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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 52 63
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 -13
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,977 1,417 1,365
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.75% 4.36% 3.23%
As % of the System Software category 37.98% 36.83% 28.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,312 951 1,020
10th Percentile £381 £375 £400
25th Percentile £438 £438 £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 £690 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 12 12
10th Percentile £55.00 £62.13 £47.08
25th Percentile £58.43 £66.63 £59.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -7.90% -1.69%
75th Percentile £77.50 £82.19 £85.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.13 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -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 5,205 3,847 4,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.88% 11.83% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,438 2,483 3,261
10th Percentile £220 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £379 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £673 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 102 202
10th Percentile £14.68 £13.87 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.33 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £33.39 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +52.76% +40.27% -52.40%
75th Percentile £74.00 £71.13 £58.69
90th Percentile £79.30 £91.31 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £61.50 £22.40
% change year-on-year -17.07% +174.55% -17.80%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -7 1,666 £525 - 517
UK excluding London -1 839 £500 - 351
London -5 838 £550 +3.77% 245
Work from Home -7 632 £525 - 269
North of England +12 321 £488 -2.50% 103
Midlands -5 178 £499 +5.00% 37
West Midlands -4 156 £499 -0.25% 27
Yorkshire +14 154 £500 - 23
South West +5 128 £550 - 58
South East -31 124 £525 +5.00% 110
North West -26 118 £550 +12.53% 56
Scotland -7 55 £450 -4.66% 8
North East +2 53 £425 +4.29% 25
East of England -20 30 £550 +12.24% 20
East Midlands -25 20 £450 +4.77% 10
Wales -12 15 £588 +23.68% 13
Northern Ireland +3 3 £375 -31.82% 7

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
1 108 (5.46%) Apache Spark
2 106 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
3 104 (5.26%) Confluence
4 82 (4.15%) Apache
5 30 (1.52%) SAS
6 29 (1.47%) Jupyter
6 29 (1.47%) nginx
7 14 (0.71%) Tomcat
8 11 (0.56%) Camunda
9 9 (0.46%) WebLogic
9 9 (0.46%) WebSphere
10 8 (0.40%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.35%) WordPress
12 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.25%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.20%) Appian
13 4 (0.20%) CMS
14 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.40%) CPLEX
2 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.10%) Trello
5 1 (0.051%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.051%) Maya
5 1 (0.051%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.051%) Notion
5 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
Cloud Services
1 1,203 (60.85%) AWS
2 877 (44.36%) Azure
3 482 (24.38%) GitHub
4 409 (20.69%) GCP
5 370 (18.72%) GitHub Actions
6 278 (14.06%) Serverless
7 239 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
8 222 (11.23%) Amazon S3
9 182 (9.21%) AWS Lambda
10 177 (8.95%) Amazon EKS
11 156 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
12 150 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 132 (6.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 132 (6.68%) Amazon ECS
14 107 (5.41%) Azure AKS
15 87 (4.40%) OpenShift
16 81 (4.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 71 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
18 59 (2.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 50 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 58 (2.93%) Firewall
2 41 (2.07%) DNS
3 27 (1.37%) Network Security
4 25 (1.26%) HTTP
5 22 (1.11%) DHCP
6 21 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 21 (1.06%) VPN
7 15 (0.76%) Internet
8 10 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
9 9 (0.46%) 3GPP
9 9 (0.46%) Wireshark
10 7 (0.35%) MQTT
10 7 (0.35%) SMTP
10 7 (0.35%) VSAN
11 6 (0.30%) RTP
11 6 (0.30%) SSL
12 5 (0.25%) IPv4
12 5 (0.25%) IPv6
13 4 (0.20%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (16.79%) PostgreSQL
2 159 (8.04%) MongoDB
2 159 (8.04%) NoSQL
3 138 (6.98%) Relational Database
4 97 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
5 88 (4.45%) SQL Server
6 72 (3.64%) Redis
7 69 (3.49%) DynamoDB
8 55 (2.78%) Big Data
9 48 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
9 48 (2.43%) MySQL
10 47 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
11 37 (1.87%) BigQuery
12 35 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
13 32 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
14 31 (1.57%) Data Lake
15 30 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
16 27 (1.37%) Flink
17 25 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
18 19 (0.96%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 540 (27.31%) Jenkins
2 442 (22.36%) Git
3 401 (20.28%) GitLab
4 173 (8.75%) JIRA
5 107 (5.41%) JUnit
6 80 (4.05%) Selenium
7 69 (3.49%) Maven
8 61 (3.09%) Mockito
8 61 (3.09%) SonarQube
9 50 (2.53%) Gradle
10 49 (2.48%) Cucumber
11 46 (2.33%) JMeter
12 45 (2.28%) Gatling
13 44 (2.23%) MLflow
14 39 (1.97%) Bitbucket
15 35 (1.77%) REST Assured
16 27 (1.37%) Liquibase
17 23 (1.16%) Postman
18 21 (1.06%) Artifactory
18 21 (1.06%) WebDriver
General
1 445 (22.51%) Social Skills
2 371 (18.77%) Public Sector
3 272 (13.76%) Finance
4 170 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 130 (6.58%) Banking
6 51 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (1.62%) Retail
8 30 (1.52%) Military
9 26 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (1.21%) Law
11 20 (1.01%) Investment Banking
12 18 (0.91%) Legal
12 18 (0.91%) Publishing
13 16 (0.81%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (0.76%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.61%) Police
16 11 (0.56%) Front Office
17 9 (0.46%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 595 (30.10%) Developer
2 347 (17.55%) Senior
3 307 (15.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 210 (10.62%) Java Developer
5 163 (8.24%) Lead
6 150 (7.59%) Software Engineer
7 125 (6.32%) Architect
8 122 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
9 121 (6.12%) Senior Developer
10 118 (5.97%) Python Developer
11 103 (5.21%) Data Engineer
12 94 (4.75%) Full-Stack Developer
13 87 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
14 85 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
15 81 (4.10%) Java Engineer
16 77 (3.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 70 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
18 67 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
19 66 (3.34%) Python Engineer
20 53 (2.68%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 400 (20.23%) Spring
2 337 (17.05%) Spring Boot
3 331 (16.74%) Kafka
4 297 (15.02%) REST
5 284 (14.37%) RESTful
6 248 (12.54%) React
7 185 (9.36%) Node.js
8 152 (7.69%) .NET
9 116 (5.87%) AngularJS
10 112 (5.67%) FastAPI
11 98 (4.96%) OAuth
12 81 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
13 75 (3.79%) HTML
14 74 (3.74%) CSS
14 74 (3.74%) Flask
15 72 (3.64%) Playwright
16 67 (3.39%) OAuth2
17 62 (3.14%) Django
18 61 (3.09%) OpenTelemetry
18 61 (3.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 432 (21.85%) Cloud Native
2 230 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 56 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
5 55 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 43 (2.18%) AI Agents
6 43 (2.18%) Algorithms
7 40 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 37 (1.87%) PKI
9 32 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 31 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
11 30 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.42%) Data Structures
12 28 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
13 27 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
14 26 (1.32%) Security Posture
15 24 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
15 24 (1.21%) Public Cloud
16 23 (1.16%) Data Centre
17 22 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 332 (16.79%) Linux
2 101 (5.11%) Windows
3 59 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (2.48%) Unix
5 40 (2.02%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.66%) VMS
8 10 (0.51%) Android
8 10 (0.51%) Solaris
8 10 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.30%) CentOS
12 5 (0.25%) Rocky
12 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (0.20%) Debian
14 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.051%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,525 (77.14%) CI/CD
2 1,093 (55.29%) DevOps
3 1,070 (54.12%) Containerisation
4 782 (39.55%) Agile
5 722 (36.52%) Microservices
6 662 (33.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 412 (20.84%) Observability
8 410 (20.74%) Test Automation
9 406 (20.54%) Software Engineering
10 366 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
11 314 (15.88%) AI
12 269 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 258 (13.05%) Event-Driven
14 256 (12.95%) Scrum
15 250 (12.65%) Full-Stack Development
16 225 (11.38%) Data Pipeline
17 224 (11.33%) Machine Learning
18 209 (10.57%) Platform Engineering
19 201 (10.17%) TDD
20 177 (8.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 891 (45.07%) Python
2 609 (30.80%) Java
3 498 (25.19%) SQL
4 242 (12.24%) JavaScript
5 234 (11.84%) Bash
6 227 (11.48%) TypeScript
7 180 (9.10%) C#
8 146 (7.38%) PowerShell
9 98 (4.96%) Go
10 72 (3.64%) Bicep
11 56 (2.83%) Shell Script
12 42 (2.12%) Scala
13 26 (1.32%) PL/SQL
14 25 (1.26%) Groovy
15 21 (1.06%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.91%) Ruby
17 17 (0.86%) C++
18 15 (0.76%) C
18 15 (0.76%) PHP
19 11 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 782 (39.55%) Security Cleared
2 656 (33.18%) SC Cleared
3 128 (6.47%) Degree
4 126 (6.37%) DV Cleared
5 95 (4.81%) AWS Certification
6 85 (4.30%) Azure Certification
7 82 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 67 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 22 (1.11%) CISSP
11 20 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 15 (0.76%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
17 10 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 10 (0.51%) CCNA
18 9 (0.46%) PhD
19 8 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (6.42%) QA
2 98 (4.96%) Accessibility
3 72 (3.64%) Data Quality
4 37 (1.87%) WCAG
5 30 (1.52%) GDPR
5 30 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (1.26%) NIST
7 17 (0.86%) NCSC
8 9 (0.46%) ISO 20022
9 8 (0.40%) PSD2
10 7 (0.35%) SEPA
11 6 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 6 (0.30%) SLA
12 5 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.25%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.20%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 52 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.32%) Hyper-V
3 26 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (0.71%) vSphere
6 11 (0.56%) Postfix
7 9 (0.46%) KVM
7 9 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (0.35%) BitLocker
8 7 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.15%) Firmware
11 3 (0.15%) HDFS
11 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.10%) GPFS
12 2 (0.10%) NFS
12 2 (0.10%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 1,393 (70.46%) Kubernetes
2 722 (36.52%) Terraform
3 306 (15.48%) Grafana
4 283 (14.31%) Prometheus
5 233 (11.79%) Ansible
6 48 (2.43%) Argo
7 46 (2.33%) Puppet
8 38 (1.92%) Progress Chef
9 26 (1.32%) Kibana
10 24 (1.21%) Istio
11 23 (1.16%) Podman
12 17 (0.86%) Control-M
12 17 (0.86%) IBM Guardium
12 17 (0.86%) Nessus
12 17 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 16 (0.81%) Packer
14 14 (0.71%) Kustomize
15 11 (0.56%) HAProxy
15 11 (0.56%) linkerd
16 10 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 233 (11.79%) Microsoft
2 111 (5.61%) Oracle
3 104 (5.26%) Google
4 92 (4.65%) Splunk
5 63 (3.19%) Databricks
6 59 (2.98%) VMware
7 57 (2.88%) Dynatrace
8 46 (2.33%) Red Hat
9 40 (2.02%) OpenAI
10 33 (1.67%) IBM
11 24 (1.21%) ServiceNow
12 23 (1.16%) Tenable
13 22 (1.11%) Atlassian
14 20 (1.01%) New Relic
15 17 (0.86%) Denodo
15 17 (0.86%) Jaspersoft
15 17 (0.86%) Talend
15 17 (0.86%) Trend Micro
16 13 (0.66%) AppDynamics
17 12 (0.61%) Confluent