Docker Contracts in the North West

Docker
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 38 88 34
Rank change year-on-year +50 -54 +17
Contract jobs citing Docker 94 49 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.78% 1.78% 5.29%
As % of the System Software category 33.94% 19.14% 33.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 41 134
10th Percentile £391 £406 £421
25th Percentile £463 £444 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £635
90th Percentile £619 £694 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 - £65.25
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £65.50
75th Percentile £88.75 - £65.75
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 277 256 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.08% 9.29% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 182 366
10th Percentile £157 £178 £200
25th Percentile £250 £299 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £575
90th Percentile £564 £670 £650
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 26 29
10th Percentile £33.73 - £13.99
25th Percentile £40.81 £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £55.75 £17.72 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +214.62% -20.93% +23.71%
75th Percentile £73.81 £26.38 £52.13
90th Percentile £82.78 £46.18 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +25 64 £507 -7.82% 172
Cheshire - 22 £393 - 33
Lancashire - 5 £600 - 60
Merseyside - 1 £475 - 15
Docker
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (5.32%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (5.32%) JBoss
2 4 (4.26%) Confluence
3 2 (2.13%) Camunda
3 2 (2.13%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.13%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.06%) CMS
4 1 (1.06%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (47.87%) AWS
2 24 (25.53%) Azure
3 17 (18.09%) Serverless
4 12 (12.77%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (12.77%) Amazon S3
4 12 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (12.77%) GCP
5 11 (11.70%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (7.45%) OpenShift
7 5 (5.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.26%) Amazon Glacier
8 4 (4.26%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (4.26%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (4.26%) Azure AI
8 4 (4.26%) Azure AKS
8 4 (4.26%) GitHub
8 4 (4.26%) Google Gemini
9 3 (3.19%) Apigee
9 3 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) Calico
1 2 (2.13%) DNS
1 2 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (1.06%) DHCP
2 1 (1.06%) HTTP
2 1 (1.06%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (29.79%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (28.72%) Relational Database
3 13 (13.83%) MongoDB
4 11 (11.70%) NoSQL
5 9 (9.57%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.38%) DynamoDB
6 6 (6.38%) MySQL
7 5 (5.32%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.32%) RDBMS
8 4 (4.26%) Couchbase
8 4 (4.26%) Neo4j
9 3 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.06%) Apache Accumulo
11 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.06%) Big Data
11 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.06%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 28 (29.79%) Jenkins
2 21 (22.34%) Git
3 16 (17.02%) GitLab
4 14 (14.89%) JUnit
5 12 (12.77%) JIRA
6 10 (10.64%) Gradle
6 10 (10.64%) Liquibase
6 10 (10.64%) Mockito
7 7 (7.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (6.38%) SonarQube
9 5 (5.32%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (5.32%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (5.32%) Maven
9 5 (5.32%) TeamCity
10 3 (3.19%) CircleCI
11 2 (2.13%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.13%) Jasmine
11 2 (2.13%) Selenium
12 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
General
1 21 (22.34%) Public Sector
2 20 (21.28%) Finance
3 14 (14.89%) Manufacturing
4 13 (13.83%) Social Skills
5 11 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (10.64%) Electronics
6 10 (10.64%) Marketing
6 10 (10.64%) Telecoms
7 6 (6.38%) Legal
7 6 (6.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (5.32%) Banking
9 4 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (24.47%) Developer
2 21 (22.34%) Senior
3 14 (14.89%) Java Developer
3 14 (14.89%) Software Engineer
4 13 (13.83%) Architect
5 8 (8.51%) Data Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (8.51%) Java Architect
5 8 (8.51%) Python Engineer
6 6 (6.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (6.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (6.38%) Java Engineer
6 6 (6.38%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (6.38%) Java Technical Architect
6 6 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (6.38%) Technical Architect
7 5 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (25.53%) Kafka
1 24 (25.53%) Spring Boot
2 18 (19.15%) Spring
3 17 (18.09%) RESTful
4 16 (17.02%) React
5 15 (15.96%) OpenAPI
5 15 (15.96%) Swagger
6 14 (14.89%) Node.js
7 9 (9.57%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (5.32%) .NET
8 5 (5.32%) AngularJS
8 5 (5.32%) Express.js
9 4 (4.26%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (4.26%) OAuth
9 4 (4.26%) PyTorch
9 4 (4.26%) TensorFlow
10 3 (3.19%) ARM Templates
10 3 (3.19%) FastAPI
10 3 (3.19%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.19%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.45%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.38%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.26%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.13%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.13%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.06%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.06%) PKI
5 1 (1.06%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.09%) Linux
2 10 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (8.51%) Windows
4 2 (2.13%) Android
4 2 (2.13%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.13%) Unix
5 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (68.09%) CI/CD
2 58 (61.70%) Containerisation
3 50 (53.19%) Microservices
4 41 (43.62%) DevOps
5 32 (34.04%) Agile
6 23 (24.47%) Event-Driven
6 23 (24.47%) Software Engineering
7 21 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (22.34%) TDD
8 17 (18.09%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (18.09%) Migration
9 15 (15.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 15 (15.96%) SDLC
10 12 (12.77%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (10.64%) Build Automation
11 10 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (10.64%) Code Quality
11 10 (10.64%) Digital Marketing
11 10 (10.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (50.00%) Java
2 38 (40.43%) Python
3 27 (28.72%) SQL
4 19 (20.21%) TypeScript
5 7 (7.45%) Bash
6 6 (6.38%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.38%) Perl
7 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.19%) Scala
7 3 (3.19%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.06%) Bicep
8 1 (1.06%) Go
8 1 (1.06%) PHP
8 1 (1.06%) R
8 1 (1.06%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.83%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.19%) Degree
4 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.13%) GDPR
1 2 (2.13%) NIST
1 2 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.06%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (5.32%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (65.96%) Kubernetes
2 17 (18.09%) Terraform
3 6 (6.38%) Grafana
3 6 (6.38%) Progress Chef
3 6 (6.38%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.32%) Kibana
5 3 (3.19%) Ansible
6 2 (2.13%) Istio
7 1 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.06%) Graylog
7 1 (1.06%) Packer
7 1 (1.06%) Puppet
7 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (11.70%) SAP
2 10 (10.64%) Virgin Media
3 9 (9.57%) Oracle
4 7 (7.45%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.32%) AppDynamics
5 5 (5.32%) Splunk
5 5 (5.32%) VMware
6 3 (3.19%) Cloudera
6 3 (3.19%) Google
7 2 (2.13%) IBM
7 2 (2.13%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.06%) Ariba
8 1 (1.06%) Databricks
8 1 (1.06%) PagerDuty