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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 73 48
Rank change year-on-year +29 -25 -12
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,362 1,235 2,935
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.68% 2.80% 4.70%
As % of the System Software category 35.87% 25.79% 34.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 967 898 2,126
10th Percentile £400 £406 £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 £793 £719 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £512 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.20% -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 3,797 4,788 8,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.05% 10.84% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,589 3,253 6,033
10th Percentile £213 £192 £205
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 £690 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £460 £480
% change year-on-year +3.48% -4.07% +9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 224 323
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £15.61 £17.49
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.75 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.11% -52.02% +164.00%
75th Percentile £66.00 £60.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £87.65 £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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +31 1,122 £550 - 1,998
London +27 662 £575 +4.55% 1,277
Work from Home +35 562 £550 - 1,183
UK excluding London +36 471 £512 -0.20% 869
North of England +40 154 £520 -0.10% 200
North West +38 91 £500 -4.76% 149
South East +44 88 £500 -10.31% 261
South West +44 84 £600 +11.63% 135
Midlands +40 56 £525 +5.00% 87
Scotland -9 55 £444 -4.52% 72
Yorkshire +11 43 £538 +10.26% 38
West Midlands +38 41 £550 +10.00% 55
East of England +31 23 £490 -6.67% 84
North East +12 21 £475 +14.46% 14
East Midlands +14 14 £452 -4.95% 31
Wales +2 14 £545 +7.65% 11
Northern Ireland +1 4 £550 - 26

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 (6.31%) Confluence
2 83 (6.09%) Apache
3 69 (5.07%) Apache Spark
4 47 (3.45%) nginx
5 43 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (1.25%) 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 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.29%) Alfresco
12 4 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.29%) IIS
12 4 (0.29%) Moodle
12 4 (0.29%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.22%) JCAPS
13 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
1 780 (57.27%) AWS
2 410 (30.10%) Azure
3 219 (16.08%) GCP
4 208 (15.27%) Serverless
5 152 (11.16%) AWS Lambda
6 151 (11.09%) GitHub
7 131 (9.62%) Amazon S3
8 130 (9.54%) OpenShift
9 110 (8.08%) Azure DevOps
10 103 (7.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 99 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
12 92 (6.75%) Amazon ECS
13 68 (4.99%) GitHub Actions
14 61 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 61 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
15 51 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
16 49 (3.60%) Cloud Computing
17 43 (3.16%) PaaS
18 42 (3.08%) Azure AKS
19 33 (2.42%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.63%) DNS
2 60 (4.41%) HTTP
3 57 (4.19%) TCP/IP
4 38 (2.79%) Firewall
5 35 (2.57%) VPN
6 32 (2.35%) 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 10 (0.73%) SMTP
11 8 (0.59%) Kerberos
12 7 (0.51%) Internet
13 6 (0.44%) Wireless
14 5 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
15 4 (0.29%) Fibre Channel
15 4 (0.29%) HTTPS
15 4 (0.29%) SAN
15 4 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (15.12%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (8.59%) Amazon RDS
3 107 (7.86%) Relational Database
4 106 (7.78%) NoSQL
5 100 (7.34%) MongoDB
6 85 (6.24%) MySQL
7 72 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
8 59 (4.33%) SQL Server
9 54 (3.96%) Apache Cassandra
10 47 (3.45%) Redis
11 44 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 42 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
13 40 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
14 36 (2.64%) Apache Iceberg
15 35 (2.57%) Big Data
15 35 (2.57%) DynamoDB
16 33 (2.42%) Hadoop
17 32 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
18 29 (2.13%) Data Lake
19 28 (2.06%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 355 (26.06%) Jenkins
2 246 (18.06%) Git
3 207 (15.20%) GitLab
4 133 (9.77%) JIRA
5 86 (6.31%) JUnit
6 62 (4.55%) Maven
7 57 (4.19%) Artifactory
8 52 (3.82%) SonarQube
9 48 (3.52%) Cucumber
10 45 (3.30%) Gradle
11 42 (3.08%) Bitbucket
12 38 (2.79%) Mockito
13 34 (2.50%) Postman
14 33 (2.42%) Selenium
14 33 (2.42%) Sonatype Nexus
15 32 (2.35%) Liquibase
16 22 (1.62%) Jasmine
17 20 (1.47%) TeamCity
18 19 (1.40%) Cypress.io
19 15 (1.10%) REST Assured
General
1 257 (18.87%) Social Skills
2 256 (18.80%) Finance
3 157 (11.53%) Public Sector
4 132 (9.69%) Banking
5 124 (9.10%) Analytical Skills
6 70 (5.14%) Investment Banking
7 60 (4.41%) Front Office
8 49 (3.60%) Telecoms
9 29 (2.13%) Marketing
10 26 (1.91%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (1.62%) Electronics
13 17 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.17%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.17%) Legal
15 15 (1.10%) Law
16 13 (0.95%) Military
17 11 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 10 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
19 7 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 437 (32.09%) Developer
2 280 (20.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 226 (16.59%) Senior
4 136 (9.99%) AWS Engineer
5 115 (8.44%) Java Developer
6 109 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
7 102 (7.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 101 (7.42%) Python Developer
9 96 (7.05%) Lead
10 91 (6.68%) Senior Developer
11 85 (6.24%) Software Engineer
12 84 (6.17%) Data Engineer
13 80 (5.87%) Architect
14 77 (5.65%) Python Engineer
15 64 (4.70%) Full-Stack Developer
16 52 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
17 50 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
18 46 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 45 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 40 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (17.62%) Kafka
2 203 (14.90%) Spring
3 191 (14.02%) Spring Boot
4 151 (11.09%) React
5 129 (9.47%) .NET
6 126 (9.25%) RESTful
7 99 (7.27%) REST
8 88 (6.46%) Node.js
9 71 (5.21%) Swagger
10 70 (5.14%) AngularJS
10 70 (5.14%) Elastic Stack
11 69 (5.07%) FastAPI
12 65 (4.77%) OpenAPI
13 59 (4.33%) HTML
14 48 (3.52%) Django
14 48 (3.52%) PySpark
15 44 (3.23%) J2EE
16 43 (3.16%) JSON
17 42 (3.08%) CSS
18 40 (2.94%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 67 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
2 59 (4.33%) Cloud Native
2 59 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
3 32 (2.35%) Public Cloud
4 29 (2.13%) Replication
5 26 (1.91%) Product Ownership
6 24 (1.76%) Data Centre
6 24 (1.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 22 (1.62%) PKI
8 21 (1.54%) Algorithms
8 21 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (1.25%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.10%) Private Cloud
11 15 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.03%) Clustering
12 14 (1.03%) Hedge funds
12 14 (1.03%) Management Information System
13 13 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 333 (24.45%) Linux
2 111 (8.15%) Windows
3 106 (7.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 54 (3.96%) Unix
5 41 (3.01%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.03%) CentOS
7 11 (0.81%) 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
1 789 (57.93%) CI/CD
2 725 (53.23%) DevOps
3 635 (46.62%) Containerisation
4 432 (31.72%) Agile
5 389 (28.56%) Microservices
6 275 (20.19%) Software Engineering
7 265 (19.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 260 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
9 188 (13.80%) Test Automation
10 154 (11.31%) TDD
11 152 (11.16%) Continuous Integration
12 141 (10.35%) Full-Stack Development
13 120 (8.81%) SDLC
14 114 (8.37%) Artificial Intelligence
15 102 (7.49%) Event-Driven
16 101 (7.42%) Machine Learning
16 101 (7.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 100 (7.34%) Mentoring
18 95 (6.98%) High Availability
19 93 (6.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 664 (48.75%) Python
2 466 (34.21%) Java
3 317 (23.27%) SQL
4 183 (13.44%) Bash
5 175 (12.85%) JavaScript
6 167 (12.26%) TypeScript
7 115 (8.44%) C#
8 100 (7.34%) Go
9 91 (6.68%) PowerShell
10 47 (3.45%) Shell Script
11 37 (2.72%) Perl
12 33 (2.42%) C++
13 31 (2.28%) Scala
14 27 (1.98%) PHP
15 26 (1.91%) Kotlin
16 23 (1.69%) Ruby
17 18 (1.32%) Bicep
17 18 (1.32%) Rust
18 17 (1.25%) PL/SQL
19 14 (1.03%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 385 (28.27%) Security Cleared
2 325 (23.86%) SC Cleared
3 87 (6.39%) Degree
4 64 (4.70%) DV Cleared
5 48 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 13 (0.95%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.81%) 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 (4.92%) QA
2 44 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 13 (0.95%) GDPR
5 11 (0.81%) 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 78 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.35%) Hyper-V
4 11 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.44%) Lustre
5 6 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 5 (0.37%) BitLocker
6 5 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (0.37%) Terminal Services
6 5 (0.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.29%) LXC
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%) Platform Symphony
8 3 (0.22%) Postfix
8 3 (0.22%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1,053 (77.31%) Kubernetes
2 475 (34.88%) Terraform
3 301 (22.10%) Ansible
4 118 (8.66%) Grafana
5 117 (8.59%) Prometheus
6 87 (6.39%) Puppet
7 54 (3.96%) Progress Chef
8 33 (2.42%) Istio
9 32 (2.35%) Kibana
10 27 (1.98%) Packer
11 24 (1.76%) Argo
12 20 (1.47%) Podman
13 18 (1.32%) Consul
14 17 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
15 12 (0.88%) Nagios
16 11 (0.81%) logstash
17 10 (0.73%) Rancher
18 8 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
18 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
19 6 (0.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 98 (7.20%) Red Hat
2 93 (6.83%) VMware
3 87 (6.39%) Google
4 77 (5.65%) Oracle
5 68 (4.99%) Microsoft
6 54 (3.96%) Splunk
7 33 (2.42%) Databricks
8 25 (1.84%) SAP
9 24 (1.76%) Dynatrace
10 21 (1.54%) IBM
11 20 (1.47%) 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%) Citrix