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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 111 68
Rank change year-on-year +30 -43 -16
Contract jobs citing Docker 73 86 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.41% 1.56% 3.07%
As % of the System Software category 16.86% 11.05% 21.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 53 125
10th Percentile £320 £425 £435
25th Percentile £418 £445 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% -5.17% +0.87%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £606 £688 £688
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% +14.50%

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 433 778 817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.32% 14.10% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 492 572
10th Percentile £249 £200 £205
25th Percentile £350 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £611 £608 £600
90th Percentile £693 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 48 46
10th Percentile £28.00 £17.26 £15.88
25th Percentile £36.50 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £53.19 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -2.52% +172.80%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.06 £69.38
90th Percentile £71.25 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.21 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +34.31% -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 11 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 11 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 +20 36 £500 -13.98% 78
Berkshire +15 33 £500 -16.67% 50
Hampshire +38 23 £575 - 38
Surrey +16 6 £350 -19.08% 25
West Sussex +4 4 £294 -38.11% 13
Buckinghamshire +14 2 £311 -46.00% 19
East Sussex - 2 £463 - 11
Oxfordshire +1 1 £550 +10.00% 15
Kent - 1 £675 - 4
Home Counties - 1 - -
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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 (10.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.74%) Apache
2 2 (2.74%) IIS
2 2 (2.74%) JBoss
2 2 (2.74%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (71.23%) AWS
2 26 (35.62%) Azure
3 18 (24.66%) GCP
4 12 (16.44%) Serverless
5 10 (13.70%) GitHub
5 10 (13.70%) OpenShift
5 10 (13.70%) PaaS
6 9 (12.33%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (10.96%) IaaS
8 6 (8.22%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (6.85%) Azure AKS
10 4 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (5.48%) Amazon S3
10 4 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (2.74%) Azure App Service
12 2 (2.74%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.70%) Firewall
2 9 (12.33%) VPN
3 8 (10.96%) DHCP
3 8 (10.96%) DNS
3 8 (10.96%) SMTP
4 6 (8.22%) TCP/IP
5 5 (6.85%) BGP
5 5 (6.85%) MPLS
6 4 (5.48%) VLAN
7 1 (1.37%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (1.37%) Network Security
7 1 (1.37%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.70%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (13.70%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (13.70%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (13.70%) Relational Database
2 8 (10.96%) Big Data
3 6 (8.22%) MySQL
4 4 (5.48%) RDBMS
5 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.74%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.74%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.74%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.37%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (30.14%) Jenkins
2 18 (24.66%) Git
3 16 (21.92%) JIRA
4 13 (17.81%) GitLab
5 12 (16.44%) SonarQube
6 9 (12.33%) Cucumber
6 9 (12.33%) REST Assured
6 9 (12.33%) Selenium
7 4 (5.48%) Robot Framework
7 4 (5.48%) Subversion
8 3 (4.11%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (4.11%) JUnit
8 3 (4.11%) Mockito
9 2 (2.74%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (2.74%) Codeception
9 2 (2.74%) JMeter
9 2 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.74%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.37%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.37%) DbUnit
General
1 26 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.29%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.07%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.96%) Law
5 5 (6.85%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.48%) Finance
6 4 (5.48%) Police
7 2 (2.74%) Korean Language
8 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.37%) Legal
8 1 (1.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 21 (28.77%) Developer
2 11 (15.07%) Software Engineer
3 10 (13.70%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (13.70%) Support Engineer
4 8 (10.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (10.96%) 3rd Line Support
4 8 (10.96%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 7 (9.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Infrastructure Support
5 7 (9.59%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Java Developer
5 7 (9.59%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Senior
6 6 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Java Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (34.25%) REST
2 12 (16.44%) .NET
3 9 (12.33%) ARM Templates
3 9 (12.33%) Java EE
3 9 (12.33%) JSON
4 7 (9.59%) React
5 6 (8.22%) Spring Boot
6 5 (6.85%) GraphQL
6 5 (6.85%) Kafka
6 5 (6.85%) Web Services
7 4 (5.48%) HTML
7 4 (5.48%) Spring
8 3 (4.11%) .NET Core
8 3 (4.11%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (4.11%) gRPC
8 3 (4.11%) Hibernate
8 3 (4.11%) Node.js
8 3 (4.11%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (4.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.96%) Clustering
2 8 (10.96%) PKI
3 6 (8.22%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.37%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.92%) Linux
2 12 (16.44%) Windows
3 8 (10.96%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.11%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.37%) CentOS
6 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (57.53%) DevOps
2 39 (53.42%) CI/CD
3 37 (50.68%) Containerisation
4 25 (34.25%) Software Engineering
5 22 (30.14%) Test Automation
6 19 (26.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (26.03%) Microservices
7 17 (23.29%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (19.18%) Agile
10 13 (17.81%) Artificial Intelligence
10 13 (17.81%) Scrum
11 11 (15.07%) Configuration Management
11 11 (15.07%) Machine Learning
12 10 (13.70%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 9 (12.33%) Software Architecture
13 9 (12.33%) TDD
14 8 (10.96%) Full-Stack Development
14 8 (10.96%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 33 (45.21%) Python
2 15 (20.55%) Java
3 14 (19.18%) SQL
4 13 (17.81%) PowerShell
5 12 (16.44%) JavaScript
6 8 (10.96%) TypeScript
7 7 (9.59%) C#
8 6 (8.22%) Go
9 5 (6.85%) PHP
10 4 (5.48%) Bicep
11 3 (4.11%) Shell Script
12 2 (2.74%) Bash
12 2 (2.74%) Perl
13 1 (1.37%) Ruby
13 1 (1.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (41.10%) Security Cleared
2 20 (27.40%) SC Cleared
3 15 (20.55%) Degree
4 13 (17.81%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.37%) CCSP
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.37%) CISSP
6 1 (1.37%) OSCP
6 1 (1.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.59%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.37%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.37%) HL7
2 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (1.37%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.37%) NIST
2 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (15.07%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.33%) Hyper-V
3 8 (10.96%) BitLocker
3 8 (10.96%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (10.96%) Terminal Services
3 8 (10.96%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (10.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.37%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 59 (80.82%) Kubernetes
2 24 (32.88%) Ansible
3 21 (28.77%) Terraform
4 9 (12.33%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (12.33%) Podman
5 8 (10.96%) Nagios
5 8 (10.96%) Puppet
5 8 (10.96%) vCenter Server
5 8 (10.96%) vMotion
6 4 (5.48%) Kibana
7 3 (4.11%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.74%) Grafana
8 2 (2.74%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.07%) Google
3 9 (12.33%) VMware
4 8 (10.96%) Citrix
4 8 (10.96%) HP
4 8 (10.96%) Symantec
5 6 (8.22%) Splunk
6 3 (4.11%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.74%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.74%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.74%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.74%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.74%) Zend
8 1 (1.37%) Cisco
8 1 (1.37%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (1.37%) New Relic
8 1 (1.37%) Rapid7