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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 58 50
Rank change year-on-year +38 -8 +17
Contract jobs citing Docker 65 7 16
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.42% 1.08% 2.31%
As % of the System Software category 50.00% 12.96% 21.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 3 13
10th Percentile £407 £543 £435
25th Percentile £463 £606 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +45.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £582 £738 £700
90th Percentile £815 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £530 £612 £500
% change year-on-year -13.40% +22.40% -16.67%

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 130 54 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.84% 8.35% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 46 57
10th Percentile £145 £158 £195
25th Percentile £360 £190 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £541 £575 £525
90th Percentile £623 £700 £694
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £468 £425
% change year-on-year +12.30% +10.00% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -76.99%
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £18.13 £18.50
% change year-on-year +211.64% -2.00% -16.38%

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 9 January 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 (24.62%) Confluence
2 10 (15.38%) nginx
3 3 (4.62%) OpenStack
4 2 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.54%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 37 (56.92%) AWS
2 22 (33.85%) Amazon S3
3 20 (30.77%) AWS KMS
4 19 (29.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 19 (29.23%) Amazon EC2
4 19 (29.23%) Amazon ELB
4 19 (29.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 17 (26.15%) GitHub
6 16 (24.62%) Azure
7 14 (21.54%) GCP
7 14 (21.54%) Serverless
8 11 (16.92%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (13.85%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (13.85%) Route 53
11 6 (9.23%) Amazon Glacier
12 2 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (3.08%) Azure AKS
12 2 (3.08%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 20 (30.77%) DNS
2 19 (29.23%) Firewall
3 17 (26.15%) SSH
4 15 (23.08%) FTP
4 15 (23.08%) HTTP
4 15 (23.08%) SMTP
5 9 (13.85%) IMAP
5 9 (13.85%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (9.23%) TCP/IP
7 5 (7.69%) SSL
8 4 (6.15%) VPN
9 3 (4.62%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (29.23%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (24.62%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (21.54%) NoSQL
5 9 (13.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.08%) Big Data
6 2 (3.08%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.08%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.08%) Parquet
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (63.08%) Jenkins
2 22 (33.85%) Git
3 21 (32.31%) GitLab
3 21 (32.31%) JIRA
4 15 (23.08%) Vagrant
5 10 (15.38%) Liquibase
6 4 (6.15%) CircleCI
7 2 (3.08%) Jaeger
7 2 (3.08%) MLflow
7 2 (3.08%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.54%) Poetry
8 1 (1.54%) PyCharm
8 1 (1.54%) Selenium
8 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (67.69%) Social Skills
2 21 (32.31%) Public Sector
3 14 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (18.46%) Finance
5 9 (13.85%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (12.31%) Banking
6 8 (12.31%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.62%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.08%) Military
9 1 (1.54%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 28 (43.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (36.92%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (27.69%) AWS DevOps
3 18 (27.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 15 (23.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 15 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
4 15 (23.08%) Senior
4 15 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 15 (23.08%) Splunk Engineer
5 12 (18.46%) Site Engineer
6 11 (16.92%) Senior DevOps
6 11 (16.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 10 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (13.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 9 (13.85%) Software Engineer
9 8 (12.31%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 7 (10.77%) GCP Engineer
10 7 (10.77%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (9.23%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 5 (7.69%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (50.77%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (23.08%) REST
3 13 (20.00%) RESTful
4 9 (13.85%) LDAP
5 3 (4.62%) Kafka
5 3 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.08%) Apache Avro
6 2 (3.08%) Flask
6 2 (3.08%) NumPy
6 2 (3.08%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (3.08%) Pandas
7 1 (1.54%) .NET
7 1 (1.54%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.54%) HTML
7 1 (1.54%) OAuth
7 1 (1.54%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.54%) pytest
7 1 (1.54%) SOAP
7 1 (1.54%) Web Services
7 1 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.08%) Replication
2 12 (18.46%) Cloud Native
2 12 (18.46%) Management Information System
2 12 (18.46%) Public Cloud
3 11 (16.92%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.08%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (70.77%) Linux
2 18 (27.69%) Windows
3 15 (23.08%) Amazon Linux
3 15 (23.08%) VMS
4 12 (18.46%) Unix
5 9 (13.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (90.77%) DevOps
2 44 (67.69%) CI/CD
3 43 (66.15%) Containerisation
4 35 (53.85%) Change Management
5 25 (38.46%) Computer Science
6 22 (33.85%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (30.77%) Cloud Security
7 20 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (29.23%) Agile
8 19 (29.23%) Migration
9 18 (27.69%) Observability
9 18 (27.69%) Root Cause Analysis
10 17 (26.15%) Data Ingestion
11 16 (24.62%) High Availability
11 16 (24.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (23.08%) Configuration Management
12 15 (23.08%) Incident Response
12 15 (23.08%) Patch Management
12 15 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (20.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 55 (84.62%) Python
2 20 (30.77%) Bash
2 20 (30.77%) Go
3 17 (26.15%) Groovy
3 17 (26.15%) SQL
4 16 (24.62%) PowerShell
5 7 (10.77%) Java
6 6 (9.23%) Perl
7 5 (7.69%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.54%) Bicep
8 1 (1.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (52.31%) Degree
2 26 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 25 (38.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (33.85%) SC Cleared
5 13 (20.00%) AWS Certification
6 12 (18.46%) Azure Certification
7 10 (15.38%) Master's Degree
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) QA
System Software
1 15 (23.08%) DFS Replication
2 9 (13.85%) Dovecot
2 9 (13.85%) Postfix
2 9 (13.85%) Squid
3 6 (9.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (61.54%) Kubernetes
1 40 (61.54%) Terraform
2 33 (50.77%) Grafana
3 30 (46.15%) Ansible
4 29 (44.62%) Prometheus
5 16 (24.62%) Kibana
6 12 (18.46%) Puppet
7 9 (13.85%) Nessus
7 9 (13.85%) Proxmox
8 5 (7.69%) Argo
9 4 (6.15%) logstash
10 2 (3.08%) Istio
Vendors
1 28 (43.08%) Splunk
2 15 (23.08%) ServiceNow
3 9 (13.85%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.15%) CheckPoint
5 4 (6.15%) F5
5 4 (6.15%) Google
5 4 (6.15%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.08%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.54%) Pega
7 1 (1.54%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.54%) VMware