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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 50 66
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 -13
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,862 1,303 1,317
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 4.41% 3.01%
As % of the System Software category 37.91% 35.91% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,231 897 983
10th Percentile £370 £393 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £650
90th Percentile £675 £718 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 7 12
10th Percentile £55.00 £26.60 £47.08
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.88 £59.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +9.97% -0.34%
75th Percentile £75.00 £90.63 £85.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% - +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 4,911 3,629 4,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.80% 12.27% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,270 2,391 3,281
10th Percentile £219 £214 £205
25th Percentile £400 £386 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £606
90th Percentile £675 £694 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 86 228
10th Percentile £15.96 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.38 £78.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% +36.36% -36.60%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -6 1,605 £515 -2.92% 552
London -1 838 £540 -1.82% 221
UK excluding London -6 758 £500 - 392
Work from Home -13 547 £504 -5.48% 347
North of England +6 310 £481 -3.75% 105
Midlands -3 182 £488 +2.63% 32
West Midlands +2 157 £494 -3.69% 19
Yorkshire +13 146 £500 -2.44% 22
North West -17 120 £525 +5.00% 64
South West 0 107 £550 -8.33% 82
South East -50 91 £505 +1.00% 127
North East +1 50 £425 -5.56% 19
Scotland -20 46 £450 -3.69% 14
East Midlands -25 23 £435 +0.06% 13
East of England -27 22 £550 +12.24% 28
Wales -12 13 £525 -1.41% 7
Northern Ireland +6 5 - - 6

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 97 (5.21%) Apache Spark
2 89 (4.78%) Confluence
3 88 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
4 69 (3.71%) Apache
5 32 (1.72%) SAS
6 31 (1.66%) Jupyter
7 27 (1.45%) nginx
8 13 (0.70%) Camunda
8 13 (0.70%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.43%) Appian
9 8 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.38%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.32%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.32%) WordPress
12 4 (0.21%) CMS
13 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.38%) CPLEX
2 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.054%) Maya
4 1 (0.054%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.054%) Notion
4 1 (0.054%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.054%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.11%) Shopify
3 1 (0.054%) Magento
3 1 (0.054%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.054%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,110 (59.61%) AWS
2 801 (43.02%) Azure
3 434 (23.31%) GitHub
4 380 (20.41%) GCP
5 328 (17.62%) GitHub Actions
6 271 (14.55%) Serverless
7 223 (11.98%) Azure DevOps
8 202 (10.85%) Amazon S3
9 178 (9.56%) AWS Lambda
10 164 (8.81%) Amazon EKS
11 152 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 151 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
13 130 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 129 (6.93%) Amazon ECS
15 109 (5.85%) Azure AKS
16 81 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 77 (4.14%) OpenShift
18 69 (3.71%) Amazon SQS
19 65 (3.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 50 (2.69%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.06%) Firewall
2 38 (2.04%) DNS
3 23 (1.24%) HTTP
4 22 (1.18%) Network Security
5 20 (1.07%) VPN
6 16 (0.86%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.75%) DHCP
8 10 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
9 9 (0.48%) 3GPP
9 9 (0.48%) Internet
10 8 (0.43%) SMTP
11 7 (0.38%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.32%) MQTT
12 6 (0.32%) RTP
12 6 (0.32%) SSL
13 5 (0.27%) IPv4
13 5 (0.27%) IPv6
14 4 (0.21%) Kerberos
14 4 (0.21%) OpenLDAP
14 4 (0.21%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 308 (16.54%) PostgreSQL
2 177 (9.51%) NoSQL
3 141 (7.57%) MongoDB
4 128 (6.87%) Relational Database
5 103 (5.53%) Amazon RDS
6 96 (5.16%) SQL Server
7 74 (3.97%) DynamoDB
8 66 (3.54%) Redis
9 53 (2.85%) Big Data
10 51 (2.74%) Amazon Aurora
11 49 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
11 49 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
12 45 (2.42%) MySQL
13 36 (1.93%) BigQuery
14 29 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
15 26 (1.40%) Data Lake
16 24 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
16 24 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
16 24 (1.29%) Flink
17 22 (1.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 492 (26.42%) Jenkins
2 407 (21.86%) Git
3 398 (21.37%) GitLab
4 164 (8.81%) JIRA
5 104 (5.59%) JUnit
6 74 (3.97%) Selenium
7 58 (3.11%) Mockito
8 57 (3.06%) SonarQube
9 55 (2.95%) Maven
10 51 (2.74%) Cucumber
11 49 (2.63%) JMeter
12 46 (2.47%) Gatling
13 42 (2.26%) MLflow
14 37 (1.99%) Gradle
15 34 (1.83%) REST Assured
16 31 (1.66%) Bitbucket
17 27 (1.45%) Liquibase
18 25 (1.34%) Postman
19 24 (1.29%) WebDriver
20 21 (1.13%) Artifactory
General
1 427 (22.93%) Social Skills
2 338 (18.15%) Public Sector
3 279 (14.98%) Finance
4 161 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
5 135 (7.25%) Banking
6 46 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 27 (1.45%) Law
9 26 (1.40%) Retail
10 24 (1.29%) Military
11 19 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 16 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 16 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (0.75%) Publishing
14 13 (0.70%) Legal
15 11 (0.59%) Police
15 11 (0.59%) Telecoms
16 9 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.43%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 560 (30.08%) Developer
2 332 (17.83%) Senior
3 284 (15.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 181 (9.72%) Java Developer
5 148 (7.95%) Lead
6 141 (7.57%) Software Engineer
7 128 (6.87%) Python Developer
8 120 (6.44%) Senior Developer
9 117 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
10 104 (5.59%) Architect
11 102 (5.48%) Data Engineer
12 95 (5.10%) Full-Stack Developer
13 80 (4.30%) AWS DevOps
14 78 (4.19%) Java Engineer
15 72 (3.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 71 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
17 63 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
18 61 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
19 49 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
20 48 (2.58%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (19.76%) Spring
2 326 (17.51%) Spring Boot
3 318 (17.08%) Kafka
4 251 (13.48%) RESTful
5 247 (13.27%) REST
6 238 (12.78%) React
7 182 (9.77%) Node.js
8 153 (8.22%) .NET
9 110 (5.91%) AngularJS
9 110 (5.91%) FastAPI
10 94 (5.05%) OAuth
11 76 (4.08%) OpenTelemetry
12 75 (4.03%) Flask
13 72 (3.87%) Django
14 69 (3.71%) RabbitMQ
15 66 (3.54%) Elastic Stack
15 66 (3.54%) OAuth2
15 66 (3.54%) Playwright
16 64 (3.44%) HTML
17 63 (3.38%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 386 (20.73%) Cloud Native
2 205 (11.01%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 48 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (2.15%) Algorithms
6 40 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 38 (2.04%) AI Agents
8 30 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
9 28 (1.50%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 26 (1.40%) Data Structures
10 26 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
11 24 (1.29%) Onboarding
12 23 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
12 23 (1.24%) PKI
13 22 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
14 21 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
15 20 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
16 18 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 317 (17.02%) Linux
2 92 (4.94%) Windows
3 59 (3.17%) Unix
4 49 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (2.09%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.86%) Ubuntu
7 14 (0.75%) VMS
8 11 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.48%) Android
9 9 (0.48%) Solaris
9 9 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
10 7 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.32%) CentOS
11 6 (0.32%) Rocky
12 5 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.27%) Debian
13 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.054%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,405 (75.46%) CI/CD
2 1,017 (54.62%) DevOps
3 1,001 (53.76%) Containerisation
4 701 (37.65%) Agile
5 694 (37.27%) Microservices
6 597 (32.06%) Infrastructure as Code
7 409 (21.97%) Observability
8 361 (19.39%) Test Automation
9 353 (18.96%) Software Engineering
10 329 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
11 295 (15.84%) AI
12 245 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
13 241 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 230 (12.35%) Scrum
15 228 (12.24%) Event-Driven
16 203 (10.90%) Data Pipeline
17 199 (10.69%) Machine Learning
18 190 (10.20%) TDD
19 166 (8.92%) Analytics
20 165 (8.86%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 823 (44.20%) Python
2 565 (30.34%) Java
3 529 (28.41%) SQL
4 215 (11.55%) JavaScript
5 196 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 185 (9.94%) Bash
7 169 (9.08%) C#
8 129 (6.93%) PowerShell
9 109 (5.85%) Go
10 67 (3.60%) Bicep
11 54 (2.90%) Shell Script
12 40 (2.15%) Scala
13 24 (1.29%) PL/SQL
13 24 (1.29%) Ruby
14 19 (1.02%) Groovy
15 16 (0.86%) C++
16 15 (0.81%) PHP
17 14 (0.75%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.75%) Rust
18 9 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 687 (36.90%) Security Cleared
2 575 (30.88%) SC Cleared
3 135 (7.25%) Degree
4 102 (5.48%) DV Cleared
5 84 (4.51%) Azure Certification
6 81 (4.35%) AWS Certification
7 73 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 71 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (1.61%) Master's Degree
10 21 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (1.13%) CISSP
11 16 (0.86%) ISTQB
12 15 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 13 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.59%) SAFe Agilist
16 10 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 9 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
18 8 (0.43%) CCNA
18 8 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (5.91%) QA
2 86 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 71 (3.81%) Data Quality
4 36 (1.93%) GDPR
5 33 (1.77%) WCAG
6 31 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.50%) NIST
8 15 (0.81%) NCSC
9 14 (0.75%) ISO 20022
10 12 (0.64%) PSD2
10 12 (0.64%) SLA
11 11 (0.59%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.54%) SEPA
13 8 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.27%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.16%) HL7
16 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (2.15%) Active Directory
1 40 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
2 20 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
3 18 (0.97%) Hyper-V
4 13 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 11 (0.59%) Postfix
6 10 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (0.48%) KVM
8 8 (0.43%) BitLocker
8 8 (0.43%) vSphere
9 6 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
10 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.21%) Firmware
12 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.11%) GPFS
12 2 (0.11%) GridGain
12 2 (0.11%) NFS
12 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,296 (69.60%) Kubernetes
2 659 (35.39%) Terraform
3 299 (16.06%) Grafana
4 283 (15.20%) Prometheus
5 209 (11.22%) Ansible
6 46 (2.47%) Puppet
7 42 (2.26%) Argo
8 33 (1.77%) Progress Chef
9 32 (1.72%) Istio
10 27 (1.45%) Podman
11 25 (1.34%) Kibana
12 19 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
13 16 (0.86%) Control-M
13 16 (0.86%) IBM Guardium
13 16 (0.86%) Nessus
14 15 (0.81%) Kustomize
14 15 (0.81%) Packer
15 11 (0.59%) HAProxy
15 11 (0.59%) linkerd
16 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 211 (11.33%) Microsoft
2 107 (5.75%) Splunk
3 91 (4.89%) Oracle
4 86 (4.62%) Google
5 62 (3.33%) Dynatrace
6 56 (3.01%) Databricks
7 44 (2.36%) VMware
8 42 (2.26%) OpenAI
9 41 (2.20%) Red Hat
10 29 (1.56%) IBM
11 23 (1.24%) AppDynamics
11 23 (1.24%) Atlassian
11 23 (1.24%) ServiceNow
12 22 (1.18%) Tenable
13 21 (1.13%) New Relic
13 21 (1.13%) Talend
14 20 (1.07%) Denodo
15 17 (0.91%) Jaspersoft
16 14 (0.75%) Trend Micro
17 12 (0.64%) Foundry