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 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 62 51 37
Rank change year-on-year -11 -14 -13
Contract jobs citing Docker 478 1,007 2,616
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.26% 4.15% 5.92%
As % of the System Software category 33.33% 33.86% 48.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 718 1,996
10th Percentile £396 £425 £425
25th Percentile £460 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +1.83% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £688 £755 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 9
10th Percentile £55.23 £61.25 £41.10
25th Percentile £67.94 £64.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +12.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £86.25 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £88.50 - £68.18
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £75.00 £48.27
% change year-on-year -3.00% +55.38% -8.16%

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 1,434 2,974 5,378
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.79% 12.27% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 2,112 4,007
10th Percentile £290 £295 £319
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £631 £625
90th Percentile £684 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 109 86
10th Percentile - £17.72 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £47.50 £17.95
Median hourly rate £43.32 £65.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.35% +154.90% +4.08%
75th Percentile £66.25 £70.00 £56.56
90th Percentile £85.23 £75.90 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.92 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.97% +189.03% -5.00%

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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 2 June 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 2 June 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 (5.23%) Confluence
2 11 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.30%) nginx
3 10 (2.09%) Apache
4 8 (1.67%) CMS
5 7 (1.46%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.26%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.05%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.84%) Luigi
9 3 (0.63%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.63%) JBoss
9 3 (0.63%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.63%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.63%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.63%) WordPress
10 2 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.42%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.21%) Magnolia
11 1 (0.21%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.42%) Endur
3 1 (0.21%) Magento
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 297 (62.13%) AWS
2 177 (37.03%) Azure
3 70 (14.64%) GCP
4 52 (10.88%) Serverless
5 50 (10.46%) GitHub
6 44 (9.21%) Amazon S3
7 42 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
7 42 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (8.16%) OpenShift
9 38 (7.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (5.65%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
12 25 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (5.02%) IaaS
14 23 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (4.60%) SaaS
16 21 (4.39%) PaaS
16 21 (4.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 17 (3.56%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.81%) Firewall
2 22 (4.60%) DNS
3 19 (3.97%) Network Security
4 17 (3.56%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.30%) HTTP
5 11 (2.30%) VPN
6 10 (2.09%) DHCP
7 8 (1.67%) Kerberos
8 5 (1.05%) NAS
8 5 (1.05%) SAN
8 5 (1.05%) VLAN
9 4 (0.84%) SSL
10 3 (0.63%) Internet
10 3 (0.63%) Intranet
10 3 (0.63%) LAN
10 3 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.63%) WLAN
11 2 (0.42%) 4G
11 2 (0.42%) 5G
12 1 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (7.74%) Apache Cassandra
3 33 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 31 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
5 29 (6.07%) MySQL
6 24 (5.02%) Relational Database
7 19 (3.97%) MongoDB
7 19 (3.97%) SQL Server
8 17 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (2.72%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.88%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.67%) Big Data
12 7 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.46%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.26%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.05%) Redis
15 4 (0.84%) Couchbase
15 4 (0.84%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 118 (24.69%) Jenkins
2 101 (21.13%) Git
3 62 (12.97%) GitLab
4 45 (9.41%) JIRA
5 28 (5.86%) SonarQube
6 22 (4.60%) Selenium
7 16 (3.35%) Cucumber
8 15 (3.14%) Maven
9 13 (2.72%) Bitbucket
9 13 (2.72%) Cypress.io
10 11 (2.30%) JUnit
10 11 (2.30%) REST Assured
10 11 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (2.09%) TeamCity
12 8 (1.67%) Gradle
13 7 (1.46%) Artifactory
14 6 (1.26%) JMeter
14 6 (1.26%) Travis CI
14 6 (1.26%) Visual Studio
15 5 (1.05%) webpack
General
1 98 (20.50%) Social Skills
2 59 (12.34%) Finance
3 50 (10.46%) Public Sector
4 29 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (5.86%) Banking
6 20 (4.18%) Telecoms
7 17 (3.56%) Law
8 12 (2.51%) Retail
9 7 (1.46%) Police
10 6 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.26%) Marketing
10 6 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.05%) Electronics
11 5 (1.05%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
12 4 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.84%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 128 (26.78%) Developer
2 100 (20.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 71 (14.85%) Senior
4 52 (10.88%) Software Engineer
5 46 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
6 33 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
6 33 (6.90%) Full Stack Developer
7 30 (6.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 29 (6.07%) Java Developer
8 29 (6.07%) Lead
9 26 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
10 23 (4.81%) Architect
10 23 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
12 20 (4.18%) Data Engineer
13 19 (3.97%) Java Engineer
14 18 (3.77%) Senior Developer
15 16 (3.35%) Python Engineer
16 15 (3.14%) Platform Engineer
16 15 (3.14%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (15.90%) Kafka
2 66 (13.81%) REST
3 55 (11.51%) Node.js
4 48 (10.04%) Spring Boot
5 46 (9.62%) React
6 44 (9.21%) Spring
7 32 (6.69%) .NET
8 29 (6.07%) AngularJS
9 27 (5.65%) Elastic Stack
9 27 (5.65%) HTML
9 27 (5.65%) RESTful
10 23 (4.81%) ARM Templates
10 23 (4.81%) CSS
11 20 (4.18%) GraphQL
12 17 (3.56%) OAuth
13 16 (3.35%) AWS CDK
14 15 (3.14%) JSON
14 15 (3.14%) YAML
15 13 (2.72%) SOAP
15 13 (2.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.18%) Greenfield Project
2 19 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.35%) Public Cloud
4 14 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.51%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.51%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.51%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.30%) Cloud Native
7 11 (2.30%) Clustering
7 11 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.26%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.26%) Replication
10 5 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (0.84%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.84%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.63%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 91 (19.04%) Linux
2 27 (5.65%) Windows
3 20 (4.18%) Unix
4 15 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.88%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.26%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (1.05%) Solaris
8 3 (0.63%) Android
8 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.42%) CentOS
9 2 (0.42%) VMS
10 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (51.88%) DevOps
2 196 (41.00%) CI/CD
3 157 (32.85%) Agile
4 141 (29.50%) Containerisation
5 106 (22.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 87 (18.20%) Software Engineering
7 79 (16.53%) Test Automation
8 77 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
9 71 (14.85%) Microservices
10 62 (12.97%) Continuous Integration
11 48 (10.04%) Full Stack Development
12 42 (8.79%) User Experience
13 40 (8.37%) DevSecOps
14 33 (6.90%) Scrum
14 33 (6.90%) UX Design
15 31 (6.49%) Configuration Management
15 31 (6.49%) Fintech
16 30 (6.28%) Mentoring
17 29 (6.07%) TDD
18 28 (5.86%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 180 (37.66%) Python
2 139 (29.08%) Java
3 82 (17.15%) JavaScript
4 73 (15.27%) SQL
5 61 (12.76%) Go
6 54 (11.30%) Bash
7 47 (9.83%) TypeScript
8 33 (6.90%) PowerShell
9 23 (4.81%) C#
10 18 (3.77%) PHP
11 17 (3.56%) C
11 17 (3.56%) Shell Script
12 15 (3.14%) Scala
13 14 (2.93%) Ruby
14 10 (2.09%) Perl
15 9 (1.88%) C++
16 8 (1.67%) Bicep
17 6 (1.26%) Groovy
18 5 (1.05%) Rust
19 4 (0.84%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 107 (22.38%) Security Cleared
2 80 (16.74%) SC Cleared
3 27 (5.65%) Degree
4 22 (4.60%) AWS Certification
5 18 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (3.14%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.21%) CISSP
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.21%) PhD
12 1 (0.21%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.97%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.51%) NCSC
3 11 (2.30%) QA
4 9 (1.88%) GDPR
5 6 (1.26%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.05%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.63%) NIST
9 2 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.42%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.88%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.63%) 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
1 350 (73.22%) Kubernetes
2 201 (42.05%) Terraform
3 104 (21.76%) Ansible
4 44 (9.21%) Grafana
5 38 (7.95%) Prometheus
6 28 (5.86%) Puppet
7 22 (4.60%) Progress Chef
8 18 (3.77%) Docker Swarm
9 12 (2.51%) Kibana
10 10 (2.09%) Podman
11 9 (1.88%) Packer
12 6 (1.26%) Consul
13 5 (1.05%) EMC NetWorker
13 5 (1.05%) Nagios
13 5 (1.05%) Netcool
13 5 (1.05%) Tivoli
13 5 (1.05%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 4 (0.84%) Argo
15 3 (0.63%) Dell DRAC
15 3 (0.63%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 38 (7.95%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.49%) Google
3 30 (6.28%) Oracle
4 25 (5.23%) Splunk
4 25 (5.23%) VMware
5 19 (3.97%) Databricks
6 15 (3.14%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.09%) IBM
8 8 (1.67%) Confluent
8 8 (1.67%) Dell
8 8 (1.67%) SAP
9 7 (1.46%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.26%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.26%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.05%) Cisco
11 5 (1.05%) EMC
11 5 (1.05%) HP
11 5 (1.05%) Isilon
11 5 (1.05%) New Relic
11 5 (1.05%) Qualys