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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 50 67
Rank change year-on-year -9 +17 -14
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,871 1,320 1,323
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.69% 4.42% 3.01%
As % of the System Software category 37.87% 36.21% 27.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,235 904 998
10th Percentile £375 £393 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £650
90th Percentile £675 £712 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 7 12
10th Percentile £53.13 £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% -1.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £90.63 £85.00
90th Percentile £84.38 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% - +12.28%

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 4,941 3,645 4,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.76% 12.21% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,290 2,391 3,303
10th Percentile £220 £215 £205
25th Percentile £400 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £695 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 87 229
10th Percentile £15.04 £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% -55.22%
75th Percentile £73.00 £69.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £91.50 £75.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% +36.36% -25.78%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 1,609 £525 - 494
London -1 838 £545 +0.93% 217
UK excluding London -10 760 £500 - 368
Work from Home -13 565 £513 -2.84% 288
North of England +3 313 £480 -4.00% 93
Midlands -11 178 £492 +3.61% 27
West Midlands -4 154 £498 -5.24% 15
Yorkshire +6 142 £500 -4.76% 24
North West -24 124 £525 +5.00% 53
South West -4 107 £544 -9.38% 67
South East -48 92 £509 +1.75% 131
North East +1 53 £425 -2.86% 16
Scotland -10 45 £450 -3.69% 16
East of England -32 23 £550 +13.11% 23
East Midlands -22 22 £445 +3.61% 12
Wales -8 14 £525 - 4
Northern Ireland +5 5 - - 14

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
1 104 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 98 (5.24%) Apache Airflow
3 90 (4.81%) Confluence
4 75 (4.01%) Apache
5 33 (1.76%) Jupyter
6 32 (1.71%) SAS
7 28 (1.50%) nginx
8 13 (0.69%) Camunda
8 13 (0.69%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.37%) Appian
10 7 (0.37%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.37%) WordPress
11 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.32%) WebLogic
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 11 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.43%) CPLEX
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.053%) Maya
5 1 (0.053%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.053%) Notion
5 1 (0.053%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.11%) Shopify
3 1 (0.053%) Magento
3 1 (0.053%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,117 (59.70%) AWS
2 804 (42.97%) Azure
3 431 (23.04%) GitHub
4 374 (19.99%) GCP
5 325 (17.37%) GitHub Actions
6 278 (14.86%) Serverless
7 225 (12.03%) Azure DevOps
8 206 (11.01%) Amazon S3
9 184 (9.83%) AWS Lambda
10 161 (8.61%) Amazon EKS
11 153 (8.18%) Amazon EC2
12 145 (7.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 136 (7.27%) Amazon ECS
14 131 (7.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 109 (5.83%) Azure AKS
16 80 (4.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 76 (4.06%) OpenShift
18 70 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
19 61 (3.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 48 (2.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.83%) Firewall
2 34 (1.82%) DNS
3 24 (1.28%) HTTP
3 24 (1.28%) Network Security
4 21 (1.12%) VPN
5 14 (0.75%) DHCP
6 12 (0.64%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.53%) Internet
7 10 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
8 9 (0.48%) 3GPP
8 9 (0.48%) SMTP
9 7 (0.37%) Wireshark
10 6 (0.32%) MQTT
10 6 (0.32%) RTP
10 6 (0.32%) SSL
11 5 (0.27%) IPv4
11 5 (0.27%) IPv6
12 4 (0.21%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.21%) OpenLDAP
12 4 (0.21%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 313 (16.73%) PostgreSQL
2 179 (9.57%) NoSQL
3 146 (7.80%) MongoDB
4 132 (7.06%) Relational Database
5 104 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
6 92 (4.92%) SQL Server
7 76 (4.06%) DynamoDB
8 72 (3.85%) Redis
9 55 (2.94%) Big Data
10 49 (2.62%) Amazon Aurora
11 48 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
12 46 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
13 44 (2.35%) MySQL
14 33 (1.76%) BigQuery
15 32 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
16 30 (1.60%) Data Lake
17 27 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
18 25 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
19 24 (1.28%) Flink
20 21 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 499 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 409 (21.86%) Git
3 402 (21.49%) GitLab
4 169 (9.03%) JIRA
5 105 (5.61%) JUnit
6 72 (3.85%) Selenium
7 60 (3.21%) Mockito
8 58 (3.10%) SonarQube
9 57 (3.05%) Maven
10 50 (2.67%) Cucumber
11 47 (2.51%) JMeter
12 44 (2.35%) Gatling
12 44 (2.35%) MLflow
13 37 (1.98%) Gradle
14 32 (1.71%) REST Assured
15 31 (1.66%) Bitbucket
16 27 (1.44%) Liquibase
17 24 (1.28%) Postman
18 22 (1.18%) Artifactory
18 22 (1.18%) WebDriver
General
1 417 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 347 (18.55%) Public Sector
3 281 (15.02%) Finance
4 155 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
5 133 (7.11%) Banking
6 50 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
8 28 (1.50%) Military
9 24 (1.28%) Law
10 21 (1.12%) Retail
11 20 (1.07%) Investment Banking
12 16 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (0.80%) Financial Institution
14 14 (0.75%) Legal
14 14 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (0.75%) Publishing
15 12 (0.64%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.59%) Police
17 10 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (0.48%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 567 (30.30%) Developer
2 327 (17.48%) Senior
3 288 (15.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 184 (9.83%) Java Developer
5 150 (8.02%) Software Engineer
6 149 (7.96%) Lead
7 132 (7.06%) Python Developer
8 119 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
8 119 (6.36%) Senior Developer
9 106 (5.67%) Architect
10 104 (5.56%) Data Engineer
11 93 (4.97%) Full-Stack Developer
12 83 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
13 81 (4.33%) Java Engineer
14 73 (3.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 71 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
16 62 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
17 60 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
18 52 (2.78%) Python Engineer
19 48 (2.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (19.72%) Spring
2 325 (17.37%) Spring Boot
3 318 (17.00%) Kafka
4 259 (13.84%) RESTful
5 256 (13.68%) REST
6 231 (12.35%) React
7 175 (9.35%) Node.js
8 148 (7.91%) .NET
9 115 (6.15%) FastAPI
10 106 (5.67%) AngularJS
11 92 (4.92%) OAuth
12 79 (4.22%) Flask
13 72 (3.85%) Django
13 72 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
14 67 (3.58%) OpenTelemetry
15 65 (3.47%) OAuth2
16 64 (3.42%) CSS
16 64 (3.42%) Elastic Stack
16 64 (3.42%) HTML
16 64 (3.42%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 396 (21.17%) Cloud Native
2 212 (11.33%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 49 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
5 42 (2.24%) Algorithms
5 42 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (2.14%) Management Information System
7 39 (2.08%) AI Agents
8 30 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
9 28 (1.50%) Data Structures
10 27 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (1.44%) Onboarding
10 27 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
12 24 (1.28%) PKI
13 23 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
14 22 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
14 22 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
15 19 (1.02%) Security Posture
16 18 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 318 (17.00%) Linux
2 92 (4.92%) Windows
3 57 (3.05%) Unix
4 51 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (2.08%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.91%) Ubuntu
6 17 (0.91%) VMS
7 10 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.48%) Android
8 9 (0.48%) Solaris
8 9 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
9 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.32%) CentOS
10 6 (0.32%) Rocky
11 5 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
11 5 (0.27%) Debian
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.053%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,412 (75.47%) CI/CD
2 1,012 (54.09%) DevOps
3 1,004 (53.66%) Containerisation
4 712 (38.05%) Agile
5 698 (37.31%) Microservices
6 597 (31.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 395 (21.11%) Observability
8 362 (19.35%) Software Engineering
9 359 (19.19%) Test Automation
10 326 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
11 291 (15.55%) AI
12 244 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
13 239 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 236 (12.61%) Event-Driven
15 228 (12.19%) Scrum
16 211 (11.28%) Data Pipeline
17 207 (11.06%) Machine Learning
18 187 (9.99%) TDD
19 172 (9.19%) Platform Engineering
20 168 (8.98%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 837 (44.74%) Python
2 569 (30.41%) Java
3 524 (28.01%) SQL
4 222 (11.87%) JavaScript
5 197 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 189 (10.10%) Bash
7 175 (9.35%) C#
8 119 (6.36%) PowerShell
9 107 (5.72%) Go
10 67 (3.58%) Bicep
11 53 (2.83%) Shell Script
12 39 (2.08%) Scala
13 23 (1.23%) Ruby
14 22 (1.18%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.02%) Groovy
16 18 (0.96%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.91%) C++
18 15 (0.80%) PHP
19 14 (0.75%) Rust
20 10 (0.53%) C
Qualifications
1 704 (37.63%) Security Cleared
2 589 (31.48%) SC Cleared
3 137 (7.32%) Degree
4 108 (5.77%) DV Cleared
5 83 (4.44%) Azure Certification
6 82 (4.38%) AWS Certification
7 73 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 66 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.66%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.23%) CISSP
11 20 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 16 (0.86%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.59%) SAFe Agilist
17 10 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 8 (0.43%) CCNA
18 8 (0.43%) PhD
18 8 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (5.77%) QA
2 87 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 72 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 34 (1.82%) GDPR
5 33 (1.76%) WCAG
6 32 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.60%) NIST
8 17 (0.91%) NCSC
9 13 (0.69%) ISO 20022
10 11 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.59%) PSD2
11 10 (0.53%) SEPA
12 9 (0.48%) SLA
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%) SOC 2
17 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 41 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 11 (0.59%) Microsoft App-V
6 11 (0.59%) Postfix
7 9 (0.48%) BitLocker
7 9 (0.48%) KVM
8 8 (0.43%) vSphere
9 6 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.21%) Firmware
10 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.11%) GridGain
12 2 (0.11%) Lustre
12 2 (0.11%) NFS
12 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,300 (69.48%) Kubernetes
2 659 (35.22%) Terraform
3 288 (15.39%) Grafana
4 277 (14.80%) Prometheus
5 210 (11.22%) Ansible
6 48 (2.57%) Puppet
7 36 (1.92%) Argo
8 34 (1.82%) Progress Chef
9 26 (1.39%) Istio
9 26 (1.39%) Podman
10 23 (1.23%) Kibana
11 19 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (0.86%) Control-M
12 16 (0.86%) IBM Guardium
12 16 (0.86%) Nessus
13 15 (0.80%) Kustomize
13 15 (0.80%) Packer
14 11 (0.59%) HAProxy
14 11 (0.59%) linkerd
15 10 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 218 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 96 (5.13%) Splunk
3 85 (4.54%) Google
4 84 (4.49%) Oracle
5 58 (3.10%) Databricks
6 56 (2.99%) Dynatrace
7 46 (2.46%) VMware
8 43 (2.30%) OpenAI
8 43 (2.30%) Red Hat
9 29 (1.55%) IBM
10 23 (1.23%) Atlassian
11 22 (1.18%) Tenable
12 21 (1.12%) New Relic
12 21 (1.12%) Talend
13 20 (1.07%) Denodo
13 20 (1.07%) ServiceNow
14 18 (0.96%) AppDynamics
15 17 (0.91%) Jaspersoft
16 16 (0.86%) Trend Micro
17 11 (0.59%) Foundry