Docker Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Docker
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Docker skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 36 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Docker 17 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 5.72% 0.70% -
As % of the System Software category 51.52% 5.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 0
10th Percentile £336 - -
25th Percentile £396 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.51% - -
75th Percentile £440 - -
90th Percentile £512 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £429 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -17.50% +4.00% -4.76%

All System Software Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 33 36 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 11.11% 12.59% 17.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 20 31
10th Percentile £367 £345 £163
25th Percentile £390 £396 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £431 £225
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% +91.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £475 £506 £486
90th Percentile £492 £578 £538
East Midlands median daily rate £418 £400 £350
% change year-on-year +4.38% +14.29% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £14.69
25th Percentile - £23.10 £14.95
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £16.01
Median % change year-on-year - +51.16% -3.93%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £17.69
90th Percentile - - £18.33
East Midlands median hourly rate - £21.26 £17.61
% change year-on-year - +20.73% -2.17%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in Northamptonshire

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Northamptonshire

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Northampton -1 17 £429 +20.51% 2
Docker
East Midlands

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 3 (17.65%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (5.88%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon Glacier
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
4 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) HTTP
1 3 (17.65%) HTTPS
1 3 (17.65%) SSL
2 2 (11.76%) DMZ
2 2 (11.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 7 (41.18%) Git
3 3 (17.65%) Maven
4 2 (11.76%) Gradle
4 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
4 2 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (11.76%) TeamCity
5 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (5.88%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (5.88%) IntelliJ
5 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Architect
1 4 (23.53%) Developer
1 4 (23.53%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Identity Management Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
1 4 (23.53%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Architect
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Solution Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Java Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Java Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) Spring
2 8 (47.06%) Hibernate
2 8 (47.06%) LDAP
2 8 (47.06%) OAuth
2 8 (47.06%) OpenID
2 8 (47.06%) RESTful
2 8 (47.06%) SAML
3 5 (29.41%) Spring Boot
3 5 (29.41%) Web Services
4 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
4 3 (17.65%) CSS
4 3 (17.65%) HTML
4 3 (17.65%) JPA
4 3 (17.65%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (17.65%) RAML
4 3 (17.65%) React
4 3 (17.65%) REST
4 3 (17.65%) Spring Batch
5 2 (11.76%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (11.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (17.65%) State Machine
3 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (70.59%) Containerisation
3 10 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (47.06%) DevSecOps
4 8 (47.06%) Microservices
4 8 (47.06%) RBAC
5 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (35.29%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (29.41%) Design Patterns
7 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
8 3 (17.65%) API Development
8 3 (17.65%) Clean Code
8 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (17.65%) Kalman Filter
9 2 (11.76%) Architectural Design
9 2 (11.76%) Continuous Delivery
9 2 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
9 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
9 2 (11.76%) SDLC
9 2 (11.76%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Perl
4 1 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) GDPR
1 8 (47.06%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
2 8 (47.06%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Kibana
3 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) IBM
2 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (41.18%) Ping Identity
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk