Docker Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Docker
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Docker 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 2.03% - 1.56%
As % of the System Software category 33.33% - 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £480 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £682 - -
90th Percentile £736 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £490 £663
% change year-on-year +12.24% -26.04% +26.19%

All System Software Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12 19 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 6.09% 26.03% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 14
10th Percentile £407 £170 £179
25th Percentile £409 £178 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £186 £220
Median % change year-on-year +128.19% -15.34% -28.74%
75th Percentile £605 £375 £334
90th Percentile £705 £593 £538
East of England median daily rate £450 £490 £356
% change year-on-year -8.16% +37.54% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.00 - -
Median hourly rate £21.00 - £17.00
75th Percentile £23.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £63.75 £63.25 £14.80
% change year-on-year +0.79% +327.36% -76.32%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Suffolk over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Suffolk

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 21 July 2026. 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
Bury St Edmunds - 2 £738 -
Ipswich - 2 £410 - 3
Docker
East of England

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 2 (50.00%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (50.00%) Hazelcast
2 1 (25.00%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Claude Code
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Platform Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Principal Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) Next.js
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Monorepo
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Product Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Check_MK
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Podman
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware