Docker Contracts in the South West

Docker
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 79 59 39
Rank change year-on-year -20 -20 -16
Contract jobs citing Docker 76 142 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.40% 3.90% 5.28%
As % of the System Software category 21.17% 24.57% 31.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 110 149
10th Percentile £475 £400 £423
25th Percentile £513 £483 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +6.13% +11.58%
75th Percentile £590 £709 £605
90th Percentile £691 £750 £680
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 2
10th Percentile £59.63 £53.73 £47.57
25th Percentile £72.19 £59.80 £48.39
Median hourly rate £80.00 £60.70 £51.64
Median % change year-on-year +31.80% +17.56% +3.27%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.50 £55.51
90th Percentile £86.50 £77.00 £56.70
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 West

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 West with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 359 578 621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.34% 15.87% 16.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 439 443
10th Percentile £153 £200 £185
25th Percentile £265 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £575
90th Percentile £700 £725 £649
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 43 20
10th Percentile - £13.69 £15.79
25th Percentile £40.00 £17.38 £36.12
Median hourly rate £68.75 £60.00 £49.49
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +21.24% +23.99%
75th Percentile £86.25 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £78.56 £61.74
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Gloucestershire -1 40 £550 -8.33% 18
Bristol +13 25 £525 -4.55% 34
Wiltshire -25 7 £580 +16.00% 4
Devon -5 1 - - 5
Somerset -6 1 £475 -34.48% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 40 (52.63%) AWS
2 23 (30.26%) Azure
3 14 (18.42%) OpenShift
4 12 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (11.84%) Serverless
6 8 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (10.53%) Amazon S3
6 8 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.95%) GCP
7 3 (3.95%) GitHub
8 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.32%) Apigee
9 1 (1.32%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.32%) npm
9 1 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.21%) AMQP
2 6 (7.89%) Network Security
3 5 (6.58%) VPN
4 3 (3.95%) DNS
5 2 (2.63%) DHCP
5 2 (2.63%) IPv4
5 2 (2.63%) OSPF
5 2 (2.63%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.63%) VLAN
6 1 (1.32%) MQTT
6 1 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (10.53%) InfluxDB
2 6 (7.89%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.32%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.32%) MySQL
3 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 19 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.53%) Artifactory
3 6 (7.89%) Git
3 6 (7.89%) SonarQube
4 4 (5.26%) JIRA
5 3 (3.95%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.95%) NUnit
5 3 (3.95%) Postman
5 3 (3.95%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.63%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.63%) GitLab
7 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.32%) git-flow
7 1 (1.32%) JMeter
7 1 (1.32%) PHPUnit
7 1 (1.32%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.32%) Selenium
7 1 (1.32%) webpack
General
1 10 (13.16%) Telecoms
2 7 (9.21%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.89%) Legal
4 5 (6.58%) Finance
5 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.63%) Electronics
6 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.63%) Marketing
7 1 (1.32%) Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Law
7 1 (1.32%) Retail
7 1 (1.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (14.47%) Developer
3 9 (11.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Software Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Architect
5 7 (9.21%) Senior
6 6 (7.89%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Site Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Software Architect
8 4 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Lead
8 4 (5.26%) Python Software Architect
9 3 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.16%) RESTful
2 8 (10.53%) .NET
3 7 (9.21%) Node.js
3 7 (9.21%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (7.89%) React
4 6 (7.89%) XML
4 6 (7.89%) YAML
5 5 (6.58%) Spring
5 5 (6.58%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.26%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.26%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.95%) ModSecurity
7 3 (3.95%) Playwright
8 2 (2.63%) ADO
8 2 (2.63%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (2.63%) CSS
8 2 (2.63%) HTML
9 1 (1.32%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.32%) JCE
9 1 (1.32%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.89%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (6.58%) Verilog
3 5 (6.58%) VHDL
4 4 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.95%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.63%) PKI
7 1 (1.32%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 27 (35.53%) Linux
2 8 (10.53%) Windows
3 4 (5.26%) Unix
4 3 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.95%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.63%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.32%) CentOS
6 1 (1.32%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (60.53%) DevOps
2 33 (43.42%) CI/CD
3 18 (23.68%) Software Engineering
4 17 (22.37%) Agile
5 14 (18.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (15.79%) Software Delivery
7 11 (14.47%) Containerisation
8 8 (10.53%) Configuration Management
8 8 (10.53%) Observability
8 8 (10.53%) Software Architecture
9 7 (9.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (7.89%) Data Protection
10 6 (7.89%) Event-Driven
10 6 (7.89%) Service Management
10 6 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (7.89%) Task Automation
10 6 (7.89%) TDD
11 5 (6.58%) BDD
11 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (6.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (44.74%) Python
2 23 (30.26%) Java
3 22 (28.95%) C
4 16 (21.05%) PowerShell
4 16 (21.05%) SQL
5 12 (15.79%) Bash
5 12 (15.79%) Go
6 11 (14.47%) TypeScript
7 7 (9.21%) C++
7 7 (9.21%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.58%) C#
8 5 (6.58%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.32%) PHP
9 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (68.42%) Security Cleared
2 40 (52.63%) DV Cleared
3 10 (13.16%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.32%) Degree
5 1 (1.32%) GIAC
5 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.63%) NIST
3 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (6.58%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (60.53%) Kubernetes
2 37 (48.68%) Ansible
2 37 (48.68%) Terraform
3 21 (27.63%) Grafana
3 21 (27.63%) Prometheus
4 11 (14.47%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (11.84%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.95%) OPNET
6 3 (3.95%) Puppet
7 2 (2.63%) SCCM
7 2 (2.63%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.32%) Kibana
8 1 (1.32%) Packer
8 1 (1.32%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.32%) rkt
Vendors
1 8 (10.53%) VMware
2 6 (7.89%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.95%) Google
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.63%) Oracle
4 2 (2.63%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.63%) SAP
4 2 (2.63%) Veeam
5 1 (1.32%) Cisco
5 1 (1.32%) IBM
5 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.32%) Splunk