Docker Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Docker
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 22 22
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Docker 8 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 4.85% 0.71% 1.95%
As % of the System Software category 57.14% 4.35% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £536 - £562
25th Percentile £568 - £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 - £615
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.82%
75th Percentile £660 - £696
90th Percentile - - £741
Hampshire median daily rate £578 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +28.33% -21.74% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 - -
Median hourly rate £58.50 - -
75th Percentile £60.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £53.00 - -

All System Software Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 14 23 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 8.48% 16.43% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 12
10th Percentile £190 £290 £165
25th Percentile £305 £350 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £410 £525
Median % change year-on-year +29.27% -21.90% +2.94%
75th Percentile £550 £439 £637
90th Percentile £660 £494 £706
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £28.30
25th Percentile £56.75 - £30.25
Median hourly rate £58.50 - £33.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.08%
75th Percentile £60.25 - £36.75
90th Percentile - - £38.70
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.72 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -25.05% +8.33% +150.00%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Docker job vacancy trend in Southampton

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Docker

Docker
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Docker.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Docker

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (25.00%) React
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) CAN bus
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
2 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
2 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Secure Coding
5 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
5 2 (25.00%) Prototyping
5 2 (25.00%) SysML
5 2 (25.00%) UML
5 2 (25.00%) User Research
6 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Bash
1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) Embedded C++
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (12.50%) Rsyslog
3 1 (12.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) PagerDuty
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat