Docker Contracts in the UK excluding London

Docker
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 63 56
Rank change year-on-year -38 -7 -9
Contract jobs citing Docker 430 848 1,238
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.07% 3.51% 4.00%
As % of the System Software category 17.44% 23.12% 26.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 623 899
10th Percentile £393 £425 £413
25th Percentile £444 £476 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £678
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 20 12
10th Percentile £49.63 £59.51 £41.81
25th Percentile £64.06 £61.25 £44.33
Median hourly rate £79.00 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +47.37% -13.64%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £52.45
90th Percentile £85.50 £75.05 £64.70
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% +36.36% +15.79%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,465 3,668 4,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.86% 15.19% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,653 2,661 3,296
10th Percentile £175 £181 £158
25th Percentile £275 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% +6.79% +7.14%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £560
90th Percentile £650 £675 £644
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 202 247
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £12.95
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.00 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -46.25% +120.81% +2.06%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £78.20 £70.00 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.35 £20.00
% change year-on-year -57.83% +166.75% -

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 26 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 26 April 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
North of England -41 116 £550 -4.35% 116
South East -43 88 £550 -6.38% 89
Scotland -5 81 £463 -3.44% 51
South West -17 76 £550 -2.22% 73
Yorkshire +15 54 £550 - 40
North West -51 51 £550 - 65
Midlands +19 33 £500 - 65
West Midlands +16 19 £600 +9.09% 29
Wales +24 17 £500 +2.56% 16
East of England -7 17 £650 +20.93% 32
East Midlands +25 14 £450 -6.25% 36
North East -12 11 £410 -39.26% 13
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 16
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 31 (7.21%) Confluence
2 28 (6.51%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (5.58%) Apache
4 11 (2.56%) Apache Spark
5 10 (2.33%) OpenStack
6 7 (1.63%) nginx
7 6 (1.40%) JBoss
8 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.93%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.93%) SAS
10 2 (0.47%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.47%) Traefik
11 1 (0.23%) Luigi
11 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (0.47%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 234 (54.42%) AWS
2 136 (31.63%) Azure
3 65 (15.12%) OpenShift
4 51 (11.86%) Serverless
5 46 (10.70%) GCP
6 43 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (9.77%) Amazon S3
8 37 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (6.74%) GitHub
11 26 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (4.65%) Snowflake
13 15 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (3.26%) Azure AKS
14 14 (3.26%) Entra ID
15 12 (2.79%) AWS CodePipeline
15 12 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (6.98%) VPN
2 22 (5.12%) Firewall
3 20 (4.65%) DNS
3 20 (4.65%) Network Security
4 11 (2.56%) AMQP
4 11 (2.56%) BGP
4 11 (2.56%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (2.56%) MPLS
4 11 (2.56%) Radio Access Network
4 11 (2.56%) TCP/IP
5 9 (2.09%) HTTP
6 8 (1.86%) 5G
7 5 (1.16%) MQTT
8 4 (0.93%) Diameter Protocol
8 4 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (0.93%) iSCSI
8 4 (0.93%) LTE
8 4 (0.93%) SAN
8 4 (0.93%) Skype
9 3 (0.70%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (17.67%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (11.86%) NoSQL
3 46 (10.70%) Relational Database
4 29 (6.74%) MySQL
5 27 (6.28%) Elasticsearch
6 24 (5.58%) MongoDB
7 20 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (3.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (2.79%) DynamoDB
10 11 (2.56%) Data Lake
11 10 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (2.09%) RDBMS
12 9 (2.09%) SQL Server
13 8 (1.86%) Flink
13 8 (1.86%) InfluxDB
14 7 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
14 7 (1.63%) Oracle Database
15 5 (1.16%) Big Data
15 5 (1.16%) GIS
Development Applications
1 132 (30.70%) Jenkins
2 108 (25.12%) Git
3 83 (19.30%) GitLab
4 68 (15.81%) JIRA
5 37 (8.60%) SonarQube
6 36 (8.37%) JUnit
7 24 (5.58%) Cucumber
8 19 (4.42%) Postman
9 18 (4.19%) Selenium
10 13 (3.02%) REST Assured
11 12 (2.79%) Maven
11 12 (2.79%) Robot Framework
12 11 (2.56%) TestRail
13 10 (2.33%) Travis CI
14 9 (2.09%) Artifactory
15 8 (1.86%) Bitbucket
15 8 (1.86%) Gradle
15 8 (1.86%) Mockito
15 8 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (1.86%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (16.51%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 27 (6.28%) Finance
4 22 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.02%) Banking
6 12 (2.79%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.33%) Law
8 9 (2.09%) Legal
8 9 (2.09%) Retail
9 8 (1.86%) Police
10 5 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.70%) Marketing
13 2 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.47%) Electronics
14 1 (0.23%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.23%) Games
14 1 (0.23%) Military
14 1 (0.23%) Publishing
14 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 126 (29.30%) Developer
2 87 (20.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 50 (11.63%) Java Developer
4 43 (10.00%) Senior
5 32 (7.44%) AWS Engineer
6 30 (6.98%) AWS DevOps
7 24 (5.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 23 (5.35%) Architect
9 22 (5.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 21 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
10 21 (4.88%) Software Engineer
11 18 (4.19%) Full Stack Developer
12 17 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
12 17 (3.95%) Lead
13 16 (3.72%) Site Engineer
14 14 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
14 14 (3.26%) Test Engineer
15 13 (3.02%) Data Engineer
16 12 (2.79%) Python Developer
17 11 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (20.23%) REST
2 71 (16.51%) Spring Boot
3 61 (14.19%) Spring
4 53 (12.33%) React
5 39 (9.07%) RESTful
6 38 (8.84%) Node.js
7 36 (8.37%) Elastic Stack
8 35 (8.14%) Kafka
9 22 (5.12%) AWS CDK
10 21 (4.88%) HTML
11 20 (4.65%) CSS
11 20 (4.65%) Web Services
12 19 (4.42%) .NET
12 19 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
13 18 (4.19%) OAuth
14 17 (3.95%) ARM Templates
14 17 (3.95%) SOAP
14 17 (3.95%) YAML
15 16 (3.72%) OAuth2
15 16 (3.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.05%) Public Cloud
2 25 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.02%) NHS
5 12 (2.79%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.86%) PKI
8 6 (1.40%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.40%) IoT
9 5 (1.16%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.16%) Verilog
9 5 (1.16%) VHDL
10 4 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.93%) NVMe
11 3 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 97 (22.56%) Linux
2 41 (9.53%) Windows
3 23 (5.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (4.65%) Unix
5 18 (4.19%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.40%) CentOS
6 6 (1.40%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.16%) VMS
8 4 (0.93%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (0.93%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.23%) Android
9 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (53.26%) DevOps
2 198 (46.05%) CI/CD
3 150 (34.88%) Agile
4 133 (30.93%) Containerisation
5 98 (22.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 78 (18.14%) Scrum
7 77 (17.91%) Microservices
8 66 (15.35%) Continuous Integration
9 63 (14.65%) Test Automation
10 61 (14.19%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (12.33%) Software Engineering
12 52 (12.09%) TDD
13 47 (10.93%) Configuration Management
14 45 (10.47%) Unit Testing
15 35 (8.14%) Full Stack Development
15 35 (8.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 32 (7.44%) Kanban
17 30 (6.98%) High Availability
18 28 (6.51%) Mentoring
19 27 (6.28%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 174 (40.47%) Python
2 137 (31.86%) Java
3 101 (23.49%) SQL
4 64 (14.88%) Bash
5 50 (11.63%) JavaScript
6 44 (10.23%) Go
6 44 (10.23%) PowerShell
7 36 (8.37%) TypeScript
8 27 (6.28%) C
9 26 (6.05%) Scala
10 24 (5.58%) Ruby
10 24 (5.58%) Shell Script
11 14 (3.26%) C#
11 14 (3.26%) Perl
12 11 (2.56%) C++
12 11 (2.56%) Groovy
12 11 (2.56%) PHP
13 6 (1.40%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.40%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 122 (28.37%) Security Cleared
2 67 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 62 (14.42%) DV Cleared
4 21 (4.88%) Degree
5 18 (4.19%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.86%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.47%) RHCE
9 2 (0.47%) SANS
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.23%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) GIAC
10 1 (0.23%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.23%) LPIC
10 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 18 (4.19%) QA
3 5 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.16%) NIST
4 3 (0.70%) ISO 22301
4 3 (0.70%) NCSC
4 3 (0.70%) WCAG
5 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.47%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.47%) GDPR
5 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.23%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (4.42%) Active Directory
1 19 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (1.63%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.16%) NFS
4 4 (0.93%) GPFS
4 4 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (0.70%) LXC
5 3 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.70%) vSphere
6 2 (0.47%) Ceph
6 2 (0.47%) HDFS
6 2 (0.47%) KVM
6 2 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.23%) Lustre
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 280 (65.12%) Kubernetes
2 167 (38.84%) Terraform
3 124 (28.84%) Ansible
4 61 (14.19%) Grafana
5 53 (12.33%) Prometheus
6 35 (8.14%) Progress Chef
7 32 (7.44%) Docker Swarm
8 26 (6.05%) Puppet
9 22 (5.12%) Kibana
10 16 (3.72%) Podman
11 12 (2.79%) Istio
12 11 (2.56%) HP Fortify
13 9 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (1.63%) Rancher
15 6 (1.40%) Graylog
15 6 (1.40%) logstash
15 6 (1.40%) Nagios
15 6 (1.40%) SCCM
16 5 (1.16%) Nessus
16 5 (1.16%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 35 (8.14%) Splunk
2 29 (6.74%) VMware
3 28 (6.51%) Microsoft
4 21 (4.88%) Oracle
5 19 (4.42%) Google
6 18 (4.19%) Red Hat
7 13 (3.02%) Atlassian
8 12 (2.79%) Databricks
9 8 (1.86%) EMC
10 7 (1.63%) Checkmarx
11 6 (1.40%) WSO2
12 5 (1.16%) AppDynamics
12 5 (1.16%) IBM
12 5 (1.16%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.16%) Veracode
13 4 (0.93%) Brocade
13 4 (0.93%) Citrix
13 4 (0.93%) NetApp
13 4 (0.93%) Sybase
13 4 (0.93%) Veritas