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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 39 43
Rank change year-on-year +13 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Docker 8 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.36% 1.19% 0.72%
As % of the System Software category 19.05% 12.50% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £353 £464 £489
25th Percentile £365 £503 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £650 £513
Median % change year-on-year -38.85% +26.83% -6.82%
75th Percentile £443 £781 £547
90th Percentile £462 £815 £556
East of England median daily rate £500 £513 £625
% change year-on-year -2.44% -18.00% +19.05%

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 42 32 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 12.39% 9.52% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 14 8
10th Percentile £221 £246 £176
25th Percentile £396 £393 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £544 £238
Median % change year-on-year -12.41% +128.95% -47.22%
75th Percentile £515 £575 £500
90th Percentile £539 £718 £519
East of England median daily rate £450 £513 £345
% change year-on-year -12.20% +48.55% -23.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 15
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 -
90th Percentile - - £63.75
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £63.50 £14.16
% change year-on-year +10.24% +348.45% -78.22%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Cambridgeshire

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 1 September 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 8 £398 -38.85% 28
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 (12.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) CloudFront
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) InfiniBand
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (62.50%) MySQL
2 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (62.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Migration Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) RESTful
2 5 (62.50%) Hibernate
2 5 (62.50%) SQLAlchemy
3 2 (25.00%) FastAPI
3 2 (25.00%) Flask
3 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
4 1 (12.50%) Celery
4 1 (12.50%) gRPC
4 1 (12.50%) JWT
4 1 (12.50%) Kafka
4 1 (12.50%) OAuth
4 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
4 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
4 1 (12.50%) Pandas
4 1 (12.50%) PyArrow
4 1 (12.50%) Spring
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Life Science
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Grid Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) LIMS
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (75.00%) ETL
2 6 (75.00%) Informatics
3 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) Biotechnology
4 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (50.00%) Data Integration
4 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
6 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
6 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
6 1 (12.50%) Lakehouse
6 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) C++
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
4 1 (12.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) GPFS
1 1 (12.50%) Lustre
1 1 (12.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Consul
2 1 (12.50%) Istio
2 1 (12.50%) linkerd
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) Salt