Docker Contracts in the Thames Valley

Docker
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Docker skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Docker over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 86 68
Rank change year-on-year -3 -18 -35
Contract jobs citing Docker 54 61 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.04% 2.15% 3.01%
As % of the System Software category 16.02% 17.18% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 38 77
10th Percentile £425 £413 £410
25th Percentile £472 £481 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £571 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +11.46% +13.89%
75th Percentile £678 £675 £625
90th Percentile £700 £726 £683
South East median daily rate £550 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.39% +17.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £48.13 £58.19 -
25th Percentile £50.94 £60.16 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £64.38 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% - -
75th Percentile £60.94 £67.66 -
90th Percentile £63.38 £69.06 -
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £75.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +57.89% -27.48%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

Docker is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 337 355 510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.74% 12.50% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 265 377
10th Percentile £176 £220 £150
25th Percentile £313 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £481 £455
Median % change year-on-year +14.45% +5.62% +1.11%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 15
10th Percentile £16.25 £33.75 £12.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £48.40 £13.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £13.70
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +301.46% -26.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £20.00
90th Percentile - £78.56 £48.50
South East median hourly rate £53.19 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -2.52% +172.80% -9.09%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Berkshire -7 48 £600 +14.29% 22
Buckinghamshire +20 3 £575 -11.54% 10
Oxfordshire 0 3 £500 +7.53% 7
Docker
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 10 (18.52%) Apache
1 10 (18.52%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.41%) OpenStack
3 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.85%) Confluence
4 1 (1.85%) JBoss
4 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 37 (68.52%) AWS
2 29 (53.70%) Azure
3 10 (18.52%) GCP
4 8 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (14.81%) OpenShift
5 6 (11.11%) SaaS
6 5 (9.26%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (9.26%) Serverless
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.41%) PaaS
8 3 (5.56%) Azure API Management
8 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.56%) IaaS
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.70%) GitHub
9 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (24.07%) VPN
2 10 (18.52%) BGP
2 10 (18.52%) Ethernet VPN
2 10 (18.52%) MPLS
2 10 (18.52%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (5.56%) Network Security
4 2 (3.70%) Skype
5 1 (1.85%) DHCP
5 1 (1.85%) DNS
5 1 (1.85%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (24.07%) NoSQL
3 10 (18.52%) MongoDB
4 5 (9.26%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.56%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (42.59%) GitLab
1 23 (42.59%) JIRA
2 21 (38.89%) Jenkins
3 13 (24.07%) Selenium
3 13 (24.07%) SonarQube
4 12 (22.22%) Cucumber
4 12 (22.22%) REST Assured
5 10 (18.52%) Robot Framework
5 10 (18.52%) TestRail
6 6 (11.11%) Git
7 3 (5.56%) JUnit
7 3 (5.56%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.85%) Appium
8 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.85%) JMeter
8 1 (1.85%) Maven
8 1 (1.85%) Mockito
8 1 (1.85%) MSTest
8 1 (1.85%) NUnit
8 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 12 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.81%) Law
3 8 (14.81%) Police
4 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) Developer
2 10 (18.52%) Senior
3 9 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 9 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 9 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Java Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Senior Java Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Architect
6 4 (7.41%) Lead
7 3 (5.56%) Administrator
7 3 (5.56%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Java Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (51.85%) REST
2 13 (24.07%) ARM Templates
3 12 (22.22%) Java EE
3 12 (22.22%) SOAP
4 10 (18.52%) NETCONF
4 10 (18.52%) RESTCONF
4 10 (18.52%) YANG
5 8 (14.81%) Web Services
6 7 (12.96%) Spring
6 7 (12.96%) Spring Boot
7 6 (11.11%) .NET
8 5 (9.26%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (9.26%) Node.js
9 4 (7.41%) Kafka
10 3 (5.56%) AngularJS
10 3 (5.56%) React
10 3 (5.56%) Ruby on Rails
11 2 (3.70%) HTML
11 2 (3.70%) Mustache
11 2 (3.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Grid Computing
4 1 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Linux
2 2 (3.70%) Windows
2 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (61.11%) Containerisation
2 29 (53.70%) DevOps
3 24 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 24 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 23 (42.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (38.89%) Agile
6 20 (37.04%) Technical Leadership
7 17 (31.48%) Scrum
8 15 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (25.93%) Configuration Management
9 14 (25.93%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (24.07%) Decision-Making
11 12 (22.22%) Software Architecture
12 11 (20.37%) Integration Testing
12 11 (20.37%) Microservices
12 11 (20.37%) Software Engineering
12 11 (20.37%) Unit Testing
12 11 (20.37%) Workflow
13 10 (18.52%) Performance Testing
13 10 (18.52%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (40.74%) Java
2 17 (31.48%) Python
3 14 (25.93%) SQL
4 7 (12.96%) JavaScript
5 6 (11.11%) C#
5 6 (11.11%) Ruby
6 3 (5.56%) PHP
7 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.70%) Scala
8 1 (1.85%) Bash
8 1 (1.85%) Perl
8 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 18 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) Degree
4 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (9.26%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.85%) NFS
4 1 (1.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 39 (72.22%) Kubernetes
2 26 (48.15%) Terraform
3 20 (37.04%) Ansible
4 12 (22.22%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (22.22%) Podman
5 7 (12.96%) Istio
5 7 (12.96%) Rancher
6 3 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (3.70%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (3.70%) Puppet
7 2 (3.70%) SCCM
7 2 (3.70%) SCOM
8 1 (1.85%) CFEngine
8 1 (1.85%) Grafana
8 1 (1.85%) Kibana
8 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Google
2 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.26%) VMware
4 2 (3.70%) Citrix
4 2 (3.70%) EMC
4 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.85%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.85%) Splunk