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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 34 37
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Docker 11 7 13
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.96% 2.40% 2.66%
As % of the System Software category 30.56% 17.95% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 4
10th Percentile £369 - £439
25th Percentile £406 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £470 £498
Median % change year-on-year -12.14% -5.63% -9.55%
75th Percentile £485 £505 £522
90th Percentile £578 £562 £530
East of England median daily rate £582 £490 £516
% change year-on-year +18.67% -4.99% -4.05%

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 36 39 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.68% 13.36% 7.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 12
10th Percentile £356 £338 £160
25th Percentile £406 £378 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £467 £240
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +94.38% -46.67%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £481
90th Percentile £625 £600 £516
East of England median daily rate £450 £467 £500
% change year-on-year -3.54% -6.70% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 15
10th Percentile - £14.99 -
25th Percentile - £15.44 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% +53.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile - - £15.12
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £63.00 £14.80
% change year-on-year -66.67% +325.68% -15.43%

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 March 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 March 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 -2 11 £413 -31.25% 10
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 5 (45.45%) OpenStack
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) GCP
3 5 (45.45%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (9.09%) Route 53
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) BGP
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) InfiniBand
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) JMeter
1 2 (18.18%) Postman
1 2 (18.18%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
2 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Grid Computing
1 5 (45.45%) Private Cloud
1 5 (45.45%) Public Cloud
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) AI
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Data Science
4 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
4 3 (27.27%) Observability
4 3 (27.27%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) API Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Prompt Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Security Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) C++
4 2 (18.18%) Java
4 2 (18.18%) Perl
4 2 (18.18%) Ruby
5 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) CCNP
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) EU AI Act
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) GPFS
1 5 (45.45%) Lustre
1 5 (45.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Consul
3 1 (9.09%) Puppet
3 1 (9.09%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Google