Docker Contracts in the UK excluding London

Docker
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 65 55
Rank change year-on-year -31 -10 -7
Contract jobs citing Docker 429 810 1,254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.09% 3.45% 4.09%
As % of the System Software category 17.70% 22.85% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 591 898
10th Percentile £391 £425 £413
25th Percentile £441 £476 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.58% +11.79%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £680
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 12
10th Percentile £49.63 £59.80 £41.81
25th Percentile £64.06 £61.25 £44.33
Median hourly rate £79.00 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +47.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £52.45
90th Percentile £85.50 £75.50 £64.70
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -10.00% +27.66% +23.68%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,424 3,545 4,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.81% 15.08% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,633 2,562 3,279
10th Percentile £178 £181 £158
25th Percentile £281 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% +7.26% +6.16%
75th Percentile £586 £588 £560
90th Percentile £650 £676 £644
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 187 240
10th Percentile £14.02 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.73 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.98 £46.11 £18.31
Median % change year-on-year -54.51% +151.84% +4.02%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.81
90th Percentile £79.40 £71.50 £51.95
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North of England -36 117 £550 -4.35% 116
Scotland 0 82 £460 -3.97% 40
South East -52 82 £550 -5.17% 83
South West -17 81 £550 - 75
Yorkshire +20 54 £550 - 42
North West -45 52 £550 - 68
Midlands +18 30 £500 - 65
Wales +29 18 £506 - 13
West Midlands +11 18 £600 +9.09% 30
East of England -15 17 £625 +16.28% 35
East Midlands +18 12 £424 -11.72% 34
North East -11 11 £410 -41.43% 7
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 10
Docker
UK

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 31 (7.23%) Confluence
2 27 (6.29%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (5.36%) Apache
4 13 (3.03%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.86%) OpenStack
6 7 (1.63%) nginx
7 6 (1.40%) JBoss
8 4 (0.93%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.93%) SAS
9 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.47%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.47%) Traefik
11 1 (0.23%) Camunda
11 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (0.47%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 232 (54.08%) AWS
2 143 (33.33%) Azure
3 64 (14.92%) OpenShift
4 49 (11.42%) GCP
5 45 (10.49%) Serverless
6 39 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 38 (8.86%) Amazon S3
8 33 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (6.99%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (6.29%) GitHub
12 24 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (4.66%) Snowflake
14 15 (3.50%) Entra ID
14 15 (3.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (3.26%) Azure AKS
16 11 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
17 10 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.46%) VPN
2 22 (5.13%) Firewall
3 21 (4.90%) Network Security
4 20 (4.66%) DNS
5 11 (2.56%) AMQP
5 11 (2.56%) BGP
5 11 (2.56%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (2.56%) MPLS
5 11 (2.56%) Radio Access Network
5 11 (2.56%) TCP/IP
6 9 (2.10%) HTTP
7 8 (1.86%) 5G
8 5 (1.17%) MQTT
9 4 (0.93%) Diameter Protocol
9 4 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (0.93%) iSCSI
9 4 (0.93%) LTE
9 4 (0.93%) SAN
10 3 (0.70%) DHCP
10 3 (0.70%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (15.62%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (11.66%) NoSQL
3 46 (10.72%) Relational Database
4 28 (6.53%) Elasticsearch
5 27 (6.29%) MySQL
6 23 (5.36%) MongoDB
7 20 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.56%) Data Lake
9 10 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (2.33%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (2.10%) RDBMS
10 9 (2.10%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.86%) Flink
11 8 (1.86%) InfluxDB
12 7 (1.63%) Oracle Database
13 6 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (1.17%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.17%) GIS
Development Applications
1 131 (30.54%) Jenkins
2 106 (24.71%) Git
3 81 (18.88%) GitLab
4 71 (16.55%) JIRA
5 37 (8.62%) SonarQube
6 34 (7.93%) JUnit
7 24 (5.59%) Cucumber
8 21 (4.90%) Postman
9 18 (4.20%) Selenium
10 13 (3.03%) REST Assured
11 12 (2.80%) Maven
11 12 (2.80%) Robot Framework
12 11 (2.56%) TestRail
12 11 (2.56%) Travis CI
13 9 (2.10%) Artifactory
13 9 (2.10%) Bitbucket
13 9 (2.10%) Mockito
13 9 (2.10%) Visual Studio
14 8 (1.86%) Gradle
14 8 (1.86%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (16.55%) Social Skills
2 38 (8.86%) Public Sector
3 28 (6.53%) Finance
4 22 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (3.96%) Banking
6 12 (2.80%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.10%) Law
7 9 (2.10%) Legal
7 9 (2.10%) Retail
8 8 (1.86%) Police
9 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.93%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.70%) Marketing
12 2 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.47%) Electronics
13 1 (0.23%) Games
13 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.23%) Publishing
13 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 123 (28.67%) Developer
2 89 (20.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 54 (12.59%) Java Developer
4 43 (10.02%) Senior
5 31 (7.23%) AWS Engineer
6 28 (6.53%) AWS DevOps
7 25 (5.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 24 (5.59%) Architect
9 21 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (4.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 20 (4.66%) Software Engineer
11 18 (4.20%) Lead
12 17 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
12 17 (3.96%) Site Engineer
13 16 (3.73%) Test Engineer
14 14 (3.26%) Full Stack Developer
14 14 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
15 13 (3.03%) Data Engineer
16 11 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 11 (2.56%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (18.41%) REST
2 73 (17.02%) Spring Boot
3 61 (14.22%) Spring
4 50 (11.66%) React
5 42 (9.79%) Kafka
6 40 (9.32%) RESTful
7 37 (8.62%) Elastic Stack
8 36 (8.39%) Node.js
9 24 (5.59%) .NET
10 20 (4.66%) Web Services
11 18 (4.20%) AWS CDK
11 18 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
12 17 (3.96%) GraphQL
12 17 (3.96%) YAML
13 16 (3.73%) ARM Templates
13 16 (3.73%) CSS
13 16 (3.73%) HTML
13 16 (3.73%) JSON
13 16 (3.73%) XML
14 15 (3.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.29%) Public Cloud
2 26 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.66%) Cloud Native
4 18 (4.20%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.03%) NHS
6 12 (2.80%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (2.10%) PKI
9 8 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.17%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.17%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.17%) Verilog
11 5 (1.17%) VHDL
12 4 (0.93%) IoT
12 4 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.93%) NVMe
12 4 (0.93%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.70%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 95 (22.14%) Linux
2 39 (9.09%) Windows
3 23 (5.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (4.90%) Unix
5 16 (3.73%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.40%) CentOS
6 6 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.40%) VMS
7 4 (0.93%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (0.93%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (53.85%) DevOps
2 201 (46.85%) CI/CD
3 151 (35.20%) Agile
4 133 (31.00%) Containerisation
5 94 (21.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 79 (18.41%) Scrum
7 77 (17.95%) Microservices
8 67 (15.62%) Continuous Integration
9 64 (14.92%) Test Automation
10 57 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
11 52 (12.12%) Software Engineering
12 50 (11.66%) TDD
13 47 (10.96%) Configuration Management
14 43 (10.02%) Unit Testing
15 36 (8.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 32 (7.46%) High Availability
17 31 (7.23%) Full Stack Development
17 31 (7.23%) Kanban
18 28 (6.53%) Computer Science
19 27 (6.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 173 (40.33%) Python
2 144 (33.57%) Java
3 101 (23.54%) SQL
4 65 (15.15%) Bash
5 49 (11.42%) JavaScript
6 44 (10.26%) PowerShell
7 42 (9.79%) Go
8 35 (8.16%) TypeScript
9 31 (7.23%) Scala
10 28 (6.53%) C
11 25 (5.83%) Ruby
12 24 (5.59%) Shell Script
13 17 (3.96%) C#
14 13 (3.03%) Perl
15 11 (2.56%) C++
15 11 (2.56%) Groovy
16 10 (2.33%) PHP
17 9 (2.10%) Kotlin
18 6 (1.40%) PL/SQL
19 2 (0.47%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 119 (27.74%) Security Cleared
2 66 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 62 (14.45%) DV Cleared
4 21 (4.90%) Degree
5 18 (4.20%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (2.10%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.47%) RHCE
9 2 (0.47%) SANS
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.23%) GIAC
10 1 (0.23%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.23%) LPIC
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.43%) Accessibility
2 18 (4.20%) QA
3 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.17%) NIST
4 4 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.70%) ISO 22301
5 3 (0.70%) NCSC
5 3 (0.70%) WCAG
6 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.47%) GDPR
6 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.23%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (4.20%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.86%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.17%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.17%) NFS
5 4 (0.93%) GPFS
6 3 (0.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.70%) LXC
6 3 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.70%) vSphere
7 2 (0.47%) Ceph
7 2 (0.47%) HDFS
7 2 (0.47%) KVM
7 2 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.23%) Lustre
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 285 (66.43%) Kubernetes
2 170 (39.63%) Terraform
3 125 (29.14%) Ansible
4 62 (14.45%) Grafana
5 58 (13.52%) Prometheus
6 35 (8.16%) Progress Chef
7 32 (7.46%) Docker Swarm
8 25 (5.83%) Puppet
9 22 (5.13%) Kibana
10 16 (3.73%) Podman
11 12 (2.80%) Istio
12 11 (2.56%) HP Fortify
13 10 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (1.86%) Zipkin
15 7 (1.63%) Rancher
16 6 (1.40%) Graylog
16 6 (1.40%) logstash
16 6 (1.40%) Nagios
17 5 (1.17%) Nessus
17 5 (1.17%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 38 (8.86%) Splunk
2 30 (6.99%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.53%) VMware
4 21 (4.90%) Oracle
5 20 (4.66%) Google
6 17 (3.96%) Red Hat
7 13 (3.03%) Atlassian
8 12 (2.80%) Databricks
9 7 (1.63%) Checkmarx
10 6 (1.40%) EMC
10 6 (1.40%) WSO2
11 5 (1.17%) AppDynamics
11 5 (1.17%) IBM
11 5 (1.17%) Veracode
12 4 (0.93%) Brocade
12 4 (0.93%) NetApp
12 4 (0.93%) Sybase
12 4 (0.93%) Veritas
13 3 (0.70%) Cisco
13 3 (0.70%) Salesforce