Docker Contracts

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 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 68 53 40
Rank change year-on-year -15 -13 -6
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,282 2,343 4,954
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.98% 4.16% 5.64%
As % of the System Software category 27.27% 31.73% 42.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 964 1,665 3,623
10th Percentile £401 £450 £438
25th Percentile £461 £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 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +9.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 35 19
10th Percentile £47.08 £60.92 £41.45
25th Percentile £59.38 £67.63 £43.66
Median hourly rate £72.75 £75.00 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +55.38% -8.16%
75th Percentile £85.00 £76.75 £64.02
90th Percentile - £88.00 £68.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +10.34% +52.63% -18.10%

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 4,701 7,384 11,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.91% 13.10% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,266 5,213 8,366
10th Percentile £200 £200 £200
25th Percentile £350 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £450
% change year-on-year -0.84% +6.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 246 284
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.23 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £19.25 £14.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £54.92 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.97% +189.03% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £35.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.87 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £48.12 £17.50
% change year-on-year -42.85% +174.94% -3.81%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 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
England -17 1,080 £550 -8.33% 856
London -16 648 £550 -13.73% 462
Work from Home -11 478 £550 -6.06% 469
UK excluding London -25 455 £525 -4.55% 427
North of England -21 134 £550 -3.72% 112
South West -4 101 £550 - 101
South East -50 80 £538 -8.51% 79
Scotland -9 72 £456 -8.80% 24
Yorkshire +32 68 £550 - 32
North West -39 56 £550 - 75
Midlands +8 31 £500 - 51
East of England -13 19 £650 +18.18% 34
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 - - 15

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 69 (5.38%) Confluence
2 45 (3.51%) Apache
3 44 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (2.34%) nginx
5 28 (2.18%) Apache Spark
6 23 (1.79%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.78%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.70%) CMS
9 7 (0.55%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.55%) IIS
9 7 (0.55%) JBoss
10 6 (0.47%) WildFly
11 5 (0.39%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.39%) Camunda
12 4 (0.31%) Luigi
12 4 (0.31%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.31%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.23%) GeoServer
13 3 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.078%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.39%) Endur
3 2 (0.16%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.078%) Magento
4 1 (0.078%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 729 (56.86%) AWS
2 455 (35.49%) Azure
3 182 (14.20%) GCP
4 155 (12.09%) Serverless
5 139 (10.84%) GitHub
6 136 (10.61%) OpenShift
7 118 (9.20%) Amazon S3
8 115 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
9 111 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
10 93 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 85 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
12 76 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
13 54 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
14 50 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 44 (3.43%) PaaS
16 43 (3.35%) SaaS
16 43 (3.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 38 (2.96%) Azure AKS
18 36 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
19 35 (2.73%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.90%) Firewall
2 45 (3.51%) DNS
3 40 (3.12%) VPN
4 38 (2.96%) Network Security
5 34 (2.65%) TCP/IP
6 31 (2.42%) HTTP
7 20 (1.56%) DHCP
8 14 (1.09%) AMQP
9 12 (0.94%) Kerberos
10 10 (0.78%) SSL
11 9 (0.70%) Radio Access Network
11 9 (0.70%) SAN
12 8 (0.62%) BGP
12 8 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.62%) MPLS
13 7 (0.55%) IPv4
13 7 (0.55%) VLAN
14 6 (0.47%) 5G
14 6 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
14 6 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (9.13%) NoSQL
3 84 (6.55%) Relational Database
4 79 (6.16%) Apache Cassandra
5 73 (5.69%) MySQL
6 63 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
7 59 (4.60%) MongoDB
8 54 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
9 45 (3.51%) SQL Server
10 28 (2.18%) DynamoDB
11 22 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (1.64%) Big Data
12 21 (1.64%) Data Lake
13 15 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
13 15 (1.17%) Oracle Database
13 15 (1.17%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.17%) Redis
14 13 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
15 11 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 325 (25.35%) Git
2 316 (24.65%) Jenkins
3 169 (13.18%) GitLab
4 127 (9.91%) JIRA
5 63 (4.91%) SonarQube
6 53 (4.13%) JUnit
7 43 (3.35%) Selenium
8 41 (3.20%) Cucumber
8 41 (3.20%) Maven
9 38 (2.96%) TeamCity
10 33 (2.57%) Cypress.io
11 28 (2.18%) Bitbucket
12 24 (1.87%) Artifactory
13 23 (1.79%) Mockito
14 21 (1.64%) CircleCI
15 20 (1.56%) Gradle
15 20 (1.56%) Postman
16 19 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
17 18 (1.40%) NUnit
18 17 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 225 (17.55%) Social Skills
2 148 (11.54%) Finance
3 116 (9.05%) Public Sector
4 76 (5.93%) Banking
5 69 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (2.57%) Telecoms
7 28 (2.18%) Retail
8 21 (1.64%) Front Office
8 21 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 18 (1.40%) Law
10 15 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (0.94%) Marketing
12 9 (0.70%) Legal
12 9 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.62%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.62%) Police
14 7 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.39%) Electronics
17 4 (0.31%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 359 (28.00%) Developer
2 272 (21.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 187 (14.59%) Senior
4 117 (9.13%) Java Developer
5 116 (9.05%) Software Engineer
6 87 (6.79%) AWS Engineer
7 77 (6.01%) Azure Engineer
8 70 (5.46%) Architect
9 64 (4.99%) AWS DevOps
10 56 (4.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 56 (4.37%) Lead
11 53 (4.13%) Senior Developer
12 52 (4.06%) Cloud Engineer
13 51 (3.98%) Full Stack Developer
14 47 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
15 46 (3.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 44 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
16 44 (3.43%) Python Developer
17 42 (3.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 42 (3.28%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (16.22%) Kafka
2 166 (12.95%) REST
3 150 (11.70%) Spring Boot
4 146 (11.39%) Spring
5 137 (10.69%) React
6 123 (9.59%) Node.js
7 108 (8.42%) RESTful
8 95 (7.41%) .NET
9 74 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
10 57 (4.45%) HTML
11 55 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
12 52 (4.06%) AngularJS
13 49 (3.82%) GraphQL
14 45 (3.51%) CSS
15 44 (3.43%) Web Services
16 42 (3.28%) JSON
17 39 (3.04%) YAML
18 36 (2.81%) ARM Templates
18 36 (2.81%) AWS CDK
18 36 (2.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 65 (5.07%) Public Cloud
2 59 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (3.82%) Cloud Native
3 49 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
4 37 (2.89%) Data Structures
5 36 (2.81%) Product Ownership
6 34 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
7 24 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (1.79%) Algorithms
9 22 (1.72%) Onboarding
10 17 (1.33%) Clustering
10 17 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.25%) Management Information System
12 15 (1.17%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.17%) NHS
13 13 (1.01%) PKI
13 13 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.78%) Mobile App
15 9 (0.70%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 289 (22.54%) Linux
2 68 (5.30%) Unix
2 68 (5.30%) Windows
3 48 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (2.03%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.94%) CentOS
6 10 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (0.55%) VMS
8 5 (0.39%) Android
8 5 (0.39%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.39%) Solaris
8 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.078%) Debian
11 1 (0.078%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.078%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.078%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.078%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (51.40%) DevOps
2 570 (44.46%) CI/CD
3 461 (35.96%) Agile
4 406 (31.67%) Containerisation
5 287 (22.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 271 (21.14%) Microservices
7 231 (18.02%) Software Engineering
8 188 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
9 175 (13.65%) Test Automation
10 166 (12.95%) Continuous Integration
11 153 (11.93%) Scrum
12 108 (8.42%) TDD
13 99 (7.72%) Configuration Management
14 91 (7.10%) Full Stack Development
14 91 (7.10%) Unit Testing
15 83 (6.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 80 (6.24%) High Availability
17 77 (6.01%) Computer Science
18 68 (5.30%) Continuous Improvement
19 67 (5.23%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 504 (39.31%) Python
2 390 (30.42%) Java
3 245 (19.11%) SQL
4 169 (13.18%) Bash
4 169 (13.18%) JavaScript
5 144 (11.23%) Go
6 105 (8.19%) PowerShell
7 102 (7.96%) TypeScript
8 68 (5.30%) C#
9 65 (5.07%) Shell Script
10 53 (4.13%) Scala
11 48 (3.74%) Ruby
12 42 (3.28%) C
13 27 (2.11%) Groovy
14 25 (1.95%) C++
14 25 (1.95%) PHP
15 23 (1.79%) Perl
16 20 (1.56%) Kotlin
17 14 (1.09%) Bicep
18 11 (0.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 328 (25.59%) Security Cleared
2 236 (18.41%) SC Cleared
3 104 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 79 (6.16%) Degree
5 44 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (3.12%) AWS Certification
7 31 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 19 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 13 (1.01%) Master's Degree
10 10 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.23%) RHCE
11 3 (0.23%) SANS
12 2 (0.16%) CISSP
12 2 (0.16%) OCP
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.078%) GIAC
13 1 (0.078%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.81%) QA
2 28 (2.18%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.17%) NCSC
4 13 (1.01%) GDPR
5 12 (0.94%) Data Quality
6 11 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.86%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.78%) NIST
8 5 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.39%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.16%) WCAG
11 1 (0.078%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (3.51%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (1.56%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.78%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.47%) Firmware
7 5 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.39%) vSphere
8 4 (0.31%) NFS
9 3 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.23%) Ceph
9 3 (0.23%) KVM
9 3 (0.23%) LXC
10 2 (0.16%) GPFS
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 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.078%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 957 (74.65%) Kubernetes
2 505 (39.39%) Terraform
3 286 (22.31%) Ansible
4 146 (11.39%) Grafana
5 128 (9.98%) Prometheus
6 83 (6.47%) Puppet
7 66 (5.15%) Progress Chef
8 47 (3.67%) Docker Swarm
9 31 (2.42%) Kibana
9 31 (2.42%) Packer
10 26 (2.03%) Podman
11 16 (1.25%) Argo
11 16 (1.25%) Consul
11 16 (1.25%) Istio
12 14 (1.09%) Rancher
13 13 (1.01%) Nagios
13 13 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.94%) HP Fortify
14 12 (0.94%) logstash
15 11 (0.86%) Graylog
Vendors
1 104 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 82 (6.40%) Oracle
3 79 (6.16%) Google
4 77 (6.01%) Splunk
5 54 (4.21%) VMware
6 38 (2.96%) Databricks
7 32 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 20 (1.56%) Atlassian
9 19 (1.48%) IBM
9 19 (1.48%) SAP
10 15 (1.17%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.09%) WSO2
12 13 (1.01%) Cisco
12 13 (1.01%) CyberArk
12 13 (1.01%) Dell
13 12 (0.94%) Confluent
13 12 (0.94%) TIBCO
14 11 (0.86%) New Relic
15 10 (0.78%) Dynatrace
16 8 (0.62%) AppDynamics