Docker Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Docker
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 22
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 +9
Contract jobs citing Docker 29 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 21.32% 6.60% 2.13%
As % of the System Software category 49.15% 24.14% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 7 0
10th Percentile - £608 -
25th Percentile £525 £659 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £723 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.03% - -
75th Percentile £700 £734 -
90th Percentile £770 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £650 £615 £600
% change year-on-year +5.69% +2.50% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - - £78.00

All System Software Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 59 29 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 43.38% 27.36% 21.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 20 6
10th Percentile £316 £228 £400
25th Percentile £406 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £485 £488
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -0.51% +21.88%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £538
90th Percentile £750 £734 £581
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +550.00%
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £195.00 - £70.25
% change year-on-year - - +17.08%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester.

Docker job vacancy trend in Gloucester

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Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Docker

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Gloucester over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Gloucester

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Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Docker

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 28 (96.55%) Azure
2 27 (93.10%) GitHub
3 10 (34.48%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (31.03%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (31.03%) Serverless
5 8 (27.59%) Azure Key Vault
5 8 (27.59%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.45%) AWS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (62.07%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (34.48%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (27.59%) Redis
4 1 (3.45%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.45%) Big Data
4 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) SonarQube
2 2 (6.90%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Data Engineer
1 10 (34.48%) Senior
1 10 (34.48%) Senior Data Engineer
2 9 (31.03%) Developer
2 9 (31.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 8 (27.59%) Backend Developer
3 8 (27.59%) Python Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Junior
4 1 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) Kafka
1 10 (34.48%) Keycloak
1 10 (34.48%) YAML
2 8 (27.59%) FastAPI
2 8 (27.59%) Flask
2 8 (27.59%) GraphQL
2 8 (27.59%) gRPC
2 8 (27.59%) REST
2 8 (27.59%) WebSockets
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (31.03%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (62.07%) CI/CD
3 10 (34.48%) Batch Processing
3 10 (34.48%) Data Architecture
3 10 (34.48%) Data Engineering
3 10 (34.48%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (34.48%) DataOps
3 10 (34.48%) DevSecOps
3 10 (34.48%) ETL
3 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (34.48%) Platform Engineering
3 10 (34.48%) Test Automation
4 9 (31.03%) Microservices
4 9 (31.03%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Security
5 1 (3.45%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (3.45%) Scrum
5 1 (3.45%) Task Automation
5 1 (3.45%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) Python
2 18 (62.07%) Go
3 8 (27.59%) SQL
4 1 (3.45%) Bash
4 1 (3.45%) Bicep
4 1 (3.45%) C#
4 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (96.55%) SC Cleared
3 18 (62.07%) DV Cleared
4 11 (37.93%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (31.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (96.55%) Kubernetes
2 10 (34.48%) Terraform
3 8 (27.59%) Grafana
3 8 (27.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft