Docker Contracts in England

Docker
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Docker skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Docker over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 51 37
Rank change year-on-year -28 -14 -10
Contract jobs citing Docker 989 2,225 4,255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.66% 4.42% 5.99%
As % of the System Software category 24.54% 33.81% 42.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 1,639 3,176
10th Percentile £406 £450 £435
25th Percentile £463 £513 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £723 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 31 12
10th Percentile £47.40 £60.70 £46.33
25th Percentile £62.50 £64.88 £47.23
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £65.52
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.47% +12.97%
75th Percentile £85.00 £76.75 £78.75
90th Percentile - £85.00 £84.38
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% +36.36% +10.00%

All System Software Skills
England

Docker is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,030 6,581 9,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.85% 13.08% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,794 4,769 7,166
10th Percentile £190 £203 £193
25th Percentile £325 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +8.81%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £635
90th Percentile £688 £738 £706
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 237 277
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.50 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.00% +163.16% -
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £75.20 £55.18
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in England

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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 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in England

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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 2024. 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 -26 587 £550 -15.38% 456
North of England -38 116 £550 -4.35% 109
South East -48 88 £550 -6.38% 100
South West -20 79 £550 -2.22% 81
Yorkshire +21 55 £550 - 31
North West -52 50 £550 - 67
Midlands +20 33 £500 - 63
West Midlands +16 20 £575 +4.55% 29
East of England -11 17 £650 +20.93% 37
East Midlands +18 13 £450 -6.25% 34
North East -12 11 £410 -39.26% 13
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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 44 (4.45%) Confluence
2 38 (3.84%) Apache
3 35 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (2.43%) OpenStack
5 20 (2.02%) nginx
6 13 (1.31%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.81%) JBoss
7 8 (0.81%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.71%) IIS
9 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.51%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.51%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.51%) Luigi
11 4 (0.40%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.30%) Camunda
12 3 (0.30%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.30%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.30%) WordPress
13 2 (0.20%) Traefik
14 1 (0.10%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.10%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Endur
2 2 (0.20%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.20%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 533 (53.89%) AWS
2 321 (32.46%) Azure
3 130 (13.14%) GCP
4 118 (11.93%) Serverless
5 107 (10.82%) GitHub
6 84 (8.49%) Amazon S3
7 80 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
8 75 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
9 72 (7.28%) Amazon EC2
10 70 (7.08%) OpenShift
11 54 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 53 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
13 43 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (3.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 30 (3.03%) PaaS
16 30 (3.03%) SaaS
17 28 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
18 23 (2.33%) Azure AKS
19 22 (2.22%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.25%) Firewall
2 41 (4.15%) DNS
3 36 (3.64%) VPN
4 30 (3.03%) Network Security
5 28 (2.83%) TCP/IP
6 21 (2.12%) DHCP
6 21 (2.12%) HTTP
7 13 (1.31%) AMQP
8 12 (1.21%) BGP
8 12 (1.21%) Ethernet VPN
8 12 (1.21%) MPLS
8 12 (1.21%) Radio Access Network
9 11 (1.11%) SAN
10 10 (1.01%) Kerberos
10 10 (1.01%) VLAN
11 8 (0.81%) NAS
12 7 (0.71%) MQTT
13 6 (0.61%) IPv4
14 5 (0.51%) DMZ
14 5 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (11.53%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (10.92%) NoSQL
3 72 (7.28%) Apache Cassandra
4 69 (6.98%) Relational Database
5 54 (5.46%) MongoDB
5 54 (5.46%) MySQL
6 49 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
7 43 (4.35%) SQL Server
8 38 (3.84%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (2.33%) DynamoDB
10 19 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (1.72%) Data Lake
12 15 (1.52%) Big Data
12 15 (1.52%) RDBMS
13 12 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.11%) Flink
14 11 (1.11%) Redis
15 9 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.81%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 257 (25.99%) Jenkins
2 248 (25.08%) Git
3 136 (13.75%) GitLab
4 94 (9.50%) JIRA
5 52 (5.26%) JUnit
6 49 (4.95%) SonarQube
7 48 (4.85%) Selenium
8 46 (4.65%) Cucumber
9 41 (4.15%) TeamCity
10 33 (3.34%) Maven
11 25 (2.53%) Cypress.io
12 24 (2.43%) Bitbucket
12 24 (2.43%) Mockito
13 20 (2.02%) NUnit
14 19 (1.92%) Artifactory
15 17 (1.72%) CircleCI
15 17 (1.72%) Robot Framework
16 16 (1.62%) JMeter
16 16 (1.62%) REST Assured
17 15 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 165 (16.68%) Social Skills
2 118 (11.93%) Finance
3 96 (9.71%) Public Sector
4 52 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (3.84%) Banking
6 26 (2.63%) Telecoms
7 22 (2.22%) Front Office
8 21 (2.12%) Law
8 21 (2.12%) Retail
9 15 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.42%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.11%) Marketing
12 9 (0.91%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.81%) Legal
13 8 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.81%) Police
14 5 (0.51%) Electronics
14 5 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 284 (28.72%) Developer
2 201 (20.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 150 (15.17%) Senior
4 102 (10.31%) Software Engineer
5 93 (9.40%) Java Developer
6 61 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
7 55 (5.56%) Architect
7 55 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
8 54 (5.46%) Azure Engineer
9 53 (5.36%) Lead
10 49 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
11 48 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
12 46 (4.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 39 (3.94%) Senior Developer
14 37 (3.74%) Full Stack Developer
15 36 (3.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 34 (3.44%) Python Developer
17 31 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
18 26 (2.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 25 (2.53%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (14.96%) Kafka
2 130 (13.14%) REST
3 112 (11.32%) Spring Boot
4 110 (11.12%) Spring
5 107 (10.82%) React
6 89 (9.00%) Node.js
7 83 (8.39%) RESTful
8 73 (7.38%) .NET
9 55 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
10 42 (4.25%) AngularJS
11 41 (4.15%) RabbitMQ
11 41 (4.15%) Web Services
12 39 (3.94%) SOAP
13 36 (3.64%) JSON
14 34 (3.44%) HTML
15 32 (3.24%) YAML
16 26 (2.63%) .NET Core
16 26 (2.63%) Hibernate
16 26 (2.63%) JPA
17 25 (2.53%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 48 (4.85%) Public Cloud
2 38 (3.84%) Cloud Native
3 34 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
4 33 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (2.93%) Linux Command Line
6 28 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 19 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.82%) Clustering
8 18 (1.82%) Data Centre
9 17 (1.72%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.11%) PKI
12 11 (1.11%) Replication
12 11 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.91%) Onboarding
14 8 (0.81%) Derivative
14 8 (0.81%) Fixed Income
14 8 (0.81%) Machine to Machine
14 8 (0.81%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 230 (23.26%) Linux
2 64 (6.47%) Windows
3 43 (4.35%) Unix
4 39 (3.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (3.34%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.31%) Oracle Linux
7 11 (1.11%) CentOS
8 8 (0.81%) Solaris
9 6 (0.61%) Android
9 6 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.61%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.30%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.20%) VMS
12 1 (0.10%) Debian
12 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (49.75%) DevOps
2 444 (44.89%) CI/CD
3 370 (37.41%) Agile
4 297 (30.03%) Containerisation
5 216 (21.84%) Microservices
6 209 (21.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 180 (18.20%) Software Engineering
8 143 (14.46%) Continuous Integration
9 141 (14.26%) Test Automation
10 134 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
11 128 (12.94%) Scrum
12 100 (10.11%) TDD
13 76 (7.68%) Configuration Management
14 73 (7.38%) High Availability
14 73 (7.38%) Unit Testing
15 71 (7.18%) Full Stack Development
16 59 (5.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 56 (5.66%) Software Delivery
18 53 (5.36%) User Experience
19 52 (5.26%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 405 (40.95%) Python
2 290 (29.32%) Java
3 208 (21.03%) SQL
4 137 (13.85%) Bash
5 131 (13.25%) Go
6 114 (11.53%) JavaScript
7 94 (9.50%) PowerShell
8 79 (7.99%) TypeScript
9 61 (6.17%) C#
10 36 (3.64%) C
11 35 (3.54%) Shell Script
12 33 (3.34%) Ruby
13 29 (2.93%) Scala
14 25 (2.53%) C++
15 18 (1.82%) PHP
16 17 (1.72%) Groovy
17 16 (1.62%) Perl
18 15 (1.52%) Bicep
19 7 (0.71%) Rust
20 4 (0.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 284 (28.72%) Security Cleared
2 202 (20.42%) SC Cleared
3 95 (9.61%) DV Cleared
4 66 (6.67%) Degree
5 32 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 20 (2.02%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.30%) CISSP
11 3 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.20%) RHCE
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.10%) GIAC
13 1 (0.10%) ISEB
13 1 (0.10%) Linux+ Certification
13 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.34%) QA
2 14 (1.42%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.11%) NIST
4 10 (1.01%) GDPR
4 10 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.61%) NCSC
7 4 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.30%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.20%) WCAG
10 1 (0.10%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (4.04%) Active Directory
2 36 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.42%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.71%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.71%) vSphere
6 6 (0.61%) Firmware
7 5 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.30%) Ceph
8 3 (0.30%) LXC
9 2 (0.20%) HDFS
9 2 (0.20%) KVM
9 2 (0.20%) NFS
9 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.10%) iptables
10 1 (0.10%) Lustre
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 735 (74.32%) Kubernetes
2 400 (40.44%) Terraform
3 231 (23.36%) Ansible
4 97 (9.81%) Grafana
5 93 (9.40%) Prometheus
6 60 (6.07%) Puppet
7 54 (5.46%) Progress Chef
8 41 (4.15%) Docker Swarm
9 24 (2.43%) Kibana
10 22 (2.22%) Podman
11 20 (2.02%) Packer
12 17 (1.72%) Istio
13 13 (1.31%) Argo
14 12 (1.21%) EMC NetWorker
15 11 (1.11%) HP Fortify
15 11 (1.11%) Netcool
16 10 (1.01%) Consul
16 10 (1.01%) Nagios
16 10 (1.01%) Rancher
17 8 (0.81%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 93 (9.40%) Microsoft
2 73 (7.38%) Splunk
3 64 (6.47%) Oracle
4 59 (5.97%) VMware
5 52 (5.26%) Google
6 27 (2.73%) Red Hat
7 19 (1.92%) Databricks
8 17 (1.72%) Dell
9 16 (1.62%) IBM
10 15 (1.52%) Cisco
11 14 (1.42%) Atlassian
12 13 (1.31%) CyberArk
12 13 (1.31%) ServiceNow
12 13 (1.31%) TIBCO
13 12 (1.21%) EMC
14 11 (1.11%) New Relic
14 11 (1.11%) SAP
15 9 (0.91%) Salesforce
16 8 (0.81%) HP
16 8 (0.81%) Serena