Docker Contracts in Essex

Docker
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 33 35
Rank change year-on-year +13 +2 -11
Contract jobs citing Docker 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 1.85% 0.91% 1.78%
As % of the System Software category 14.29% 15.38% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £458 - £462
25th Percentile £458 - £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 - £537
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.58%
75th Percentile £475 - £583
90th Percentile £476 - -
East of England median daily rate £490 £663 £510
% change year-on-year -26.04% +29.90% -9.33%

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 14 13 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 12.96% 5.94% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 21
10th Percentile £196 £194 £225
25th Percentile - £222 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £350 £490
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -28.57% -2.00%
75th Percentile £388 £485 £505
90th Percentile £473 £511 £583
East of England median daily rate £490 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +15.29% -5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile - £13.44 £22.30
25th Percentile - £14.31 £23.79
Median hourly rate £200.00 £15.76 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +1169.04% -35.99% +4.86%
75th Percentile - £44.51 £34.90
90th Percentile - £61.75 £53.41
East of England median hourly rate £47.73 £14.16 £64.25
% change year-on-year +237.04% -77.96% +308.20%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in Essex

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 6 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
Brentwood +2 1 £468 -
Basildon - 1 £465 - 1
Docker
East of England

Docker
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