Docker Contracts

Docker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 73 47
Rank change year-on-year +29 -26 -11
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,367 1,247 2,977
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.70% 2.82% 4.72%
As % of the System Software category 35.93% 25.93% 34.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 969 910 2,158
10th Percentile £400 £410 £450
25th Percentile £463 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £790 £719 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 31
10th Percentile £25.25 £47.40 £56.88
25th Percentile £26.94 £60.00 £61.88
Median hourly rate £80.60 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.96% -10.71% +27.27%
75th Percentile £92.50 £68.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.25 £70.73 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.60 £66.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +21.20% +1.53% +37.89%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,805 4,810 8,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.09% 10.88% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,593 3,275 6,093
10th Percentile £213 £190 £206
25th Percentile £400 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £623 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £689 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £480
% change year-on-year +3.26% -4.17% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 225 325
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £15.65 £17.47
Median hourly rate £30.75 £22.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -54.55% +162.25%
75th Percentile £66.00 £60.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £87.83 £70.66 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.50 £26.99
% change year-on-year +66.67% -16.64% +54.23%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the UK

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in the UK

Docker
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 April 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
England +29 1,125 £550 - 1,988
London +25 667 £575 +4.55% 1,258
Work from Home +31 570 £550 - 1,174
UK excluding London +42 472 £510 -0.49% 870
North of England +47 153 £500 - 210
North West +38 91 £500 -4.76% 157
South East +49 89 £500 -11.70% 250
South West +42 84 £600 +10.85% 141
Midlands +45 55 £525 +5.00% 81
Scotland -9 55 £444 -4.52% 69
Yorkshire +7 41 £525 +7.69% 39
West Midlands +37 40 £550 +10.00% 52
East of England +26 23 £490 -6.67% 88
North East +11 22 £463 +11.45% 15
Wales +5 16 £545 +7.65% 11
East Midlands +15 14 £452 +0.33% 28
Northern Ireland 0 4 £550 - 27

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 86 (6.29%) Confluence
2 83 (6.07%) Apache
3 69 (5.05%) Apache Spark
4 48 (3.51%) nginx
5 43 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (1.24%) JBoss
7 12 (0.88%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.66%) Camunda
9 8 (0.59%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.59%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.44%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.29%) Alfresco
11 4 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.29%) IIS
11 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.29%) Moodle
11 4 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.22%) JCAPS
12 3 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Adobe XD
1 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.29%) Sketch
2 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.22%) Endur
2 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.073%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.073%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.073%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 785 (57.43%) AWS
2 412 (30.14%) Azure
3 215 (15.73%) GCP
4 212 (15.51%) Serverless
5 156 (11.41%) AWS Lambda
6 149 (10.90%) GitHub
7 134 (9.80%) Amazon S3
8 130 (9.51%) OpenShift
9 110 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
10 106 (7.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 105 (7.68%) Amazon EC2
12 96 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
13 68 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
14 63 (4.61%) Amazon EKS
15 61 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 52 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
17 49 (3.58%) Cloud Computing
18 42 (3.07%) Azure AKS
18 42 (3.07%) PaaS
19 34 (2.49%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.68%) DNS
2 62 (4.54%) HTTP
3 59 (4.32%) TCP/IP
4 37 (2.71%) Firewall
5 34 (2.49%) VPN
6 31 (2.27%) DHCP
7 16 (1.17%) Network Security
7 16 (1.17%) SSL
8 13 (0.95%) BGP
8 13 (0.95%) VLAN
9 12 (0.88%) MPLS
10 9 (0.66%) Internet
10 9 (0.66%) SMTP
11 8 (0.59%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.44%) Wireless
13 5 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (0.29%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (0.29%) HTTPS
14 4 (0.29%) SAN
14 4 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (15.07%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (8.92%) Amazon RDS
3 106 (7.75%) Relational Database
4 105 (7.68%) NoSQL
5 99 (7.24%) MongoDB
6 85 (6.22%) MySQL
7 73 (5.34%) Elasticsearch
8 59 (4.32%) SQL Server
9 53 (3.88%) Apache Cassandra
10 47 (3.44%) Redis
11 45 (3.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 42 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
13 40 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
14 36 (2.63%) Apache Iceberg
15 35 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
15 35 (2.56%) DynamoDB
16 34 (2.49%) Big Data
17 33 (2.41%) Hadoop
18 29 (2.12%) Data Lake
19 28 (2.05%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 357 (26.12%) Jenkins
2 248 (18.14%) Git
3 211 (15.44%) GitLab
4 133 (9.73%) JIRA
5 85 (6.22%) JUnit
6 63 (4.61%) Maven
7 59 (4.32%) Artifactory
8 55 (4.02%) SonarQube
9 48 (3.51%) Cucumber
10 44 (3.22%) Gradle
11 42 (3.07%) Bitbucket
12 37 (2.71%) Mockito
13 34 (2.49%) Postman
13 34 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
14 33 (2.41%) Selenium
15 32 (2.34%) Liquibase
16 22 (1.61%) Jasmine
17 20 (1.46%) TeamCity
18 19 (1.39%) Cypress.io
19 15 (1.10%) REST Assured
General
1 258 (18.87%) Social Skills
2 257 (18.80%) Finance
3 158 (11.56%) Public Sector
4 135 (9.88%) Banking
5 126 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
6 72 (5.27%) Investment Banking
7 62 (4.54%) Front Office
8 49 (3.58%) Telecoms
9 29 (2.12%) Marketing
10 26 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (1.61%) Electronics
13 17 (1.24%) Legal
13 17 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.17%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.10%) Law
15 15 (1.10%) Military
16 11 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 439 (32.11%) Developer
2 286 (20.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 229 (16.75%) Senior
4 137 (10.02%) AWS Engineer
5 115 (8.41%) Java Developer
6 110 (8.05%) AWS DevOps
7 103 (7.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 102 (7.46%) Python Developer
9 97 (7.10%) Lead
10 91 (6.66%) Senior Developer
11 86 (6.29%) Software Engineer
12 84 (6.14%) Data Engineer
13 81 (5.93%) Architect
14 76 (5.56%) Python Engineer
15 63 (4.61%) Full-Stack Developer
16 52 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
16 52 (3.80%) Senior DevOps
17 47 (3.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 47 (3.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 40 (2.93%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (17.34%) Kafka
2 204 (14.92%) Spring
3 192 (14.05%) Spring Boot
4 151 (11.05%) React
5 129 (9.44%) .NET
6 125 (9.14%) RESTful
7 99 (7.24%) REST
8 89 (6.51%) Node.js
9 73 (5.34%) Elastic Stack
10 70 (5.12%) AngularJS
10 70 (5.12%) FastAPI
11 69 (5.05%) Swagger
12 63 (4.61%) OpenAPI
13 59 (4.32%) HTML
14 49 (3.58%) Django
15 48 (3.51%) PySpark
16 44 (3.22%) J2EE
17 43 (3.15%) JSON
18 42 (3.07%) CSS
19 41 (3.00%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 66 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
2 59 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
3 55 (4.02%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.34%) Public Cloud
5 30 (2.19%) Replication
6 26 (1.90%) Product Ownership
7 24 (1.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 22 (1.61%) Data Centre
9 21 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 21 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.54%) PKI
10 20 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (1.32%) Onboarding
12 15 (1.10%) Private Cloud
12 15 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.02%) Hedge funds
13 14 (1.02%) Management Information System
14 13 (0.95%) Clustering
14 13 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 334 (24.43%) Linux
2 110 (8.05%) Windows
3 106 (7.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 52 (3.80%) Unix
5 40 (2.93%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.02%) CentOS
7 11 (0.80%) VMS
8 10 (0.73%) AIX
9 9 (0.66%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.51%) Rocky
11 5 (0.37%) Android
12 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.22%) Solaris
13 3 (0.22%) SUSE
13 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.15%) Debian
15 1 (0.073%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.073%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 792 (57.94%) CI/CD
2 727 (53.18%) DevOps
3 634 (46.38%) Containerisation
4 437 (31.97%) Agile
5 384 (28.09%) Microservices
6 275 (20.12%) Software Engineering
7 266 (19.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 261 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
9 187 (13.68%) Test Automation
10 153 (11.19%) TDD
11 152 (11.12%) Continuous Integration
12 140 (10.24%) Full-Stack Development
13 121 (8.85%) SDLC
14 113 (8.27%) Artificial Intelligence
15 101 (7.39%) Machine Learning
15 101 (7.39%) Mentoring
16 100 (7.32%) Event-Driven
16 100 (7.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 95 (6.95%) High Availability
18 93 (6.80%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 668 (48.87%) Python
2 464 (33.94%) Java
3 314 (22.97%) SQL
4 180 (13.17%) Bash
5 179 (13.09%) JavaScript
6 166 (12.14%) TypeScript
7 115 (8.41%) C#
8 98 (7.17%) Go
9 90 (6.58%) PowerShell
10 47 (3.44%) Shell Script
11 39 (2.85%) Perl
12 35 (2.56%) C++
13 31 (2.27%) Scala
14 27 (1.98%) PHP
15 25 (1.83%) Kotlin
16 23 (1.68%) Ruby
17 18 (1.32%) Bicep
17 18 (1.32%) Rust
18 17 (1.24%) PL/SQL
19 14 (1.02%) R
Qualifications
1 388 (28.38%) Security Cleared
2 329 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 87 (6.36%) Degree
4 63 (4.61%) DV Cleared
5 48 (3.51%) AWS Certification
5 48 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.44%) CISSP
11 6 (0.44%) RHCE
12 5 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.37%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.22%) CCNA
14 3 (0.22%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.22%) OCP
14 3 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (4.90%) QA
2 44 (3.22%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.39%) Data Quality
4 13 (0.95%) GDPR
5 11 (0.80%) NIST
6 9 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.29%) HL7
9 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.29%) NCSC
10 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.22%) EMIR
10 3 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (0.22%) MiFID
11 2 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.15%) WCAG
12 1 (0.073%) COBIT
12 1 (0.073%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.073%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 11 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.44%) Lustre
6 5 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 5 (0.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.29%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.29%) LXC
7 4 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.29%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.29%) VirtualBox
7 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.29%) vSphere
8 3 (0.22%) KVM
8 3 (0.22%) NFS
8 3 (0.22%) Postfix
8 3 (0.22%) RACF
8 3 (0.22%) Samba
Systems Management
1 1,054 (77.10%) Kubernetes
2 480 (35.11%) Terraform
3 304 (22.24%) Ansible
4 122 (8.92%) Prometheus
5 121 (8.85%) Grafana
6 88 (6.44%) Puppet
7 57 (4.17%) Progress Chef
8 34 (2.49%) Kibana
9 31 (2.27%) Istio
10 29 (2.12%) Packer
11 24 (1.76%) Argo
12 19 (1.39%) Podman
13 18 (1.32%) Consul
14 17 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
15 11 (0.80%) logstash
15 11 (0.80%) Nagios
15 11 (0.80%) Rancher
16 8 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
16 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
17 6 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 100 (7.32%) Red Hat
2 92 (6.73%) VMware
3 85 (6.22%) Google
4 77 (5.63%) Oracle
5 67 (4.90%) Microsoft
6 52 (3.80%) Splunk
7 33 (2.41%) Databricks
8 25 (1.83%) SAP
9 24 (1.76%) Dynatrace
10 21 (1.54%) IBM
11 18 (1.32%) AppDynamics
12 12 (0.88%) Virgin Media
13 10 (0.73%) Salesforce
14 9 (0.66%) Cisco
14 9 (0.66%) TIBCO
15 8 (0.59%) Confluent
15 8 (0.59%) ServiceNow
16 7 (0.51%) NetApp
17 6 (0.44%) Atlassian
17 6 (0.44%) MuleSoft