Docker Contracts in the East Midlands

Docker
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 50 58
Rank change year-on-year +14 +8 +6
Contract jobs citing Docker 31 17 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.17% 2.01% 2.02%
As % of the System Software category 39.74% 15.74% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 17
10th Percentile £326 £356 £300
25th Percentile £368 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% -6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £496 £530 £530
90th Percentile £537 - £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -

All System Software Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 78 108 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.50% 12.80% 15.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 73 115
10th Percentile £189 £160 £122
25th Percentile £295 £263 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +14.40% +7.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £525 £498 £544
90th Percentile £550 £560 £700
England median daily rate £500 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -1.38% -3.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 14
10th Percentile - - £12.87
25th Percentile - £45.22 £13.57
Median hourly rate £15.09 £48.56 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.93% +131.24% +13.51%
75th Percentile - £51.91 £55.37
90th Percentile - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £34.50 £22.15 £44.88
% change year-on-year +55.76% -50.64% +123.65%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the East Midlands

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Docker in the East Midlands

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the East Midlands

Docker
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Northamptonshire +9 23 £429 +19.42% 6
Derbyshire - 5 £500 - 3
Leicestershire -4 1 - - 9
Nottinghamshire -4 1 £520 -13.33% 4
Docker
England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (9.68%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (6.45%) Apache
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.45%) JBoss
3 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (74.19%) AWS
2 10 (32.26%) GCP
3 7 (22.58%) Azure
4 5 (16.13%) Amazon Kinesis
4 5 (16.13%) Amazon S3
4 5 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (16.13%) Serverless
5 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon Glacier
6 3 (9.68%) GitHub
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (6.45%) ChatGPT
7 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (6.45%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.23%) Anthos
8 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Batch
8 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) HTTP
1 3 (9.68%) HTTPS
1 3 (9.68%) SSL
2 2 (6.45%) DMZ
2 2 (6.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.68%) DynamoDB
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (6.45%) Apache Hudi
3 2 (6.45%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (6.45%) Big Data
3 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.45%) Delta Lake
3 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.45%) Flink
3 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
3 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.45%) Parquet
3 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (41.94%) Jenkins
2 11 (35.48%) Git
3 6 (19.35%) SonarQube
4 3 (9.68%) Chocolatey
4 3 (9.68%) Maven
4 3 (9.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (9.68%) TeamCity
5 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (6.45%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (6.45%) Gradle
5 2 (6.45%) JIRA
6 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.23%) IntelliJ
General
1 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (19.35%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Finance
5 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (12.90%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Identity Management Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
5 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior
6 2 (6.45%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Architect
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Solution Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Java Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Java Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Scala Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) Spring
2 9 (29.03%) RESTful
3 8 (25.81%) Hibernate
3 8 (25.81%) LDAP
3 8 (25.81%) OAuth
3 8 (25.81%) OpenID
3 8 (25.81%) SAML
4 7 (22.58%) Kafka
5 6 (19.35%) Spring Boot
6 5 (16.13%) .NET
6 5 (16.13%) Web Services
7 3 (9.68%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (9.68%) AngularJS
7 3 (9.68%) CSS
7 3 (9.68%) HTML
7 3 (9.68%) JPA
7 3 (9.68%) RAML
7 3 (9.68%) React
7 3 (9.68%) REST
7 3 (9.68%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.68%) Public Cloud
2 3 (9.68%) State Machine
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
3 1 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (93.55%) CI/CD
2 19 (61.29%) Containerisation
3 16 (51.61%) Microservices
4 14 (45.16%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (35.48%) DevOps
6 10 (32.26%) Agile
7 8 (25.81%) DevSecOps
7 8 (25.81%) RBAC
8 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (19.35%) Design Patterns
9 6 (19.35%) ETL
9 6 (19.35%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (19.35%) Service Delivery
10 5 (16.13%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (16.13%) Event-Driven
11 4 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (12.90%) Data Governance
11 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (12.90%) ITIL
11 4 (12.90%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) Java
2 9 (29.03%) SQL
3 6 (19.35%) Python
4 5 (16.13%) C#
4 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
5 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (12.90%) PL/SQL
5 4 (12.90%) Scala
6 2 (6.45%) Bash
6 2 (6.45%) Perl
6 2 (6.45%) PHP
7 1 (3.23%) Bicep
7 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
1 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.45%) Degree
1 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) GDPR
1 8 (25.81%) HIPAA
2 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (80.65%) Kubernetes
2 8 (25.81%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 6 (19.35%) Terraform
4 3 (9.68%) Ansible
5 2 (6.45%) Kibana
5 2 (6.45%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) IBM
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) Ping Identity
3 5 (16.13%) Oracle
4 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.45%) AppDynamics
5 2 (6.45%) Databricks
5 2 (6.45%) Google
5 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.45%) Splunk
6 1 (3.23%) VMware