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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 58 50
Rank change year-on-year +42 -8 +14
Contract jobs citing Docker 67 9 23
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 9.91% 1.24% 2.94%
As % of the System Software category 53.17% 15.52% 22.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 4 12
10th Percentile £413 £536 £475
25th Percentile £463 £589 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £681 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.28% +36.25% -16.70%
75th Percentile £540 £738 £633
90th Percentile £696 - £700
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £612 £500
% change year-on-year -14.22% +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 126 58 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.64% 8.02% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 46 67
10th Percentile £185 £155 £188
25th Percentile £360 £178 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £219 £400
Median % change year-on-year +117.14% -45.31% +6.67%
75th Percentile £518 £566 £513
90th Percentile £618 £661 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £418
% change year-on-year +1.40% +19.76% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -56.67%
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +73.85% +71.05% -5.00%

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 8 November 2025.

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 22 (32.84%) Confluence
2 10 (14.93%) nginx
3 2 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.49%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.49%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (13.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 50 (74.63%) AWS
2 36 (53.73%) Amazon S3
3 32 (47.76%) Amazon EC2
4 31 (46.27%) AWS KMS
5 29 (43.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 25 (37.31%) Amazon ELB
6 25 (37.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 16 (23.88%) Serverless
8 15 (22.39%) Azure
9 14 (20.90%) GCP
9 14 (20.90%) Route 53
10 12 (17.91%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (17.91%) Amazon Glacier
10 12 (17.91%) GitHub
11 9 (13.43%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (11.94%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (10.45%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
15 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (38.81%) DNS
2 25 (37.31%) Firewall
3 23 (34.33%) SSH
4 21 (31.34%) FTP
4 21 (31.34%) HTTP
4 21 (31.34%) SMTP
5 9 (13.43%) IMAP
5 9 (13.43%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (8.96%) TCP/IP
7 5 (7.46%) SSL
8 4 (5.97%) VPN
9 3 (4.48%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (40.30%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (38.81%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (22.39%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (20.90%) NoSQL
5 8 (11.94%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (8.96%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.99%) Big Data
7 2 (2.99%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.99%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.99%) Parquet
7 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 52 (77.61%) Jenkins
2 35 (52.24%) Git
3 23 (34.33%) JIRA
4 21 (31.34%) Vagrant
5 17 (25.37%) GitLab
6 10 (14.93%) Liquibase
7 7 (10.45%) SonarQube
8 6 (8.96%) Maven
9 5 (7.46%) JUnit
10 3 (4.48%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (4.48%) DbUnit
10 3 (4.48%) jMock
10 3 (4.48%) Mockito
11 2 (2.99%) CircleCI
11 2 (2.99%) Jaeger
11 2 (2.99%) MLflow
11 2 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (1.49%) Poetry
12 1 (1.49%) PyCharm
12 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (49.25%) Social Skills
2 31 (46.27%) Public Sector
3 13 (19.40%) Finance
4 10 (14.93%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (11.94%) Banking
5 8 (11.94%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.99%) Military
7 1 (1.49%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (50.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (38.81%) AWS Engineer
3 20 (29.85%) AWS DevOps
3 20 (29.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 16 (23.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 16 (23.88%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (20.90%) Senior
6 10 (14.93%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (14.93%) Developer
6 10 (14.93%) Senior DevOps
6 10 (14.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 9 (13.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 9 (13.43%) Software Engineer
8 8 (11.94%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 8 (11.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (11.94%) Splunk Engineer
9 7 (10.45%) GCP Engineer
9 7 (10.45%) Java Developer
9 7 (10.45%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (8.96%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (34.33%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (32.84%) REST
3 18 (26.87%) RESTful
4 9 (13.43%) LDAP
5 8 (11.94%) Web Services
6 7 (10.45%) SOAP
6 7 (10.45%) Spring
6 7 (10.45%) Spring Boot
7 6 (8.96%) ActiveMQ
8 5 (7.46%) Hibernate
8 5 (7.46%) JPA
8 5 (7.46%) Spring Batch
8 5 (7.46%) Spring Integration
9 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.48%) Bootstrap
9 3 (4.48%) PowerMock
9 3 (4.48%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (2.99%) Apache Avro
10 2 (2.99%) Flask
10 2 (2.99%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 21 (31.34%) Replication
2 16 (23.88%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (17.91%) Cloud Native
3 12 (17.91%) Public Cloud
4 6 (8.96%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.99%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (70.15%) Linux
2 22 (32.84%) Windows
3 21 (31.34%) Amazon Linux
3 21 (31.34%) VMS
4 9 (13.43%) Ubuntu
5 6 (8.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (89.55%) DevOps
2 40 (59.70%) CI/CD
3 35 (52.24%) Change Management
3 35 (52.24%) Containerisation
4 26 (38.81%) Cloud Security
5 22 (32.84%) Agile
6 21 (31.34%) Configuration Management
6 21 (31.34%) Patch Management
6 21 (31.34%) Platform Engineering
7 20 (29.85%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (28.36%) Computer Science
9 18 (26.87%) Microservices
9 18 (26.87%) Root Cause Analysis
10 14 (20.90%) High Availability
10 14 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (17.91%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (17.91%) Cryptography
12 11 (16.42%) Migration
13 10 (14.93%) Observability
13 10 (14.93%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (77.61%) Python
2 23 (34.33%) Groovy
3 22 (32.84%) PowerShell
3 22 (32.84%) SQL
4 20 (29.85%) Java
5 16 (23.88%) Go
6 15 (22.39%) Bash
7 12 (17.91%) Perl
8 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.49%) Bicep
9 1 (1.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (53.73%) Security Cleared
2 32 (47.76%) SC Cleared
3 28 (41.79%) Degree
4 19 (28.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (19.40%) AWS Certification
6 12 (17.91%) Azure Certification
7 10 (14.93%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 21 (31.34%) DFS Replication
2 12 (17.91%) Active Directory
2 12 (17.91%) Postfix
3 9 (13.43%) Dovecot
3 9 (13.43%) Squid
Systems Management
1 43 (64.18%) Terraform
2 38 (56.72%) Grafana
2 38 (56.72%) Prometheus
3 30 (44.78%) Kubernetes
4 21 (31.34%) Ansible
5 9 (13.43%) Nessus
5 9 (13.43%) Proxmox
6 8 (11.94%) Kibana
7 6 (8.96%) Puppet
8 2 (2.99%) Argo
8 2 (2.99%) Istio
8 2 (2.99%) logstash
Vendors
1 21 (31.34%) ServiceNow
2 20 (29.85%) Splunk
3 12 (17.91%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (10.45%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.97%) CheckPoint
5 4 (5.97%) F5
5 4 (5.97%) Google
5 4 (5.97%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.48%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.99%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.49%) Pega
8 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.49%) VMware