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 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 37 50
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 +5
Contract jobs citing Docker 45 20 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 6.58% 3.70% 0.75%
As % of the System Software category 40.18% 29.41% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 18 3
10th Percentile £309 £354 £514
25th Percentile £348 £468 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £512 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.06% -6.86% +29.41%
75th Percentile £496 £563 £558
90th Percentile £537 £617 £562
North West median daily rate £450 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -16.36% -2.18% -4.35%

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 112 68 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 16.37% 12.59% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 38 36
10th Percentile £209 £354 £175
25th Percentile £311 £453 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £514 £388
Median % change year-on-year -23.36% +32.58% -10.92%
75th Percentile £492 £574 £554
90th Percentile £546 £660 £583
North West median daily rate £435 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -13.00% +14.29% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile - £21.36 -
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.83 -
Median hourly rate £16.88 £23.14 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% - -
75th Percentile £18.87 £23.92 -
90th Percentile £23.83 £24.08 -
North West median hourly rate £18.31 £22.09 £18.50
% change year-on-year -17.11% +19.41% -7.50%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +2 42 £404 -22.96% 3
Wilmslow - 2 £663 -
Chester - 1 £750 - 8
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 12 (26.67%) JBoss
2 8 (17.78%) Apache
2 8 (17.78%) IIS
2 8 (17.78%) WebSphere
3 7 (15.56%) iPlanet
3 7 (15.56%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (8.89%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (6.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.22%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 35 (77.78%) AWS
2 23 (51.11%) OpenShift
3 11 (24.44%) Azure
4 9 (20.00%) IaaS
4 9 (20.00%) PaaS
4 9 (20.00%) SaaS
5 6 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (13.33%) Serverless
6 4 (8.89%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (6.67%) GCP
7 3 (6.67%) GitHub
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.44%) Datadog
8 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) Kerberos
2 3 (6.67%) Firewall
3 2 (4.44%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.89%) Relational Database
2 7 (15.56%) Oracle Database
3 4 (8.89%) Big Data
3 4 (8.89%) RDBMS
4 3 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (48.89%) Jenkins
2 21 (46.67%) Git
3 13 (28.89%) JIRA
3 13 (28.89%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (24.44%) Bitbucket Server
4 11 (24.44%) CA Release Automation
5 6 (13.33%) GitLab
5 6 (13.33%) SonarQube
6 4 (8.89%) Bitbucket
6 4 (8.89%) MLflow
6 4 (8.89%) TeamCity
7 2 (4.44%) Artifactory
7 2 (4.44%) SpecFlow
8 1 (2.22%) Selenium
8 1 (2.22%) Snyk
General
1 17 (37.78%) Finance
2 13 (28.89%) Banking
3 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Legal
4 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (15.56%) Architect
1 7 (15.56%) Developer
1 7 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
1 7 (15.56%) Solutions Architect
2 6 (13.33%) Lead
3 5 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 4 (8.89%) AWS Architect
4 4 (8.89%) AWS Solution Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Senior
5 3 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) DevOps Specialist
5 3 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Java Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Payments Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.67%) Spring Boot
2 11 (24.44%) AngularJS
2 11 (24.44%) Node.js
3 8 (17.78%) OAuth
3 8 (17.78%) OpenID
3 8 (17.78%) SAML
3 8 (17.78%) Spring
4 7 (15.56%) LDAP
5 6 (13.33%) JMS
5 6 (13.33%) REST
5 6 (13.33%) RESTful
6 5 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (8.89%) Flask
7 4 (8.89%) HTML
7 4 (8.89%) Kafka
7 4 (8.89%) PySpark
8 2 (4.44%) .NET
8 2 (4.44%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (4.44%) Gherkin
8 2 (4.44%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (8.89%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.44%) PKI
6 1 (2.22%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (51.11%) Linux
2 22 (48.89%) Windows
3 8 (17.78%) Windows Server
4 7 (15.56%) Unix
5 4 (8.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (64.44%) CI/CD
2 23 (51.11%) Containerisation
2 23 (51.11%) DevOps
3 15 (33.33%) Microservices
4 13 (28.89%) Observability
5 11 (24.44%) Agile
6 10 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 9 (20.00%) ETL
7 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (17.78%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (15.56%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (15.56%) SDLC
10 6 (13.33%) Analytics
10 6 (13.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 6 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (13.33%) Migration
10 6 (13.33%) Unit Testing
10 6 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
11 5 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (11.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 20 (44.44%) Python
2 18 (40.00%) Java
3 9 (20.00%) PHP
4 8 (17.78%) Groovy
5 7 (15.56%) Shell Script
6 6 (13.33%) Perl
6 6 (13.33%) SQL
7 3 (6.67%) Ruby
8 2 (4.44%) C#
8 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.22%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) AWS Certification
2 5 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.22%) CISSP
4 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.22%) Degree
4 1 (2.22%) OSCP
4 1 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.78%) ISO 20022
2 6 (13.33%) PSD2
2 6 (13.33%) QA
2 6 (13.33%) SEPA
3 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (24.44%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.56%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 33 (73.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (28.89%) Progress Chef
3 10 (22.22%) Grafana
4 8 (17.78%) CA Single Sign-On
5 7 (15.56%) CA Wily
5 7 (15.56%) Tivoli
6 4 (8.89%) Kibana
6 4 (8.89%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (4.44%) Ansible
7 2 (4.44%) Terraform
8 1 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (53.33%) Oracle
2 20 (44.44%) AppDynamics
3 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
3 11 (24.44%) Splunk
4 8 (17.78%) Broadcom
5 7 (15.56%) IBM
6 5 (11.11%) Red Hat
7 4 (8.89%) Cloudera
8 2 (4.44%) Atlassian
8 2 (4.44%) Google
9 1 (2.22%) Checkmarx
9 1 (2.22%) Veracode
9 1 (2.22%) VMware