Docker Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Docker
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 45 56
Rank change year-on-year +20 +11 -11
Contract jobs citing Docker 54 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 8.23% 1.33% 0.76%
As % of the System Software category 43.55% 12.24% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 6 3
10th Percentile £313 £329 £514
25th Percentile £356 £388 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £504 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.62% -8.41% +23.60%
75th Percentile £488 £548 £558
90th Percentile £567 £564 £562
North West median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% -6.58%

All System Software Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 124 49 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.90% 10.86% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 25 36
10th Percentile £245 £301 £151
25th Percentile £331 £356 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £405 £413
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% -1.94% -4.07%
75th Percentile £488 £515 £540
90th Percentile £583 £566 £566
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 2
10th Percentile - - £16.66
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £16.84
Median hourly rate £16.88 £24.18 £17.33
Median % change year-on-year -30.21% +39.55% -37.56%
75th Percentile £18.87 - £17.62
90th Percentile £23.83 £56.17 £17.68
North West median hourly rate £19.00 £22.09 £18.50
% change year-on-year -13.99% +19.41% -55.42%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Docker job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Cheshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Cheshire

Docker
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Docker.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Docker

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Knutsford +14 52 £404 -19.90%
Wilmslow - 1 £650 -
Chester - 1 £750 - 11
Docker
North West

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 11 (20.37%) JBoss
2 8 (14.81%) Apache
2 8 (14.81%) IIS
2 8 (14.81%) WebSphere
3 7 (12.96%) iPlanet
3 7 (12.96%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (9.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (77.78%) AWS
2 19 (35.19%) OpenShift
3 17 (31.48%) Azure
4 10 (18.52%) GCP
5 8 (14.81%) GitHub
6 7 (12.96%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (11.11%) IaaS
7 6 (11.11%) PaaS
7 6 (11.11%) SaaS
8 5 (9.26%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (9.26%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (7.41%) Apigee
10 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (3.70%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (3.70%) Serverless
11 2 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.96%) Kerberos
2 4 (7.41%) HTTP
2 4 (7.41%) HTTPS
3 2 (3.70%) Firewall
4 1 (1.85%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.93%) Relational Database
2 7 (12.96%) Oracle Database
3 5 (9.26%) Big Data
3 5 (9.26%) MySQL
3 5 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.56%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 31 (57.41%) Git
2 25 (46.30%) Jenkins
3 14 (25.93%) JIRA
4 13 (24.07%) GitLab
5 12 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (18.52%) Bitbucket Server
6 10 (18.52%) CA Release Automation
7 5 (9.26%) Bitbucket
7 5 (9.26%) MLflow
7 5 (9.26%) SonarQube
8 4 (7.41%) Postman
9 3 (5.56%) TeamCity
10 2 (3.70%) Snyk
11 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.85%) CircleCI
11 1 (1.85%) SpecFlow
General
1 21 (38.89%) Finance
2 17 (31.48%) Banking
3 8 (14.81%) Social Skills
4 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 18 (33.33%) Developer
2 14 (25.93%) Java Developer
3 7 (12.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Architect
4 6 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (9.26%) Data Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Senior
6 4 (7.41%) Apigee Developer
6 4 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Payments Architect
6 4 (7.41%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Lead
7 3 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) DevOps Specialist
8 2 (3.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 24 (44.44%) Spring
3 14 (25.93%) RESTful
4 12 (22.22%) OAuth
5 10 (18.52%) REST
6 9 (16.67%) Hibernate
6 9 (16.67%) JMS
7 8 (14.81%) AngularJS
7 8 (14.81%) Node.js
7 8 (14.81%) OpenID
7 8 (14.81%) SAML
8 7 (12.96%) LDAP
9 5 (9.26%) Flask
9 5 (9.26%) HTML
9 5 (9.26%) PySpark
10 4 (7.41%) JAX-RS
10 4 (7.41%) JWT
10 4 (7.41%) OAuth2
10 4 (7.41%) Spring MVC
10 4 (7.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) Cloud Native
2 9 (16.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 6 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (37.04%) Linux
2 17 (31.48%) Windows
3 8 (14.81%) Unix
4 7 (12.96%) Windows Server
5 3 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (72.22%) CI/CD
2 29 (53.70%) Containerisation
3 25 (46.30%) DevOps
4 22 (40.74%) Microservices
5 17 (31.48%) Test Automation
6 16 (29.63%) Agile
7 14 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (18.52%) API Design
8 10 (18.52%) SDLC
9 9 (16.67%) AI
9 9 (16.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 9 (16.67%) Computer Science
9 9 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (14.81%) Code Quality
10 8 (14.81%) Observability
10 8 (14.81%) Unit Testing
11 7 (12.96%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (12.96%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (12.96%) Integration Testing
11 7 (12.96%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 29 (53.70%) Java
2 18 (33.33%) Python
3 9 (16.67%) SQL
4 8 (14.81%) Groovy
5 7 (12.96%) PHP
5 7 (12.96%) Shell Script
6 5 (9.26%) Perl
7 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.70%) Ruby
8 1 (1.85%) C#
8 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (16.67%) Degree
2 8 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 7 (12.96%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.85%) CISSP
5 1 (1.85%) OSCP
5 1 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (25.93%) ISO 20022
2 10 (18.52%) QA
3 9 (16.67%) PSD2
3 9 (16.67%) SEPA
4 4 (7.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 7 (12.96%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 2 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 41 (75.93%) Kubernetes
2 11 (20.37%) Progress Chef
3 8 (14.81%) CA Single Sign-On
4 7 (12.96%) CA Wily
4 7 (12.96%) Grafana
4 7 (12.96%) Tivoli
5 4 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (5.56%) Kibana
7 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (51.85%) Oracle
2 16 (29.63%) AppDynamics
3 14 (25.93%) Splunk
4 10 (18.52%) Microsoft
5 8 (14.81%) Broadcom
6 7 (12.96%) IBM
7 5 (9.26%) Google
8 3 (5.56%) Cloudera
8 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
9 2 (3.70%) Checkmarx
9 2 (3.70%) Veracode
10 1 (1.85%) Atlassian