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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 51 40
Rank change year-on-year -21 -11 -7
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,242 2,429 5,068
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.92% 4.24% 5.78%
As % of the System Software category 27.10% 32.37% 43.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 926 1,742 3,731
10th Percentile £405 £446 £438
25th Percentile £463 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 34 18
10th Percentile £47.40 £60.87 £42.15
25th Percentile £62.50 £66.44 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £49.56
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +51.32% +4.34%
75th Percentile £85.00 £77.38 £65.54
90th Percentile - £88.50 £69.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 £70.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +12.86% +47.37% -9.52%

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 4,583 7,505 11,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.77% 13.10% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,170 5,326 8,437
10th Percentile £200 £204 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +6.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 263 304
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.25 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £54.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.52% +176.92% -8.24%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.70 £58.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.18 £47.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year -59.42% +170.01% -4.21%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 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
England -22 1,037 £550 -8.33% 931
London -18 610 £550 -15.06% 504
Work from Home -14 472 £550 -5.98% 543
UK excluding London -26 450 £525 -4.55% 557
North of England -31 130 £550 -2.22% 136
South West -17 92 £550 - 89
South East -35 86 £550 -4.76% 176
Scotland -6 75 £460 -3.97% 35
Yorkshire +18 65 £550 - 47
North West -50 55 £550 - 83
Midlands +10 31 £500 - 57
West Midlands +10 19 £619 +15.12% 28
Wales +29 18 £506 -10.00% 20
East of England -6 18 £625 +16.28% 40
East Midlands +16 12 £424 -11.72% 29
North East -11 10 £405 -42.14% 8
Northern Ireland -1 2 - - 10

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 63 (5.07%) Confluence
2 45 (3.62%) Apache
3 43 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (2.66%) nginx
5 24 (1.93%) Apache Spark
6 23 (1.85%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.64%) CMS
7 8 (0.64%) JBoss
7 8 (0.64%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.56%) IIS
8 7 (0.56%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.48%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.40%) Camunda
10 5 (0.40%) SAS
11 4 (0.32%) Luigi
11 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.32%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.24%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.24%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.081%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Endur
1 5 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.16%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.16%) RMDS
2 2 (0.16%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.081%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 704 (56.68%) AWS
2 439 (35.35%) Azure
3 175 (14.09%) GCP
4 145 (11.67%) Serverless
5 131 (10.55%) GitHub
6 127 (10.23%) OpenShift
7 114 (9.18%) Amazon S3
8 109 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
9 104 (8.37%) Azure DevOps
10 91 (7.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 86 (6.92%) Amazon EC2
12 73 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
14 49 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 44 (3.54%) PaaS
16 43 (3.46%) SaaS
16 43 (3.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 36 (2.90%) IaaS
18 34 (2.74%) Azure AKS
19 33 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (4.11%) Firewall
2 45 (3.62%) DNS
3 40 (3.22%) VPN
4 38 (3.06%) Network Security
5 34 (2.74%) TCP/IP
6 33 (2.66%) HTTP
7 21 (1.69%) DHCP
8 12 (0.97%) AMQP
8 12 (0.97%) SAN
9 11 (0.89%) Radio Access Network
10 10 (0.81%) BGP
10 10 (0.81%) Ethernet VPN
10 10 (0.81%) MPLS
11 9 (0.72%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.64%) VLAN
13 7 (0.56%) IPv4
13 7 (0.56%) SSL
14 6 (0.48%) NAS
14 6 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
14 6 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (9.18%) NoSQL
3 76 (6.12%) Relational Database
4 73 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
5 66 (5.31%) MySQL
6 64 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (4.91%) MongoDB
8 57 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
9 47 (3.78%) SQL Server
10 24 (1.93%) DynamoDB
11 21 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (1.53%) Data Lake
12 19 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
13 18 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
14 17 (1.37%) Big Data
14 17 (1.37%) RDBMS
15 12 (0.97%) Redis
16 11 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
16 11 (0.89%) BigQuery
16 11 (0.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 318 (25.60%) Jenkins
2 316 (25.44%) Git
3 160 (12.88%) GitLab
4 124 (9.98%) JIRA
5 65 (5.23%) SonarQube
6 58 (4.67%) JUnit
7 52 (4.19%) Cucumber
7 52 (4.19%) Selenium
8 49 (3.95%) Maven
9 38 (3.06%) TeamCity
10 31 (2.50%) Cypress.io
11 27 (2.17%) Bitbucket
12 25 (2.01%) Mockito
13 24 (1.93%) Artifactory
14 22 (1.77%) Postman
15 20 (1.61%) Gradle
16 19 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 19 (1.53%) CircleCI
16 19 (1.53%) JMeter
16 19 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 220 (17.71%) Social Skills
2 139 (11.19%) Finance
3 113 (9.10%) Public Sector
4 69 (5.56%) Banking
5 65 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (2.58%) Telecoms
7 28 (2.25%) Retail
8 21 (1.69%) Front Office
9 20 (1.61%) Investment Banking
10 19 (1.53%) Law
11 15 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (0.97%) Marketing
14 9 (0.72%) Legal
15 8 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.64%) Police
16 7 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (0.56%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.40%) Electronics
18 4 (0.32%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 347 (27.94%) Developer
2 267 (21.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 171 (13.77%) Senior
4 114 (9.18%) Java Developer
5 111 (8.94%) Software Engineer
6 83 (6.68%) AWS Engineer
7 72 (5.80%) Architect
7 72 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
8 64 (5.15%) AWS DevOps
9 57 (4.59%) Lead
10 54 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 52 (4.19%) Full Stack Developer
12 50 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
13 49 (3.95%) Senior Software Engineer
14 45 (3.62%) Senior Developer
15 43 (3.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 42 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
17 38 (3.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 37 (2.98%) Python Developer
19 34 (2.74%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (15.70%) Kafka
2 171 (13.77%) REST
3 151 (12.16%) Spring Boot
4 142 (11.43%) Spring
5 133 (10.71%) React
6 116 (9.34%) Node.js
7 104 (8.37%) RESTful
8 90 (7.25%) .NET
9 71 (5.72%) Elastic Stack
10 50 (4.03%) HTML
11 49 (3.95%) AngularJS
12 45 (3.62%) RabbitMQ
13 44 (3.54%) GraphQL
13 44 (3.54%) Web Services
14 41 (3.30%) JSON
15 40 (3.22%) CSS
16 38 (3.06%) YAML
17 36 (2.90%) SOAP
18 31 (2.50%) ARM Templates
18 31 (2.50%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 60 (4.83%) Public Cloud
2 54 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 46 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 40 (3.22%) Data Structures
5 31 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
7 25 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 24 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (1.77%) Data Centre
9 22 (1.77%) Onboarding
10 18 (1.45%) Clustering
10 18 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.29%) Management Information System
12 15 (1.21%) NHS
13 13 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.89%) Client/Server
15 10 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (0.81%) PKI
16 9 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 280 (22.54%) Linux
2 80 (6.44%) Windows
3 69 (5.56%) Unix
4 44 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (2.82%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.97%) CentOS
7 11 (0.89%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (0.48%) Solaris
8 6 (0.48%) VMS
9 5 (0.40%) Android
9 5 (0.40%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.081%) Debian
13 1 (0.081%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.081%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (50.97%) DevOps
2 547 (44.04%) CI/CD
3 436 (35.10%) Agile
4 383 (30.84%) Containerisation
5 261 (21.01%) Infrastructure as Code
6 258 (20.77%) Microservices
7 218 (17.55%) Software Engineering
8 179 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
9 174 (14.01%) Test Automation
10 169 (13.61%) Continuous Integration
11 156 (12.56%) Scrum
12 106 (8.53%) TDD
13 92 (7.41%) Configuration Management
14 91 (7.33%) Full Stack Development
15 87 (7.00%) Unit Testing
16 82 (6.60%) High Availability
17 76 (6.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 73 (5.88%) Computer Science
19 70 (5.64%) SDLC
19 70 (5.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 493 (39.69%) Python
2 380 (30.60%) Java
3 241 (19.40%) SQL
4 166 (13.37%) Bash
5 149 (12.00%) JavaScript
6 135 (10.87%) Go
7 110 (8.86%) PowerShell
8 102 (8.21%) TypeScript
9 68 (5.48%) C#
10 54 (4.35%) Shell Script
11 50 (4.03%) Scala
12 45 (3.62%) Ruby
13 41 (3.30%) C
14 25 (2.01%) C++
14 25 (2.01%) Groovy
14 25 (2.01%) PHP
15 24 (1.93%) Perl
16 15 (1.21%) Kotlin
17 14 (1.13%) Bicep
18 11 (0.89%) Rust
Qualifications
1 317 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 228 (18.36%) SC Cleared
3 100 (8.05%) DV Cleared
4 76 (6.12%) Degree
5 42 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (3.14%) AWS Certification
7 23 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 18 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.24%) CISSP
11 3 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.24%) SANS
12 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.16%) RHCE
13 1 (0.081%) GIAC
13 1 (0.081%) ISEB
13 1 (0.081%) Linux+ Certification
13 1 (0.081%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.14%) QA
2 29 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.29%) NCSC
4 12 (0.97%) GDPR
5 11 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.89%) NIST
6 7 (0.56%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.16%) WCAG
12 1 (0.081%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.081%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.081%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (3.30%) Active Directory
2 38 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.64%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.48%) Firmware
6 6 (0.48%) NFS
6 6 (0.48%) vSphere
7 5 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.32%) GPFS
9 3 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.24%) Ceph
9 3 (0.24%) KVM
9 3 (0.24%) LXC
10 2 (0.16%) HDFS
10 2 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.081%) Postfix
11 1 (0.081%) Xen
Systems Management
1 926 (74.56%) Kubernetes
2 487 (39.21%) Terraform
3 275 (22.14%) Ansible
4 136 (10.95%) Grafana
5 123 (9.90%) Prometheus
6 82 (6.60%) Puppet
7 65 (5.23%) Progress Chef
8 46 (3.70%) Docker Swarm
9 31 (2.50%) Kibana
10 29 (2.33%) Packer
11 24 (1.93%) Podman
12 19 (1.53%) Consul
13 17 (1.37%) Istio
13 17 (1.37%) Nagios
14 16 (1.29%) Argo
15 13 (1.05%) Graylog
16 12 (0.97%) HP Fortify
16 12 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
17 11 (0.89%) Rancher
18 9 (0.72%) logstash
Vendors
1 108 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 82 (6.60%) Splunk
3 78 (6.28%) Oracle
4 73 (5.88%) Google
5 61 (4.91%) VMware
6 35 (2.82%) Databricks
7 32 (2.58%) Red Hat
8 21 (1.69%) IBM
9 20 (1.61%) SAP
10 15 (1.21%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.13%) CyberArk
11 14 (1.13%) Dell
12 13 (1.05%) Cisco
12 13 (1.05%) WSO2
13 12 (0.97%) EMC
13 12 (0.97%) TIBCO
14 11 (0.89%) New Relic
14 11 (0.89%) Salesforce
15 10 (0.81%) ServiceNow
16 9 (0.72%) Dynatrace