Docker Contracts in Hertfordshire

Docker
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 66 51
Rank change year-on-year +35 -15 -15
Contract jobs citing Docker 14 6 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.73% 0.72% 3.09%
As % of the System Software category 23.73% 12.77% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 9
10th Percentile £448 £594 £335
25th Percentile £465 £622 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £688 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +37.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £569 £703 £675
90th Percentile £613 £709 £810
East of England median daily rate £490 £663 £510
% change year-on-year -26.04% +29.90% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £65.00
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.00
East of England median hourly rate - - £72.50

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 59 47 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 15.73% 5.60% 22.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 40 122
10th Percentile £450 £249 £170
25th Percentile £483 £349 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +3.75% +19.05%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £700
90th Percentile £603 £725 £749
East of England median daily rate £490 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +15.29% -5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 24
10th Percentile £61.95 - £18.83
25th Percentile £62.63 - £59.88
Median hourly rate £64.50 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.00%
75th Percentile £65.63 - £73.75
90th Percentile £65.85 - £85.50
East of England median hourly rate £41.45 £14.16 £65.50
% change year-on-year +192.73% -78.38% +319.33%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Docker in Hertfordshire

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in Hertfordshire

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 4 July 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 - 3 £475 - 32
Hemel Hempstead +9 1 £550 -21.43% 29
Welwyn Garden City -2 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 2 (14.29%) IBM Domino
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) Wireless
2 2 (14.29%) 3GPP
2 2 (14.29%) 4G
2 2 (14.29%) 5G
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) Big Data
1 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.14%) Flink
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.14%) Legal
2 1 (7.14%) Retail
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Backend Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Programmer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (21.43%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) OpenAPI
3 2 (14.29%) Swagger
4 1 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (7.14%) Django
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) Keycloak
4 1 (7.14%) OAuth
4 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
4 1 (7.14%) React
4 1 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Containerisation
2 4 (28.57%) OO
2 4 (28.57%) TDD
2 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) API Development
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (14.29%) Microservices
4 2 (14.29%) Multithreading
4 2 (14.29%) Storage Management
4 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.14%) Data Architecture
5 1 (7.14%) Data Science
5 1 (7.14%) Open Source
5 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (35.71%) C#
4 4 (28.57%) C++
5 2 (14.29%) Go
5 2 (14.29%) R
6 1 (7.14%) Bash
6 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) NetApp
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.14%) VMware