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

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 83 36
Rank change year-on-year +41 -47 +13
Contract jobs citing Docker 89 55 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.54% 2.06% 5.29%
As % of the System Software category 33.97% 21.83% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 45 129
10th Percentile £381 £406 £424
25th Percentile £463 £444 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £625
90th Percentile £625 £734 £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% +45.13%

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 262 252 506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.36% 9.44% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 175 360
10th Percentile £153 £177 £206
25th Percentile £269 £301 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £494
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -8.86% +9.72%
75th Percentile £537 £588 £575
90th Percentile £575 £691 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 27 27
10th Percentile - - £13.98
25th Percentile £76.25 £15.50 £16.22
Median hourly rate £82.50 £17.72 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +365.58% -11.40% +10.41%
75th Percentile £88.75 £35.81 £52.13
90th Percentile - £46.18 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.71 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +36.69% -58.00% +166.67%

Docker
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 19 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 19 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 +22 60 £514 -6.55% 236
Cheshire +19 22 £393 -33.78% 39
Lancashire - 5 £600 - 72
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 6 (6.74%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.62%) JBoss
3 4 (4.49%) Confluence
4 2 (2.25%) Camunda
4 2 (2.25%) WebSphere
4 2 (2.25%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (1.12%) CMS
5 1 (1.12%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (50.56%) AWS
2 24 (26.97%) Azure
3 19 (21.35%) Serverless
4 14 (15.73%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (14.61%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (14.61%) Amazon S3
5 13 (14.61%) GCP
6 11 (12.36%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (7.87%) OpenShift
8 6 (6.74%) GitHub
9 5 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.49%) Amazon Glacier
10 4 (4.49%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (4.49%) Apigee
10 4 (4.49%) Azure AI
10 4 (4.49%) Azure AKS
10 4 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (4.49%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.25%) Calico
1 2 (2.25%) DNS
1 2 (2.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.12%) DHCP
2 1 (1.12%) HTTP
2 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (30.34%) Relational Database
2 25 (28.09%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (16.85%) MongoDB
4 9 (10.11%) NoSQL
5 8 (8.99%) SQL Server
6 7 (7.87%) DynamoDB
7 6 (6.74%) MySQL
8 5 (5.62%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (5.62%) RDBMS
9 4 (4.49%) Neo4j
10 3 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (2.25%) DocumentDB
11 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (1.12%) Apache Accumulo
12 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (1.12%) Big Data
12 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (1.12%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 29 (32.58%) Jenkins
2 20 (22.47%) Git
3 15 (16.85%) GitLab
4 14 (15.73%) JUnit
5 13 (14.61%) JIRA
6 10 (11.24%) Gradle
6 10 (11.24%) Liquibase
6 10 (11.24%) Mockito
7 6 (6.74%) SonarQube
7 6 (6.74%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (5.62%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (5.62%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (5.62%) TeamCity
9 4 (4.49%) CircleCI
9 4 (4.49%) Maven
10 2 (2.25%) Cucumber
10 2 (2.25%) Cypress.io
10 2 (2.25%) Jasmine
10 2 (2.25%) Selenium
11 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
General
1 20 (22.47%) Finance
1 20 (22.47%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.73%) Manufacturing
2 14 (15.73%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.24%) Electronics
4 10 (11.24%) Marketing
4 10 (11.24%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.74%) Legal
5 6 (6.74%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (5.62%) Banking
7 4 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Military
9 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (25.84%) Developer
2 20 (22.47%) Senior
3 14 (15.73%) Java Developer
3 14 (15.73%) Software Engineer
4 13 (14.61%) Architect
5 8 (8.99%) Data Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (8.99%) Java Architect
6 7 (7.87%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (6.74%) Java Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Java Technical Architect
7 6 (6.74%) Lead
7 6 (6.74%) Python Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (6.74%) Technical Architect
8 5 (5.62%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (26.97%) Spring Boot
2 23 (25.84%) Kafka
3 17 (19.10%) React
3 17 (19.10%) Spring
4 15 (16.85%) Node.js
4 15 (16.85%) RESTful
5 14 (15.73%) OpenAPI
5 14 (15.73%) Swagger
6 9 (10.11%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (7.87%) .NET
8 5 (5.62%) AngularJS
8 5 (5.62%) Express.js
8 5 (5.62%) OAuth
8 5 (5.62%) PyTorch
8 5 (5.62%) TensorFlow
9 4 (4.49%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (4.49%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.37%) ARM Templates
10 3 (3.37%) FastAPI
10 3 (3.37%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.87%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.74%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.25%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.25%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.25%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.12%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.12%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.12%) PKI
4 1 (1.12%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.98%) Linux
2 9 (10.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (8.99%) Windows
4 2 (2.25%) Android
4 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.25%) Unix
5 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (69.66%) CI/CD
2 55 (61.80%) Containerisation
3 49 (55.06%) Microservices
4 41 (46.07%) DevOps
5 33 (37.08%) Agile
6 24 (26.97%) Event-Driven
7 23 (25.84%) Software Engineering
8 22 (24.72%) TDD
9 20 (22.47%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (19.10%) Migration
11 16 (17.98%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (17.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 15 (16.85%) SDLC
13 13 (14.61%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (13.48%) Full-Stack Development
15 10 (11.24%) Build Automation
15 10 (11.24%) Code Quality
15 10 (11.24%) Digital Marketing
15 10 (11.24%) Programme Management
15 10 (11.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (52.81%) Java
2 37 (41.57%) Python
3 28 (31.46%) SQL
4 18 (20.22%) TypeScript
5 8 (8.99%) Bash
6 7 (7.87%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.74%) Perl
8 3 (3.37%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.37%) Scala
8 3 (3.37%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.12%) Bicep
9 1 (1.12%) C#
9 1 (1.12%) Go
9 1 (1.12%) PHP
9 1 (1.12%) R
9 1 (1.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.37%) Degree
4 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) GDPR
1 2 (2.25%) NIST
1 2 (2.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (5.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (65.17%) Kubernetes
2 18 (20.22%) Terraform
3 6 (6.74%) Grafana
3 6 (6.74%) Progress Chef
3 6 (6.74%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.62%) Kibana
5 3 (3.37%) Ansible
6 2 (2.25%) Istio
7 1 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.12%) Graylog
7 1 (1.12%) Packer
7 1 (1.12%) Puppet
7 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (12.36%) SAP
2 10 (11.24%) Virgin Media
3 7 (7.87%) Oracle
3 7 (7.87%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.62%) AppDynamics
4 5 (5.62%) Splunk
5 4 (4.49%) Google
6 3 (3.37%) Cloudera
7 2 (2.25%) IBM
7 2 (2.25%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.25%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.12%) Ariba
8 1 (1.12%) Databricks
8 1 (1.12%) VMware