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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 61 48
Rank change year-on-year +47 -13 +18
Contract jobs citing Docker 65 10 22
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 9.91% 1.42% 2.73%
As % of the System Software category 51.18% 21.74% 20.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 4 11
10th Percentile £413 £536 £475
25th Percentile £463 £589 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £681 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.28% +36.25% -16.70%
75th Percentile £531 £738 £655
90th Percentile £633 - £700
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £594 £500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.70% -14.68%

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 127 46 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.36% 6.52% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 32 66
10th Percentile £128 £151 £191
25th Percentile £300 £182 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £200 £400
Median % change year-on-year +137.50% -50.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £500 £444 £519
90th Percentile £599 £643 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £506 £490 £418
% change year-on-year +3.37% +17.25% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.95% -56.67%
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £16.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +253.13% -15.79% +7.22%

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 21 October 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 22 (33.85%) Confluence
2 10 (15.38%) nginx
3 2 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.54%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 49 (75.38%) AWS
2 36 (55.38%) Amazon S3
3 32 (49.23%) Amazon EC2
4 31 (47.69%) AWS KMS
5 29 (44.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 25 (38.46%) Amazon ELB
6 25 (38.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (23.08%) Serverless
8 14 (21.54%) Azure
8 14 (21.54%) Route 53
9 13 (20.00%) GCP
10 12 (18.46%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (18.46%) Amazon Glacier
10 12 (18.46%) GitHub
11 9 (13.85%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (12.31%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (10.77%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
15 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (40.00%) DNS
2 25 (38.46%) Firewall
3 23 (35.38%) SSH
4 21 (32.31%) FTP
4 21 (32.31%) HTTP
4 21 (32.31%) 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 27 (41.54%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (23.08%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (20.00%) NoSQL
5 8 (12.31%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (9.23%) DynamoDB
7 2 (3.08%) Big Data
7 2 (3.08%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.08%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.08%) Parquet
7 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 51 (78.46%) Jenkins
2 35 (53.85%) Git
3 23 (35.38%) JIRA
4 21 (32.31%) Vagrant
5 16 (24.62%) GitLab
6 9 (13.85%) Liquibase
7 7 (10.77%) SonarQube
8 6 (9.23%) Maven
9 5 (7.69%) JUnit
10 3 (4.62%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (4.62%) DbUnit
10 3 (4.62%) jMock
10 3 (4.62%) Mockito
11 2 (3.08%) CircleCI
11 2 (3.08%) Jaeger
11 2 (3.08%) MLflow
11 2 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (1.54%) Poetry
12 1 (1.54%) PyCharm
12 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (49.23%) Social Skills
2 31 (47.69%) Public Sector
3 12 (18.46%) Finance
4 10 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (10.77%) Banking
6 7 (10.77%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.08%) Military
8 1 (1.54%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (50.77%) 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 13 (20.00%) Senior
6 10 (15.38%) Developer
7 9 (13.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 9 (13.85%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (13.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (12.31%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (12.31%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 8 (12.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (12.31%) Software Engineer
8 8 (12.31%) Splunk Engineer
9 7 (10.77%) GCP Engineer
9 7 (10.77%) Java Developer
10 6 (9.23%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (9.23%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (33.85%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (32.31%) REST
3 17 (26.15%) RESTful
4 9 (13.85%) LDAP
5 8 (12.31%) Web Services
6 7 (10.77%) SOAP
6 7 (10.77%) Spring
6 7 (10.77%) Spring Boot
7 6 (9.23%) ActiveMQ
8 5 (7.69%) Hibernate
8 5 (7.69%) JPA
8 5 (7.69%) Spring Batch
8 5 (7.69%) Spring Integration
9 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.62%) Bootstrap
9 3 (4.62%) PowerMock
9 3 (4.62%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (3.08%) Apache Avro
10 2 (3.08%) Flask
10 2 (3.08%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 21 (32.31%) Replication
2 15 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (16.92%) Cloud Native
3 11 (16.92%) Public Cloud
4 6 (9.23%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.08%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (70.77%) Linux
2 22 (33.85%) Windows
3 21 (32.31%) Amazon Linux
3 21 (32.31%) VMS
4 9 (13.85%) Ubuntu
5 6 (9.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (90.77%) DevOps
2 38 (58.46%) CI/CD
3 34 (52.31%) Change Management
4 33 (50.77%) Containerisation
5 25 (38.46%) Cloud Security
6 21 (32.31%) Agile
6 21 (32.31%) Configuration Management
6 21 (32.31%) Patch Management
6 21 (32.31%) Platform Engineering
7 18 (27.69%) Computer Science
7 18 (27.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (26.15%) Microservices
8 17 (26.15%) Root Cause Analysis
9 13 (20.00%) High Availability
9 13 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (16.92%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (16.92%) Cryptography
10 11 (16.92%) Migration
11 10 (15.38%) Observability
12 9 (13.85%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 51 (78.46%) Python
2 23 (35.38%) Groovy
3 22 (33.85%) PowerShell
4 21 (32.31%) SQL
5 20 (30.77%) Java
6 15 (23.08%) Bash
6 15 (23.08%) Go
7 12 (18.46%) Perl
8 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.54%) Bicep
9 1 (1.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 31 (47.69%) SC Cleared
3 27 (41.54%) Degree
4 18 (27.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (18.46%) AWS Certification
6 11 (16.92%) Azure Certification
7 9 (13.85%) Master's Degree
8 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 21 (32.31%) DFS Replication
2 12 (18.46%) Active Directory
2 12 (18.46%) Postfix
3 9 (13.85%) Dovecot
3 9 (13.85%) Squid
Systems Management
1 41 (63.08%) Terraform
2 37 (56.92%) Grafana
2 37 (56.92%) Prometheus
3 28 (43.08%) Kubernetes
4 20 (30.77%) Ansible
5 9 (13.85%) Nessus
5 9 (13.85%) Proxmox
6 8 (12.31%) Kibana
7 6 (9.23%) Puppet
8 2 (3.08%) Argo
8 2 (3.08%) Istio
8 2 (3.08%) logstash
Vendors
1 21 (32.31%) ServiceNow
2 19 (29.23%) Splunk
3 12 (18.46%) 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 3 (4.62%) Atlassian
7 2 (3.08%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.54%) Pega
8 1 (1.54%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.54%) VMware