Docker
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 50 38
Rank change year-on-year -25 -12 -6
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,202 2,647 5,202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.76% 4.43% 5.86%
As % of the System Software category 25.62% 33.58% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 879 1,902 3,836
10th Percentile £405 £450 £431
25th Percentile £460 £511 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% +11.62%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £722 £775 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +12.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 33 21
10th Percentile £47.40 £60.81 £42.33
25th Percentile £62.50 £65.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +36.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.50 £65.54
90th Percentile - £85.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 £70.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +12.86% +47.37% -13.64%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,691 7,882 12,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.76% 13.21% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,206 5,629 8,605
10th Percentile £198 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £483 £450
% change year-on-year -4.69% +7.26% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 280 317
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.95 £13.20
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.88% +167.13% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £44.69
90th Percentile £77.90 £75.00 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £41.88 £18.12
% change year-on-year -47.46% +131.16% +2.93%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the UK

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Docker in the UK

Docker
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England -27 993 £550 -8.33% 798
London -27 591 £550 -15.38% 395
Work from Home -24 445 £550 -7.17% 554
UK excluding London -35 434 £525 -4.55% 453
North of England -41 116 £550 -4.35% 112
South East -48 88 £550 -6.38% 103
Scotland -5 82 £461 -3.71% 48
South West -24 78 £550 -2.22% 74
Yorkshire +17 55 £550 - 33
North West -50 50 £550 - 69
Midlands +21 34 £500 - 67
West Midlands +16 20 £575 +4.55% 29
Wales +23 17 £500 -1.23% 14
East of England -9 17 £650 +20.93% 35
East Midlands +24 14 £450 -6.25% 38
North East -14 11 £410 -39.26% 12
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 13

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 60 (4.99%) Confluence
2 46 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (3.49%) Apache
4 25 (2.08%) OpenStack
5 23 (1.91%) Apache Spark
6 20 (1.66%) nginx
7 8 (0.67%) JBoss
7 8 (0.67%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.58%) IIS
9 6 (0.50%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.50%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.42%) CMS
10 5 (0.42%) Luigi
11 4 (0.33%) SAS
11 4 (0.33%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.25%) Camunda
12 3 (0.25%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.083%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.42%) Endur
1 5 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.17%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.17%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 662 (55.07%) AWS
2 400 (33.28%) Azure
3 158 (13.14%) GCP
4 150 (12.48%) Serverless
5 127 (10.57%) GitHub
6 118 (9.82%) Amazon S3
7 113 (9.40%) OpenShift
8 107 (8.90%) AWS Lambda
9 102 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (7.15%) Amazon EC2
11 78 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 73 (6.07%) Amazon EKS
13 56 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
14 47 (3.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 45 (3.74%) SaaS
16 43 (3.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 41 (3.41%) PaaS
18 36 (3.00%) IaaS
19 34 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
20 33 (2.75%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.08%) Firewall
2 46 (3.83%) DNS
3 37 (3.08%) VPN
4 35 (2.91%) Network Security
5 32 (2.66%) TCP/IP
6 24 (2.00%) HTTP
7 22 (1.83%) DHCP
8 15 (1.25%) SAN
9 13 (1.08%) AMQP
10 12 (1.00%) BGP
10 12 (1.00%) Ethernet VPN
10 12 (1.00%) MPLS
10 12 (1.00%) Radio Access Network
11 10 (0.83%) Kerberos
11 10 (0.83%) VLAN
12 9 (0.75%) 5G
13 8 (0.67%) NAS
14 7 (0.58%) MQTT
15 6 (0.50%) DMZ
15 6 (0.50%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (12.06%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (9.73%) NoSQL
3 79 (6.57%) Relational Database
4 73 (6.07%) Apache Cassandra
5 65 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
5 65 (5.41%) MySQL
6 64 (5.32%) MongoDB
7 54 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
8 47 (3.91%) SQL Server
9 27 (2.25%) DynamoDB
10 25 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (1.66%) Data Lake
11 20 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (1.50%) Big Data
13 17 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
13 17 (1.41%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.16%) Redis
15 12 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
15 12 (1.00%) Flink
16 11 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 327 (27.20%) Jenkins
2 302 (25.12%) Git
3 154 (12.81%) GitLab
4 117 (9.73%) JIRA
5 65 (5.41%) SonarQube
6 64 (5.32%) JUnit
7 56 (4.66%) Cucumber
8 51 (4.24%) Maven
9 50 (4.16%) Selenium
10 44 (3.66%) TeamCity
11 32 (2.66%) Cypress.io
12 27 (2.25%) Postman
13 26 (2.16%) Bitbucket
14 23 (1.91%) Gradle
14 23 (1.91%) Mockito
15 21 (1.75%) Artifactory
16 20 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
17 19 (1.58%) NUnit
18 18 (1.50%) CircleCI
18 18 (1.50%) JMeter
General
1 214 (17.80%) Social Skills
2 130 (10.82%) Finance
3 113 (9.40%) Public Sector
4 59 (4.91%) Banking
5 52 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (2.58%) Telecoms
7 26 (2.16%) Retail
8 22 (1.83%) Law
9 21 (1.75%) Front Office
10 19 (1.58%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 15 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (0.92%) Marketing
13 10 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (0.75%) Legal
14 9 (0.75%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.67%) Police
16 5 (0.42%) Electronics
17 4 (0.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 352 (29.28%) Developer
2 237 (19.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 169 (14.06%) Senior
4 117 (9.73%) Java Developer
5 110 (9.15%) Software Engineer
6 84 (6.99%) AWS Engineer
7 70 (5.82%) Azure Engineer
8 66 (5.49%) Architect
8 66 (5.49%) AWS DevOps
9 57 (4.74%) Lead
10 56 (4.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 55 (4.58%) Full Stack Developer
12 51 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
13 50 (4.16%) Senior Software Engineer
14 45 (3.74%) Senior Developer
15 43 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
16 40 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 39 (3.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 36 (3.00%) Python Developer
19 33 (2.75%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (15.14%) Kafka
2 180 (14.98%) REST
3 152 (12.65%) Spring Boot
4 148 (12.31%) Spring
5 137 (11.40%) React
6 122 (10.15%) Node.js
7 99 (8.24%) RESTful
8 75 (6.24%) .NET
9 70 (5.82%) Elastic Stack
10 52 (4.33%) HTML
11 49 (4.08%) AngularJS
11 49 (4.08%) Web Services
12 47 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
13 43 (3.58%) SOAP
14 42 (3.49%) CSS
15 41 (3.41%) JSON
16 36 (3.00%) GraphQL
17 35 (2.91%) ARM Templates
18 32 (2.66%) AWS CDK
18 32 (2.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (4.91%) Public Cloud
2 50 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (3.83%) Cloud Native
4 44 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
5 32 (2.66%) Linux Command Line
5 32 (2.66%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.41%) Data Structures
7 27 (2.25%) Data Centre
8 20 (1.66%) Algorithms
8 20 (1.66%) Clustering
8 20 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 15 (1.25%) NHS
11 14 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.00%) PKI
12 12 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (0.92%) Replication
14 10 (0.83%) Client/Server
15 9 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 263 (21.88%) Linux
2 88 (7.32%) Windows
3 65 (5.41%) Unix
4 44 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (3.41%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
7 12 (1.00%) CentOS
8 8 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.67%) Solaris
9 7 (0.58%) Android
10 6 (0.50%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.42%) VMS
12 4 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.25%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.083%) Debian
15 1 (0.083%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.083%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 593 (49.33%) DevOps
2 521 (43.34%) CI/CD
3 435 (36.19%) Agile
4 360 (29.95%) Containerisation
5 258 (21.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 250 (20.80%) Microservices
7 210 (17.47%) Software Engineering
8 173 (14.39%) Continuous Integration
9 170 (14.14%) Test Automation
10 166 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
11 152 (12.65%) Scrum
12 111 (9.23%) TDD
13 92 (7.65%) Full Stack Development
14 89 (7.40%) Unit Testing
15 86 (7.15%) Configuration Management
16 82 (6.82%) High Availability
17 69 (5.74%) Mentoring
18 68 (5.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 66 (5.49%) User Experience
20 63 (5.24%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 483 (40.18%) Python
2 370 (30.78%) Java
3 245 (20.38%) SQL
4 162 (13.48%) Bash
5 149 (12.40%) JavaScript
6 134 (11.15%) Go
7 107 (8.90%) PowerShell
8 96 (7.99%) TypeScript
9 62 (5.16%) C#
10 47 (3.91%) Shell Script
11 45 (3.74%) Scala
12 42 (3.49%) Ruby
13 38 (3.16%) C
14 26 (2.16%) PHP
15 25 (2.08%) C++
15 25 (2.08%) Perl
16 24 (2.00%) Groovy
17 16 (1.33%) Bicep
18 11 (0.92%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 313 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 229 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 97 (8.07%) DV Cleared
4 71 (5.91%) Degree
5 40 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 36 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 18 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 14 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.67%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.25%) CISSP
12 3 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.25%) SANS
13 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.17%) RHCE
14 1 (0.083%) CEH
14 1 (0.083%) GIAC
14 1 (0.083%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.08%) QA
2 29 (2.41%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.41%) NCSC
4 11 (0.92%) NIST
5 10 (0.83%) GDPR
5 10 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.67%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.25%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.25%) WCAG
10 1 (0.083%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.083%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 39 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (1.08%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.58%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.58%) vSphere
6 6 (0.50%) Firmware
6 6 (0.50%) NFS
6 6 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.33%) GPFS
7 4 (0.33%) KVM
8 3 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.25%) Ceph
8 3 (0.25%) LXC
9 2 (0.17%) HDFS
9 2 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.083%) iptables
10 1 (0.083%) Lustre
10 1 (0.083%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 876 (72.88%) Kubernetes
2 462 (38.44%) Terraform
3 268 (22.30%) Ansible
4 130 (10.82%) Grafana
5 119 (9.90%) Prometheus
6 76 (6.32%) Puppet
7 61 (5.07%) Progress Chef
8 44 (3.66%) Docker Swarm
9 32 (2.66%) Kibana
10 21 (1.75%) Podman
11 20 (1.66%) Nagios
11 20 (1.66%) Packer
12 17 (1.41%) Istio
13 15 (1.25%) Graylog
14 14 (1.16%) Argo
15 12 (1.00%) EMC NetWorker
15 12 (1.00%) HP Fortify
16 11 (0.92%) Netcool
16 11 (0.92%) Rancher
17 10 (0.83%) Consul
Vendors
1 108 (8.99%) Microsoft
2 82 (6.82%) Oracle
3 80 (6.66%) Splunk
4 67 (5.57%) Google
5 63 (5.24%) VMware
6 31 (2.58%) Databricks
6 31 (2.58%) Red Hat
7 21 (1.75%) SAP
8 20 (1.66%) IBM
9 17 (1.41%) Dell
10 16 (1.33%) EMC
11 15 (1.25%) Cisco
11 15 (1.25%) CyberArk
12 14 (1.16%) Atlassian
12 14 (1.16%) ServiceNow
13 13 (1.08%) Salesforce
13 13 (1.08%) TIBCO
13 13 (1.08%) WSO2
14 11 (0.92%) New Relic
15 8 (0.67%) Isilon