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Docker Momentum: 2016 Analysis

Docker Momentum: 2016 Analysis 📶 Michael Mullany 📶 Michael Mullany

Published Jan 4, 2017

As a massive data nerd, and an investor interested in the container space, I've been tracking Docker momentum using LinkedIN profiles for the last two years. In previous articles, I outlined my methodology and its limitations and reported detailed statistics for Docker adoption in the Fortune 100 and for Docker adoption in B2B SaaS companies up to mid 2016. Here is my year end update to those reports.

Overall Docker Momentum

People continued to add Docker as a skill or as part of a job description at a rapid pace in the second half of 2016. The total number of LinkedIN profiles returned from a docker keyword search at the end of 2016 was 105,000. This was on trend and approximately 2.6x growth year over year.

Within the overall growth, Docker presence grew faster within the largest companies compared to smaller companies. The largest companies (10,000+ employees) represented about 25% of all profiles - up about 3% in share compared to six months ago.

The Fortune 100

86% of the Fortune 100 now have at least one employee with Docker in their profile, and 47% have at least 10 employees with Docker in their profile. This is up from 75% and 28% respectively since March 2016: a near doubling of companies with significant groups doing work with Docker. The top ten companies using Docker within the Fortune have not changed since March 2016, but there has been a noticeable acceleration in the presence of Docker among Dell employees since that time, but from brief inspection, this is likely an artifact caused by many former EMC employees now being reclassed as Dell EMC employed. (VMware employees are mostly still classed separately.)

For this update, I'm not updating the penetration analysis in my initial article - I'll plan to update that on an annual basis.

B2B SaaS

There was also striking growth in the usage of docker by B2B SaaS companies in the last six months. At the end of 2016, practically all B2B SaaS companies (86%) have at least one employee with Docker in their profile and 43% have ten or more employees with Docker, compared to 78% and 20% respectively in March of 2016. Docker is now solidly mainstreamed in B2B SaaS companies.

Overall Adoption Status

While Docker is still an emerging technology (105k LinkedIN Docker profiles vs. 2.1M ITIL profiles and 1.5M .NET profiles), its continuing rapid adoption (160% growth in 2016) remains impressive and puts it once again on the list of fastest growing open source technologies along with the likes of MongoDB. More impressive is its strong progress making inroads into large Enterprises - even among mainstream segments like healthcare and insurance. This is what a technology crossing the chasm into mainstream adoption looks like.