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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 40 49
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing Docker 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.14% 1.15% 0.38%
As % of the System Software category 16.67% 15.15% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £464 £490 -
25th Percentile £503 £494 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +6.06% -10.00%
75th Percentile £781 £581 £518
90th Percentile £815 £593 -
East of England median daily rate £525 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -9.09%

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 24 33 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 6.84% 7.60% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 23
10th Percentile £213 - £176
25th Percentile £352 £225 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.07% +4.17% +5.88%
75th Percentile £594 £516 £506
90th Percentile £763 £574 £569
East of England median daily rate £475 £343 £464
% change year-on-year +38.69% -26.15% +9.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.99 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.14 £14.16 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% -2.34% +6.15%
75th Percentile £15.29 - £14.75
90th Percentile - £63.75 £15.63
East of England median hourly rate £66.50 £14.16 £67.50
% change year-on-year +369.63% -79.02% +365.52%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +1 4 £650 +18.18% 10
Docker
East of England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (25.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) NumPy
1 1 (25.00%) Pandas
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Life Science
2 1 (25.00%) Genomics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Bioinformatics
3 1 (25.00%) Biomedicine
3 1 (25.00%) Biotechnology
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Interpretation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) VMware