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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 44 58
Rank change year-on-year +24 +14 +14
Contract jobs citing Docker 60 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.97% 1.54% 1.17%
As % of the System Software category 45.80% 12.50% 14.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 3 8
10th Percentile £350 £318 £238
25th Percentile £425 £372 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £519
90th Percentile £606 £498 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%

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 131 64 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.21% 12.36% 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 53 50
10th Percentile £213 £160 £187
25th Percentile £400 £200 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +42.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £689 £494
90th Percentile £599 £700 £601
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £490 £400
% change year-on-year +2.04% +22.50% -11.11%
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 - - +8.04%
75th Percentile - - £18.79
90th Percentile - - £19.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £54.07 £18.13 £18.25
% change year-on-year +198.22% -0.66% -13.03%

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 27 March 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 16 (26.67%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 34 (56.67%) AWS
2 25 (41.67%) GCP
3 23 (38.33%) Azure
4 21 (35.00%) GitHub
5 16 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (18.33%) AWS KMS
7 8 (13.33%) Serverless
8 7 (11.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (11.67%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (11.67%) Amazon S3
9 6 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (10.00%) Route 53
10 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (1.67%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.67%) Azure API Management
11 1 (1.67%) IaaS
11 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) DNS
1 1 (1.67%) Firewall
1 1 (1.67%) Network Security
1 1 (1.67%) SSL
1 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (21.67%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 6 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (10.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (61.67%) Jenkins
2 25 (41.67%) Git
3 24 (40.00%) GitLab
4 23 (38.33%) JIRA
5 19 (31.67%) JUnit
6 15 (25.00%) Selenium
7 13 (21.67%) Cucumber
7 13 (21.67%) JMeter
7 13 (21.67%) WebDriver
8 7 (11.67%) Liquibase
9 6 (10.00%) Maven
9 6 (10.00%) Mockito
9 6 (10.00%) SonarQube
10 4 (6.67%) DbUnit
10 4 (6.67%) jMock
11 3 (5.00%) CircleCI
12 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
13 1 (1.67%) Gatling
13 1 (1.67%) REST Assured
13 1 (1.67%) Serenity BDD
General
1 42 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.33%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (23.33%) Finance
4 10 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 8 (13.33%) Banking
6 6 (10.00%) Financial Institution
6 6 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.33%) Military
9 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Senior
2 12 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 12 (20.00%) Splunk Engineer
3 10 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 10 (16.67%) Tester
4 9 (15.00%) Developer
4 9 (15.00%) GCP Engineer
5 8 (13.33%) Automation Tester
6 7 (11.67%) Lead
6 7 (11.67%) Senior Automation Tester
6 7 (11.67%) Senior Tester
7 6 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Java Developer
7 6 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (41.67%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (33.33%) Spring
3 17 (28.33%) REST
4 13 (21.67%) WireMock
5 10 (16.67%) RESTful
6 7 (11.67%) Spring Boot
6 7 (11.67%) Spring Cloud
6 7 (11.67%) Web Services
7 6 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (10.00%) AngularJS
7 6 (10.00%) Hibernate
7 6 (10.00%) JPA
7 6 (10.00%) Node.js
7 6 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (10.00%) SOAP
7 6 (10.00%) Spring Batch
7 6 (10.00%) Spring Integration
8 4 (6.67%) Kafka
8 4 (6.67%) PowerMock
9 3 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (38.33%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 10 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 9 (15.00%) Public Cloud
4 8 (13.33%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.00%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 26 (43.33%) Linux
2 10 (16.67%) Unix
3 3 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 47 (78.33%) Containerisation
3 39 (65.00%) DevOps
4 34 (56.67%) Agile
4 34 (56.67%) Observability
5 28 (46.67%) Microservices
6 23 (38.33%) Validation
7 21 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (31.67%) TDD
9 18 (30.00%) Computer Science
9 18 (30.00%) Test Automation
10 17 (28.33%) Change Management
10 17 (28.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (26.67%) BDD
11 16 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (25.00%) Migration
13 14 (23.33%) Incident Response
13 14 (23.33%) Root Cause Analysis
13 14 (23.33%) Test Strategy
14 13 (21.67%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (55.00%) Python
2 15 (25.00%) Go
3 12 (20.00%) Bash
4 8 (13.33%) SQL
5 7 (11.67%) Java
6 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.67%) Bicep
7 1 (1.67%) Groovy
7 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (31.67%) SC Cleared
3 18 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (30.00%) Degree
4 8 (13.33%) Master's Degree
5 4 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 51 (85.00%) Kubernetes
2 39 (65.00%) Grafana
3 29 (48.33%) Prometheus
4 22 (36.67%) Ansible
5 20 (33.33%) Terraform
6 13 (21.67%) Kibana
7 10 (16.67%) Puppet
8 3 (5.00%) Argo
8 3 (5.00%) Control-M
8 3 (5.00%) IBM Guardium
8 3 (5.00%) logstash
8 3 (5.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 23 (38.33%) Splunk
2 6 (10.00%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.67%) Atlassian
4 4 (6.67%) Google
5 3 (5.00%) Tenable
6 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.67%) F5
6 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto