Docker Contracts in the South East

Docker
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 85 119 71
Rank change year-on-year +34 -48 -13
Contract jobs citing Docker 76 87 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.52% 1.57% 3.17%
As % of the System Software category 17.47% 11.14% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 49 130
10th Percentile £350 £400 £448
25th Percentile £413 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £649
90th Percentile £600 £688 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 9
10th Percentile - £48.13 £61.38
25th Percentile - £50.94 £70.00
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.00% +32.74%
75th Percentile - £60.94 -
90th Percentile - £63.38 -
England median hourly rate £53.10 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -21.33% -10.00% +14.47%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 435 781 852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.45% 14.05% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 490 600
10th Percentile £250 £200 £205
25th Percentile £363 £350 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £600
90th Percentile £688 £646 £675
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 48 46
10th Percentile £28.00 £17.26 £17.28
25th Percentile £36.50 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.81 £69.38
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Docker in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the South East 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
Thames Valley +27 42 £500 -14.89% 63
Berkshire +18 39 £500 -18.37% 30
Hampshire +37 23 £575 - 29
Surrey +20 6 £350 -19.08% 23
Buckinghamshire +15 2 £311 -46.00% 19
West Sussex +3 2 £325 -31.58% 18
Oxfordshire +3 1 £550 +10.00% 17
Home Counties - 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 £475 - 11
Kent - 1 £675 - 8
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.26%) Apache
3 2 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.63%) IIS
3 2 (2.63%) JBoss
3 2 (2.63%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 53 (69.74%) AWS
2 33 (43.42%) Azure
3 19 (25.00%) GCP
4 15 (19.74%) Serverless
5 10 (13.16%) GitHub
5 10 (13.16%) OpenShift
5 10 (13.16%) PaaS
6 9 (11.84%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (11.84%) Azure AKS
7 8 (10.53%) IaaS
8 6 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (5.26%) Amazon S3
10 4 (5.26%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.63%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.16%) Firewall
2 9 (11.84%) VPN
3 8 (10.53%) DHCP
3 8 (10.53%) DNS
3 8 (10.53%) SMTP
4 7 (9.21%) TCP/IP
5 6 (7.89%) BGP
5 6 (7.89%) MPLS
6 5 (6.58%) VLAN
7 1 (1.32%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (1.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.47%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (13.16%) Big Data
2 10 (13.16%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (13.16%) Relational Database
3 6 (7.89%) MySQL
4 4 (5.26%) RDBMS
4 4 (5.26%) Redis
5 3 (3.95%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.63%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.63%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.32%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 20 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 14 (18.42%) Git
2 14 (18.42%) GitLab
2 14 (18.42%) JIRA
3 12 (15.79%) SonarQube
4 9 (11.84%) Cucumber
4 9 (11.84%) REST Assured
4 9 (11.84%) Selenium
5 5 (6.58%) Robot Framework
6 3 (3.95%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (3.95%) JUnit
6 3 (3.95%) Mockito
7 2 (2.63%) CA Release Automation
7 2 (2.63%) Codeception
7 2 (2.63%) JMeter
7 2 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.63%) Subversion
7 2 (2.63%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.32%) DbUnit
General
1 31 (40.79%) Social Skills
2 20 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.53%) Law
5 7 (9.21%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.26%) Police
7 3 (3.95%) Finance
8 2 (2.63%) Korean Language
9 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.32%) Legal
9 1 (1.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 20 (26.32%) Developer
2 11 (14.47%) Software Engineer
3 10 (13.16%) Support Engineer
4 9 (11.84%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (10.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (9.21%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (9.21%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) Java Developer
6 7 (9.21%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) Senior
7 5 (6.58%) Automation Tester
7 5 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Java Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (28.95%) REST
2 11 (14.47%) .NET
3 10 (13.16%) ARM Templates
4 9 (11.84%) Java EE
4 9 (11.84%) JSON
5 6 (7.89%) React
5 6 (7.89%) Spring Boot
6 5 (6.58%) GraphQL
6 5 (6.58%) RESTful
6 5 (6.58%) Web Services
7 4 (5.26%) Prisma
7 4 (5.26%) Spring
8 3 (3.95%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (3.95%) Hibernate
8 3 (3.95%) HTML
8 3 (3.95%) Kafka
8 3 (3.95%) Node.js
8 3 (3.95%) TensorFlow
8 3 (3.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.53%) Clustering
2 8 (10.53%) PKI
3 7 (9.21%) Cloud Native
4 6 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.58%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.95%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.32%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.32%) IoT
8 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.37%) Linux
2 13 (17.11%) Windows
3 8 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.95%) Unix
4 3 (3.95%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.63%) AIX
5 2 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.32%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (59.21%) DevOps
2 40 (52.63%) Containerisation
3 39 (51.32%) CI/CD
4 23 (30.26%) Software Engineering
5 22 (28.95%) Test Automation
6 19 (25.00%) Microservices
7 17 (22.37%) Continuous Integration
7 17 (22.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (18.42%) Agile
9 13 (17.11%) Configuration Management
10 12 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
10 12 (15.79%) Machine Learning
10 12 (15.79%) Scrum
11 11 (14.47%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (14.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (11.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 9 (11.84%) Software Architecture
14 8 (10.53%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 35 (46.05%) Python
2 15 (19.74%) Java
2 15 (19.74%) SQL
3 13 (17.11%) PowerShell
4 11 (14.47%) JavaScript
5 9 (11.84%) TypeScript
6 8 (10.53%) C#
7 5 (6.58%) PHP
8 4 (5.26%) Go
9 3 (3.95%) Bicep
9 3 (3.95%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.63%) Perl
10 2 (2.63%) R
11 1 (1.32%) Bash
11 1 (1.32%) Ruby
11 1 (1.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (40.79%) Security Cleared
2 21 (27.63%) SC Cleared
3 13 (17.11%) Degree
3 13 (17.11%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.32%) CCSP
5 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.32%) CISSP
5 1 (1.32%) OSCP
5 1 (1.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.21%) QA
2 3 (3.95%) NIST
3 1 (1.32%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (1.32%) JSP 440
System Software
1 11 (14.47%) Active Directory
1 11 (14.47%) Hyper-V
2 9 (11.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.53%) BitLocker
3 8 (10.53%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (10.53%) Terminal Services
3 8 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.32%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 64 (84.21%) Kubernetes
2 28 (36.84%) Ansible
3 19 (25.00%) Terraform
4 11 (14.47%) Puppet
5 9 (11.84%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (11.84%) Podman
6 8 (10.53%) Nagios
6 8 (10.53%) vCenter Server
6 8 (10.53%) vMotion
7 4 (5.26%) Kibana
7 4 (5.26%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
9 2 (2.63%) Grafana
9 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (2.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.47%) Google
2 11 (14.47%) VMware
3 8 (10.53%) Citrix
3 8 (10.53%) HP
3 8 (10.53%) Symantec
4 6 (7.89%) Splunk
5 2 (2.63%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.63%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.63%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.63%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.63%) Zend
6 1 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.32%) Cisco
6 1 (1.32%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.32%) New Relic
6 1 (1.32%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.32%) Rapid7