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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 34 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Docker 16 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 5.11% 1.59% -
As % of the System Software category 48.48% 10.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 0
10th Percentile £331 £382 -
25th Percentile £387 £422 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £467 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% - -
75th Percentile £440 £502 -
90th Percentile £499 £523 -
East Midlands median daily rate £429 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -15.05% +1.00% -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 39 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 10.54% 15.48% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 24 26
10th Percentile £358 £383 £189
25th Percentile £375 £400 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £435 £225
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +93.17% -47.98%
75th Percentile £474 £488 £435
90th Percentile £492 £525 £519
East Midlands median daily rate £415 £400 £300
% change year-on-year +3.75% +33.33% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £16.71
25th Percentile - £23.10 £17.39
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £19.89
Median % change year-on-year - +21.68% +12.23%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £22.48
90th Percentile - - £23.23
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £21.26 £17.72
% change year-on-year +18.30% +19.98% +14.32%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Docker job vacancy trend 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 26 October 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 26 October 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 16 £429 -8.14% 2
Docker
East Midlands

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon Glacier
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) HTTP
1 3 (18.75%) HTTPS
1 3 (18.75%) SSL
2 2 (12.50%) DMZ
2 2 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database
2 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 6 (37.50%) Git
3 3 (18.75%) Maven
4 2 (12.50%) Gradle
5 1 (6.25%) IntelliJ
5 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
1 4 (25.00%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Identity Management Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Java Developer
1 4 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Architect
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Solution Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Java Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Java Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) Spring
2 8 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 8 (50.00%) LDAP
2 8 (50.00%) OAuth
2 8 (50.00%) OpenID
2 8 (50.00%) RESTful
2 8 (50.00%) SAML
3 5 (31.25%) Web Services
4 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
5 3 (18.75%) CSS
5 3 (18.75%) HTML
5 3 (18.75%) JPA
5 3 (18.75%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (18.75%) RAML
5 3 (18.75%) React
5 3 (18.75%) REST
5 3 (18.75%) Spring Batch
6 2 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (18.75%) State Machine
3 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (50.00%) DevSecOps
4 8 (50.00%) RBAC
5 7 (43.75%) Microservices
6 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (31.25%) Design Patterns
8 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
9 3 (18.75%) API Development
9 3 (18.75%) Clean Code
9 3 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
10 2 (12.50%) Adaptive Web Design
10 2 (12.50%) Contingency Planning
10 2 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
10 2 (12.50%) Creative Problem-Solving
10 2 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
10 2 (12.50%) SDLC
10 2 (12.50%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) PL/SQL
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) GDPR
1 8 (50.00%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Kubernetes
2 8 (50.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) IBM
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) Ping Identity
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle