Docker Contracts in Northern Ireland

Docker
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 28 22 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing Docker 4 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.52% 1.34% 3.47%
As % of the System Software category 25.00% 25.00% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £456
25th Percentile £525 - £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 - £650
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.39%

All System Software Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 16 8 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 10.06% 5.37% 15.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 9
10th Percentile £150 £366 £164
25th Percentile £155 £391 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year -34.86% -16.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £410 £491 £650
90th Percentile £493 £519 -
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.25 -
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in Northern Ireland

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Docker in Northern Ireland

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim -8 4 £550 - 55
Docker
UK

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (25.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (25.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Flink
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (75.00%) Law
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) JMS
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) RAML
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) SAML
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Credit Risk
1 3 (75.00%) Equities
1 3 (75.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Data Management
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow