%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,421 (70.87%) Kubernetes
2 754 (37.61%) Terraform
3 294 (14.66%) Grafana
4 264 (13.17%) Prometheus
5 252 (12.57%) Ansible
6 48 (2.39%) Argo
7 47 (2.34%) Puppet
8 41 (2.04%) Progress Chef
9 26 (1.30%) Kibana
9 26 (1.30%) Podman
10 25 (1.25%) Istio
11 18 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (0.75%) Packer
13 14 (0.70%) Control-M
13 14 (0.70%) Kustomize
14 13 (0.65%) IBM Guardium
14 13 (0.65%) Nessus
15 12 (0.60%) linkerd
16 11 (0.55%) HAProxy
17 10 (0.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 242 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 123 (6.13%) Google
3 112 (5.59%) Oracle
4 96 (4.79%) Splunk
5 73 (3.64%) Dynatrace
6 71 (3.54%) Databricks
7 66 (3.29%) VMware
8 48 (2.39%) Red Hat
9 45 (2.24%) OpenAI
10 35 (1.75%) IBM
11 30 (1.50%) New Relic
12 29 (1.45%) ServiceNow
13 24 (1.20%) Talend
14 23 (1.15%) Denodo
15 19 (0.95%) Tenable
16 18 (0.90%) AppDynamics
16 18 (0.90%) Atlassian
16 18 (0.90%) Trend Micro
17 15 (0.75%) Jaspersoft
18 14 (0.70%) Foundry