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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 29 58
Rank change year-on-year -7 +29 +3
Contract jobs citing Docker 47 27 7
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.06% 4.77% 0.91%
As % of the System Software category 37.30% 31.76% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 3
10th Percentile £333 £394 £445
25th Percentile £369 £444 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% -21.43%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £616
90th Percentile £571 £500 £640
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £612
% change year-on-year - -18.30% +16.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £70.00 - -

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 126 85 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.56% 15.02% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 56 37
10th Percentile £210 £116 £150
25th Percentile £313 £272 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +28.57% -11.16%
75th Percentile £537 £500 £475
90th Percentile £600 £695 £623
West Midlands median daily rate £474 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -0.21% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.31
25th Percentile £65.00 - £14.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.52%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £17.98
90th Percentile - - £19.16
West Midlands median hourly rate £70.00 £36.65 £16.00
% change year-on-year +91.02% +129.03% -15.79%

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 16 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Birmingham

Docker
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Docker

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 (34.04%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.13%) Apache
3 1 (2.13%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.13%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.13%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 40 (85.11%) AWS
2 24 (51.06%) GitHub
3 22 (46.81%) Azure
4 18 (38.30%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (36.17%) GCP
6 11 (23.40%) Amazon S3
7 10 (21.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (21.28%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (19.15%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (17.02%) AWS KMS
9 8 (17.02%) Route 53
10 6 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (4.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (4.26%) Serverless
13 1 (2.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 1 (2.13%) Amazon SageMaker
13 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
13 1 (2.13%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (55.32%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (17.02%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (17.02%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (17.02%) DynamoDB
3 5 (10.64%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.13%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 35 (74.47%) Jenkins
2 25 (53.19%) Git
3 22 (46.81%) JUnit
4 21 (44.68%) GitLab
5 19 (40.43%) JIRA
5 19 (40.43%) Selenium
6 14 (29.79%) Cucumber
6 14 (29.79%) JMeter
6 14 (29.79%) WebDriver
7 8 (17.02%) Maven
7 8 (17.02%) Mockito
7 8 (17.02%) SonarQube
8 5 (10.64%) REST Assured
8 5 (10.64%) Serenity BDD
9 4 (8.51%) DbUnit
9 4 (8.51%) jMock
10 3 (6.38%) Gatling
11 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket Server
12 1 (2.13%) Liquibase
General
1 22 (46.81%) Social Skills
2 18 (38.30%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (8.51%) Finance
6 2 (4.26%) Legal
7 1 (2.13%) Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Military
7 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Developer
1 12 (25.53%) Senior
2 10 (21.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (21.28%) Tester
3 9 (19.15%) Java Developer
3 9 (19.15%) Lead
4 8 (17.02%) Automation Tester
5 7 (14.89%) Senior Automation Tester
5 7 (14.89%) Senior Tester
6 4 (8.51%) Lead Test Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Test Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) GCP DevOps
7 3 (6.38%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Systems Tester
7 3 (6.38%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (57.45%) Spring
2 14 (29.79%) WireMock
3 13 (27.66%) Spring Boot
4 11 (23.40%) Spring Cloud
5 10 (21.28%) REST
6 9 (19.15%) Node.js
6 9 (19.15%) Web Services
7 8 (17.02%) ActiveMQ
7 8 (17.02%) AngularJS
7 8 (17.02%) Hibernate
7 8 (17.02%) JPA
7 8 (17.02%) SOAP
7 8 (17.02%) Spring Batch
7 8 (17.02%) Spring Integration
8 6 (12.77%) Kafka
8 6 (12.77%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (10.64%) Playwright
10 4 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (8.51%) PowerMock
11 3 (6.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.04%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (25.53%) Distributed Architecture
3 7 (14.89%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.38%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (95.74%) CI/CD
2 31 (65.96%) Agile
3 29 (61.70%) Microservices
4 28 (59.57%) DevOps
4 28 (59.57%) Observability
5 25 (53.19%) Containerisation
6 23 (48.94%) TDD
6 23 (48.94%) Test Automation
7 22 (46.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (40.43%) BDD
8 19 (40.43%) Test Strategy
9 17 (36.17%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 17 (36.17%) End-to-End Testing
10 15 (31.91%) Validation
11 13 (27.66%) Load Testing
12 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (21.28%) Performance Testing
14 10 (21.28%) Scrum
14 10 (21.28%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.91%) Java
2 12 (25.53%) Python
3 8 (17.02%) SQL
4 4 (8.51%) Bash
5 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.26%) Go
7 1 (2.13%) Bicep
7 1 (2.13%) C#
7 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (68.09%) Security Cleared
2 26 (55.32%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.26%) Degree
5 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 38 (80.85%) Grafana
2 31 (65.96%) Kubernetes
3 30 (63.83%) Prometheus
4 13 (27.66%) Terraform
5 7 (14.89%) Ansible
6 3 (6.38%) Control-M
6 3 (6.38%) IBM Guardium
6 3 (6.38%) Nessus
7 2 (4.26%) Puppet
8 1 (2.13%) Argo
8 1 (2.13%) Kibana
8 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.77%) Splunk
3 4 (8.51%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.38%) Tenable
5 1 (2.13%) Databricks
5 1 (2.13%) Google
5 1 (2.13%) Informatica
5 1 (2.13%) New Relic
5 1 (2.13%) Trend Micro