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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 58 54
Rank change year-on-year +40 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Docker 65 8 16
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.97% 1.16% 2.20%
As % of the System Software category 50.78% 13.56% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 3 13
10th Percentile £409 £543 £435
25th Percentile £463 £606 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £725 £500
Median % change year-on-year -34.14% +45.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £549 £738 £700
90th Percentile £784 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £534 £612 £500
% change year-on-year -12.75% +22.40% -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 128 59 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.66% 8.55% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 48 59
10th Percentile £180 £157 £200
25th Percentile £360 £186 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £290 £413
Median % change year-on-year +63.79% -29.70% +17.86%
75th Percentile £539 £552 £531
90th Percentile £615 £700 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +15.56% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -76.99%
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £24.35 £18.50
% change year-on-year +132.08% +31.59% -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 17 December 2025.

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 18 (27.69%) Confluence
2 10 (15.38%) nginx
3 3 (4.62%) OpenStack
4 2 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.54%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 40 (61.54%) AWS
2 25 (38.46%) Amazon S3
3 23 (35.38%) AWS KMS
4 22 (33.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 22 (33.85%) Amazon EC2
4 22 (33.85%) Amazon ELB
4 22 (33.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 16 (24.62%) GitHub
6 15 (23.08%) Azure
7 14 (21.54%) GCP
7 14 (21.54%) Serverless
8 11 (16.92%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (13.85%) Amazon Glacier
10 9 (13.85%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (13.85%) Route 53
11 2 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (3.08%) Azure AKS
11 2 (3.08%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 23 (35.38%) DNS
2 22 (33.85%) Firewall
3 20 (30.77%) SSH
4 18 (27.69%) FTP
4 18 (27.69%) HTTP
4 18 (27.69%) SMTP
5 9 (13.85%) IMAP
5 9 (13.85%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (9.23%) TCP/IP
7 5 (7.69%) SSL
8 4 (6.15%) VPN
9 3 (4.62%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (27.69%) Amazon RDS
1 18 (27.69%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (21.54%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (21.54%) NoSQL
3 9 (13.85%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.08%) Big Data
4 2 (3.08%) Delta Lake
4 2 (3.08%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.08%) Parquet
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 44 (67.69%) Jenkins
2 25 (38.46%) Git
3 23 (35.38%) JIRA
4 21 (32.31%) GitLab
5 18 (27.69%) Vagrant
6 10 (15.38%) Liquibase
7 4 (6.15%) CircleCI
8 2 (3.08%) Jaeger
8 2 (3.08%) MLflow
8 2 (3.08%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.54%) Poetry
9 1 (1.54%) PyCharm
9 1 (1.54%) Selenium
9 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (64.62%) Social Skills
2 23 (35.38%) Public Sector
3 12 (18.46%) Finance
4 11 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (13.85%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (12.31%) Banking
6 8 (12.31%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.62%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.08%) Military
9 1 (1.54%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 31 (47.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (38.46%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (29.23%) AWS DevOps
3 19 (29.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 16 (24.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 16 (24.62%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (23.08%) Senior
6 13 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 13 (20.00%) Splunk Engineer
7 11 (16.92%) Senior DevOps
7 11 (16.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 10 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (15.38%) Site Engineer
9 9 (13.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 9 (13.85%) Software Engineer
10 8 (12.31%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 7 (10.77%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (10.77%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (9.23%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 5 (7.69%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (47.69%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (23.08%) REST
3 13 (20.00%) RESTful
4 9 (13.85%) LDAP
5 3 (4.62%) Kafka
5 3 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.08%) Apache Avro
6 2 (3.08%) Flask
6 2 (3.08%) NumPy
6 2 (3.08%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (3.08%) Pandas
7 1 (1.54%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.54%) HTML
7 1 (1.54%) JSON
7 1 (1.54%) OAuth
7 1 (1.54%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.54%) pytest
7 1 (1.54%) SOAP
7 1 (1.54%) Web Services
7 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (27.69%) Replication
2 12 (18.46%) Cloud Native
2 12 (18.46%) Public Cloud
3 11 (16.92%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (15.38%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.08%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (70.77%) Linux
2 20 (30.77%) Windows
3 18 (27.69%) Amazon Linux
3 18 (27.69%) VMS
4 10 (15.38%) Unix
5 9 (13.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (90.77%) DevOps
2 44 (67.69%) CI/CD
3 40 (61.54%) Containerisation
4 36 (55.38%) Change Management
5 23 (35.38%) Cloud Security
5 23 (35.38%) Computer Science
6 20 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (29.23%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (27.69%) Agile
8 18 (27.69%) Configuration Management
8 18 (27.69%) Patch Management
8 18 (27.69%) Platform Engineering
8 18 (27.69%) Root Cause Analysis
9 16 (24.62%) High Availability
9 16 (24.62%) Migration
9 16 (24.62%) Observability
10 15 (23.08%) Data Ingestion
11 14 (21.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 13 (20.00%) Incident Response
12 13 (20.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 56 (86.15%) Python
2 20 (30.77%) Go
2 20 (30.77%) Groovy
3 18 (27.69%) PowerShell
4 17 (26.15%) Bash
5 16 (24.62%) SQL
6 10 (15.38%) Java
7 9 (13.85%) Perl
8 5 (7.69%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (49.23%) Degree
2 28 (43.08%) Security Cleared
3 24 (36.92%) SC Cleared
4 23 (35.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (20.00%) AWS Certification
6 12 (18.46%) Azure Certification
7 10 (15.38%) Master's Degree
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) QA
System Software
1 18 (27.69%) DFS Replication
2 9 (13.85%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.85%) Dovecot
2 9 (13.85%) Postfix
2 9 (13.85%) Squid
Systems Management
1 42 (64.62%) Terraform
2 37 (56.92%) Kubernetes
3 36 (55.38%) Grafana
4 32 (49.23%) Prometheus
5 28 (43.08%) Ansible
6 14 (21.54%) Kibana
7 10 (15.38%) Puppet
8 9 (13.85%) Nessus
8 9 (13.85%) Proxmox
9 5 (7.69%) Argo
10 4 (6.15%) logstash
11 2 (3.08%) Istio
Vendors
1 26 (40.00%) Splunk
2 18 (27.69%) ServiceNow
3 9 (13.85%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.15%) CheckPoint
5 4 (6.15%) F5
5 4 (6.15%) Google
5 4 (6.15%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.08%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.54%) Pega
7 1 (1.54%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.54%) VMware