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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 50 64
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 -11
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,913 1,350 1,341
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.74% 4.42% 3.09%
As % of the System Software category 38.28% 36.34% 27.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,268 917 1,007
10th Percentile £375 £387 £400
25th Percentile £429 £442 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £680 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 7 12
10th Percentile £53.13 £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 £84.38 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% - +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 4,997 3,715 4,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.77% 12.16% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,316 2,425 3,305
10th Percentile £219 £225 £205
25th Percentile £400 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £694 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 87 221
10th Percentile £14.15 £14.49 £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% -54.31%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £89.85 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £41.45 £24.50
% change year-on-year +23.04% +69.18% -24.62%

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 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 29 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 29 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 1,638 £525 - 519
London 0 855 £545 +1.40% 222
UK excluding London -5 777 £500 - 389
Work from Home -12 583 £505 -3.81% 277
North of England +6 315 £484 -3.13% 89
Midlands -6 179 £499 +5.00% 35
West Midlands -5 153 £500 -2.44% 23
Yorkshire +9 146 £500 - 24
North West -19 121 £525 +5.00% 46
South West 0 107 £544 -1.14% 76
South East -40 101 £525 +5.00% 136
North East +1 54 £425 -2.86% 19
Scotland -9 47 £450 -3.95% 7
East Midlands -16 24 £449 +4.55% 12
East of England -23 24 £550 +12.24% 25
Wales -14 14 £525 +10.53% 11
Northern Ireland +5 5 £375 -31.82% 17

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 (5.65%) Apache Spark
2 103 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
3 95 (4.97%) Confluence
4 78 (4.08%) Apache
5 33 (1.73%) Jupyter
6 32 (1.67%) SAS
7 29 (1.52%) nginx
8 13 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 12 (0.63%) Camunda
10 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.42%) SharePoint
10 8 (0.42%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.37%) WordPress
12 6 (0.31%) Appian
12 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.31%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.21%) CMS
14 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.42%) CPLEX
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.052%) Maya
5 1 (0.052%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.052%) Notion
5 1 (0.052%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.052%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.10%) Shopify
3 1 (0.052%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.052%) Magento
3 1 (0.052%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.052%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,145 (59.85%) AWS
2 829 (43.34%) Azure
3 450 (23.52%) GitHub
4 381 (19.92%) GCP
5 337 (17.62%) GitHub Actions
6 279 (14.58%) Serverless
7 235 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
8 210 (10.98%) Amazon S3
9 183 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
10 161 (8.42%) Amazon EKS
11 154 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 153 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
13 132 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
14 131 (6.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 113 (5.91%) Azure AKS
16 83 (4.34%) OpenShift
17 82 (4.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 70 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
19 61 (3.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 48 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.67%) Firewall
2 32 (1.67%) DNS
3 25 (1.31%) Network Security
4 24 (1.25%) HTTP
5 21 (1.10%) VPN
6 13 (0.68%) DHCP
7 11 (0.58%) Internet
7 11 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
8 10 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.47%) 3GPP
10 8 (0.42%) SMTP
11 7 (0.37%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.31%) MQTT
12 6 (0.31%) RTP
12 6 (0.31%) SSL
13 5 (0.26%) IPv4
13 5 (0.26%) IPv6
14 4 (0.21%) Kerberos
14 4 (0.21%) OpenLDAP
15 3 (0.16%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (16.88%) PostgreSQL
2 175 (9.15%) NoSQL
3 153 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 135 (7.06%) Relational Database
5 104 (5.44%) Amazon RDS
6 97 (5.07%) SQL Server
7 75 (3.92%) DynamoDB
8 74 (3.87%) Redis
9 55 (2.88%) Big Data
10 49 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
11 48 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
12 46 (2.40%) MySQL
13 44 (2.30%) Apache Cassandra
14 35 (1.83%) BigQuery
15 32 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
16 30 (1.57%) Data Lake
17 27 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
17 27 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
18 25 (1.31%) Flink
19 20 (1.05%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 516 (26.97%) Jenkins
2 416 (21.75%) Git
3 403 (21.07%) GitLab
4 172 (8.99%) JIRA
5 108 (5.65%) JUnit
6 76 (3.97%) Selenium
7 62 (3.24%) Mockito
8 59 (3.08%) SonarQube
9 57 (2.98%) Maven
10 50 (2.61%) Cucumber
11 47 (2.46%) JMeter
12 45 (2.35%) MLflow
13 44 (2.30%) Gatling
14 37 (1.93%) Gradle
15 34 (1.78%) REST Assured
16 32 (1.67%) Bitbucket
17 27 (1.41%) Liquibase
18 23 (1.20%) Postman
19 22 (1.15%) Artifactory
19 22 (1.15%) WebDriver
General
1 427 (22.32%) Social Skills
2 353 (18.45%) Public Sector
3 282 (14.74%) Finance
4 157 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
5 132 (6.90%) Banking
6 50 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 27 (1.41%) Military
9 25 (1.31%) Retail
10 24 (1.25%) Law
11 22 (1.15%) Investment Banking
12 17 (0.89%) Financial Institution
13 16 (0.84%) Legal
13 16 (0.84%) Publishing
14 14 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (0.68%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.58%) Front Office
16 11 (0.58%) Police
17 10 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 582 (30.42%) Developer
2 330 (17.25%) Senior
3 298 (15.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 198 (10.35%) Java Developer
5 155 (8.10%) Lead
6 151 (7.89%) Software Engineer
7 128 (6.69%) Python Developer
8 121 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
9 116 (6.06%) Senior Developer
10 110 (5.75%) Architect
11 107 (5.59%) Data Engineer
12 94 (4.91%) Full-Stack Developer
13 87 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
14 81 (4.23%) Java Engineer
15 77 (4.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 75 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
17 66 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
18 65 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
19 58 (3.03%) Python Engineer
20 52 (2.72%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (20.13%) Spring
2 329 (17.20%) Spring Boot
3 323 (16.88%) Kafka
4 271 (14.17%) REST
5 264 (13.80%) RESTful
6 234 (12.23%) React
7 173 (9.04%) Node.js
8 159 (8.31%) .NET
9 111 (5.80%) AngularJS
10 110 (5.75%) FastAPI
11 93 (4.86%) OAuth
12 77 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
13 74 (3.87%) Flask
14 70 (3.66%) Django
15 66 (3.45%) Playwright
16 65 (3.40%) OpenTelemetry
16 65 (3.40%) Swagger
17 64 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
17 64 (3.35%) HTML
17 64 (3.35%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 413 (21.59%) Cloud Native
2 223 (11.66%) Distributed Systems
3 93 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 51 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 49 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.20%) Algorithms
7 40 (2.09%) Management Information System
8 39 (2.04%) AI Agents
9 30 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (1.52%) Onboarding
11 28 (1.46%) Data Structures
11 28 (1.46%) PKI
12 27 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
13 26 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
13 26 (1.36%) Public Cloud
14 24 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
15 23 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
15 23 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 21 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
17 19 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 327 (17.09%) Linux
2 91 (4.76%) Windows
3 56 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 55 (2.88%) Unix
5 39 (2.04%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.15%) Ubuntu
7 15 (0.78%) VMS
8 10 (0.52%) Android
8 10 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.47%) Solaris
9 9 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
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 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.26%) Debian
13 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.052%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,455 (76.06%) CI/CD
2 1,052 (54.99%) DevOps
3 1,042 (54.47%) Containerisation
4 733 (38.32%) Agile
5 700 (36.59%) Microservices
6 610 (31.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 394 (20.60%) Observability
8 377 (19.71%) Test Automation
9 372 (19.45%) Software Engineering
10 346 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
11 301 (15.73%) AI
12 246 (12.86%) Full-Stack Development
13 243 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 243 (12.70%) Event-Driven
14 237 (12.39%) Scrum
15 213 (11.13%) Data Pipeline
16 211 (11.03%) Machine Learning
17 200 (10.45%) TDD
18 181 (9.46%) Platform Engineering
19 173 (9.04%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 850 (44.43%) Python
2 588 (30.74%) Java
3 519 (27.13%) SQL
4 224 (11.71%) JavaScript
5 201 (10.51%) TypeScript
6 198 (10.35%) Bash
7 182 (9.51%) C#
8 122 (6.38%) PowerShell
9 107 (5.59%) Go
10 72 (3.76%) Bicep
11 53 (2.77%) Shell Script
12 41 (2.14%) Scala
13 23 (1.20%) PL/SQL
14 21 (1.10%) Ruby
15 19 (0.99%) Groovy
15 19 (0.99%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.89%) C++
17 15 (0.78%) PHP
18 13 (0.68%) Rust
19 10 (0.52%) C
Qualifications
1 726 (37.95%) Security Cleared
2 613 (32.04%) SC Cleared
3 138 (7.21%) Degree
4 110 (5.75%) DV Cleared
5 85 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 82 (4.29%) Azure Certification
7 75 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 70 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.62%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 23 (1.20%) CISSP
11 15 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (0.78%) ISTQB
12 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.58%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.42%) CCNA
16 8 (0.42%) PhD
16 8 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (6.06%) QA
2 90 (4.70%) Accessibility
3 73 (3.82%) Data Quality
4 34 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.73%) GDPR
6 32 (1.67%) WCAG
7 31 (1.62%) NIST
8 16 (0.84%) NCSC
9 12 (0.63%) ISO 20022
9 12 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.58%) PSD2
11 10 (0.52%) SEPA
12 7 (0.37%) SLA
13 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.26%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.21%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
17 2 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 40 (2.09%) Active Directory
1 40 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
4 18 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.58%) Postfix
5 11 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 10 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (0.47%) KVM
8 8 (0.42%) BitLocker
8 8 (0.42%) vSphere
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.16%) Firmware
11 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.10%) GPFS
12 2 (0.10%) HDFS
12 2 (0.10%) NFS
12 2 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,348 (70.47%) Kubernetes
2 681 (35.60%) Terraform
3 284 (14.85%) Grafana
4 273 (14.27%) Prometheus
5 212 (11.08%) Ansible
6 48 (2.51%) Puppet
7 37 (1.93%) Progress Chef
8 36 (1.88%) Argo
9 27 (1.41%) Kibana
10 25 (1.31%) Istio
10 25 (1.31%) Podman
11 17 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (0.84%) Control-M
12 16 (0.84%) IBM Guardium
12 16 (0.84%) Nessus
13 15 (0.78%) Kustomize
13 15 (0.78%) Packer
14 11 (0.58%) HAProxy
14 11 (0.58%) linkerd
15 10 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 223 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 96 (5.02%) Splunk
3 88 (4.60%) Oracle
4 87 (4.55%) Google
5 61 (3.19%) Databricks
6 56 (2.93%) Dynatrace
7 45 (2.35%) VMware
8 43 (2.25%) Red Hat
9 41 (2.14%) OpenAI
10 29 (1.52%) IBM
11 23 (1.20%) Atlassian
12 22 (1.15%) New Relic
12 22 (1.15%) Tenable
13 21 (1.10%) ServiceNow
13 21 (1.10%) Talend
14 20 (1.05%) Denodo
15 17 (0.89%) Jaspersoft
15 17 (0.89%) Trend Micro
16 14 (0.73%) AppDynamics
17 10 (0.52%) Foundry