Docker Contracts in the North of England

Docker
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 44 80 38
Rank change year-on-year +36 -42 +11
Contract jobs citing Docker 149 114 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.52% 2.39% 4.89%
As % of the System Software category 29.45% 20.39% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 94 221
10th Percentile £390 £380 £440
25th Percentile £463 £444 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £590 £620 £650
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £65.50
75th Percentile £88.75 - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £53.10 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -21.33% -10.00% +14.47%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 506 559 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.36% 11.72% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 405 631
10th Percentile £184 £178 £178
25th Percentile £263 £275 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% -14.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £578
90th Percentile £603 £650 £670
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 50 36
10th Percentile £33.73 - £14.13
25th Percentile £40.81 £14.06 £17.44
Median hourly rate £55.75 £16.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +248.44% -40.19% +52.86%
75th Percentile £73.81 £18.56 £64.06
90th Percentile £82.78 £43.21 £65.38
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +50 94 £500 -9.09% 226
Yorkshire -8 38 £525 -4.55% 85
North East +7 18 £520 +26.83% 26
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (8.05%) Confluence
2 8 (5.37%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.36%) JBoss
3 5 (3.36%) nginx
4 2 (1.34%) Apache
4 2 (1.34%) Camunda
4 2 (1.34%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.34%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.67%) CMS
5 1 (0.67%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (42.95%) AWS
2 39 (26.17%) Azure
3 22 (14.77%) Serverless
4 20 (13.42%) GCP
5 15 (10.07%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (9.40%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (8.72%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (8.72%) Amazon S3
8 10 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (6.04%) Slack
10 8 (5.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (5.37%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (5.37%) GitHub
11 7 (4.70%) OpenShift
12 6 (4.03%) OCI
13 5 (3.36%) npm
14 4 (2.68%) Amazon Glacier
14 4 (2.68%) Amazon Kinesis
14 4 (2.68%) Azure AKS
14 4 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.37%) HTTP
2 5 (3.36%) SSL
3 3 (2.01%) Firewall
4 2 (1.34%) Calico
4 2 (1.34%) DNS
4 2 (1.34%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.67%) BGP
5 1 (0.67%) DHCP
5 1 (0.67%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.67%) Network Security
5 1 (0.67%) OSPF
5 1 (0.67%) SSH
5 1 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (25.50%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (18.12%) Relational Database
3 22 (14.77%) MongoDB
4 15 (10.07%) MySQL
5 11 (7.38%) Apache Cassandra
5 11 (7.38%) NoSQL
6 10 (6.71%) SQL Server
7 7 (4.70%) Oracle Database
8 6 (4.03%) DynamoDB
8 6 (4.03%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (3.36%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.68%) Couchbase
10 4 (2.68%) Neo4j
11 3 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.34%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.34%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.34%) Hazelcast
12 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (26.85%) Jenkins
2 35 (23.49%) Git
3 27 (18.12%) GitLab
4 24 (16.11%) JUnit
5 22 (14.77%) JIRA
6 12 (8.05%) Cucumber
7 10 (6.71%) Gradle
7 10 (6.71%) Liquibase
7 10 (6.71%) Mockito
8 9 (6.04%) Jasmine
9 8 (5.37%) SonarQube
10 7 (4.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (4.03%) Selenium
11 6 (4.03%) TeamCity
12 5 (3.36%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (3.36%) CA Release Automation
12 5 (3.36%) Maven
13 3 (2.01%) CircleCI
13 3 (2.01%) webpack
14 2 (1.34%) Jaeger
General
1 36 (24.16%) Public Sector
2 33 (22.15%) Finance
3 23 (15.44%) Social Skills
4 16 (10.74%) Manufacturing
5 12 (8.05%) Electronics
5 12 (8.05%) Marketing
5 12 (8.05%) Telecoms
6 11 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.70%) Banking
7 7 (4.70%) Legal
8 6 (4.03%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.68%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Military
11 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 41 (27.52%) Developer
2 35 (23.49%) Senior
3 26 (17.45%) Java Developer
4 23 (15.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (11.41%) Software Engineer
6 14 (9.40%) Architect
6 14 (9.40%) Data Engineer
7 13 (8.72%) Senior Developer
8 12 (8.05%) Lead
9 10 (6.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (6.71%) Java Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) Python Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (5.37%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (5.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 8 (5.37%) Java Architect
11 8 (5.37%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (4.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (24.16%) Spring Boot
2 29 (19.46%) Spring
3 28 (18.79%) RESTful
4 26 (17.45%) Kafka
5 23 (15.44%) Swagger
6 21 (14.09%) OpenAPI
7 19 (12.75%) Node.js
8 18 (12.08%) React
9 10 (6.71%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (6.71%) Spring Security
10 9 (6.04%) REST
10 9 (6.04%) Spring Batch
11 7 (4.70%) AngularJS
12 6 (4.03%) .NET
12 6 (4.03%) pytest
13 5 (3.36%) ARM Templates
13 5 (3.36%) Express.js
13 5 (3.36%) Jest
14 4 (2.68%) HTML
14 4 (2.68%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 7 (4.70%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.03%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.03%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.01%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.34%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.34%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.34%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.67%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.67%) PKI
7 1 (0.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (24.83%) Linux
2 22 (14.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (6.04%) Unix
4 8 (5.37%) Windows
5 2 (1.34%) Android
5 2 (1.34%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.67%) AIX
6 1 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.67%) Solaris
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (61.74%) CI/CD
2 88 (59.06%) Containerisation
3 68 (45.64%) Microservices
4 62 (41.61%) DevOps
5 44 (29.53%) Agile
6 35 (23.49%) TDD
7 34 (22.82%) Software Engineering
8 31 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (16.78%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (16.11%) Event-Driven
11 22 (14.77%) BDD
11 22 (14.77%) Test Automation
12 19 (12.75%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (12.08%) Mentoring
13 18 (12.08%) Migration
13 18 (12.08%) SDLC
14 17 (11.41%) Full-Stack Development
15 16 (10.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 12 (8.05%) Digital Marketing
16 12 (8.05%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (45.64%) Java
2 63 (42.28%) Python
3 39 (26.17%) SQL
4 24 (16.11%) Bash
5 20 (13.42%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.72%) JavaScript
7 12 (8.05%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.70%) Perl
9 5 (3.36%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.01%) Scala
11 2 (1.34%) ActionScript
11 2 (1.34%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (1.34%) Bicep
11 2 (1.34%) Groovy
12 1 (0.67%) Go
12 1 (0.67%) Korn
12 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.67%) PHP
12 1 (0.67%) R
12 1 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (22.82%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.12%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.68%) Degree
3 4 (2.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.34%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.34%) IBM Certification
5 2 (1.34%) OCP
5 2 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.01%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.01%) QA
2 2 (1.34%) GDPR
2 2 (1.34%) NIST
2 2 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.67%) NCSC
3 1 (0.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (4.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.01%) vSphere
4 1 (0.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 104 (69.80%) Kubernetes
2 33 (22.15%) Terraform
3 20 (13.42%) Ansible
4 14 (9.40%) Grafana
5 12 (8.05%) Prometheus
6 10 (6.71%) Progress Chef
7 6 (4.03%) Kibana
8 5 (3.36%) Puppet
9 4 (2.68%) Istio
10 2 (1.34%) Control-M
10 2 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.34%) Kiali
10 2 (1.34%) Packer
11 1 (0.67%) Graylog
11 1 (0.67%) logstash
11 1 (0.67%) Nagios
11 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (10.74%) Oracle
2 13 (8.72%) SAP
3 10 (6.71%) Red Hat
3 10 (6.71%) Virgin Media
4 8 (5.37%) Splunk
4 8 (5.37%) VMware
5 7 (4.70%) AppDynamics
6 4 (2.68%) Commvault
6 4 (2.68%) Google
6 4 (2.68%) IBM
7 3 (2.01%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.01%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.01%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.34%) Databricks
8 2 (1.34%) IBM Sterling
8 2 (1.34%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.34%) xMatters
9 1 (0.67%) Ariba
9 1 (0.67%) Cisco
9 1 (0.67%) PagerDuty