Docker Contracts in Cardiff

Docker
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 19 42
Rank change year-on-year -6 +23 -7
Contract jobs citing Docker 5 16 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.13% 7.55% 1.19%
As % of the System Software category 29.41% 64.00% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 4
10th Percentile £520 £413 £348
25th Percentile £531 £473 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.73% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £574 £533 £656
90th Percentile £581 £668 £668
South Wales median daily rate £540 £506 £488
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.85% -15.22%

All System Software Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 17 25 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 10.63% 11.79% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 26
10th Percentile - £350 £143
25th Percentile £213 £413 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +17.65% -0.12%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £533
90th Percentile £525 £646 £641
South Wales median daily rate £406 £463 £479
% change year-on-year -12.16% -3.39% +6.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £16.40
25th Percentile - £12.25 £16.67
Median hourly rate - £12.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - -27.55% +38.08%
75th Percentile - £12.75 £17.73
90th Percentile - - £17.95
South Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £12.50 £17.25
% change year-on-year +200.00% -27.55% +38.08%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in Cardiff

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for Docker in Cardiff

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 3 (60.00%) Apache
1 3 (60.00%) JBoss
1 3 (60.00%) nginx
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) JWT
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) API Management
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) GitOps
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) LXC
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
3 2 (40.00%) Terraform
4 1 (20.00%) Argo
4 1 (20.00%) Grafana
4 1 (20.00%) Nagios
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft