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

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 72 47
Rank change year-on-year +28 -25 -11
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,368 1,256 2,979
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.71% 2.84% 4.72%
As % of the System Software category 36.08% 26.08% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 915 2,160
10th Percentile £400 £411 £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 £639 £650 £700
90th Percentile £800 £719 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 31
10th Percentile £25.25 £47.73 £56.88
25th Percentile £26.38 £60.31 £61.88
Median hourly rate £78.70 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.92% -10.71% +27.27%
75th Percentile £90.63 £68.29 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.50 £70.46 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.60 £65.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year +22.59% +0.38% +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 3,792 4,816 8,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.05% 10.88% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,585 3,274 6,095
10th Percentile £213 £190 £206
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 £702 £690 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £480
% change year-on-year +3.26% -4.17% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 226 325
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £15.82 £17.47
Median hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -49.49% +164.00%
75th Percentile £66.00 £60.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £86.25 £70.66 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £26.08 £26.99
% change year-on-year +43.82% -3.39% +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 1 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 1 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 1 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 1,125 £550 - 1,947
London +25 671 £575 +4.55% 1,253
Work from Home +34 569 £550 - 1,142
UK excluding London +35 466 £510 -0.49% 834
North of England +28 149 £507 +1.40% 191
South East +50 87 £494 -12.80% 240
North West +38 87 £500 -5.88% 140
South West +52 84 £600 +10.85% 134
Midlands +44 55 £525 +5.00% 84
Scotland -5 55 £450 -5.26% 68
Yorkshire +1 41 £525 +8.25% 38
West Midlands +37 40 £550 +10.00% 53
East of England +27 23 £490 -6.67% 84
North East +12 22 £463 +11.45% 14
Wales +4 16 £545 +7.65% 12
East Midlands +18 14 £452 +0.33% 30
Northern Ireland -1 4 £550 - 29

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 87 (6.36%) Confluence
2 83 (6.07%) Apache
3 71 (5.19%) Apache Spark
4 48 (3.51%) nginx
5 43 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (1.24%) JBoss
7 12 (0.88%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.66%) Camunda
9 8 (0.58%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.58%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.44%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.29%) Alfresco
11 4 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.29%) IIS
11 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.29%) Moodle
11 4 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.22%) JCAPS
12 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
1 789 (57.68%) AWS
2 408 (29.82%) Azure
3 214 (15.64%) GCP
4 211 (15.42%) Serverless
5 156 (11.40%) AWS Lambda
6 150 (10.96%) GitHub
7 139 (10.16%) Amazon S3
8 132 (9.65%) OpenShift
9 108 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
10 107 (7.82%) Amazon EC2
11 106 (7.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 97 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
13 67 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
14 64 (4.68%) Amazon EKS
15 62 (4.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 52 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
17 50 (3.65%) Cloud Computing
18 42 (3.07%) Azure AKS
19 41 (3.00%) PaaS
20 36 (2.63%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.75%) DNS
2 63 (4.61%) HTTP
3 60 (4.39%) TCP/IP
4 36 (2.63%) Firewall
5 33 (2.41%) VPN
6 31 (2.27%) DHCP
7 17 (1.24%) SSL
8 16 (1.17%) Network Security
9 13 (0.95%) BGP
9 13 (0.95%) VLAN
10 12 (0.88%) MPLS
11 10 (0.73%) Internet
12 9 (0.66%) Kerberos
12 9 (0.66%) SMTP
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
1 205 (14.99%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (9.06%) Amazon RDS
3 104 (7.60%) Relational Database
4 103 (7.53%) NoSQL
5 96 (7.02%) MongoDB
6 86 (6.29%) MySQL
7 73 (5.34%) Elasticsearch
8 58 (4.24%) SQL Server
9 55 (4.02%) Apache Cassandra
10 47 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 47 (3.44%) Redis
11 43 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
12 41 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
13 36 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
13 36 (2.63%) Apache Iceberg
13 36 (2.63%) Big Data
14 34 (2.49%) DynamoDB
14 34 (2.49%) Hadoop
15 29 (2.12%) Data Lake
16 28 (2.05%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 355 (25.95%) Jenkins
2 248 (18.13%) Git
3 207 (15.13%) GitLab
4 128 (9.36%) JIRA
5 84 (6.14%) JUnit
6 63 (4.61%) Maven
7 61 (4.46%) Artifactory
8 55 (4.02%) SonarQube
9 46 (3.36%) Cucumber
10 44 (3.22%) Bitbucket
11 42 (3.07%) Gradle
12 36 (2.63%) Mockito
13 34 (2.49%) Postman
13 34 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
14 33 (2.41%) Liquibase
14 33 (2.41%) Selenium
15 22 (1.61%) Jasmine
16 20 (1.46%) TeamCity
17 18 (1.32%) Cypress.io
18 13 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 258 (18.86%) Finance
2 255 (18.64%) Social Skills
3 161 (11.77%) Public Sector
4 133 (9.72%) Banking
5 123 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
6 70 (5.12%) Investment Banking
7 62 (4.53%) Front Office
8 49 (3.58%) Telecoms
9 28 (2.05%) Marketing
10 26 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (1.61%) Electronics
13 17 (1.24%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.24%) Legal
13 17 (1.24%) Military
13 17 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (0.88%) Law
15 11 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 438 (32.02%) Developer
2 290 (21.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 226 (16.52%) Senior
4 138 (10.09%) AWS Engineer
5 113 (8.26%) Java Developer
6 111 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
7 104 (7.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 100 (7.31%) Python Developer
9 95 (6.94%) Lead
10 88 (6.43%) Senior Developer
11 85 (6.21%) Data Engineer
12 82 (5.99%) Architect
12 82 (5.99%) Software Engineer
13 76 (5.56%) Python Engineer
14 63 (4.61%) Full-Stack Developer
15 53 (3.87%) Senior DevOps
16 51 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
17 48 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 47 (3.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 40 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (17.69%) Kafka
2 202 (14.77%) Spring
3 190 (13.89%) Spring Boot
4 149 (10.89%) React
5 128 (9.36%) .NET
6 123 (8.99%) RESTful
7 97 (7.09%) REST
8 91 (6.65%) Node.js
9 74 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
10 70 (5.12%) AngularJS
11 69 (5.04%) FastAPI
12 67 (4.90%) Swagger
13 61 (4.46%) OpenAPI
14 60 (4.39%) HTML
15 49 (3.58%) Django
15 49 (3.58%) PySpark
16 44 (3.22%) J2EE
17 43 (3.14%) CSS
17 43 (3.14%) JSON
18 40 (2.92%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 67 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
2 58 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
3 52 (3.80%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.34%) Public Cloud
5 31 (2.27%) Replication
6 26 (1.90%) Product Ownership
7 24 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 22 (1.61%) Data Centre
9 21 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 21 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.54%) PKI
10 19 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.39%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.10%) Private Cloud
11 15 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
12 14 (1.02%) Management Information System
13 13 (0.95%) Clustering
13 13 (0.95%) Hedge funds
14 12 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 336 (24.56%) Linux
2 109 (7.97%) Windows
3 107 (7.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 57 (4.17%) Unix
5 40 (2.92%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.02%) CentOS
7 11 (0.80%) 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
1 791 (57.82%) CI/CD
2 726 (53.07%) DevOps
3 633 (46.27%) Containerisation
4 433 (31.65%) Agile
5 384 (28.07%) Microservices
6 272 (19.88%) Software Engineering
7 261 (19.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 259 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
9 186 (13.60%) Test Automation
10 151 (11.04%) TDD
11 150 (10.96%) Continuous Integration
12 140 (10.23%) Full-Stack Development
13 120 (8.77%) SDLC
14 113 (8.26%) Artificial Intelligence
15 102 (7.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 101 (7.38%) Machine Learning
17 100 (7.31%) Mentoring
18 97 (7.09%) Event-Driven
19 95 (6.94%) High Availability
20 92 (6.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 666 (48.68%) Python
2 463 (33.85%) Java
3 312 (22.81%) SQL
4 181 (13.23%) Bash
4 181 (13.23%) JavaScript
5 165 (12.06%) TypeScript
6 114 (8.33%) C#
7 101 (7.38%) Go
8 92 (6.73%) PowerShell
9 51 (3.73%) Shell Script
10 41 (3.00%) Perl
11 34 (2.49%) C++
12 32 (2.34%) Scala
13 27 (1.97%) PHP
14 25 (1.83%) Kotlin
14 25 (1.83%) Ruby
15 17 (1.24%) PL/SQL
15 17 (1.24%) Rust
16 16 (1.17%) Bicep
17 14 (1.02%) C
Qualifications
1 387 (28.29%) Security Cleared
2 328 (23.98%) SC Cleared
3 87 (6.36%) Degree
4 63 (4.61%) DV Cleared
5 49 (3.58%) AWS Certification
6 48 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 12 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.44%) CISSP
12 6 (0.44%) RHCE
13 5 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.37%) RHCSA
14 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.22%) CCNA
15 3 (0.22%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.22%) OCP
15 3 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (5.19%) QA
2 45 (3.29%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.46%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.88%) GDPR
5 11 (0.80%) NIST
6 10 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.51%) 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
10 3 (0.22%) WCAG
11 2 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.073%) COBIT
12 1 (0.073%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 77 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 11 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.44%) Lustre
6 5 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 5 (0.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.29%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.29%) LXC
7 4 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.29%) Terminal Services
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%) Postfix
8 3 (0.22%) RACF
8 3 (0.22%) Samba
Systems Management
1 1,054 (77.05%) Kubernetes
2 479 (35.01%) Terraform
3 305 (22.30%) Ansible
4 122 (8.92%) Prometheus
5 121 (8.85%) Grafana
6 89 (6.51%) Puppet
7 58 (4.24%) Progress Chef
8 34 (2.49%) Kibana
9 31 (2.27%) Istio
10 30 (2.19%) Packer
11 25 (1.83%) Argo
12 18 (1.32%) Consul
13 17 (1.24%) Podman
14 16 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
15 11 (0.80%) logstash
15 11 (0.80%) Nagios
15 11 (0.80%) Rancher
16 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
17 6 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
17 6 (0.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 104 (7.60%) Red Hat
2 92 (6.73%) VMware
3 83 (6.07%) Google
4 77 (5.63%) Oracle
5 66 (4.82%) Microsoft
6 54 (3.95%) Splunk
7 34 (2.49%) Databricks
8 25 (1.83%) SAP
9 24 (1.75%) Dynatrace
10 21 (1.54%) IBM
11 18 (1.32%) AppDynamics
12 12 (0.88%) Virgin Media
13 10 (0.73%) Salesforce
14 9 (0.66%) Cisco
14 9 (0.66%) Confluent
14 9 (0.66%) TIBCO
15 8 (0.58%) ServiceNow
16 7 (0.51%) CyberArk
16 7 (0.51%) NetApp
16 7 (0.51%) TOWER Software