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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 43 62
Rank change year-on-year -16 +19 -3
Contract jobs citing Docker 4 2 10
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.58% 0.52% 1.39%
As % of the System Software category 6.78% 4.26% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £434 - £319
25th Percentile £477 £525 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +8.64% -27.68%
75th Percentile £547 £575 £556
90th Percentile £564 - £590
East of England median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

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 59 47 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 8.63% 12.14% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 21 86
10th Percentile £207 £200 £366
25th Percentile £423 £463 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -21.15% +18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £738
90th Percentile £606 £613 £819
East of England median daily rate £450 £471 £500
% change year-on-year -4.41% -5.85% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 19
10th Percentile - - £17.00
25th Percentile - £61.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £66.00 £78.73
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -16.16% +23.01%
75th Percentile - £70.50 £84.36
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £88.75
East of England median hourly rate £21.66 £59.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -63.29% +9.77% +216.18%

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 24 January 2026.

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 24 January 2026. 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 - 4 £513 - 5
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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (25.00%) Jest
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) pytest
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Biotechnology
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Tech Ops
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (25.00%) R
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Lustre
1 1 (25.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft