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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 46 61
Rank change year-on-year +11 +15 +4
Contract jobs citing Docker 47 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.14% 1.51% 0.91%
As % of the System Software category 37.60% 12.70% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 2 5
10th Percentile £335 £300 -
25th Percentile £425 £327 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £380 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.16% -15.67% -30.77%
75th Percentile £550 £437 £575
90th Percentile £585 £467 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -5.45% -8.33% +9.09%

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 125 63 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.66% 11.89% 6.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 49 39
10th Percentile £199 £149 £187
25th Percentile £350 £190 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £488 £350
Median % change year-on-year -11.79% +39.29% -17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £689 £456
90th Percentile £595 £700 £618
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £488 £400
% change year-on-year - +21.88% -15.79%
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 £63.14 £18.13 £17.80
% change year-on-year +248.23% +1.85% +0.47%

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 28 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 (34.04%) Confluence
2 3 (6.38%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.13%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 27 (57.45%) AWS
2 22 (46.81%) Azure
3 19 (40.43%) GitHub
4 17 (36.17%) GCP
5 15 (31.91%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (17.02%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (17.02%) Amazon S3
7 7 (14.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (14.89%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (14.89%) AWS KMS
7 7 (14.89%) Route 53
8 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.13%) BrowserStack
9 1 (2.13%) IaaS
9 1 (2.13%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (51.06%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (21.28%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (14.89%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (14.89%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (14.89%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.13%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (53.19%) Jenkins
2 23 (48.94%) Git
2 23 (48.94%) JIRA
3 20 (42.55%) JUnit
4 14 (29.79%) Selenium
5 13 (27.66%) Cucumber
5 13 (27.66%) GitLab
5 13 (27.66%) JMeter
5 13 (27.66%) WebDriver
6 7 (14.89%) Maven
6 7 (14.89%) Mockito
6 7 (14.89%) SonarQube
7 4 (8.51%) DbUnit
7 4 (8.51%) jMock
8 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (4.26%) CircleCI
9 1 (2.13%) Gatling
9 1 (2.13%) Liquibase
9 1 (2.13%) REST Assured
9 1 (2.13%) Serenity BDD
General
1 30 (63.83%) Social Skills
2 15 (31.91%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (19.15%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.77%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Finance
6 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.26%) Banking
8 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Military
8 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Senior
2 10 (21.28%) Developer
2 10 (21.28%) Tester
3 9 (19.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 9 (19.15%) Splunk Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Automation Tester
4 8 (17.02%) Site Engineer
5 7 (14.89%) Java Developer
5 7 (14.89%) Senior Automation Tester
5 7 (14.89%) Senior Tester
6 6 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) Lead
7 3 (6.38%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) GCP DevOps
7 3 (6.38%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Systems Tester
7 3 (6.38%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (44.68%) Spring
2 14 (29.79%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (27.66%) WireMock
4 8 (17.02%) REST
4 8 (17.02%) Spring Boot
4 8 (17.02%) Spring Cloud
5 7 (14.89%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (14.89%) AngularJS
5 7 (14.89%) Hibernate
5 7 (14.89%) JPA
5 7 (14.89%) Node.js
5 7 (14.89%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (14.89%) SOAP
5 7 (14.89%) Spring Batch
5 7 (14.89%) Spring Integration
5 7 (14.89%) Web Services
6 4 (8.51%) Kafka
6 4 (8.51%) PowerMock
7 3 (6.38%) FastAPI
7 3 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.79%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (21.28%) Distributed Architecture
3 8 (17.02%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.38%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.04%) Linux
2 8 (17.02%) Unix
3 3 (6.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (78.72%) CI/CD
2 35 (74.47%) Containerisation
3 32 (68.09%) Observability
4 27 (57.45%) Agile
5 26 (55.32%) DevOps
6 23 (48.94%) Microservices
7 21 (44.68%) Validation
8 20 (42.55%) TDD
9 19 (40.43%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (34.04%) BDD
10 16 (34.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (31.91%) Test Automation
12 14 (29.79%) Test Strategy
13 13 (27.66%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 13 (27.66%) End-to-End Testing
13 13 (27.66%) Load Testing
14 11 (23.40%) Incident Response
14 11 (23.40%) Migration
15 10 (21.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 10 (21.28%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 20 (42.55%) Python
2 9 (19.15%) Bash
3 8 (17.02%) Java
3 8 (17.02%) SQL
4 5 (10.64%) Go
5 4 (8.51%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.26%) Bicep
7 1 (2.13%) Groovy
7 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (44.68%) Security Cleared
2 19 (40.43%) SC Cleared
3 9 (19.15%) Degree
4 8 (17.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.38%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 38 (80.85%) Kubernetes
2 33 (70.21%) Grafana
3 22 (46.81%) Prometheus
4 12 (25.53%) Ansible
5 11 (23.40%) Terraform
6 10 (21.28%) Kibana
7 8 (17.02%) Puppet
8 4 (8.51%) Argo
9 3 (6.38%) Control-M
9 3 (6.38%) IBM Guardium
9 3 (6.38%) Nessus
10 2 (4.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 12 (25.53%) Splunk
2 7 (14.89%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.51%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.38%) Tenable
6 1 (2.13%) Databricks
6 1 (2.13%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) Informatica
6 1 (2.13%) New Relic