Docker Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Docker
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 37 51
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing Docker 5 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.44% 1.29% 1.55%
As % of the System Software category 14.71% 9.30% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £456 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% -10.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £532 £499 £563
90th Percentile £543 £545 -
East of England median daily rate £550 £490 £663
% change year-on-year +12.24% -26.04% +29.90%

All System Software Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 34 43 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.77% 13.83% 9.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 15 13
10th Percentile £413 £250 £164
25th Percentile £463 £421 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £240
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% +97.92% -46.67%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £275
90th Percentile £575 £568 £455
East of England median daily rate £450 £490 £425
% change year-on-year -8.16% +15.29% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 22
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £14.99 -
Median hourly rate £34.13 £15.14 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +125.43% +6.92% -2.34%
75th Percentile - £15.29 £15.12
90th Percentile - £15.44 £58.89
East of England median hourly rate £62.50 £41.45 £14.16
% change year-on-year +50.78% +192.73% -78.38%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Docker

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 4 July 2026. 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
Cambridge +7 5 £500 -9.05% 8
Docker
East of England

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (20.00%) Route 53
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (40.00%) Flask
2 1 (20.00%) Celery
2 1 (20.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) JPA
2 1 (20.00%) JWT
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (20.00%) Pandas
2 1 (20.00%) PyArrow
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) LIMS
1 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Informatics
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) Database Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) MLOps
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) Bash
4 1 (20.00%) C++
4 1 (20.00%) Perl
4 1 (20.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) GPFS
1 1 (20.00%) Lustre
1 1 (20.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Consul
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft