Docker Contracts in Manchester

Docker
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 48 32
Rank change year-on-year +25 -16 +5
Contract jobs citing Docker 64 48 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 6.91% 3.16% 5.44%
As % of the System Software category 48.12% 36.36% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 40 80
10th Percentile £433 £406 £424
25th Percentile £463 £444 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% -6.38% +6.82%
75th Percentile £554 £650 £650
90th Percentile £614 £699 £676
North West median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £82.50 - £65.50

All System Software Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 133 132 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.36% 8.70% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 114 205
10th Percentile £199 £281 £300
25th Percentile £364 £366 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £545 £596 £594
90th Percentile £575 £694 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 15
10th Percentile £33.73 - £14.07
25th Percentile £40.81 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.75 £12.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +364.58% -56.36% +51.81%
75th Percentile £73.81 - £65.00
90th Percentile £82.78 - -
North West median hourly rate £55.75 £17.72 £22.41
% change year-on-year +214.62% -20.93% +23.71%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Docker in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (7.81%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.13%) Camunda
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.13%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.56%) CMS
3 1 (1.56%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.75%) AWS
2 16 (25.00%) Azure
3 12 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (17.19%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 7 (10.94%) GCP
7 6 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (9.38%) Serverless
8 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.25%) GitHub
9 3 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.69%) Apigee
9 3 (4.69%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (3.13%) IBM Cloud
10 2 (3.13%) npm
10 2 (3.13%) Slack
11 1 (1.56%) Amazon Cognito
11 1 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) Calico
1 2 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (1.56%) DHCP
2 1 (1.56%) Firewall
2 1 (1.56%) HTTP
2 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (40.63%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (34.38%) Relational Database
3 11 (17.19%) MongoDB
4 9 (14.06%) NoSQL
4 9 (14.06%) SQL Server
5 5 (7.81%) MySQL
6 4 (6.25%) Couchbase
7 3 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (3.13%) DynamoDB
8 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.56%) Apache Accumulo
9 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.56%) Big Data
9 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.56%) DocumentDB
9 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (26.56%) Jenkins
2 16 (25.00%) GitLab
3 12 (18.75%) JUnit
4 10 (15.63%) Gradle
4 10 (15.63%) Liquibase
4 10 (15.63%) Mockito
5 8 (12.50%) Git
6 6 (9.38%) JIRA
7 5 (7.81%) Maven
8 3 (4.69%) CircleCI
9 2 (3.13%) Cucumber
9 2 (3.13%) Jasmine
9 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.56%) Selenium
General
1 14 (21.88%) Public Sector
2 13 (20.31%) Finance
3 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
4 10 (15.63%) Electronics
4 10 (15.63%) Manufacturing
4 10 (15.63%) Marketing
4 10 (15.63%) Telecoms
5 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (29.69%) Developer
2 16 (25.00%) Senior
3 14 (21.88%) Software Engineer
4 13 (20.31%) Java Developer
5 8 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 8 (12.50%) Python Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (9.38%) Java Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) React Developer
7 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.00%) Kafka
1 16 (25.00%) Spring
1 16 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 14 (21.88%) OpenAPI
2 14 (21.88%) Swagger
3 13 (20.31%) React
4 11 (17.19%) Node.js
5 10 (15.63%) RESTful
6 5 (7.81%) Express.js
7 4 (6.25%) OAuth
8 3 (4.69%) FastAPI
9 2 (3.13%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.13%) ARM Templates
9 2 (3.13%) AWS CDK
9 2 (3.13%) GraphQL
9 2 (3.13%) pytest
9 2 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (3.13%) REST
9 2 (3.13%) Spring Batch
9 2 (3.13%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 4 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.13%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.56%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.19%) Linux
2 5 (7.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.13%) Android
3 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.13%) Windows
4 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (60.94%) Containerisation
2 38 (59.38%) CI/CD
3 29 (45.31%) Microservices
4 28 (43.75%) DevOps
5 21 (32.81%) Software Engineering
6 17 (26.56%) Agile
7 16 (25.00%) TDD
8 14 (21.88%) Event-Driven
8 14 (21.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 11 (17.19%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (15.63%) Digital Marketing
10 10 (15.63%) Migration
10 10 (15.63%) Programme Management
11 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (10.94%) Event-Driven Programming
12 7 (10.94%) Full-Stack Development
12 7 (10.94%) Test Automation
13 6 (9.38%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 28 (43.75%) Java
2 25 (39.06%) SQL
3 23 (35.94%) Python
4 19 (29.69%) TypeScript
5 5 (7.81%) Bash
6 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.69%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.56%) Bicep
8 1 (1.56%) Perl
8 1 (1.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.31%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.56%) Degree
3 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) GDPR
1 2 (3.13%) NIST
1 2 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (64.06%) Kubernetes
2 13 (20.31%) Terraform
3 4 (6.25%) Grafana
3 4 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.13%) Istio
5 1 (1.56%) Ansible
5 1 (1.56%) Graylog
5 1 (1.56%) Packer
5 1 (1.56%) Puppet
5 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) SAP
2 8 (12.50%) Oracle
3 6 (9.38%) Virgin Media
4 4 (6.25%) VMware
5 3 (4.69%) Google
6 2 (3.13%) IBM
7 1 (1.56%) Databricks
7 1 (1.56%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.56%) Red Hat