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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 24 56
Rank change year-on-year -20 +32 +1
Contract jobs citing Docker 28 37 7
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.13% 6.45% 1.00%
As % of the System Software category 25.45% 43.53% 17.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 26 3
10th Percentile £364 £407 £638
25th Percentile £413 £434 £666
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £725
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -34.48% +3.57%
75th Percentile £469 £488 £738
90th Percentile £528 £500 -
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £503 £635
% change year-on-year -2.49% -20.87% +11.40%
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 110 85 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.28% 14.81% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 52 28
10th Percentile £210 £108 £143
25th Percentile £281 £280 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £288
Median % change year-on-year - +47.83% -28.13%
75th Percentile £537 £488 £444
90th Percentile £626 £500 £659
West Midlands median daily rate £458 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -8.35% -4.76% +22.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.51%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £56.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year +11.74% +253.13% -17.95%

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 20 August 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 8 (28.57%) Confluence
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.57%) Apache
3 1 (3.57%) Jupyter
3 1 (3.57%) OpenStack
3 1 (3.57%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 27 (96.43%) AWS
2 19 (67.86%) GitHub
3 14 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (42.86%) Azure
5 8 (28.57%) GCP
6 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
7 5 (17.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (17.86%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (10.71%) AWS KMS
9 3 (10.71%) Route 53
10 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (7.14%) Serverless
11 1 (3.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
11 1 (3.57%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (10.71%) DynamoDB
3 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.57%) Data Vault
4 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 22 (78.57%) Jenkins
2 17 (60.71%) GitLab
3 12 (42.86%) Git
3 12 (42.86%) Selenium
4 11 (39.29%) JUnit
5 8 (28.57%) Cucumber
5 8 (28.57%) JIRA
5 8 (28.57%) JMeter
5 8 (28.57%) WebDriver
6 4 (14.29%) REST Assured
6 4 (14.29%) Serenity BDD
7 3 (10.71%) Maven
7 3 (10.71%) Mockito
7 3 (10.71%) SonarQube
8 2 (7.14%) Gatling
General
1 13 (46.43%) Public Sector
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Legal
2 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Military
3 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Senior
2 7 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Tester
4 5 (17.86%) Automation Tester
4 5 (17.86%) Lead
4 5 (17.86%) Senior Automation Tester
4 5 (17.86%) Senior Tester
5 4 (14.29%) Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
6 3 (10.71%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Lead Test Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (3.57%) Principal Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (53.57%) Spring
2 10 (35.71%) Terraform
3 8 (28.57%) WireMock
4 7 (25.00%) Spring Boot
5 5 (17.86%) Kafka
5 5 (17.86%) Spring Cloud
6 4 (14.29%) Node.js
6 4 (14.29%) Playwright
6 4 (14.29%) REST
6 4 (14.29%) Web Services
7 3 (10.71%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
7 3 (10.71%) Hibernate
7 3 (10.71%) JPA
7 3 (10.71%) SOAP
7 3 (10.71%) Spring Batch
7 3 (10.71%) Spring Integration
8 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
9 1 (3.57%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Distributed Architecture
1 8 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (96.43%) CI/CD
2 19 (67.86%) Agile
3 18 (64.29%) DevOps
4 17 (60.71%) Microservices
5 16 (57.14%) Test Automation
6 15 (53.57%) Observability
7 14 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (42.86%) TDD
8 12 (42.86%) Test Strategy
9 11 (39.29%) Containerisation
9 11 (39.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 11 (39.29%) End-to-End Testing
10 10 (35.71%) BDD
11 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (28.57%) Validation
13 7 (25.00%) Load Testing
13 7 (25.00%) Performance Testing
14 6 (21.43%) Data Validation
14 6 (21.43%) Stress Testing
14 6 (21.43%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Java
2 5 (17.86%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) SQL
4 3 (10.71%) Bash
4 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) Bicep
5 1 (3.57%) C#
5 1 (3.57%) Go
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 17 (60.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 20 (71.43%) Grafana
2 18 (64.29%) Kubernetes
3 17 (60.71%) Prometheus
4 5 (17.86%) Ansible
5 1 (3.57%) Argo
5 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Jaspersoft
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
1 3 (10.71%) Splunk
2 1 (3.57%) Databricks
2 1 (3.57%) Informatica
2 1 (3.57%) New Relic
2 1 (3.57%) Trend Micro