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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 75 53
Rank change year-on-year +24 -22 -14
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,035 1,047 1,995
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.31% 2.87% 4.17%
As % of the System Software category 33.90% 26.18% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 740 779 1,483
10th Percentile £400 £406 £450
25th Percentile £461 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £646 £650 £713
90th Percentile £800 £725 £788
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -3.64% -8.33% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 33
10th Percentile £25.25 £47.08 £60.81
25th Percentile £25.81 £59.38 £65.25
Median hourly rate £53.10 £72.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.01% -3.00% +45.13%
75th Percentile £79.68 £85.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £84.38 - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £79.35 £72.75 £75.00
% change year-on-year +9.07% -3.00% +51.32%

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 3,053 3,999 6,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.72% 10.98% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,096 2,809 4,436
10th Percentile £213 £200 £203
25th Percentile £381 £350 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.25% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £623 £606 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £503 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 205 217
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.93
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.41 £22.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.14% -56.00% +168.82%
75th Percentile £63.50 £58.69 £65.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.80 £76.19
UK median hourly rate £28.21 £22.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year +25.36% -58.33% +184.21%

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 24 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

Docker
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker in England over the 6 months to 24 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 24 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 +15 587 £551 +0.18% 1,673
North of England +15 142 £514 -6.55% 1,849
North West +33 85 £514 -6.55% 954
South East +38 77 £500 -9.09% 2,156
Midlands +48 76 £475 -5.00% 1,313
South West +19 74 £600 +9.09% 968
West Midlands +45 53 £525 -15.15% 724
Yorkshire -3 44 £525 -4.55% 695
East Midlands +17 22 £440 +3.72% 504
East of England +27 20 £481 -23.00% 1,057
North East +4 14 £475 +17.28% 203
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 59 (5.70%) Apache
2 58 (5.60%) Apache Spark
3 46 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
4 39 (3.77%) Confluence
5 23 (2.22%) nginx
6 12 (1.16%) JBoss
7 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.58%) Camunda
8 6 (0.58%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.48%) Moodle
10 4 (0.39%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.29%) CMS
11 3 (0.29%) IBM Domino
11 3 (0.29%) IIS
11 3 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.19%) Alfresco
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Sketch
3 1 (0.097%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.097%) InVision
3 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.29%) Endur
3 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.097%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.097%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.097%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 608 (58.74%) AWS
2 301 (29.08%) Azure
3 162 (15.65%) GCP
4 140 (13.53%) Serverless
5 112 (10.82%) GitHub
6 101 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
7 94 (9.08%) OpenShift
8 89 (8.60%) Amazon S3
9 73 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
10 69 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
11 66 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 63 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
13 59 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
14 54 (5.22%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 33 (3.19%) IaaS
17 33 (3.19%) PaaS
18 31 (3.00%) dbt
19 28 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.80%) DNS
2 51 (4.93%) HTTP
3 45 (4.35%) Firewall
4 44 (4.25%) TCP/IP
5 34 (3.29%) DHCP
6 33 (3.19%) VPN
7 16 (1.55%) Network Security
8 12 (1.16%) SSL
9 11 (1.06%) Internet
10 9 (0.87%) Kerberos
10 9 (0.87%) SMTP
11 7 (0.68%) Wireless
12 6 (0.58%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (0.48%) VLAN
14 4 (0.39%) BGP
14 4 (0.39%) Fibre Channel
15 3 (0.29%) MPLS
15 3 (0.29%) SAN
15 3 (0.29%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (15.65%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (9.37%) Relational Database
3 79 (7.63%) Amazon RDS
4 74 (7.15%) NoSQL
5 68 (6.57%) MongoDB
6 50 (4.83%) Apache Cassandra
7 49 (4.73%) Elasticsearch
8 45 (4.35%) MySQL
9 35 (3.38%) SQL Server
10 33 (3.19%) DynamoDB
11 32 (3.09%) Apache Iceberg
12 31 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
13 28 (2.71%) Amazon Aurora
14 27 (2.61%) Big Data
15 25 (2.42%) Redis
16 24 (2.32%) Apache Arrow
16 24 (2.32%) Apache Ignite
16 24 (2.32%) Dremio
17 21 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
18 20 (1.93%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 300 (28.99%) Jenkins
2 185 (17.87%) Git
3 149 (14.40%) GitLab
4 91 (8.79%) JIRA
5 73 (7.05%) JUnit
6 58 (5.60%) Maven
7 54 (5.22%) SonarQube
8 47 (4.54%) Mockito
9 43 (4.15%) Gradle
10 36 (3.48%) Artifactory
10 36 (3.48%) Cucumber
11 32 (3.09%) Selenium
12 31 (3.00%) Liquibase
13 25 (2.42%) REST Assured
14 24 (2.32%) Postman
14 24 (2.32%) Sonatype Nexus
15 22 (2.13%) Bitbucket
16 17 (1.64%) TeamCity
17 15 (1.45%) Bitbucket Server
18 14 (1.35%) Cypress.io
General
1 215 (20.77%) Finance
2 212 (20.48%) Social Skills
3 133 (12.85%) Public Sector
4 103 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (8.70%) Banking
6 44 (4.25%) Investment Banking
7 41 (3.96%) Marketing
8 38 (3.67%) Telecoms
9 36 (3.48%) Front Office
10 31 (3.00%) Manufacturing
11 27 (2.61%) Electronics
12 21 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
14 17 (1.64%) Legal
15 16 (1.55%) Financial Institution
16 15 (1.45%) Law
17 10 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (0.87%) Military
19 8 (0.77%) Retail
20 7 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 350 (33.82%) Developer
2 179 (17.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 176 (17.00%) Senior
4 105 (10.14%) Java Developer
5 92 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
6 74 (7.15%) Python Developer
7 73 (7.05%) Data Engineer
8 69 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
8 69 (6.67%) Lead
8 69 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 69 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 67 (6.47%) Architect
10 60 (5.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 54 (5.22%) Python Engineer
12 51 (4.93%) Full-Stack Developer
13 39 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
14 33 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 29 (2.80%) Java Engineer
16 28 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
17 27 (2.61%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (18.74%) Kafka
2 153 (14.78%) Spring
3 150 (14.49%) React
4 146 (14.11%) Spring Boot
5 102 (9.86%) REST
6 100 (9.66%) .NET
7 89 (8.60%) Node.js
7 89 (8.60%) RESTful
8 66 (6.38%) AngularJS
9 60 (5.80%) Elastic Stack
9 60 (5.80%) FastAPI
9 60 (5.80%) HTML
10 52 (5.02%) Swagger
11 48 (4.64%) OpenAPI
12 47 (4.54%) gRPC
12 47 (4.54%) Web Services
13 43 (4.15%) CSS
14 39 (3.77%) PySpark
15 37 (3.57%) Django
16 35 (3.38%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 83 (8.02%) Distributed Systems
2 62 (5.99%) Cloud Native
3 26 (2.51%) Data Centre
4 25 (2.42%) Public Cloud
5 21 (2.03%) PKI
6 20 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (1.74%) Hedge funds
7 18 (1.74%) Product Ownership
8 16 (1.55%) Algorithms
8 16 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (1.45%) Clustering
9 15 (1.45%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 10 (0.97%) Replication
12 9 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (0.87%) Private Cloud
12 9 (0.87%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.77%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 234 (22.61%) Linux
2 75 (7.25%) Windows
3 65 (6.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (4.25%) Windows Server
5 38 (3.67%) Unix
6 10 (0.97%) CentOS
7 7 (0.68%) VMS
8 6 (0.58%) Rocky
9 5 (0.48%) Android
9 5 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.29%) AIX
11 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.29%) SUSE
11 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.19%) Debian
12 2 (0.19%) Solaris
13 1 (0.097%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 599 (57.87%) CI/CD
2 499 (48.21%) DevOps
3 486 (46.96%) Containerisation
4 343 (33.14%) Agile
5 319 (30.82%) Microservices
6 239 (23.09%) Software Engineering
7 225 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 205 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
9 139 (13.43%) TDD
10 125 (12.08%) Test Automation
11 122 (11.79%) Continuous Integration
12 102 (9.86%) Full-Stack Development
13 96 (9.28%) Artificial Intelligence
14 88 (8.50%) Event-Driven
14 88 (8.50%) Open Source
15 83 (8.02%) Machine Learning
16 81 (7.83%) SDLC
17 77 (7.44%) Migration
18 75 (7.25%) Data Engineering
18 75 (7.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 496 (47.92%) Python
2 368 (35.56%) Java
3 239 (23.09%) SQL
4 150 (14.49%) JavaScript
5 137 (13.24%) Bash
6 122 (11.79%) TypeScript
7 101 (9.76%) Go
8 99 (9.57%) C#
9 75 (7.25%) PowerShell
10 55 (5.31%) Shell Script
11 33 (3.19%) C++
12 24 (2.32%) Perl
13 20 (1.93%) Bicep
14 18 (1.74%) PL/SQL
14 18 (1.74%) Scala
15 17 (1.64%) Rust
16 16 (1.55%) Kotlin
17 15 (1.45%) PHP
18 12 (1.16%) Ruby
19 11 (1.06%) RPG
Qualifications
1 309 (29.86%) Security Cleared
2 253 (24.44%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.05%) Degree
4 59 (5.70%) DV Cleared
5 38 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (3.19%) AWS Certification
7 20 (1.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.26%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.58%) CISSP
13 5 (0.48%) PhD
13 5 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.39%) CEH
14 4 (0.39%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.39%) RHCSA
15 3 (0.29%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.29%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.31%) QA
2 35 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.74%) GDPR
4 16 (1.55%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 9 (0.87%) HIPAA
6 9 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.77%) WCAG
8 7 (0.68%) NIST
9 6 (0.58%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.48%) NCSC
11 4 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.19%) HL7
13 2 (0.19%) SLA
14 1 (0.097%) EMIR
14 1 (0.097%) FedRAMP
14 1 (0.097%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 53 (5.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.90%) Hyper-V
4 10 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.87%) BitLocker
5 9 (0.87%) Microsoft App-V
5 9 (0.87%) Terminal Services
6 6 (0.58%) Postfix
6 6 (0.58%) vSphere
7 5 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.29%) Lustre
9 3 (0.29%) Platform Symphony
9 3 (0.29%) vCloud
9 3 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.19%) RACF
11 1 (0.097%) NFS
11 1 (0.097%) Samba
11 1 (0.097%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 781 (75.46%) Kubernetes
2 356 (34.40%) Terraform
3 224 (21.64%) Ansible
4 89 (8.60%) Grafana
5 78 (7.54%) Prometheus
6 74 (7.15%) Puppet
7 38 (3.67%) Progress Chef
8 29 (2.80%) Kibana
9 25 (2.42%) Podman
10 14 (1.35%) Nagios
11 13 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
11 13 (1.26%) Istio
12 12 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
13 11 (1.06%) Packer
14 9 (0.87%) vCenter Server
14 9 (0.87%) vMotion
15 8 (0.77%) Argo
16 7 (0.68%) Consul
17 6 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
17 6 (0.58%) logstash
Vendors
1 70 (6.76%) Red Hat
2 65 (6.28%) Google
3 63 (6.09%) VMware
4 54 (5.22%) Microsoft
5 49 (4.73%) Oracle
6 44 (4.25%) Splunk
7 28 (2.71%) SAP
8 26 (2.51%) Databricks
9 19 (1.84%) AppDynamics
10 14 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 14 (1.35%) IBM
11 13 (1.26%) Virgin Media
12 11 (1.06%) TIBCO
13 10 (0.97%) Citrix
14 9 (0.87%) HP
14 9 (0.87%) Symantec
15 8 (0.77%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.77%) CA Agile Central
15 8 (0.77%) Cisco
16 7 (0.68%) Jaspersoft