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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 44 57
Rank change year-on-year -16 +13 -1
Contract jobs citing Docker 2,042 1,562 1,376
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 4.74% 3.57%
As % of the System Software category 37.61% 40.05% 31.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,394 1,012 981
10th Percentile £364 £379 £381
25th Percentile £431 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -6.78%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £650
90th Percentile £681 £688 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 13 6
10th Percentile £55.38 £62.50 £66.25
25th Percentile £61.56 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £69.11 £67.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -16.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £79.06 £92.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £94.50 £87.50
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 5,429 3,900 4,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 11.84% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,559 2,461 2,959
10th Percentile £220 £218 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £592 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £670 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 114 111
10th Percentile £15.85 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.02 £17.69
Median hourly rate £63.14 £34.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.69% +36.00% -50.00%
75th Percentile £74.83 £80.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £92.11 £91.05 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year - +126.09% -28.13%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -17 1,705 £525 - 2,311
UK excluding London -19 876 £500 - 1,174
London -13 865 £550 - 1,326
Work from Home -8 643 £525 +5.00% 1,030
North of England -15 321 £477 +0.32% 294
Midlands -32 160 £490 -5.50% 112
Yorkshire -2 152 £500 - 73
South East -18 135 £530 +6.00% 277
West Midlands -30 129 £489 -7.35% 72
South West +8 128 £550 - 211
North West -55 107 £525 +10.99% 171
Scotland -21 70 £450 -10.00% 109
North East -1 65 £425 -5.56% 52
East of England -4 50 £475 -9.52% 105
East Midlands -7 30 £500 +16.55% 40
Wales -6 18 £375 -21.05% 22
Northern Ireland +4 3 £375 - 46

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
1 121 (5.93%) Apache Spark
2 120 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
3 100 (4.90%) Apache
4 97 (4.75%) Confluence
5 33 (1.62%) Jupyter
6 28 (1.37%) nginx
7 22 (1.08%) SAS
8 18 (0.88%) SharePoint
9 13 (0.64%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.49%) Camunda
10 10 (0.49%) OpenStack
11 9 (0.44%) WebLogic
12 6 (0.29%) WebSphere
13 5 (0.24%) WordPress
14 4 (0.20%) MQSeries
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.15%) CMS
15 3 (0.15%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.29%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.20%) Trello
4 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.049%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.15%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.098%) Finacle
4 2 (0.098%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.098%) Magento
5 1 (0.049%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.049%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.049%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.049%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.049%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,226 (60.04%) AWS
2 923 (45.20%) Azure
3 541 (26.49%) GitHub
4 407 (19.93%) GCP
5 393 (19.25%) GitHub Actions
6 298 (14.59%) Azure DevOps
7 275 (13.47%) Serverless
8 217 (10.63%) Amazon S3
9 196 (9.60%) Amazon EKS
9 196 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
10 153 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 147 (7.20%) Amazon ECS
12 144 (7.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 133 (6.51%) Amazon EC2
14 118 (5.78%) Azure AKS
15 105 (5.14%) OpenShift
16 80 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
17 78 (3.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 71 (3.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 69 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.77%) Firewall
2 64 (3.13%) DNS
3 34 (1.67%) Network Security
4 33 (1.62%) TCP/IP
5 27 (1.32%) HTTP
6 25 (1.22%) DHCP
7 22 (1.08%) VPN
8 18 (0.88%) Internet
9 16 (0.78%) SSL
10 13 (0.64%) SSH
10 13 (0.64%) Wireshark
11 12 (0.59%) 4G
11 12 (0.59%) RTP
12 11 (0.54%) 5G
12 11 (0.54%) VSAN
13 10 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
14 8 (0.39%) BGP
14 8 (0.39%) HTTPS
15 7 (0.34%) MQTT
16 6 (0.29%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (17.34%) PostgreSQL
2 186 (9.11%) MongoDB
3 171 (8.37%) NoSQL
4 140 (6.86%) Relational Database
5 101 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
6 93 (4.55%) Redis
7 83 (4.06%) SQL Server
8 81 (3.97%) MySQL
9 64 (3.13%) DynamoDB
10 50 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
11 47 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
12 46 (2.25%) BigQuery
13 43 (2.11%) Big Data
13 43 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
14 39 (1.91%) Data Lake
15 30 (1.47%) Flink
16 29 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
17 26 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
17 26 (1.27%) Delta Lake
18 25 (1.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 578 (28.31%) Jenkins
2 560 (27.42%) Git
3 457 (22.38%) GitLab
4 149 (7.30%) JIRA
5 112 (5.48%) JUnit
6 100 (4.90%) Selenium
7 98 (4.80%) Maven
8 83 (4.06%) SonarQube
9 69 (3.38%) Cucumber
10 66 (3.23%) Mockito
11 62 (3.04%) Gradle
12 59 (2.89%) Gatling
13 48 (2.35%) Bitbucket
14 38 (1.86%) JMeter
15 33 (1.62%) REST Assured
16 29 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
17 26 (1.27%) Cypress.io
18 23 (1.13%) Postman
19 21 (1.03%) LoadRunner
19 21 (1.03%) MLflow
General
1 478 (23.41%) Social Skills
2 379 (18.56%) Public Sector
3 275 (13.47%) Finance
4 184 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
5 143 (7.00%) Banking
6 65 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (1.81%) Military
8 34 (1.67%) Retail
9 30 (1.47%) Telecoms
10 25 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (1.18%) Law
12 19 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 19 (0.93%) Publishing
13 18 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
14 16 (0.78%) Aerospace
14 16 (0.78%) Financial Institution
15 15 (0.73%) Legal
16 14 (0.69%) Police
17 13 (0.64%) Local Government
18 12 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 574 (28.11%) Developer
2 369 (18.07%) Senior
3 355 (17.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 218 (10.68%) Java Developer
5 202 (9.89%) Lead
6 140 (6.86%) Software Engineer
7 123 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
8 115 (5.63%) Data Engineer
9 113 (5.53%) Senior Developer
10 112 (5.48%) Architect
11 111 (5.44%) Python Developer
12 94 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
13 92 (4.51%) AWS DevOps
14 90 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
15 84 (4.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 83 (4.06%) Cloud Engineer
16 83 (4.06%) Java Engineer
17 79 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
18 74 (3.62%) Python Engineer
19 65 (3.18%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 811 (39.72%) Terraform
2 414 (20.27%) Spring
3 381 (18.66%) Kafka
4 378 (18.51%) REST
5 346 (16.94%) Spring Boot
6 308 (15.08%) RESTful
7 239 (11.70%) React
8 154 (7.54%) Node.js
9 152 (7.44%) .NET
10 110 (5.39%) FastAPI
11 109 (5.34%) AngularJS
12 104 (5.09%) HTML
13 99 (4.85%) CSS
13 99 (4.85%) OAuth
14 96 (4.70%) Playwright
15 95 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
16 82 (4.02%) pytest
17 80 (3.92%) Flask
18 76 (3.72%) OAuth2
19 67 (3.28%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 495 (24.24%) Cloud Native
2 221 (10.82%) Distributed Systems
3 148 (7.25%) Product Ownership
4 81 (3.97%) AI Agents
5 78 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (2.74%) Onboarding
7 49 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (1.96%) PKI
9 38 (1.86%) Security Posture
10 34 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
10 34 (1.67%) Replication
11 33 (1.62%) Data Centre
11 33 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
12 27 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
12 27 (1.32%) Management Information System
13 25 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
14 24 (1.18%) Data Structures
14 24 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.18%) Virtual Team
15 23 (1.13%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 369 (18.07%) Linux
2 120 (5.88%) Windows
3 74 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 69 (3.38%) Unix
5 47 (2.30%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.42%) Ubuntu
7 18 (0.88%) VMS
8 10 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
8 10 (0.49%) CentOS
9 8 (0.39%) Rocky
10 7 (0.34%) Solaris
11 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.20%) Android
12 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.15%) Debian
14 2 (0.098%) AIX
14 2 (0.098%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.098%) SUSE
14 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,637 (80.17%) CI/CD
2 1,172 (57.39%) DevOps
3 1,060 (51.91%) Containerisation
4 859 (42.07%) Agile
5 799 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 716 (35.06%) Microservices
7 498 (24.39%) Test Automation
8 467 (22.87%) Software Engineering
9 438 (21.45%) Observability
10 381 (18.66%) AI
11 369 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
12 325 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 320 (15.67%) Event-Driven
14 293 (14.35%) Scrum
15 246 (12.05%) Platform Engineering
16 241 (11.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 230 (11.26%) DevSecOps
17 230 (11.26%) Full-Stack Development
18 219 (10.72%) Technical Leadership
19 214 (10.48%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 977 (47.85%) Python
2 691 (33.84%) Java
3 490 (24.00%) SQL
4 325 (15.92%) Bash
5 266 (13.03%) JavaScript
6 239 (11.70%) TypeScript
7 196 (9.60%) PowerShell
8 164 (8.03%) C#
9 105 (5.14%) Bicep
10 73 (3.57%) Shell Script
11 69 (3.38%) Go
12 62 (3.04%) Scala
13 45 (2.20%) Groovy
14 27 (1.32%) PL/SQL
15 24 (1.18%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.78%) C++
17 14 (0.69%) Perl
18 12 (0.59%) Ruby
19 11 (0.54%) C
19 11 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 834 (40.84%) Security Cleared
2 704 (34.48%) SC Cleared
3 136 (6.66%) DV Cleared
4 122 (5.97%) Degree
5 103 (5.04%) AWS Certification
6 101 (4.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 93 (4.55%) Azure Certification
8 62 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (1.42%) CISSP
10 24 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (1.08%) Master's Degree
12 19 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 17 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.59%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.44%) PhD
16 8 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
16 8 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 7 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 7 (0.34%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (9.50%) QA
2 111 (5.44%) Accessibility
3 82 (4.02%) Data Quality
4 48 (2.35%) WCAG
5 23 (1.13%) NIST
6 22 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.03%) NCSC
8 19 (0.93%) GDPR
9 12 (0.59%) ISO 20022
10 11 (0.54%) SEPA
11 9 (0.44%) PSD2
12 7 (0.34%) SLA
13 6 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
15 4 (0.20%) ISO 15022
15 4 (0.20%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.15%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
16 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 54 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.42%) Hyper-V
4 26 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.88%) vSphere
6 17 (0.83%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.34%) KVM
8 7 (0.34%) Postfix
9 6 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.24%) NFS
10 5 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 4 (0.20%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.15%) GPFS
12 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.098%) Firmware
13 2 (0.098%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1,470 (71.99%) Kubernetes
2 305 (14.94%) Grafana
3 281 (13.76%) Ansible
4 248 (12.14%) Prometheus
5 49 (2.40%) Argo
6 47 (2.30%) Puppet
7 44 (2.15%) Kibana
8 41 (2.01%) Progress Chef
9 28 (1.37%) Podman
10 21 (1.03%) Istio
11 14 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (0.64%) HAProxy
12 13 (0.64%) Kustomize
13 12 (0.59%) Karpenter
13 12 (0.59%) Packer
14 11 (0.54%) Nessus
15 10 (0.49%) Control-M
15 10 (0.49%) VxRail
16 9 (0.44%) Nagios
16 9 (0.44%) systemd
Vendors
1 259 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 152 (7.44%) Google
3 130 (6.37%) Oracle
4 101 (4.95%) Splunk
5 93 (4.55%) Databricks
6 78 (3.82%) Dynatrace
7 71 (3.48%) VMware
8 55 (2.69%) OpenAI
9 52 (2.55%) Red Hat
10 45 (2.20%) IBM
11 41 (2.01%) ServiceNow
12 33 (1.62%) New Relic
13 23 (1.13%) Foundry
14 18 (0.88%) AppDynamics
14 18 (0.88%) Cisco
14 18 (0.88%) Trend Micro
15 16 (0.78%) Confluent
15 16 (0.78%) Talend
16 14 (0.69%) Denodo
17 13 (0.64%) Tenable