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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 32 65
Rank change year-on-year -27 +33 +2
Contract jobs citing Docker 6 12 7
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.72% 3.61% 0.83%
As % of the System Software category 8.45% 21.05% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 4
10th Percentile £425 £445 £348
25th Percentile £456 £465 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £490 £638
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -23.14% -1.54%
75th Percentile - £575 £703
90th Percentile - £613 £709
East of England median daily rate £550 £481 £625
% change year-on-year +14.29% -23.00% +13.64%

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 71 57 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 8.51% 17.17% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 42 43
10th Percentile £263 £450 £250
25th Percentile £406 £481 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% +12.82% +8.33%
75th Percentile £528 £575 £650
90th Percentile £575 £611 £723
East of England median daily rate £450 £513 £350
% change year-on-year -12.20% +46.43% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile - £61.95 -
25th Percentile - £62.63 £86.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £64.50 £87.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% -26.29% +28.68%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.63 £89.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.85 £89.75
East of England median hourly rate £67.50 £17.36 £14.16
% change year-on-year +288.94% +22.56% -75.37%

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
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 29 May 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 - 6 £550 - 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Azure AKS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (50.00%) Serverless
4 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (16.67%) Datadog
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) InfluxDB
2 1 (16.67%) TimescaleDB
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Python Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Programming
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) CRUD
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes