Docker Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Docker
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 25 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing Docker 10 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 5.00% 2.53% 3.29%
As % of the System Software category 47.62% 29.41% 28.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £369 £510 £439
25th Percentile £406 £525 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £498
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.55% -9.55%
75th Percentile £691 £575 £522
90th Percentile £793 £590 £530
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £550 £498
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.55% -11.56%

All System Software Skills
Cambridge

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 21 17 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 10.50% 8.59% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 12
10th Percentile £406 - £228
25th Percentile £438 £225 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £438 £488
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -10.26% -2.50%
75th Percentile £625 £500 £536
90th Percentile £745 £560 £567
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £469 £475
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.32% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - +259.38% -4.39%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £14.50
% change year-on-year -25.44% +48.00% +6.15%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Docker job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Cambridge over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Cambridge

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (30.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JMeter
1 2 (20.00%) Postman
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) NumPy
2 1 (10.00%) Pandas
2 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Redux
2 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Grid Computing
1 3 (30.00%) Private Cloud
1 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Life Science
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) AI
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (40.00%) LLM
4 3 (30.00%) Data Science
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (20.00%) ETL
5 2 (20.00%) Observability
5 2 (20.00%) OWASP
5 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) C++
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) Perl
4 2 (20.00%) Ruby
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) EU AI Act
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) GPFS
1 3 (30.00%) Lustre
1 3 (30.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Consul
2 1 (10.00%) Puppet
2 1 (10.00%) Salt
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft