Docker Contracts in the East of England

Docker
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 62 95 84
Rank change year-on-year +33 -11 -28
Contract jobs citing Docker 20 17 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.13% 0.89% 1.89%
As % of the System Software category 13.79% 10.43% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 28
10th Percentile £442 £345 £362
25th Percentile £463 £488 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £650 £538
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% +20.93% -6.52%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £603
90th Percentile £608 £708 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £53.10 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -21.33% -10.00% +14.47%

All System Software Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 145 163 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.46% 8.54% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 88 244
10th Percentile £178 £175 £165
25th Percentile £243 £225 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -1.16% +1.18%
75th Percentile £570 £556 £587
90th Percentile £613 £713 £700
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 39 41
10th Percentile - - £14.25
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £14.16 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +51.55% -42.49% +58.84%
75th Percentile £65.63 £18.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £88.45 £81.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Hertfordshire +33 10 £495 -26.67% 19
Cambridgeshire +7 5 £470 -10.57% 53
Suffolk -5 3 £438 -32.69% 5
Essex +11 2 £534 - 26
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) GCP
3 3 (15.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) Wireless
2 4 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (10.00%) 3GPP
3 2 (10.00%) 4G
3 2 (10.00%) 5G
4 1 (5.00%) DNS
4 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.00%) Flink
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Selenium
3 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Backend Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Linux Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Programmer
5 1 (5.00%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) REST
2 3 (15.00%) Kafka
2 3 (15.00%) RESTful
3 2 (10.00%) OpenAPI
3 2 (10.00%) Swagger
4 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.00%) Keycloak
4 1 (5.00%) Spring
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Clustering
1 4 (20.00%) Replication
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.00%) FMCG
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (30.00%) DevOps
5 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Microservices
5 5 (25.00%) TDD
6 4 (20.00%) Capacity Management
6 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
6 4 (20.00%) ITIL
6 4 (20.00%) OO
6 4 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
6 4 (20.00%) Proactive Management
6 4 (20.00%) Problem Management
6 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
7 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (10.00%) Analytics
8 2 (10.00%) API Development
8 2 (10.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (20.00%) C#
3 4 (20.00%) C++
3 4 (20.00%) Go
3 4 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) DBS Check
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (25.00%) Ansible
3 4 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (20.00%) Podman
4 2 (10.00%) logstash
4 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (10.00%) Terraform
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) VMware
2 4 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (10.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) NetApp