Docker Contracts in the Thames Valley

Docker
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 84 71
Rank change year-on-year -1 -13 -34
Contract jobs citing Docker 59 66 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.21% 2.25% 2.90%
As % of the System Software category 17.10% 18.59% 19.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 39 74
10th Percentile £425 £413 £413
25th Percentile £500 £481 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £593 £506
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +17.04% +12.50%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £609
90th Percentile £703 £690 £646
South East median daily rate £550 £588 £556
% change year-on-year -6.38% +5.62% +17.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £48.13 £58.19 -
25th Percentile £50.94 £60.16 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £64.38 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% - -
75th Percentile £60.94 £67.66 -
90th Percentile £63.38 £69.06 -
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £75.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +32.74% -5.83%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 345 355 523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.91% 12.08% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 265 391
10th Percentile £175 £230 £150
25th Percentile £310 £365 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 £453
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% +6.20% +3.43%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £656
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 14
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.86 £10.92
25th Percentile £46.25 £48.18 £12.44
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £14.85
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +270.37% -36.81%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £20.00
90th Percentile - £78.56 £53.25
South East median hourly rate £50.75 £54.03 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.07% +170.15% -4.76%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
Berkshire +2 52 £613 +16.67% 25
Oxfordshire -2 4 £500 +7.53% 5
Buckinghamshire +19 3 £575 -11.54% 16
Docker
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (18.64%) Apache
1 11 (18.64%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (10.17%) OpenStack
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.69%) Confluence
4 1 (1.69%) JBoss
4 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 38 (64.41%) AWS
2 28 (47.46%) Azure
3 10 (16.95%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (16.95%) GCP
4 8 (13.56%) OpenShift
5 7 (11.86%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (11.86%) Serverless
6 5 (8.47%) Amazon S3
6 5 (8.47%) SaaS
7 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.08%) PaaS
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.39%) Azure API Management
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.39%) GitHub
8 2 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.39%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (22.03%) VPN
2 11 (18.64%) BGP
2 11 (18.64%) Ethernet VPN
2 11 (18.64%) MPLS
2 11 (18.64%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (6.78%) Skype
4 2 (3.39%) Network Security
5 1 (1.69%) DHCP
5 1 (1.69%) DNS
5 1 (1.69%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (37.29%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (23.73%) NoSQL
3 11 (18.64%) MongoDB
4 7 (11.86%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.08%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (42.37%) GitLab
2 24 (40.68%) JIRA
3 23 (38.98%) Jenkins
4 13 (22.03%) Selenium
4 13 (22.03%) SonarQube
5 12 (20.34%) Cucumber
5 12 (20.34%) REST Assured
6 11 (18.64%) Robot Framework
6 11 (18.64%) TestRail
7 8 (13.56%) Git
8 5 (8.47%) JUnit
9 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.69%) Appium
10 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.69%) JMeter
10 1 (1.69%) Maven
10 1 (1.69%) Mockito
10 1 (1.69%) MSTest
10 1 (1.69%) NUnit
10 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (37.29%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Law
3 8 (13.56%) Police
4 7 (11.86%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (30.51%) Developer
2 12 (20.34%) Senior
3 11 (18.64%) Java Developer
4 10 (16.95%) Network Engineer
4 10 (16.95%) Test Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Administrator
5 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Software Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Java Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Java Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (6.78%) Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 3 (5.08%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (52.54%) REST
2 15 (25.42%) SOAP
3 13 (22.03%) ARM Templates
4 12 (20.34%) Java EE
5 11 (18.64%) NETCONF
5 11 (18.64%) RESTCONF
5 11 (18.64%) YANG
6 9 (15.25%) Spring
6 9 (15.25%) Spring Boot
6 9 (15.25%) Web Services
7 7 (11.86%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (11.86%) Node.js
8 5 (8.47%) .NET
8 5 (8.47%) AngularJS
9 4 (6.78%) Kafka
9 4 (6.78%) RESTful
10 3 (5.08%) J2EE
10 3 (5.08%) React
10 3 (5.08%) Ruby on Rails
11 2 (3.39%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.86%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.69%) Grid Computing
4 1 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.86%) Linux
2 4 (6.78%) Windows
2 4 (6.78%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (57.63%) Containerisation
2 30 (50.85%) DevOps
3 25 (42.37%) CI/CD
3 25 (42.37%) Test Automation
4 24 (40.68%) Agile
5 23 (38.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (33.90%) Scrum
6 20 (33.90%) Technical Leadership
7 15 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (23.73%) Configuration Management
8 14 (23.73%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (22.03%) Decision-Making
9 13 (22.03%) Microservices
10 12 (20.34%) Integration Testing
10 12 (20.34%) Software Architecture
10 12 (20.34%) Unit Testing
10 12 (20.34%) Workflow
11 11 (18.64%) Performance Testing
11 11 (18.64%) Security Testing
11 11 (18.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.98%) Java
2 17 (28.81%) Python
3 15 (25.42%) SQL
4 9 (15.25%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.47%) C#
5 5 (8.47%) Ruby
6 2 (3.39%) PHP
6 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.39%) Scala
7 1 (1.69%) Bash
7 1 (1.69%) Perl
7 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (42.37%) Security Cleared
2 20 (33.90%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.17%) Degree
4 4 (6.78%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (10.17%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.39%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.69%) NFS
4 1 (1.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 41 (69.49%) Kubernetes
2 26 (44.07%) Terraform
3 22 (37.29%) Ansible
4 12 (20.34%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (20.34%) Podman
5 7 (11.86%) Istio
5 7 (11.86%) Rancher
6 4 (6.78%) EMC NetWorker
6 4 (6.78%) SCCM
6 4 (6.78%) SCOM
7 3 (5.08%) Puppet
8 2 (3.39%) Grafana
8 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
8 2 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.69%) CFEngine
9 1 (1.69%) Kibana
9 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) Google
2 7 (11.86%) VMware
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.78%) Citrix
4 4 (6.78%) EMC
4 4 (6.78%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.69%) Splunk