Docker Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Docker
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 22 31
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 +2
Contract jobs citing Docker 4 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 2.07% 3.70% 2.33%
As % of the System Software category 18.18% 12.50% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £405 £415 £494
25th Percentile £443 £418 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -21.74% -
75th Percentile £578 £453 £613
90th Percentile £614 £601 -
Hampshire median daily rate £521 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +15.83% -21.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £70.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £53.00 - £70.00

All System Software Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 22 40 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 11.40% 29.63% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 25 22
10th Percentile £190 £264 £436
25th Percentile £219 £360 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -26.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £534 £480 £631
90th Percentile £550 £575 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 12
10th Percentile £45.00 £53.66 £20.04
25th Percentile £45.21 £62.81 £43.56
Median hourly rate £48.11 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.27% +16.67% +10.60%
75th Percentile £51.62 - £66.25
90th Percentile £52.20 £71.63 £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.72 £70.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -30.40% +25.67% +39.25%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

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Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Docker

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Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Portsmouth

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Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Docker.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Docker

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) SSH
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Parquet
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) MLflow
2 1 (25.00%) Poetry
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) PyCharm
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Flask
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
1 1 (25.00%) NumPy
1 1 (25.00%) Pandas
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
1 1 (25.00%) ZeroMQ
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Management
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) GitOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Memory Management
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Argo
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Istio
3 1 (25.00%) Podman
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Rancher
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) VMware