Docker Contract Job Trends in the South West

Docker
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Docker skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 41 64
Rank change year-on-year -16 +23 -15
Contract jobs citing Docker 68 123 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.45% 4.75% 3.05%
As % of the System Software category 27.31% 29.64% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 80 75
10th Percentile £450 £474 £428
25th Percentile £525 £513 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -8.33% +5.08%
75th Percentile £655 £625 £694
90th Percentile £700 £691 £742
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £81.00 - £73.50
25th Percentile £82.50 £75.00 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £80.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +2.56% -
75th Percentile £95.00 £85.00 £90.00
90th Percentile - £88.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -16.25% +6.67% +50.00%

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 249 415 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.63% 16.04% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 280 297
10th Percentile £213 £219 £199
25th Percentile £292 £463 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +2.38% +2.44%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £625
90th Percentile £695 £672 £688
England median daily rate £500 £511 £508
% change year-on-year -2.19% +0.73% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 47
10th Percentile £59.10 £12.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £61.50 £26.13 £17.09
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +23.76%
75th Percentile £95.00 £85.00 £69.62
90th Percentile - £90.25 £78.00
England median hourly rate £34.50 £27.50 £46.84
% change year-on-year +25.45% -41.29% +110.52%

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

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the South West over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the South West

Docker
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Docker.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Docker

Docker
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 26 September 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 24 £650 +8.33% 45
Bristol +2 23 £536 -2.50% 22
Wiltshire +4 11 £600 +14.29% 2
Dorset +3 7 £550 - 4
Somerset +2 1 £458 +1.67% 6
Devon +1 1 - - 5
Docker
England

Docker
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 2 (2.94%) Alfresco
1 2 (2.94%) Apache
1 2 (2.94%) Camunda
1 2 (2.94%) nginx
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 37 (54.41%) AWS
2 33 (48.53%) Azure
3 18 (26.47%) GitHub
4 13 (19.12%) GCP
5 12 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (16.18%) OpenShift
7 10 (14.71%) Serverless
8 9 (13.24%) Amazon S3
9 7 (10.29%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (7.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (5.88%) npm
13 3 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (4.41%) Azure AKS
14 2 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 2 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 2 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) DNS
1 5 (7.35%) Firewall
2 4 (5.88%) AMQP
3 3 (4.41%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.41%) VPN
4 2 (2.94%) Network Security
4 2 (2.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.18%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.82%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.88%) RDBMS
3 4 (5.88%) Redis
4 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.94%) InfluxDB
5 2 (2.94%) MySQL
5 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.47%) Big Data
6 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.47%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (20.59%) Jenkins
2 12 (17.65%) GitLab
3 10 (14.71%) Git
3 10 (14.71%) SonarQube
4 4 (5.88%) Maven
5 2 (2.94%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.94%) CMake
5 2 (2.94%) JUnit
6 1 (1.47%) Appium
6 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.47%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.47%) Gatling
6 1 (1.47%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.47%) Gradle
6 1 (1.47%) JMeter
6 1 (1.47%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.47%) Selenium
General
1 10 (14.71%) Public Sector
2 9 (13.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.88%) Finance
3 4 (5.88%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.41%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Electronics
5 2 (2.94%) Law
5 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.94%) Marketing
6 1 (1.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (30.88%) Developer
2 10 (14.71%) Backend Developer
3 9 (13.24%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 9 (13.24%) Senior
4 7 (10.29%) Python Developer
4 7 (10.29%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Software Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (2.94%) Applications Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Data Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 2 (2.94%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Linux DevOps Administrator
9 2 (2.94%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.00%) Node.js
2 12 (17.65%) React
3 8 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (11.76%) YAML
4 7 (10.29%) AngularJS
4 7 (10.29%) REST
5 6 (8.82%) Spring
6 5 (7.35%) FastAPI
6 5 (7.35%) Flask
6 5 (7.35%) HTML
6 5 (7.35%) Vue
7 4 (5.88%) GraphQL
7 4 (5.88%) gRPC
7 4 (5.88%) Next.js
7 4 (5.88%) RESTful
7 4 (5.88%) WebSockets
7 4 (5.88%) XML
8 3 (4.41%) .NET
8 3 (4.41%) CSS
8 3 (4.41%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.41%) PKI
4 2 (2.94%) FPGA
4 2 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.94%) Verilog
4 2 (2.94%) VHDL
5 1 (1.47%) CUDA
5 1 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (1.47%) Replication
5 1 (1.47%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.06%) Linux
2 7 (10.29%) Windows
3 4 (5.88%) CentOS
3 4 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.41%) Android
5 1 (1.47%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (60.29%) CI/CD
1 41 (60.29%) Containerisation
2 38 (55.88%) DevOps
3 28 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (35.29%) Agile
5 21 (30.88%) Microservices
6 14 (20.59%) DevSecOps
6 14 (20.59%) Test Automation
7 10 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (14.71%) Software Engineering
8 8 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (10.29%) High Availability
9 7 (10.29%) Machine Learning
9 7 (10.29%) Observability
9 7 (10.29%) Regulatory Compliance
10 6 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (8.82%) Decision-Making
10 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (8.82%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 34 (50.00%) Python
2 16 (23.53%) Java
3 15 (22.06%) Bash
4 11 (16.18%) TypeScript
5 10 (14.71%) C
6 8 (11.76%) SQL
7 7 (10.29%) C++
7 7 (10.29%) JavaScript
7 7 (10.29%) PowerShell
8 6 (8.82%) C#
8 6 (8.82%) Go
9 3 (4.41%) Bicep
9 3 (4.41%) Ruby
10 2 (2.94%) Perl
10 2 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (83.82%) Security Cleared
2 39 (57.35%) SC Cleared
3 33 (48.53%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.41%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.41%) Degree
5 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.47%) CISSP
6 1 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) NCSC
2 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.94%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.47%) NIST
3 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (69.12%) Kubernetes
2 37 (54.41%) Terraform
3 22 (32.35%) Ansible
4 20 (29.41%) Grafana
5 16 (23.53%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.88%) Kibana
6 4 (5.88%) Podman
7 3 (4.41%) Argo
8 2 (2.94%) logstash
8 2 (2.94%) Puppet
9 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.47%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.35%) Google
2 5 (7.35%) Splunk
3 4 (5.88%) Oracle
3 4 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 4 (5.88%) VMware
4 2 (2.94%) CheckPoint
4 2 (2.94%) F5
4 2 (2.94%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.94%) SAP
5 1 (1.47%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.47%) Citrix
5 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.47%) Genesys
5 1 (1.47%) New Relic
5 1 (1.47%) NVIDIA