Docker
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 58 42 30
Rank change year-on-year -16 -12 -1
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,663 4,332 5,613
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.66% 5.55% 6.28%
As % of the System Software category 28.66% 40.29% 44.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 3,102 4,254
10th Percentile £413 £463 £425
25th Percentile £475 £523 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £650
90th Percentile £760 £780 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -8.70% +12.20% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 12 15
10th Percentile £58.88 £36.13 £58.90
25th Percentile £62.47 £47.19 £66.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £64.25 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -17.10% +93.75%
75th Percentile £76.53 £79.69 £81.88
90th Percentile £78.68 £84.47 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.32 £56.75 £72.00
% change year-on-year +22.14% -21.18% +84.62%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,802 10,752 12,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.76% 13.79% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,945 7,595 8,925
10th Percentile £195 £200 £201
25th Percentile £359 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £604
90th Percentile £700 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £427
% change year-on-year +4.29% +6.60% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 323 399
10th Percentile £15.16 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £16.21 £13.75
Median hourly rate £43.75 £25.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% +42.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65.98 £62.50 £26.38
90th Percentile £77.11 £72.15 £62.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.50 £21.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year +55.81% +34.38% -5.88%

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in the UK

Docker
Top 16 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 1 December 2023. 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 -17 1,391 £573 -6.15% 1,051
London -16 826 £586 -9.81% 556
Work from Home -14 668 £550 -8.33% 684
UK excluding London -11 614 £525 -8.70% 649
North of England -17 166 £525 -12.50% 162
South East -6 163 £575 - 209
Scotland +22 106 £485 +2.11% 45
North West -19 85 £538 -6.89% 98
South West -18 84 £550 -7.37% 86
Yorkshire +2 76 £516 -13.96% 46
Midlands +41 54 £500 -15.90% 59
East of England -19 43 £500 -9.09% 66
West Midlands +37 35 £500 -16.67% 39
East Midlands +33 22 £500 -15.82% 20
Wales -9 7 £525 -17.97% 18
North East -17 5 £450 -25.00% 19

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
1 138 (8.30%) Confluence
2 57 (3.43%) Apache
3 51 (3.07%) nginx
4 44 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
5 41 (2.47%) Apache Spark
6 26 (1.56%) OpenStack
7 12 (0.72%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 12 (0.72%) JBoss
8 11 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.60%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.54%) Drupal
11 8 (0.48%) CMS
11 8 (0.48%) IIS
12 6 (0.36%) Apache Solr
12 6 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
12 6 (0.36%) SAS
12 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.30%) Camunda
13 5 (0.30%) Luigi
14 4 (0.24%) Apache TomEE
Applications
1 8 (0.48%) CATIA
1 8 (0.48%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.24%) Trello
3 1 (0.060%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.060%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.060%) InVision
3 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.060%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.060%) Sketch
3 1 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.48%) ENOVIA
2 7 (0.42%) DELMIA
3 4 (0.24%) Shopify
4 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.12%) assyst
5 2 (0.12%) Magento
5 2 (0.12%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 2 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.12%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 912 (54.84%) AWS
2 620 (37.28%) Azure
3 269 (16.18%) GCP
4 189 (11.37%) Azure DevOps
5 180 (10.82%) Serverless
6 159 (9.56%) GitHub
7 141 (8.48%) OpenShift
8 123 (7.40%) AWS Lambda
9 101 (6.07%) Amazon S3
9 101 (6.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 78 (4.69%) Azure AKS
11 72 (4.33%) Amazon ECS
12 68 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
13 63 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
14 55 (3.31%) SaaS
15 54 (3.25%) PaaS
16 45 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
16 45 (2.71%) Datadog
17 44 (2.65%) IaaS
18 42 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 105 (6.31%) Firewall
2 48 (2.89%) DNS
3 40 (2.41%) TCP/IP
4 39 (2.35%) Reverse Proxy
5 38 (2.29%) VLAN
6 33 (1.98%) HTTP
7 32 (1.92%) SAN
8 31 (1.86%) IPv4
9 30 (1.80%) Network Security
9 30 (1.80%) SSL
10 20 (1.20%) NAS
11 19 (1.14%) LAN
12 18 (1.08%) Skype
13 16 (0.96%) DHCP
13 16 (0.96%) Kerberos
13 16 (0.96%) SNMP
14 15 (0.90%) VPN
15 14 (0.84%) Internet
16 9 (0.54%) HTTPS
16 9 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (10.46%) PostgreSQL
2 130 (7.82%) NoSQL
3 122 (7.34%) MySQL
4 103 (6.19%) Relational Database
5 97 (5.83%) MongoDB
6 76 (4.57%) SQL Server
7 74 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
8 71 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
9 40 (2.41%) Big Data
10 39 (2.35%) Redis
11 30 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
12 28 (1.68%) DynamoDB
13 22 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
14 20 (1.20%) Data Lake
15 19 (1.14%) Power BI
16 18 (1.08%) MariaDB
16 18 (1.08%) RDBMS
17 16 (0.96%) Hadoop
18 15 (0.90%) Flink
19 14 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 419 (25.20%) Jenkins
2 385 (23.15%) Git
3 185 (11.12%) JIRA
4 128 (7.70%) GitLab
5 94 (5.65%) Bitbucket
6 83 (4.99%) Maven
7 67 (4.03%) Cucumber
8 62 (3.73%) Artifactory
8 62 (3.73%) JUnit
9 55 (3.31%) SonarQube
10 50 (3.01%) TeamCity
11 47 (2.83%) Gradle
12 43 (2.59%) Selenium
13 37 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 37 (2.22%) Cypress.io
14 25 (1.50%) Postman
15 22 (1.32%) NUnit
15 22 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
16 21 (1.26%) Subversion
17 19 (1.14%) Liquibase
General
1 251 (15.09%) Social Skills
2 193 (11.61%) Finance
3 180 (10.82%) Public Sector
4 74 (4.45%) Banking
5 56 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (2.35%) Marketing
7 32 (1.92%) Front Office
8 27 (1.62%) Retail
9 25 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 23 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (1.32%) Investment Banking
12 19 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 18 (1.08%) Law
14 17 (1.02%) Electronics
15 16 (0.96%) Aerospace
16 15 (0.90%) Automotive
16 15 (0.90%) Back Office
17 12 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 9 (0.54%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 521 (31.33%) Developer
2 397 (23.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 248 (14.91%) Senior
4 133 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
5 112 (6.73%) Java Developer
6 109 (6.55%) Senior Developer
7 104 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
8 97 (5.83%) Architect
9 86 (5.17%) AWS DevOps
10 85 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
11 84 (5.05%) Software Engineer
12 82 (4.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 77 (4.63%) Lead
14 73 (4.39%) Full Stack Developer
15 72 (4.33%) Python Developer
16 70 (4.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 60 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
18 42 (2.53%) Senior DevOps
19 40 (2.41%) Administrator
19 40 (2.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (11.91%) REST
2 196 (11.79%) Kafka
3 179 (10.76%) React
4 176 (10.58%) Node.js
5 149 (8.96%) .NET
6 144 (8.66%) Spring
7 143 (8.60%) RESTful
8 124 (7.46%) Spring Boot
9 94 (5.65%) Elastic Stack
10 85 (5.11%) HTML
11 80 (4.81%) CSS
12 78 (4.69%) AngularJS
13 75 (4.51%) Web Services
14 62 (3.73%) JSON
15 59 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
16 55 (3.31%) ARM Templates
17 47 (2.83%) GraphQL
18 43 (2.59%) .NET Core
19 42 (2.53%) Pandas
19 42 (2.53%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 66 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
2 62 (3.73%) Cloud Native
3 59 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (2.83%) Public Cloud
5 42 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 38 (2.29%) Data Centre
7 32 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 24 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 23 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 22 (1.32%) Clustering
13 20 (1.20%) Management Information System
14 19 (1.14%) Life Science
15 18 (1.08%) Algorithms
16 17 (1.02%) Client/Server
16 17 (1.02%) IoT
17 16 (0.96%) PKI
17 16 (0.96%) Private Cloud
18 15 (0.90%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 481 (28.92%) Linux
2 183 (11.00%) Windows
3 110 (6.61%) Windows Server
4 87 (5.23%) Unix
5 51 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.44%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.08%) Solaris
8 17 (1.02%) CentOS
9 14 (0.84%) Debian
9 14 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
11 8 (0.48%) AIX
12 7 (0.42%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.36%) Apple iOS
14 5 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
14 5 (0.30%) HPUX
14 5 (0.30%) Mesosphere
14 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.24%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 824 (49.55%) DevOps
2 722 (43.42%) CI/CD
3 567 (34.10%) Agile
4 372 (22.37%) Containerisation
5 347 (20.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 342 (20.57%) Microservices
7 256 (15.39%) Test Automation
8 237 (14.25%) Software Engineering
9 195 (11.73%) Continuous Integration
10 166 (9.98%) TDD
11 155 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
12 145 (8.72%) Scrum
13 142 (8.54%) Full Stack Development
14 122 (7.34%) Platform Engineering
15 117 (7.04%) Continuous Delivery
16 116 (6.98%) Computer Science
17 99 (5.95%) SDLC
18 95 (5.71%) Unit Testing
19 94 (5.65%) Configuration Management
19 94 (5.65%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 693 (41.67%) Python
2 517 (31.09%) Java
3 265 (15.94%) SQL
4 242 (14.55%) Bash
5 239 (14.37%) JavaScript
6 203 (12.21%) C#
7 169 (10.16%) PowerShell
8 165 (9.92%) Go
9 160 (9.62%) TypeScript
10 75 (4.51%) C++
11 71 (4.27%) Ruby
12 61 (3.67%) PHP
13 55 (3.31%) Bicep
14 54 (3.25%) C
14 54 (3.25%) Perl
15 47 (2.83%) Shell Script
16 45 (2.71%) Groovy
17 44 (2.65%) Scala
18 34 (2.04%) Rust
19 26 (1.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 379 (22.79%) Security Cleared
2 290 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 134 (8.06%) Degree
4 97 (5.83%) DV Cleared
5 66 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 65 (3.91%) AWS Certification
7 42 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 38 (2.29%) Master's Degree
9 22 (1.32%) Azure Certification
10 21 (1.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 16 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
12 10 (0.60%) PhD
13 8 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.48%) RHCE
14 6 (0.36%) RHCT
15 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 5 (0.30%) LPIC
16 4 (0.24%) CISSP
16 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
17 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (3.43%) QA
2 47 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.14%) GDPR
4 16 (0.96%) NIST
5 12 (0.72%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
7 9 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.42%) WCAG
9 6 (0.36%) SLA
10 5 (0.30%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 5 (0.30%) NCSC
10 5 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.060%) GRC
13 1 (0.060%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.060%) MiFID
13 1 (0.060%) PMO
13 1 (0.060%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 64 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 35 (2.10%) vSphere
4 17 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.84%) NFS
6 10 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.48%) KVM
9 6 (0.36%) Firmware
10 3 (0.18%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 3 (0.18%) GPFS
10 3 (0.18%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 3 (0.18%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.12%) etcd
11 2 (0.12%) HDFS
11 2 (0.12%) LXC
11 2 (0.12%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.12%) Xen
12 1 (0.060%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1,113 (66.93%) Kubernetes
2 617 (37.10%) Terraform
3 339 (20.38%) Ansible
4 139 (8.36%) Grafana
5 127 (7.64%) Prometheus
6 95 (5.71%) Puppet
7 92 (5.53%) Packer
8 53 (3.19%) Progress Chef
9 45 (2.71%) Consul
10 29 (1.74%) Kibana
11 28 (1.68%) Nagios
12 27 (1.62%) Istio
13 26 (1.56%) EMC NetWorker
14 25 (1.50%) Argo
15 23 (1.38%) ZABBIX
16 20 (1.20%) SCCM
17 18 (1.08%) SCOM
18 16 (0.96%) Graylog
18 16 (0.96%) HP Fortify
19 15 (0.90%) Salt
Vendors
1 174 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 128 (7.70%) VMware
3 114 (6.86%) Splunk
4 89 (5.35%) Oracle
5 87 (5.23%) Google
6 62 (3.73%) Red Hat
7 59 (3.55%) Dynatrace
8 39 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 38 (2.29%) Atlassian
10 37 (2.22%) Databricks
11 33 (1.98%) EMC
12 28 (1.68%) IBM
13 27 (1.62%) CyberArk
13 27 (1.62%) SAP
14 25 (1.50%) Cisco
15 24 (1.44%) TOWER Software
16 19 (1.14%) Citrix
16 19 (1.14%) Dell
17 15 (0.90%) New Relic
18 14 (0.84%) TIBCO