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 citing Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 25 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	57	39	46
Rank change year-on-year	-18	+7	-3
Contract jobs citing Docker	17	17	5
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire	1.84%	3.33%	1.00%
As % of the System Software category	11.56%	23.94%	13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted	14	6	2
10^th Percentile	£394	£428	£588
25^th Percentile	£463	£463	£606
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£513	£650
Median % change year-on-year	+7.32%	-21.15%	+31.65%
75^th Percentile	-	£547	£681
90^th Percentile	£760	£563	£693
East of England median daily rate	£475	£500	£600
% change year-on-year	-5.00%	-16.67%	+20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	6	0
Median hourly rate	-	£67.00	-
East of England median hourly rate	-	£67.00	-

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 citing system software skills in Hertfordshire.

	6 months to 25 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing system software skills	147	71	38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire	15.87%	13.89%	7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted	70	38	21
10^th Percentile	£185	£335	£200
25^th Percentile	£400	£453	£313
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£538	£550	£475
Median % change year-on-year	-2.27%	+15.79%	-24.00%
75^th Percentile	£600	£575	£575
90^th Percentile	£814	-	£700
East of England median daily rate	£415	£475	£350
% change year-on-year	-12.63%	+35.71%	-30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	38	10	1
10^th Percentile	£65.88	£52.00	-
25^th Percentile	£68.75	£54.44	-
Median hourly rate	£70.50	£66.50	£75.00
Median % change year-on-year	+6.02%	-11.33%	+5.26%
75^th Percentile	£74.24	£67.00	-
90^th Percentile	£89.75	£68.05	-
East of England median hourly rate	£70.50	£54.00	£56.25
% change year-on-year	+30.56%	-4.00%	-13.46%

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 Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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 25 October 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.

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 25 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Watford	-	7	£550	-	1
Stevenage	-24	4	£340	-32.00%	1
Welwyn Garden City	+4	2	£850	-	2
Docker East of England

Docker Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 25 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Docker also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hertfordshire region citing Docker.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Kubernetes	88.2%	15
2	Azure	76.5%	13
3	DevOps	70.6%	12
4	Event-Driven	58.8%	10
4	Python	58.8%	10
6	CI/CD	52.9%	9
6	Microservices	52.9%	9
8	Azure AKS	47.1%	8
8	Kafka	47.1%	8
10	Agile	41.2%	7
10	PostgreSQL	41.2%	7
12	Event-Driven Architecture	35.3%	6
13	AI	29.4%	5
13	Containerisation	29.4%	5
13	Java	29.4%	5
13	Linux	29.4%	5
13	REST	29.4%	5
13	Software Engineering	29.4%	5
13	Test Automation	29.4%	5
20	Ansible	23.5%	4
20	Azure Service Bus	23.5%	4
20	Couchbase	23.5%	4
20	Event-Driven Programming	23.5%	4
20	FastAPI	23.5%	4
20	RabbitMQ	23.5%	4
20	Red Hat Enterprise Linux	23.5%	4
20	Serverless	23.5%	4
20	Spring	23.5%	4
20	Spring Boot	23.5%	4
30	API Development	17.6%	3

Docker Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

System Software

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Slurm Workload Manager	11.8%	2
2	Virtual Machines	5.9%	1