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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 50 69
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 -15
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,834 1,276 1,278
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.75% 4.43% 2.98%
As % of the System Software category 37.65% 35.75% 27.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,219 882 959
10th Percentile £374 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -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 £53.07 £26.60 £47.08
25th Percentile £59.72 £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 £75.00 £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 4,871 3,569 4,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.95% 12.38% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,252 2,381 3,253
10th Percentile £213 £214 £200
25th Percentile £400 £385 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £606
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 86 225
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.91 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.75 £28.46 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +81.87% +17.68% -55.97%
75th Percentile £72.89 £65.63 £60.75
90th Percentile £78.25 £88.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £36.65 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.17% +33.25% -42.85%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -4 1,581 £525 -0.94% 776
London -1 814 £540 -1.82% 338
UK excluding London -5 749 £500 - 494
Work from Home -15 536 £500 -6.89% 536
North of England +4 304 £488 -2.50% 151
Midlands -3 185 £488 +2.63% 40
West Midlands +4 160 £495 -1.00% 26
Yorkshire +4 143 £500 -2.44% 31
North West -6 122 £513 +2.50% 89
South West -4 107 £563 -6.25% 90
South East -45 91 £509 +1.75% 136
North East +1 47 £426 -5.44% 31
Scotland -21 43 £450 -3.69% 19
East Midlands -27 23 £435 +0.06% 14
East of England -29 23 £550 +14.29% 33
Wales -13 12 £525 -1.41% 14
Northern Ireland +10 5 - - 17

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 92 (5.02%) Apache Spark
2 91 (4.96%) Confluence
3 84 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
4 67 (3.65%) Apache
5 34 (1.85%) SAS
6 28 (1.53%) nginx
7 27 (1.47%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.71%) Camunda
9 12 (0.65%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.44%) Appian
10 8 (0.44%) SharePoint
11 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.38%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.33%) WebSphere
13 5 (0.27%) WebLogic
14 4 (0.22%) CMS
14 4 (0.22%) IIS
14 4 (0.22%) WordPress
15 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.27%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.055%) Maya
5 1 (0.055%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.055%) Notion
5 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.055%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.11%) Shopify
3 1 (0.055%) Magento
3 1 (0.055%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.055%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,092 (59.54%) AWS
2 787 (42.91%) Azure
3 432 (23.56%) GitHub
4 369 (20.12%) GCP
5 317 (17.28%) GitHub Actions
6 270 (14.72%) Serverless
7 213 (11.61%) Azure DevOps
8 201 (10.96%) Amazon S3
9 178 (9.71%) AWS Lambda
10 165 (9.00%) Amazon EKS
11 153 (8.34%) Amazon EC2
12 150 (8.18%) AWS CloudFormation
13 130 (7.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 125 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
15 111 (6.05%) Azure AKS
16 79 (4.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 77 (4.20%) OpenShift
18 67 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
19 62 (3.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 51 (2.78%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.27%) Firewall
2 42 (2.29%) DNS
3 23 (1.25%) HTTP
4 21 (1.15%) VPN
5 20 (1.09%) Network Security
6 18 (0.98%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.76%) DHCP
8 10 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
9 9 (0.49%) 3GPP
10 8 (0.44%) SSL
11 7 (0.38%) Internet
11 7 (0.38%) SMTP
11 7 (0.38%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.33%) RTP
13 5 (0.27%) IPv4
13 5 (0.27%) IPv6
13 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
14 4 (0.22%) AMQP
14 4 (0.22%) OpenLDAP
14 4 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (15.81%) PostgreSQL
2 178 (9.71%) NoSQL
3 141 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 130 (7.09%) Relational Database
5 103 (5.62%) SQL Server
6 101 (5.51%) Amazon RDS
7 73 (3.98%) DynamoDB
8 55 (3.00%) Redis
9 51 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
9 51 (2.78%) Big Data
9 51 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
10 50 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
11 42 (2.29%) MySQL
12 34 (1.85%) BigQuery
13 28 (1.53%) Data Lake
14 27 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
15 25 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
15 25 (1.36%) Flink
16 23 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
16 23 (1.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 481 (26.23%) Jenkins
2 394 (21.48%) Git
3 392 (21.37%) GitLab
4 164 (8.94%) JIRA
5 103 (5.62%) JUnit
6 74 (4.03%) Selenium
7 59 (3.22%) Mockito
8 57 (3.11%) Maven
8 57 (3.11%) SonarQube
9 49 (2.67%) Cucumber
10 48 (2.62%) JMeter
11 46 (2.51%) Gatling
12 41 (2.24%) MLflow
13 38 (2.07%) Gradle
14 33 (1.80%) Bitbucket
15 32 (1.74%) REST Assured
16 27 (1.47%) Liquibase
17 24 (1.31%) WebDriver
18 23 (1.25%) Postman
19 22 (1.20%) Artifactory
General
1 422 (23.01%) Social Skills
2 319 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 283 (15.43%) Finance
4 155 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
5 138 (7.52%) Banking
6 39 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (1.25%) Retail
9 22 (1.20%) Law
10 21 (1.15%) Investment Banking
11 20 (1.09%) Military
12 18 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 15 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (0.71%) Legal
15 13 (0.71%) Publishing
16 11 (0.60%) Front Office
16 11 (0.60%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.55%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 549 (29.93%) Developer
2 319 (17.39%) Senior
3 266 (14.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 174 (9.49%) Java Developer
5 146 (7.96%) Lead
6 140 (7.63%) Software Engineer
7 125 (6.82%) Python Developer
8 117 (6.38%) Senior Developer
9 106 (5.78%) Architect
9 106 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
10 103 (5.62%) Data Engineer
11 96 (5.23%) Full-Stack Developer
12 75 (4.09%) Java Engineer
13 68 (3.71%) Platform Engineer
14 67 (3.65%) AWS DevOps
15 64 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
16 63 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
17 58 (3.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 51 (2.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 47 (2.56%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (19.57%) Spring
2 319 (17.39%) Spring Boot
3 318 (17.34%) Kafka
4 242 (13.20%) RESTful
5 233 (12.70%) React
5 233 (12.70%) REST
6 184 (10.03%) Node.js
7 153 (8.34%) .NET
8 110 (6.00%) AngularJS
9 107 (5.83%) FastAPI
10 92 (5.02%) OAuth
11 81 (4.42%) OpenTelemetry
12 77 (4.20%) Flask
13 73 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
14 68 (3.71%) Django
14 68 (3.71%) Playwright
15 66 (3.60%) OAuth2
16 62 (3.38%) HTML
16 62 (3.38%) PyTorch
16 62 (3.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 371 (20.23%) Cloud Native
2 200 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (4.36%) Product Ownership
4 45 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
5 44 (2.40%) Management Information System
6 41 (2.24%) Algorithms
7 36 (1.96%) AI Agents
8 35 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
10 27 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 27 (1.47%) Public Cloud
11 24 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
12 22 (1.20%) PKI
13 21 (1.15%) Onboarding
14 20 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
14 20 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
15 19 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
15 19 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
16 18 (0.98%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 315 (17.18%) Linux
2 90 (4.91%) Windows
3 59 (3.22%) Unix
4 46 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.82%) VMS
7 12 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.49%) Solaris
9 9 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
10 8 (0.44%) Android
11 7 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
11 7 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.33%) CentOS
12 6 (0.33%) Rocky
13 5 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.27%) Debian
14 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.055%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,372 (74.81%) CI/CD
2 986 (53.76%) DevOps
3 978 (53.33%) Containerisation
4 676 (36.86%) Microservices
5 675 (36.80%) Agile
6 575 (31.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 411 (22.41%) Observability
8 356 (19.41%) Test Automation
9 344 (18.76%) Software Engineering
10 316 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
11 276 (15.05%) AI
12 241 (13.14%) Full-Stack Development
13 233 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 220 (12.00%) Event-Driven
15 219 (11.94%) Scrum
16 199 (10.85%) Data Pipeline
17 191 (10.41%) Machine Learning
18 189 (10.31%) TDD
19 171 (9.32%) Analytics
20 161 (8.78%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 800 (43.62%) Python
2 554 (30.21%) Java
3 534 (29.12%) SQL
4 215 (11.72%) JavaScript
5 186 (10.14%) TypeScript
6 183 (9.98%) Bash
7 167 (9.11%) C#
8 130 (7.09%) PowerShell
9 114 (6.22%) Go
10 69 (3.76%) Bicep
11 52 (2.84%) Shell Script
12 41 (2.24%) Scala
13 23 (1.25%) PL/SQL
13 23 (1.25%) Ruby
14 21 (1.15%) C++
15 19 (1.04%) Groovy
16 15 (0.82%) PHP
17 14 (0.76%) Rust
18 11 (0.60%) C
18 11 (0.60%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 666 (36.31%) Security Cleared
2 551 (30.04%) SC Cleared
3 138 (7.52%) Degree
4 99 (5.40%) DV Cleared
5 81 (4.42%) Azure Certification
6 78 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (4.03%) AWS Certification
8 67 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.04%) CISSP
11 17 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (0.82%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 9 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
17 8 (0.44%) CCNA
17 8 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (6.00%) QA
2 77 (4.20%) Accessibility
3 69 (3.76%) Data Quality
4 37 (2.02%) 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 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.55%) SEPA
11 9 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.27%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.16%) HL7
15 2 (0.11%) EMIR
System Software
1 41 (2.24%) Active Directory
1 41 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
2 19 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
3 18 (0.98%) Hyper-V
4 14 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 11 (0.60%) Postfix
6 9 (0.49%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (0.38%) BitLocker
7 7 (0.38%) KVM
7 7 (0.38%) vSphere
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.27%) Firmware
10 3 (0.16%) Lustre
11 2 (0.11%) GPFS
11 2 (0.11%) GridGain
11 2 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.11%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,282 (69.90%) Kubernetes
2 637 (34.73%) Terraform
3 294 (16.03%) Grafana
4 280 (15.27%) Prometheus
5 202 (11.01%) Ansible
6 49 (2.67%) Puppet
7 41 (2.24%) Argo
8 37 (2.02%) Progress Chef
9 30 (1.64%) Istio
9 30 (1.64%) Kibana
10 28 (1.53%) Podman
11 18 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (0.87%) Control-M
12 16 (0.87%) IBM Guardium
12 16 (0.87%) Nessus
13 15 (0.82%) Packer
14 14 (0.76%) Kustomize
15 11 (0.60%) HAProxy
16 10 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 10 (0.55%) Kiali
Vendors
1 212 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 108 (5.89%) Splunk
3 90 (4.91%) Oracle
4 81 (4.42%) Google
5 60 (3.27%) Dynatrace
6 55 (3.00%) Databricks
7 45 (2.45%) VMware
8 41 (2.24%) Red Hat
9 40 (2.18%) OpenAI
10 27 (1.47%) IBM
11 23 (1.25%) AppDynamics
11 23 (1.25%) Atlassian
12 21 (1.15%) Talend
12 21 (1.15%) Tenable
13 20 (1.09%) Denodo
13 20 (1.09%) New Relic
13 20 (1.09%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.93%) Jaspersoft
15 13 (0.71%) Foundry
16 12 (0.65%) NVIDIA