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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 70 39
Rank change year-on-year +27 -31 +11
Contract jobs citing Docker 147 129 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.42% 2.78% 4.69%
As % of the System Software category 29.40% 23.93% 32.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 105 204
10th Percentile £383 £394 £440
25th Percentile £459 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% -2.65% +5.12%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £639
90th Percentile £650 £665 £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% +24.44%

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 500 539 815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.04% 11.61% 14.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 385 601
10th Percentile £185 £178 £185
25th Percentile £274 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -8.16% +15.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £606 £650 £655
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 50 34
10th Percentile - - £14.08
25th Percentile £76.25 £14.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £82.50 £16.00 £24.21
Median % change year-on-year +415.63% -33.90% +37.76%
75th Percentile £88.75 £18.56 £60.85
90th Percentile - £43.21 £65.53
England median hourly rate £28.71 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +36.69% -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 17 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 17 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 +44 90 £507 -7.82% 231
Yorkshire -5 43 £525 -4.55% 92
North East +2 15 £481 +18.83% 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 9 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.76%) Confluence
3 5 (3.40%) JBoss
4 2 (1.36%) Apache
4 2 (1.36%) Camunda
4 2 (1.36%) nginx
4 2 (1.36%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.36%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.68%) CMS
5 1 (0.68%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (44.22%) AWS
2 36 (24.49%) Azure
3 24 (16.33%) Serverless
4 23 (15.65%) GCP
5 18 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (9.52%) Amazon S3
8 13 (8.84%) GitHub
9 8 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (5.44%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (4.76%) OCI
10 7 (4.76%) OpenShift
11 6 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (4.08%) npm
12 5 (3.40%) Apigee
12 5 (3.40%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (2.72%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (2.72%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.40%) HTTP
2 4 (2.72%) Firewall
3 3 (2.04%) DNS
3 3 (2.04%) SSL
3 3 (2.04%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.36%) Calico
4 2 (1.36%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.36%) Network Security
4 2 (1.36%) VPN
5 1 (0.68%) BGP
5 1 (0.68%) DHCP
5 1 (0.68%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.68%) OSPF
5 1 (0.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (20.41%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (18.37%) Relational Database
3 18 (12.24%) MongoDB
4 9 (6.12%) MySQL
4 9 (6.12%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.12%) SQL Server
5 8 (5.44%) DynamoDB
5 8 (5.44%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.40%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.40%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.72%) Neo4j
8 3 (2.04%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.36%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.36%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.36%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 50 (34.01%) Jenkins
2 33 (22.45%) Git
3 31 (21.09%) GitLab
4 22 (14.97%) JUnit
5 19 (12.93%) JIRA
6 12 (8.16%) Cucumber
7 10 (6.80%) Gradle
7 10 (6.80%) Liquibase
7 10 (6.80%) Mockito
7 10 (6.80%) Selenium
8 8 (5.44%) Maven
9 7 (4.76%) Cypress.io
9 7 (4.76%) SonarQube
10 6 (4.08%) JMeter
10 6 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (4.08%) TeamCity
11 5 (3.40%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (3.40%) CA Release Automation
11 5 (3.40%) Postman
11 5 (3.40%) REST Assured
General
1 33 (22.45%) Finance
1 33 (22.45%) Public Sector
2 27 (18.37%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.88%) Manufacturing
4 12 (8.16%) Electronics
4 12 (8.16%) Marketing
4 12 (8.16%) Telecoms
5 11 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.76%) Banking
6 7 (4.76%) Legal
7 6 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (3.40%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.36%) Military
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (25.17%) Developer
2 30 (20.41%) Senior
3 23 (15.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (14.97%) Java Developer
5 16 (10.88%) Software Engineer
6 15 (10.20%) Lead
7 14 (9.52%) Architect
7 14 (9.52%) Data Engineer
8 10 (6.80%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.12%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (5.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 8 (5.44%) Java Architect
10 8 (5.44%) Java Engineer
10 8 (5.44%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (4.76%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.08%) Java Technical Architect
12 6 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (4.08%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.41%) Spring Boot
2 25 (17.01%) Kafka
3 23 (15.65%) RESTful
3 23 (15.65%) Spring
4 20 (13.61%) Node.js
5 19 (12.93%) React
6 18 (12.24%) Swagger
7 17 (11.56%) OpenAPI
8 10 (6.80%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (5.44%) .NET
9 8 (5.44%) AngularJS
10 7 (4.76%) Playwright
10 7 (4.76%) REST
11 6 (4.08%) CSS
11 6 (4.08%) HTML
11 6 (4.08%) pytest
12 5 (3.40%) Express.js
12 5 (3.40%) OAuth
12 5 (3.40%) Spring Batch
12 5 (3.40%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.76%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.08%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.36%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.36%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.36%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.36%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.36%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.36%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.68%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.68%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.68%) PKI
7 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (21.77%) Linux
2 15 (10.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (6.80%) Unix
4 8 (5.44%) Windows
5 2 (1.36%) Android
5 2 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.68%) AIX
6 1 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.68%) Solaris
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (65.31%) CI/CD
2 83 (56.46%) Containerisation
3 63 (42.86%) Microservices
4 61 (41.50%) DevOps
5 50 (34.01%) Agile
6 35 (23.81%) TDD
7 32 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (19.05%) Software Engineering
9 25 (17.01%) Event-Driven
10 24 (16.33%) Test Automation
11 21 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (12.93%) BDD
12 19 (12.93%) SDLC
13 17 (11.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 17 (11.56%) Migration
14 16 (10.88%) Full-Stack Development
15 14 (9.52%) Mentoring
16 13 (8.84%) Deployment Automation
17 12 (8.16%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (46.94%) Java
2 67 (45.58%) Python
3 34 (23.13%) SQL
4 22 (14.97%) Bash
5 19 (12.93%) JavaScript
5 19 (12.93%) TypeScript
6 15 (10.20%) Shell Script
7 7 (4.76%) Perl
8 4 (2.72%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.04%) Groovy
9 3 (2.04%) Scala
10 2 (1.36%) ActionScript
10 2 (1.36%) ActionScript 2.0
10 2 (1.36%) Bicep
11 1 (0.68%) C#
11 1 (0.68%) Go
11 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.68%) PHP
11 1 (0.68%) R
11 1 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 29 (19.73%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.72%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.72%) Degree
3 4 (2.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.36%) IBM Certification
5 2 (1.36%) OCP
5 2 (1.36%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.44%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.40%) QA
2 5 (3.40%) WCAG
3 4 (2.72%) GDPR
3 4 (2.72%) NIST
4 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.36%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.68%) NCSC
6 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (3.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.04%) vSphere
3 1 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 98 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 33 (22.45%) Terraform
3 24 (16.33%) Ansible
4 13 (8.84%) Grafana
5 11 (7.48%) Prometheus
6 9 (6.12%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.40%) Istio
7 5 (3.40%) Kibana
7 5 (3.40%) Puppet
8 3 (2.04%) Control-M
8 3 (2.04%) Kiali
9 2 (1.36%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.36%) Packer
10 1 (0.68%) Graylog
10 1 (0.68%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.68%) Nagios
10 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (10.20%) Oracle
2 13 (8.84%) SAP
3 10 (6.80%) Red Hat
3 10 (6.80%) Splunk
3 10 (6.80%) Virgin Media
4 8 (5.44%) AppDynamics
5 5 (3.40%) Commvault
5 5 (3.40%) Google
6 4 (2.72%) IBM
6 4 (2.72%) VMware
7 3 (2.04%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.04%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.04%) xMatters
8 2 (1.36%) Databricks
8 2 (1.36%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.36%) IBM Sterling
8 2 (1.36%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.68%) Ariba
9 1 (0.68%) Cisco
9 1 (0.68%) LogicMonitor