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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 49 68
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 -14
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,836 1,302 1,281
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.75% 4.47% 2.98%
As % of the System Software category 37.58% 35.87% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,215 908 964
10th Percentile £375 £400 £401
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £675 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 7 12
10th Percentile £48.25 £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% -3.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £90.63 £85.00
90th Percentile £81.85 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% - +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 4,885 3,630 4,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.98% 12.46% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,256 2,432 3,264
10th Percentile £213 £220 £200
25th Percentile £400 £391 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £607
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 85 228
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £15.25
Median hourly rate £51.75 £28.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +84.82% +15.80% -56.04%
75th Percentile £72.28 £62.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £78.25 £88.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +82.14% +1.82% -43.18%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -5 1,587 £525 -1.59% 815
London +1 826 £540 -1.74% 344
UK excluding London -5 743 £500 - 524
Work from Home -16 539 £502 -5.90% 439
North of England +9 302 £488 -2.50% 172
Midlands 0 183 £490 +3.11% 44
West Midlands +8 158 £498 -5.24% 26
Yorkshire +4 145 £500 -4.76% 32
North West -17 119 £513 +2.50% 101
South West -1 107 £575 -4.17% 98
South East -48 90 £513 +2.50% 131
North East 0 46 £450 -2.70% 39
Scotland -22 43 £430 -6.52% 21
East Midlands -29 23 £435 +0.06% 18
East of England -30 22 £550 +14.29% 31
Wales -9 12 £525 -1.41% 12
Northern Ireland +8 5 - - 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 89 (4.85%) Apache Spark
1 89 (4.85%) Confluence
2 82 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
3 63 (3.43%) Apache
4 34 (1.85%) SAS
5 26 (1.42%) nginx
6 23 (1.25%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.71%) Camunda
8 10 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.44%) Appian
9 8 (0.44%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.38%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.33%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.22%) CMS
12 4 (0.22%) IIS
12 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.22%) WordPress
13 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.22%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.054%) Maya
6 1 (0.054%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.054%) Notion
6 1 (0.054%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.054%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) 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 1,095 (59.64%) AWS
2 787 (42.86%) Azure
3 432 (23.53%) GitHub
4 371 (20.21%) GCP
5 316 (17.21%) GitHub Actions
6 266 (14.49%) Serverless
7 212 (11.55%) Azure DevOps
8 200 (10.89%) Amazon S3
9 174 (9.48%) AWS Lambda
10 163 (8.88%) Amazon EKS
11 156 (8.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 154 (8.39%) Amazon EC2
13 129 (7.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 123 (6.70%) Amazon ECS
15 112 (6.10%) Azure AKS
16 80 (4.36%) OpenShift
17 78 (4.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 66 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
19 62 (3.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 52 (2.83%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.27%) Firewall
2 42 (2.29%) DNS
3 21 (1.14%) HTTP
3 21 (1.14%) VPN
4 19 (1.03%) Network Security
5 18 (0.98%) TCP/IP
6 14 (0.76%) DHCP
7 10 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
8 9 (0.49%) 3GPP
9 8 (0.44%) SSL
10 7 (0.38%) SMTP
10 7 (0.38%) Wireshark
11 6 (0.33%) RTP
12 5 (0.27%) Internet
12 5 (0.27%) IPv4
12 5 (0.27%) IPv6
12 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.22%) AMQP
13 4 (0.22%) OpenLDAP
13 4 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (15.74%) PostgreSQL
2 176 (9.59%) NoSQL
3 140 (7.63%) MongoDB
4 130 (7.08%) Relational Database
5 106 (5.77%) SQL Server
6 102 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
7 71 (3.87%) DynamoDB
8 55 (3.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 55 (3.00%) Redis
9 51 (2.78%) Big Data
10 50 (2.72%) Amazon Aurora
10 50 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
11 43 (2.34%) MySQL
12 33 (1.80%) BigQuery
13 30 (1.63%) Data Lake
14 27 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
15 26 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
16 25 (1.36%) Flink
16 25 (1.36%) Power BI
17 24 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 483 (26.31%) Jenkins
2 390 (21.24%) Git
3 387 (21.08%) GitLab
4 161 (8.77%) JIRA
5 102 (5.56%) JUnit
6 72 (3.92%) Selenium
7 59 (3.21%) Mockito
8 57 (3.10%) Maven
8 57 (3.10%) SonarQube
9 47 (2.56%) Cucumber
9 47 (2.56%) JMeter
10 46 (2.51%) Gatling
11 41 (2.23%) MLflow
12 38 (2.07%) Gradle
13 31 (1.69%) Bitbucket
13 31 (1.69%) REST Assured
14 27 (1.47%) Liquibase
15 23 (1.25%) Postman
15 23 (1.25%) WebDriver
16 22 (1.20%) Artifactory
General
1 421 (22.93%) Social Skills
2 312 (16.99%) Public Sector
3 284 (15.47%) Finance
4 153 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 139 (7.57%) Banking
6 36 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (1.25%) Retail
9 21 (1.14%) Investment Banking
9 21 (1.14%) Law
10 19 (1.03%) Military
11 18 (0.98%) Financial Institution
12 15 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (0.71%) Legal
15 12 (0.65%) Publishing
16 11 (0.60%) Front Office
16 11 (0.60%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.54%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 547 (29.79%) Developer
2 319 (17.37%) Senior
3 265 (14.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 171 (9.31%) Java Developer
5 144 (7.84%) Lead
6 140 (7.63%) Software Engineer
7 122 (6.64%) Python Developer
8 119 (6.48%) Senior Developer
9 107 (5.83%) Architect
9 107 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
10 106 (5.77%) Data Engineer
11 95 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
12 73 (3.98%) Java Engineer
13 68 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
13 68 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
14 64 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
15 62 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
16 60 (3.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 52 (2.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 50 (2.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (19.28%) Spring
2 319 (17.37%) Kafka
3 315 (17.16%) Spring Boot
4 238 (12.96%) RESTful
5 235 (12.80%) React
6 230 (12.53%) REST
7 187 (10.19%) Node.js
8 153 (8.33%) .NET
9 109 (5.94%) AngularJS
10 104 (5.66%) FastAPI
11 93 (5.07%) OAuth
12 82 (4.47%) OpenTelemetry
13 76 (4.14%) Flask
14 75 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
15 70 (3.81%) Playwright
16 67 (3.65%) Django
16 67 (3.65%) OAuth2
17 63 (3.43%) PyTorch
18 61 (3.32%) HTML
19 57 (3.10%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 370 (20.15%) Cloud Native
2 199 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 45 (2.45%) Management Information System
5 44 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 40 (2.18%) Algorithms
7 37 (2.02%) AI Agents
8 34 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
10 27 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (1.47%) Public Cloud
11 25 (1.36%) Data Structures
12 22 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
12 22 (1.20%) PKI
13 21 (1.14%) Onboarding
14 20 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
14 20 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
15 19 (1.03%) Hedge funds
15 19 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
16 18 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 320 (17.43%) Linux
2 90 (4.90%) Windows
3 63 (3.43%) Unix
4 47 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (2.18%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.82%) VMS
7 13 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.44%) Android
9 8 (0.44%) Solaris
9 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
9 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.33%) CentOS
11 6 (0.33%) Rocky
12 5 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.27%) Debian
13 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.054%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,369 (74.56%) CI/CD
2 988 (53.81%) DevOps
3 970 (52.83%) Containerisation
4 680 (37.04%) Agile
5 676 (36.82%) Microservices
6 575 (31.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 413 (22.49%) Observability
8 353 (19.23%) Test Automation
9 345 (18.79%) Software Engineering
10 319 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
11 273 (14.87%) AI
12 241 (13.13%) Full-Stack Development
13 229 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 218 (11.87%) Scrum
15 216 (11.76%) Event-Driven
16 201 (10.95%) Data Pipeline
17 191 (10.40%) Machine Learning
18 189 (10.29%) TDD
19 172 (9.37%) Analytics
20 158 (8.61%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 797 (43.41%) Python
2 550 (29.96%) Java
3 536 (29.19%) SQL
4 214 (11.66%) JavaScript
5 188 (10.24%) Bash
6 187 (10.19%) TypeScript
7 168 (9.15%) C#
8 133 (7.24%) PowerShell
9 120 (6.54%) Go
10 70 (3.81%) Bicep
11 54 (2.94%) Shell Script
12 44 (2.40%) Scala
13 24 (1.31%) Ruby
14 21 (1.14%) C++
14 21 (1.14%) Groovy
14 21 (1.14%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.76%) PHP
16 13 (0.71%) Rust
17 11 (0.60%) C
18 10 (0.54%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 657 (35.78%) Security Cleared
2 539 (29.36%) SC Cleared
3 141 (7.68%) Degree
4 96 (5.23%) DV Cleared
5 81 (4.41%) Azure Certification
5 81 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 74 (4.03%) AWS Certification
7 67 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.03%) CISSP
10 17 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (0.76%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
15 9 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.44%) CCNA
16 8 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (5.94%) QA
2 76 (4.14%) Accessibility
3 70 (3.81%) Data Quality
4 38 (2.07%) GDPR
5 29 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.58%) WCAG
6 25 (1.36%) NIST
7 14 (0.76%) ISO 20022
8 13 (0.71%) SLA
9 12 (0.65%) NCSC
9 12 (0.65%) PSD2
10 10 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.54%) SEPA
11 6 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.27%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.16%) HL7
14 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 43 (2.34%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.98%) Hyper-V
4 18 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (0.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 11 (0.60%) Postfix
7 9 (0.49%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (0.38%) BitLocker
8 7 (0.38%) KVM
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.38%) vSphere
9 6 (0.33%) Firmware
9 6 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.22%) Lustre
11 2 (0.11%) Ceph
11 2 (0.11%) GPFS
11 2 (0.11%) GridGain
11 2 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,289 (70.21%) Kubernetes
2 636 (34.64%) Terraform
3 296 (16.12%) Grafana
4 281 (15.31%) Prometheus
5 205 (11.17%) Ansible
6 50 (2.72%) Puppet
7 41 (2.23%) Argo
8 39 (2.12%) Progress Chef
9 31 (1.69%) Kibana
10 30 (1.63%) Istio
11 28 (1.53%) Podman
12 18 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
13 16 (0.87%) Control-M
13 16 (0.87%) IBM Guardium
13 16 (0.87%) Nessus
14 15 (0.82%) Packer
15 14 (0.76%) Kustomize
16 11 (0.60%) HAProxy
17 10 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 10 (0.54%) Kiali
Vendors
1 215 (11.71%) Microsoft
2 113 (6.15%) Splunk
3 87 (4.74%) Oracle
4 81 (4.41%) Google
5 58 (3.16%) Dynatrace
6 57 (3.10%) Databricks
7 45 (2.45%) VMware
8 42 (2.29%) Red Hat
9 41 (2.23%) OpenAI
10 25 (1.36%) IBM
11 24 (1.31%) AppDynamics
12 23 (1.25%) Atlassian
13 21 (1.14%) Talend
14 20 (1.09%) Denodo
14 20 (1.09%) New Relic
14 20 (1.09%) ServiceNow
14 20 (1.09%) Tenable
15 17 (0.93%) Jaspersoft
16 13 (0.71%) Foundry
17 12 (0.65%) NVIDIA