Docker Contract Job Trends in Wales

Docker
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 37 46
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 -16
Contract jobs citing Docker 16 12 4
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 3.35% 2.83% 0.93%
As % of the System Software category 33.33% 20.69% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 4
10th Percentile - £207 £520
25th Percentile £463 £400 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £548 £588 £650
90th Percentile £724 £594 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £553 £550
% change year-on-year -5.02% +0.50% -8.33%

All System Software Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 48 58 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 10.04% 13.68% 15.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 45 48
10th Percentile £155 £144 £151
25th Percentile £240 £190 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £250 £303
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -17.36% -35.98%
75th Percentile £488 £438 £555
90th Percentile £575 £582 £620
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £29.20 £20.25 £12.73
25th Percentile £46.38 £20.63 £12.96
Median hourly rate £80.00 £22.50 £13.33
Median % change year-on-year +255.56% +68.79% -11.13%
75th Percentile £86.25 £26.25 £84.67
90th Percentile £87.00 £27.75 £127.47
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £28.71 £45.88
% change year-on-year +48.70% -37.43% +83.52%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Docker job vacancy trend in Wales

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Wales over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Wales

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Wales region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
West Wales - 8 £475 - 1
South Wales +1 7 £725 +26.09% 10
Dyfed -1 1 £600 +41.18%
Docker
UK

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) GitHub
3 5 (31.25%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 5 (31.25%) JMeter
2 5 (31.25%) MSTest
2 5 (31.25%) Selenium
3 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
5 1 (6.25%) Git
5 1 (6.25%) GitLab
5 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Automation Tester
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Senior Automation Tester
2 5 (31.25%) Senior Tester
2 5 (31.25%) Tester
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineering Team Leader
4 1 (6.25%) Software Team Leader
4 1 (6.25%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 8 (50.00%) Spring
1 8 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (31.25%) Web Services
3 2 (12.50%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 2 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 2 (12.50%) Jest
3 2 (12.50%) Next.js
3 2 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Client/Server
1 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) Test Automation
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) Non-Functional Testing
4 5 (31.25%) Test Strategy
4 5 (31.25%) Unit Testing
5 4 (25.00%) AI
5 4 (25.00%) Architectural Design
5 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (25.00%) Design Patterns
6 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
7 2 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (12.50%) Case Management
7 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
7 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
8 1 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
8 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Ruby
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 6 (37.50%) Python
4 5 (31.25%) C#
5 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 1 (6.25%) Bash
7 1 (6.25%) Groovy
7 1 (6.25%) Java
7 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) ISTQB
2 5 (31.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 4 (25.00%) Degree
3 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (12.50%) WCAG
3 1 (6.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Argo
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Podman
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk