Docker Contracts in Sheffield

Docker
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 33 35 44
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -13
Contract jobs citing Docker 17 20 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.33% 5.28% 2.64%
As % of the System Software category 25.76% 25.64% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 11
10th Percentile £465 £384 £450
25th Percentile £500 £510 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £639 £645 £694
90th Percentile £692 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £624 £650
% change year-on-year -15.80% -4.08% +19.82%

All System Software Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 66 78 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 20.69% 20.58% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 52 22
10th Percentile £335 £190 £450
25th Percentile £391 £398 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £470 £594
Median % change year-on-year +5.05% -20.84% +36.49%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £684
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £430 £500
% change year-on-year +16.28% -14.00% +24.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +19.40%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +15.21%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in Sheffield

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in Sheffield

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) OCI
2 5 (29.41%) GCP
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.88%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) HTTPS
2 1 (5.88%) BGP
2 1 (5.88%) EIGRP
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) OSPF
2 1 (5.88%) SSH
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
2 2 (11.76%) Hazelcast
3 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Jaeger
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Financial Institution
4 2 (11.76%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Data Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Data Protection Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Database Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.88%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) PySpark
2 2 (11.76%) Anaconda
2 2 (11.76%) gRPC
2 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) Pandas
3 1 (5.88%) Jest
3 1 (5.88%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (5.88%) Middleware
3 1 (5.88%) Node.js
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Unix
2 6 (35.29%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) AIX
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Containerisation
2 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (41.18%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (35.29%) Data Protection
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (17.65%) Microservices
8 2 (11.76%) Agile
8 2 (11.76%) Analytics
8 2 (11.76%) B2B
8 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
8 2 (11.76%) Data Extraction
8 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (11.76%) High Availability
8 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
8 2 (11.76%) Open Source
8 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
8 2 (11.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Python
2 9 (52.94%) Shell Script
3 4 (23.53%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) Bash
5 2 (11.76%) ActionScript
5 2 (11.76%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (11.76%) Groovy
5 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.76%) SQL
6 1 (5.88%) Korn
6 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
6 1 (5.88%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (11.76%) IBM Certification
2 2 (11.76%) OCP
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.88%) QA
1 1 (5.88%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (17.65%) vSphere
2 1 (5.88%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 16 (94.12%) Kubernetes
2 10 (58.82%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Control-M
3 2 (11.76%) Grafana
3 2 (11.76%) Istio
3 2 (11.76%) Kiali
3 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
3 2 (11.76%) Puppet
4 1 (5.88%) Nagios
4 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle
2 4 (23.53%) Commvault
3 3 (17.65%) Splunk
3 3 (17.65%) VMware
4 2 (11.76%) AppDynamics
4 2 (11.76%) IBM
4 2 (11.76%) IBM Sterling
4 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
4 2 (11.76%) xMatters
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco