Docker
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 50 37
Rank change year-on-year -26 -13 -6
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,196 2,667 5,202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.75% 4.45% 5.86%
As % of the System Software category 25.58% 33.59% 43.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 1,921 3,849
10th Percentile £405 £450 £426
25th Percentile £460 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% +11.62%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 33 21
10th Percentile £47.40 £60.81 £42.33
25th Percentile £62.50 £65.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +36.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.50 £65.54
90th Percentile - £85.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 £70.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +12.86% +47.37% -13.64%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,676 7,939 12,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.74% 13.24% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,195 5,675 8,612
10th Percentile £198 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.37%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £481 £450
% change year-on-year -4.28% +6.79% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 291 324
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.52 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.14 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.35 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.83% +166.75% -
75th Percentile £60.19 £66.00 £44.77
90th Percentile £77.95 £75.00 £60.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £40.00 £18.12
% change year-on-year -46.25% +120.81% +2.06%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the UK

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in the UK

Docker
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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
England -31 988 £550 -8.33% 778
London -27 589 £550 -15.38% 383
Work from Home -22 437 £550 -6.38% 559
UK excluding London -38 430 £525 -4.55% 450
North of England -41 116 £550 -4.35% 117
South East -43 88 £550 -6.38% 89
Scotland -5 81 £463 -3.44% 50
South West -17 76 £550 -2.22% 72
Yorkshire +15 54 £550 - 40
North West -51 51 £550 - 66
Midlands +19 33 £500 - 64
West Midlands +16 19 £600 +9.09% 28
Wales +24 17 £500 +2.56% 16
East of England -7 17 £650 +20.93% 31
East Midlands +25 14 £450 -6.25% 36
North East -12 11 £410 -39.26% 13
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 16

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 61 (5.10%) Confluence
2 47 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (3.51%) Apache
4 25 (2.09%) OpenStack
5 22 (1.84%) Apache Spark
6 20 (1.67%) nginx
7 8 (0.67%) JBoss
7 8 (0.67%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.59%) IIS
9 6 (0.50%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.50%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.42%) CMS
10 5 (0.42%) Luigi
11 4 (0.33%) SAS
11 4 (0.33%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.25%) Camunda
12 3 (0.25%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.084%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.42%) Endur
1 5 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.17%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.17%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 660 (55.18%) AWS
2 396 (33.11%) Azure
3 155 (12.96%) GCP
4 150 (12.54%) Serverless
5 128 (10.70%) GitHub
6 118 (9.87%) Amazon S3
7 113 (9.45%) OpenShift
8 107 (8.95%) AWS Lambda
9 102 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
11 79 (6.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 73 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
13 57 (4.77%) GitHub Actions
14 48 (4.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 45 (3.76%) SaaS
16 43 (3.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 41 (3.43%) PaaS
18 36 (3.01%) IaaS
19 33 (2.76%) Azure AKS
20 32 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.10%) Firewall
2 47 (3.93%) DNS
3 37 (3.09%) VPN
4 35 (2.93%) Network Security
5 32 (2.68%) TCP/IP
6 24 (2.01%) HTTP
7 22 (1.84%) DHCP
8 15 (1.25%) SAN
9 12 (1.00%) AMQP
9 12 (1.00%) BGP
9 12 (1.00%) Ethernet VPN
9 12 (1.00%) MPLS
9 12 (1.00%) Radio Access Network
10 10 (0.84%) Kerberos
10 10 (0.84%) VLAN
11 9 (0.75%) 5G
12 8 (0.67%) NAS
13 7 (0.59%) MQTT
14 6 (0.50%) DMZ
14 6 (0.50%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (12.04%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (9.70%) NoSQL
3 77 (6.44%) Relational Database
4 73 (6.10%) Apache Cassandra
5 66 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
6 65 (5.43%) MySQL
7 62 (5.18%) MongoDB
8 54 (4.52%) Elasticsearch
9 47 (3.93%) SQL Server
10 28 (2.34%) DynamoDB
11 25 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (1.67%) Data Lake
12 20 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
13 18 (1.51%) Big Data
14 17 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
14 17 (1.42%) RDBMS
15 14 (1.17%) Redis
16 12 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
16 12 (1.00%) Flink
17 11 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 324 (27.09%) Jenkins
2 304 (25.42%) Git
3 154 (12.88%) GitLab
4 118 (9.87%) JIRA
5 65 (5.43%) SonarQube
6 64 (5.35%) JUnit
7 56 (4.68%) Cucumber
8 50 (4.18%) Maven
8 50 (4.18%) Selenium
9 44 (3.68%) TeamCity
10 31 (2.59%) Cypress.io
11 27 (2.26%) Postman
12 26 (2.17%) Bitbucket
13 23 (1.92%) Gradle
13 23 (1.92%) Mockito
14 21 (1.76%) Artifactory
15 20 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
16 19 (1.59%) NUnit
17 18 (1.51%) CircleCI
17 18 (1.51%) JMeter
General
1 211 (17.64%) Social Skills
2 129 (10.79%) Finance
3 115 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 58 (4.85%) Banking
5 52 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (2.59%) Telecoms
7 26 (2.17%) Retail
8 22 (1.84%) Law
9 20 (1.67%) Front Office
10 18 (1.51%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 15 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (0.92%) Marketing
13 10 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (0.75%) Legal
14 9 (0.75%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.67%) Police
16 5 (0.42%) Electronics
17 4 (0.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 348 (29.10%) Developer
2 238 (19.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 167 (13.96%) Senior
4 116 (9.70%) Java Developer
5 109 (9.11%) Software Engineer
6 86 (7.19%) AWS Engineer
7 70 (5.85%) Azure Engineer
8 68 (5.69%) AWS DevOps
9 66 (5.52%) Architect
10 58 (4.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 56 (4.68%) Lead
12 53 (4.43%) Full Stack Developer
13 51 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
14 50 (4.18%) Senior Software Engineer
15 45 (3.76%) Senior Developer
16 44 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
17 40 (3.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 39 (3.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 36 (3.01%) Python Developer
20 34 (2.84%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (14.97%) Kafka
2 178 (14.88%) REST
3 150 (12.54%) Spring Boot
4 146 (12.21%) Spring
5 135 (11.29%) React
6 120 (10.03%) Node.js
7 98 (8.19%) RESTful
8 72 (6.02%) .NET
9 69 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
10 52 (4.35%) HTML
11 49 (4.10%) Web Services
12 47 (3.93%) AngularJS
13 46 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
14 43 (3.60%) SOAP
15 42 (3.51%) CSS
16 40 (3.34%) JSON
17 35 (2.93%) ARM Templates
18 34 (2.84%) GraphQL
19 33 (2.76%) AWS CDK
20 32 (2.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (4.85%) Public Cloud
2 49 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 42 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
5 32 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
6 30 (2.51%) Product Ownership
7 27 (2.26%) Data Centre
7 27 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 20 (1.67%) Clustering
8 20 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.59%) Algorithms
10 17 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.25%) NHS
12 13 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.09%) PKI
13 12 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.92%) Replication
15 10 (0.84%) Client/Server
16 9 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 266 (22.24%) Linux
2 88 (7.36%) Windows
3 65 (5.43%) Unix
4 44 (3.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (3.43%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.09%) Oracle Linux
7 12 (1.00%) CentOS
8 8 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.67%) Solaris
9 7 (0.59%) Android
10 6 (0.50%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.42%) VMS
12 4 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.25%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.084%) Debian
15 1 (0.084%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.084%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (49.50%) DevOps
2 515 (43.06%) CI/CD
3 430 (35.95%) Agile
4 359 (30.02%) Containerisation
5 260 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 245 (20.48%) Microservices
7 208 (17.39%) Software Engineering
8 172 (14.38%) Continuous Integration
9 169 (14.13%) Test Automation
10 167 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
11 150 (12.54%) Scrum
12 110 (9.20%) TDD
13 89 (7.44%) Full Stack Development
14 88 (7.36%) Unit Testing
15 86 (7.19%) Configuration Management
16 82 (6.86%) High Availability
17 69 (5.77%) Mentoring
18 68 (5.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 66 (5.52%) User Experience
20 63 (5.27%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 483 (40.38%) Python
2 364 (30.43%) Java
3 241 (20.15%) SQL
4 161 (13.46%) Bash
5 146 (12.21%) JavaScript
6 133 (11.12%) Go
7 106 (8.86%) PowerShell
8 93 (7.78%) TypeScript
9 61 (5.10%) C#
10 47 (3.93%) Shell Script
11 43 (3.60%) Scala
12 42 (3.51%) Ruby
13 38 (3.18%) C
14 26 (2.17%) Perl
14 26 (2.17%) PHP
15 25 (2.09%) C++
16 23 (1.92%) Groovy
17 16 (1.34%) Bicep
18 9 (0.75%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 314 (26.25%) Security Cleared
2 231 (19.31%) SC Cleared
3 96 (8.03%) DV Cleared
4 69 (5.77%) Degree
5 42 (3.51%) AWS Certification
6 34 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (1.84%) Azure Certification
8 18 (1.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 15 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.67%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.25%) CISSP
13 3 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.25%) SANS
14 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.17%) RHCE
15 1 (0.084%) CEH
15 1 (0.084%) GIAC
15 1 (0.084%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.09%) QA
2 29 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.42%) NCSC
4 11 (0.92%) NIST
5 10 (0.84%) GDPR
6 9 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.67%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.25%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.25%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.25%) WCAG
10 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.084%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.084%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (3.43%) Active Directory
2 39 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.59%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.59%) vSphere
6 6 (0.50%) Firmware
6 6 (0.50%) NFS
6 6 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.33%) GPFS
7 4 (0.33%) KVM
8 3 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.25%) Ceph
8 3 (0.25%) LXC
9 2 (0.17%) HDFS
9 2 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.084%) Lustre
10 1 (0.084%) Postfix
10 1 (0.084%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 870 (72.74%) Kubernetes
2 463 (38.71%) Terraform
3 268 (22.41%) Ansible
4 127 (10.62%) Grafana
5 115 (9.62%) Prometheus
6 76 (6.35%) Puppet
7 61 (5.10%) Progress Chef
8 44 (3.68%) Docker Swarm
9 31 (2.59%) Kibana
10 21 (1.76%) Packer
11 20 (1.67%) Nagios
11 20 (1.67%) Podman
12 17 (1.42%) Istio
13 15 (1.25%) Graylog
14 14 (1.17%) Argo
15 12 (1.00%) EMC NetWorker
15 12 (1.00%) HP Fortify
16 11 (0.92%) Consul
16 11 (0.92%) Netcool
16 11 (0.92%) Rancher
Vendors
1 107 (8.95%) Microsoft
2 82 (6.86%) Oracle
3 79 (6.61%) Splunk
4 66 (5.52%) Google
5 63 (5.27%) VMware
6 31 (2.59%) Red Hat
7 30 (2.51%) Databricks
8 21 (1.76%) SAP
9 20 (1.67%) IBM
10 17 (1.42%) Dell
11 16 (1.34%) EMC
12 15 (1.25%) Cisco
12 15 (1.25%) CyberArk
13 14 (1.17%) Atlassian
13 14 (1.17%) ServiceNow
14 13 (1.09%) Salesforce
14 13 (1.09%) TIBCO
14 13 (1.09%) WSO2
15 10 (0.84%) New Relic
16 8 (0.67%) Isilon