Docker Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Docker
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 14 20
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Docker 3 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.60% 2.73% 3.14%
As % of the System Software category 12.50% 16.67% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £277 £470
25th Percentile £513 £310 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £380 £500
Median % change year-on-year +38.16% -24.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £460 £569
90th Percentile - £499 £610
South East median daily rate £513 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +13.89% -21.74% -

All System Software Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 24 18 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 12.77% 16.36% 18.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 26
10th Percentile £231 £170 £155
25th Percentile £263 £368 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £419 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% -14.10% +39.29%
75th Percentile £480 £500 £622
90th Percentile £569 £523 £656
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £72.86 - -
25th Percentile £75.66 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £83.32 - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +59.09%
75th Percentile £87.97 - £33.75
90th Percentile £88.97 - £42.75
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £57.25 £58.75
% change year-on-year +41.48% -2.55% +144.79%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Docker job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Docker

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Oxford -3 2 £525 +38.16% 8
Docker
South East

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Backend Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus