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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 37 43
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Docker 8 4 12
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.08% 1.59% 2.51%
As % of the System Software category 21.62% 8.70% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile - - £441
25th Percentile £406 £463 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £467 £503
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -7.30% +0.65%
75th Percentile £461 £472 £542
90th Percentile £513 £473 £554
East of England median daily rate £525 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +7.19% -6.67% -4.55%

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 37 46 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.61% 18.33% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 14
10th Percentile £356 £330 £131
25th Percentile £406 £400 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £240
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% +97.92% -46.67%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £425
90th Percentile £588 £568 £525
East of England median daily rate £450 £470 £450
% change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £14.99 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £15.44 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% +9.04% -2.34%
75th Percentile £25.07 £21.46 £15.12
90th Percentile £30.50 - -
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £40.47 £14.80
% change year-on-year -44.40% +173.45% -22.11%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 - 8 £413 - 7
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 4 (50.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) GCP
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (12.50%) Route 53
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) BGP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Data Migration Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
1 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (25.00%) Flask
2 1 (12.50%) Celery
2 1 (12.50%) Django
2 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
2 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 1 (12.50%) JPA
2 1 (12.50%) JWT
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
2 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
2 1 (12.50%) Pandas
2 1 (12.50%) PyArrow
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Grid Computing
1 4 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 4 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (37.50%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Informatics
5 1 (12.50%) API Development
5 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Data Science
5 1 (12.50%) Database Optimisation
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) MLOps
5 1 (12.50%) Observability
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) GPFS
1 4 (50.00%) Lustre
1 4 (50.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft