Docker Contracts in the South West

Docker
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 43 80 54
Rank change year-on-year +37 -26 -14
Contract jobs citing Docker 76 78 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.53% 2.44% 3.92%
As % of the System Software category 26.95% 21.79% 24.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 61 110
10th Percentile £430 £475 £400
25th Percentile £502 £513 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.22% +4.65%
75th Percentile £659 £590 £709
90th Percentile £775 £688 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £59.63 £53.73
25th Percentile - £72.19 £59.80
Median hourly rate £78.70 £80.00 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% +31.80% +17.56%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £75.50
90th Percentile - £86.50 £77.00
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 282 358 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.81% 11.19% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 266 439
10th Percentile £213 £153 £200
25th Percentile £413 £275 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £623
90th Percentile £700 £700 £720
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 32 40
10th Percentile £16.05 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.38 £40.00 £17.22
Median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%
75th Percentile £68.05 £86.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.44 £90.00 £76.19
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Gloucestershire +11 34 £615 +11.82% 53
Bristol +17 24 £513 -2.38% 28
Wiltshire +30 6 £600 +14.29% 10
Somerset +6 4 £413 -13.16% 12
Dorset - 3 £550 - 8
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (7.89%) Apache
2 5 (6.58%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.95%) nginx
4 1 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 51 (67.11%) AWS
2 30 (39.47%) Azure
3 22 (28.95%) OpenShift
4 5 (6.58%) Amazon S3
4 5 (6.58%) GCP
5 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.95%) Serverless
7 2 (2.63%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.63%) GitHub
7 2 (2.63%) IaaS
7 2 (2.63%) PaaS
7 2 (2.63%) SaaS
8 1 (1.32%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (26.32%) DNS
2 17 (22.37%) TCP/IP
3 16 (21.05%) DHCP
3 16 (21.05%) HTTP
4 5 (6.58%) Firewall
5 3 (3.95%) Network Security
6 2 (2.63%) VPN
7 1 (1.32%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (6.58%) NoSQL
1 5 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.26%) Hadoop
3 3 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.95%) Big Data
3 3 (3.95%) GIS
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.63%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (2.63%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.32%) CockroachDB
5 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.32%) Flink
5 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (19.74%) Jenkins
2 10 (13.16%) GitLab
3 6 (7.89%) Bitbucket
3 6 (7.89%) Git
4 3 (3.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (3.95%) NUnit
5 2 (2.63%) JIRA
5 2 (2.63%) Postman
5 2 (2.63%) Selenium
5 2 (2.63%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.32%) Flyway
6 1 (1.32%) Gatling
6 1 (1.32%) JMeter
6 1 (1.32%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.32%) MLflow
General
1 10 (13.16%) Public Sector
2 6 (7.89%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.58%) Finance
4 4 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.26%) Electronics
4 4 (5.26%) Legal
4 4 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 4 (5.26%) Marketing
4 4 (5.26%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.63%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.32%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 14 (18.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (17.11%) Senior
3 11 (14.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Developer
5 6 (7.89%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Administrator
7 4 (5.26%) Linux Administrator
7 4 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) DevOps Administrator
8 3 (3.95%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.95%) GIS Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Linux DevOps Administrator
8 3 (3.95%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 3 (3.95%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Senior Test Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (7.89%) Node.js
3 4 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.26%) React
3 4 (5.26%) YAML
4 3 (3.95%) .NET
4 3 (3.95%) Playwright
4 3 (3.95%) Spring
4 3 (3.95%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.63%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (2.63%) Gherkin
5 2 (2.63%) Kafka
5 2 (2.63%) Middleware
5 2 (2.63%) ModSecurity
5 2 (2.63%) PostGIS
5 2 (2.63%) REST
5 2 (2.63%) RESTful
6 1 (1.32%) HTML
6 1 (1.32%) LDAP
6 1 (1.32%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (2.63%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.32%) PKI
3 1 (1.32%) Replication
3 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (60.53%) Linux
2 21 (27.63%) Windows
3 16 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (19.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.32%) Android
5 1 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (64.47%) Containerisation
2 32 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 29 (38.16%) DevOps
4 14 (18.42%) Service Management
5 13 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (14.47%) Agile
6 11 (14.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (13.16%) Task Automation
8 9 (11.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 8 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (9.21%) ETL
10 7 (9.21%) Microservices
10 7 (9.21%) Test Automation
11 6 (7.89%) DevSecOps
11 6 (7.89%) Incident Management
11 6 (7.89%) Software Engineering
12 5 (6.58%) High Availability
12 5 (6.58%) Technical Leadership
13 4 (5.26%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 44 (57.89%) Python
2 28 (36.84%) Bash
3 25 (32.89%) Java
4 18 (23.68%) PowerShell
5 14 (18.42%) SQL
6 8 (10.53%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.89%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.58%) Perl
9 3 (3.95%) C
10 2 (2.63%) Go
10 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.32%) C#
11 1 (1.32%) Ruby
11 1 (1.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 58 (76.32%) Security Cleared
2 36 (47.37%) DV Cleared
3 27 (35.53%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.63%) Degree
4 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) CISSP
5 1 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.32%) MCITP
5 1 (1.32%) RHCE
5 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) NCSC
2 3 (3.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.32%) NIST
4 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 19 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (19.74%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.32%) NFS
4 1 (1.32%) Samba
Systems Management
1 63 (82.89%) Kubernetes
2 43 (56.58%) Ansible
3 40 (52.63%) Terraform
4 24 (31.58%) Puppet
5 16 (21.05%) Prometheus
6 14 (18.42%) Grafana
7 3 (3.95%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.63%) Automic
9 1 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.32%) Kibana
9 1 (1.32%) logstash
9 1 (1.32%) Nagios
9 1 (1.32%) Podman
9 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.32%) SELinux
9 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.32%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.32%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 24 (31.58%) VMware
2 21 (27.63%) Red Hat
3 5 (6.58%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.58%) Oracle
4 4 (5.26%) NetApp
4 4 (5.26%) SAP
5 2 (2.63%) ESRI
5 2 (2.63%) Splunk
6 1 (1.32%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.32%) Citrix
6 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.32%) Google
6 1 (1.32%) New Relic