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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 37 43
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing Docker 10 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.78% 1.30% 1.39%
As % of the System Software category 32.26% 18.52% 19.44%
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% -11.56%
75th Percentile £691 £575 £522
90th Percentile £793 £590 £530
East of England median daily rate £491 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -18.13% +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 31 27 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 8.61% 7.03% 7.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 17
10th Percentile £273 £225 £169
25th Percentile £406 £273 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -1.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £625 £500 £536
90th Percentile £710 £550 £570
East of England median daily rate £475 £363 £500
% change year-on-year +31.03% -27.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 6
10th Percentile £15.29 £14.16 -
25th Percentile £15.75 £19.64 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £38.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.15% +163.66% +6.15%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £14.75
90th Percentile - - £15.63
East of England median hourly rate £54.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% -13.46% +314.61%

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 29 October 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 29 October 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 +2 10 £475 -13.64% 23
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 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