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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 53 64
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 -12
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,962 1,394 1,372
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.76% 4.36% 3.18%
As % of the System Software category 38.09% 36.40% 28.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,314 945 1,027
10th Percentile £381 £381 £400
25th Percentile £435 £440 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £650
90th Percentile £687 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 8 12
10th Percentile £53.50 £26.83 £47.08
25th Percentile £58.43 £52.81 £59.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £79.35 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +9.07% -
75th Percentile £75.00 £89.69 £85.00
90th Percentile £84.25 £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 5,151 3,830 4,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.87% 11.99% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,435 2,489 3,330
10th Percentile £213 £225 £210
25th Percentile £400 £375 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £669 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £482
% change year-on-year - -1.45% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 92 213
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.87 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.86 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +80.53% +18.70% -54.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.63 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £91.23 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £56.19 £22.50
% change year-on-year -9.23% +149.72% -18.18%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -3 1,674 £525 - 642
London -3 862 £550 +3.77% 273
UK excluding London -1 816 £500 - 461
Work from Home -11 612 £518 -1.43% 442
North of England +6 328 £481 -3.88% 113
Midlands -4 180 £500 +5.26% 43
Yorkshire +14 158 £500 - 25
West Midlands -1 155 £506 +1.00% 28
North West -25 120 £525 +5.00% 67
South West +3 117 £550 - 81
South East -39 111 £525 +5.00% 143
North East 0 56 £425 -2.86% 22
Scotland -13 50 £450 -4.66% 17
East of England -22 24 £550 +12.24% 24
East Midlands -19 23 £450 +4.90% 15
Wales -13 17 £525 +10.53% 23
Northern Ireland +8 4 £375 -31.82% 24

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 (5.61%) Apache Spark
2 106 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (5.40%) Confluence
3 84 (4.28%) Apache
4 33 (1.68%) Jupyter
4 33 (1.68%) SAS
5 29 (1.48%) nginx
6 13 (0.66%) Tomcat
7 11 (0.56%) Camunda
8 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.41%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.36%) WebLogic
9 7 (0.36%) WordPress
10 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.31%) SharePoint
11 5 (0.25%) Appian
12 4 (0.20%) CMS
13 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.41%) CPLEX
2 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.051%) Maya
5 1 (0.051%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.051%) Notion
5 1 (0.051%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.051%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.10%) Shopify
3 1 (0.051%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.051%) Magento
3 1 (0.051%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.051%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,183 (60.30%) AWS
2 859 (43.78%) Azure
3 471 (24.01%) GitHub
4 393 (20.03%) GCP
5 353 (17.99%) GitHub Actions
6 275 (14.02%) Serverless
7 237 (12.08%) Azure DevOps
8 219 (11.16%) Amazon S3
9 179 (9.12%) AWS Lambda
10 171 (8.72%) Amazon EKS
11 157 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
12 156 (7.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 131 (6.68%) Amazon ECS
14 130 (6.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 108 (5.50%) Azure AKS
16 85 (4.33%) OpenShift
17 81 (4.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 66 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
19 61 (3.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 49 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.70%) Firewall
2 32 (1.63%) DNS
3 26 (1.33%) Network Security
4 24 (1.22%) HTTP
5 22 (1.12%) VPN
6 15 (0.76%) DHCP
7 14 (0.71%) Internet
8 12 (0.61%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
10 9 (0.46%) 3GPP
11 8 (0.41%) SMTP
11 8 (0.41%) Wireshark
12 7 (0.36%) MQTT
13 6 (0.31%) RTP
13 6 (0.31%) SSL
14 5 (0.25%) IPv4
14 5 (0.25%) IPv6
15 4 (0.20%) AMQP
15 4 (0.20%) OpenLDAP
16 3 (0.15%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (16.56%) PostgreSQL
2 166 (8.46%) NoSQL
3 156 (7.95%) MongoDB
4 135 (6.88%) Relational Database
5 102 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
6 93 (4.74%) SQL Server
7 71 (3.62%) DynamoDB
8 69 (3.52%) Redis
9 55 (2.80%) Big Data
10 48 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
11 46 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
12 45 (2.29%) MySQL
13 36 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
14 35 (1.78%) BigQuery
15 33 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
16 31 (1.58%) Data Lake
17 29 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
18 27 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
19 25 (1.27%) Flink
20 19 (0.97%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 530 (27.01%) Jenkins
2 419 (21.36%) Git
3 405 (20.64%) GitLab
4 176 (8.97%) JIRA
5 108 (5.50%) JUnit
6 76 (3.87%) Selenium
7 61 (3.11%) Mockito
8 59 (3.01%) SonarQube
9 57 (2.91%) Maven
10 47 (2.40%) Cucumber
11 46 (2.34%) JMeter
12 45 (2.29%) MLflow
13 42 (2.14%) Gatling
14 37 (1.89%) Gradle
15 34 (1.73%) Bitbucket
15 34 (1.73%) REST Assured
16 27 (1.38%) Liquibase
17 22 (1.12%) Artifactory
17 22 (1.12%) Postman
18 21 (1.07%) WebDriver
General
1 441 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 371 (18.91%) Public Sector
3 280 (14.27%) Finance
4 161 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
5 132 (6.73%) Banking
6 50 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (1.53%) Military
8 29 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (1.33%) Retail
10 24 (1.22%) Law
11 22 (1.12%) Investment Banking
12 18 (0.92%) Legal
12 18 (0.92%) Publishing
13 17 (0.87%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (0.71%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.56%) Front Office
17 11 (0.56%) Police
18 10 (0.51%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 588 (29.97%) Developer
2 340 (17.33%) Senior
3 310 (15.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 202 (10.30%) Java Developer
5 167 (8.51%) Lead
6 149 (7.59%) Software Engineer
7 127 (6.47%) Python Developer
8 124 (6.32%) AWS Engineer
9 120 (6.12%) Architect
10 117 (5.96%) Senior Developer
11 109 (5.56%) Data Engineer
12 95 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
13 89 (4.54%) AWS DevOps
14 82 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
15 81 (4.13%) Java Engineer
16 79 (4.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 71 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
18 66 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
19 60 (3.06%) Python Engineer
20 54 (2.75%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 391 (19.93%) Spring
2 333 (16.97%) Spring Boot
3 323 (16.46%) Kafka
4 277 (14.12%) REST
5 274 (13.97%) RESTful
6 239 (12.18%) React
7 179 (9.12%) Node.js
8 156 (7.95%) .NET
9 115 (5.86%) AngularJS
10 108 (5.50%) FastAPI
11 89 (4.54%) OAuth
12 79 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
13 72 (3.67%) Flask
14 70 (3.57%) Playwright
15 68 (3.47%) Django
15 68 (3.47%) HTML
16 66 (3.36%) CSS
17 65 (3.31%) Swagger
18 64 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
19 63 (3.21%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 421 (21.46%) Cloud Native
2 219 (11.16%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (4.79%) Product Ownership
4 54 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 53 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.14%) Algorithms
7 41 (2.09%) AI Agents
8 38 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 35 (1.78%) Onboarding
10 30 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
10 30 (1.53%) PKI
11 29 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
12 27 (1.38%) Data Structures
13 26 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
13 26 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
14 25 (1.27%) Public Cloud
15 24 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
15 24 (1.22%) Security Posture
16 23 (1.17%) Virtual Team
17 20 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 338 (17.23%) Linux
2 96 (4.89%) Windows
3 57 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 53 (2.70%) Unix
5 40 (2.04%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.12%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.66%) VMS
8 10 (0.51%) Android
8 10 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.46%) Solaris
9 9 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.31%) CentOS
11 6 (0.31%) Rocky
11 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (0.25%) Debian
13 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.051%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,497 (76.30%) CI/CD
2 1,082 (55.15%) DevOps
3 1,077 (54.89%) Containerisation
4 739 (37.67%) Agile
5 706 (35.98%) Microservices
6 639 (32.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 406 (20.69%) Observability
8 390 (19.88%) Test Automation
9 386 (19.67%) Software Engineering
10 354 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
11 309 (15.75%) AI
12 249 (12.69%) Full-Stack Development
13 247 (12.59%) Event-Driven
14 244 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 237 (12.08%) Scrum
16 221 (11.26%) Data Pipeline
16 221 (11.26%) Machine Learning
17 200 (10.19%) TDD
18 196 (9.99%) Platform Engineering
19 174 (8.87%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 882 (44.95%) Python
2 598 (30.48%) Java
3 508 (25.89%) SQL
4 233 (11.88%) JavaScript
5 217 (11.06%) Bash
6 211 (10.75%) TypeScript
7 182 (9.28%) C#
8 131 (6.68%) PowerShell
9 101 (5.15%) Go
10 73 (3.72%) Bicep
11 54 (2.75%) Shell Script
12 43 (2.19%) Scala
13 23 (1.17%) Groovy
13 23 (1.17%) PL/SQL
14 21 (1.07%) Ruby
15 19 (0.97%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.87%) C++
17 15 (0.76%) PHP
18 14 (0.71%) C
19 12 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 764 (38.94%) Security Cleared
2 640 (32.62%) SC Cleared
3 137 (6.98%) Degree
4 117 (5.96%) DV Cleared
5 88 (4.49%) AWS Certification
6 83 (4.23%) Azure Certification
7 76 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 75 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (1.68%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.22%) CISSP
11 23 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (0.76%) ISTQB
12 15 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 9 (0.46%) CCNA
16 9 (0.46%) PhD
17 8 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (5.91%) QA
2 93 (4.74%) Accessibility
3 72 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 34 (1.73%) WCAG
5 32 (1.63%) GDPR
5 32 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.48%) NIST
7 17 (0.87%) NCSC
8 11 (0.56%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.51%) PSD2
10 9 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.46%) SEPA
11 7 (0.36%) SLA
12 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.20%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
16 2 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 43 (2.19%) Active Directory
1 43 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.02%) Hyper-V
3 20 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (0.56%) Postfix
5 10 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
5 10 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 10 (0.51%) vSphere
6 9 (0.46%) KVM
7 8 (0.41%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.15%) Firmware
10 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.10%) GridGain
11 2 (0.10%) Lustre
11 2 (0.10%) NFS
11 2 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,380 (70.34%) Kubernetes
2 712 (36.29%) Terraform
3 299 (15.24%) Grafana
4 277 (14.12%) Prometheus
5 224 (11.42%) Ansible
6 49 (2.50%) Puppet
7 45 (2.29%) Argo
8 39 (1.99%) Progress Chef
9 27 (1.38%) Kibana
10 24 (1.22%) Istio
10 24 (1.22%) Podman
11 17 (0.87%) Control-M
11 17 (0.87%) IBM Guardium
11 17 (0.87%) Nessus
11 17 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (0.82%) Packer
13 15 (0.76%) Kustomize
14 11 (0.56%) HAProxy
14 11 (0.56%) linkerd
15 10 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 237 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 97 (4.94%) Oracle
3 94 (4.79%) Google
3 94 (4.79%) Splunk
4 62 (3.16%) Databricks
5 54 (2.75%) Dynatrace
6 48 (2.45%) VMware
7 44 (2.24%) Red Hat
8 40 (2.04%) OpenAI
9 30 (1.53%) IBM
10 23 (1.17%) Atlassian
10 23 (1.17%) Tenable
11 22 (1.12%) New Relic
11 22 (1.12%) ServiceNow
12 20 (1.02%) Talend
13 19 (0.97%) Denodo
14 17 (0.87%) Jaspersoft
14 17 (0.87%) Trend Micro
15 13 (0.66%) AppDynamics
16 10 (0.51%) Foundry