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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 59 55
Rank change year-on-year +38 -4 +12
Contract jobs citing Docker 69 5 15
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.19% 0.86% 1.97%
As % of the System Software category 51.11% 7.81% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 1 12
10th Percentile £355 - £256
25th Percentile £463 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -18.37%
75th Percentile £582 - £519
90th Percentile £892 - £688
West Midlands median daily rate £537 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.29% +5.00% -14.53%

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 135 64 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.03% 11.03% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 53 58
10th Percentile £133 £158 £188
25th Percentile £338 £190 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +21.88% +14.29%
75th Percentile £548 £689 £497
90th Percentile £618 £700 £602
West Midlands median daily rate £514 £488 £400
% change year-on-year +5.27% +22.06% -4.76%
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 - - -75.33%
75th Percentile - - £18.79
90th Percentile - - £19.48
West Midlands median hourly rate - £18.13 £18.50
% change year-on-year - -2.00% -7.50%

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 19 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 14 (20.29%) Confluence
2 3 (4.35%) nginx
2 3 (4.35%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.45%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 37 (53.62%) AWS
2 22 (31.88%) GCP
3 19 (27.54%) Azure
4 18 (26.09%) GitHub
5 14 (20.29%) AWS KMS
6 13 (18.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (18.84%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (18.84%) Amazon S3
7 12 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (17.39%) Serverless
8 9 (13.04%) Amazon ELB
8 9 (13.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (10.14%) Route 53
10 4 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (5.80%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (2.90%) Azure API Management
12 2 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.04%) DNS
1 9 (13.04%) Firewall
2 5 (7.25%) FTP
2 5 (7.25%) HTTP
2 5 (7.25%) SMTP
2 5 (7.25%) SSH
3 4 (5.80%) SSL
3 4 (5.80%) TCP/IP
3 4 (5.80%) VPN
4 3 (4.35%) IMAP
4 3 (4.35%) Network Security
4 3 (4.35%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (34.78%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (26.09%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (17.39%) NoSQL
4 9 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (10.14%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (5.80%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (59.42%) Jenkins
2 24 (34.78%) Git
2 24 (34.78%) GitLab
3 21 (30.43%) JIRA
4 11 (15.94%) Liquibase
5 10 (14.49%) JUnit
6 8 (11.59%) Selenium
7 6 (8.70%) Cucumber
7 6 (8.70%) JMeter
7 6 (8.70%) WebDriver
8 5 (7.25%) Vagrant
9 4 (5.80%) CircleCI
9 4 (5.80%) Maven
9 4 (5.80%) Mockito
9 4 (5.80%) SonarQube
10 3 (4.35%) DbUnit
10 3 (4.35%) jMock
11 1 (1.45%) Gatling
11 1 (1.45%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.45%) Serenity BDD
General
1 47 (68.12%) Social Skills
2 21 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (23.19%) Finance
4 12 (17.39%) Public Sector
5 10 (14.49%) Banking
6 8 (11.59%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.90%) Military
10 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (26.09%) Senior
3 17 (24.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 17 (24.64%) Splunk Engineer
4 14 (20.29%) Site Engineer
5 13 (18.84%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (17.39%) Senior DevOps
6 12 (17.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 10 (14.49%) GCP Engineer
7 10 (14.49%) Software Engineer
8 8 (11.59%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (11.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (11.59%) Developer
8 8 (11.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (10.14%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 6 (8.70%) Lead
11 5 (7.25%) GCP DevOps
11 5 (7.25%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 5 (7.25%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (49.28%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (27.54%) REST
3 13 (18.84%) RESTful
4 11 (15.94%) Spring
5 7 (10.14%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (8.70%) WireMock
7 5 (7.25%) Spring Boot
7 5 (7.25%) Spring Cloud
7 5 (7.25%) Web Services
8 4 (5.80%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.80%) Hibernate
8 4 (5.80%) JPA
8 4 (5.80%) Kafka
8 4 (5.80%) Node.js
8 4 (5.80%) SOAP
8 4 (5.80%) Spring Batch
8 4 (5.80%) Spring Integration
9 3 (4.35%) PowerMock
9 3 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (20.29%) Management Information System
3 13 (18.84%) Public Cloud
4 12 (17.39%) Cloud Native
5 5 (7.25%) Replication
6 4 (5.80%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.90%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (2.90%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 39 (56.52%) Linux
2 14 (20.29%) Unix
3 8 (11.59%) Windows
4 5 (7.25%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (7.25%) VMS
5 3 (4.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (78.26%) Containerisation
1 54 (78.26%) DevOps
2 51 (73.91%) CI/CD
3 32 (46.38%) Observability
4 29 (42.03%) Agile
5 28 (40.58%) Change Management
6 26 (37.68%) Computer Science
6 26 (37.68%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (33.33%) Microservices
8 21 (30.43%) Migration
8 21 (30.43%) Root Cause Analysis
9 20 (28.99%) Incident Response
9 20 (28.99%) Validation
10 19 (27.54%) Data Ingestion
11 18 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 16 (23.19%) High Availability
13 14 (20.29%) Dashboard Development
13 14 (20.29%) Performance Metrics
13 14 (20.29%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 49 (71.01%) Python
2 20 (28.99%) Go
3 19 (27.54%) Bash
4 11 (15.94%) SQL
5 7 (10.14%) Java
6 6 (8.70%) Groovy
6 6 (8.70%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.90%) Perl
9 1 (1.45%) Bicep
9 1 (1.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (42.03%) Degree
2 26 (37.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 18 (26.09%) SC Cleared
5 10 (14.49%) Master's Degree
6 9 (13.04%) AWS Certification
7 8 (11.59%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (8.70%) Postfix
2 5 (7.25%) DFS Replication
3 3 (4.35%) Dovecot
3 3 (4.35%) Squid
4 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (76.81%) Kubernetes
2 40 (57.97%) Grafana
3 33 (47.83%) Ansible
4 32 (46.38%) Prometheus
4 32 (46.38%) Terraform
5 18 (26.09%) Kibana
6 14 (20.29%) Puppet
7 6 (8.70%) Nessus
8 4 (5.80%) logstash
9 3 (4.35%) Argo
9 3 (4.35%) Control-M
9 3 (4.35%) IBM Guardium
9 3 (4.35%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 32 (46.38%) Splunk
2 9 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.14%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (7.25%) Google
4 5 (7.25%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.80%) CheckPoint
5 4 (5.80%) F5
5 4 (5.80%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.35%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.35%) Tenable