Docker Contracts in South Wales

Docker
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 26 51
Rank change year-on-year -1 +25 -12
Contract jobs citing Docker 8 16 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.31% 4.78% 1.35%
As % of the System Software category 20.00% 50.00% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 7
10th Percentile - £413 £370
25th Percentile £513 £473 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £506 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.85% -15.22%
75th Percentile £586 £533 £663
90th Percentile £594 £668 £675
Wales median daily rate £540 £500 £506
% change year-on-year +8.00% -1.23% -11.96%

All System Software Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 40 32 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 16.53% 9.55% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 28 56
10th Percentile £185 £179 £138
25th Percentile £217 £318 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £463 £479
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% -3.39% +6.39%
75th Percentile £472 £531 £550
90th Percentile £545 £614 £641
Wales median daily rate £388 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -13.89% +5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £28.50 - £16.40
25th Percentile £31.88 £12.25 £16.67
Median hourly rate £37.50 £12.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -27.55% +38.08%
75th Percentile £41.25 £12.75 £17.73
90th Percentile - - £17.95
Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £15.84 £16.45
% change year-on-year +136.82% -3.71% +17.46%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in South Wales

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in South Wales

Docker
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cardiff -5 5 £556 +9.73% 16
Newport - 2 £563 - 7
Gwent - 1 £540 - 1
Docker
Wales

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (37.50%) Apache
1 3 (37.50%) JBoss
1 3 (37.50%) nginx
1 3 (37.50%) WebLogic
1 3 (37.50%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (37.50%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
1 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) JWT
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) API Management
4 3 (37.50%) Concurrent Programming
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Multithreading
4 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) OO
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) GitOps
6 1 (12.50%) Observability
6 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CSSLP
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) LXC
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
3 2 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (12.50%) Argo
4 1 (12.50%) Grafana
4 1 (12.50%) Nagios
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft