Docker Contracts in the Midlands

Docker
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 121 79
Rank change year-on-year +19 -42 +15
Contract jobs citing Docker 35 42 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.28% 1.21% 2.74%
As % of the System Software category 14.11% 8.61% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 33 105
10th Percentile £356 £442 £381
25th Percentile £382 £480 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +16.47%
75th Percentile £675 £608 £550
90th Percentile £750 £695 £625
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 248 488 695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.04% 14.11% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 343 488
10th Percentile £150 £158 £137
25th Percentile £205 £255 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +13.04%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £500
90th Percentile £638 £690 £588
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 27 40
10th Percentile £14.59 £12.62 £10.73
25th Percentile £15.65 £15.25 £13.47
Median hourly rate £19.95 £18.50 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +10.45% +11.67%
75th Percentile £23.75 £45.50 £20.51
90th Percentile £40.64 £65.00 £23.75
England median hourly rate £22.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -56.00% +163.16% -1.30%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the Midlands

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in the Midlands

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the Midlands

Docker
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
West Midlands +15 21 £550 - 28
East Midlands +21 14 £450 -6.25% 31
Docker
England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (14.29%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (5.71%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) AWS
2 16 (45.71%) Azure
3 7 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 5 (14.29%) CloudFront
4 5 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 5 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (8.57%) GCP
5 3 (8.57%) Serverless
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) DNS
1 5 (14.29%) Network Security
1 5 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (2.86%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) InfiniBand
2 1 (2.86%) LAN
2 1 (2.86%) Multicast
2 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) Relational Database
2 5 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (14.29%) MySQL
2 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.71%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.71%) Power BI
4 1 (2.86%) Flink
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Git
2 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (17.14%) TeamCity
4 5 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (14.29%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (14.29%) JIRA
4 5 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 5 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (8.57%) GitLab
5 3 (8.57%) NUnit
5 3 (8.57%) Selenium
6 1 (2.86%) JUnit
6 1 (2.86%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.86%) Travis CI
General
1 7 (20.00%) Finance
2 5 (14.29%) Retail
3 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Developer
3 6 (17.14%) Architect
4 5 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Angular Developer
6 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Data Centre Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Market Data Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (5.71%) PHP Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) Spring Boot
2 5 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (14.29%) OAuth
2 5 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 5 (14.29%) SAML
3 4 (11.43%) .NET
3 4 (11.43%) Kafka
4 3 (8.57%) .NET Framework
4 3 (8.57%) ADO
4 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
4 3 (8.57%) ARM Templates
4 3 (8.57%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 3 (8.57%) Castle Windsor
4 3 (8.57%) Entity Framework
4 3 (8.57%) NHibernate
4 3 (8.57%) Razor View Engine
4 3 (8.57%) WCF
5 2 (5.71%) CSS
5 2 (5.71%) CSS3
5 2 (5.71%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) IoT
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (34.29%) Linux
2 11 (31.43%) Windows
3 8 (22.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) DevOps
2 16 (45.71%) CI/CD
3 12 (34.29%) Microservices
4 7 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 6 (17.14%) Code Quality
5 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (14.29%) Application Security
6 5 (14.29%) Build Automation
6 5 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 5 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 5 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (14.29%) Defensive Programming
6 5 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
6 5 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (14.29%) Task Automation
6 5 (14.29%) The Twelve-Factor App
6 5 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) Python
2 5 (14.29%) Perl
3 4 (11.43%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.57%) Bicep
4 3 (8.57%) Java
5 2 (5.71%) Go
5 2 (5.71%) PHP
6 1 (2.86%) Bash
6 1 (2.86%) C#
6 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.71%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) GDPR
1 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.86%) Lustre
3 1 (2.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 23 (65.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (28.57%) Terraform
3 6 (17.14%) Progress Chef
4 5 (14.29%) Kibana
5 2 (5.71%) Ansible
6 1 (2.86%) Argo
6 1 (2.86%) Istio
6 1 (2.86%) linkerd
6 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.86%) SELinux
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Red Hat
2 5 (14.29%) AppDynamics
2 5 (14.29%) Splunk
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.71%) Bloomberg
4 2 (5.71%) Databricks
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle
4 2 (5.71%) VMware
5 1 (2.86%) Cisco
5 1 (2.86%) Confluent
5 1 (2.86%) Juniper