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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 54 50
Rank change year-on-year +19 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Docker 20 5 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.44% 0.82% 3.29%
As % of the System Software category 28.57% 12.82% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £437 £588 £311
25th Percentile £488 £606 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £494
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +31.65% -17.71%
75th Percentile £584 £681 £703
90th Percentile £613 £693 £821
East of England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile £63.63 - £63.75
25th Percentile £65.88 - £69.38
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.13
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +31.82%

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 70 39 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 15.56% 6.39% 24.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 22 120
10th Percentile £350 £258 £170
25th Percentile £463 £332 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £678
90th Percentile £579 £648 £815
East of England median daily rate £479 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +36.79% -22.22% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 31
10th Percentile - - £17.79
25th Percentile £52.00 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.00%
75th Percentile £67.00 - £84.36
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £14.16 £70.00
% change year-on-year +366.10% -79.77% +382.76%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Docker 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025. 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 - 15 £500 - 5
Hemel Hempstead +3 1 £550 -15.38%
Welwyn Garden City -1 1 - -
Docker
East of England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) IBM Domino
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) npm
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) 3GPP
1 2 (10.00%) 4G
1 2 (10.00%) 5G
1 2 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Big Data
1 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.00%) Flink
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Artifactory
1 9 (45.00%) GitLab
1 9 (45.00%) JIRA
1 9 (45.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (10.00%) Git
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.00%) Law
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Lead
3 4 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Technical Leader
4 3 (15.00%) Development Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Python Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Linux Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) React
2 10 (50.00%) .NET
2 10 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 9 (45.00%) AngularJS
3 9 (45.00%) CSS
3 9 (45.00%) HTML
3 9 (45.00%) Node.js
3 9 (45.00%) Svelte
3 9 (45.00%) Vue
4 3 (15.00%) REST
4 3 (15.00%) RESTful
5 2 (10.00%) OpenAPI
5 2 (10.00%) Swagger
6 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (5.00%) FastAPI
6 1 (5.00%) Jest
6 1 (5.00%) Keycloak
6 1 (5.00%) Next.js
6 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
6 1 (5.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Algorithms
1 9 (45.00%) Data Structures
1 9 (45.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (70.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Containerisation
2 14 (70.00%) Agile
3 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (55.00%) DevOps
3 11 (55.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (55.00%) Microservices
4 10 (50.00%) TDD
5 9 (45.00%) Computer Science
5 9 (45.00%) Design Patterns
5 9 (45.00%) OOP
5 9 (45.00%) SDLC
5 9 (45.00%) Software Testing
6 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) API Development
8 2 (10.00%) Analytics
8 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.00%) Scrum
8 2 (10.00%) Storage Management
9 1 (5.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) TypeScript
2 10 (50.00%) C#
3 9 (45.00%) C++
3 9 (45.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (45.00%) Python
4 3 (15.00%) R
5 2 (10.00%) Go
5 2 (10.00%) Java
6 1 (5.00%) MATLAB
6 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Lustre
1 1 (5.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 18 (90.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Packer
3 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft