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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 48 58
Rank change year-on-year +23 +10 +7
Contract jobs citing Docker 57 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.43% 1.53% 1.07%
As % of the System Software category 42.86% 12.90% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 2 7
10th Percentile £350 £300 £238
25th Percentile £425 £327 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £380 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.16% -24.10% -28.57%
75th Percentile £539 £437 £538
90th Percentile £585 £467 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £518 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.91% +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 133 62 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.99% 11.88% 7.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 50 45
10th Percentile £213 £160 £188
25th Percentile £366 £221 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £350
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +46.43% -18.13%
75th Percentile £538 £689 £500
90th Percentile £595 £700 £604
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £489 £406
% change year-on-year +2.30% +20.31% -9.72%
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 - - +4.79%
75th Percentile - - £18.79
90th Percentile - - £19.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £54.07 £18.13 £17.80
% change year-on-year +198.22% +1.85% -16.73%

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 4 April 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 (28.07%) Confluence
2 3 (5.26%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.75%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 32 (56.14%) AWS
2 24 (42.11%) GCP
3 23 (40.35%) Azure
4 21 (36.84%) GitHub
5 16 (28.07%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (19.30%) AWS KMS
7 7 (12.28%) Serverless
8 6 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (10.53%) Amazon S3
8 6 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (10.53%) Route 53
9 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.75%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.75%) BrowserStack
10 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (52.63%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (21.05%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (12.28%) NoSQL
4 6 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (10.53%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (61.40%) Jenkins
2 24 (42.11%) Git
3 23 (40.35%) JIRA
4 22 (38.60%) GitLab
5 19 (33.33%) JUnit
6 15 (26.32%) Selenium
7 13 (22.81%) Cucumber
7 13 (22.81%) JMeter
7 13 (22.81%) WebDriver
8 6 (10.53%) Liquibase
8 6 (10.53%) Maven
8 6 (10.53%) Mockito
8 6 (10.53%) SonarQube
9 4 (7.02%) DbUnit
9 4 (7.02%) jMock
10 3 (5.26%) CircleCI
11 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket Server
12 1 (1.75%) Gatling
12 1 (1.75%) REST Assured
12 1 (1.75%) Serenity BDD
General
1 40 (70.18%) Social Skills
2 16 (28.07%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (22.81%) Finance
4 10 (17.54%) Public Sector
5 7 (12.28%) Banking
6 6 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (8.77%) Financial Institution
8 3 (5.26%) Telecoms
9 2 (3.51%) Military
10 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Senior
2 11 (19.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 11 (19.30%) Splunk Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Tester
4 9 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Developer
4 9 (15.79%) Site Engineer
5 8 (14.04%) Automation Tester
5 8 (14.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (14.04%) GCP Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Lead
6 7 (12.28%) Senior Automation Tester
6 7 (12.28%) Senior Tester
7 6 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Java Developer
8 5 (8.77%) Software Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) AWS Software Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (7.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (40.35%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (35.09%) Spring
3 16 (28.07%) REST
4 13 (22.81%) WireMock
5 9 (15.79%) RESTful
6 7 (12.28%) Spring Boot
6 7 (12.28%) Spring Cloud
6 7 (12.28%) Web Services
7 6 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (10.53%) AngularJS
7 6 (10.53%) Hibernate
7 6 (10.53%) JPA
7 6 (10.53%) Node.js
7 6 (10.53%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (10.53%) SOAP
7 6 (10.53%) Spring Batch
7 6 (10.53%) Spring Integration
8 4 (7.02%) Kafka
8 4 (7.02%) PowerMock
9 3 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (38.60%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (17.54%) Distributed Architecture
3 9 (15.79%) Management Information System
4 8 (14.04%) Public Cloud
5 7 (12.28%) Cloud Native
6 3 (5.26%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 24 (42.11%) Linux
2 9 (15.79%) Unix
3 3 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (80.70%) CI/CD
2 45 (78.95%) Containerisation
3 36 (63.16%) DevOps
4 33 (57.89%) Agile
4 33 (57.89%) Observability
5 27 (47.37%) Microservices
6 22 (38.60%) Validation
7 20 (35.09%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (33.33%) TDD
9 18 (31.58%) Test Automation
10 16 (28.07%) BDD
10 16 (28.07%) Computer Science
10 16 (28.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (26.32%) Change Management
11 15 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (24.56%) Migration
12 14 (24.56%) Test Strategy
13 13 (22.81%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 13 (22.81%) End-to-End Testing
13 13 (22.81%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (52.63%) Python
2 14 (24.56%) Go
3 10 (17.54%) Bash
4 7 (12.28%) Java
4 7 (12.28%) SQL
5 5 (8.77%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.75%) Bicep
6 1 (1.75%) Groovy
6 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (40.35%) Security Cleared
2 19 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 16 (28.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (28.07%) Degree
4 7 (12.28%) Master's Degree
5 4 (7.02%) AWS Certification
5 4 (7.02%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (7.02%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 49 (85.96%) Kubernetes
2 38 (66.67%) Grafana
3 28 (49.12%) Prometheus
4 19 (33.33%) Ansible
5 18 (31.58%) Terraform
6 12 (21.05%) Kibana
7 9 (15.79%) Puppet
8 3 (5.26%) Argo
8 3 (5.26%) Control-M
8 3 (5.26%) IBM Guardium
8 3 (5.26%) logstash
8 3 (5.26%) Nessus
Vendors
1 21 (36.84%) Splunk
2 6 (10.53%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.02%) Atlassian
5 3 (5.26%) Google
5 3 (5.26%) Tenable