Docker Contracts in the South East

Docker
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 69 50
Rank change year-on-year -53 -19 +4
Contract jobs citing Docker 78 171 332
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.36% 3.02% 4.34%
As % of the System Software category 9.38% 21.46% 25.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 119 203
10th Percentile £425 £445 £450
25th Percentile £445 £502 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +2.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £635 £636 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £709
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 3
10th Percentile - £62.50 £45.25
25th Percentile £46.25 - £45.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +47.37% -27.48%
75th Percentile £48.75 £75.00 £57.15
90th Percentile - - £62.18
England median hourly rate £72.75 £73.00 £48.36
% change year-on-year -0.34% +50.97% -23.25%

All System Software Skills
South East

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 832 797 1,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.46% 14.07% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 534 864
10th Percentile £205 £200 £173
25th Percentile £408 £350 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £663
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 44 58
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.50 £12.87
25th Percentile £17.80 £32.44 £14.00
Median hourly rate £54.88 £57.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +187.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.31 £39.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £80.75
England median hourly rate £22.40 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.20% +163.16% +2.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Docker in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Docker in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley 0 47 £600 +0.63% 26
Berkshire -8 39 £613 +7.22% 14
West Sussex +21 14 £475 -18.10% 5
Hampshire -44 14 £563 +2.27% 13
Buckinghamshire +23 5 £575 -8.00% 5
Oxfordshire -5 3 £500 +7.53% 7
Surrey -29 2 £433 -27.92% 10
Sussex - 1 £350 - 1
Docker
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (7.69%) Apache
1 6 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.85%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.56%) Confluence
3 2 (2.56%) GeoServer
4 1 (1.28%) JBoss
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 49 (62.82%) AWS
2 39 (50.00%) Azure
3 10 (12.82%) GCP
3 10 (12.82%) OpenShift
4 8 (10.26%) SaaS
5 7 (8.97%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (8.97%) IaaS
6 6 (7.69%) PaaS
7 4 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.13%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.13%) GitHub
7 4 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (5.13%) Serverless
8 3 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.85%) Azure API Management
8 3 (3.85%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (3.85%) Datadog
8 3 (3.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.82%) VPN
2 6 (7.69%) BGP
2 6 (7.69%) Ethernet VPN
2 6 (7.69%) MPLS
2 6 (7.69%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (3.85%) Network Security
4 2 (2.56%) Firewall
5 1 (1.28%) DHCP
5 1 (1.28%) DNS
5 1 (1.28%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.64%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (14.10%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.13%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (3.85%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.56%) Couchbase
6 2 (2.56%) GIS
7 1 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (39.74%) Jenkins
2 28 (35.90%) GitLab
3 22 (28.21%) JIRA
4 15 (19.23%) Git
5 14 (17.95%) Selenium
6 12 (15.38%) Cucumber
6 12 (15.38%) REST Assured
6 12 (15.38%) SonarQube
7 6 (7.69%) Robot Framework
7 6 (7.69%) TestRail
8 4 (5.13%) Visual Studio
9 3 (3.85%) JUnit
10 2 (2.56%) Subversion
11 1 (1.28%) Appium
11 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.28%) JMeter
11 1 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
11 1 (1.28%) Spinnaker
11 1 (1.28%) Travis CI
General
1 25 (32.05%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.26%) Law
3 8 (10.26%) Police
4 7 (8.97%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.56%) Legal
6 1 (1.28%) Banking
6 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (25.64%) Developer
2 15 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (16.67%) Senior
4 9 (11.54%) Java Developer
5 7 (8.97%) Software Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Java Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 5 (6.41%) Network Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Senior Java Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Systems Administrator
7 5 (6.41%) Test Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Full Stack Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Lead
8 4 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (35.90%) REST
2 13 (16.67%) ARM Templates
3 12 (15.38%) Java EE
4 7 (8.97%) Kafka
4 7 (8.97%) SOAP
4 7 (8.97%) Spring
4 7 (8.97%) Web Services
5 6 (7.69%) NETCONF
5 6 (7.69%) RESTCONF
5 6 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 6 (7.69%) YANG
6 5 (6.41%) .NET
6 5 (6.41%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (5.13%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (5.13%) Node.js
8 3 (3.85%) React
8 3 (3.85%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (3.85%) YAML
9 2 (2.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.97%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.85%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.28%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.64%) Linux
2 7 (8.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (7.69%) Unix
4 3 (3.85%) Windows
5 1 (1.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (55.13%) DevOps
2 40 (51.28%) Containerisation
3 31 (39.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (34.62%) CI/CD
5 25 (32.05%) Agile
5 25 (32.05%) Test Automation
6 20 (25.64%) Technical Leadership
7 19 (24.36%) Configuration Management
8 17 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (19.23%) Scrum
11 12 (15.38%) Decision-Making
11 12 (15.38%) Software Architecture
11 12 (15.38%) Software Engineering
12 11 (14.10%) Microservices
13 8 (10.26%) BDD
13 8 (10.26%) Computer Science
13 8 (10.26%) High Availability
13 8 (10.26%) Integration Testing
13 8 (10.26%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.05%) Java
2 23 (29.49%) Python
3 14 (17.95%) SQL
4 9 (11.54%) Ruby
5 8 (10.26%) PowerShell
6 7 (8.97%) Shell Script
7 6 (7.69%) Bash
7 6 (7.69%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.41%) C#
8 5 (6.41%) Go
9 4 (5.13%) C++
9 4 (5.13%) Perl
10 3 (3.85%) C
10 3 (3.85%) PHP
11 2 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (37.18%) Security Cleared
2 25 (32.05%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.38%) Degree
4 8 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.41%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.28%) OCP
7 1 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.28%) NIST
1 1 (1.28%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (10.26%) Hyper-V
2 7 (8.97%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.85%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.56%) Ceph
5 2 (2.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (2.56%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.56%) vSphere
6 1 (1.28%) LXC
6 1 (1.28%) NFS
6 1 (1.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 58 (74.36%) Kubernetes
2 38 (48.72%) Terraform
3 35 (44.87%) Ansible
4 14 (17.95%) Podman
5 12 (15.38%) Docker Swarm
6 7 (8.97%) Istio
6 7 (8.97%) Rancher
7 5 (6.41%) Puppet
7 5 (6.41%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (5.13%) Progress Chef
9 3 (3.85%) Grafana
9 3 (3.85%) Nagios
9 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
9 3 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (2.56%) Argo
10 2 (2.56%) Kustomize
10 2 (2.56%) Pacemaker
11 1 (1.28%) CFEngine
11 1 (1.28%) Packer
11 1 (1.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (10.26%) Google
1 8 (10.26%) Red Hat
2 6 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.41%) VMware
4 4 (5.13%) Splunk
5 3 (3.85%) New Relic
6 2 (2.56%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.56%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.56%) Sun
7 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace