Docker Contracts in the Thames Valley

Docker
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 90 79
Rank change year-on-year +8 -11 -35
Contract jobs citing Docker 48 55 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.82% 1.92% 2.70%
As % of the System Software category 14.77% 16.03% 19.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 31 70
10th Percentile £425 £413 £404
25th Percentile £481 £465 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £519
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +6.02% +15.28%
75th Percentile £669 £681 £625
90th Percentile £698 £788 £689
South East median daily rate £538 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -8.51% +2.17% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £58.19 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £60.16 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.38 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.21% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £67.66 -
90th Percentile - £69.06 -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £75.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -36.67% +57.89% -27.48%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 325 343 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.32% 11.98% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 249 362
10th Percentile £205 £206 £157
25th Percentile £363 £358 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £481 £459
Median % change year-on-year +14.50% +4.75% +4.86%
75th Percentile £608 £590 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £529 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.70% +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 17
10th Percentile £46.25 £47.77 £12.25
25th Percentile £47.50 £49.94 £13.00
Median hourly rate £58.49 £56.88 £13.70
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% +315.15% -37.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £20.00
90th Percentile - £79.68 £67.42
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £56.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -2.44% +181.25% -14.89%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 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
Berkshire -6 40 £613 +18.07% 14
Buckinghamshire +27 5 £575 -6.12% 10
Oxfordshire +1 3 £500 +7.53% 3
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (14.58%) Apache
1 7 (14.58%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.25%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.08%) JBoss
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 37 (77.08%) AWS
2 30 (62.50%) Azure
3 10 (20.83%) GCP
4 9 (18.75%) OpenShift
5 7 (14.58%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (12.50%) SaaS
7 5 (10.42%) PaaS
8 4 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 4 (8.33%) Serverless
9 3 (6.25%) Azure API Management
9 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 3 (6.25%) IaaS
10 2 (4.17%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (4.17%) GitHub
10 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (4.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.83%) VPN
2 7 (14.58%) BGP
2 7 (14.58%) Ethernet VPN
2 7 (14.58%) MPLS
2 7 (14.58%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (6.25%) Network Security
4 1 (2.08%) DHCP
4 1 (2.08%) DNS
4 1 (2.08%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 7 (14.58%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.25%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 20 (41.67%) GitLab
3 19 (39.58%) JIRA
4 13 (27.08%) Selenium
5 12 (25.00%) Cucumber
5 12 (25.00%) REST Assured
5 12 (25.00%) SonarQube
6 7 (14.58%) Git
6 7 (14.58%) Robot Framework
6 7 (14.58%) TestRail
7 3 (6.25%) Visual Studio
8 2 (4.17%) JUnit
9 1 (2.08%) Appium
9 1 (2.08%) JMeter
9 1 (2.08%) Mockito
9 1 (2.08%) MSTest
9 1 (2.08%) NUnit
9 1 (2.08%) SpecFlow
9 1 (2.08%) Spinnaker
9 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.67%) Law
3 8 (16.67%) Police
4 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Developer
2 11 (22.92%) Senior
3 8 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Java Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Senior Java Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Java Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Java Technical Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Ruby Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (47.92%) REST
2 13 (27.08%) ARM Templates
3 12 (25.00%) Java EE
4 8 (16.67%) SOAP
5 7 (14.58%) NETCONF
5 7 (14.58%) RESTCONF
5 7 (14.58%) Web Services
5 7 (14.58%) YANG
6 6 (12.50%) Spring
6 6 (12.50%) Spring Boot
7 5 (10.42%) .NET
8 4 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (8.33%) Kafka
8 4 (8.33%) Node.js
9 3 (6.25%) React
9 3 (6.25%) Ruby on Rails
10 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
10 2 (4.17%) HTML
10 2 (4.17%) Mustache
10 2 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (64.58%) Containerisation
2 29 (60.42%) DevOps
3 25 (52.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (45.83%) CI/CD
5 21 (43.75%) Test Automation
6 19 (39.58%) Technical Leadership
7 16 (33.33%) Configuration Management
7 16 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (31.25%) Agile
9 13 (27.08%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (25.00%) Decision-Making
10 12 (25.00%) Software Architecture
11 11 (22.92%) Scrum
12 10 (20.83%) Software Engineering
13 9 (18.75%) Microservices
14 8 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
14 8 (16.67%) Integration Testing
14 8 (16.67%) Unit Testing
14 8 (16.67%) Workflow
15 7 (14.58%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) Java
2 15 (31.25%) Python
3 10 (20.83%) SQL
4 6 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (12.50%) Ruby
5 5 (10.42%) C#
6 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
7 3 (6.25%) Bash
7 3 (6.25%) PHP
8 2 (4.17%) Scala
9 1 (2.08%) Perl
9 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (35.42%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.17%) Degree
4 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.08%) NFS
3 1 (2.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 39 (81.25%) Kubernetes
2 28 (58.33%) Terraform
3 20 (41.67%) Ansible
4 12 (25.00%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (25.00%) Podman
5 7 (14.58%) Istio
5 7 (14.58%) Rancher
6 3 (6.25%) Grafana
6 3 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (4.17%) Argo
7 2 (4.17%) Kustomize
7 2 (4.17%) Puppet
8 1 (2.08%) CFEngine
8 1 (2.08%) Kibana
8 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (16.67%) Google
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.25%) VMware
4 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.08%) Splunk