Docker Contracts in England

Docker
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 51 78 51
Rank change year-on-year +27 -27 -15
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,061 987 2,240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.36% 2.65% 4.44%
As % of the System Software category 34.36% 24.49% 33.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 760 726 1,650
10th Percentile £406 £406 £450
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £725
90th Percentile £838 £725 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 31
10th Percentile £25.25 £47.40 £60.70
25th Percentile £25.81 £62.50 £64.88
Median hourly rate £53.10 £67.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% -10.00% +14.47%
75th Percentile £86.24 £85.00 £76.75
90th Percentile £91.88 - £85.00
UK median hourly rate £80.60 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +19.41% -10.00% +36.36%

All System Software Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,088 4,031 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 10.84% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 2,794 4,778
10th Percentile £213 £190 £204
25th Percentile £400 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 209 243
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £58.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.65 £72.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in England

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in England

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Docker in England

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Docker in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in England

Docker
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London +21 624 £575 +4.55% 823
North of England +36 149 £525 -4.55% 336
North West +50 94 £500 -9.09% 226
South West +37 76 £600 +9.09% 130
South East +34 76 £501 -9.00% 361
Midlands +45 59 £525 +5.00% 137
West Midlands +36 43 £538 -6.52% 78
Yorkshire -8 38 £525 -4.55% 85
East of England +33 20 £490 -24.62% 131
North East +7 18 £520 +26.83% 26
East Midlands +12 15 £475 +5.56% 50
Docker
UK

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 69 (6.50%) Apache
2 63 (5.94%) Apache Spark
3 48 (4.52%) Confluence
4 47 (4.43%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (2.92%) nginx
6 11 (1.04%) JBoss
7 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.75%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.57%) Camunda
10 5 (0.47%) Moodle
11 4 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.28%) IIS
12 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.28%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.28%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.28%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.19%) Alfresco
13 2 (0.19%) CMS
13 2 (0.19%) MQSeries
13 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (0.47%) Sketch
2 4 (0.38%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.094%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.094%) InVision
3 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.28%) Endur
2 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.094%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.094%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 622 (58.62%) AWS
2 307 (28.93%) Azure
3 162 (15.27%) GCP
4 150 (14.14%) Serverless
5 110 (10.37%) AWS Lambda
6 107 (10.08%) OpenShift
7 101 (9.52%) GitHub
8 92 (8.67%) Amazon S3
9 78 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
10 77 (7.26%) Amazon EC2
11 68 (6.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 67 (6.31%) Amazon ECS
13 54 (5.09%) GitHub Actions
14 49 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
15 41 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (3.58%) PaaS
17 36 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 36 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
18 34 (3.20%) IaaS
19 33 (3.11%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 58 (5.47%) DNS
2 48 (4.52%) HTTP
3 45 (4.24%) TCP/IP
4 41 (3.86%) Firewall
5 34 (3.20%) DHCP
6 29 (2.73%) VPN
7 11 (1.04%) SSL
8 10 (0.94%) Network Security
9 9 (0.85%) SMTP
10 8 (0.75%) BGP
10 8 (0.75%) VLAN
11 7 (0.66%) Internet
11 7 (0.66%) Kerberos
11 7 (0.66%) MPLS
11 7 (0.66%) Wireless
12 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.38%) Fibre Channel
14 3 (0.28%) OpenLDAP
14 3 (0.28%) SAN
14 3 (0.28%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (16.40%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (8.86%) Relational Database
3 86 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
4 78 (7.35%) MongoDB
5 73 (6.88%) NoSQL
6 58 (5.47%) Apache Cassandra
6 58 (5.47%) MySQL
7 53 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
8 48 (4.52%) SQL Server
9 36 (3.39%) Apache Iceberg
10 34 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
11 31 (2.92%) Redis
12 30 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 30 (2.83%) Big Data
13 28 (2.64%) Apache Arrow
13 28 (2.64%) Apache Ignite
13 28 (2.64%) Dremio
14 26 (2.45%) DynamoDB
15 24 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
15 24 (2.26%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 288 (27.14%) Jenkins
2 165 (15.55%) Git
3 150 (14.14%) GitLab
4 93 (8.77%) JIRA
5 75 (7.07%) JUnit
6 49 (4.62%) SonarQube
7 45 (4.24%) Artifactory
8 43 (4.05%) Maven
9 42 (3.96%) Mockito
10 39 (3.68%) Gradle
11 37 (3.49%) Cucumber
12 29 (2.73%) Liquibase
13 28 (2.64%) Selenium
14 24 (2.26%) Bitbucket
15 22 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
16 18 (1.70%) Jasmine
17 17 (1.60%) Postman
17 17 (1.60%) REST Assured
18 14 (1.32%) Bitbucket Server
18 14 (1.32%) TeamCity
General
1 232 (21.87%) Finance
2 198 (18.66%) Social Skills
3 132 (12.44%) Public Sector
4 112 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
5 103 (9.71%) Banking
6 52 (4.90%) Front Office
6 52 (4.90%) Investment Banking
7 44 (4.15%) Telecoms
8 40 (3.77%) Marketing
9 33 (3.11%) Manufacturing
10 29 (2.73%) Electronics
11 20 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.60%) Legal
14 16 (1.51%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.51%) Law
15 10 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.85%) Military
17 7 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 347 (32.70%) Developer
2 205 (19.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 194 (18.28%) Senior
4 105 (9.90%) AWS Engineer
4 105 (9.90%) Java Developer
5 86 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
6 80 (7.54%) Senior Developer
7 78 (7.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 78 (7.35%) Python Developer
8 76 (7.16%) Data Engineer
9 73 (6.88%) Software Engineer
10 70 (6.60%) Python Engineer
11 69 (6.50%) Lead
12 62 (5.84%) Architect
13 51 (4.81%) Full-Stack Developer
14 37 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 36 (3.39%) Java Engineer
16 35 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
16 35 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
17 31 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (19.60%) Kafka
2 166 (15.65%) Spring
3 152 (14.33%) Spring Boot
4 143 (13.48%) React
5 111 (10.46%) .NET
6 92 (8.67%) RESTful
7 85 (8.01%) REST
8 73 (6.88%) Node.js
9 63 (5.94%) FastAPI
10 62 (5.84%) Swagger
11 59 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
12 58 (5.47%) OpenAPI
13 55 (5.18%) AngularJS
13 55 (5.18%) HTML
14 45 (4.24%) Django
15 43 (4.05%) PySpark
16 41 (3.86%) J2EE
17 39 (3.68%) CSS
17 39 (3.68%) gRPC
18 29 (2.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 79 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
2 55 (5.18%) Cloud Native
3 28 (2.64%) Data Centre
4 27 (2.54%) Public Cloud
5 20 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (1.89%) PKI
6 19 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 16 (1.51%) Hedge funds
8 15 (1.41%) Clustering
8 15 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.41%) Product Ownership
9 14 (1.32%) Replication
10 13 (1.23%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.23%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.04%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (0.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 251 (23.66%) Linux
2 87 (8.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 79 (7.45%) Windows
4 46 (4.34%) Windows Server
5 37 (3.49%) Unix
6 11 (1.04%) CentOS
7 6 (0.57%) Rocky
8 5 (0.47%) AIX
8 5 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.47%) VMS
9 4 (0.38%) Android
9 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (0.28%) SUSE
10 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.19%) Debian
11 2 (0.19%) Solaris
12 1 (0.094%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (57.59%) CI/CD
2 536 (50.52%) DevOps
3 490 (46.18%) Containerisation
4 342 (32.23%) Agile
5 326 (30.73%) Microservices
6 256 (24.13%) Software Engineering
7 213 (20.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 195 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
9 140 (13.20%) Test Automation
10 129 (12.16%) TDD
11 127 (11.97%) Continuous Integration
12 107 (10.08%) Full-Stack Development
13 103 (9.71%) Artificial Intelligence
14 87 (8.20%) Machine Learning
15 86 (8.11%) Event-Driven
16 85 (8.01%) Open Source
17 82 (7.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 80 (7.54%) Data Engineering
18 80 (7.54%) SDLC
19 74 (6.97%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 512 (48.26%) Python
2 376 (35.44%) Java
3 253 (23.85%) SQL
4 141 (13.29%) Bash
5 140 (13.20%) JavaScript
6 126 (11.88%) TypeScript
7 111 (10.46%) C#
8 101 (9.52%) Go
9 75 (7.07%) PowerShell
10 46 (4.34%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.36%) C++
12 23 (2.17%) Perl
12 23 (2.17%) Scala
13 17 (1.60%) Bicep
14 16 (1.51%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.41%) PHP
15 15 (1.41%) PL/SQL
15 15 (1.41%) Rust
16 13 (1.23%) Ruby
17 11 (1.04%) RPG
Qualifications
1 313 (29.50%) Security Cleared
2 254 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 72 (6.79%) Degree
4 64 (6.03%) DV Cleared
5 38 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.92%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.79%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (0.66%) CISSP
13 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.47%) RHCE
13 5 (0.47%) RHCSA
13 5 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.38%) CEH
14 4 (0.38%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.28%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.28%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.90%) QA
2 31 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.13%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.04%) GDPR
5 8 (0.75%) NIST
5 8 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.47%) NCSC
7 5 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.28%) EMIR
8 3 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.28%) MiFID
8 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.094%) COBIT
9 1 (0.094%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.094%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.094%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (5.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 33 (3.11%) Hyper-V
4 10 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.85%) BitLocker
5 9 (0.85%) Microsoft App-V
5 9 (0.85%) Terminal Services
6 6 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.57%) vSphere
7 5 (0.47%) Postfix
8 4 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.38%) Lustre
8 4 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.28%) Platform Symphony
9 3 (0.28%) vCloud
9 3 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.19%) RACF
11 1 (0.094%) NFS
11 1 (0.094%) Samba
11 1 (0.094%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 822 (77.47%) Kubernetes
2 371 (34.97%) Terraform
3 236 (22.24%) Ansible
4 90 (8.48%) Grafana
5 86 (8.11%) Prometheus
6 75 (7.07%) Puppet
7 40 (3.77%) Progress Chef
8 28 (2.64%) Kibana
9 24 (2.26%) Podman
10 18 (1.70%) Istio
11 15 (1.41%) Nagios
12 12 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
13 11 (1.04%) Argo
13 11 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.94%) Packer
15 9 (0.85%) vCenter Server
15 9 (0.85%) vMotion
16 7 (0.66%) logstash
17 6 (0.57%) Consul
17 6 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 77 (7.26%) Red Hat
2 76 (7.16%) VMware
3 63 (5.94%) Google
4 56 (5.28%) Microsoft
5 52 (4.90%) Oracle
6 37 (3.49%) Splunk
7 30 (2.83%) SAP
8 25 (2.36%) Databricks
9 20 (1.89%) AppDynamics
10 17 (1.60%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.13%) IBM
11 12 (1.13%) Virgin Media
12 11 (1.04%) Citrix
12 11 (1.04%) TIBCO
13 9 (0.85%) HP
13 9 (0.85%) Symantec
14 8 (0.75%) Cisco
15 7 (0.66%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.66%) ServiceNow
16 6 (0.57%) Jaspersoft