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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 34 54
Rank change year-on-year -18 +20 -7
Contract jobs citing Docker 20 20 5
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 2.13% 4.41% 0.84%
As % of the System Software category 14.08% 28.17% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 2
10th Percentile £408 £437 £588
25th Percentile £463 £488 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -17.31% +31.65%
75th Percentile - £584 £681
90th Percentile £670 £613 £693
East of England median daily rate £475 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -11.63% -10.42% +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 requiring system software skills in Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 142 71 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 15.11% 15.64% 6.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 41 23
10th Percentile £228 £350 £208
25th Percentile £406 £463 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -21.74%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £563
90th Percentile £799 - £645
East of England median daily rate £450 £483 £340
% change year-on-year -6.74% +41.91% -28.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 9 0
10th Percentile £65.38 - -
25th Percentile £68.75 £52.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.50 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -
75th Percentile £74.24 £67.00 -
90th Percentile £91.10 - -
East of England median hourly rate £70.50 £63.50 £14.16
% change year-on-year +11.02% +348.45% -78.22%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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
Watford - 10 £550 - 3
Stevenage -24 4 £340 -32.00% 3
Welwyn Garden City +2 2 £850 -
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 16 (80.00%) Azure
2 11 (55.00%) Azure AKS
3 6 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (25.00%) Serverless
5 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Azure Functions
6 3 (15.00%) GitHub
6 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (5.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) SSL
2 2 (10.00%) InfiniBand
3 1 (5.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (5.00%) HTTP
3 1 (5.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (25.00%) InfluxDB
3 4 (20.00%) Couchbase
4 2 (10.00%) MySQL
4 2 (10.00%) Redis
4 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (10.00%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (5.00%) Neo4j
5 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (5.00%) eggPlant
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (25.00%) Retail
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Python Engineer
1 8 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) DBA
5 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Product Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Kafka
2 5 (25.00%) REST
3 4 (20.00%) FastAPI
3 4 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (20.00%) Spring
3 4 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (15.00%) RxJava
5 2 (10.00%) .NET
5 2 (10.00%) Celery
5 2 (10.00%) Django
5 2 (10.00%) JWT
5 2 (10.00%) OAuth
5 2 (10.00%) pytest
5 2 (10.00%) React
5 2 (10.00%) Terraform
5 2 (10.00%) Vue
6 1 (5.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (15.00%) IoT
4 2 (10.00%) CUDA
4 2 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
5 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
5 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.00%) Unix
4 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) DevOps
2 12 (60.00%) Event-Driven
3 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
4 10 (50.00%) Microservices
5 8 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 7 (35.00%) Agile
7 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
8 5 (25.00%) AI
8 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven Programming
8 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 4 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
9 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
9 4 (20.00%) Data Science
9 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
10 3 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (15.00%) Scrum
10 3 (15.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) Java
3 4 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) Bicep
5 1 (5.00%) Cypher
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) RHCE
1 2 (10.00%) RHCSA
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (90.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (5.00%) New Relic
2 1 (5.00%) Splunk