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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 50 66
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 -13
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,838 1,293 1,307
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.71% 4.40% 3.00%
As % of the System Software category 37.73% 35.87% 27.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,213 892 982
10th Percentile £368 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
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 £719 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 7 12
10th Percentile £52.38 £26.60 £47.08
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.88 £59.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +9.97% -
75th Percentile £75.00 £90.63 £85.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% - +14.29%

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 4,872 3,605 4,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.85% 12.27% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,240 2,387 3,299
10th Percentile £213 £214 £205
25th Percentile £400 £386 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £697 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 85 226
10th Percentile £15.94 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.90%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.45 £79.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% +36.36% -43.18%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -6 1,585 £515 -2.83% 577
London -3 824 £540 -1.82% 221
UK excluding London -3 752 £500 - 412
Work from Home -17 537 £504 -5.48% 338
North of England +7 306 £481 -3.75% 120
Midlands -6 182 £488 +2.63% 32
West Midlands +4 157 £494 -1.29% 19
Yorkshire +7 145 £500 -2.44% 26
North West -12 119 £525 +5.00% 66
South West +2 103 £550 -8.33% 75
South East -49 94 £509 +1.75% 130
North East +4 48 £425 -5.56% 28
Scotland -16 46 £450 -3.69% 13
East Midlands -29 23 £435 +0.06% 13
East of England -24 21 £550 +12.24% 30
Wales -10 13 £525 -1.41% 11
Northern Ireland +7 5 - - 8

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 94 (5.11%) Apache Spark
2 90 (4.90%) Confluence
3 86 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
4 66 (3.59%) Apache
5 32 (1.74%) SAS
6 28 (1.52%) Jupyter
7 26 (1.41%) nginx
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%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.27%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.27%) WordPress
14 4 (0.22%) CMS
14 4 (0.22%) IIS
15 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.38%) CPLEX
2 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.054%) Maya
4 1 (0.054%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.054%) Notion
4 1 (0.054%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.054%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.11%) Shopify
3 1 (0.054%) Magento
3 1 (0.054%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.054%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,089 (59.25%) AWS
2 786 (42.76%) Azure
3 427 (23.23%) GitHub
4 372 (20.24%) GCP
5 319 (17.36%) GitHub Actions
6 269 (14.64%) Serverless
7 218 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
8 200 (10.88%) Amazon S3
9 176 (9.58%) AWS Lambda
10 162 (8.81%) Amazon EKS
11 150 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
12 149 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 129 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 124 (6.75%) Amazon ECS
15 107 (5.82%) Azure AKS
16 80 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 73 (3.97%) OpenShift
18 69 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
19 63 (3.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 50 (2.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.16%) Firewall
2 37 (2.01%) DNS
3 21 (1.14%) HTTP
4 20 (1.09%) Network Security
5 19 (1.03%) VPN
6 17 (0.92%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.82%) DHCP
8 10 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
9 9 (0.49%) 3GPP
9 9 (0.49%) Internet
10 8 (0.44%) SMTP
11 7 (0.38%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.33%) RTP
12 6 (0.33%) SSL
13 5 (0.27%) IPv4
13 5 (0.27%) IPv6
13 5 (0.27%) MQTT
14 4 (0.22%) NetScaler
14 4 (0.22%) OpenLDAP
14 4 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 299 (16.27%) PostgreSQL
2 176 (9.58%) NoSQL
3 136 (7.40%) MongoDB
4 129 (7.02%) Relational Database
5 102 (5.55%) Amazon RDS
6 100 (5.44%) SQL Server
7 73 (3.97%) DynamoDB
8 58 (3.16%) Redis
9 53 (2.88%) Big Data
10 50 (2.72%) Amazon Aurora
11 49 (2.67%) Apache Cassandra
12 47 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
13 43 (2.34%) MySQL
14 36 (1.96%) BigQuery
15 29 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
16 27 (1.47%) Data Lake
17 25 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
17 25 (1.36%) Flink
18 24 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
19 22 (1.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 480 (26.12%) Jenkins
2 393 (21.38%) Git
3 386 (21.00%) GitLab
4 162 (8.81%) JIRA
5 102 (5.55%) JUnit
6 73 (3.97%) Selenium
7 57 (3.10%) Mockito
8 55 (2.99%) Maven
8 55 (2.99%) SonarQube
9 50 (2.72%) Cucumber
10 49 (2.67%) JMeter
11 46 (2.50%) Gatling
12 41 (2.23%) MLflow
13 37 (2.01%) Gradle
14 34 (1.85%) REST Assured
15 31 (1.69%) Bitbucket
16 27 (1.47%) Liquibase
17 24 (1.31%) Postman
17 24 (1.31%) WebDriver
18 21 (1.14%) Artifactory
General
1 427 (23.23%) Social Skills
2 330 (17.95%) Public Sector
3 276 (15.02%) Finance
4 158 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 131 (7.13%) Banking
6 43 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.31%) Law
8 24 (1.31%) Military
8 24 (1.31%) Retail
9 18 (0.98%) Investment Banking
10 17 (0.92%) Financial Institution
11 16 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (0.71%) Legal
13 13 (0.71%) Publishing
14 11 (0.60%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.54%) Police
16 9 (0.49%) Front Office
16 9 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 548 (29.82%) Developer
2 326 (17.74%) Senior
3 275 (14.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 175 (9.52%) Java Developer
5 147 (8.00%) Lead
6 140 (7.62%) Software Engineer
7 126 (6.86%) Python Developer
8 117 (6.37%) Senior Developer
9 114 (6.20%) AWS Engineer
10 105 (5.71%) Architect
11 103 (5.60%) Data Engineer
12 93 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
13 78 (4.24%) Java Engineer
14 77 (4.19%) AWS DevOps
15 71 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
16 69 (3.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 63 (3.43%) Cloud Engineer
18 61 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
19 52 (2.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
20 47 (2.56%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (19.75%) Spring
2 326 (17.74%) Spring Boot
3 316 (17.19%) Kafka
4 245 (13.33%) RESTful
5 240 (13.06%) REST
6 238 (12.95%) React
7 177 (9.63%) Node.js
8 154 (8.38%) .NET
9 112 (6.09%) AngularJS
10 109 (5.93%) FastAPI
11 90 (4.90%) OAuth
12 77 (4.19%) OpenTelemetry
13 75 (4.08%) Flask
14 69 (3.75%) Django
15 66 (3.59%) Playwright
16 65 (3.54%) HTML
16 65 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
17 64 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
17 64 (3.48%) OAuth2
18 63 (3.43%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 373 (20.29%) Cloud Native
2 203 (11.04%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 47 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 42 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 39 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (2.07%) AI Agents
8 37 (2.01%) Algorithms
9 30 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
10 27 (1.47%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
12 24 (1.31%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.25%) Onboarding
13 23 (1.25%) PKI
14 22 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
15 20 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
15 20 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
15 20 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
16 17 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 308 (16.76%) Linux
2 94 (5.11%) Windows
3 58 (3.16%) Unix
4 45 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (2.23%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.76%) VMS
7 12 (0.65%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.49%) Solaris
8 9 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
9 8 (0.44%) Android
10 7 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
10 7 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.33%) Rocky
12 5 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.27%) CentOS
12 5 (0.27%) Debian
13 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.054%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,376 (74.86%) CI/CD
2 994 (54.08%) DevOps
3 985 (53.59%) Containerisation
4 694 (37.76%) Agile
5 686 (37.32%) Microservices
6 579 (31.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 404 (21.98%) Observability
8 356 (19.37%) Test Automation
9 348 (18.93%) Software Engineering
10 318 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
11 288 (15.67%) AI
12 243 (13.22%) Full-Stack Development
13 234 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 224 (12.19%) Scrum
15 222 (12.08%) Event-Driven
16 205 (11.15%) Data Pipeline
17 198 (10.77%) Machine Learning
18 191 (10.39%) TDD
19 166 (9.03%) Analytics
20 165 (8.98%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 811 (44.12%) Python
2 562 (30.58%) Java
3 531 (28.89%) SQL
4 220 (11.97%) JavaScript
5 196 (10.66%) TypeScript
6 183 (9.96%) Bash
7 171 (9.30%) C#
8 130 (7.07%) PowerShell
9 109 (5.93%) Go
10 68 (3.70%) Bicep
11 50 (2.72%) Shell Script
12 40 (2.18%) Scala
13 24 (1.31%) Ruby
14 23 (1.25%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.03%) Groovy
16 16 (0.87%) C++
17 15 (0.82%) PHP
18 14 (0.76%) Rust
19 12 (0.65%) Kotlin
20 9 (0.49%) C
Qualifications
1 674 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 562 (30.58%) SC Cleared
3 135 (7.34%) Degree
4 100 (5.44%) DV Cleared
5 83 (4.52%) Azure Certification
6 79 (4.30%) AWS Certification
7 74 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 69 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.58%) Master's Degree
10 20 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (1.09%) CISSP
11 17 (0.92%) ISTQB
12 15 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 9 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
17 8 (0.44%) CCNA
18 7 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (6.09%) QA
2 83 (4.52%) Accessibility
3 69 (3.75%) Data Quality
4 36 (1.96%) GDPR
5 32 (1.74%) WCAG
6 30 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.41%) NIST
8 15 (0.82%) NCSC
9 14 (0.76%) ISO 20022
10 12 (0.65%) PSD2
10 12 (0.65%) SLA
11 10 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.54%) SEPA
12 8 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.27%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.16%) HL7
16 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 41 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (2.18%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.98%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 11 (0.60%) Postfix
8 10 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (0.44%) BitLocker
9 8 (0.44%) vSphere
10 7 (0.38%) KVM
11 6 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.27%) Firmware
13 3 (0.16%) Lustre
14 2 (0.11%) GPFS
14 2 (0.11%) GridGain
14 2 (0.11%) NFS
14 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,279 (69.59%) Kubernetes
2 643 (34.98%) Terraform
3 292 (15.89%) Grafana
4 279 (15.18%) Prometheus
5 199 (10.83%) Ansible
6 44 (2.39%) Puppet
7 41 (2.23%) Argo
8 33 (1.80%) Progress Chef
9 30 (1.63%) Istio
10 27 (1.47%) Podman
11 25 (1.36%) Kibana
12 19 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
13 16 (0.87%) Control-M
13 16 (0.87%) IBM Guardium
13 16 (0.87%) Nessus
14 15 (0.82%) Packer
15 14 (0.76%) Kustomize
16 11 (0.60%) HAProxy
17 10 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 10 (0.54%) linkerd
Vendors
1 208 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 105 (5.71%) Splunk
3 90 (4.90%) Oracle
4 85 (4.62%) Google
5 60 (3.26%) Dynatrace
6 56 (3.05%) Databricks
7 45 (2.45%) VMware
8 41 (2.23%) Red Hat
9 40 (2.18%) OpenAI
10 28 (1.52%) IBM
11 23 (1.25%) AppDynamics
11 23 (1.25%) Atlassian
12 21 (1.14%) New Relic
12 21 (1.14%) Talend
12 21 (1.14%) Tenable
13 20 (1.09%) Denodo
13 20 (1.09%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
15 12 (0.65%) Foundry
15 12 (0.65%) NVIDIA