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 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 91 66 56
Rank change year-on-year -25 -10 -3
Contract jobs citing Docker 455 777 1,233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.18% 3.39% 4.03%
As % of the System Software category 18.23% 22.41% 26.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 548 862
10th Percentile £400 £414 £413
25th Percentile £445 £479 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +9.28%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 24 12
10th Percentile £49.25 £60.07 £41.75
25th Percentile £63.75 £62.19 £42.18
Median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +52.63% -18.10%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £49.83
90th Percentile £86.00 £78.00 £56.83
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £75.00 £48.27
% change year-on-year -3.00% +55.38% -8.16%

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 2,496 3,467 4,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.97% 15.13% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,707 2,449 3,287
10th Percentile £184 £181 £158
25th Percentile £313 £306 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £479 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +6.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £650 £680 £642
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 164 229
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £12.72
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £48.12 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.85% +174.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £23.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £49.50
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 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 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
North of England -21 134 £550 -3.72% 112
South West -4 101 £550 - 102
South East -50 80 £538 -8.51% 81
Scotland -9 72 £456 -8.80% 25
Yorkshire +32 68 £550 - 32
North West -39 56 £550 - 75
Midlands +8 31 £500 - 51
East of England -13 19 £650 +18.18% 33
Wales +30 18 £506 -6.90% 16
West Midlands -3 18 £600 +9.09% 22
East Midlands +8 13 £450 -5.76% 29
North East -11 10 £405 -42.14% 7
Northern Ireland -1 2 - - 14
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 31 (6.81%) Confluence
2 24 (5.27%) Apache
3 23 (5.05%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (3.08%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.76%) OpenStack
6 7 (1.54%) nginx
7 6 (1.32%) JBoss
8 4 (0.88%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.44%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.44%) SAS
9 2 (0.44%) Traefik
10 1 (0.22%) Camunda
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
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%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 268 (58.90%) AWS
2 166 (36.48%) Azure
3 79 (17.36%) OpenShift
4 59 (12.97%) GCP
5 47 (10.33%) Serverless
6 44 (9.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 43 (9.45%) Amazon S3
8 38 (8.35%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (7.91%) GitHub
10 31 (6.81%) Amazon EC2
11 30 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
12 23 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (4.18%) Snowflake
14 16 (3.52%) Entra ID
15 15 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (2.86%) Azure AKS
18 12 (2.64%) PaaS
19 11 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
19 11 (2.42%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 34 (7.47%) VPN
2 24 (5.27%) DNS
2 24 (5.27%) Firewall
3 21 (4.62%) Network Security
4 15 (3.30%) HTTP
4 15 (3.30%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.42%) AMQP
6 8 (1.76%) Radio Access Network
7 7 (1.54%) BGP
7 7 (1.54%) Ethernet VPN
7 7 (1.54%) MPLS
8 5 (1.10%) 5G
8 5 (1.10%) LTE
8 5 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.88%) DHCP
9 4 (0.88%) Diameter Protocol
9 4 (0.88%) IPv4
9 4 (0.88%) MQTT
10 3 (0.66%) BIG-IP
10 3 (0.66%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (14.51%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (10.33%) Relational Database
3 45 (9.89%) NoSQL
4 36 (7.91%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (5.05%) MySQL
6 21 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (4.40%) MongoDB
8 14 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (2.64%) Data Lake
10 10 (2.20%) DynamoDB
10 10 (2.20%) InfluxDB
10 10 (2.20%) SQL Server
11 9 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.98%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (1.76%) Big Data
12 8 (1.76%) Flink
13 7 (1.54%) Oracle Database
14 5 (1.10%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 132 (29.01%) Jenkins
2 113 (24.84%) Git
3 90 (19.78%) GitLab
4 66 (14.51%) JIRA
5 36 (7.91%) SonarQube
6 28 (6.15%) JUnit
7 19 (4.18%) Cucumber
8 18 (3.96%) Selenium
9 13 (2.86%) Bitbucket
9 13 (2.86%) REST Assured
9 13 (2.86%) Travis CI
10 12 (2.64%) Postman
11 10 (2.20%) Artifactory
11 10 (2.20%) Maven
11 10 (2.20%) Mockito
11 10 (2.20%) Visual Studio
12 9 (1.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 9 (1.98%) CircleCI
13 8 (1.76%) Robot Framework
13 8 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 68 (14.95%) Social Skills
2 49 (10.77%) Public Sector
3 34 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (5.93%) Finance
5 18 (3.96%) Banking
6 13 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.20%) Retail
8 9 (1.98%) Law
8 9 (1.98%) Legal
9 8 (1.76%) Police
10 4 (0.88%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.66%) Marketing
12 2 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.44%) Electronics
12 2 (0.44%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.22%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 118 (25.93%) Developer
2 108 (23.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 48 (10.55%) Java Developer
4 43 (9.45%) Senior
5 33 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
6 29 (6.37%) AWS DevOps
7 27 (5.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 26 (5.71%) Architect
9 25 (5.49%) Software Engineer
10 22 (4.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 22 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
11 19 (4.18%) Site Engineer
12 18 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (3.96%) Lead
13 17 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
14 15 (3.30%) Data Engineer
15 13 (2.86%) Full Stack Developer
15 13 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
16 12 (2.64%) Python Developer
16 12 (2.64%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (16.70%) REST
2 71 (15.60%) Spring Boot
3 63 (13.85%) Spring
4 51 (11.21%) React
5 50 (10.99%) Kafka
6 45 (9.89%) Elastic Stack
7 43 (9.45%) RESTful
8 36 (7.91%) Node.js
9 26 (5.71%) .NET
10 23 (5.05%) GraphQL
11 22 (4.84%) AWS CDK
11 22 (4.84%) RabbitMQ
12 21 (4.62%) OAuth
13 20 (4.40%) HTML
13 20 (4.40%) YAML
14 19 (4.18%) CSS
14 19 (4.18%) Web Services
15 18 (3.96%) JSON
16 17 (3.74%) XML
17 15 (3.30%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.37%) Public Cloud
2 25 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (5.27%) Cloud Native
4 21 (4.62%) Data Structures
5 15 (3.30%) Linux Command Line
6 14 (3.08%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.86%) NHS
8 10 (2.20%) PKI
9 8 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.32%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.10%) Verilog
11 5 (1.10%) VHDL
12 4 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.88%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.66%) Client/Server
13 3 (0.66%) Clustering
13 3 (0.66%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 116 (25.49%) Linux
2 35 (7.69%) Windows
3 25 (5.49%) Unix
4 24 (5.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.64%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.32%) CentOS
6 6 (1.32%) VMS
7 5 (1.10%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.22%) Android
10 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.22%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (57.58%) DevOps
2 229 (50.33%) CI/CD
3 162 (35.60%) Containerisation
4 156 (34.29%) Agile
5 110 (24.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 82 (18.02%) Microservices
7 78 (17.14%) Scrum
8 72 (15.82%) Test Automation
9 69 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (14.51%) Continuous Integration
11 58 (12.75%) Software Engineering
12 52 (11.43%) Configuration Management
13 48 (10.55%) TDD
14 38 (8.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 37 (8.13%) Unit Testing
16 35 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
17 33 (7.25%) High Availability
18 32 (7.03%) Computer Science
19 31 (6.81%) Kanban
19 31 (6.81%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 187 (41.10%) Python
2 151 (33.19%) Java
3 90 (19.78%) SQL
4 74 (16.26%) Bash
5 54 (11.87%) JavaScript
5 54 (11.87%) PowerShell
6 41 (9.01%) Go
7 40 (8.79%) TypeScript
8 33 (7.25%) Shell Script
9 32 (7.03%) Scala
10 30 (6.59%) C
11 26 (5.71%) Ruby
12 17 (3.74%) C#
13 13 (2.86%) Perl
14 11 (2.42%) C++
15 10 (2.20%) Groovy
16 9 (1.98%) Kotlin
17 7 (1.54%) PHP
18 5 (1.10%) SPARQL
19 3 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 141 (30.99%) Security Cleared
2 79 (17.36%) SC Cleared
3 70 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 24 (5.27%) Degree
5 20 (4.40%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (2.42%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.66%) RHCE
11 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.44%) SANS
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.22%) GIAC
12 1 (0.22%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.22%) LPIC
12 1 (0.22%) OCP
12 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.22%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.62%) Accessibility
1 21 (4.62%) QA
2 7 (1.54%) GDPR
3 5 (1.10%) HIPAA
3 5 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.10%) NIST
4 3 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.66%) ISO 22301
4 3 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.44%) NCSC
5 2 (0.44%) WCAG
6 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.20%) Hyper-V
3 10 (2.20%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.66%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (0.66%) LXC
5 3 (0.66%) NFS
5 3 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.44%) Ceph
6 2 (0.44%) GPFS
6 2 (0.44%) HDFS
6 2 (0.44%) KVM
6 2 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.44%) vSphere
7 1 (0.22%) Lustre
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 319 (70.11%) Kubernetes
2 180 (39.56%) Terraform
3 139 (30.55%) Ansible
4 69 (15.16%) Grafana
5 64 (14.07%) Prometheus
6 39 (8.57%) Progress Chef
7 36 (7.91%) Docker Swarm
8 32 (7.03%) Puppet
9 24 (5.27%) Kibana
10 16 (3.52%) Podman
11 12 (2.64%) Istio
11 12 (2.64%) logstash
11 12 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (2.42%) HP Fortify
12 11 (2.42%) Rancher
13 8 (1.76%) Zipkin
14 6 (1.32%) Graylog
14 6 (1.32%) Nagios
14 6 (1.32%) OPNET
14 6 (1.32%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 41 (9.01%) Splunk
2 30 (6.59%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.71%) VMware
4 24 (5.27%) Google
5 19 (4.18%) Red Hat
6 18 (3.96%) Oracle
7 17 (3.74%) Atlassian
8 12 (2.64%) Databricks
9 6 (1.32%) Checkmarx
9 6 (1.32%) WSO2
10 5 (1.10%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.10%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.10%) IBM
10 5 (1.10%) Veracode
11 4 (0.88%) Cisco
12 3 (0.66%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.66%) F5
12 3 (0.66%) New Relic
12 3 (0.66%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.44%) Confluent