Docker Contracts in the UK excluding London

Docker
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 93 67 55
Rank change year-on-year -26 -12 -5
Contract jobs citing Docker 450 798 1,247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.22% 3.47% 4.10%
As % of the System Software category 18.80% 22.89% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 576 891
10th Percentile £400 £425 £413
25th Percentile £448 £479 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +12.63%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £680
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 11
10th Percentile £49.63 £59.80 £41.75
25th Percentile £64.06 £61.25 £43.66
Median hourly rate £79.00 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +47.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £85.50 £75.50 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £52.89
% change year-on-year -10.00% +41.82% +11.34%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,394 3,486 4,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.80% 15.15% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,625 2,497 3,265
10th Percentile £179 £181 £158
25th Percentile £299 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +6.67% +6.16%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £553
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 176 233
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.53 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.17 £44.93 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -57.33% +154.69% -3.45%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £74.38 £49.35
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in the UK excluding London

Docker
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -31 129 £550 -2.65% 114
South West -18 88 £550 -2.22% 78
South East -41 86 £550 -5.17% 89
Scotland -6 80 £460 -3.97% 35
Yorkshire +15 65 £550 - 36
North West -50 54 £550 - 72
Midlands +16 31 £500 - 54
West Midlands +13 19 £619 +15.12% 25
Wales +29 18 £506 -3.57% 16
East of England -9 18 £625 +16.28% 28
East Midlands +12 12 £424 -11.72% 29
North East -15 10 £405 -42.14% 7
Northern Ireland 0 2 - - 9
Docker
UK

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 32 (7.11%) Confluence
2 27 (6.00%) Apache
3 25 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.89%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.56%) nginx
5 7 (1.56%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.33%) JBoss
7 4 (0.89%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.89%) SAS
8 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.44%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.44%) Traefik
10 1 (0.22%) Camunda
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.22%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (0.44%) RMDS
1 2 (0.44%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 259 (57.56%) AWS
2 164 (36.44%) Azure
3 74 (16.44%) OpenShift
4 56 (12.44%) GCP
5 46 (10.22%) Serverless
6 44 (9.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (9.33%) Amazon S3
8 37 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (7.78%) GitHub
10 30 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
10 30 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (4.22%) Snowflake
13 15 (3.33%) Entra ID
13 15 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (2.89%) Azure AKS
16 11 (2.44%) AWS CodePipeline
16 11 (2.44%) Kong
16 11 (2.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (7.33%) VPN
2 25 (5.56%) Firewall
3 23 (5.11%) DNS
4 21 (4.67%) Network Security
5 16 (3.56%) HTTP
6 14 (3.11%) TCP/IP
7 10 (2.22%) AMQP
8 9 (2.00%) BGP
8 9 (2.00%) Ethernet VPN
8 9 (2.00%) MPLS
8 9 (2.00%) Radio Access Network
9 5 (1.11%) 5G
9 5 (1.11%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.89%) Diameter Protocol
10 4 (0.89%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (0.89%) IPv4
10 4 (0.89%) iSCSI
10 4 (0.89%) LTE
10 4 (0.89%) SAN
10 4 (0.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (15.11%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (10.67%) NoSQL
3 44 (9.78%) Relational Database
4 31 (6.89%) Elasticsearch
5 27 (6.00%) MySQL
6 23 (5.11%) MongoDB
7 20 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (3.11%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (2.44%) Data Lake
10 10 (2.22%) DynamoDB
10 10 (2.22%) SQL Server
11 9 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (2.00%) Flink
11 9 (2.00%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.78%) InfluxDB
13 7 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (1.56%) Oracle Database
14 5 (1.11%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.11%) GIS
Development Applications
1 135 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 113 (25.11%) Git
3 86 (19.11%) GitLab
4 70 (15.56%) JIRA
5 37 (8.22%) SonarQube
6 30 (6.67%) JUnit
7 21 (4.67%) Cucumber
8 18 (4.00%) Selenium
9 17 (3.78%) Postman
10 14 (3.11%) Travis CI
11 13 (2.89%) REST Assured
12 12 (2.67%) Maven
13 10 (2.22%) Artifactory
13 10 (2.22%) CircleCI
13 10 (2.22%) Robot Framework
14 9 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (2.00%) Bitbucket
14 9 (2.00%) Mockito
14 9 (2.00%) TeamCity
14 9 (2.00%) TestRail
General
1 75 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 47 (10.44%) Public Sector
3 33 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (6.89%) Finance
5 21 (4.67%) Banking
6 12 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.22%) Retail
8 9 (2.00%) Law
8 9 (2.00%) Legal
9 8 (1.78%) Police
10 4 (0.89%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.89%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.67%) Marketing
12 2 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.44%) Electronics
13 1 (0.22%) Games
13 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Publishing
13 1 (0.22%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 120 (26.67%) Developer
2 106 (23.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 49 (10.89%) Java Developer
4 45 (10.00%) Senior
5 31 (6.89%) AWS Engineer
6 28 (6.22%) AWS DevOps
7 26 (5.78%) Architect
7 26 (5.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 21 (4.67%) Azure Engineer
9 20 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 20 (4.44%) Software Engineer
10 19 (4.22%) Lead
11 18 (4.00%) Site Engineer
12 17 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (3.11%) Test Engineer
14 13 (2.89%) Data Engineer
14 13 (2.89%) Senior DevOps
15 12 (2.67%) Full Stack Developer
15 12 (2.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (17.33%) REST
2 71 (15.78%) Spring Boot
3 60 (13.33%) Spring
4 47 (10.44%) Kafka
4 47 (10.44%) React
5 42 (9.33%) RESTful
6 40 (8.89%) Elastic Stack
7 33 (7.33%) Node.js
8 25 (5.56%) GraphQL
9 23 (5.11%) .NET
10 22 (4.89%) AWS CDK
11 20 (4.44%) CSS
11 20 (4.44%) HTML
11 20 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (4.44%) Web Services
11 20 (4.44%) YAML
12 18 (4.00%) OAuth
13 17 (3.78%) JSON
13 17 (3.78%) XML
14 16 (3.56%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.00%) Public Cloud
2 25 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.67%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.67%) Data Structures
4 13 (2.89%) NHS
5 12 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.78%) PKI
8 6 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.11%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.11%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.11%) Verilog
9 5 (1.11%) VHDL
10 4 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.89%) NVMe
10 4 (0.89%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 108 (24.00%) Linux
2 40 (8.89%) Windows
3 26 (5.78%) Unix
4 24 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (3.56%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.33%) CentOS
6 6 (1.33%) VMS
7 5 (1.11%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.89%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (0.89%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.22%) Android
9 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (56.44%) DevOps
2 217 (48.22%) CI/CD
3 156 (34.67%) Containerisation
4 153 (34.00%) Agile
5 104 (23.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 82 (18.22%) Scrum
7 76 (16.89%) Microservices
8 69 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (14.89%) Continuous Integration
9 67 (14.89%) Test Automation
10 55 (12.22%) Software Engineering
11 49 (10.89%) Configuration Management
12 46 (10.22%) TDD
13 40 (8.89%) Unit Testing
14 37 (8.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 34 (7.56%) Kanban
16 33 (7.33%) Computer Science
17 32 (7.11%) High Availability
18 30 (6.67%) Mentoring
18 30 (6.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 187 (41.56%) Python
2 146 (32.44%) Java
3 95 (21.11%) SQL
4 70 (15.56%) Bash
5 53 (11.78%) PowerShell
6 48 (10.67%) JavaScript
7 42 (9.33%) Go
8 38 (8.44%) TypeScript
9 31 (6.89%) Scala
10 29 (6.44%) C
11 28 (6.22%) Shell Script
12 25 (5.56%) Ruby
13 17 (3.78%) C#
14 13 (2.89%) Perl
15 11 (2.44%) C++
15 11 (2.44%) Groovy
16 10 (2.22%) PHP
17 9 (2.00%) Kotlin
18 5 (1.11%) SPARQL
19 4 (0.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 127 (28.22%) Security Cleared
2 71 (15.78%) SC Cleared
3 65 (14.44%) DV Cleared
4 25 (5.56%) Degree
5 19 (4.22%) AWS Certification
6 17 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.44%) RHCE
9 2 (0.44%) SANS
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.22%) GIAC
10 1 (0.22%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.22%) LPIC
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.67%) Accessibility
1 21 (4.67%) QA
2 6 (1.33%) GDPR
3 5 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.11%) NIST
4 4 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (0.89%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.67%) ISO 22301
5 3 (0.67%) NCSC
6 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.44%) WCAG
7 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.22%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.78%) VMware NSX
4 6 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.11%) NFS
6 4 (0.89%) GPFS
7 3 (0.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (0.67%) LXC
7 3 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.67%) vSphere
8 2 (0.44%) Ceph
8 2 (0.44%) HDFS
8 2 (0.44%) KVM
8 2 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.22%) Lustre
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 313 (69.56%) Kubernetes
2 178 (39.56%) Terraform
3 133 (29.56%) Ansible
4 70 (15.56%) Grafana
5 64 (14.22%) Prometheus
6 39 (8.67%) Progress Chef
7 35 (7.78%) Docker Swarm
8 32 (7.11%) Puppet
9 24 (5.33%) Kibana
10 16 (3.56%) Podman
11 12 (2.67%) Istio
11 12 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (2.44%) HP Fortify
13 9 (2.00%) logstash
14 8 (1.78%) Rancher
14 8 (1.78%) Zipkin
15 6 (1.33%) Graylog
15 6 (1.33%) Nagios
16 5 (1.11%) Nessus
16 5 (1.11%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 41 (9.11%) Splunk
2 30 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.67%) VMware
3 24 (5.33%) Google
4 20 (4.44%) Oracle
5 18 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 13 (2.89%) Atlassian
7 12 (2.67%) Databricks
8 7 (1.56%) Checkmarx
8 7 (1.56%) IBM
9 6 (1.33%) EMC
9 6 (1.33%) WSO2
10 5 (1.11%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.11%) Veracode
11 4 (0.89%) Brocade
11 4 (0.89%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.89%) NetApp
11 4 (0.89%) Sybase
11 4 (0.89%) Veritas
12 3 (0.67%) Cisco