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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 31 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -13 +11
Contract jobs citing Docker 13 7 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 4.22% 2.13% 10.20%
As % of the System Software category 34.21% 31.82% 53.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 26
10th Percentile £375 £329 £567
25th Percentile £383 £356 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £405 £727
Median % change year-on-year +8.02% -44.29% +21.17%
75th Percentile £512 £479 £836
90th Percentile £580 £522 £849
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -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 38 22 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 12.34% 6.69% 18.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 17 43
10th Percentile £188 £185 £280
25th Percentile £288 £190 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £310 £675
Median % change year-on-year +21.77% -54.07% +50.00%
75th Percentile £497 £600 £775
90th Percentile £607 £650 £847
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.94%
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.75 £22.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.78% -55.00% +150.00%

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

Docker
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

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the North East over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the North East

Docker
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 24 June 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 +4 12 £438 +8.02% 27
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 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) dbt
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.69%) Metadata
1 1 (7.69%) Metadata Repository
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) GitLab
2 3 (23.08%) Cucumber
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) JUnit
3 2 (15.38%) Git
4 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Legal
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) QA Tester
2 2 (15.38%) Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) WireMock
2 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) Micronaut
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) BDD
6 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 1 (7.69%) API Management
7 1 (7.69%) Data Modelling
7 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (7.69%) Data Science
7 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps
7 1 (7.69%) Dynamic Code Analysis
7 1 (7.69%) ETL
7 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (7.69%) Scenario Testing
7 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
7 1 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Groovy
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 6 (46.15%) Terraform
3 4 (30.77%) Ansible
4 2 (15.38%) Packer
5 1 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (7.69%) Grafana
5 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Databricks
1 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft