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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 48 61
Rank change year-on-year -12 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing Docker 2,006 1,499 1,327
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.76% 4.56% 3.40%
As % of the System Software category 37.95% 38.70% 29.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,348 988 978
10th Percentile £380 £377 £381
25th Percentile £438 £440 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -5.59% -8.33%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 13 8
10th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £59.63
25th Percentile £59.07 - £72.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -16.25% +9.97%
75th Percentile £76.50 £88.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £98.44 £92.50 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -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 5,286 3,873 4,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 11.79% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,476 2,488 3,088
10th Percentile £222 £229 £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 £600
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 214 103 145
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.27 £17.94 £15.76
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.77 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +60.21% +37.69% -52.40%
75th Percentile £74.00 £79.35 £58.69
90th Percentile £79.35 £91.50 £70.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £61.50 £24.18
% change year-on-year -14.63% +154.34% -10.44%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -8 1,697 £525 - 1,152
UK excluding London -4 860 £500 - 620
London -4 854 £550 +3.77% 640
Work from Home -6 649 £525 +0.48% 581
North of England +4 319 £480 -4.00% 187
Midlands -15 180 £498 -0.50% 62
West Midlands -14 161 £494 -4.16% 44
Yorkshire +4 150 £500 - 45
South East -28 131 £525 +10.53% 158
South West +12 128 £550 - 114
North West -38 109 £525 +7.14% 110
North East +5 63 £425 -5.56% 33
Scotland -13 58 £450 -8.72% 39
East of England -14 36 £513 +4.59% 29
Wales -9 17 £650 +36.84% 15
East Midlands -27 17 £500 +16.41% 18
Northern Ireland +7 3 £375 -31.82% 20

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 (5.78%) Apache Spark
2 115 (5.73%) Apache Airflow
3 103 (5.13%) Confluence
4 97 (4.84%) Apache
5 35 (1.74%) 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 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.25%) WordPress
12 4 (0.20%) CMS
12 4 (0.20%) SharePoint
13 3 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 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 1,231 (61.37%) AWS
2 912 (45.46%) Azure
3 516 (25.72%) GitHub
4 418 (20.84%) GCP
5 392 (19.54%) GitHub Actions
6 273 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
7 268 (13.36%) Serverless
8 212 (10.57%) Amazon S3
9 199 (9.92%) Amazon EKS
10 177 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
11 159 (7.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 144 (7.18%) Amazon EC2
13 139 (6.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 138 (6.88%) Amazon ECS
15 113 (5.63%) Azure AKS
16 83 (4.14%) OpenShift
16 83 (4.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 73 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
18 60 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
19 59 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.54%) Firewall
2 58 (2.89%) DNS
3 31 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.40%) Network Security
5 27 (1.35%) DHCP
6 24 (1.20%) VPN
7 23 (1.15%) HTTP
8 18 (0.90%) Internet
9 11 (0.55%) VSAN
9 11 (0.55%) Wireshark
10 10 (0.50%) SSL
11 9 (0.45%) 3GPP
12 8 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
13 7 (0.35%) MQTT
13 7 (0.35%) RTP
13 7 (0.35%) SMTP
13 7 (0.35%) SSH
14 6 (0.30%) 4G
15 5 (0.25%) 5G
15 5 (0.25%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 341 (17.00%) PostgreSQL
2 170 (8.47%) MongoDB
3 167 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 136 (6.78%) Relational Database
5 88 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
6 83 (4.14%) SQL Server
7 79 (3.94%) Redis
8 70 (3.49%) DynamoDB
9 62 (3.09%) MySQL
10 50 (2.49%) Big Data
11 46 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
12 44 (2.19%) BigQuery
13 43 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
14 37 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
15 34 (1.69%) Data Lake
16 31 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
17 30 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
17 30 (1.50%) Flink
18 29 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
19 22 (1.10%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 560 (27.92%) Jenkins
2 484 (24.13%) Git
3 421 (20.99%) GitLab
4 166 (8.28%) JIRA
5 111 (5.53%) JUnit
6 85 (4.24%) Selenium
7 72 (3.59%) Maven
8 69 (3.44%) SonarQube
9 65 (3.24%) Mockito
10 52 (2.59%) Cucumber
11 50 (2.49%) Gradle
11 50 (2.49%) JMeter
12 47 (2.34%) Gatling
13 44 (2.19%) Bitbucket
14 34 (1.69%) MLflow
15 27 (1.35%) Liquibase
15 27 (1.35%) REST Assured
16 25 (1.25%) Cypress.io
17 24 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
18 22 (1.10%) Artifactory
General
1 448 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 395 (19.69%) Public Sector
3 271 (13.51%) Finance
4 176 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
5 131 (6.53%) Banking
6 55 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (1.79%) Retail
8 34 (1.69%) Military
9 26 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (1.25%) Telecoms
11 24 (1.20%) Law
12 20 (1.00%) Financial Institution
12 20 (1.00%) Investment Banking
12 20 (1.00%) Publishing
13 18 (0.90%) Legal
14 15 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.60%) Front Office
15 12 (0.60%) Police
16 11 (0.55%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 596 (29.71%) Developer
2 362 (18.05%) Senior
3 308 (15.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 207 (10.32%) Java Developer
5 178 (8.87%) Lead
6 151 (7.53%) Software Engineer
7 129 (6.43%) Architect
8 126 (6.28%) Senior Developer
9 120 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
10 119 (5.93%) Data Engineer
10 119 (5.93%) Python Developer
11 97 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
12 88 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
13 84 (4.19%) AWS DevOps
14 83 (4.14%) Java Engineer
15 75 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
15 75 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
16 74 (3.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 72 (3.59%) Python Engineer
18 56 (2.79%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 395 (19.69%) Spring
2 352 (17.55%) Kafka
3 326 (16.25%) REST
4 323 (16.10%) Spring Boot
5 304 (15.15%) RESTful
6 240 (11.96%) React
7 185 (9.22%) Node.js
8 155 (7.73%) .NET
9 109 (5.43%) AngularJS
10 108 (5.38%) FastAPI
11 95 (4.74%) OAuth
12 87 (4.34%) CSS
12 87 (4.34%) HTML
13 86 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
14 78 (3.89%) Flask
14 78 (3.89%) Playwright
15 70 (3.49%) OAuth2
16 64 (3.19%) Django
17 62 (3.09%) JSON
18 57 (2.84%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 454 (22.63%) Cloud Native
2 238 (11.86%) Distributed Systems
3 118 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 60 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 54 (2.69%) AI Agents
6 53 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (2.24%) Onboarding
8 41 (2.04%) PKI
9 39 (1.94%) 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 27 (1.35%) Data Centre
13 27 (1.35%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
15 25 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
16 22 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
17 21 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
17 21 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 334 (16.65%) Linux
2 108 (5.38%) Windows
3 61 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 56 (2.79%) Unix
5 43 (2.14%) 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 2003
11 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.100%) SUSE
14 1 (0.050%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,569 (78.22%) CI/CD
2 1,131 (56.38%) DevOps
3 1,053 (52.49%) Containerisation
4 831 (41.43%) Agile
5 732 (36.49%) Microservices
6 715 (35.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 441 (21.98%) Test Automation
8 430 (21.44%) Software Engineering
9 428 (21.34%) Observability
10 366 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
11 340 (16.95%) AI
12 296 (14.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 282 (14.06%) Event-Driven
14 272 (13.56%) Scrum
15 262 (13.06%) Full-Stack Development
16 235 (11.71%) Data Pipeline
17 230 (11.47%) Platform Engineering
18 221 (11.02%) Machine Learning
19 211 (10.52%) TDD
20 198 (9.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 916 (45.66%) Python
2 617 (30.76%) Java
3 506 (25.22%) SQL
4 270 (13.46%) Bash
5 257 (12.81%) JavaScript
6 237 (11.81%) TypeScript
7 179 (8.92%) C#
8 167 (8.33%) PowerShell
9 87 (4.34%) Bicep
10 80 (3.99%) Go
11 59 (2.94%) Shell Script
12 45 (2.24%) Scala
13 28 (1.40%) 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
1 809 (40.33%) Security Cleared
2 682 (34.00%) SC Cleared
3 124 (6.18%) DV Cleared
4 120 (5.98%) Degree
5 100 (4.99%) AWS Certification
6 89 (4.44%) Azure Certification
7 79 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 60 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 23 (1.15%) CISSP
11 19 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (0.75%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.60%) PhD
15 11 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
16 10 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 9 (0.45%) CCNA
18 8 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (7.18%) QA
2 104 (5.18%) Accessibility
3 88 (4.39%) Data Quality
4 45 (2.24%) 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
10 7 (0.35%) SEPA
10 7 (0.35%) SLA
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%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.15%) HL7
13 3 (0.15%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 57 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 54 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.65%) Hyper-V
4 27 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.80%) vSphere
6 15 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.60%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.45%) KVM
8 9 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
8 9 (0.45%) Postfix
9 7 (0.35%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.15%) Firmware
11 3 (0.15%) HDFS
11 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.100%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.100%) GridGain
12 2 (0.100%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.100%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,425 (71.04%) Kubernetes
2 756 (37.69%) Terraform
3 293 (14.61%) Grafana
4 265 (13.21%) Prometheus
5 255 (12.71%) Ansible
6 50 (2.49%) Argo
7 47 (2.34%) Puppet
8 41 (2.04%) Progress Chef
9 26 (1.30%) Podman
10 25 (1.25%) Istio
10 25 (1.25%) Kibana
11 18 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (0.75%) Packer
13 14 (0.70%) Kustomize
14 13 (0.65%) Control-M
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
1 241 (12.01%) Microsoft
2 123 (6.13%) Google
3 111 (5.53%) Oracle
4 95 (4.74%) Splunk
5 71 (3.54%) Dynatrace
6 68 (3.39%) Databricks
7 66 (3.29%) VMware
8 47 (2.34%) Red Hat
9 46 (2.29%) OpenAI
10 32 (1.60%) IBM
11 29 (1.45%) ServiceNow
12 28 (1.40%) New Relic
13 23 (1.15%) Denodo
13 23 (1.15%) Talend
14 19 (0.95%) Tenable
15 18 (0.90%) AppDynamics
15 18 (0.90%) Atlassian
15 18 (0.90%) Trend Micro
16 15 (0.75%) Jaspersoft
17 14 (0.70%) Confluent