Docker Contracts in Gloucestershire

Docker
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 22 20
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 -9
Contract jobs citing Docker 34 41 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 12.41% 9.56% 11.63%
As % of the System Software category 49.28% 52.56% 37.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 35 36
10th Percentile £575 £519 £494
25th Percentile £589 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £600 £741
90th Percentile £775 £720 £769
South West median daily rate £600 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.22% +4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £71.25
25th Percentile - - £72.38
Median hourly rate - - £75.50
75th Percentile - - £77.38
90th Percentile - - £77.75
South West median hourly rate £78.70 £80.00 £60.70
% change year-on-year -1.63% +31.80% +17.56%

All System Software Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 69 78 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 25.18% 18.18% 31.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 61 112
10th Percentile £227 £210 £275
25th Percentile £425 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £700 £625 £600
90th Percentile £775 £725 £711
South West median daily rate £550 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £24.95
25th Percentile - - £45.88
Median hourly rate - - £66.50
75th Percentile - - £76.13
90th Percentile - - £77.25
South West median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in Gloucestershire

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in Gloucestershire

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Gloucestershire

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in Gloucestershire.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in Gloucestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cheltenham 0 16 £614 +10.59% 44
Gloucester +6 8 £700 +28.44% 38
Docker
South West

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 4 (11.76%) Apache
2 3 (8.82%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.82%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (64.71%) AWS
2 20 (58.82%) Azure
2 20 (58.82%) OpenShift
3 2 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (2.94%) IaaS
4 1 (2.94%) PaaS
4 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (44.12%) DHCP
1 15 (44.12%) DNS
1 15 (44.12%) HTTP
1 15 (44.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.82%) Big Data
2 3 (8.82%) Hadoop
2 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle Database
2 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.94%) Flink
4 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (8.82%) Git
3 2 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
1 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Software Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Developer
6 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Support Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Java Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) YAML
2 3 (8.82%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (8.82%) React
3 2 (5.88%) ModSecurity
3 2 (5.88%) Node.js
3 2 (5.88%) REST
3 2 (5.88%) RESTful
3 2 (5.88%) Spring
3 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.94%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.94%) JPA
4 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (76.47%) Linux
2 15 (44.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 15 (44.12%) Windows
2 15 (44.12%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.94%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (67.65%) Containerisation
2 12 (35.29%) Service Management
3 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
3 11 (32.35%) DevOps
4 6 (17.65%) Incident Management
4 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (14.71%) DevSecOps
5 5 (14.71%) Software Engineering
5 5 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (11.76%) Agile
6 4 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (8.82%) Data Engineering
7 3 (8.82%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (8.82%) ETL
7 3 (8.82%) Observability
7 3 (8.82%) Requirements Engineering
7 3 (8.82%) Thought Leadership
8 2 (5.88%) API Development
8 2 (5.88%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) Java
2 17 (50.00%) Python
3 15 (44.12%) Bash
3 15 (44.12%) PowerShell
4 6 (17.65%) SQL
5 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
5 5 (14.71%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.82%) C
7 2 (5.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 30 (88.24%) Security Cleared
2 26 (76.47%) DV Cleared
3 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (8.82%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (44.12%) Hyper-V
2 14 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (97.06%) Kubernetes
2 25 (73.53%) Terraform
3 24 (70.59%) Ansible
4 15 (44.12%) Puppet
5 4 (11.76%) Grafana
5 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
6 3 (8.82%) HAProxy
7 1 (2.94%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.94%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (44.12%) Red Hat
1 15 (44.12%) VMware
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft