Docker Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Docker
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 24 31
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Docker 6 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 2.96% 2.04% 3.60%
As % of the System Software category 21.43% 42.86% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile - - £611
25th Percentile - £488 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £645
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -18.60% +17.27%
75th Percentile - £594 £649
90th Percentile - £614 £688
North West median daily rate £450 £509 £550
% change year-on-year -11.55% -7.50% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £43.01 - £38.38
25th Percentile £48.21 - £39.63
Median hourly rate £58.47 - £43.10
75th Percentile £67.15 - £45.19
90th Percentile £71.42 - £45.60
North West median hourly rate £58.47 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +17.92%

All System Software Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 28 7 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 13.79% 4.76% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 10
10th Percentile £149 £210 £168
25th Percentile £338 £328 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £623
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -19.68% +46.47%
75th Percentile - £563 £645
90th Percentile £581 £588 £658
North West median daily rate £425 £409 £431
% change year-on-year +4.04% -5.28% -1.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £40.98 - £26.51
25th Percentile £41.94 - £30.65
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £40.33
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.54%
75th Percentile - - £44.49
90th Percentile - - £45.32
North West median hourly rate £19.50 £22.09 £18.50
% change year-on-year -11.72% +19.41% -57.76%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Docker job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Docker

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Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Docker.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Docker

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker in Lancashire over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in Lancashire

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Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Preston - 3 £550 - 16
Blackpool +4 1 - - 3
Docker
North West

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) BGP
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
1 3 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 3 (50.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) JWT
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Change Control
3 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) ITSM
3 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (50.00%) Service Management
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
5 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat