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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 54 61
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,959 1,438 1,334
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.73% 4.38% 3.35%
As % of the System Software category 37.95% 37.51% 29.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,312 949 990
10th Percentile £381 £375 £400
25th Percentile £442 £440 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -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 40 12 9
10th Percentile £54.63 £62.13 £60.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £66.63 £63.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -16.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £75.50 £82.19 £85.00
90th Percentile £95.38 £92.13 £86.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -16.25% +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 5,162 3,834 4,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.82% 11.68% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,401 2,459 3,138
10th Percentile £225 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £383 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £603
90th Percentile £675 £683 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 103 161
10th Percentile £13.97 £13.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.06 £17.33 £15.65
Median hourly rate £51.75 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +72.50% +26.05% -52.40%
75th Percentile £73.94 £75.60 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.25 £91.20 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -11.30% +167.44% -21.82%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 1,656 £525 +0.48% 852
UK excluding London 0 841 £500 - 519
London -3 828 £550 +3.77% 438
Work from Home -8 627 £525 - 436
North of England +7 319 £488 -2.50% 159
Midlands -7 171 £500 +5.26% 59
West Midlands -7 152 £496 -0.75% 41
Yorkshire +10 150 £500 - 29
South East -27 130 £525 +10.53% 139
South West +12 125 £575 +4.55% 94
North West -29 114 £525 +5.00% 99
North East -3 57 £425 - 32
Scotland -14 57 £450 -9.27% 21
East of England -13 33 £550 +12.24% 29
East Midlands -25 17 £500 +16.41% 18
Wales -16 15 £650 +36.84% 12
Northern Ireland +2 3 £375 -31.82% 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
1 110 (5.62%) Apache Spark
2 108 (5.51%) Apache Airflow
3 103 (5.26%) Confluence
4 86 (4.39%) Apache
5 33 (1.68%) SAS
6 28 (1.43%) Jupyter
7 24 (1.23%) nginx
8 11 (0.56%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.46%) WebLogic
9 9 (0.46%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.26%) Camunda
10 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.26%) SharePoint
10 5 (0.26%) WordPress
11 4 (0.20%) CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.41%) CPLEX
3 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.15%) Trello
6 1 (0.051%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.051%) Maya
6 1 (0.051%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.051%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.051%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.051%) Magento
3 1 (0.051%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.051%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.051%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.051%) Shopify
3 1 (0.051%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.051%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.051%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,197 (61.10%) AWS
2 884 (45.13%) Azure
3 488 (24.91%) GitHub
4 408 (20.83%) GCP
5 375 (19.14%) GitHub Actions
6 264 (13.48%) Serverless
7 252 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
8 206 (10.52%) Amazon S3
9 187 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
10 171 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
11 152 (7.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 139 (7.10%) Amazon EC2
13 130 (6.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 128 (6.53%) Amazon ECS
15 108 (5.51%) Azure AKS
16 81 (4.13%) OpenShift
17 79 (4.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 72 (3.68%) Amazon SQS
19 58 (2.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 54 (2.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 63 (3.22%) Firewall
2 46 (2.35%) DNS
3 27 (1.38%) Network Security
4 25 (1.28%) DHCP
4 25 (1.28%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.07%) VPN
6 20 (1.02%) HTTP
7 17 (0.87%) Internet
8 11 (0.56%) Wireshark
9 10 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
9 10 (0.51%) VSAN
10 9 (0.46%) 3GPP
11 8 (0.41%) SSL
12 7 (0.36%) MQTT
12 7 (0.36%) RTP
12 7 (0.36%) SMTP
13 5 (0.26%) IPv4
13 5 (0.26%) IPv6
14 4 (0.20%) BGP
14 4 (0.20%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 341 (17.41%) PostgreSQL
2 162 (8.27%) NoSQL
3 161 (8.22%) MongoDB
4 137 (6.99%) Relational Database
5 85 (4.34%) SQL Server
6 84 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
7 74 (3.78%) Redis
8 70 (3.57%) DynamoDB
9 58 (2.96%) MySQL
10 51 (2.60%) Big Data
11 48 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
12 43 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
13 39 (1.99%) BigQuery
14 32 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
14 32 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
15 31 (1.58%) Data Lake
16 30 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
17 29 (1.48%) Flink
18 27 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
19 21 (1.07%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 546 (27.87%) Jenkins
2 457 (23.33%) Git
3 400 (20.42%) GitLab
4 163 (8.32%) JIRA
5 108 (5.51%) JUnit
6 80 (4.08%) Selenium
7 73 (3.73%) Maven
8 66 (3.37%) Mockito
9 65 (3.32%) SonarQube
10 50 (2.55%) Cucumber
10 50 (2.55%) JMeter
11 49 (2.50%) Gradle
12 43 (2.19%) Gatling
13 42 (2.14%) Bitbucket
14 38 (1.94%) MLflow
15 30 (1.53%) REST Assured
16 26 (1.33%) Liquibase
17 23 (1.17%) Cypress.io
17 23 (1.17%) Postman
18 22 (1.12%) Artifactory
General
1 438 (22.36%) Social Skills
2 384 (19.60%) Public Sector
3 270 (13.78%) Finance
4 168 (8.58%) Analytical Skills
5 128 (6.53%) Banking
6 51 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (1.79%) Retail
8 33 (1.68%) Military
9 25 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (1.23%) Law
11 19 (0.97%) Investment Banking
11 19 (0.97%) Publishing
12 18 (0.92%) Legal
12 18 (0.92%) Telecoms
13 17 (0.87%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.61%) Police
16 11 (0.56%) Front Office
16 11 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 590 (30.12%) Developer
2 347 (17.71%) Senior
3 295 (15.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 210 (10.72%) Java Developer
5 171 (8.73%) Lead
6 150 (7.66%) Software Engineer
7 124 (6.33%) Senior Developer
8 123 (6.28%) Architect
9 115 (5.87%) AWS Engineer
9 115 (5.87%) Python Developer
10 110 (5.62%) Data Engineer
11 96 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
12 88 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
13 81 (4.13%) Java Engineer
14 80 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
15 72 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
16 70 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 68 (3.47%) Python Engineer
18 66 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
19 53 (2.71%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (19.86%) Spring
2 341 (17.41%) Kafka
3 325 (16.59%) Spring Boot
4 309 (15.77%) REST
5 293 (14.96%) RESTful
6 243 (12.40%) React
7 189 (9.65%) Node.js
8 149 (7.61%) .NET
9 111 (5.67%) AngularJS
10 105 (5.36%) FastAPI
11 92 (4.70%) OAuth
12 84 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
13 83 (4.24%) CSS
13 83 (4.24%) HTML
14 78 (3.98%) Flask
15 69 (3.52%) Playwright
16 67 (3.42%) OAuth2
17 64 (3.27%) Django
18 63 (3.22%) JSON
19 60 (3.06%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 441 (22.51%) Cloud Native
2 239 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
3 113 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 59 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
5 52 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
6 50 (2.55%) AI Agents
7 42 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 40 (2.04%) Algorithms
8 40 (2.04%) PKI
9 32 (1.63%) Management Information System
10 30 (1.53%) Security Posture
11 29 (1.48%) Data Structures
11 29 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
12 28 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
12 28 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
13 27 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
14 26 (1.33%) Data Centre
15 23 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
16 22 (1.12%) Public Cloud
16 22 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 327 (16.69%) Linux
2 105 (5.36%) Windows
3 59 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 52 (2.65%) Unix
5 40 (2.04%) Windows Server
6 20 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.66%) VMS
8 9 (0.46%) Android
9 7 (0.36%) Solaris
10 6 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.26%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.26%) CentOS
11 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (0.20%) Debian
12 4 (0.20%) Rocky
12 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.10%) SUSE
14 1 (0.051%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,523 (77.74%) CI/CD
2 1,091 (55.69%) DevOps
3 1,048 (53.50%) Containerisation
4 803 (40.99%) Agile
5 720 (36.75%) Microservices
6 689 (35.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 415 (21.18%) Observability
7 415 (21.18%) Software Engineering
8 413 (21.08%) Test Automation
9 360 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
10 326 (16.64%) AI
11 285 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 274 (13.99%) Event-Driven
13 266 (13.58%) Scrum
14 257 (13.12%) Full-Stack Development
15 226 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
16 219 (11.18%) Machine Learning
17 217 (11.08%) Platform Engineering
18 209 (10.67%) TDD
19 192 (9.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 893 (45.58%) Python
2 606 (30.93%) Java
3 493 (25.17%) SQL
4 251 (12.81%) Bash
5 250 (12.76%) JavaScript
6 232 (11.84%) TypeScript
7 174 (8.88%) C#
8 157 (8.01%) PowerShell
9 83 (4.24%) Go
10 79 (4.03%) Bicep
11 54 (2.76%) Shell Script
12 41 (2.09%) Scala
13 26 (1.33%) Groovy
14 25 (1.28%) PL/SQL
15 21 (1.07%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.87%) C++
16 17 (0.87%) Ruby
17 16 (0.82%) C
18 13 (0.66%) PHP
19 10 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 779 (39.77%) Security Cleared
2 654 (33.38%) SC Cleared
3 126 (6.43%) DV Cleared
4 122 (6.23%) Degree
5 98 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 86 (4.39%) Azure Certification
7 78 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 60 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (1.38%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.23%) CISSP
11 22 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 18 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 15 (0.77%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.61%) PhD
17 11 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
18 10 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 10 (0.51%) CCNA
19 8 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (6.94%) QA
2 101 (5.16%) Accessibility
3 78 (3.98%) Data Quality
4 40 (2.04%) WCAG
5 30 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.38%) GDPR
7 25 (1.28%) NIST
8 18 (0.92%) NCSC
9 8 (0.41%) ISO 20022
9 8 (0.41%) PSD2
10 7 (0.36%) SEPA
11 6 (0.31%) SLA
12 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.20%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.15%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 55 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 50 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.53%) Hyper-V
4 29 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.82%) vSphere
6 15 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.56%) Postfix
7 11 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.46%) KVM
8 9 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (0.36%) 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
11 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.10%) GridGain
12 2 (0.10%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 1,383 (70.60%) Kubernetes
2 726 (37.06%) Terraform
3 289 (14.75%) Grafana
4 261 (13.32%) Prometheus
5 242 (12.35%) Ansible
6 50 (2.55%) Argo
7 47 (2.40%) Puppet
8 39 (1.99%) Progress Chef
9 25 (1.28%) Kibana
9 25 (1.28%) Podman
10 23 (1.17%) Istio
11 16 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (0.71%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.71%) Packer
13 12 (0.61%) Control-M
13 12 (0.61%) IBM Guardium
13 12 (0.61%) Nessus
14 11 (0.56%) HAProxy
14 11 (0.56%) linkerd
15 9 (0.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 229 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 114 (5.82%) Google
3 110 (5.62%) Oracle
4 94 (4.80%) Splunk
5 65 (3.32%) Dynatrace
6 63 (3.22%) VMware
7 62 (3.16%) Databricks
8 48 (2.45%) Red Hat
9 44 (2.25%) OpenAI
10 32 (1.63%) IBM
11 26 (1.33%) New Relic
11 26 (1.33%) ServiceNow
12 22 (1.12%) Atlassian
13 20 (1.02%) Denodo
13 20 (1.02%) Talend
14 18 (0.92%) Tenable
15 17 (0.87%) Jaspersoft
15 17 (0.87%) Trend Micro
16 16 (0.82%) AppDynamics
17 13 (0.66%) Confluent