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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 8 17
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 -6
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Docker 18 68 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 6.50% 15.11% 11.04%
As % of the System Software category 28.57% 68.00% 49.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 47 39
10th Percentile £503 £519 £505
25th Percentile £552 £525 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £695 £628 £721
90th Percentile £700 £681 £740
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £74.25
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £87.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
South West median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +6.25% +2.56% +51.06%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 63 100 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 22.74% 22.22% 22.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 67 69
10th Percentile £215 £460 £411
25th Percentile £325 £519 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +0.92% +6.34%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £675 £726
South West median daily rate £500 £538 £513
% change year-on-year -6.98% +4.88% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £19.03
25th Percentile - - £57.69
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +90.10%
75th Percentile - - £81.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
South West median hourly rate £80.00 £73.75 £52.09
% change year-on-year +8.47% +41.60% +7.44%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Gloucestershire

Docker
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Docker

Docker
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheltenham -5 9 £600 +3.23% 12
Gloucester +3 6 £700 +28.44% 7
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 3 (16.67%) nginx
2 2 (11.11%) Apache
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 4 (22.22%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (16.67%) GCP
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (11.11%) npm
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) AMQP
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.11%) InfluxDB
1 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) Big Data
2 1 (5.56%) Flink
2 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) GitLab
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 4 (22.22%) SonarQube
2 2 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Maven
3 1 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
General
1 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Developer
1 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Backend Developer
2 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Java Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Lead
3 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Lead Python Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) YAML
2 4 (22.22%) Node.js
3 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 3 (16.67%) React
3 3 (16.67%) Vue
4 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (11.11%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (5.56%) OpenID
5 1 (5.56%) Spring
5 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (11.11%) CentOS
4 1 (5.56%) Android
4 1 (5.56%) Windows
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Containerisation
2 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (33.33%) Agile
4 6 (33.33%) DevOps
4 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 5 (27.78%) DevSecOps
6 4 (22.22%) Microservices
6 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Observability
8 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven
8 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (11.11%) Scrum
8 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 1 (5.56%) Incident Management
9 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning
9 1 (5.56%) Release Management
9 1 (5.56%) Requirements Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) C
3 5 (27.78%) Python
4 3 (16.67%) Bash
4 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (11.11%) C++
5 2 (11.11%) Go
5 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (94.44%) Security Cleared
2 16 (88.89%) DV Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) Kubernetes
1 13 (72.22%) Terraform
2 9 (50.00%) Ansible
3 5 (27.78%) Grafana
4 4 (22.22%) Podman
5 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (5.56%) HAProxy
6 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
1 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.56%) VMware