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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 40 53
Rank change year-on-year -19 +13 +4
Contract jobs citing Docker 2,057 1,671 1,421
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.77% 5.05% 3.75%
As % of the System Software category 38.13% 41.56% 32.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,425 1,089 979
10th Percentile £367 £378 £375
25th Percentile £430 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 11 6
10th Percentile £55.00 £61.25 £66.25
25th Percentile £62.31 £63.63 £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -16.25% +9.59%
75th Percentile £85.00 £73.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £95.00 £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.00 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +5.97% -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 5,394 4,021 4,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.89% 12.14% 11.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,559 2,554 2,823
10th Percentile £225 £211 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £670 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 124 95
10th Percentile £16.40 £14.12 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £17.36 £20.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £30.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.33% -3.23% -35.28%
75th Percentile £74.00 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £88.53 £84.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £58.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +7.92% +17.00% +25.00%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -22 1,693 £525 - 2,429
London -17 872 £550 - 1,379
UK excluding London -25 868 £500 - 1,212
Work from Home -12 661 £526 +5.10% 1,097
North of England -17 305 £475 - 324
Midlands -40 151 £475 -9.52% 120
South East -14 143 £541 +15.93% 236
Yorkshire -12 131 £500 - 78
South West +6 128 £550 -10.20% 206
West Midlands -36 126 £475 -10.71% 79
North West -44 111 £500 +11.11% 200
Scotland -24 78 £450 -10.00% 127
North East -4 66 £425 -11.69% 50
East of England -9 50 £475 -11.63% 99
East Midlands -7 24 £463 +7.81% 41
Wales -5 20 £525 +10.53% 31
Northern Ireland +3 3 £375 - 71

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
1 118 (5.74%) Apache Spark
2 117 (5.69%) Apache Airflow
3 106 (5.15%) Apache
4 103 (5.01%) Confluence
5 33 (1.60%) Jupyter
5 33 (1.60%) nginx
6 17 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.63%) SAS
7 13 (0.63%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.49%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.39%) Camunda
9 8 (0.39%) Traefik
9 8 (0.39%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.29%) IIS
11 5 (0.24%) WordPress
12 4 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.15%) MQSeries
Applications
1 10 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.29%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.19%) Trello
4 2 (0.097%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.049%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.049%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.049%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.15%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.097%) Finacle
4 2 (0.097%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.049%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.049%) Magento
5 1 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.049%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.049%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.049%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.049%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,245 (60.53%) AWS
2 931 (45.26%) Azure
3 553 (26.88%) GitHub
4 425 (20.66%) GCP
5 393 (19.11%) GitHub Actions
6 303 (14.73%) Azure DevOps
7 268 (13.03%) Serverless
8 222 (10.79%) Amazon S3
9 205 (9.97%) Amazon EKS
10 192 (9.33%) AWS Lambda
11 160 (7.78%) Amazon ECS
12 158 (7.68%) AWS CloudFormation
13 150 (7.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 134 (6.51%) Amazon EC2
15 113 (5.49%) Azure AKS
16 105 (5.10%) OpenShift
17 84 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
18 81 (3.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 71 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 68 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.99%) Firewall
2 72 (3.50%) DNS
3 38 (1.85%) Network Security
4 37 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 28 (1.36%) DHCP
6 26 (1.26%) HTTP
7 25 (1.22%) VPN
8 20 (0.97%) Internet
9 18 (0.88%) SSL
10 15 (0.73%) 4G
11 14 (0.68%) 5G
12 13 (0.63%) SSH
13 12 (0.58%) VSAN
14 11 (0.53%) Wireshark
15 10 (0.49%) BGP
15 10 (0.49%) RTP
16 9 (0.44%) Broadband
16 9 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.39%) HTTPS
17 8 (0.39%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (17.26%) PostgreSQL
2 208 (10.11%) MongoDB
3 171 (8.31%) NoSQL
4 138 (6.71%) Relational Database
5 108 (5.25%) Amazon RDS
6 96 (4.67%) MySQL
7 90 (4.38%) Redis
8 82 (3.99%) SQL Server
9 56 (2.72%) DynamoDB
10 43 (2.09%) Amazon Aurora
10 43 (2.09%) Big Data
11 42 (2.04%) BigQuery
11 42 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
12 40 (1.94%) Data Lake
13 38 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
14 31 (1.51%) Flink
15 27 (1.31%) Delta Lake
16 25 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
16 25 (1.22%) Metadata
17 24 (1.17%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 598 (29.07%) Jenkins
2 593 (28.83%) Git
3 482 (23.43%) GitLab
4 157 (7.63%) JIRA
5 122 (5.93%) JUnit
6 120 (5.83%) Selenium
7 98 (4.76%) Cucumber
8 96 (4.67%) Maven
9 85 (4.13%) SonarQube
10 68 (3.31%) Gradle
11 65 (3.16%) Mockito
12 63 (3.06%) Gatling
13 47 (2.28%) Bitbucket
14 38 (1.85%) JMeter
15 34 (1.65%) REST Assured
16 33 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
17 26 (1.26%) Cypress.io
17 26 (1.26%) Postman
18 25 (1.22%) Claude Code
19 20 (0.97%) MLflow
General
1 482 (23.43%) Social Skills
2 375 (18.23%) Public Sector
3 276 (13.42%) Finance
4 195 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
5 154 (7.49%) Banking
6 64 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (1.75%) Military
8 35 (1.70%) Telecoms
9 34 (1.65%) Retail
10 28 (1.36%) Investment Banking
11 22 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (1.02%) Law
13 18 (0.88%) Publishing
14 17 (0.83%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
16 15 (0.73%) Legal
16 15 (0.73%) Local Government
17 14 (0.68%) Aerospace
18 13 (0.63%) Front Office
18 13 (0.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 555 (26.98%) Developer
2 382 (18.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 380 (18.47%) Senior
4 208 (10.11%) Java Developer
5 202 (9.82%) Lead
6 128 (6.22%) Software Engineer
7 124 (6.03%) AWS Engineer
8 110 (5.35%) Architect
9 106 (5.15%) Senior Developer
10 103 (5.01%) Python Developer
11 102 (4.96%) Data Engineer
12 99 (4.81%) AWS DevOps
13 92 (4.47%) Azure Engineer
14 91 (4.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 86 (4.18%) Full-Stack Developer
16 81 (3.94%) Java Engineer
17 80 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
18 73 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
19 72 (3.50%) Python Engineer
20 65 (3.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 851 (41.37%) Terraform
2 404 (19.64%) Spring
3 397 (19.30%) REST
4 388 (18.86%) Kafka
5 334 (16.24%) Spring Boot
6 307 (14.92%) RESTful
7 259 (12.59%) React
8 145 (7.05%) Node.js
9 139 (6.76%) .NET
10 119 (5.79%) HTML
11 117 (5.69%) AngularJS
12 114 (5.54%) CSS
13 113 (5.49%) FastAPI
14 103 (5.01%) Playwright
15 102 (4.96%) OAuth
16 94 (4.57%) RabbitMQ
17 82 (3.99%) pytest
18 77 (3.74%) Flask
19 73 (3.55%) OAuth2
20 66 (3.21%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 506 (24.60%) Cloud Native
2 221 (10.74%) Distributed Systems
3 158 (7.68%) Product Ownership
4 89 (4.33%) AI Agents
5 88 (4.28%) Enterprise Software
6 60 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 48 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (2.28%) Security Posture
9 46 (2.24%) PKI
10 36 (1.75%) Data Centre
10 36 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 30 (1.46%) Data Structures
11 30 (1.46%) Replication
12 27 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
13 26 (1.26%) Algorithms
13 26 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
13 26 (1.26%) Management Information System
14 25 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
15 24 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 397 (19.30%) Linux
2 131 (6.37%) Windows
3 80 (3.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 63 (3.06%) Unix
5 44 (2.14%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.51%) Ubuntu
7 19 (0.92%) VMS
8 11 (0.53%) CentOS
9 10 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (0.39%) Rocky
11 6 (0.29%) Android
12 5 (0.24%) macOS
12 5 (0.24%) Solaris
13 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.15%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.15%) Debian
14 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
15 2 (0.097%) AIX
15 2 (0.097%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,673 (81.33%) CI/CD
2 1,183 (57.51%) DevOps
3 1,039 (50.51%) Containerisation
4 880 (42.78%) Agile
5 822 (39.96%) Infrastructure as Code
6 707 (34.37%) Microservices
7 527 (25.62%) Test Automation
8 471 (22.90%) Software Engineering
9 451 (21.93%) Observability
10 387 (18.81%) AI
11 375 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
12 356 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 323 (15.70%) Event-Driven
14 305 (14.83%) Scrum
15 262 (12.74%) Platform Engineering
16 255 (12.40%) DevSecOps
17 245 (11.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 239 (11.62%) Technical Leadership
19 222 (10.79%) Deployment Automation
20 220 (10.70%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,000 (48.61%) Python
2 693 (33.69%) Java
3 476 (23.14%) SQL
4 359 (17.45%) Bash
5 287 (13.95%) JavaScript
6 250 (12.15%) TypeScript
7 206 (10.01%) PowerShell
8 147 (7.15%) C#
9 111 (5.40%) Bicep
10 76 (3.69%) Go
11 75 (3.65%) Shell Script
12 65 (3.16%) Scala
13 54 (2.63%) Groovy
14 25 (1.22%) Kotlin
14 25 (1.22%) PL/SQL
15 16 (0.78%) C++
16 15 (0.73%) Perl
17 11 (0.53%) PHP
18 10 (0.49%) C
19 9 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 846 (41.13%) Security Cleared
2 708 (34.42%) SC Cleared
3 151 (7.34%) DV Cleared
4 122 (5.93%) Degree
5 116 (5.64%) AWS Certification
6 113 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 85 (4.13%) Azure Certification
8 65 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (1.36%) CISSP
10 26 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 25 (1.22%) Master's Degree
12 23 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 15 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.58%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.44%) PhD
17 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 8 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
18 7 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 7 (0.34%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (10.16%) QA
2 120 (5.83%) Accessibility
3 75 (3.65%) Data Quality
4 53 (2.58%) WCAG
5 24 (1.17%) NIST
6 21 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (0.97%) NCSC
8 19 (0.92%) GDPR
9 10 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 9 (0.44%) SEPA
11 8 (0.39%) PSD2
12 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.34%) SLA
13 5 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (0.24%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.19%) ISO 15022
15 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.15%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
16 2 (0.097%) NIST 800
System Software
1 57 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 52 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (1.26%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.92%) VMware NSX
5 19 (0.92%) vSphere
6 10 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.34%) KVM
7 7 (0.34%) NFS
8 6 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.24%) Postfix
9 5 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.19%) GPFS
10 4 (0.19%) HDFS
11 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.097%) Firmware
12 2 (0.097%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,507 (73.26%) Kubernetes
2 309 (15.02%) Grafana
3 290 (14.10%) Ansible
4 240 (11.67%) Prometheus
5 58 (2.82%) Kibana
6 56 (2.72%) Argo
7 42 (2.04%) Puppet
8 38 (1.85%) Progress Chef
9 28 (1.36%) Podman
10 25 (1.22%) Istio
11 14 (0.68%) Packer
11 14 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (0.63%) Karpenter
13 12 (0.58%) Kustomize
14 11 (0.53%) Nessus
14 11 (0.53%) VxRail
15 10 (0.49%) Control-M
15 10 (0.49%) systemd
16 9 (0.44%) HAProxy
17 8 (0.39%) Nagios
Vendors
1 248 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 172 (8.36%) Google
3 135 (6.56%) Oracle
4 104 (5.06%) Splunk
5 89 (4.33%) Databricks
6 76 (3.69%) Dynatrace
7 67 (3.26%) VMware
8 59 (2.87%) OpenAI
9 52 (2.53%) Red Hat
10 47 (2.28%) ServiceNow
11 44 (2.14%) IBM
12 32 (1.56%) New Relic
13 26 (1.26%) Foundry
14 20 (0.97%) webMethods
15 18 (0.88%) Trend Micro
16 17 (0.83%) Cisco
17 16 (0.78%) AppDynamics
18 15 (0.73%) Confluent
19 14 (0.68%) CyberArk
20 13 (0.63%) Tenable