Docker Contract Job Trends in Essex

Docker
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Docker skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 38
Rank change year-on-year - - -8
Contract jobs citing Docker 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 1.60% - 0.83%
As % of the System Software category 20.00% - 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £458 - £454
25th Percentile £458 - £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 - £470
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.00%
75th Percentile £475 - £480
90th Percentile £476 - £486
East of England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -

All System Software Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 10 9 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 8.00% 7.03% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 10
10th Percentile £223 £370 £186
25th Percentile £225 £400 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £234 £450 £388
Median % change year-on-year -48.06% +16.13% -8.82%
75th Percentile £375 £500 £526
90th Percentile £473 £530 £775
East of England median daily rate £483 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +37.86% -22.22% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £43.13 -
East of England median hourly rate £64.75 £14.16 £70.00
% change year-on-year +357.27% -79.77% +382.76%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in Essex

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Docker

Docker
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Docker.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Docker

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Essex region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Basildon - 1 £465 - 1
Brentwood - 1 £468 -
Docker
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (50.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) ChatGPT
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSR 170
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) OSGi
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Personalization
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI