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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 32 56
Rank change year-on-year -23 +24 -6
Contract jobs citing Docker 14 22 8
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.68% 5.15% 1.12%
As % of the System Software category 16.87% 32.84% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 4
10th Percentile £433 £445 £594
25th Percentile £463 £465 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £490 £688
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -28.73% +48.65%
75th Percentile - £550 £703
90th Percentile £790 £613 £709
East of England median daily rate £513 £490 £663
% change year-on-year +4.59% -26.04% +26.19%
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 83 67 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 9.98% 15.69% 5.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 38 27
10th Percentile £406 £443 £251
25th Percentile £425 £474 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £613
90th Percentile £651 £604 £705
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £348
% change year-on-year -10.00% +43.88% -22.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 0
10th Percentile £58.40 - -
25th Percentile £64.38 £52.00 -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £71.25 £67.00 -
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £67.50 £66.00 £14.80
% change year-on-year +2.27% +345.95% -76.32%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 - 9 £550 - 3
Welwyn Garden City 0 2 £850 -
Stevenage -15 1 - - 2
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 13 (92.86%) Azure
2 11 (78.57%) Azure AKS
3 6 (42.86%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (35.71%) Serverless
5 4 (28.57%) Azure Functions
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (7.14%) Datadog
7 1 (7.14%) GitHub
7 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
1 1 (7.14%) HTTPS
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) InfluxDB
2 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) Couchbase
3 2 (14.29%) MySQL
3 2 (14.29%) Redis
3 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 2 (14.29%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (7.14%) Neo4j
General
1 4 (28.57%) Retail
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Kafka
2 3 (21.43%) FastAPI
2 3 (21.43%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (21.43%) REST
3 2 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (14.29%) Celery
3 2 (14.29%) Django
3 2 (14.29%) JWT
3 2 (14.29%) OAuth
3 2 (14.29%) React
3 2 (14.29%) RxJava
3 2 (14.29%) Spring
3 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 2 (14.29%) Vue
4 1 (7.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (21.43%) IoT
4 2 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Event-Driven
2 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) Microservices
4 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 5 (35.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 5 (35.71%) Event-Driven Programming
4 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 4 (28.57%) Data Science
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (21.43%) AI
6 3 (21.43%) Analytics
6 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
7 2 (14.29%) CRUD
7 2 (14.29%) Data Validation
7 2 (14.29%) Low Latency
7 2 (14.29%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) Bicep
4 1 (7.14%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform