Docker Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Docker
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 33 30
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +12
Contract jobs citing Docker 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 2.69% 0.45% 1.02%
As % of the System Software category 17.65% 3.03% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £445 - -
25th Percentile £487 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £529 - £475
90th Percentile £564 - -
North West median daily rate £450 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -15.73% +1.71% -8.70%

All System Software Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 34 33 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 15.25% 14.73% 21.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 24
10th Percentile - £146 £188
25th Percentile £134 £159 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £139 £213 £260
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% -18.27% -32.90%
75th Percentile £415 £409 £350
90th Percentile £510 £438 £488
North West median daily rate £435 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -13.00% +11.11% +4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - £15.08 -
25th Percentile - £16.31 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £17.22 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - -1.60% +3.40%
75th Percentile - £17.44 £19.50
90th Percentile - - £20.70
North West median hourly rate £18.87 £22.09 £18.50
% change year-on-year -14.58% +19.41% -7.50%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Merseyside over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Merseyside

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Liverpool +6 6 £510 +2.00% 5
Docker
North West

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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
2 4 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JUnit
1 4 (66.67%) Postman
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (66.67%) jQuery
1 4 (66.67%) JSON
1 4 (66.67%) POJO
1 4 (66.67%) React
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
1 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 4 (66.67%) Thymeleaf
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) API Development
2 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (66.67%) MVC
2 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 4 (66.67%) User Research
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform