Er, what sort of Docker experience were you expecting?

Docker has cited an explosion in job postings looking for Docker experience as a reason for techies to get hands-on with its containerization platform. In a blog post, the containerization vendor’s Mano Marks cited a chart from job-listings site Indeed that shows a sharp increase in Docker-focused job postings worldwide. …

[Ashley_Pomeroy]

"Were some super prescient companies recruiting people with Docker skills five years before the platform hit the market?"

It makes a change from the typical rubbish where a job advert asks for five years of experience with a technology that was only launched eighteen months ago!

Now they're asking for five years of experience in a product that isn't going to launched for another three years...

[allthecoolshortnamesweretaken]

%

what are the absolute numbers?

[Anonymous Coward]

Units

"Percentage growth" is not meaningful without a reference time. Is it the number of jobs advertised on one particular day, or averaged over a week or a month? Then is the percentage increase compared to the previous day, the previous month, the previous year?

How long do they have to maintain the graph at "70,000% growth" before it compounds, i.e. the number of jobs has increased 700 times and then 700 times again? (That would be 49,000,000% growth compared to the starting time)

Also, the graph suggests that the number of jobs advertised never went down, not even once. This seems pretty unlikely.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Units

This is meaningless. For instance I picked another commonly used application delivery technology - SCCM - and guess what - way higher historical "growth" percentages:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=%22sccm%22&relative=1

[Doctor Syntax]

"less than 3,000 per cent back in January 2008"

Last time I looked zero was indeed less than 3,000.

[Pig Dog Bay]

What Tis It?

What is this Docker that you speak about? And this Devops malarky!

It's like Al Qeida or ISIS just popping up from nowhere.

[Triboolean]

Another kind of docker, if you search for

docker clothing

so could have been IT (or other) jobs for those guys