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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 54 40
Rank change year-on-year -17 -14 -11
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,080 1,965 4,032
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.92% 4.12% 5.70%
As % of the System Software category 26.40% 31.91% 41.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,452 2,997
10th Percentile £406 £450 £448
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 £680
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 12 33 9
10th Percentile £47.08 £60.81 £41.10
25th Percentile £59.38 £65.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £72.75 £75.00 £48.36
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +55.10% -20.07%
75th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £65.54
90th Percentile - £89.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £75.00 £48.27
% change year-on-year -3.00% +55.38% -8.16%

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 4,091 6,158 9,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.08% 12.90% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,873 4,422 6,984
10th Percentile £204 £200 £195
25th Percentile £350 £380 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.35%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £633
90th Percentile £688 £738 £710
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 205 254
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.56 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.50 £14.75
Median hourly rate £22.23 £52.13 £18.58
Median % change year-on-year -57.37% +180.65% -2.24%
75th Percentile £58.69 £66.00 £28.41
90th Percentile £76.50 £76.30 £52.50
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.92 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.97% +189.03% -5.00%

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 2 June 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker in England over the 6 months to 2 June 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 2 June 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 -16 648 £550 -13.73% 457
North of England -21 134 £550 -3.72% 111
South West -4 101 £550 - 100
South East -50 80 £538 -8.51% 80
Yorkshire +32 68 £550 - 32
North West -39 56 £550 - 74
Midlands +8 31 £500 - 51
East of England -13 19 £650 +18.18% 33
West Midlands -3 18 £600 +9.09% 22
East Midlands +8 13 £450 -5.76% 29
North East -11 10 £405 -42.14% 7
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 60 (5.56%) Confluence
2 42 (3.89%) Apache
3 32 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (2.50%) nginx
5 22 (2.04%) OpenStack
6 18 (1.67%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.83%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.65%) IIS
8 7 (0.65%) JBoss
9 6 (0.56%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.46%) Camunda
10 5 (0.46%) CMS
10 5 (0.46%) WildFly
11 4 (0.37%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.37%) Luigi
11 4 (0.37%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.37%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.28%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.093%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Endur
2 2 (0.19%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.093%) Magento
3 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.093%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.093%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 598 (55.37%) AWS
2 374 (34.63%) Azure
3 153 (14.17%) GCP
4 124 (11.48%) Serverless
5 119 (11.02%) GitHub
6 93 (8.61%) OpenShift
7 91 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
8 87 (8.06%) Amazon S3
9 85 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
10 71 (6.57%) Amazon EC2
11 63 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 53 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
13 40 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
14 39 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 32 (2.96%) PaaS
17 30 (2.78%) Azure AKS
18 29 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
19 27 (2.50%) SaaS
20 22 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.07%) DNS
1 44 (4.07%) Firewall
2 39 (3.61%) VPN
3 32 (2.96%) Network Security
4 30 (2.78%) HTTP
4 30 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.76%) DHCP
6 14 (1.30%) AMQP
7 12 (1.11%) Kerberos
8 9 (0.83%) Radio Access Network
8 9 (0.83%) SSL
9 8 (0.74%) BGP
9 8 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
9 8 (0.74%) MPLS
10 7 (0.65%) IPv4
10 7 (0.65%) SAN
10 7 (0.65%) VLAN
11 6 (0.56%) 5G
11 6 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
11 6 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (10.19%) NoSQL
2 103 (9.54%) PostgreSQL
3 78 (7.22%) Apache Cassandra
4 71 (6.57%) Relational Database
5 62 (5.74%) MySQL
6 52 (4.81%) MongoDB
7 46 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
8 43 (3.98%) SQL Server
9 40 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (2.41%) DynamoDB
11 20 (1.85%) Data Lake
12 19 (1.76%) Big Data
13 17 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (1.20%) RDBMS
15 13 (1.20%) Redis
16 10 (0.93%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.93%) Hadoop
16 10 (0.93%) InfluxDB
17 9 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 271 (25.09%) Git
2 264 (24.44%) Jenkins
3 153 (14.17%) GitLab
4 108 (10.00%) JIRA
5 46 (4.26%) SonarQube
6 43 (3.98%) JUnit
7 39 (3.61%) Selenium
8 37 (3.43%) TeamCity
9 36 (3.33%) Cucumber
10 28 (2.59%) Cypress.io
11 26 (2.41%) Bitbucket
12 22 (2.04%) Artifactory
12 22 (2.04%) Maven
12 22 (2.04%) Mockito
13 21 (1.94%) CircleCI
14 18 (1.67%) NUnit
15 15 (1.39%) JMeter
15 15 (1.39%) Visual Studio
16 14 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 14 (1.30%) Travis CI
General
1 186 (17.22%) Social Skills
2 136 (12.59%) Finance
3 99 (9.17%) Public Sector
4 68 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (5.37%) Banking
6 27 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 23 (2.13%) Retail
8 21 (1.94%) Front Office
9 19 (1.76%) Investment Banking
10 18 (1.67%) Law
11 12 (1.11%) Marketing
12 9 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.74%) Legal
13 8 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.74%) Police
14 5 (0.46%) Electronics
14 5 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.37%) Aviation
15 4 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 293 (27.13%) Developer
2 237 (21.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 168 (15.56%) Senior
4 108 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 91 (8.43%) Java Developer
6 69 (6.39%) AWS Engineer
7 62 (5.74%) Azure Engineer
8 61 (5.65%) Architect
9 58 (5.37%) AWS DevOps
10 51 (4.72%) Lead
11 50 (4.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 49 (4.54%) Cloud Engineer
13 47 (4.35%) Senior Developer
14 45 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
15 42 (3.89%) Python Developer
15 42 (3.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 34 (3.15%) Full Stack Developer
17 33 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
18 31 (2.87%) Site Engineer
19 30 (2.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (16.20%) Kafka
2 123 (11.39%) REST
3 112 (10.37%) React
4 110 (10.19%) Spring Boot
5 107 (9.91%) Spring
6 93 (8.61%) Node.js
7 91 (8.43%) .NET
8 90 (8.33%) RESTful
9 58 (5.37%) Elastic Stack
10 50 (4.63%) RabbitMQ
11 44 (4.07%) HTML
12 43 (3.98%) AngularJS
13 41 (3.80%) GraphQL
14 38 (3.52%) YAML
15 37 (3.43%) JSON
16 33 (3.06%) Web Services
17 32 (2.96%) CSS
18 31 (2.87%) SOAP
19 29 (2.69%) .NET Core
20 26 (2.41%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 53 (4.91%) Public Cloud
2 42 (3.89%) Cloud Native
3 40 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
5 33 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 32 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
7 24 (2.22%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (1.85%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.39%) Clustering
10 13 (1.20%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.20%) PKI
11 12 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.93%) Onboarding
13 9 (0.83%) Mobile App
13 9 (0.83%) Replication
14 8 (0.74%) Derivative
14 8 (0.74%) Fixed Income
14 8 (0.74%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 261 (24.17%) Linux
2 53 (4.91%) Windows
3 51 (4.72%) Unix
4 45 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.94%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.02%) CentOS
7 10 (0.93%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.46%) Android
8 5 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.46%) Solaris
8 5 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.28%) VMS
10 1 (0.093%) Debian
10 1 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.093%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.093%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (51.94%) DevOps
2 493 (45.65%) CI/CD
3 397 (36.76%) Agile
4 354 (32.78%) Containerisation
5 239 (22.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 232 (21.48%) Microservices
7 200 (18.52%) Software Engineering
8 163 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
9 145 (13.43%) Test Automation
10 138 (12.78%) Continuous Integration
11 126 (11.67%) Scrum
12 97 (8.98%) TDD
13 88 (8.15%) Configuration Management
14 75 (6.94%) Unit Testing
15 73 (6.76%) Full Stack Development
15 73 (6.76%) High Availability
15 73 (6.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 61 (5.65%) Computer Science
17 56 (5.19%) SDLC
18 55 (5.09%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 443 (41.02%) Python
2 312 (28.89%) Java
3 217 (20.09%) SQL
4 151 (13.98%) Bash
5 141 (13.06%) Go
6 137 (12.69%) JavaScript
7 100 (9.26%) PowerShell
8 83 (7.69%) TypeScript
9 67 (6.20%) C#
10 53 (4.91%) Shell Script
11 39 (3.61%) C
11 39 (3.61%) Ruby
12 33 (3.06%) Scala
13 25 (2.31%) C++
14 22 (2.04%) Groovy
15 18 (1.67%) PHP
16 17 (1.57%) Perl
17 13 (1.20%) Bicep
18 11 (1.02%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 299 (27.69%) Security Cleared
2 211 (19.54%) SC Cleared
3 101 (9.35%) DV Cleared
4 75 (6.94%) Degree
5 41 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (2.96%) AWS Certification
7 28 (2.59%) Azure Certification
8 18 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.28%) RHCE
12 2 (0.19%) CISSP
12 2 (0.19%) OCP
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.093%) GIAC
13 1 (0.093%) Linux+ Certification
13 1 (0.093%) LPIC
13 1 (0.093%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (2.96%) QA
2 13 (1.20%) Accessibility
2 13 (1.20%) GDPR
3 11 (1.02%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (1.02%) PCI DSS
4 10 (0.93%) NIST
5 5 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.46%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.46%) NCSC
5 5 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.28%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.093%) SLA
8 1 (0.093%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 35 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.93%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.56%) Firmware
7 5 (0.46%) vSphere
8 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.28%) Ceph
9 3 (0.28%) LXC
10 2 (0.19%) HDFS
10 2 (0.19%) KVM
10 2 (0.19%) NFS
10 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.093%) Lustre
11 1 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.093%) Xen
Systems Management
1 821 (76.02%) Kubernetes
2 441 (40.83%) Terraform
3 255 (23.61%) Ansible
4 115 (10.65%) Grafana
5 106 (9.81%) Prometheus
6 71 (6.57%) Puppet
7 60 (5.56%) Progress Chef
8 45 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
9 28 (2.59%) Packer
10 27 (2.50%) Kibana
11 26 (2.41%) Podman
12 16 (1.48%) Istio
13 15 (1.39%) Argo
14 14 (1.30%) Rancher
15 13 (1.20%) Consul
16 12 (1.11%) logstash
17 11 (1.02%) HP Fortify
18 8 (0.74%) Netcool
19 7 (0.65%) Nagios
19 7 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (8.15%) Microsoft
2 70 (6.48%) Splunk
3 68 (6.30%) Google
3 68 (6.30%) Oracle
4 52 (4.81%) VMware
5 28 (2.59%) Red Hat
6 26 (2.41%) Databricks
7 20 (1.85%) Atlassian
8 17 (1.57%) IBM
9 13 (1.20%) Cisco
9 13 (1.20%) Dell
10 12 (1.11%) Confluent
10 12 (1.11%) TIBCO
11 11 (1.02%) CyberArk
11 11 (1.02%) New Relic
11 11 (1.02%) SAP
12 10 (0.93%) Dynatrace
12 10 (0.93%) Salesforce
13 8 (0.74%) AppDynamics
14 7 (0.65%) WSO2