Docker Contracts in the North West

Docker
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Docker skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Docker over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 34 55
Rank change year-on-year -51 +21 -9
Contract jobs citing Docker 51 171 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.84% 5.31% 4.06%
As % of the System Software category 19.47% 33.33% 29.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 135 130
10th Percentile £408 £421 £415
25th Percentile £445 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year - +2.09% +19.72%
75th Percentile £650 £632 £638
90th Percentile £694 £675 £676
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £65.52
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.47% +19.13%

All System Software Skills
North West

Docker is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 262 513 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 9.45% 15.93% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 374 413
10th Percentile £178 £200 £159
25th Percentile £301 £325 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £499 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% +10.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £606
90th Percentile £670 £650 £650
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 30 26
10th Percentile - £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £17.72 £21.21 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% +17.06% -56.61%
75th Percentile £19.25 £52.13 £20.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £34.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 49 £550 -6.38% 48
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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 2 (3.92%) Confluence
1 2 (3.92%) nginx
1 2 (3.92%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 40 (78.43%) AWS
2 18 (35.29%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (25.49%) Amazon S3
3 13 (25.49%) Serverless
4 12 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (15.69%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (13.73%) Snowflake
8 6 (11.76%) Amazon ELB
9 5 (9.80%) Azure
9 5 (9.80%) GCP
10 4 (7.84%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (7.84%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (5.88%) Route 53
12 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (3.92%) CloudFront
12 2 (3.92%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.73%) Network Security
2 5 (9.80%) DNS
3 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) DynamoDB
2 7 (13.73%) NoSQL
2 7 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (13.73%) Relational Database
3 6 (11.76%) Data Lake
4 5 (9.80%) MySQL
5 4 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (7.84%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.96%) Power BI
7 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (49.02%) Git
2 16 (31.37%) GitLab
3 7 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 7 (13.73%) JUnit
4 6 (11.76%) SonarQube
5 3 (5.88%) JIRA
5 3 (5.88%) webpack
6 2 (3.92%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.96%) Gradle
7 1 (1.96%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (15.69%) Public Sector
2 3 (5.88%) Retail
2 3 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.92%) Finance
4 1 (1.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (41.18%) AWS DevOps
1 21 (41.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (27.45%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (25.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 11 (21.57%) Developer
5 7 (13.73%) Senior
5 7 (13.73%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (11.76%) Java Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) AWS Consultant
8 4 (7.84%) Consultant
8 4 (7.84%) DevOps Consultant
8 4 (7.84%) Lead
8 4 (7.84%) Senior Consultant
8 4 (7.84%) Senior DevOps Consultant
9 3 (5.88%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.53%) React
2 8 (15.69%) REST
3 7 (13.73%) Spring
3 7 (13.73%) Spring Boot
4 6 (11.76%) Hibernate
4 6 (11.76%) JPA
4 6 (11.76%) Node.js
5 3 (5.88%) Express.js
5 3 (5.88%) Redux
6 2 (3.92%) AWS CDK
6 2 (3.92%) cloud-init
6 2 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.92%) SAML
7 1 (1.96%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.96%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.96%) AWS SAM
7 1 (1.96%) jOOQ
7 1 (1.96%) Play Framework
7 1 (1.96%) RESTful
7 1 (1.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.92%) Clustering
2 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.92%) PKI
2 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.96%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.96%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.96%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.96%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) CentOS
2 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Android
3 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (84.31%) DevOps
2 35 (68.63%) CI/CD
3 26 (50.98%) Containerisation
4 16 (31.37%) Agile
4 16 (31.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (21.57%) Microservices
7 10 (19.61%) Scrum
8 9 (17.65%) Front End Development
8 9 (17.65%) High Availability
8 9 (17.65%) Unit Testing
9 7 (13.73%) Configuration Management
9 7 (13.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (13.73%) Software Delivery
10 6 (11.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Management
10 6 (11.76%) Mentoring
10 6 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (9.80%) Software Engineering
12 4 (7.84%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (47.06%) Python
2 18 (35.29%) Bash
3 14 (27.45%) Go
4 11 (21.57%) Java
5 10 (19.61%) SQL
6 6 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 5 (9.80%) Ruby
8 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.96%) Bicep
10 1 (1.96%) C
10 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (39.22%) Security Cleared
2 17 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (17.65%) AWS Certification
3 9 (17.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 9 (17.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) QA
2 3 (5.88%) ISO 22301
2 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.92%) NCSC
3 2 (3.92%) NIST
3 2 (3.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (88.24%) Kubernetes
2 32 (62.75%) Terraform
3 16 (31.37%) Ansible
4 6 (11.76%) HP Fortify
5 2 (3.92%) Consul
5 2 (3.92%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (3.92%) Graphite
5 2 (3.92%) HAProxy
5 2 (3.92%) Istio
5 2 (3.92%) linkerd
5 2 (3.92%) Packer
5 2 (3.92%) Podman
5 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.92%) Puppet
5 2 (3.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Splunk
2 4 (7.84%) VMware
3 3 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.92%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.92%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft