Docker Contracts in the UK excluding London

Docker
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 66 102 64
Rank change year-on-year +36 -38 -9
Contract jobs citing Docker 447 429 845
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.50% 2.07% 3.51%
As % of the System Software category 24.64% 17.44% 23.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 317 618
10th Percentile £387 £390 £425
25th Percentile £450 £444 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £642
90th Percentile £665 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 20
10th Percentile £76.50 £49.63 £59.51
25th Percentile £76.86 £64.06 £61.25
Median hourly rate £80.60 £79.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +12.86% +47.37%
75th Percentile £86.24 £85.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.75 £85.50 £75.05
UK median hourly rate £80.60 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +19.41% -10.00% +36.36%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,814 2,460 3,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.21% 11.84% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,249 1,649 2,640
10th Percentile £190 £175 £181
25th Percentile £325 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £460 £483
Median % change year-on-year +4.13% -4.69% +7.26%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £588
90th Percentile £662 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 191 192
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.16 £16.77
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £41.88
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -47.46% +131.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.60 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +36 149 £525 -4.55% 336
North West +50 94 £500 -9.09% 226
South West +37 76 £600 +9.09% 130
South East +34 76 £501 -9.00% 362
Scotland -4 64 £463 +0.27% 69
Midlands +45 59 £525 +5.00% 138
West Midlands +36 43 £538 -6.52% 78
Yorkshire -8 38 £525 -4.55% 85
East of England +33 20 £490 -24.62% 131
North East +7 18 £520 +26.83% 26
East Midlands +12 15 £475 +5.56% 51
Wales -8 8 £540 +8.00% 21
Northern Ireland -6 4 £550 - 28
Docker
UK

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (5.37%) Apache
2 21 (4.70%) Confluence
3 14 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.68%) JBoss
4 12 (2.68%) nginx
5 11 (2.46%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.34%) Jupyter
8 5 (1.12%) WebLogic
8 5 (1.12%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.67%) Moodle
9 3 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.67%) WebLogic Portal
9 3 (0.67%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.45%) Camunda
10 2 (0.45%) IIS
11 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.22%) SAS
11 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 235 (52.57%) AWS
2 134 (29.98%) Azure
3 61 (13.65%) GCP
4 58 (12.98%) OpenShift
5 57 (12.75%) Serverless
6 49 (10.96%) Amazon S3
7 43 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
8 34 (7.61%) GitHub
9 33 (7.38%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (6.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (3.80%) PaaS
14 14 (3.13%) Azure AKS
14 14 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.91%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (2.46%) IaaS
17 10 (2.24%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.16%) DNS
2 26 (5.82%) DHCP
3 25 (5.59%) HTTP
3 25 (5.59%) TCP/IP
4 20 (4.47%) Firewall
5 15 (3.36%) VPN
6 10 (2.24%) Network Security
7 8 (1.79%) SMTP
7 8 (1.79%) SSL
8 7 (1.57%) BGP
8 7 (1.57%) VLAN
8 7 (1.57%) Wireless
9 6 (1.34%) MPLS
10 5 (1.12%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (0.67%) SAN
12 2 (0.45%) 3GPP
12 2 (0.45%) 4G
12 2 (0.45%) Calico
12 2 (0.45%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (17.23%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (11.41%) Relational Database
3 33 (7.38%) Elasticsearch
4 32 (7.16%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (7.16%) MongoDB
5 27 (6.04%) NoSQL
6 24 (5.37%) MySQL
7 23 (5.15%) DynamoDB
8 20 (4.47%) SQL Server
9 17 (3.80%) Big Data
10 15 (3.36%) KDB
10 15 (3.36%) Kdb+
10 15 (3.36%) RDBMS
11 13 (2.91%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (2.46%) Oracle Database
13 10 (2.24%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (2.01%) Hadoop
15 8 (1.79%) Flink
15 8 (1.79%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 107 (23.94%) Jenkins
2 83 (18.57%) Git
3 67 (14.99%) GitLab
4 50 (11.19%) JIRA
5 36 (8.05%) JUnit
6 29 (6.49%) SonarQube
7 21 (4.70%) Cucumber
7 21 (4.70%) Selenium
8 20 (4.47%) Mockito
9 17 (3.80%) Maven
10 13 (2.91%) Bitbucket Server
10 13 (2.91%) Sonatype Nexus
11 12 (2.68%) Bitbucket
11 12 (2.68%) REST Assured
12 11 (2.46%) Gradle
13 10 (2.24%) Liquibase
13 10 (2.24%) TeamCity
14 9 (2.01%) CA Release Automation
14 9 (2.01%) Jasmine
15 8 (1.79%) JMeter
General
1 114 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 77 (17.23%) Public Sector
3 59 (13.20%) Finance
4 53 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (6.71%) Banking
6 29 (6.49%) Telecoms
7 20 (4.47%) Manufacturing
8 16 (3.58%) Electronics
8 16 (3.58%) Investment Banking
8 16 (3.58%) Marketing
9 15 (3.36%) Legal
10 11 (2.46%) Law
11 8 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.89%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.89%) Police
15 3 (0.67%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 139 (31.10%) Developer
2 85 (19.02%) Senior
3 56 (12.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (11.19%) Java Developer
5 42 (9.40%) Senior Developer
6 38 (8.50%) Software Engineer
7 32 (7.16%) Python Developer
8 31 (6.94%) Data Engineer
9 26 (5.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 25 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (4.92%) Lead
12 20 (4.47%) Java Engineer
12 20 (4.47%) Python Engineer
13 19 (4.25%) Architect
14 17 (3.80%) Full-Stack Developer
15 16 (3.58%) Java Software Engineer
16 15 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
17 14 (3.13%) C++ Developer
17 14 (3.13%) Support Engineer
18 13 (2.91%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (13.65%) Spring Boot
2 55 (12.30%) REST
3 52 (11.63%) Spring
4 51 (11.41%) RESTful
5 44 (9.84%) Kafka
6 33 (7.38%) React
7 29 (6.49%) .NET
7 29 (6.49%) Node.js
7 29 (6.49%) Swagger
8 27 (6.04%) OpenAPI
9 25 (5.59%) Elastic Stack
10 24 (5.37%) JSON
11 19 (4.25%) AngularJS
12 17 (3.80%) AWS CDK
13 16 (3.58%) ARM Templates
13 16 (3.58%) Spring Batch
13 16 (3.58%) Web Services
14 15 (3.36%) HTML
15 14 (3.13%) ActiveMQ
16 13 (2.91%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.37%) Enterprise Software
2 21 (4.70%) Cloud Native
3 15 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (2.91%) Algorithms
4 13 (2.91%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.68%) Clustering
5 12 (2.68%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (2.01%) PKI
6 9 (2.01%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.12%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.12%) Replication
11 4 (0.89%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.89%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.67%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 165 (36.91%) Linux
2 88 (19.69%) Windows
3 45 (10.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (7.38%) Windows Server
5 20 (4.47%) Unix
6 6 (1.34%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.12%) AIX
8 4 (0.89%) Android
9 3 (0.67%) CentOS
9 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.45%) Debian
10 2 (0.45%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.45%) VMS
11 1 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (55.03%) Containerisation
2 238 (53.24%) CI/CD
3 195 (43.62%) DevOps
4 134 (29.98%) Microservices
5 121 (27.07%) Agile
6 103 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (17.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 75 (16.78%) Software Engineering
8 75 (16.78%) Test Automation
9 67 (14.99%) TDD
10 58 (12.98%) Continuous Integration
11 54 (12.08%) SDLC
12 41 (9.17%) Event-Driven
12 41 (9.17%) Scrum
13 40 (8.95%) BDD
14 34 (7.61%) Full-Stack Development
15 33 (7.38%) Technical Leadership
16 32 (7.16%) Migration
16 32 (7.16%) Task Automation
17 30 (6.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 238 (53.24%) Python
2 150 (33.56%) Java
3 111 (24.83%) SQL
4 69 (15.44%) Bash
5 48 (10.74%) PowerShell
6 47 (10.51%) JavaScript
7 41 (9.17%) TypeScript
8 27 (6.04%) Shell Script
9 22 (4.92%) C#
10 21 (4.70%) Perl
11 19 (4.25%) C++
12 13 (2.91%) Go
13 11 (2.46%) R
14 9 (2.01%) PHP
15 7 (1.57%) Bicep
15 7 (1.57%) Scala
16 4 (0.89%) C
17 3 (0.67%) Ruby
18 2 (0.45%) ActionScript
18 2 (0.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 149 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 95 (21.25%) SC Cleared
3 54 (12.08%) DV Cleared
4 38 (8.50%) Degree
5 23 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.58%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.34%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.12%) CISSP
10 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.67%) CEH
11 3 (0.67%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.67%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.67%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.45%) IBM Certification
12 2 (0.45%) OCP
12 2 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.26%) QA
2 11 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.34%) NIST
4 5 (1.12%) NCSC
5 4 (0.89%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.67%) GDPR
6 3 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.22%) HL7
8 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.22%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
8 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (7.83%) Hyper-V
3 26 (5.82%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.79%) BitLocker
4 8 (1.79%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (1.79%) Terminal Services
4 8 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.12%) Postfix
6 4 (0.89%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.67%) LXC
7 3 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.67%) vSphere
8 2 (0.45%) NFS
8 2 (0.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.22%) GPFS
9 1 (0.22%) Samba
Systems Management
1 336 (75.17%) Kubernetes
2 118 (26.40%) Terraform
3 117 (26.17%) Ansible
4 44 (9.84%) Puppet
5 42 (9.40%) Grafana
5 42 (9.40%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.47%) Progress Chef
7 18 (4.03%) Podman
8 16 (3.58%) Kibana
9 12 (2.68%) Docker Swarm
10 11 (2.46%) Nagios
11 8 (1.79%) vCenter Server
11 8 (1.79%) vMotion
12 4 (0.89%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (0.89%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.89%) Istio
12 4 (0.89%) logstash
12 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.67%) SCCM
14 2 (0.45%) Control-M
Vendors
1 56 (12.53%) VMware
2 43 (9.62%) Red Hat
3 33 (7.38%) Microsoft
4 31 (6.94%) Oracle
5 24 (5.37%) Google
5 24 (5.37%) Splunk
6 17 (3.80%) SAP
7 13 (2.91%) AppDynamics
8 11 (2.46%) Symantec
9 10 (2.24%) Virgin Media
10 9 (2.01%) Citrix
11 8 (1.79%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.79%) HP
12 7 (1.57%) IBM
13 6 (1.34%) Jaspersoft
13 6 (1.34%) LogicMonitor
13 6 (1.34%) NetApp
14 5 (1.12%) Atlassian
15 4 (0.89%) Commvault
15 4 (0.89%) ServiceNow