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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 70 49
Rank change year-on-year +33 -21 -17
Contract jobs citing Docker 536 448 1,158
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.42% 2.94% 4.51%
As % of the System Software category 46.01% 30.77% 36.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 351 829
10th Percentile £408 £390 £425
25th Percentile £463 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +3.07%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £688
90th Percentile £838 £675 £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 1,165 1,456 3,181
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.77% 9.54% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 1,062 2,271
10th Percentile £363 £263 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £614 £631
90th Percentile £775 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 35 104
10th Percentile £25.25 £15.50 £19.30
25th Percentile £52.44 £16.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.50 £46.39 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.19% -28.63% +165.31%
75th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £70.06
90th Percentile £92.50 £85.00 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +24.31% -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 3 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 3 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 42 (7.84%) Apache
2 37 (6.90%) Apache Spark
3 31 (5.78%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (3.36%) Confluence
5 12 (2.24%) nginx
6 10 (1.87%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.93%) Moodle
8 4 (0.75%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.56%) Camunda
9 3 (0.56%) JBoss
10 2 (0.37%) CMS
10 2 (0.37%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.37%) 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 (0.37%) Endur
1 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.19%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 300 (55.97%) AWS
2 157 (29.29%) Azure
3 103 (19.22%) Serverless
4 83 (15.49%) GCP
5 82 (15.30%) AWS Lambda
6 63 (11.75%) GitHub
7 51 (9.51%) Amazon ECS
8 50 (9.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (9.33%) OpenShift
9 49 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
10 44 (8.21%) Amazon S3
11 39 (7.28%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (6.53%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (5.78%) dbt
14 23 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (3.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (2.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 12 (2.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.72%) HTTP
2 23 (4.29%) DNS
2 23 (4.29%) TCP/IP
3 16 (2.99%) Firewall
4 9 (1.68%) VPN
5 7 (1.31%) Internet
5 7 (1.31%) SSL
6 6 (1.12%) Network Security
7 5 (0.93%) 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 (0.37%) 3GPP
10 2 (0.37%) 4G
10 2 (0.37%) 5G
10 2 (0.37%) Wireless
11 1 (0.19%) SMTP
11 1 (0.19%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (13.99%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (7.46%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 33 (6.16%) Apache Iceberg
5 32 (5.97%) Amazon Athena
6 31 (5.78%) MySQL
7 28 (5.22%) Apache Arrow
7 28 (5.22%) Apache Ignite
7 28 (5.22%) Dremio
7 28 (5.22%) MongoDB
7 28 (5.22%) NoSQL
8 23 (4.29%) SQL Server
9 21 (3.92%) Redis
10 18 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
11 16 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
13 12 (2.24%) Hadoop
13 12 (2.24%) KDB
13 12 (2.24%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 162 (30.22%) Jenkins
2 99 (18.47%) GitLab
3 88 (16.42%) Git
4 49 (9.14%) JIRA
5 33 (6.16%) Artifactory
6 29 (5.41%) JUnit
7 20 (3.73%) SonarQube
8 19 (3.54%) Maven
9 18 (3.36%) Cucumber
10 16 (2.99%) Gradle
11 15 (2.80%) Mockito
11 15 (2.80%) Postman
11 15 (2.80%) Selenium
12 12 (2.24%) REST Assured
13 11 (2.05%) Liquibase
14 10 (1.87%) Bitbucket
14 10 (1.87%) webpack
15 9 (1.68%) CircleCI
15 9 (1.68%) Cypress.io
16 8 (1.49%) PHPUnit
General
1 98 (18.28%) Social Skills
2 82 (15.30%) Finance
3 65 (12.13%) Banking
4 63 (11.75%) Public Sector
5 59 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (8.21%) Investment Banking
7 39 (7.28%) Front Office
8 18 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.31%) Marketing
11 6 (1.12%) Retail
12 5 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.93%) Law
12 5 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.75%) Police
14 3 (0.56%) Electronics
14 3 (0.56%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.37%) Legal
Job Titles
1 170 (31.72%) Developer
2 127 (23.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 112 (20.90%) Senior
4 81 (15.11%) AWS Engineer
5 64 (11.94%) AWS DevOps
6 62 (11.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 59 (11.01%) Python Developer
8 47 (8.77%) Data Engineer
9 45 (8.40%) Python Engineer
10 41 (7.65%) Java Developer
10 41 (7.65%) Lead
10 41 (7.65%) Senior Developer
11 40 (7.46%) Software Engineer
12 33 (6.16%) Architect
13 32 (5.97%) Senior DevOps
14 31 (5.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 23 (4.29%) Cloud Engineer
16 22 (4.10%) Full-Stack Developer
17 21 (3.92%) Gen AI Developer
18 20 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (16.04%) Kafka
2 76 (14.18%) React
3 66 (12.31%) Spring
4 59 (11.01%) Spring Boot
5 57 (10.63%) .NET
6 55 (10.26%) RESTful
7 50 (9.33%) REST
8 42 (7.84%) Node.js
9 35 (6.53%) Elastic Stack
9 35 (6.53%) FastAPI
10 33 (6.16%) J2EE
11 32 (5.97%) Django
12 29 (5.41%) AngularJS
12 29 (5.41%) PySpark
13 28 (5.22%) Swagger
14 26 (4.85%) OAuth
15 25 (4.66%) OpenAPI
16 21 (3.92%) HTML
17 20 (3.73%) ARM Templates
18 18 (3.36%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.78%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.22%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.05%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 9 (1.68%) Public Cloud
6 5 (0.93%) Data Structures
6 5 (0.93%) e-Learning
6 5 (0.93%) PKI
6 5 (0.93%) Private Cloud
6 5 (0.93%) Replication
6 5 (0.93%) VLE
7 4 (0.75%) Data Centre
7 4 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (0.75%) Mainframe
7 4 (0.75%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.56%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 106 (19.78%) Linux
2 34 (6.34%) Windows
3 20 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (3.73%) Unix
4 9 (1.68%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.93%) VMS
6 4 (0.75%) AIX
7 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.37%) CentOS
8 2 (0.37%) Solaris
8 2 (0.37%) SUSE
8 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.19%) Android
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (64.93%) CI/CD
2 293 (54.66%) DevOps
3 236 (44.03%) Containerisation
4 194 (36.19%) Agile
5 141 (26.31%) Microservices
6 139 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 130 (24.25%) Software Engineering
8 92 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (13.99%) Continuous Integration
10 68 (12.69%) SDLC
11 66 (12.31%) Test Automation
12 57 (10.63%) Artificial Intelligence
13 56 (10.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 54 (10.07%) Mentoring
15 49 (9.14%) Full-Stack Development
15 49 (9.14%) TDD
16 48 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
17 47 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
18 45 (8.40%) Data Engineering
18 45 (8.40%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 297 (55.41%) Python
2 184 (34.33%) Java
3 137 (25.56%) SQL
4 92 (17.16%) JavaScript
5 82 (15.30%) TypeScript
6 81 (15.11%) Bash
7 58 (10.82%) C#
8 47 (8.77%) Go
9 43 (8.02%) PowerShell
10 17 (3.17%) C++
11 16 (2.99%) Shell Script
12 14 (2.61%) Perl
12 14 (2.61%) PHP
13 7 (1.31%) Bicep
13 7 (1.31%) Groovy
13 7 (1.31%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.93%) Ruby
14 5 (0.93%) Scala
15 4 (0.75%) R
15 4 (0.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 125 (23.32%) Security Cleared
2 114 (21.27%) SC Cleared
3 28 (5.22%) Degree
4 20 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.17%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.31%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.93%) 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 (0.37%) IBM Certification
12 2 (0.37%) RHCE
13 1 (0.19%) CEH
13 1 (0.19%) Linux+ Certification
13 1 (0.19%) RHCA
13 1 (0.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.97%) QA
2 19 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.68%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.31%) GDPR
5 5 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.75%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.75%) NIST
7 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.37%) NCSC
8 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.19%) HL7
9 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.93%) 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 (72.76%) Kubernetes
2 204 (38.06%) Terraform
3 110 (20.52%) Ansible
4 57 (10.63%) Grafana
5 49 (9.14%) Prometheus
6 32 (5.97%) Progress Chef
7 29 (5.41%) Puppet
8 10 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.68%) Kibana
10 6 (1.12%) Argo
10 6 (1.12%) Consul
10 6 (1.12%) Istio
10 6 (1.12%) Packer
11 5 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.93%) Podman
12 4 (0.75%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.75%) Nagios
13 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (6.34%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.60%) Google
2 30 (5.60%) Red Hat
3 25 (4.66%) Splunk
4 22 (4.10%) Oracle
5 16 (2.99%) Dynatrace
5 16 (2.99%) VMware
6 10 (1.87%) AppDynamics
7 9 (1.68%) Databricks
8 8 (1.49%) IBM
8 8 (1.49%) SAP
9 4 (0.75%) LogRhythm
9 4 (0.75%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.75%) Virgin Media
10 3 (0.56%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.56%) Cisco
10 3 (0.56%) Confluent
10 3 (0.56%) New Relic
11 2 (0.37%) ESRI
11 2 (0.37%) OpenLink