Docker Contracts in England

Docker
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Docker skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Docker over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 51 37
Rank change year-on-year -29 -14 -10
Contract jobs citing Docker 983 2,248 4,255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.66% 4.45% 5.98%
As % of the System Software category 24.43% 33.92% 42.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 718 1,661 3,185
10th Percentile £406 £450 £435
25th Percentile £463 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 31 12
10th Percentile £47.40 £60.70 £46.33
25th Percentile £62.50 £64.88 £47.23
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £65.52
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.47% +19.13%
75th Percentile £85.00 £76.75 £78.75
90th Percentile - £85.00 £84.38
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% +36.36% +12.82%

All System Software Skills
England

Docker is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,023 6,627 9,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.88% 13.11% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,784 4,805 7,184
10th Percentile £190 £204 £195
25th Percentile £325 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £710
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 247 277
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -
75th Percentile £57.80 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £72.38 £75.60 £55.18
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in England

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in England.

Daily rate trend for Docker in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in England

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in England.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London -26 585 £550 -15.38% 367
North of England -39 116 £550 -4.35% 116
South East -45 88 £550 -6.38% 86
South West -20 76 £550 -2.22% 68
Yorkshire +15 54 £550 - 40
North West -52 51 £550 - 65
Midlands +15 33 £500 - 63
West Midlands +16 19 £600 +9.09% 28
East of England -3 17 £650 +20.93% 31
East Midlands +21 14 £450 -6.25% 35
North East -13 11 £410 -39.26% 13
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UK

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 44 (4.48%) Confluence
2 38 (3.87%) Apache
3 35 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (2.44%) OpenStack
5 18 (1.83%) nginx
6 13 (1.32%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.81%) JBoss
7 8 (0.81%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.71%) IIS
9 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.51%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.51%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.51%) Luigi
11 4 (0.41%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.31%) Camunda
12 3 (0.31%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.31%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.31%) WordPress
13 2 (0.20%) Traefik
14 1 (0.10%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.10%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Endur
2 2 (0.20%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.20%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 530 (53.92%) AWS
2 317 (32.25%) Azure
3 131 (13.33%) GCP
4 120 (12.21%) Serverless
5 107 (10.89%) GitHub
6 87 (8.85%) Amazon S3
7 79 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
8 77 (7.83%) AWS Lambda
9 74 (7.53%) Amazon EC2
10 68 (6.92%) OpenShift
11 55 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 53 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
13 43 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (3.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 29 (2.95%) PaaS
16 29 (2.95%) SaaS
17 25 (2.54%) Amazon ECS
18 23 (2.34%) Azure AKS
19 21 (2.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.27%) DNS
1 42 (4.27%) Firewall
2 36 (3.66%) VPN
3 29 (2.95%) Network Security
4 28 (2.85%) TCP/IP
5 21 (2.14%) DHCP
5 21 (2.14%) HTTP
6 12 (1.22%) AMQP
6 12 (1.22%) BGP
6 12 (1.22%) Ethernet VPN
6 12 (1.22%) MPLS
6 12 (1.22%) Radio Access Network
7 11 (1.12%) SAN
8 10 (1.02%) Kerberos
8 10 (1.02%) VLAN
9 8 (0.81%) NAS
10 7 (0.71%) MQTT
11 6 (0.61%) IPv4
12 5 (0.51%) DMZ
12 5 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (10.89%) NoSQL
3 72 (7.32%) Apache Cassandra
4 68 (6.92%) Relational Database
5 54 (5.49%) MySQL
6 53 (5.39%) MongoDB
7 51 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
8 44 (4.48%) SQL Server
9 38 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (2.54%) DynamoDB
11 19 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (1.73%) Data Lake
13 15 (1.53%) Big Data
13 15 (1.53%) RDBMS
14 12 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.12%) Flink
15 11 (1.12%) Redis
16 9 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
16 9 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (0.81%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 252 (25.64%) Jenkins
2 244 (24.82%) Git
3 136 (13.84%) GitLab
4 94 (9.56%) JIRA
5 51 (5.19%) JUnit
6 49 (4.98%) SonarQube
7 48 (4.88%) Selenium
8 46 (4.68%) Cucumber
9 42 (4.27%) TeamCity
10 31 (3.15%) Maven
11 24 (2.44%) Bitbucket
11 24 (2.44%) Cypress.io
12 23 (2.34%) Mockito
13 19 (1.93%) Artifactory
13 19 (1.93%) NUnit
14 17 (1.73%) CircleCI
14 17 (1.73%) Robot Framework
15 16 (1.63%) JMeter
15 16 (1.63%) REST Assured
16 15 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 164 (16.68%) Social Skills
2 118 (12.00%) Finance
3 98 (9.97%) Public Sector
4 51 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (3.87%) Banking
6 26 (2.64%) Telecoms
7 22 (2.24%) Law
8 21 (2.14%) Retail
9 20 (2.03%) Front Office
10 15 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.42%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.12%) Marketing
13 9 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.92%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.81%) Legal
14 8 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.81%) Police
15 5 (0.51%) Electronics
15 5 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 282 (28.69%) Developer
2 198 (20.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 147 (14.95%) Senior
4 101 (10.27%) Software Engineer
5 92 (9.36%) Java Developer
6 65 (6.61%) AWS Engineer
7 58 (5.90%) AWS DevOps
8 56 (5.70%) Architect
9 54 (5.49%) Azure Engineer
10 52 (5.29%) Lead
11 50 (5.09%) Cloud Engineer
12 49 (4.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 48 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
14 39 (3.97%) Senior Developer
15 37 (3.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 35 (3.56%) Full Stack Developer
17 34 (3.46%) Python Developer
18 32 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
19 26 (2.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 26 (2.64%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (14.95%) Kafka
2 127 (12.92%) REST
3 110 (11.19%) Spring Boot
4 108 (10.99%) Spring
5 107 (10.89%) React
6 88 (8.95%) Node.js
7 83 (8.44%) RESTful
8 68 (6.92%) .NET
9 56 (5.70%) Elastic Stack
10 41 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
11 40 (4.07%) Web Services
12 39 (3.97%) AngularJS
12 39 (3.97%) SOAP
13 35 (3.56%) HTML
14 34 (3.46%) JSON
15 32 (3.26%) YAML
16 26 (2.64%) .NET Core
16 26 (2.64%) CSS
16 26 (2.64%) Hibernate
16 26 (2.64%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 46 (4.68%) Public Cloud
2 39 (3.97%) Cloud Native
3 33 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
5 29 (2.95%) Linux Command Line
6 27 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 19 (1.93%) Data Centre
7 19 (1.93%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.83%) Clustering
9 17 (1.73%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.22%) PKI
12 11 (1.12%) Replication
12 11 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.92%) Onboarding
14 8 (0.81%) Derivative
14 8 (0.81%) Fixed Income
14 8 (0.81%) Machine to Machine
15 7 (0.71%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 234 (23.80%) Linux
2 66 (6.71%) Windows
3 42 (4.27%) Unix
4 39 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (3.46%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.32%) Oracle Linux
7 11 (1.12%) CentOS
8 8 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.81%) Solaris
9 7 (0.71%) Android
10 6 (0.61%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.31%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.20%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.10%) Debian
13 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.10%) VMS
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (49.64%) DevOps
2 439 (44.66%) CI/CD
3 365 (37.13%) Agile
4 299 (30.42%) Containerisation
5 213 (21.67%) Microservices
6 212 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 181 (18.41%) Software Engineering
8 143 (14.55%) Continuous Integration
9 142 (14.45%) Test Automation
10 136 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
11 126 (12.82%) Scrum
12 97 (9.87%) TDD
13 76 (7.73%) Configuration Management
14 73 (7.43%) High Availability
15 72 (7.32%) Unit Testing
16 69 (7.02%) Full Stack Development
17 60 (6.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 56 (5.70%) Software Delivery
19 54 (5.49%) User Experience
20 52 (5.29%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 407 (41.40%) Python
2 282 (28.69%) Java
3 201 (20.45%) SQL
4 136 (13.84%) Bash
5 129 (13.12%) Go
6 110 (11.19%) JavaScript
7 94 (9.56%) PowerShell
8 75 (7.63%) TypeScript
9 58 (5.90%) C#
10 35 (3.56%) C
10 35 (3.56%) Shell Script
11 32 (3.26%) Ruby
12 27 (2.75%) Scala
13 25 (2.54%) C++
14 18 (1.83%) PHP
15 17 (1.73%) Perl
16 16 (1.63%) Groovy
17 15 (1.53%) Bicep
18 7 (0.71%) Rust
19 3 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 283 (28.79%) Security Cleared
2 203 (20.65%) SC Cleared
3 94 (9.56%) DV Cleared
4 65 (6.61%) Degree
5 34 (3.46%) AWS Certification
6 31 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (1.93%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.31%) CISSP
11 3 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.20%) RHCE
13 1 (0.10%) CEH
13 1 (0.10%) GIAC
13 1 (0.10%) ISEB
13 1 (0.10%) Linux+ Certification
13 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.36%) QA
2 14 (1.42%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.12%) NIST
4 10 (1.02%) GDPR
5 9 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.81%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.71%) NCSC
8 3 (0.31%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.20%) WCAG
10 1 (0.10%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (3.97%) Active Directory
2 36 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.71%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.71%) vSphere
6 6 (0.61%) Firmware
7 5 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.31%) Ceph
8 3 (0.31%) KVM
8 3 (0.31%) LXC
9 2 (0.20%) HDFS
9 2 (0.20%) NFS
9 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.10%) iptables
10 1 (0.10%) Lustre
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 733 (74.57%) Kubernetes
2 397 (40.39%) Terraform
3 231 (23.50%) Ansible
4 96 (9.77%) Grafana
5 91 (9.26%) Prometheus
6 61 (6.21%) Puppet
7 54 (5.49%) Progress Chef
8 42 (4.27%) Docker Swarm
9 23 (2.34%) Kibana
10 20 (2.03%) Podman
11 19 (1.93%) Packer
12 17 (1.73%) Istio
13 13 (1.32%) Argo
14 12 (1.22%) EMC NetWorker
15 11 (1.12%) HP Fortify
15 11 (1.12%) Netcool
15 11 (1.12%) Rancher
16 10 (1.02%) Nagios
17 9 (0.92%) Consul
18 8 (0.81%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 91 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 71 (7.22%) Splunk
3 64 (6.51%) Oracle
4 60 (6.10%) VMware
5 53 (5.39%) Google
6 27 (2.75%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.83%) Databricks
8 17 (1.73%) Dell
9 16 (1.63%) IBM
10 15 (1.53%) Cisco
11 14 (1.42%) Atlassian
12 13 (1.32%) CyberArk
12 13 (1.32%) ServiceNow
12 13 (1.32%) TIBCO
13 12 (1.22%) EMC
14 11 (1.12%) SAP
15 10 (1.02%) New Relic
16 9 (0.92%) Salesforce
17 8 (0.81%) HP
17 8 (0.81%) Serena