Docker Contracts in England

Docker
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 52 38
Rank change year-on-year -23 -14 -9
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,027 2,043 4,165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.82% 4.24% 5.93%
As % of the System Software category 25.91% 32.79% 42.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 765 1,515 3,118
10th Percentile £413 £450 £450
25th Percentile £463 £513 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 32 10
10th Percentile £47.40 £60.76 £46.13
25th Percentile £62.50 £65.06 £47.09
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £60.27
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +24.44% +6.67%
75th Percentile £85.00 £78.50 £78.75
90th Percentile - £89.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £52.89
% change year-on-year -10.00% +41.82% +11.34%

All System Software Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,963 6,230 9,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.89% 12.93% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,773 4,509 7,061
10th Percentile £200 £200 £198
25th Percentile £338 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 221 267
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.52 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £72.38 £75.99 £53.20
UK median hourly rate £22.30 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.70% +170.00% -9.09%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in England

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in England.

Daily rate trend for Docker in England

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in England

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in England.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in England

Docker
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in England

Docker
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London -19 605 £550 -15.38% 381
North of England -31 129 £550 -2.65% 118
South West -18 88 £550 -2.22% 82
South East -41 86 £550 -5.17% 90
Yorkshire +15 65 £550 - 38
North West -50 54 £550 - 74
Midlands +16 31 £500 - 54
West Midlands +13 19 £619 +15.12% 23
East of England -9 18 £625 +16.28% 30
East Midlands +12 12 £424 -11.72% 31
North East -15 10 £405 -42.14% 8
Docker
UK

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 53 (5.16%) Confluence
2 42 (4.09%) Apache
3 32 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (2.92%) nginx
5 21 (2.04%) OpenStack
6 13 (1.27%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.78%) JBoss
8 7 (0.68%) IIS
8 7 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.58%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.49%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.49%) Camunda
11 4 (0.39%) CMS
11 4 (0.39%) Luigi
11 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.39%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.29%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.29%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.097%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Endur
2 2 (0.19%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.19%) RMDS
2 2 (0.19%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.097%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 562 (54.72%) AWS
2 353 (34.37%) Azure
3 141 (13.73%) GCP
4 113 (11.00%) GitHub
4 113 (11.00%) Serverless
5 84 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (7.89%) OpenShift
7 80 (7.79%) Amazon S3
8 76 (7.40%) AWS Lambda
9 73 (7.11%) Amazon EC2
10 63 (6.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 51 (4.97%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 32 (3.12%) PaaS
16 27 (2.63%) SaaS
17 26 (2.53%) Azure AKS
18 25 (2.43%) Amazon ECS
19 21 (2.04%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (4.38%) Firewall
2 41 (3.99%) DNS
3 38 (3.70%) VPN
4 32 (3.12%) HTTP
4 32 (3.12%) Network Security
5 29 (2.82%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.85%) DHCP
7 12 (1.17%) AMQP
8 10 (0.97%) BGP
8 10 (0.97%) Ethernet VPN
8 10 (0.97%) MPLS
8 10 (0.97%) Radio Access Network
9 9 (0.88%) Kerberos
10 8 (0.78%) SAN
10 8 (0.78%) VLAN
11 7 (0.68%) IPv4
12 6 (0.58%) NAS
12 6 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
12 6 (0.58%) SSL
13 5 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (10.42%) NoSQL
2 102 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
3 72 (7.01%) Apache Cassandra
4 65 (6.33%) Relational Database
5 56 (5.45%) MySQL
6 53 (5.16%) MongoDB
7 48 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
8 44 (4.28%) SQL Server
9 41 (3.99%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (2.04%) DynamoDB
11 17 (1.66%) Data Lake
12 16 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.46%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.36%) Big Data
15 12 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (1.07%) Redis
17 10 (0.97%) BigQuery
17 10 (0.97%) Flink
18 9 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
19 8 (0.78%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 261 (25.41%) Git
1 261 (25.41%) Jenkins
2 143 (13.92%) GitLab
3 104 (10.13%) JIRA
4 50 (4.87%) Selenium
5 49 (4.77%) JUnit
5 49 (4.77%) SonarQube
6 46 (4.48%) Cucumber
7 37 (3.60%) TeamCity
8 31 (3.02%) Maven
9 27 (2.63%) Cypress.io
10 25 (2.43%) Bitbucket
11 24 (2.34%) Mockito
12 21 (2.04%) Artifactory
13 19 (1.85%) CircleCI
14 18 (1.75%) NUnit
15 17 (1.66%) JMeter
15 17 (1.66%) REST Assured
16 15 (1.46%) Robot Framework
17 14 (1.36%) Postman
General
1 180 (17.53%) Social Skills
2 125 (12.17%) Finance
3 99 (9.64%) Public Sector
4 64 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (4.58%) Banking
6 26 (2.53%) Telecoms
7 23 (2.24%) Retail
8 21 (2.04%) Front Office
9 19 (1.85%) Law
10 16 (1.56%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.07%) Marketing
13 8 (0.78%) Legal
13 8 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.78%) Police
14 7 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.68%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.49%) Electronics
16 4 (0.39%) Back Office
16 4 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 282 (27.46%) Developer
2 228 (22.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 151 (14.70%) Senior
4 101 (9.83%) Software Engineer
5 89 (8.67%) Java Developer
6 62 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
7 61 (5.94%) Architect
8 56 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
9 55 (5.36%) AWS DevOps
10 52 (5.06%) Lead
11 47 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
12 46 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 46 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
13 40 (3.89%) Senior Developer
14 39 (3.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 38 (3.70%) Full Stack Developer
16 35 (3.41%) Python Developer
17 31 (3.02%) Platform Engineer
18 28 (2.73%) Site Engineer
19 26 (2.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (15.68%) Kafka
2 130 (12.66%) REST
3 112 (10.91%) Spring Boot
4 110 (10.71%) React
5 105 (10.22%) Spring
6 87 (8.47%) RESTful
7 86 (8.37%) .NET
7 86 (8.37%) Node.js
8 55 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
9 40 (3.89%) AngularJS
9 40 (3.89%) HTML
9 40 (3.89%) RabbitMQ
10 37 (3.60%) YAML
11 36 (3.51%) GraphQL
11 36 (3.51%) JSON
12 34 (3.31%) Web Services
13 32 (3.12%) SOAP
14 30 (2.92%) CSS
15 28 (2.73%) .NET Core
16 26 (2.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 48 (4.67%) Public Cloud
2 39 (3.80%) Cloud Native
3 36 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
4 35 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 27 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
7 25 (2.43%) Data Structures
8 23 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.95%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.56%) Clustering
10 16 (1.56%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.97%) PKI
13 9 (0.88%) Onboarding
13 9 (0.88%) Replication
14 8 (0.78%) Derivative
14 8 (0.78%) Fixed Income
14 8 (0.78%) Machine to Machine
14 8 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 249 (24.25%) Linux
2 60 (5.84%) Windows
3 49 (4.77%) Unix
4 39 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (2.63%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.07%) CentOS
6 11 (1.07%) Oracle Linux
7 6 (0.58%) Solaris
8 5 (0.49%) Android
8 5 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.49%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.29%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.19%) VMS
11 1 (0.097%) Debian
11 1 (0.097%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.097%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (51.61%) DevOps
2 470 (45.76%) CI/CD
3 375 (36.51%) Agile
4 329 (32.04%) Containerisation
5 220 (21.42%) Microservices
6 214 (20.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 183 (17.82%) Software Engineering
8 152 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
9 146 (14.22%) Test Automation
10 139 (13.53%) Continuous Integration
11 125 (12.17%) Scrum
12 98 (9.54%) TDD
13 81 (7.89%) Configuration Management
14 74 (7.21%) Unit Testing
15 73 (7.11%) Full Stack Development
15 73 (7.11%) High Availability
16 65 (6.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 56 (5.45%) DevSecOps
17 56 (5.45%) Software Delivery
18 55 (5.36%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 419 (40.80%) Python
2 302 (29.41%) Java
3 211 (20.55%) SQL
4 145 (14.12%) Bash
5 130 (12.66%) Go
6 121 (11.78%) JavaScript
7 102 (9.93%) PowerShell
8 82 (7.98%) TypeScript
9 67 (6.52%) C#
10 41 (3.99%) Shell Script
11 37 (3.60%) C
12 35 (3.41%) Ruby
13 30 (2.92%) Scala
14 25 (2.43%) C++
15 19 (1.85%) Groovy
16 18 (1.75%) PHP
17 16 (1.56%) Perl
18 13 (1.27%) Bicep
19 9 (0.88%) Rust
20 7 (0.68%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 289 (28.14%) Security Cleared
2 206 (20.06%) SC Cleared
3 96 (9.35%) DV Cleared
4 73 (7.11%) Degree
5 40 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.02%) AWS Certification
7 20 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.29%) CISSP
10 3 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.19%) RHCE
12 1 (0.097%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.097%) CEH
12 1 (0.097%) GIAC
12 1 (0.097%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.097%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.097%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.41%) QA
2 14 (1.36%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.17%) GDPR
4 11 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.07%) NIST
5 6 (0.58%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.58%) NCSC
5 6 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.39%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.29%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.097%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.097%) SLA
9 1 (0.097%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (3.60%) Active Directory
2 35 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.56%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.78%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.58%) Firmware
6 6 (0.58%) vSphere
7 4 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.29%) Ceph
8 3 (0.29%) LXC
9 2 (0.19%) HDFS
9 2 (0.19%) KVM
9 2 (0.19%) NFS
9 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.097%) iptables
10 1 (0.097%) Lustre
10 1 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.097%) Xen
Systems Management
1 775 (75.46%) Kubernetes
2 416 (40.51%) Terraform
3 243 (23.66%) Ansible
4 104 (10.13%) Grafana
5 100 (9.74%) Prometheus
6 69 (6.72%) Puppet
7 59 (5.74%) Progress Chef
8 44 (4.28%) Docker Swarm
9 27 (2.63%) Kibana
10 26 (2.53%) Packer
11 23 (2.24%) Podman
12 17 (1.66%) Istio
13 16 (1.56%) Consul
14 15 (1.46%) Argo
15 11 (1.07%) HP Fortify
15 11 (1.07%) Rancher
16 9 (0.88%) logstash
16 9 (0.88%) Nagios
16 9 (0.88%) Netcool
17 8 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 91 (8.86%) Microsoft
2 74 (7.21%) Splunk
3 63 (6.13%) Oracle
4 59 (5.74%) Google
5 58 (5.65%) VMware
6 28 (2.73%) Red Hat
7 22 (2.14%) Databricks
8 17 (1.66%) IBM
9 15 (1.46%) Atlassian
10 14 (1.36%) Dell
11 13 (1.27%) Cisco
12 12 (1.17%) CyberArk
12 12 (1.17%) TIBCO
13 11 (1.07%) New Relic
13 11 (1.07%) SAP
14 9 (0.88%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.88%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.78%) AppDynamics
15 8 (0.78%) EMC
15 8 (0.78%) Salesforce