Docker Contracts with Work from Home Options

Docker
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 61 48 32
Rank change year-on-year -13 -16 -8
Contract jobs citing Docker 471 1,071 2,661
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.18% 4.35% 6.06%
As % of the System Software category 33.08% 35.09% 49.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 766 2,045
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £460 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £587 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.26% +2.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £679 £763 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 9
10th Percentile £55.23 £61.25 £46.00
25th Percentile £67.94 £64.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £71.25 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% +8.71% +21.37%
75th Percentile £86.25 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £88.50 - £68.18
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £52.89
% change year-on-year -10.00% +41.82% +11.34%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,424 3,052 5,421
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.62% 12.38% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,051 2,184 4,044
10th Percentile £275 £300 £319
25th Percentile £405 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £631 £625
90th Percentile £683 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 102 94
10th Percentile - £18.13 £14.55
25th Percentile £15.50 £47.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +165.31% -27.94%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £53.44
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.95 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £22.30 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.70% +170.00% -9.09%

Docker
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Docker trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Docker.

Docker daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Docker over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Docker daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Docker.

Docker hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Docker over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Docker hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 25 (5.31%) Confluence
2 13 (2.76%) nginx
3 9 (1.91%) Apache
3 9 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.49%) CMS
5 5 (1.06%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.85%) JBoss
6 4 (0.85%) Luigi
6 4 (0.85%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.64%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.64%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.64%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.64%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.64%) WordPress
8 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) IIS
8 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.42%) Endur
3 1 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 296 (62.85%) AWS
2 174 (36.94%) Azure
3 67 (14.23%) GCP
4 50 (10.62%) Serverless
5 48 (10.19%) GitHub
6 42 (8.92%) Amazon S3
6 42 (8.92%) AWS Lambda
7 41 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (8.07%) OpenShift
9 36 (7.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (5.52%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (5.52%) IaaS
11 24 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (4.88%) SaaS
13 22 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (4.67%) PaaS
14 21 (4.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 19 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (3.40%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.10%) Firewall
2 21 (4.46%) DNS
3 19 (4.03%) Network Security
4 17 (3.61%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.55%) HTTP
6 10 (2.12%) DHCP
6 10 (2.12%) VPN
7 7 (1.49%) Kerberos
8 6 (1.27%) NAS
8 6 (1.27%) SAN
8 6 (1.27%) VLAN
9 3 (0.64%) Intranet
9 3 (0.64%) LAN
9 3 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.64%) SSL
9 3 (0.64%) WLAN
10 2 (0.42%) 4G
10 2 (0.42%) Internet
11 1 (0.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 1 (0.21%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (7.64%) Apache Cassandra
3 32 (6.79%) NoSQL
4 30 (6.37%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (5.73%) MySQL
6 22 (4.67%) Relational Database
7 21 (4.46%) MongoDB
8 19 (4.03%) SQL Server
9 18 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (2.97%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (2.12%) Big Data
12 9 (1.91%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.70%) RDBMS
14 7 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.49%) Data Lake
15 6 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (1.27%) Redis
16 5 (1.06%) DynamoDB
17 4 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 115 (24.42%) Jenkins
2 102 (21.66%) Git
3 58 (12.31%) GitLab
4 45 (9.55%) JIRA
5 29 (6.16%) SonarQube
6 23 (4.88%) Selenium
7 19 (4.03%) Cucumber
8 18 (3.82%) Maven
9 13 (2.76%) Cypress.io
9 13 (2.76%) TeamCity
10 12 (2.55%) Bitbucket
11 11 (2.34%) JUnit
11 11 (2.34%) REST Assured
12 10 (2.12%) Gradle
12 10 (2.12%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (1.49%) Postman
13 7 (1.49%) Travis CI
14 6 (1.27%) JMeter
14 6 (1.27%) Visual Studio
15 5 (1.06%) CircleCI
General
1 96 (20.38%) Social Skills
2 56 (11.89%) Finance
3 51 (10.83%) Public Sector
4 29 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.10%) Banking
6 19 (4.03%) Telecoms
7 18 (3.82%) Law
8 10 (2.12%) Retail
9 7 (1.49%) Police
9 7 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.27%) Marketing
10 6 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.06%) Electronics
11 5 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.85%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.64%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 128 (27.18%) Developer
2 100 (21.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 71 (15.07%) Senior
4 52 (11.04%) Software Engineer
5 45 (9.55%) AWS Engineer
6 33 (7.01%) AWS DevOps
7 30 (6.37%) Full Stack Developer
7 30 (6.37%) Java Developer
8 29 (6.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 28 (5.94%) Lead
10 25 (5.31%) Cloud Engineer
11 24 (5.10%) Architect
11 24 (5.10%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
13 19 (4.03%) Data Engineer
14 18 (3.82%) Java Engineer
14 18 (3.82%) Senior Developer
15 17 (3.61%) Python Engineer
16 15 (3.18%) Senior DevOps
17 14 (2.97%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (15.92%) Kafka
2 67 (14.23%) REST
3 56 (11.89%) Node.js
4 48 (10.19%) Spring Boot
5 45 (9.55%) Spring
6 43 (9.13%) React
7 32 (6.79%) .NET
8 28 (5.94%) AngularJS
9 27 (5.73%) Elastic Stack
9 27 (5.73%) RESTful
10 23 (4.88%) HTML
11 22 (4.67%) ARM Templates
12 20 (4.25%) CSS
13 19 (4.03%) GraphQL
14 16 (3.40%) OAuth
15 15 (3.18%) JSON
15 15 (3.18%) YAML
16 14 (2.97%) AWS CDK
16 14 (2.97%) Web Services
17 13 (2.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (2.97%) Data Structures
3 14 (2.97%) Public Cloud
4 13 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.55%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.55%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.55%) Clustering
5 12 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.55%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.34%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.49%) Replication
9 6 (1.27%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.06%) Distributed Applications
10 5 (1.06%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (0.64%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.64%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 93 (19.75%) Linux
2 28 (5.94%) Windows
3 18 (3.82%) Unix
4 15 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.55%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.49%) Oracle Linux
7 6 (1.27%) Solaris
8 3 (0.64%) Android
8 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.42%) CentOS
9 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.42%) VMS
10 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (50.53%) DevOps
2 188 (39.92%) CI/CD
3 154 (32.70%) Agile
4 133 (28.24%) Containerisation
5 100 (21.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 88 (18.68%) Software Engineering
7 75 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
7 75 (15.92%) Test Automation
8 73 (15.50%) Microservices
9 60 (12.74%) Continuous Integration
10 45 (9.55%) Full Stack Development
10 45 (9.55%) User Experience
11 42 (8.92%) DevSecOps
12 36 (7.64%) Mentoring
12 36 (7.64%) Scrum
13 34 (7.22%) UX Design
14 31 (6.58%) Configuration Management
14 31 (6.58%) Fintech
15 30 (6.37%) TDD
16 29 (6.16%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 183 (38.85%) Python
2 137 (29.09%) Java
3 78 (16.56%) JavaScript
4 70 (14.86%) SQL
5 57 (12.10%) Bash
5 57 (12.10%) Go
6 49 (10.40%) TypeScript
7 38 (8.07%) PowerShell
8 25 (5.31%) C#
9 18 (3.82%) PHP
10 17 (3.61%) C
10 17 (3.61%) Shell Script
11 14 (2.97%) Ruby
12 13 (2.76%) Scala
13 11 (2.34%) Perl
14 9 (1.91%) C++
15 8 (1.70%) Bicep
16 6 (1.27%) Groovy
17 5 (1.06%) Rust
18 4 (0.85%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 113 (23.99%) Security Cleared
2 84 (17.83%) SC Cleared
3 28 (5.94%) Degree
4 23 (4.88%) AWS Certification
5 21 (4.46%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.55%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.06%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.42%) CISSP
12 1 (0.21%) CEH
12 1 (0.21%) ISEB
12 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.21%) PhD
12 1 (0.21%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.25%) Accessibility
2 13 (2.76%) NCSC
3 11 (2.34%) QA
4 10 (2.12%) GDPR
5 6 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.85%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.85%) NIST
8 3 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.42%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.21%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (4.25%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.91%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.64%) Firmware
6 2 (0.42%) Ceph
6 2 (0.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.42%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) iptables
7 1 (0.21%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 346 (73.46%) Kubernetes
2 196 (41.61%) Terraform
3 104 (22.08%) Ansible
4 40 (8.49%) Grafana
5 36 (7.64%) Prometheus
6 26 (5.52%) Puppet
7 24 (5.10%) Progress Chef
8 18 (3.82%) Docker Swarm
9 15 (3.18%) Kibana
10 10 (2.12%) Podman
11 8 (1.70%) Packer
12 7 (1.49%) Nagios
13 6 (1.27%) Consul
13 6 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (1.27%) Netcool
13 6 (1.27%) Tivoli
13 6 (1.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 4 (0.85%) Argo
14 4 (0.85%) Kustomize
15 3 (0.64%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 41 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.58%) Oracle
3 30 (6.37%) Google
4 29 (6.16%) VMware
5 27 (5.73%) Splunk
6 18 (3.82%) Databricks
7 16 (3.40%) Red Hat
8 11 (2.34%) IBM
9 10 (2.12%) SAP
10 9 (1.91%) Dell
11 7 (1.49%) CyberArk
11 7 (1.49%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.27%) Cisco
12 6 (1.27%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.27%) EMC
12 6 (1.27%) HP
12 6 (1.27%) Isilon
12 6 (1.27%) Qualys
12 6 (1.27%) Serena
13 5 (1.06%) New Relic