Docker Contracts in the North East

Docker
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 20 27 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -13 +4
Contract jobs citing Docker 18 11 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 5.63% 3.25% 13.00%
As % of the System Software category 45.00% 27.50% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 40
10th Percentile £377 £340 £562
25th Percentile £420 £378 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £410 £675
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -39.26% +25.58%
75th Percentile £590 £429 £775
90th Percentile £616 £491 £847
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

All System Software Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 40 40 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 12.50% 11.83% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 31 61
10th Percentile £188 £180 £259
25th Percentile £300 £190 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% -29.17% +33.33%
75th Percentile £574 £544 £700
90th Percentile £623 £650 £836
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Docker in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Tyne and Wear +1 17 £520 +26.83% 21
Docker
England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (27.78%) nginx
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (5.56%) dbt
5 1 (5.56%) Kong
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.56%) Metadata
1 1 (5.56%) Metadata Repository
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) GitLab
2 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) JUnit
3 2 (11.11%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 12 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Electronics
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.11%) Marketing
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (22.22%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) QA Tester
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) REST
1 3 (16.67%) SOAP
1 3 (16.67%) WireMock
2 2 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 2 (11.11%) Micronaut
2 2 (11.11%) pytest
3 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) DevOps
2 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (38.89%) Agile
4 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 3 (16.67%) BDD
6 3 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 2 (11.11%) API Management
7 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
7 2 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
7 2 (11.11%) Risk Management
8 1 (5.56%) Data Pipeline
8 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps
8 1 (5.56%) Dynamic Code Analysis
8 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) Kubernetes
2 10 (55.56%) Terraform
3 6 (33.33%) Grafana
3 6 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 3 (16.67%) Ansible
5 1 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (5.56%) Kibana
5 1 (5.56%) logstash
5 1 (5.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft