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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 26 56
Rank change year-on-year -12 +30 -1
Contract jobs citing Docker 37 33 7
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.02% 5.99% 1.03%
As % of the System Software category 31.90% 40.74% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 3
10th Percentile £359 £404 £638
25th Percentile £416 £444 £666
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £725
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -34.48% +3.57%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £738
90th Percentile £503 £500 -
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £515 £644
% change year-on-year -4.44% -20.00% +9.11%
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 116 81 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.61% 14.70% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 52 27
10th Percentile £210 £108 £140
25th Percentile £288 £280 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £414 £350
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +18.14% -15.15%
75th Percentile £514 £488 £463
90th Percentile £604 - £660
West Midlands median daily rate £466 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.84% -9.52% +23.53%
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 £66.57 £56.50 £15.83
% change year-on-year +17.82% +257.03% -18.85%

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 11 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 14 (37.84%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) Apache
3 1 (2.70%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.70%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.70%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 36 (97.30%) AWS
2 23 (62.16%) GitHub
3 20 (54.05%) Azure
4 18 (48.65%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (37.84%) GCP
6 9 (24.32%) Amazon S3
7 8 (21.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (21.62%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (18.92%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (16.22%) AWS KMS
9 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (16.22%) Route 53
10 3 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (5.41%) Serverless
12 1 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
12 1 (2.70%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (56.76%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (16.22%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (16.22%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (16.22%) DynamoDB
3 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.70%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 29 (78.38%) Jenkins
2 21 (56.76%) Git
3 20 (54.05%) JUnit
4 19 (51.35%) GitLab
5 18 (48.65%) Selenium
6 14 (37.84%) Cucumber
6 14 (37.84%) JIRA
6 14 (37.84%) JMeter
6 14 (37.84%) WebDriver
7 6 (16.22%) Maven
7 6 (16.22%) Mockito
7 6 (16.22%) SonarQube
8 4 (10.81%) REST Assured
8 4 (10.81%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (5.41%) DbUnit
9 2 (5.41%) Gatling
9 2 (5.41%) jMock
General
1 19 (51.35%) Social Skills
2 16 (43.24%) Public Sector
3 6 (16.22%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Legal
6 1 (2.70%) Military
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Senior
2 10 (27.03%) Tester
3 8 (21.62%) Automation Tester
3 8 (21.62%) Lead
4 7 (18.92%) Developer
4 7 (18.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) Java Developer
4 7 (18.92%) Senior Automation Tester
4 7 (18.92%) Senior Tester
5 3 (8.11%) Automation Test Lead
5 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Lead Test Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Systems Tester
5 3 (8.11%) Test Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Test Leader
6 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (64.86%) Spring
2 14 (37.84%) WireMock
3 10 (27.03%) Spring Boot
4 8 (21.62%) Spring Cloud
5 7 (18.92%) Node.js
5 7 (18.92%) REST
5 7 (18.92%) Web Services
6 6 (16.22%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (16.22%) AngularJS
6 6 (16.22%) Hibernate
6 6 (16.22%) JPA
6 6 (16.22%) SOAP
6 6 (16.22%) Spring Batch
6 6 (16.22%) Spring Integration
7 5 (13.51%) Kafka
8 4 (10.81%) Playwright
9 3 (8.11%) RESTful
10 2 (5.41%) Bootstrap
10 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (5.41%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (37.84%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (32.43%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (16.22%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.11%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (97.30%) CI/CD
2 26 (70.27%) Agile
2 26 (70.27%) Microservices
3 22 (59.46%) Test Automation
4 21 (56.76%) DevOps
4 21 (56.76%) Observability
4 21 (56.76%) TDD
5 20 (54.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (48.65%) Test Strategy
7 17 (45.95%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 17 (45.95%) End-to-End Testing
8 16 (43.24%) BDD
8 16 (43.24%) Containerisation
9 14 (37.84%) Validation
10 13 (35.14%) Load Testing
11 10 (27.03%) Workshop Facilitation
12 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (24.32%) Performance Testing
13 8 (21.62%) Scrum
13 8 (21.62%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) Java
2 7 (18.92%) SQL
3 5 (13.51%) Python
4 3 (8.11%) Bash
4 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.70%) Bicep
5 1 (2.70%) C#
5 1 (2.70%) Go
5 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 29 (78.38%) Security Cleared
2 24 (64.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 29 (78.38%) Grafana
2 24 (64.86%) Kubernetes
3 23 (62.16%) Prometheus
4 10 (27.03%) Terraform
5 5 (13.51%) Ansible
6 1 (2.70%) Argo
6 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) Splunk
3 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) Informatica
4 1 (2.70%) New Relic
4 1 (2.70%) Trend Micro