Docker Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Docker
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 65 52
Rank change year-on-year +47 -13 +18
Contract jobs citing Docker 64 4 15
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 7.92% 0.62% 2.01%
As % of the System Software category 49.23% 6.67% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 1 12
10th Percentile £381 - £261
25th Percentile £465 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -18.37%
75th Percentile £584 - £569
90th Percentile £830 - £700
West Midlands median daily rate £537 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.29% +5.00% -16.67%

All System Software Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 130 60 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.09% 9.27% 9.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 50 52
10th Percentile £132 £158 £188
25th Percentile £360 £190 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% +14.12%
75th Percentile £545 £689 £500
90th Percentile £621 £700 £682
West Midlands median daily rate £517 £495 £413
% change year-on-year +4.39% +20.00% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.49
25th Percentile - - £15.40
Median hourly rate - - £17.27
Median % change year-on-year - - -86.13%
75th Percentile - - £18.79
90th Percentile - - £19.48
West Midlands median hourly rate - £18.13 £18.50
% change year-on-year - -2.00% -23.71%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Docker job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Birmingham

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (15.63%) Confluence
2 7 (10.94%) nginx
3 3 (4.69%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.56%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.00%) AWS
2 16 (25.00%) GitHub
3 15 (23.44%) GCP
4 14 (21.88%) AWS KMS
5 13 (20.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (20.31%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (20.31%) Amazon ELB
5 13 (20.31%) Amazon S3
5 13 (20.31%) Azure
5 13 (20.31%) Serverless
5 13 (20.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 9 (14.06%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (10.94%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (9.38%) Route 53
9 3 (4.69%) Amazon Glacier
9 3 (4.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (3.13%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.31%) DNS
1 13 (20.31%) Firewall
2 9 (14.06%) FTP
2 9 (14.06%) HTTP
2 9 (14.06%) SMTP
2 9 (14.06%) SSH
3 6 (9.38%) IMAP
3 6 (9.38%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (6.25%) SSL
4 4 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.25%) VPN
5 3 (4.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.13%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (18.75%) NoSQL
4 9 (14.06%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (9.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (57.81%) Jenkins
2 22 (34.38%) GitLab
3 18 (28.13%) Git
4 17 (26.56%) JIRA
5 10 (15.63%) Liquibase
6 9 (14.06%) Vagrant
7 4 (6.25%) CircleCI
8 2 (3.13%) Jaeger
8 2 (3.13%) Selenium
9 1 (1.56%) Gatling
9 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.56%) Serenity BDD
General
1 43 (67.19%) Social Skills
2 18 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (21.88%) Finance
3 14 (21.88%) Public Sector
4 9 (14.06%) Banking
5 8 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 6 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.69%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.13%) Military
9 1 (1.56%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (26.56%) AWS Engineer
2 17 (26.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 17 (26.56%) Splunk Engineer
3 15 (23.44%) Senior
4 14 (21.88%) Site Engineer
5 11 (17.19%) AWS DevOps
5 11 (17.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 11 (17.19%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (17.19%) Senior DevOps
5 11 (17.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 9 (14.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 9 (14.06%) GCP Engineer
6 9 (14.06%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (14.06%) Software Engineer
7 7 (10.94%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (9.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 6 (9.38%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 5 (7.81%) AWS Software Engineer
9 5 (7.81%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (51.56%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (23.44%) REST
3 13 (20.31%) RESTful
4 7 (10.94%) OpenTelemetry
5 6 (9.38%) LDAP
6 4 (6.25%) Kafka
7 3 (4.69%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (3.13%) .NET
8 2 (3.13%) FastAPI
9 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.56%) HTML
9 1 (1.56%) JSON
9 1 (1.56%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.56%) Playwright
9 1 (1.56%) pytest
9 1 (1.56%) SOAP
9 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.56%) Spring Cloud
9 1 (1.56%) Web Services
9 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.88%) Management Information System
2 12 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 12 (18.75%) Public Cloud
3 11 (17.19%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (14.06%) Replication
5 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (62.50%) Linux
2 14 (21.88%) Unix
3 12 (18.75%) Windows
4 9 (14.06%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (14.06%) VMS
5 6 (9.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (87.50%) DevOps
2 48 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 45 (70.31%) CI/CD
4 31 (48.44%) Change Management
5 27 (42.19%) Computer Science
6 26 (40.63%) Observability
7 24 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (32.81%) Agile
9 21 (32.81%) Migration
9 21 (32.81%) Root Cause Analysis
10 20 (31.25%) Incident Response
11 19 (29.69%) Data Ingestion
12 18 (28.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 17 (26.56%) High Availability
14 14 (21.88%) Cloud Security
14 14 (21.88%) Data Modelling
14 14 (21.88%) Knowledge Transfer
14 14 (21.88%) Microservices
14 14 (21.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 53 (82.81%) Python
2 20 (31.25%) Bash
2 20 (31.25%) Go
3 11 (17.19%) SQL
4 10 (15.63%) Groovy
4 10 (15.63%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.81%) Java
5 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.69%) Perl
7 1 (1.56%) Bicep
7 1 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (51.56%) Degree
2 27 (42.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (31.25%) Security Cleared
4 15 (23.44%) SC Cleared
5 10 (15.63%) AWS Certification
5 10 (15.63%) Master's Degree
6 9 (14.06%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.13%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (14.06%) DFS Replication
2 6 (9.38%) Dovecot
2 6 (9.38%) Postfix
2 6 (9.38%) Squid
3 3 (4.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (70.31%) Kubernetes
2 36 (56.25%) Terraform
3 33 (51.56%) Grafana
4 32 (50.00%) Ansible
5 29 (45.31%) Prometheus
6 18 (28.13%) Kibana
7 14 (21.88%) Puppet
8 8 (12.50%) Nessus
9 6 (9.38%) Proxmox
10 4 (6.25%) logstash
11 3 (4.69%) Argo
12 2 (3.13%) Control-M
12 2 (3.13%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 31 (48.44%) Splunk
2 9 (14.06%) ServiceNow
3 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.38%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (6.25%) CheckPoint
5 4 (6.25%) F5
5 4 (6.25%) Google
5 4 (6.25%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.13%) Tenable
7 1 (1.56%) Pega
7 1 (1.56%) VMware