Docker Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Docker
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 19 35
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 +2
Contract jobs citing Docker 7 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 2.78% 5.76% 1.32%
As % of the System Software category 35.00% 25.81% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile - £234 £405
25th Percentile £274 £275 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £325 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% -27.78% -22.41%
75th Percentile £345 £450 £506
90th Percentile £371 £570 £525
South East median daily rate £513 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +13.89% -21.74% -

All System Software Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 20 31 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 7.94% 22.30% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 19
10th Percentile £200 - -
25th Percentile £274 £170 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £206 £325
Median % change year-on-year +64.85% -36.54% -25.71%
75th Percentile £538 £422 £488
90th Percentile £608 £487 £538
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Docker job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Docker

Docker
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Docker.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Docker

Docker
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 19 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
Burgess Hill 0 6 £286 +6.51%
Crawley -9 1 £375 -16.67% 9
Docker
South East

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (14.29%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) JIRA
3 3 (42.86%) Subversion
4 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Kafka
1 6 (85.71%) RabbitMQ
1 6 (85.71%) REST
2 4 (57.14%) GraphQL
2 4 (57.14%) gRPC
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Microservices
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 5 (71.43%) Scrum
3 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) TDD
4 4 (57.14%) BDD
4 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
4 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (57.14%) Kanban
4 4 (57.14%) Regression Testing
4 4 (57.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (42.86%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
6 2 (28.57%) Customer Experience
6 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
7 1 (14.29%) DevOps
7 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Go
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian