Docker Contracts in Cheltenham

Docker
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 5 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Docker 15 39 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 26.32% 19.60% 19.18%
As % of the System Software category 75.00% 97.50% 84.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 35 16
10th Percentile - £521 £506
25th Percentile £575 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £713
90th Percentile £670 £705 £744
Gloucestershire median daily rate £615 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +11.82% -8.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - - £84.00

All System Software Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 20 40 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 35.09% 20.10% 22.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 36 21
10th Percentile £376 £519 £319
25th Percentile £575 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £700
90th Percentile £659 £700 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £600 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - - £78.00

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in Cheltenham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in Cheltenham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Cheltenham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) OpenShift
3 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) DHCP
1 7 (46.67%) DNS
1 7 (46.67%) HTTP
1 7 (46.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (6.67%) Flink
4 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (13.33%) ModSecurity
1 2 (13.33%) React
1 2 (13.33%) REST
1 2 (13.33%) Spring
1 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
1 2 (13.33%) Vue
2 1 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (6.67%) JPA
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Linux
2 7 (46.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Containerisation
2 6 (40.00%) Service Management
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Microservices
5 2 (13.33%) Remediation Plan
5 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (6.67%) Configuration Management
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (6.67%) Release Management
6 1 (6.67%) Scrum
6 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Java
2 8 (53.33%) Bash
2 8 (53.33%) PowerShell
2 8 (53.33%) Python
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) C
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) C++
5 1 (6.67%) Go
5 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Hyper-V
2 6 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (73.33%) Ansible
3 10 (66.67%) Terraform
4 7 (46.67%) Puppet
5 1 (6.67%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (6.67%) Grafana
5 1 (6.67%) Podman
5 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Red Hat
1 7 (46.67%) VMware
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft