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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 52 38
Rank change year-on-year -22 -14 -6
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,206 2,569 5,180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.79% 4.35% 5.84%
As % of the System Software category 25.86% 33.06% 43.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 885 1,846 3,824
10th Percentile £405 £450 £431
25th Percentile £463 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% +11.62%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £724 £775 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +12.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 34 22
10th Percentile £47.40 £60.87 £42.59
25th Percentile £62.50 £66.44 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +27.66% +17.50%
75th Percentile £85.00 £77.38 £65.54
90th Percentile - £88.50 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 £70.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +12.86% +47.37% -15.93%

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 4,664 7,771 11,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 13.16% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,192 5,549 8,597
10th Percentile £200 £204 £200
25th Percentile £338 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -4.17% +6.67% +6.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 277 320
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.23 £13.24
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £45.85
90th Percentile £79.60 £75.20 £61.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.98 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -53.31% +148.01% +2.49%

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 5 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 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 -24 998 £550 -8.33% 902
London -25 599 £550 -15.38% 478
Work from Home -18 454 £550 -6.38% 553
UK excluding London -37 431 £525 -4.55% 469
North of England -37 116 £550 -4.35% 122
South East -42 86 £550 -6.38% 104
Scotland -4 81 £461 -3.71% 43
South West -14 79 £550 -2.22% 82
Yorkshire +13 54 £550 - 44
North West -48 51 £550 - 71
Midlands +18 32 £500 - 63
West Midlands +9 19 £575 +4.55% 31
Wales +25 18 £506 - 14
East of England -3 17 £650 +20.93% 38
East Midlands +19 13 £450 -6.25% 32
North East -14 11 £410 -41.43% 9
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 12

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 67 (5.56%) Confluence
2 47 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (3.40%) Apache
4 28 (2.32%) nginx
5 25 (2.07%) OpenStack
6 22 (1.82%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.66%) JBoss
8 7 (0.58%) CMS
8 7 (0.58%) IIS
8 7 (0.58%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.50%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.41%) Camunda
10 5 (0.41%) Luigi
11 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.33%) SAS
11 4 (0.33%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.25%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.083%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.41%) Endur
1 5 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.17%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.17%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 665 (55.14%) AWS
2 403 (33.42%) Azure
3 159 (13.18%) GCP
4 147 (12.19%) Serverless
5 125 (10.36%) GitHub
6 116 (9.62%) Amazon S3
6 116 (9.62%) OpenShift
7 105 (8.71%) AWS Lambda
8 100 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
9 85 (7.05%) Amazon EC2
10 82 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 76 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
12 55 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
13 47 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 46 (3.81%) SaaS
15 43 (3.57%) PaaS
15 43 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 38 (3.15%) IaaS
17 35 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
18 33 (2.74%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.98%) Firewall
2 43 (3.57%) DNS
3 38 (3.15%) Network Security
4 37 (3.07%) VPN
5 32 (2.65%) TCP/IP
6 23 (1.91%) HTTP
7 22 (1.82%) DHCP
8 15 (1.24%) SAN
9 13 (1.08%) AMQP
10 12 (1.00%) BGP
10 12 (1.00%) Ethernet VPN
10 12 (1.00%) MPLS
10 12 (1.00%) Radio Access Network
11 11 (0.91%) Kerberos
12 10 (0.83%) VLAN
13 9 (0.75%) 5G
14 8 (0.66%) NAS
15 7 (0.58%) MQTT
16 6 (0.50%) DMZ
16 6 (0.50%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (11.77%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (9.70%) NoSQL
3 78 (6.47%) Relational Database
4 73 (6.05%) Apache Cassandra
5 65 (5.39%) MySQL
6 63 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (5.06%) MongoDB
8 54 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
9 47 (3.90%) SQL Server
10 26 (2.16%) DynamoDB
11 23 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (1.66%) Data Lake
12 20 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
13 17 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
13 17 (1.41%) Big Data
13 17 (1.41%) RDBMS
14 12 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (1.00%) Flink
14 12 (1.00%) Redis
15 11 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 324 (26.87%) Jenkins
2 311 (25.79%) Git
3 154 (12.77%) GitLab
4 125 (10.36%) JIRA
5 65 (5.39%) JUnit
5 65 (5.39%) SonarQube
6 57 (4.73%) Cucumber
7 52 (4.31%) Maven
7 52 (4.31%) Selenium
8 43 (3.57%) TeamCity
9 32 (2.65%) Cypress.io
10 28 (2.32%) Postman
11 26 (2.16%) Bitbucket
12 24 (1.99%) Mockito
13 23 (1.91%) Gradle
14 20 (1.66%) Artifactory
14 20 (1.66%) NUnit
14 20 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
15 19 (1.58%) JMeter
16 18 (1.49%) CircleCI
General
1 215 (17.83%) Social Skills
2 131 (10.86%) Finance
3 111 (9.20%) Public Sector
4 60 (4.98%) Banking
5 53 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (2.57%) Telecoms
7 27 (2.24%) Retail
8 22 (1.82%) Front Office
9 21 (1.74%) Law
10 19 (1.58%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (0.91%) Marketing
14 9 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (0.75%) Legal
14 9 (0.75%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.66%) Police
16 5 (0.41%) Electronics
17 4 (0.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 353 (29.27%) Developer
2 245 (20.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 169 (14.01%) Senior
4 117 (9.70%) Java Developer
5 110 (9.12%) Software Engineer
6 80 (6.63%) AWS Engineer
7 68 (5.64%) Azure Engineer
8 67 (5.56%) Architect
9 63 (5.22%) AWS DevOps
10 58 (4.81%) Full Stack Developer
10 58 (4.81%) Lead
11 53 (4.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 50 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
12 50 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
13 46 (3.81%) Senior Developer
14 41 (3.40%) Platform Engineer
15 38 (3.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 38 (3.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 35 (2.90%) Python Developer
17 34 (2.82%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (15.17%) Kafka
2 181 (15.01%) REST
3 154 (12.77%) Spring Boot
4 146 (12.11%) Spring
5 138 (11.44%) React
6 122 (10.12%) Node.js
7 101 (8.37%) RESTful
8 82 (6.80%) .NET
9 69 (5.72%) Elastic Stack
10 50 (4.15%) HTML
11 49 (4.06%) AngularJS
12 47 (3.90%) Web Services
13 45 (3.73%) RabbitMQ
14 41 (3.40%) JSON
15 40 (3.32%) CSS
15 40 (3.32%) SOAP
16 36 (2.99%) GraphQL
17 34 (2.82%) ARM Templates
18 32 (2.65%) YAML
19 31 (2.57%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 59 (4.89%) Public Cloud
2 51 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
4 45 (3.73%) Cloud Native
5 32 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
6 31 (2.57%) Data Structures
7 30 (2.49%) Product Ownership
8 24 (1.99%) Data Centre
9 21 (1.74%) Algorithms
9 21 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.74%) Onboarding
10 20 (1.66%) Clustering
11 18 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.24%) NHS
14 12 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.91%) Client/Server
15 11 (0.91%) PKI
15 11 (0.91%) Replication
16 9 (0.75%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 261 (21.64%) Linux
2 83 (6.88%) Windows
3 66 (5.47%) Unix
4 45 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (3.07%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
7 12 (1.00%) CentOS
8 8 (0.66%) Solaris
9 6 (0.50%) Android
9 6 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.50%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.50%) VMS
10 4 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.25%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.083%) Debian
13 1 (0.083%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.083%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (49.59%) DevOps
2 515 (42.70%) CI/CD
3 439 (36.40%) Agile
4 355 (29.44%) Containerisation
5 254 (21.06%) Microservices
6 249 (20.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 209 (17.33%) Software Engineering
8 173 (14.34%) Continuous Integration
9 172 (14.26%) Test Automation
10 164 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
11 151 (12.52%) Scrum
12 113 (9.37%) TDD
13 93 (7.71%) Full Stack Development
14 91 (7.55%) Unit Testing
15 87 (7.21%) Configuration Management
16 82 (6.80%) High Availability
17 67 (5.56%) Mentoring
17 67 (5.56%) User Experience
18 66 (5.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 62 (5.14%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 476 (39.47%) Python
2 370 (30.68%) Java
3 248 (20.56%) SQL
4 163 (13.52%) Bash
5 152 (12.60%) JavaScript
6 135 (11.19%) Go
7 104 (8.62%) PowerShell
8 98 (8.13%) TypeScript
9 66 (5.47%) C#
10 48 (3.98%) Shell Script
11 47 (3.90%) Scala
12 43 (3.57%) Ruby
13 39 (3.23%) C
14 27 (2.24%) PHP
15 25 (2.07%) C++
15 25 (2.07%) Groovy
16 24 (1.99%) Perl
17 16 (1.33%) Bicep
18 11 (0.91%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 313 (25.95%) Security Cleared
2 230 (19.07%) SC Cleared
3 95 (7.88%) DV Cleared
4 69 (5.72%) Degree
5 37 (3.07%) AWS Certification
6 35 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.91%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.66%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.25%) CISSP
12 3 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.25%) SANS
13 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.17%) RHCE
14 1 (0.083%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.083%) ISEB
14 1 (0.083%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.07%) QA
2 29 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.33%) NCSC
4 11 (0.91%) NIST
5 10 (0.83%) GDPR
5 10 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.66%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.41%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.25%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.25%) WCAG
9 1 (0.083%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.083%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (3.40%) Active Directory
2 40 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.24%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.58%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.58%) vSphere
6 6 (0.50%) Firmware
6 6 (0.50%) NFS
6 6 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.33%) GPFS
8 3 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.25%) Ceph
8 3 (0.25%) KVM
8 3 (0.25%) LXC
9 2 (0.17%) HDFS
9 2 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.083%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.083%) Postfix
10 1 (0.083%) Xen
Systems Management
1 878 (72.80%) Kubernetes
2 466 (38.64%) Terraform
3 267 (22.14%) Ansible
4 128 (10.61%) Grafana
5 116 (9.62%) Prometheus
6 74 (6.14%) Puppet
7 61 (5.06%) Progress Chef
8 43 (3.57%) Docker Swarm
9 31 (2.57%) Kibana
10 29 (2.40%) Packer
11 22 (1.82%) Podman
12 18 (1.49%) Consul
12 18 (1.49%) Nagios
13 17 (1.41%) Istio
14 14 (1.16%) Argo
14 14 (1.16%) Graylog
15 12 (1.00%) HP Fortify
16 11 (0.91%) Netcool
17 10 (0.83%) EMC NetWorker
17 10 (0.83%) Rancher
Vendors
1 108 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 80 (6.63%) Oracle
3 79 (6.55%) Splunk
4 66 (5.47%) Google
5 60 (4.98%) VMware
6 33 (2.74%) Databricks
7 31 (2.57%) Red Hat
8 20 (1.66%) IBM
8 20 (1.66%) SAP
9 17 (1.41%) Dell
10 15 (1.24%) Atlassian
10 15 (1.24%) Cisco
10 15 (1.24%) CyberArk
11 14 (1.16%) EMC
12 13 (1.08%) TIBCO
12 13 (1.08%) WSO2
13 12 (1.00%) ServiceNow
14 11 (0.91%) Salesforce
15 10 (0.83%) New Relic
16 8 (0.66%) AppDynamics