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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 52 40
Rank change year-on-year -18 -12 -8
Contract jobs citing Docker 1,237 2,439 5,067
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.91% 4.27% 5.79%
As % of the System Software category 27.06% 32.57% 43.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1,748 3,730
10th Percentile £405 £450 £435
25th Percentile £463 £506 £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 £725 £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 34 20
10th Percentile £47.40 £60.87 £42.27
25th Percentile £62.50 £66.44 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £52.89
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +41.82% +11.34%
75th Percentile £85.00 £77.38 £65.54
90th Percentile - £88.50 £79.38
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 4,571 7,489 11,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.74% 13.11% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,147 5,323 8,425
10th Percentile £200 £203 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -3.65% +6.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 260 305
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.52% +170.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £78.20 £75.77 £60.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.18 £41.88 £18.12
% change year-on-year -54.21% +131.16% -0.85%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 1,022 £550 -8.33% 745
London -18 602 £550 -15.38% 363
Work from Home -13 472 £550 -6.06% 489
UK excluding London -26 451 £525 -4.55% 411
North of England -27 127 £550 -2.65% 110
South West -14 86 £550 -2.22% 78
South East -41 85 £550 -5.17% 90
Scotland +7 84 £463 -3.44% 31
Yorkshire +19 63 £550 - 36
North West -45 54 £550 - 67
Midlands +21 31 £500 - 53
West Midlands +6 19 £619 +17.86% 25
Wales +34 18 £506 -3.57% 15
East of England -7 18 £625 +16.28% 33
East Midlands +14 12 £424 -11.72% 27
North East -16 10 £405 -42.14% 9
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 9

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 71 (5.74%) Confluence
2 45 (3.64%) Apache
3 43 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (2.59%) nginx
5 24 (1.94%) Apache Spark
6 22 (1.78%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.65%) CMS
7 8 (0.65%) JBoss
8 7 (0.57%) IIS
8 7 (0.57%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.57%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.49%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.40%) Camunda
11 4 (0.32%) Luigi
11 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.32%) SAS
11 4 (0.32%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.24%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
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
1 694 (56.10%) AWS
2 430 (34.76%) Azure
3 172 (13.90%) GCP
4 145 (11.72%) Serverless
5 132 (10.67%) GitHub
6 125 (10.11%) OpenShift
7 114 (9.22%) Amazon S3
8 109 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
9 103 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
10 91 (7.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 86 (6.95%) Amazon EC2
12 73 (5.90%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
14 49 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 43 (3.48%) SaaS
15 43 (3.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 42 (3.40%) PaaS
17 36 (2.91%) IaaS
18 33 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
18 33 (2.67%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (4.12%) Firewall
2 44 (3.56%) DNS
3 40 (3.23%) VPN
4 38 (3.07%) Network Security
5 33 (2.67%) HTTP
5 33 (2.67%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.62%) DHCP
7 13 (1.05%) SAN
8 12 (0.97%) AMQP
9 11 (0.89%) BGP
9 11 (0.89%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (0.89%) MPLS
9 11 (0.89%) Radio Access Network
10 9 (0.73%) 5G
10 9 (0.73%) Kerberos
11 8 (0.65%) VLAN
12 7 (0.57%) IPv4
12 7 (0.57%) SSL
13 6 (0.49%) NAS
13 6 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (10.59%) PostgreSQL
2 115 (9.30%) NoSQL
3 76 (6.14%) Relational Database
4 73 (5.90%) Apache Cassandra
5 66 (5.34%) MySQL
6 64 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
7 62 (5.01%) MongoDB
8 57 (4.61%) Elasticsearch
9 47 (3.80%) SQL Server
10 23 (1.86%) DynamoDB
11 22 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (1.62%) Data Lake
12 20 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
13 18 (1.46%) 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%) Flink
Development Applications
1 319 (25.79%) Jenkins
2 317 (25.63%) Git
3 161 (13.02%) GitLab
4 133 (10.75%) JIRA
5 65 (5.25%) SonarQube
6 62 (5.01%) JUnit
7 56 (4.53%) Cucumber
8 52 (4.20%) Selenium
9 51 (4.12%) Maven
10 39 (3.15%) TeamCity
11 31 (2.51%) Cypress.io
12 29 (2.34%) Postman
13 27 (2.18%) Bitbucket
14 25 (2.02%) Mockito
15 23 (1.86%) Artifactory
16 22 (1.78%) Gradle
17 20 (1.62%) CircleCI
18 19 (1.54%) JMeter
18 19 (1.54%) REST Assured
18 19 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 228 (18.43%) Social Skills
2 137 (11.08%) Finance
3 112 (9.05%) Public Sector
4 69 (5.58%) Banking
5 63 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (2.51%) Telecoms
7 28 (2.26%) Retail
8 20 (1.62%) Front Office
8 20 (1.62%) Law
9 19 (1.54%) Investment Banking
10 15 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
11 13 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (0.89%) Marketing
13 9 (0.73%) Legal
14 8 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.65%) Police
15 7 (0.57%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.40%) Electronics
17 4 (0.32%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 350 (28.29%) Developer
2 265 (21.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 169 (13.66%) Senior
4 118 (9.54%) Java Developer
5 107 (8.65%) Software Engineer
6 84 (6.79%) AWS Engineer
7 72 (5.82%) Architect
8 69 (5.58%) Azure Engineer
9 64 (5.17%) AWS DevOps
10 56 (4.53%) Lead
11 54 (4.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 52 (4.20%) Full Stack Developer
13 49 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
14 48 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
15 44 (3.56%) Senior Developer
16 41 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
16 41 (3.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 37 (2.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 36 (2.91%) Data Engineer
18 36 (2.91%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (16.25%) Kafka
2 177 (14.31%) REST
3 154 (12.45%) Spring Boot
4 144 (11.64%) Spring
5 135 (10.91%) React
6 119 (9.62%) Node.js
7 104 (8.41%) RESTful
8 89 (7.19%) .NET
9 71 (5.74%) Elastic Stack
10 54 (4.37%) HTML
11 48 (3.88%) AngularJS
11 48 (3.88%) GraphQL
12 45 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
13 44 (3.56%) CSS
13 44 (3.56%) Web Services
14 41 (3.31%) JSON
15 37 (2.99%) SOAP
15 37 (2.99%) YAML
16 31 (2.51%) ARM Templates
16 31 (2.51%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 60 (4.85%) Public Cloud
2 54 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (3.72%) Cloud Native
3 46 (3.72%) Greenfield Project
4 40 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 31 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 30 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
7 24 (1.94%) Algorithms
8 23 (1.86%) Data Centre
8 23 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (1.70%) Onboarding
10 20 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (1.46%) Clustering
12 16 (1.29%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.21%) NHS
14 13 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.89%) Client/Server
16 10 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (0.81%) PKI
17 9 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 276 (22.31%) Linux
2 78 (6.31%) Windows
3 70 (5.66%) Unix
4 45 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (2.75%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.97%) CentOS
7 11 (0.89%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (0.49%) Solaris
8 6 (0.49%) 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
1 624 (50.44%) DevOps
2 537 (43.41%) CI/CD
3 440 (35.57%) Agile
4 378 (30.56%) Containerisation
5 256 (20.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 255 (20.61%) Microservices
7 212 (17.14%) Software Engineering
8 174 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
9 173 (13.99%) Test Automation
10 170 (13.74%) Continuous Integration
11 155 (12.53%) Scrum
12 109 (8.81%) TDD
13 92 (7.44%) Unit Testing
14 89 (7.19%) Configuration Management
15 88 (7.11%) Full Stack Development
16 82 (6.63%) High Availability
17 73 (5.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 72 (5.82%) Computer Science
19 70 (5.66%) Mentoring
20 68 (5.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 485 (39.21%) Python
2 380 (30.72%) Java
3 244 (19.73%) SQL
4 164 (13.26%) Bash
5 152 (12.29%) JavaScript
6 135 (10.91%) Go
7 104 (8.41%) PowerShell
8 102 (8.25%) TypeScript
9 69 (5.58%) C#
10 51 (4.12%) Shell Script
11 50 (4.04%) Scala
12 45 (3.64%) Ruby
13 40 (3.23%) C
14 26 (2.10%) Groovy
14 26 (2.10%) PHP
15 25 (2.02%) C++
16 24 (1.94%) Perl
17 15 (1.21%) Kotlin
18 14 (1.13%) Bicep
19 10 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 315 (25.46%) Security Cleared
2 231 (18.67%) SC Cleared
3 95 (7.68%) DV Cleared
4 77 (6.22%) Degree
5 42 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (3.23%) AWS Certification
7 22 (1.78%) Azure Certification
8 18 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (0.97%) 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 (3.15%) QA
2 29 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.29%) NCSC
4 12 (0.97%) GDPR
5 11 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.89%) NIST
6 6 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.32%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.16%) WCAG
11 1 (0.081%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.081%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 39 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.57%) vSphere
7 6 (0.49%) Firmware
7 6 (0.49%) NFS
7 6 (0.49%) 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
11 1 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.081%) Postfix
11 1 (0.081%) Xen
Systems Management
1 913 (73.81%) Kubernetes
2 481 (38.88%) Terraform
3 272 (21.99%) Ansible
4 134 (10.83%) Grafana
5 121 (9.78%) Prometheus
6 81 (6.55%) Puppet
7 66 (5.34%) Progress Chef
8 46 (3.72%) Docker Swarm
9 35 (2.83%) Kibana
10 29 (2.34%) Packer
11 23 (1.86%) Podman
12 19 (1.54%) Consul
13 17 (1.37%) Istio
13 17 (1.37%) Nagios
14 14 (1.13%) 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 (0.73%) logstash
Vendors
1 108 (8.73%) Microsoft
2 83 (6.71%) Splunk
3 80 (6.47%) Oracle
4 72 (5.82%) Google
5 62 (5.01%) VMware
6 34 (2.75%) Databricks
7 32 (2.59%) Red Hat
8 22 (1.78%) IBM
9 20 (1.62%) SAP
10 15 (1.21%) Atlassian
10 15 (1.21%) Dell
11 14 (1.13%) Cisco
11 14 (1.13%) CyberArk
12 13 (1.05%) WSO2
13 12 (0.97%) EMC
13 12 (0.97%) TIBCO
14 11 (0.89%) Salesforce
15 10 (0.81%) New Relic
15 10 (0.81%) ServiceNow
16 9 (0.73%) Dynatrace