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 8 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 57 42
Rank change year-on-year +7 -15 -10
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,456 1,784 4,518
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.99% 3.77% 5.57%
As % of the System Software category 33.56% 28.93% 40.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 1,294 3,235
10th Percentile £381 £413 £463
25th Percentile £461 £475 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £763 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.62% -8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 35 10
10th Percentile - £59.25 £25.50
25th Percentile £57.50 £63.82 £36.31
Median hourly rate £60.00 £72.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +48.72% -29.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £76.53 £59.56
90th Percentile - £78.75 £79.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +40.00% -27.01%

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 4,339 6,167 11,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.89% 13.04% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,782 4,206 7,854
10th Percentile £213 £198 £200
25th Percentile £380 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 252 301
10th Percentile £18.02 £15.50 £13.16
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.86 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% +90.89% +35.56%
75th Percentile £66.00 £66.31 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.40 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £37.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% +87.50% +25.00%

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 8 November 2024.

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
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 8 November 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
England +5 1,240 £550 -4.35% 635
London +7 733 £575 -4.17% 279
UK excluding London +7 522 £511 -2.62% 415
Work from Home +12 517 £533 -3.09% 1,048
North of England +11 181 £500 -6.98% 111
South West +29 119 £600 +9.09% 61
South East -19 89 £450 -21.74% 89
North West +6 87 £534 +1.71% 65
Yorkshire +12 81 £475 -13.64% 35
Scotland -23 53 £450 -5.66% 16
Midlands +3 51 £550 +10.00% 42
West Midlands +4 39 £612 +22.40% 25
East of England +6 18 £600 +20.00% 57
North East 0 14 £425 -5.56% 12
East Midlands -8 12 £505 +1.00% 17
Wales +8 11 £488 -15.22% 6
Northern Ireland - 5 £325 - 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
1 129 (8.86%) Confluence
2 46 (3.16%) Apache
3 40 (2.75%) nginx
4 34 (2.34%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.03%) SAS
7 11 (0.76%) MQSeries
7 11 (0.76%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.55%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.48%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
10 5 (0.34%) IIS
10 5 (0.34%) JBoss
10 5 (0.34%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.34%) WildFly
11 4 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.27%) Camunda
12 3 (0.21%) JCAPS
13 2 (0.14%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.069%) Doxygen
2 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.27%) Magento
2 3 (0.21%) Shopify
3 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.069%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 810 (55.63%) AWS
2 490 (33.65%) Azure
3 207 (14.22%) GCP
4 171 (11.74%) GitHub
5 155 (10.65%) Serverless
6 141 (9.68%) Amazon S3
6 141 (9.68%) OpenShift
7 129 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
9 96 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
10 83 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 74 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 69 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
13 62 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
14 58 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
15 54 (3.71%) Azure AKS
16 50 (3.43%) PaaS
17 46 (3.16%) Amazon SQS
18 43 (2.95%) Cloud Computing
19 39 (2.68%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.43%) Firewall
2 46 (3.16%) SSL
3 41 (2.82%) VPN
4 39 (2.68%) DNS
5 36 (2.47%) TCP/IP
6 33 (2.27%) HTTP
7 25 (1.72%) Kerberos
8 20 (1.37%) Network Security
9 19 (1.30%) BGP
10 15 (1.03%) MPLS
10 15 (1.03%) VLAN
11 14 (0.96%) DHCP
12 11 (0.76%) SAN
13 9 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
13 9 (0.62%) Fibre Channel
13 9 (0.62%) FTP
13 9 (0.62%) SMTP
14 8 (0.55%) Internet
14 8 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
15 7 (0.48%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (8.10%) NoSQL
3 111 (7.62%) Elasticsearch
4 107 (7.35%) Amazon RDS
5 73 (5.01%) MySQL
6 69 (4.74%) MongoDB
7 65 (4.46%) SQL Server
8 57 (3.91%) Redis
9 55 (3.78%) Big Data
10 53 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
11 51 (3.50%) Relational Database
12 48 (3.30%) Apache Cassandra
12 48 (3.30%) Couchbase
13 41 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
14 38 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
15 34 (2.34%) DynamoDB
16 26 (1.79%) OLTP
17 23 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
18 22 (1.51%) Hadoop
19 20 (1.37%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 415 (28.50%) Jenkins
2 347 (23.83%) Git
3 262 (17.99%) GitLab
4 164 (11.26%) JIRA
5 87 (5.98%) Bitbucket
6 58 (3.98%) Maven
7 57 (3.91%) Artifactory
8 51 (3.50%) SonarQube
9 35 (2.40%) Cucumber
10 34 (2.34%) JUnit
11 33 (2.27%) Cypress.io
11 33 (2.27%) Selenium
12 32 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 31 (2.13%) CircleCI
14 29 (1.99%) Postman
15 28 (1.92%) TeamCity
16 25 (1.72%) Liquibase
17 24 (1.65%) Gradle
18 22 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
19 20 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 272 (18.68%) Social Skills
2 221 (15.18%) Finance
3 139 (9.55%) Public Sector
4 130 (8.93%) Banking
5 112 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (2.47%) Investment Banking
7 35 (2.40%) Telecoms
8 30 (2.06%) Front Office
9 18 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (1.24%) Retail
10 16 (1.10%) Marketing
11 14 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (0.89%) Back Office
12 13 (0.89%) Military
13 10 (0.69%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (0.48%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.41%) Legal
17 5 (0.34%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 394 (27.06%) Developer
2 368 (25.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 246 (16.90%) Senior
4 92 (6.32%) Architect
5 90 (6.18%) AWS Engineer
6 85 (5.84%) Java Developer
7 80 (5.49%) Senior DevOps
8 75 (5.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 73 (5.01%) Senior Developer
10 71 (4.88%) AWS DevOps
11 69 (4.74%) Lead
12 68 (4.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 68 (4.67%) Software Engineer
13 66 (4.53%) Azure Engineer
14 64 (4.40%) Python Developer
15 53 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 41 (2.82%) Consultant
16 41 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
17 40 (2.75%) DBA
18 37 (2.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 270 (18.54%) Kafka
2 153 (10.51%) React
3 143 (9.82%) Spring
4 127 (8.72%) Node.js
5 118 (8.10%) Spring Boot
6 115 (7.90%) REST
7 114 (7.83%) RESTful
8 112 (7.69%) .NET
9 74 (5.08%) HTML
10 72 (4.95%) AngularJS
11 69 (4.74%) CSS
12 68 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
13 62 (4.26%) GraphQL
14 60 (4.12%) RabbitMQ
15 54 (3.71%) JSON
16 53 (3.64%) gRPC
17 52 (3.57%) Django
18 47 (3.23%) YAML
19 35 (2.40%) XML
20 32 (2.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 63 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
2 62 (4.26%) Replication
3 51 (3.50%) Public Cloud
4 49 (3.37%) Cloud Native
5 46 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
6 43 (2.95%) Product Ownership
7 32 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
8 25 (1.72%) Private Cloud
9 23 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
9 23 (1.58%) Management Information System
10 21 (1.44%) Algorithms
11 17 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.10%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.03%) iPad
13 15 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (0.89%) Data Centre
15 13 (0.89%) Onboarding
16 11 (0.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 377 (25.89%) Linux
2 120 (8.24%) Unix
3 103 (7.07%) Windows
4 85 (5.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.65%) Solaris
6 23 (1.58%) Windows Server
7 21 (1.44%) CentOS
8 12 (0.82%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.69%) AIX
10 7 (0.48%) VMS
11 6 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.34%) Android
12 5 (0.34%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
13 4 (0.27%) Debian
13 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.069%) Fedora
15 1 (0.069%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (54.81%) DevOps
2 739 (50.76%) CI/CD
3 570 (39.15%) Containerisation
4 412 (28.30%) Agile
5 337 (23.15%) Microservices
6 291 (19.99%) Infrastructure as Code
7 264 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
8 221 (15.18%) Software Engineering
9 217 (14.90%) Test Automation
10 122 (8.38%) Full-Stack Development
11 120 (8.24%) Continuous Integration
12 109 (7.49%) Computer Science
13 103 (7.07%) Scrum
14 101 (6.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 94 (6.46%) Configuration Management
16 92 (6.32%) Machine Learning
16 92 (6.32%) SDLC
17 87 (5.98%) Continuous Improvement
18 85 (5.84%) Artificial Intelligence
18 85 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 577 (39.63%) Python
2 415 (28.50%) Java
3 289 (19.85%) SQL
4 242 (16.62%) JavaScript
5 186 (12.77%) Bash
6 125 (8.59%) PowerShell
7 124 (8.52%) TypeScript
8 111 (7.62%) Go
9 92 (6.32%) C#
10 74 (5.08%) Ruby
11 62 (4.26%) Shell Script
12 58 (3.98%) Scala
13 46 (3.16%) Perl
14 36 (2.47%) C
15 31 (2.13%) PHP
16 27 (1.85%) Kotlin
17 22 (1.51%) C++
17 22 (1.51%) Groovy
18 16 (1.10%) Rust
19 12 (0.82%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 418 (28.71%) Security Cleared
2 324 (22.25%) SC Cleared
3 122 (8.38%) Degree
4 110 (7.55%) DV Cleared
5 70 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 68 (4.67%) AWS Certification
7 44 (3.02%) Azure Certification
8 35 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 22 (1.51%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.34%) RHCE
13 4 (0.27%) CISM
13 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.27%) PhD
14 3 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.21%) CISSP
14 3 (0.21%) Linux+ Certification
14 3 (0.21%) OCP
14 3 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.49%) QA
2 25 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 23 (1.58%) Accessibility
4 21 (1.44%) NIST
5 19 (1.30%) GDPR
6 14 (0.96%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.82%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.34%) EMIR
9 5 (0.34%) MiFID
10 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.21%) HL7
11 3 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.14%) GRC
12 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.14%) WCAG
13 1 (0.069%) NCSC
13 1 (0.069%) SOC 2
System Software
1 66 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.51%) Hyper-V
4 11 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.69%) NFS
6 8 (0.55%) Lustre
6 8 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.48%) KVM
8 5 (0.34%) Ceph
8 5 (0.34%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.34%) XenApp
8 5 (0.34%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.27%) VirtualBox
9 4 (0.27%) vSphere
10 3 (0.21%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.14%) GPFS
11 2 (0.14%) HDFS
11 2 (0.14%) LXC
Systems Management
1 1,092 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 501 (34.41%) Terraform
3 315 (21.63%) Ansible
4 164 (11.26%) Grafana
5 151 (10.37%) Prometheus
6 81 (5.56%) Puppet
7 53 (3.64%) Progress Chef
8 43 (2.95%) Kibana
9 37 (2.54%) Rancher
10 33 (2.27%) logstash
11 32 (2.20%) Packer
12 30 (2.06%) Argo
13 24 (1.65%) Podman
14 23 (1.58%) Istio
15 16 (1.10%) Consul
16 11 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
17 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
17 10 (0.69%) Red Hat Satellite
18 7 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
19 6 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 110 (7.55%) Google
2 103 (7.07%) Microsoft
3 95 (6.52%) VMware
4 80 (5.49%) Red Hat
5 73 (5.01%) Splunk
6 67 (4.60%) Oracle
7 56 (3.85%) Confluent
8 49 (3.37%) Atlassian
9 38 (2.61%) Databricks
10 37 (2.54%) IBM
11 31 (2.13%) Dynatrace
12 25 (1.72%) CyberArk
13 21 (1.44%) Cisco
13 21 (1.44%) TOWER Software
14 20 (1.37%) Salesforce
15 19 (1.30%) ServiceNow
16 17 (1.17%) SAP
17 15 (1.03%) Virgin Media
18 14 (0.96%) New Relic
19 11 (0.76%) EMC