Docker Contracts in the Thames Valley

Docker
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 60 87 86
Rank change year-on-year +27 -1 -10
Contract jobs citing Docker 42 58 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.78% 2.16% 2.25%
As % of the System Software category 21.11% 16.76% 18.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 25 39
10th Percentile £350 £425 £413
25th Percentile £409 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £593
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -0.84% +15.61%
75th Percentile £550 £688 £675
90th Percentile £626 £703 £690
South East median daily rate £501 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -9.00% -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
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
% change year-on-year - -25.00% +32.74%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 199 346 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.17% 12.88% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 246 265
10th Percentile £250 £175 £230
25th Percentile £363 £310 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +9.25% +6.20%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 16
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.86
25th Percentile - £46.25 £48.18
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +270.37%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile - - £78.56
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
% change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%

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 1 May 2025.

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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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 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
Berkshire +18 39 £500 -18.37% 80
Buckinghamshire +15 2 £311 -46.00% 69
Oxfordshire +3 1 £550 +10.00% 42
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 2 (4.76%) Apache
1 2 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 31 (73.81%) AWS
2 28 (66.67%) Azure
3 13 (30.95%) Serverless
4 9 (21.43%) Azure AKS
5 8 (19.05%) GitHub
6 7 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (14.29%) GCP
8 4 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (9.52%) Azure Functions
9 3 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
10 2 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (2.38%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) BGP
1 6 (14.29%) MPLS
2 5 (11.90%) TCP/IP
2 5 (11.90%) VLAN
3 1 (2.38%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.38%) Network Security
3 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.52%) Redis
3 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.76%) Big Data
3 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.76%) DocumentDB
3 2 (4.76%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.76%) RDBMS
3 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 11 (26.19%) GitLab
3 10 (23.81%) JIRA
3 10 (23.81%) SonarQube
4 9 (21.43%) Cucumber
4 9 (21.43%) REST Assured
4 9 (21.43%) Selenium
5 5 (11.90%) Robot Framework
6 4 (9.52%) Git
7 3 (7.14%) JUnit
7 3 (7.14%) Mockito
8 2 (4.76%) JMeter
9 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (2.38%) DbUnit
9 1 (2.38%) jMock
9 1 (2.38%) Maven
General
1 25 (59.52%) Social Skills
2 17 (40.48%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (19.05%) Law
4 7 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 4 (9.52%) Police
6 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.38%) Finance
7 1 (2.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) Developer
2 7 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Automation Tester
3 5 (11.90%) Java Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Software Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Telecoms Tester
3 5 (11.90%) Tester
4 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Backend Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.76%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (38.10%) REST
2 9 (21.43%) ARM Templates
2 9 (21.43%) Java EE
2 9 (21.43%) JSON
3 5 (11.90%) RESTful
4 4 (9.52%) GraphQL
4 4 (9.52%) Prisma
5 3 (7.14%) .NET
5 3 (7.14%) .NET Core
5 3 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (7.14%) Hibernate
5 3 (7.14%) HTML
5 3 (7.14%) Node.js
5 3 (7.14%) Spring
5 3 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.14%) Web Services
5 3 (7.14%) XML
6 2 (4.76%) .NET Framework
6 2 (4.76%) NHibernate
6 2 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) IoT
3 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Unix
3 2 (4.76%) AIX
4 1 (2.38%) CentOS
4 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (69.05%) Containerisation
2 26 (61.90%) DevOps
3 22 (52.38%) CI/CD
4 15 (35.71%) Test Automation
5 13 (30.95%) Configuration Management
5 13 (30.95%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (26.19%) Scrum
7 11 (26.19%) Software Engineering
8 10 (23.81%) Microservices
9 9 (21.43%) Software Architecture
9 9 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (19.05%) Agile
11 6 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (14.29%) Cost Management
11 6 (14.29%) Decision-Making
11 6 (14.29%) Test Strategy
12 5 (11.90%) Front End Development
12 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) Python
2 12 (28.57%) Java
3 7 (16.67%) SQL
4 5 (11.90%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.14%) Bicep
5 3 (7.14%) C#
5 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.14%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) SC Cleared
1 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.38%) CCSP
2 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.38%) CISSP
2 1 (2.38%) OSCP
2 1 (2.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.38%) Postfix
2 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 19 (45.24%) Ansible
3 15 (35.71%) Terraform
4 9 (21.43%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (21.43%) Podman
5 2 (4.76%) Kibana
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.76%) Puppet
5 2 (4.76%) SCCM
6 1 (2.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.14%) Splunk
3 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.76%) VMware
4 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco
4 1 (2.38%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (2.38%) New Relic
4 1 (2.38%) Rapid7