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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 75 50
Rank change year-on-year +26 -25 -12
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,306 1,202 2,647
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.47% 2.76% 4.43%
As % of the System Software category 35.64% 25.62% 33.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 879 1,902
10th Percentile £406 £405 £450
25th Percentile £463 £460 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.39%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £800 £722 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 33
10th Percentile £25.25 £47.40 £60.81
25th Percentile £26.94 £62.50 £65.25
Median hourly rate £80.60 £67.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.41% -10.00% +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 3,664 4,691 7,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.53% 10.76% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,498 3,206 5,629
10th Percentile £214 £198 £205
25th Percentile £400 £331 £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 £475 £460 £483
% change year-on-year +3.26% -4.69% +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 233 280
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.72 £22.50 £53.43
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% -57.88% +167.13%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £41.88
% change year-on-year +29.55% -47.46% +131.16%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +28 1,062 £550 - 1,283
London +24 624 £575 +4.55% 630
Work from Home +37 533 £550 - 985
UK excluding London +36 449 £525 - 721
North of England +37 150 £525 -4.55% 273
North West +45 94 £507 -7.82% 190
South West +34 76 £600 +9.09% 94
South East +32 76 £501 -9.00% 123
Scotland -2 65 £465 +0.81% 51
Midlands +47 59 £525 +5.00% 85
West Midlands +39 43 £550 -4.35% 52
Yorkshire -1 39 £525 -4.55% 64
East of England +36 20 £490 -24.62% 69
North East +7 18 £520 +26.83% 20
East Midlands +11 15 £475 +5.56% 32
Wales -4 8 £540 +8.00% 13
Northern Ireland -6 4 £550 - 21

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 77 (5.90%) Apache
2 67 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 56 (4.29%) Confluence
4 49 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
5 37 (2.83%) nginx
6 17 (1.30%) JBoss
7 11 (0.84%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.77%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.69%) Camunda
9 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.46%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.46%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.38%) Moodle
12 4 (0.31%) Alfresco
12 4 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.31%) IIS
12 4 (0.31%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.23%) WebLogic Portal
13 3 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
14 2 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.38%) Sketch
2 4 (0.31%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.077%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.077%) InVision
Business Applications
1 4 (0.31%) 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 (0.077%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.077%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.077%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 758 (58.04%) AWS
2 377 (28.87%) Azure
3 204 (15.62%) GCP
4 194 (14.85%) Serverless
5 144 (11.03%) GitHub
6 141 (10.80%) AWS Lambda
7 130 (9.95%) OpenShift
8 122 (9.34%) Amazon S3
9 99 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
10 94 (7.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 89 (6.81%) Amazon EC2
12 83 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
13 73 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
14 60 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
15 54 (4.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 47 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
17 43 (3.29%) PaaS
18 38 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
18 38 (2.91%) IaaS
19 33 (2.53%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 68 (5.21%) DNS
2 60 (4.59%) HTTP
3 53 (4.06%) TCP/IP
4 47 (3.60%) Firewall
5 39 (2.99%) VPN
6 35 (2.68%) DHCP
7 16 (1.23%) Network Security
8 15 (1.15%) SSL
9 10 (0.77%) SMTP
10 8 (0.61%) BGP
10 8 (0.61%) Kerberos
10 8 (0.61%) VLAN
11 7 (0.54%) Internet
11 7 (0.54%) MPLS
11 7 (0.54%) Wireless
12 5 (0.38%) Fibre Channel
12 5 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.31%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.31%) SAN
14 3 (0.23%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (16.16%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (9.26%) Relational Database
3 106 (8.12%) Amazon RDS
4 100 (7.66%) NoSQL
5 96 (7.35%) MongoDB
6 78 (5.97%) MySQL
7 62 (4.75%) Elasticsearch
8 59 (4.52%) SQL Server
9 58 (4.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 42 (3.22%) Amazon Athena
11 38 (2.91%) DynamoDB
11 38 (2.91%) Redis
12 36 (2.76%) Apache Iceberg
13 34 (2.60%) Big Data
13 34 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
14 33 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
15 31 (2.37%) Data Lake
16 29 (2.22%) Hadoop
17 28 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
17 28 (2.14%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 352 (26.95%) Jenkins
2 212 (16.23%) Git
3 197 (15.08%) GitLab
4 114 (8.73%) JIRA
5 89 (6.81%) JUnit
6 52 (3.98%) SonarQube
7 50 (3.83%) Gradle
7 50 (3.83%) Mockito
8 49 (3.75%) Maven
9 48 (3.68%) Artifactory
10 39 (2.99%) Cucumber
11 37 (2.83%) Liquibase
12 32 (2.45%) Bitbucket
13 29 (2.22%) Selenium
14 27 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
15 21 (1.61%) Postman
16 19 (1.45%) REST Assured
17 18 (1.38%) Jasmine
18 16 (1.23%) TeamCity
19 15 (1.15%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 261 (19.98%) Finance
2 253 (19.37%) Social Skills
3 168 (12.86%) Public Sector
4 125 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (9.57%) Banking
5 68 (5.21%) Investment Banking
6 52 (3.98%) Front Office
7 46 (3.52%) Telecoms
8 40 (3.06%) Marketing
9 33 (2.53%) Manufacturing
10 29 (2.22%) Electronics
11 25 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.45%) Law
12 19 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.38%) Legal
14 16 (1.23%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.69%) Military
17 7 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 447 (34.23%) Developer
2 243 (18.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 236 (18.07%) Senior
4 127 (9.72%) AWS Engineer
5 120 (9.19%) Java Developer
6 112 (8.58%) Python Developer
7 99 (7.58%) AWS DevOps
7 99 (7.58%) Senior Developer
8 91 (6.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 91 (6.97%) Lead
9 90 (6.89%) Data Engineer
10 84 (6.43%) Software Engineer
11 79 (6.05%) Python Engineer
12 73 (5.59%) Architect
13 65 (4.98%) Full-Stack Developer
14 48 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
15 44 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
15 44 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 42 (3.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 42 (3.22%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (18.07%) Kafka
2 195 (14.93%) Spring
3 182 (13.94%) Spring Boot
4 166 (12.71%) React
5 127 (9.72%) .NET
6 124 (9.49%) RESTful
7 110 (8.42%) REST
8 85 (6.51%) Node.js
9 77 (5.90%) Swagger
10 73 (5.59%) FastAPI
11 72 (5.51%) OpenAPI
12 70 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
13 65 (4.98%) AngularJS
14 62 (4.75%) HTML
15 48 (3.68%) Django
16 45 (3.45%) PySpark
17 43 (3.29%) CSS
18 41 (3.14%) J2EE
18 41 (3.14%) JSON
19 38 (2.91%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 82 (6.28%) Distributed Systems
2 74 (5.67%) Cloud Native
3 50 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
4 30 (2.30%) Public Cloud
5 29 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 26 (1.99%) PKI
7 24 (1.84%) Product Ownership
8 21 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 19 (1.45%) Algorithms
11 16 (1.23%) Hedge funds
11 16 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.15%) Clustering
12 15 (1.15%) Management Information System
13 14 (1.07%) Replication
14 13 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.00%) Onboarding
15 12 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 11 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
16 11 (0.84%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 324 (24.81%) Linux
2 117 (8.96%) Windows
3 99 (7.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (3.83%) Windows Server
5 49 (3.75%) Unix
6 11 (0.84%) CentOS
7 9 (0.69%) AIX
8 8 (0.61%) VMS
9 7 (0.54%) Rocky
10 6 (0.46%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.38%) Android
11 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.23%) SUSE
13 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.15%) Debian
14 2 (0.15%) Solaris
15 1 (0.077%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (58.04%) CI/CD
2 667 (51.07%) DevOps
3 613 (46.94%) Containerisation
4 416 (31.85%) Agile
5 397 (30.40%) Microservices
6 288 (22.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 284 (21.75%) Software Engineering
8 247 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
9 171 (13.09%) Test Automation
10 162 (12.40%) TDD
11 153 (11.72%) Continuous Integration
12 132 (10.11%) Full-Stack Development
13 122 (9.34%) Artificial Intelligence
14 118 (9.04%) SDLC
15 104 (7.96%) Event-Driven
16 98 (7.50%) Machine Learning
17 95 (7.27%) High Availability
17 95 (7.27%) Migration
18 93 (7.12%) Mentoring
19 90 (6.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 653 (50.00%) Python
2 435 (33.31%) Java
3 310 (23.74%) SQL
4 175 (13.40%) JavaScript
5 172 (13.17%) Bash
6 149 (11.41%) TypeScript
7 127 (9.72%) C#
8 110 (8.42%) Go
9 96 (7.35%) PowerShell
10 54 (4.13%) Shell Script
11 40 (3.06%) C++
12 32 (2.45%) Perl
13 24 (1.84%) PHP
14 22 (1.68%) Scala
15 21 (1.61%) Kotlin
16 20 (1.53%) Bicep
17 19 (1.45%) Ruby
18 17 (1.30%) Rust
19 16 (1.23%) PL/SQL
20 15 (1.15%) R
Qualifications
1 366 (28.02%) Security Cleared
2 305 (23.35%) SC Cleared
3 90 (6.89%) Degree
4 65 (4.98%) DV Cleared
5 48 (3.68%) AWS Certification
5 48 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 19 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (1.07%) Master's Degree
9 12 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.54%) CISSP
12 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.46%) RHCE
13 5 (0.38%) RHCSA
13 5 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.31%) CEH
14 4 (0.31%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.23%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.23%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (5.13%) QA
2 46 (3.52%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.38%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.15%) GDPR
5 11 (0.84%) NIST
6 9 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.46%) 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 (0.077%) COBIT
13 1 (0.077%) HL7
System Software
1 71 (5.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 39 (2.99%) Hyper-V
4 10 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.69%) BitLocker
5 9 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
5 9 (0.69%) Terminal Services
6 8 (0.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (0.46%) vSphere
8 5 (0.38%) Postfix
9 4 (0.31%) Lustre
9 4 (0.31%) LXC
9 4 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.23%) Platform Symphony
10 3 (0.23%) RACF
10 3 (0.23%) vCloud
10 3 (0.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 3 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,004 (76.88%) Kubernetes
2 456 (34.92%) Terraform
3 277 (21.21%) Ansible
4 115 (8.81%) Grafana
5 107 (8.19%) Prometheus
6 88 (6.74%) Puppet
7 57 (4.36%) Progress Chef
8 34 (2.60%) Kibana
9 25 (1.91%) Podman
10 23 (1.76%) Istio
11 19 (1.45%) Argo
11 19 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
12 17 (1.30%) Packer
13 16 (1.23%) Nagios
14 12 (0.92%) Consul
14 12 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.77%) logstash
16 9 (0.69%) vCenter Server
16 9 (0.69%) vMotion
17 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 88 (6.74%) Red Hat
2 87 (6.66%) VMware
3 81 (6.20%) Google
4 75 (5.74%) Microsoft
5 73 (5.59%) Oracle
6 55 (4.21%) Splunk
7 37 (2.83%) SAP
8 30 (2.30%) Databricks
9 25 (1.91%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.68%) AppDynamics
11 15 (1.15%) IBM
12 12 (0.92%) Symantec
12 12 (0.92%) Virgin Media
13 11 (0.84%) Citrix
13 11 (0.84%) TIBCO
14 10 (0.77%) Cisco
15 9 (0.69%) HP
15 9 (0.69%) Salesforce
15 9 (0.69%) ServiceNow
16 7 (0.54%) Atlassian