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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 17 58
Rank change year-on-year -32 +41 -4
Contract jobs citing Docker 21 63 10
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.39% 9.81% 1.38%
As % of the System Software category 20.79% 51.64% 21.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 42 4
10th Percentile £384 £413 £536
25th Percentile £408 £463 £589
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £475 £681
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% -30.28% +36.25%
75th Percentile £520 £534 £738
90th Percentile £644 £633 -
West Midlands median daily rate £476 £532 £612
% change year-on-year -10.53% -13.07% +22.40%
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 101 122 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.48% 19.00% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 73 33
10th Percentile £185 £121 £151
25th Percentile £210 £275 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £475 £200
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +137.50% -50.00%
75th Percentile £469 £500 £425
90th Percentile £658 £599 £630
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £505 £490
% change year-on-year -10.85% +3.12% +17.25%
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 - - -17.95%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.50 £56.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year -58.41% +253.13% -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 10 October 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 1 (4.76%) Apache
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.76%) Confluence
1 1 (4.76%) Jupyter
1 1 (4.76%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 17 (80.95%) AWS
2 16 (76.19%) GitHub
3 8 (38.10%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (28.57%) Azure
5 5 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (9.52%) Serverless
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
8 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
8 1 (4.76%) Datadog
8 1 (4.76%) GCP
8 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
8 1 (4.76%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) BGP
1 3 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (14.29%) NX-OS
1 3 (14.29%) TACACS
1 3 (14.29%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) MongoDB
2 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (71.43%) GitLab
1 15 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 7 (33.33%) Git
3 5 (23.81%) Selenium
4 4 (19.05%) REST Assured
4 4 (19.05%) Serenity BDD
5 2 (9.52%) Gatling
5 2 (9.52%) JUnit
6 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.76%) JIRA
6 1 (4.76%) JMeter
6 1 (4.76%) Maven
6 1 (4.76%) Mockito
6 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (47.62%) Public Sector
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Lead
2 4 (19.05%) Test Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Automation Architect
3 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Data Centre Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Lead Test Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Network Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Scrum Master
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) Terraform
2 6 (28.57%) REST
2 6 (28.57%) Spring
3 5 (23.81%) Kafka
3 5 (23.81%) Playwright
3 5 (23.81%) Spring Boot
4 3 (14.29%) JSON
4 3 (14.29%) Node.js
4 3 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
4 3 (14.29%) YAML
5 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (9.52%) Web Services
6 1 (4.76%) .NET
6 1 (4.76%) ADO
6 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
6 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET
6 1 (4.76%) Loki
6 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (4.76%) SOAP
6 1 (4.76%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 3 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.52%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (76.19%) DevOps
3 13 (61.90%) Test Automation
4 12 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (47.62%) Agile
5 10 (47.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (38.10%) Microservices
7 7 (33.33%) Observability
7 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
9 5 (23.81%) SDET
9 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (23.81%) Test Strategy
10 4 (19.05%) Application Packaging
10 4 (19.05%) BDD
10 4 (19.05%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (19.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 4 (19.05%) Migration
10 4 (19.05%) Non-Functional Testing
10 4 (19.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Java
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) Bash
2 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) Bicep
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) Go
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 9 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Grafana
2 10 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 10 (47.62%) Prometheus
3 8 (38.10%) Ansible
4 1 (4.76%) Argo
4 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Cisco
1 3 (14.29%) Infoblox
1 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
1 3 (14.29%) Splunk
1 3 (14.29%) VMware
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (4.76%) New Relic
3 1 (4.76%) Trend Micro