Docker Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Docker
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 46 46
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 +9
Contract jobs citing Docker 19 5 28
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 3.78% 0.93% 3.68%
As % of the System Software category 26.39% 12.50% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 9
10th Percentile £437 £588 £345
25th Percentile £488 £606 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +30.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £584 £681 £613
90th Percentile £613 £693 £720
East of England median daily rate £525 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile £63.63 - £63.75
25th Percentile £65.88 - £69.38
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.13
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +31.82%

All System Software Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 72 40 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 14.34% 7.45% 24.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 23 126
10th Percentile £350 £208 £254
25th Percentile £463 £288 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -20.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £725
90th Percentile - £685 £838
East of England median daily rate £475 £345 £500
% change year-on-year +37.68% -31.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 28
10th Percentile £52.00 - £20.21
25th Percentile £54.44 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £66.50 £75.00 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% +5.26% +42.50%
75th Percentile £67.00 - £84.36
90th Percentile £68.05 - £86.05
East of England median hourly rate £54.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.82% -15.38% +348.28%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Hertfordshire

Docker
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Docker

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 17 October 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
Stevenage - 15 £500 - 3
Hemel Hempstead +3 1 £550 -15.38%
Welwyn Garden City -3 1 - -
Docker
East of England

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 9 (47.37%) npm
2 5 (26.32%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub
4 1 (5.26%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) 3GPP
1 2 (10.53%) 4G
1 2 (10.53%) 5G
1 2 (10.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Big Data
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Artifactory
1 9 (47.37%) GitLab
1 9 (47.37%) JIRA
1 9 (47.37%) Visual Studio
2 2 (10.53%) Git
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.26%) Law
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Software Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Lead
3 4 (21.05%) Software Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Technical Leader
4 3 (15.79%) Development Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Linux Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) React
2 10 (52.63%) .NET
2 10 (52.63%) .NET Framework
3 9 (47.37%) AngularJS
3 9 (47.37%) CSS
3 9 (47.37%) HTML
3 9 (47.37%) Node.js
3 9 (47.37%) Svelte
3 9 (47.37%) Vue
4 3 (15.79%) REST
4 3 (15.79%) RESTful
5 2 (10.53%) OpenAPI
5 2 (10.53%) Swagger
6 1 (5.26%) Django
6 1 (5.26%) FastAPI
6 1 (5.26%) Jest
6 1 (5.26%) Next.js
6 1 (5.26%) OAuth
6 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
6 1 (5.26%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Algorithms
1 9 (47.37%) Data Structures
1 9 (47.37%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Containerisation
2 14 (73.68%) Agile
3 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 11 (57.89%) DevOps
3 11 (57.89%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (57.89%) Microservices
4 10 (52.63%) TDD
5 9 (47.37%) Computer Science
5 9 (47.37%) Design Patterns
5 9 (47.37%) OOP
5 9 (47.37%) SDLC
5 9 (47.37%) Software Testing
6 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) API Development
8 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.53%) Scrum
9 1 (5.26%) Deployment Automation
9 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 1 (5.26%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) TypeScript
2 10 (52.63%) C#
3 9 (47.37%) C++
3 9 (47.37%) JavaScript
4 8 (42.11%) Python
5 3 (15.79%) R
6 2 (10.53%) Go
6 2 (10.53%) Java
7 1 (5.26%) MATLAB
7 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Lustre
1 1 (5.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (89.47%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Packer
3 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Databricks
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft