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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 52 64
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -11
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,934 1,392 1,369
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.74% 4.38% 3.16%
As % of the System Software category 37.99% 36.42% 28.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,295 943 1,025
10th Percentile £381 £382 £400
25th Percentile £433 £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% -0.34%
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 5,091 3,822 4,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.84% 12.04% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,394 2,485 3,333
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £400 £381 £372
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 £480
% change year-on-year - -0.94% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 90 220
10th Percentile £14.15 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.19 £15.91 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% +16.72% -55.57%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.00 £59.20
90th Percentile £77.50 £89.03 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £56.19 £24.34
% change year-on-year -9.23% +130.84% -11.49%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -5 1,653 £525 - 763
London 0 854 £550 +3.77% 359
UK excluding London -3 800 £500 - 495
Work from Home -11 601 £515 -1.90% 402
North of England +3 320 £484 -3.13% 121
Midlands -5 180 £500 +5.26% 47
West Midlands -3 155 £506 +1.00% 31
Yorkshire +7 153 £500 - 32
North West -24 120 £525 +5.00% 64
South West +9 115 £550 - 94
South East -29 109 £525 +5.00% 164
North East 0 53 £425 -2.86% 26
Scotland -16 48 £450 -3.95% 15
East Midlands -21 23 £450 +4.90% 16
East of England -28 23 £550 +12.24% 25
Wales -16 15 £463 -2.63% 19
Northern Ireland +5 4 £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
1 107 (5.53%) Apache Spark
2 104 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
3 103 (5.33%) Confluence
4 80 (4.14%) Apache
5 33 (1.71%) Jupyter
5 33 (1.71%) SAS
6 29 (1.50%) nginx
7 13 (0.67%) Tomcat
8 11 (0.57%) Camunda
9 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.41%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.36%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.36%) WordPress
11 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.31%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.26%) Appian
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 (0.57%) 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 (0.052%) 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 1,164 (60.19%) AWS
2 841 (43.49%) Azure
3 464 (23.99%) GitHub
4 383 (19.80%) GCP
5 349 (18.05%) GitHub Actions
6 274 (14.17%) Serverless
7 237 (12.25%) Azure DevOps
8 217 (11.22%) Amazon S3
9 179 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
10 170 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
11 156 (8.07%) Amazon EC2
12 154 (7.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 131 (6.77%) Amazon ECS
14 128 (6.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 107 (5.53%) Azure AKS
16 84 (4.34%) OpenShift
17 80 (4.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 66 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
19 60 (3.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 48 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.59%) Firewall
2 30 (1.55%) DNS
3 26 (1.34%) Network Security
4 24 (1.24%) HTTP
5 22 (1.14%) VPN
6 13 (0.67%) DHCP
6 13 (0.67%) Internet
7 11 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
8 10 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.47%) 3GPP
10 8 (0.41%) SMTP
10 8 (0.41%) Wireshark
11 7 (0.36%) 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%) AMQP
14 4 (0.21%) OpenLDAP
15 3 (0.16%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (16.60%) PostgreSQL
2 167 (8.63%) NoSQL
3 156 (8.07%) MongoDB
4 132 (6.83%) Relational Database
5 101 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
6 93 (4.81%) SQL Server
7 71 (3.67%) DynamoDB
8 69 (3.57%) Redis
9 54 (2.79%) Big Data
10 47 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
10 47 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
11 44 (2.28%) MySQL
12 38 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
13 35 (1.81%) BigQuery
14 33 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
15 29 (1.50%) Data Lake
16 27 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
16 27 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
17 24 (1.24%) Flink
18 19 (0.98%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 524 (27.09%) Jenkins
2 417 (21.56%) Git
3 403 (20.84%) GitLab
4 174 (9.00%) JIRA
5 108 (5.58%) JUnit
6 75 (3.88%) Selenium
7 61 (3.15%) Mockito
8 59 (3.05%) SonarQube
9 57 (2.95%) Maven
10 47 (2.43%) Cucumber
11 46 (2.38%) JMeter
12 45 (2.33%) MLflow
13 42 (2.17%) Gatling
14 37 (1.91%) Gradle
15 34 (1.76%) Bitbucket
16 33 (1.71%) REST Assured
17 27 (1.40%) Liquibase
18 22 (1.14%) Artifactory
18 22 (1.14%) Postman
19 21 (1.09%) WebDriver
General
1 432 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 362 (18.72%) Public Sector
3 277 (14.32%) Finance
4 159 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 131 (6.77%) Banking
6 50 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
8 28 (1.45%) Military
9 26 (1.34%) Retail
10 24 (1.24%) Law
11 22 (1.14%) Investment Banking
12 18 (0.93%) Legal
12 18 (0.93%) Publishing
13 16 (0.83%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (0.72%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.57%) Front Office
17 11 (0.57%) Police
18 10 (0.52%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 583 (30.14%) Developer
2 335 (17.32%) Senior
3 305 (15.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 200 (10.34%) Java Developer
5 166 (8.58%) Lead
6 148 (7.65%) Software Engineer
7 128 (6.62%) Python Developer
8 122 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
9 117 (6.05%) Senior Developer
10 115 (5.95%) Architect
11 107 (5.53%) Data Engineer
12 94 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
13 87 (4.50%) AWS DevOps
14 80 (4.14%) Java Engineer
15 78 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
16 77 (3.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 69 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
18 65 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
19 59 (3.05%) Python Engineer
20 53 (2.74%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 388 (20.06%) Spring
2 330 (17.06%) Spring Boot
3 318 (16.44%) Kafka
4 272 (14.06%) REST
5 268 (13.86%) RESTful
6 235 (12.15%) React
7 178 (9.20%) Node.js
8 156 (8.07%) .NET
9 111 (5.74%) AngularJS
10 109 (5.64%) FastAPI
11 86 (4.45%) OAuth
12 79 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
13 71 (3.67%) Flask
14 67 (3.46%) Django
15 66 (3.41%) HTML
15 66 (3.41%) Playwright
16 65 (3.36%) Swagger
17 64 (3.31%) CSS
17 64 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
18 62 (3.21%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 413 (21.35%) Cloud Native
2 217 (11.22%) Distributed Systems
3 93 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 54 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
5 50 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 43 (2.22%) Algorithms
7 39 (2.02%) AI Agents
8 38 (1.96%) Management Information System
9 33 (1.71%) Onboarding
10 30 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
11 29 (1.50%) PKI
12 28 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.45%) Data Structures
13 26 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
14 25 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
14 25 (1.29%) Public Cloud
15 24 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
15 24 (1.24%) Security Posture
16 21 (1.09%) Virtual Team
17 20 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 333 (17.22%) Linux
2 93 (4.81%) Windows
3 56 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 53 (2.74%) Unix
5 40 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.14%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.67%) 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 (0.36%) 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%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,472 (76.11%) CI/CD
2 1,064 (55.02%) DevOps
3 1,060 (54.81%) Containerisation
4 732 (37.85%) Agile
5 698 (36.09%) Microservices
6 626 (32.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 399 (20.63%) Observability
8 381 (19.70%) Test Automation
9 377 (19.49%) Software Engineering
10 348 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
11 301 (15.56%) AI
12 246 (12.72%) Full-Stack Development
13 242 (12.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 242 (12.51%) Event-Driven
14 235 (12.15%) Scrum
15 216 (11.17%) Machine Learning
16 215 (11.12%) Data Pipeline
17 198 (10.24%) TDD
18 188 (9.72%) Platform Engineering
19 175 (9.05%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 870 (44.98%) Python
2 590 (30.51%) Java
3 506 (26.16%) SQL
4 229 (11.84%) JavaScript
5 214 (11.07%) Bash
6 208 (10.75%) TypeScript
7 181 (9.36%) C#
8 128 (6.62%) PowerShell
9 102 (5.27%) Go
10 72 (3.72%) Bicep
11 52 (2.69%) Shell Script
12 42 (2.17%) Scala
13 23 (1.19%) PL/SQL
14 21 (1.09%) Ruby
15 20 (1.03%) Groovy
16 19 (0.98%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.88%) C++
18 15 (0.78%) PHP
19 13 (0.67%) C
20 12 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 749 (38.73%) Security Cleared
2 632 (32.68%) SC Cleared
3 136 (7.03%) Degree
4 115 (5.95%) DV Cleared
5 85 (4.40%) AWS Certification
6 81 (4.19%) Azure Certification
7 74 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 74 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.24%) CISSP
10 23 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (0.78%) ISTQB
11 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.47%) CCNA
16 8 (0.41%) PhD
16 8 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (5.89%) QA
2 93 (4.81%) Accessibility
3 71 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 34 (1.76%) WCAG
5 32 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.60%) GDPR
7 29 (1.50%) NIST
8 17 (0.88%) NCSC
9 11 (0.57%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.52%) PSD2
11 9 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.47%) SEPA
12 7 (0.36%) SLA
13 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.26%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.21%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
17 2 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 41 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.57%) Postfix
7 10 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
7 10 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 9 (0.47%) KVM
9 8 (0.41%) BitLocker
9 8 (0.41%) vSphere
10 6 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.16%) Firmware
12 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.10%) GPFS
13 2 (0.10%) HDFS
13 2 (0.10%) Lustre
13 2 (0.10%) NFS
13 2 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,357 (70.17%) Kubernetes
2 701 (36.25%) Terraform
3 293 (15.15%) Grafana
4 272 (14.06%) Prometheus
5 219 (11.32%) Ansible
6 49 (2.53%) Puppet
7 44 (2.28%) Argo
8 39 (2.02%) Progress Chef
9 27 (1.40%) Kibana
10 24 (1.24%) Istio
10 24 (1.24%) Podman
11 17 (0.88%) Control-M
11 17 (0.88%) IBM Guardium
11 17 (0.88%) Nessus
11 17 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (0.83%) Packer
13 15 (0.78%) Kustomize
14 11 (0.57%) HAProxy
14 11 (0.57%) linkerd
15 10 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 230 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 96 (4.96%) Oracle
3 94 (4.86%) Splunk
4 89 (4.60%) Google
5 60 (3.10%) Databricks
6 54 (2.79%) Dynatrace
7 46 (2.38%) VMware
8 43 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 39 (2.02%) OpenAI
10 30 (1.55%) IBM
11 23 (1.19%) Atlassian
11 23 (1.19%) Tenable
12 22 (1.14%) New Relic
13 21 (1.09%) ServiceNow
14 20 (1.03%) Talend
15 19 (0.98%) Denodo
16 17 (0.88%) Jaspersoft
16 17 (0.88%) Trend Micro
17 13 (0.67%) AppDynamics
18 9 (0.47%) Foundry