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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 64 54
Rank change year-on-year -38 -10 -7
Contract jobs citing Docker 434 829 1,259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.10% 3.47% 4.07%
As % of the System Software category 17.60% 22.96% 26.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 605 908
10th Percentile £389 £425 £413
25th Percentile £444 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +12.63%
75th Percentile £615 £645 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £680
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 12
10th Percentile £49.63 £59.80 £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 £75.50 £64.70
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% +36.36% +10.00%

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 2,466 3,610 4,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.93% 15.10% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,653 2,619 3,325
10th Percentile £178 £180 £158
25th Percentile £281 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +6.67% +6.51%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £563
90th Percentile £650 £680 £644
UK median daily rate £496 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.48% - +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 187 242
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.58 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.98 £43.75 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -52.06% +141.51% +2.93%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £79.80 £71.50 £51.65
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 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
North of England -39 116 £550 -4.35% 114
South East -46 88 £550 -6.38% 86
Scotland -3 81 £461 -3.71% 37
South West -19 79 £550 -4.35% 79
Yorkshire +14 54 £550 - 38
North West -51 51 £550 - 70
Midlands +20 33 £500 - 60
West Midlands +12 20 £575 +4.55% 30
Wales +30 18 £506 - 14
East of England -4 17 £650 +20.93% 34
East Midlands +22 13 £450 -6.25% 30
North East -14 11 £410 -41.43% 8
Northern Ireland +5 2 - - 10
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 (7.14%) Confluence
2 28 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (5.53%) Apache
4 12 (2.76%) Apache Spark
5 10 (2.30%) OpenStack
6 7 (1.61%) nginx
7 6 (1.38%) JBoss
8 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.92%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.92%) SAS
10 2 (0.46%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.46%) Traefik
11 1 (0.23%) Camunda
11 1 (0.23%) Luigi
11 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (0.46%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 234 (53.92%) AWS
2 139 (32.03%) Azure
3 66 (15.21%) OpenShift
4 49 (11.29%) Serverless
5 45 (10.37%) GCP
6 42 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 40 (9.22%) Amazon S3
8 35 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (6.68%) Amazon EC2
9 29 (6.68%) GitHub
10 28 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (4.61%) Snowflake
13 15 (3.46%) Entra ID
13 15 (3.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (3.23%) Azure AKS
15 12 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (2.53%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.14%) VPN
2 22 (5.07%) Firewall
3 21 (4.84%) Network Security
4 20 (4.61%) DNS
5 11 (2.53%) AMQP
5 11 (2.53%) BGP
5 11 (2.53%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (2.53%) MPLS
5 11 (2.53%) Radio Access Network
5 11 (2.53%) TCP/IP
6 9 (2.07%) HTTP
7 8 (1.84%) 5G
8 5 (1.15%) MQTT
9 4 (0.92%) Diameter Protocol
9 4 (0.92%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (0.92%) iSCSI
9 4 (0.92%) LTE
9 4 (0.92%) SAN
9 4 (0.92%) Skype
10 3 (0.69%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (17.05%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (11.98%) NoSQL
3 47 (10.83%) Relational Database
4 28 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
4 28 (6.45%) MySQL
5 24 (5.53%) MongoDB
6 19 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (2.53%) Data Lake
9 10 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.30%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.07%) RDBMS
10 9 (2.07%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.84%) Flink
11 8 (1.84%) InfluxDB
12 7 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.61%) Oracle Database
13 5 (1.15%) Big Data
13 5 (1.15%) GIS
Development Applications
1 137 (31.57%) Jenkins
2 108 (24.88%) Git
3 83 (19.12%) GitLab
4 68 (15.67%) JIRA
5 37 (8.53%) SonarQube
6 36 (8.29%) JUnit
7 24 (5.53%) Cucumber
8 20 (4.61%) Postman
9 19 (4.38%) Selenium
10 13 (3.00%) REST Assured
11 12 (2.76%) Maven
11 12 (2.76%) Robot Framework
12 11 (2.53%) TestRail
12 11 (2.53%) Travis CI
13 9 (2.07%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.84%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.84%) Gradle
14 8 (1.84%) Mockito
14 8 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (1.84%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (16.36%) Social Skills
2 42 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 26 (5.99%) Finance
4 22 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.00%) Banking
6 12 (2.76%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.07%) Law
7 9 (2.07%) Legal
7 9 (2.07%) Retail
8 8 (1.84%) Police
9 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.92%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.69%) Marketing
12 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.46%) Electronics
13 1 (0.23%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.23%) Games
13 1 (0.23%) Military
13 1 (0.23%) Publishing
13 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 126 (29.03%) Developer
2 90 (20.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 51 (11.75%) Java Developer
4 45 (10.37%) Senior
5 30 (6.91%) AWS Engineer
6 28 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
7 24 (5.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 23 (5.30%) Architect
9 21 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (4.84%) Software Engineer
10 20 (4.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 19 (4.38%) Full Stack Developer
12 18 (4.15%) Lead
13 17 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
14 16 (3.69%) Site Engineer
15 15 (3.46%) Test Engineer
16 14 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
17 13 (3.00%) Data Engineer
18 12 (2.76%) Python Developer
19 11 (2.53%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (19.82%) REST
2 73 (16.82%) Spring Boot
3 62 (14.29%) Spring
4 52 (11.98%) React
5 41 (9.45%) RESTful
6 38 (8.76%) Kafka
7 37 (8.53%) Elastic Stack
7 37 (8.53%) Node.js
8 22 (5.07%) .NET
9 21 (4.84%) AWS CDK
9 21 (4.84%) Web Services
10 20 (4.61%) HTML
11 19 (4.38%) CSS
11 19 (4.38%) RabbitMQ
12 18 (4.15%) OAuth
13 17 (3.92%) ARM Templates
13 17 (3.92%) SOAP
13 17 (3.92%) YAML
14 16 (3.69%) GraphQL
14 16 (3.69%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
1 26 (5.99%) Public Cloud
2 20 (4.61%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.00%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.00%) NHS
4 11 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (1.84%) PKI
6 6 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.15%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.15%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.15%) IoT
7 5 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.15%) Verilog
7 5 (1.15%) VHDL
8 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (0.92%) NVMe
9 3 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (22.12%) Linux
2 41 (9.45%) Windows
3 23 (5.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (4.84%) Unix
5 18 (4.15%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.38%) CentOS
6 6 (1.38%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.38%) VMS
7 4 (0.92%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (0.92%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (54.15%) DevOps
2 202 (46.54%) CI/CD
3 152 (35.02%) Agile
4 134 (30.88%) Containerisation
5 96 (22.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 80 (18.43%) Microservices
7 78 (17.97%) Scrum
8 67 (15.44%) Continuous Integration
9 64 (14.75%) Test Automation
10 59 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (12.21%) Software Engineering
11 53 (12.21%) TDD
12 47 (10.83%) Configuration Management
13 44 (10.14%) Unit Testing
14 36 (8.29%) Full Stack Development
15 35 (8.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 32 (7.37%) Kanban
17 31 (7.14%) High Availability
18 28 (6.45%) Computer Science
18 28 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 175 (40.32%) Python
2 144 (33.18%) Java
3 104 (23.96%) SQL
4 64 (14.75%) Bash
5 52 (11.98%) JavaScript
6 44 (10.14%) Go
6 44 (10.14%) PowerShell
7 36 (8.29%) TypeScript
8 29 (6.68%) Scala
9 28 (6.45%) C
10 24 (5.53%) Ruby
10 24 (5.53%) Shell Script
11 16 (3.69%) C#
12 13 (3.00%) Perl
13 11 (2.53%) C++
13 11 (2.53%) Groovy
13 11 (2.53%) PHP
14 7 (1.61%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.38%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 125 (28.80%) Security Cleared
2 69 (15.90%) SC Cleared
3 64 (14.75%) DV Cleared
4 22 (5.07%) Degree
5 17 (3.92%) AWS Certification
6 13 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (2.07%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.46%) RHCE
9 2 (0.46%) SANS
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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 21 (4.84%) Accessibility
2 18 (4.15%) QA
3 5 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.15%) NIST
4 3 (0.69%) ISO 22301
4 3 (0.69%) NCSC
4 3 (0.69%) WCAG
5 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.46%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.46%) GDPR
5 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.23%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (4.61%) Active Directory
1 20 (4.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.61%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.15%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.15%) NFS
5 4 (0.92%) GPFS
6 3 (0.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.69%) LXC
6 3 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.69%) vSphere
7 2 (0.46%) Ceph
7 2 (0.46%) HDFS
7 2 (0.46%) KVM
7 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.46%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.23%) Lustre
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 284 (65.44%) Kubernetes
2 169 (38.94%) Terraform
3 126 (29.03%) Ansible
4 61 (14.06%) Grafana
5 56 (12.90%) Prometheus
6 35 (8.06%) Progress Chef
7 32 (7.37%) Docker Swarm
8 25 (5.76%) Puppet
9 22 (5.07%) Kibana
10 16 (3.69%) Podman
11 12 (2.76%) Istio
12 11 (2.53%) HP Fortify
13 10 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (1.61%) Rancher
15 6 (1.38%) Graylog
15 6 (1.38%) logstash
15 6 (1.38%) Nagios
15 6 (1.38%) SCCM
15 6 (1.38%) Zipkin
16 5 (1.15%) Nessus
Vendors
1 35 (8.06%) Splunk
2 29 (6.68%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.68%) VMware
3 21 (4.84%) Oracle
4 19 (4.38%) Google
5 17 (3.92%) Red Hat
6 13 (3.00%) Atlassian
7 12 (2.76%) Databricks
8 8 (1.84%) EMC
9 7 (1.61%) Checkmarx
10 6 (1.38%) WSO2
11 5 (1.15%) AppDynamics
11 5 (1.15%) IBM
11 5 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.15%) Veracode
12 4 (0.92%) Brocade
12 4 (0.92%) Citrix
12 4 (0.92%) NetApp
12 4 (0.92%) Sybase
12 4 (0.92%) Veritas