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

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 76 50
Rank change year-on-year +31 -26 -13
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,321 1,195 2,676
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.50% 2.74% 4.46%
As % of the System Software category 35.83% 25.43% 33.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 935 868 1,926
10th Percentile £406 £405 £450
25th Percentile £463 £456 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.39%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £795 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 33
10th Percentile £25.25 £47.73 £60.81
25th Percentile £26.94 £60.63 £65.25
Median hourly rate £80.60 £66.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.66% -11.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £92.50 £85.00 £75.50
90th Percentile £93.25 - £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.60 £79.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +12.86% +47.37%

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 3,687 4,700 7,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.55% 10.77% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,523 3,215 5,688
10th Percentile £213 £195 £205
25th Percentile £400 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £623 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £460 £488
% change year-on-year +4.73% -5.64% +8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 235 293
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.30
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.50 £17.79
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% -57.14% +162.50%
75th Percentile £64.75 £60.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.07 £21.00 £39.80
% change year-on-year +76.54% -47.24% +119.71%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 1,076 £550 - 2,080
London +24 631 £575 +4.55% 1,286
Work from Home +38 536 £550 - 1,304
UK excluding London +38 457 £523 -0.48% 979
North of England +34 153 £525 -4.55% 268
North West +48 93 £500 -9.09% 188
South West +39 78 £600 +9.09% 140
South East +43 77 £501 -9.00% 229
Scotland +8 65 £465 +0.81% 99
Midlands +43 57 £525 +5.00% 92
West Midlands +38 43 £550 - 57
Yorkshire +2 43 £538 -2.27% 60
East of England +33 22 £490 -24.62% 104
North East +5 18 £520 +26.83% 21
East Midlands +15 13 £459 +2.00% 32
Wales -6 8 £540 +8.00% 21
Northern Ireland -4 4 £550 - 39

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 78 (5.90%) Apache
2 67 (5.07%) Apache Spark
3 61 (4.62%) Confluence
4 48 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
5 37 (2.80%) nginx
6 17 (1.29%) JBoss
7 10 (0.76%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.68%) Camunda
8 9 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.68%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.45%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.45%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.38%) Moodle
11 4 (0.30%) Alfresco
11 4 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.30%) IIS
11 4 (0.30%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.23%) WebLogic Portal
12 3 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
13 2 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (0.38%) Sketch
2 4 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.076%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.076%) InVision
Business Applications
1 4 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.23%) Endur
2 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.076%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.076%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 761 (57.61%) AWS
2 387 (29.30%) Azure
3 208 (15.75%) GCP
4 191 (14.46%) Serverless
5 144 (10.90%) GitHub
6 138 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
7 130 (9.84%) OpenShift
8 120 (9.08%) Amazon S3
9 102 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
10 92 (6.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 89 (6.74%) Amazon EC2
12 83 (6.28%) Amazon ECS
13 73 (5.53%) GitHub Actions
14 60 (4.54%) Amazon EKS
15 50 (3.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 47 (3.56%) Amazon SQS
17 45 (3.41%) PaaS
18 42 (3.18%) Cloud Computing
19 37 (2.80%) IaaS
20 32 (2.42%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.22%) DNS
2 60 (4.54%) HTTP
3 54 (4.09%) TCP/IP
4 46 (3.48%) Firewall
5 38 (2.88%) VPN
6 35 (2.65%) DHCP
7 16 (1.21%) Network Security
8 15 (1.14%) SSL
9 10 (0.76%) SMTP
10 9 (0.68%) BGP
10 9 (0.68%) VLAN
11 8 (0.61%) Kerberos
11 8 (0.61%) MPLS
12 7 (0.53%) Internet
12 7 (0.53%) Wireless
13 5 (0.38%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (0.30%) HTTPS
14 4 (0.30%) SAN
15 3 (0.23%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (15.97%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (9.08%) Relational Database
3 105 (7.95%) Amazon RDS
4 101 (7.65%) NoSQL
5 97 (7.34%) MongoDB
6 79 (5.98%) MySQL
7 62 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
8 59 (4.47%) SQL Server
9 57 (4.31%) Apache Cassandra
10 41 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
11 38 (2.88%) Redis
12 36 (2.73%) Apache Iceberg
13 35 (2.65%) Big Data
13 35 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (2.65%) DynamoDB
14 32 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
15 30 (2.27%) Data Lake
16 29 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
16 29 (2.20%) Hadoop
17 28 (2.12%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 352 (26.65%) Jenkins
2 220 (16.65%) Git
3 200 (15.14%) GitLab
4 119 (9.01%) JIRA
5 90 (6.81%) JUnit
6 55 (4.16%) SonarQube
7 54 (4.09%) Maven
8 52 (3.94%) Gradle
9 50 (3.79%) Mockito
10 46 (3.48%) Artifactory
11 44 (3.33%) Cucumber
12 37 (2.80%) Liquibase
13 32 (2.42%) Bitbucket
14 31 (2.35%) Selenium
15 30 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
16 26 (1.97%) Postman
17 20 (1.51%) REST Assured
18 19 (1.44%) Jasmine
19 16 (1.21%) TeamCity
20 15 (1.14%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 262 (19.83%) Finance
2 255 (19.30%) Social Skills
3 170 (12.87%) Public Sector
4 128 (9.69%) Banking
5 127 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
6 68 (5.15%) Investment Banking
7 52 (3.94%) Front Office
8 48 (3.63%) Telecoms
9 40 (3.03%) Marketing
10 34 (2.57%) Manufacturing
11 30 (2.27%) Electronics
12 25 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
13 19 (1.44%) Law
14 18 (1.36%) Legal
15 17 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (1.21%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 11 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
18 10 (0.76%) Military
19 7 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 451 (34.14%) Developer
2 246 (18.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 237 (17.94%) Senior
4 127 (9.61%) AWS Engineer
5 122 (9.24%) Java Developer
6 112 (8.48%) Python Developer
7 100 (7.57%) Senior Developer
8 98 (7.42%) AWS DevOps
9 92 (6.96%) Lead
10 90 (6.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 90 (6.81%) Data Engineer
11 85 (6.43%) Software Engineer
12 79 (5.98%) Python Engineer
13 72 (5.45%) Architect
14 66 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
15 48 (3.63%) Senior DevOps
16 44 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
16 44 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 42 (3.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 42 (3.18%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (17.79%) Kafka
2 201 (15.22%) Spring
3 188 (14.23%) Spring Boot
4 167 (12.64%) React
5 127 (9.61%) .NET
6 124 (9.39%) RESTful
7 110 (8.33%) REST
8 87 (6.59%) Node.js
9 78 (5.90%) Swagger
10 76 (5.75%) FastAPI
11 73 (5.53%) OpenAPI
12 71 (5.37%) Elastic Stack
13 66 (5.00%) AngularJS
14 62 (4.69%) HTML
15 48 (3.63%) Django
16 46 (3.48%) PySpark
17 44 (3.33%) JSON
18 43 (3.26%) CSS
19 41 (3.10%) J2EE
20 36 (2.73%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 81 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
2 72 (5.45%) Cloud Native
3 53 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (2.35%) Public Cloud
5 29 (2.20%) Data Centre
6 26 (1.97%) PKI
7 24 (1.82%) Product Ownership
8 21 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 21 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (1.44%) Algorithms
9 19 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.21%) Hedge funds
11 15 (1.14%) Clustering
11 15 (1.14%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.14%) Replication
12 13 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (0.98%) Onboarding
13 12 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.83%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 328 (24.83%) Linux
2 118 (8.93%) Windows
3 102 (7.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (3.86%) Windows Server
5 49 (3.71%) Unix
6 11 (0.83%) CentOS
6 11 (0.83%) VMS
7 9 (0.68%) AIX
8 7 (0.53%) Rocky
9 6 (0.45%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.38%) Android
10 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.23%) SUSE
12 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.15%) Debian
13 2 (0.15%) Solaris
14 1 (0.076%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 763 (57.76%) CI/CD
2 674 (51.02%) DevOps
3 619 (46.86%) Containerisation
4 419 (31.72%) Agile
5 397 (30.05%) Microservices
6 286 (21.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 284 (21.50%) Software Engineering
8 250 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
9 178 (13.47%) Test Automation
10 163 (12.34%) TDD
11 154 (11.66%) Continuous Integration
12 133 (10.07%) Full-Stack Development
13 122 (9.24%) Artificial Intelligence
14 117 (8.86%) SDLC
15 102 (7.72%) Event-Driven
16 98 (7.42%) Machine Learning
17 97 (7.34%) High Availability
18 95 (7.19%) Mentoring
19 94 (7.12%) Migration
20 90 (6.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 663 (50.19%) Python
2 446 (33.76%) Java
3 318 (24.07%) SQL
4 178 (13.47%) JavaScript
5 173 (13.10%) Bash
6 151 (11.43%) TypeScript
7 127 (9.61%) C#
8 111 (8.40%) Go
9 94 (7.12%) PowerShell
10 57 (4.31%) Shell Script
11 40 (3.03%) C++
12 32 (2.42%) Perl
13 27 (2.04%) PHP
14 23 (1.74%) Scala
15 22 (1.67%) Kotlin
16 20 (1.51%) Rust
17 19 (1.44%) Bicep
17 19 (1.44%) Ruby
18 18 (1.36%) PL/SQL
19 15 (1.14%) R
Qualifications
1 370 (28.01%) Security Cleared
2 308 (23.32%) SC Cleared
3 89 (6.74%) Degree
4 66 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 47 (3.56%) AWS Certification
5 47 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 18 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 12 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.53%) CISSP
12 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.45%) RHCE
13 5 (0.38%) RHCSA
13 5 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.30%) CEH
14 4 (0.30%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.23%) OCP
15 3 (0.23%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (5.07%) QA
2 46 (3.48%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.06%) GDPR
5 11 (0.83%) NIST
6 9 (0.68%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.38%) NCSC
11 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.23%) EMIR
11 3 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.23%) MiFID
11 3 (0.23%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.15%) WCAG
13 1 (0.076%) COBIT
13 1 (0.076%) HL7
System Software
1 75 (5.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 39 (2.95%) Hyper-V
4 10 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.68%) BitLocker
5 9 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
5 9 (0.68%) Terminal Services
6 6 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 6 (0.45%) vSphere
7 5 (0.38%) Postfix
8 4 (0.30%) Lustre
8 4 (0.30%) LXC
8 4 (0.30%) VirtualBox
8 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.23%) Platform Symphony
9 3 (0.23%) vCloud
9 3 (0.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,016 (76.91%) Kubernetes
2 460 (34.82%) Terraform
3 280 (21.20%) Ansible
4 118 (8.93%) Grafana
5 111 (8.40%) Prometheus
6 91 (6.89%) Puppet
7 55 (4.16%) Progress Chef
8 34 (2.57%) Kibana
9 25 (1.89%) Istio
9 25 (1.89%) Podman
10 19 (1.44%) Argo
11 18 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
12 17 (1.29%) Packer
13 16 (1.21%) Nagios
14 12 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.76%) Consul
16 9 (0.68%) logstash
16 9 (0.68%) vCenter Server
16 9 (0.68%) vMotion
17 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 91 (6.89%) VMware
2 89 (6.74%) Red Hat
3 83 (6.28%) Google
4 76 (5.75%) Oracle
5 74 (5.60%) Microsoft
6 56 (4.24%) Splunk
7 36 (2.73%) SAP
8 31 (2.35%) Databricks
9 23 (1.74%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.67%) AppDynamics
11 16 (1.21%) IBM
12 12 (0.91%) Symantec
12 12 (0.91%) Virgin Media
13 11 (0.83%) Citrix
14 10 (0.76%) Cisco
14 10 (0.76%) TIBCO
15 9 (0.68%) HP
15 9 (0.68%) Salesforce
15 9 (0.68%) ServiceNow
16 7 (0.53%) Atlassian