Docker Contracts in Dorset

Docker
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 21 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -14
Contract jobs citing Docker 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 3.06% - 3.24%
As % of the System Software category 9.38% - 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £417 - £388
25th Percentile £467 - £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £494
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.71%
75th Percentile - - £544
90th Percentile - - £589
South West median daily rate £600 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.22% +4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £51.70
25th Percentile - - £54.74
Median hourly rate - - £59.80
75th Percentile - - £60.25
90th Percentile - - £60.52
South West median hourly rate £78.70 £80.00 £60.70
% change year-on-year -1.63% +31.80% +17.56%

All System Software Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 32 8 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 32.65% 4.85% 23.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 3 28
10th Percentile £223 £238 £200
25th Percentile £409 £299 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £472 £520
90th Percentile £675 £485 £538
South West median daily rate £550 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 19
10th Percentile £15.45 - £13.25
25th Percentile £15.90 £14.00 £17.06
Median hourly rate £16.78 £42.33 £54.83
Median % change year-on-year -60.36% -22.80% +8.00%
75th Percentile £17.65 £70.66 £61.35
90th Percentile £18.08 - £63.23
South West median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in Dorset

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in Dorset

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Dorset over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Dorset

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Poole - 2 £550 - 3
Bournemouth - 1 £392 - 30
Docker
South West

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Backend Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) Jest
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) OpenTracing
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Redux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Zipkin