Docker Contracts in the South East

Docker
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 115 70 58
Rank change year-on-year -45 -12 -13
Contract jobs citing Docker 88 186 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.59% 3.19% 3.99%
As % of the System Software category 11.33% 21.70% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 130 209
10th Percentile £400 £448 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +21.05%
75th Percentile £650 £643 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 4
10th Percentile £48.13 £61.38 £45.38
25th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £45.94
Median hourly rate £56.25 £75.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +32.74% -5.83%
75th Percentile £60.94 - £65.51
90th Percentile £63.38 - £65.53
England median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £65.52
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.47% +19.13%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 777 857 1,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.06% 14.70% 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 601 902
10th Percentile £200 £205 £163
25th Percentile £331 £358 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £600
90th Percentile £647 £675 £675
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 46 57
10th Percentile £17.26 £17.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £50.75 £54.03 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% +170.15% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62.81 £69.38 £24.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £67.71
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the South East 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
Thames Valley 0 59 £588 -0.84% 45
Berkshire -1 52 £613 +16.67% 23
Hampshire -38 12 £575 +2.22% 17
West Sussex +10 11 £475 -18.10% 4
Oxfordshire -1 4 £500 +7.53% 6
Buckinghamshire +19 3 £575 -11.54% 17
Surrey -23 3 £433 -26.38% 9
Sussex - 1 £350 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (12.50%) Apache
1 11 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.82%) OpenStack
3 5 (5.68%) Confluence
3 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.27%) GeoServer
5 1 (1.14%) JBoss
5 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 44 (50.00%) AWS
2 34 (38.64%) Azure
3 10 (11.36%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (11.36%) GCP
4 9 (10.23%) OpenShift
5 8 (9.09%) GitHub
6 7 (7.95%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (7.95%) SaaS
6 7 (7.95%) Serverless
7 6 (6.82%) IaaS
8 5 (5.68%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (4.55%) PaaS
10 3 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.41%) Datadog
11 2 (2.27%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (2.27%) Azure Event Grid
11 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.91%) VPN
2 11 (12.50%) BGP
2 11 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
2 11 (12.50%) MPLS
2 11 (12.50%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (4.55%) Skype
4 2 (2.27%) Firewall
4 2 (2.27%) Network Security
5 1 (1.14%) DHCP
5 1 (1.14%) DNS
5 1 (1.14%) HTTP
5 1 (1.14%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (35.23%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (21.59%) NoSQL
3 12 (13.64%) MongoDB
4 7 (7.95%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (4.55%) Couchbase
6 3 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.41%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.27%) GIS
8 1 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.14%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (42.05%) Jenkins
2 33 (37.50%) GitLab
3 32 (36.36%) JIRA
4 19 (21.59%) Git
5 14 (15.91%) Selenium
6 13 (14.77%) SonarQube
7 12 (13.64%) Cucumber
7 12 (13.64%) REST Assured
8 11 (12.50%) Robot Framework
8 11 (12.50%) TestRail
9 6 (6.82%) JUnit
10 3 (3.41%) Subversion
10 3 (3.41%) Visual Studio
11 1 (1.14%) Appium
11 1 (1.14%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.14%) JMeter
11 1 (1.14%) Maven
11 1 (1.14%) Mockito
11 1 (1.14%) NUnit
General
1 27 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.09%) Law
3 8 (9.09%) Police
3 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.27%) Finance
4 2 (2.27%) Legal
5 1 (1.14%) Banking
5 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.14%) Military
5 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (27.27%) Developer
2 14 (15.91%) Senior
3 11 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 10 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (11.36%) Network Engineer
4 10 (11.36%) Test Engineer
5 9 (10.23%) Software Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Administrator
7 6 (6.82%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Systems Administrator
8 5 (5.68%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Java Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Architect
10 3 (3.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (46.59%) REST
2 15 (17.05%) SOAP
3 13 (14.77%) ARM Templates
4 12 (13.64%) Java EE
5 11 (12.50%) NETCONF
5 11 (12.50%) RESTCONF
5 11 (12.50%) YANG
6 10 (11.36%) Web Services
7 9 (10.23%) Spring
7 9 (10.23%) Spring Boot
8 8 (9.09%) Kafka
9 7 (7.95%) AngularJS
9 7 (7.95%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (7.95%) Node.js
10 6 (6.82%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (5.68%) .NET
11 5 (5.68%) RESTful
12 4 (4.55%) YAML
13 3 (3.41%) Flask
13 3 (3.41%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.68%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.41%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.14%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.91%) Linux
2 5 (5.68%) Windows
3 4 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.14%) Unix
5 1 (1.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (46.59%) Containerisation
2 39 (44.32%) Agile
2 39 (44.32%) DevOps
3 34 (38.64%) CI/CD
4 30 (34.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (34.09%) Test Automation
5 28 (31.82%) Scrum
6 22 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 21 (23.86%) Technical Leadership
8 18 (20.45%) Microservices
9 17 (19.32%) Configuration Management
9 17 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (18.18%) Software Engineering
11 14 (15.91%) Decision-Making
11 14 (15.91%) Regression Testing
12 13 (14.77%) BDD
12 13 (14.77%) Integration Testing
13 12 (13.64%) Software Architecture
13 12 (13.64%) TDD
13 12 (13.64%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (32.95%) Python
2 26 (29.55%) Java
3 20 (22.73%) SQL
4 9 (10.23%) Go
4 9 (10.23%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.09%) Ruby
6 6 (6.82%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.68%) C#
8 4 (4.55%) Bash
8 4 (4.55%) C++
8 4 (4.55%) Perl
9 3 (3.41%) C
9 3 (3.41%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.27%) PHP
10 2 (2.27%) Scala
11 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 26 (29.55%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.77%) Degree
4 6 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (6.82%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.14%) JSP 440
1 1 (1.14%) NCSC
1 1 (1.14%) NIST
1 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (7.95%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (6.82%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.41%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.41%) vSphere
5 2 (2.27%) Ceph
5 2 (2.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (2.27%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.14%) LXC
6 1 (1.14%) NFS
6 1 (1.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 59 (67.05%) Kubernetes
2 38 (43.18%) Terraform
3 34 (38.64%) Ansible
4 14 (15.91%) Podman
5 12 (13.64%) Docker Swarm
6 7 (7.95%) Istio
6 7 (7.95%) Rancher
7 6 (6.82%) Puppet
8 4 (4.55%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (4.55%) Progress Chef
8 4 (4.55%) SCCM
8 4 (4.55%) SCOM
9 3 (3.41%) Nagios
10 2 (2.27%) Grafana
10 2 (2.27%) Pacemaker
10 2 (2.27%) Prometheus
10 2 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (1.14%) Kibana
11 1 (1.14%) Packer
11 1 (1.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (11.36%) VMware
2 8 (9.09%) Google
2 8 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.68%) Atlassian
3 5 (5.68%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.55%) Citrix
4 4 (4.55%) EMC
4 4 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.55%) Splunk
5 3 (3.41%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (3.41%) New Relic
6 2 (2.27%) Sun
7 1 (1.14%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.14%) Dynatrace