Docker Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Docker
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 69 50
Rank change year-on-year +33 -19 -17
Contract jobs citing Docker 533 445 1,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.38% 2.90% 4.54%
As % of the System Software category 45.59% 30.65% 36.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 348 845
10th Percentile £409 £397 £425
25th Percentile £463 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.36%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £688
90th Percentile £838 £688 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 16
10th Percentile - £55.23 £61.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £67.94 £64.00
Median hourly rate £57.75 £80.00 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.81% +12.28% +8.71%
75th Percentile £92.50 £86.25 £75.00
90th Percentile - £88.50 -
UK median hourly rate £80.60 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +19.41% -10.00% +36.36%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,169 1,452 3,207
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.80% 9.46% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 1,058 2,296
10th Percentile £358 £263 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -3.84% -
75th Percentile £625 £618 £633
90th Percentile £775 £677 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 34 101
10th Percentile £25.25 £15.50 £19.00
25th Percentile £52.44 £15.88 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.50 £43.32 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.20% -33.35% +165.31%
75th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £92.50 £84.57 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

Docker
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Docker trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Docker.

Docker daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Docker over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Docker daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Docker.

Docker hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Docker over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Docker hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 43 (8.07%) Apache
2 38 (7.13%) Apache Spark
3 31 (5.82%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (3.38%) Confluence
5 12 (2.25%) nginx
6 10 (1.88%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.94%) Moodle
8 4 (0.75%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.56%) Camunda
9 3 (0.56%) JBoss
10 2 (0.38%) CMS
10 2 (0.38%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.38%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.19%) DataSynapse
11 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.19%) IIS
11 1 (0.19%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.19%) InVision
2 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Endur
1 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.19%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 297 (55.72%) AWS
2 158 (29.64%) Azure
3 105 (19.70%) Serverless
4 83 (15.57%) AWS Lambda
5 77 (14.45%) GCP
6 63 (11.82%) GitHub
7 52 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
8 51 (9.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 50 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (9.38%) OpenShift
10 45 (8.44%) Amazon S3
11 40 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (5.82%) dbt
14 23 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (3.94%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 17 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
18 13 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 12 (2.25%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.38%) HTTP
2 23 (4.32%) DNS
2 23 (4.32%) TCP/IP
3 16 (3.00%) Firewall
4 9 (1.69%) VPN
5 7 (1.31%) Internet
5 7 (1.31%) SSL
6 6 (1.13%) Network Security
7 5 (0.94%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.75%) DHCP
8 4 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.56%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.56%) IPsec
9 3 (0.56%) SSH
10 2 (0.38%) 3GPP
10 2 (0.38%) 4G
10 2 (0.38%) 5G
10 2 (0.38%) Wireless
11 1 (0.19%) NAS
11 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (14.45%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (8.07%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (6.94%) Relational Database
4 33 (6.19%) Apache Iceberg
5 32 (6.00%) Amazon Athena
6 31 (5.82%) MySQL
7 28 (5.25%) Apache Arrow
7 28 (5.25%) Apache Ignite
7 28 (5.25%) Dremio
7 28 (5.25%) NoSQL
8 27 (5.07%) MongoDB
9 24 (4.50%) Redis
10 23 (4.32%) SQL Server
11 19 (3.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (2.25%) Hadoop
14 12 (2.25%) KDB
14 12 (2.25%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 160 (30.02%) Jenkins
2 95 (17.82%) GitLab
3 85 (15.95%) Git
4 45 (8.44%) JIRA
5 33 (6.19%) Artifactory
6 29 (5.44%) JUnit
7 20 (3.75%) SonarQube
8 19 (3.56%) Maven
9 18 (3.38%) Cucumber
10 16 (3.00%) Gradle
11 15 (2.81%) Mockito
11 15 (2.81%) Postman
11 15 (2.81%) Selenium
12 12 (2.25%) REST Assured
13 11 (2.06%) Liquibase
14 10 (1.88%) Bitbucket
15 8 (1.50%) CircleCI
15 8 (1.50%) Cypress.io
15 8 (1.50%) PHPUnit
15 8 (1.50%) webpack
General
1 97 (18.20%) Social Skills
2 83 (15.57%) Finance
3 66 (12.38%) Banking
4 61 (11.44%) Public Sector
5 59 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (8.26%) Investment Banking
7 40 (7.50%) Front Office
8 18 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.31%) Marketing
11 6 (1.13%) Retail
12 5 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.94%) Law
12 5 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.75%) Police
14 3 (0.56%) Electronics
14 3 (0.56%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 169 (31.71%) Developer
2 127 (23.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 111 (20.83%) Senior
4 82 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
5 65 (12.20%) AWS DevOps
6 63 (11.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 59 (11.07%) Python Developer
8 47 (8.82%) Data Engineer
9 46 (8.63%) Python Engineer
10 42 (7.88%) Lead
11 41 (7.69%) Java Developer
11 41 (7.69%) Senior Developer
12 39 (7.32%) Software Engineer
13 32 (6.00%) Senior DevOps
14 31 (5.82%) Architect
14 31 (5.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 23 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
15 23 (4.32%) Full-Stack Developer
16 21 (3.94%) Gen AI Developer
17 20 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (16.14%) Kafka
2 75 (14.07%) React
3 64 (12.01%) Spring
4 59 (11.07%) Spring Boot
5 58 (10.88%) .NET
6 55 (10.32%) RESTful
7 47 (8.82%) REST
8 42 (7.88%) Node.js
9 35 (6.57%) Elastic Stack
9 35 (6.57%) FastAPI
10 33 (6.19%) J2EE
11 32 (6.00%) Django
12 29 (5.44%) PySpark
13 28 (5.25%) AngularJS
13 28 (5.25%) Swagger
14 25 (4.69%) OpenAPI
15 22 (4.13%) OAuth
16 21 (3.94%) ARM Templates
17 20 (3.75%) HTML
18 17 (3.19%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.63%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.07%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.06%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 9 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.13%) Replication
7 5 (0.94%) Data Structures
7 5 (0.94%) e-Learning
7 5 (0.94%) Private Cloud
7 5 (0.94%) VLE
8 4 (0.75%) Data Centre
8 4 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (0.75%) Mainframe
8 4 (0.75%) PKI
8 4 (0.75%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.56%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 104 (19.51%) Linux
2 34 (6.38%) Windows
3 20 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (3.75%) Unix
4 9 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.94%) VMS
6 4 (0.75%) AIX
7 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.38%) CentOS
8 2 (0.38%) Solaris
8 2 (0.38%) SUSE
8 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.19%) Android
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (64.35%) CI/CD
2 294 (55.16%) DevOps
3 234 (43.90%) Containerisation
4 194 (36.40%) Agile
5 138 (25.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 138 (25.89%) Microservices
6 129 (24.20%) Software Engineering
7 91 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
8 75 (14.07%) Continuous Integration
9 66 (12.38%) SDLC
10 63 (11.82%) Test Automation
11 58 (10.88%) Artificial Intelligence
11 58 (10.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 54 (10.13%) Mentoring
13 52 (9.76%) Full-Stack Development
14 48 (9.01%) TDD
15 47 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
16 46 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 46 (8.63%) Data Engineering
16 46 (8.63%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 296 (55.53%) Python
2 181 (33.96%) Java
3 138 (25.89%) SQL
4 92 (17.26%) JavaScript
5 84 (15.76%) TypeScript
6 77 (14.45%) Bash
7 59 (11.07%) C#
8 46 (8.63%) Go
9 44 (8.26%) PowerShell
10 17 (3.19%) C++
11 16 (3.00%) Shell Script
12 14 (2.63%) Perl
12 14 (2.63%) PHP
13 7 (1.31%) Bicep
13 7 (1.31%) Groovy
13 7 (1.31%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.13%) Scala
15 5 (0.94%) R
15 5 (0.94%) Ruby
16 4 (0.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 123 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 112 (21.01%) SC Cleared
3 27 (5.07%) Degree
4 19 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.00%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.88%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.50%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.56%) CISSP
11 3 (0.56%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.38%) IBM Certification
12 2 (0.38%) RHCE
13 1 (0.19%) CCSP
13 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.19%) Linux+ Certification
13 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.00%) QA
2 19 (3.56%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (0.94%) GDPR
5 4 (0.75%) NIST
6 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.38%) NCSC
7 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.19%) HL7
8 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.13%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.56%) RACF
6 3 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.19%) Ceph
7 1 (0.19%) LXC
7 1 (0.19%) NFS
7 1 (0.19%) Platform Symphony
7 1 (0.19%) Samba
7 1 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 390 (73.17%) Kubernetes
2 204 (38.27%) Terraform
3 110 (20.64%) Ansible
4 55 (10.32%) Grafana
5 47 (8.82%) Prometheus
6 32 (6.00%) Progress Chef
7 30 (5.63%) Puppet
8 9 (1.69%) Kibana
8 9 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.13%) Argo
9 6 (1.13%) Consul
9 6 (1.13%) Istio
9 6 (1.13%) Packer
10 5 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.94%) Podman
11 4 (0.75%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.75%) Nagios
12 3 (0.56%) Control-M
12 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 32 (6.00%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.63%) Red Hat
3 28 (5.25%) Google
4 25 (4.69%) Splunk
5 22 (4.13%) Oracle
6 17 (3.19%) VMware
7 16 (3.00%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.88%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.69%) Databricks
10 8 (1.50%) SAP
11 6 (1.13%) IBM
12 4 (0.75%) LogRhythm
12 4 (0.75%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.75%) Virgin Media
13 3 (0.56%) Cisco
13 3 (0.56%) New Relic
14 2 (0.38%) ESRI
14 2 (0.38%) IBM Sterling
14 2 (0.38%) OpenLink
14 2 (0.38%) Salesforce