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 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 41 53 73
Rank change year-on-year +12 +20 -1
Contract jobs citing Docker 15 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.80% 1.68% 1.15%
As % of the System Software category 30.00% 15.29% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 9
10th Percentile £340 £356 £413
25th Percentile £367 £356 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £537 £525 £700
90th Percentile £570 £530 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -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 50 85 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.33% 11.00% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 61 127
10th Percentile £185 £145 £153
25th Percentile £250 £185 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £338 £375
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -10.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile £537 £498 £583
90th Percentile £550 £577 £694
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 18
10th Percentile - - £12.27
25th Percentile - £45.22 £15.25
Median hourly rate £15.09 £48.56 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -68.93% +108.95% +25.62%
75th Percentile - £51.91 £40.25
90th Percentile - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

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 1 May 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 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
Northamptonshire 0 9 £475 +32.22% 10
Derbyshire - 5 £500 - 9
Leicestershire +6 1 - - 9
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 2 (13.33%) Apache
1 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (13.33%) JBoss
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Serverless
3 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (6.67%) Anthos
6 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Batch
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Hudi
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (13.33%) Big Data
3 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) Delta Lake
3 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (13.33%) Flink
3 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (13.33%) Parquet
4 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (33.33%) Git
2 5 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 3 (20.00%) Chocolatey
4 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (13.33%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (13.33%) JIRA
4 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
5 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 6 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Architect
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Java Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Scala Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) GCP Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (20.00%) RESTful
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Avro
3 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) CI/CD
2 9 (60.00%) DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) Microservices
3 8 (53.33%) Agile
4 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
5 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (33.33%) Event-Driven
7 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
7 4 (26.67%) ETL
7 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (26.67%) ITIL
7 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
8 3 (20.00%) Budget Control
8 3 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
8 3 (20.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 3 (20.00%) Project Planning
8 3 (20.00%) SDLC
8 3 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
8 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (26.67%) Scala
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) C#
5 2 (13.33%) Bash
5 2 (13.33%) Perl
6 1 (6.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (40.00%) Terraform
3 3 (20.00%) Ansible
4 2 (13.33%) Kibana
4 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (6.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) AppDynamics
2 2 (13.33%) Databricks
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) VMware