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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 95 68
Rank change year-on-year +31 -27 -16
Contract jobs citing Docker 28 15 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.28% 0.81% 2.63%
As % of the System Software category 14.36% 11.45% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 30
10th Percentile £452 £531 £393
25th Percentile £459 £591 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £663 £510
Median % change year-on-year -26.04% +29.90% -7.27%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £600
90th Percentile £590 £706 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile £63.25 - £65.00
25th Percentile £65.50 - £70.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £72.75 £75.00
% change year-on-year -7.90% -3.00% +55.10%

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 195 131 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.88% 7.09% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 73 219
10th Percentile £178 £195 £169
25th Percentile £245 £225 £249
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £628
90th Percentile - £695 £700
England median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 29 35
10th Percentile £14.99 - £15.90
25th Percentile £15.41 £14.16 £21.31
Median hourly rate £63.25 £14.80 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +327.36% -77.23% +316.13%
75th Percentile £88.00 £17.00 £73.13
90th Percentile £91.50 £65.65 £74.50
England median hourly rate £34.50 £22.23 £44.88
% change year-on-year +55.23% -50.47% +124.38%

Docker
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

Docker
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

Docker
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

Docker
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 13 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
Hertfordshire +33 21 £495 -28.00% 23
Cambridgeshire +8 4 £470 -10.57% 32
Essex +11 2 £466 - 10
Bedfordshire - 1 £483 - 8
Docker
England

Docker
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 2 (7.14%) Apache
1 2 (7.14%) IBM Domino
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.57%) CMS
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Headless CMS
2 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) npm
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) Azure
3 4 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.57%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (3.57%) ChatGPT
5 1 (3.57%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) Wireless
2 3 (10.71%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (7.14%) 3GPP
3 2 (7.14%) 4G
3 2 (7.14%) 5G
4 1 (3.57%) Firewall
4 1 (3.57%) Network Security
4 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) Big Data
2 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.57%) Flink
2 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) GitLab
1 8 (28.57%) JIRA
2 7 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 7 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.14%) Git
5 1 (3.57%) Selenium
5 1 (3.57%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Law
3 1 (3.57%) Legal
3 1 (3.57%) Marketing
3 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Backend Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 3 (10.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Development Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Linux Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Python Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) React
2 8 (28.57%) .NET
2 8 (28.57%) .NET Framework
2 8 (28.57%) REST
3 7 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 7 (25.00%) CSS
3 7 (25.00%) HTML
3 7 (25.00%) Node.js
3 7 (25.00%) Svelte
3 7 (25.00%) Vue
4 3 (10.71%) RESTful
5 2 (7.14%) OpenAPI
5 2 (7.14%) Swagger
6 1 (3.57%) Django
6 1 (3.57%) JSR 170
6 1 (3.57%) Keycloak
6 1 (3.57%) Next.js
6 1 (3.57%) OAuth
6 1 (3.57%) OSGi
6 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 7 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 7 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Clustering
2 3 (10.71%) Replication
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (60.71%) Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.14%) VMS
4 1 (3.57%) CentOS
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) Containerisation
2 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 13 (46.43%) DevOps
4 12 (42.86%) TDD
5 11 (39.29%) Agile
6 10 (35.71%) Microservices
7 8 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (28.57%) OOP
8 7 (25.00%) Computer Science
8 7 (25.00%) Design Patterns
8 7 (25.00%) SDLC
8 7 (25.00%) Software Testing
9 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (14.29%) ITIL
10 4 (14.29%) OO
10 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 3 (10.71%) Capacity Management
11 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (10.71%) Multithreading
11 3 (10.71%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) C#
2 11 (39.29%) Python
3 10 (35.71%) C++
4 9 (32.14%) Java
5 8 (28.57%) TypeScript
6 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
7 4 (14.29%) Shell Script
8 2 (7.14%) Bash
8 2 (7.14%) Go
8 2 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) DBS Check
4 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
2 3 (10.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (89.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.29%) Terraform
3 3 (10.71%) Ansible
3 3 (10.71%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (10.71%) Podman
4 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.57%) Puppet
4 1 (3.57%) Salt
4 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) VMware
2 3 (10.71%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (7.14%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) Adobe
4 1 (3.57%) IBM
4 1 (3.57%) NetApp
4 1 (3.57%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.57%) Vertica