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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 52 58
Rank change year-on-year +30 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Docker 66 6 14
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 7.66% 1.12% 1.85%
As % of the System Software category 49.62% 9.84% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 1 11
10th Percentile £350 - £238
25th Percentile £444 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £576 - -
90th Percentile £892 - £575
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -13.04%

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 133 61 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.43% 11.34% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 51 53
10th Percentile £132 £160 £188
25th Percentile £331 £190 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £388
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +29.03% +6.82%
75th Percentile £540 £689 £500
90th Percentile £613 £700 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £490 £400
% change year-on-year +2.04% +22.50% -5.88%
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 - - +8.04%
75th Percentile - - £18.79
90th Percentile - - £19.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £45.00 £18.13 £18.50
% change year-on-year +148.21% -2.00% -7.50%

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 6 March 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 13 (19.70%) Confluence
2 3 (4.55%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.52%) nginx
3 1 (1.52%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 36 (54.55%) AWS
2 23 (34.85%) GCP
3 21 (31.82%) Azure
4 19 (28.79%) GitHub
5 13 (19.70%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (18.18%) AWS KMS
7 11 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (16.67%) Amazon S3
8 10 (15.15%) Serverless
9 7 (10.61%) Route 53
10 6 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (7.58%) Amazon ELB
11 5 (7.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 2 (3.03%) Azure AKS
14 2 (3.03%) Azure API Management
14 2 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
14 2 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) DNS
1 5 (7.58%) Firewall
2 4 (6.06%) SSL
2 4 (6.06%) TCP/IP
2 4 (6.06%) VPN
3 3 (4.55%) Network Security
4 1 (1.52%) FTP
4 1 (1.52%) HTTP
4 1 (1.52%) IMAP
4 1 (1.52%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (1.52%) SMTP
4 1 (1.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (40.91%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (25.76%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (15.15%) NoSQL
4 7 (10.61%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (10.61%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (9.09%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (60.61%) Jenkins
2 25 (37.88%) Git
3 24 (36.36%) GitLab
4 20 (30.30%) JIRA
5 15 (22.73%) JUnit
6 11 (16.67%) Selenium
7 9 (13.64%) Cucumber
7 9 (13.64%) JMeter
7 9 (13.64%) Liquibase
7 9 (13.64%) WebDriver
8 6 (9.09%) Maven
8 6 (9.09%) Mockito
8 6 (9.09%) SonarQube
9 4 (6.06%) CircleCI
9 4 (6.06%) DbUnit
9 4 (6.06%) jMock
10 2 (3.03%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (1.52%) Gatling
11 1 (1.52%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.52%) Vagrant
General
1 44 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 20 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (24.24%) Finance
4 10 (15.15%) Banking
4 10 (15.15%) Public Sector
5 8 (12.12%) Financial Institution
6 6 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.03%) Military
9 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (27.27%) Senior
2 17 (25.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (24.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 16 (24.24%) Splunk Engineer
4 13 (19.70%) Site Engineer
5 12 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
5 12 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 10 (15.15%) GCP Engineer
7 9 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (13.64%) Developer
8 8 (12.12%) Software Engineer
9 7 (10.61%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 7 (10.61%) Lead
10 6 (9.09%) Java Developer
10 6 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (9.09%) Tester
11 5 (7.58%) AWS Software Engineer
11 5 (7.58%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 5 (7.58%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (46.97%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (28.79%) REST
3 16 (24.24%) Spring
4 12 (18.18%) RESTful
5 9 (13.64%) WireMock
6 7 (10.61%) Spring Boot
6 7 (10.61%) Spring Cloud
6 7 (10.61%) Web Services
7 6 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (9.09%) AngularJS
7 6 (9.09%) Hibernate
7 6 (9.09%) JPA
7 6 (9.09%) Node.js
7 6 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (9.09%) SOAP
7 6 (9.09%) Spring Batch
7 6 (9.09%) Spring Integration
8 4 (6.06%) Kafka
8 4 (6.06%) PowerMock
9 3 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (31.82%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (19.70%) Management Information System
3 11 (16.67%) Public Cloud
4 10 (15.15%) Cloud Native
5 6 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (4.55%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (48.48%) Linux
2 13 (19.70%) Unix
3 4 (6.06%) Windows
4 1 (1.52%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (80.30%) Containerisation
2 51 (77.27%) CI/CD
3 48 (72.73%) DevOps
4 33 (50.00%) Observability
5 31 (46.97%) Agile
6 26 (39.39%) Microservices
7 24 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (34.85%) Change Management
8 23 (34.85%) Computer Science
9 22 (33.33%) Validation
10 21 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (30.30%) Migration
12 19 (28.79%) Incident Response
12 19 (28.79%) Root Cause Analysis
13 17 (25.76%) Data Ingestion
13 17 (25.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 16 (24.24%) High Availability
15 15 (22.73%) TDD
16 14 (21.21%) Test Automation
17 13 (19.70%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 42 (63.64%) Python
2 18 (27.27%) Bash
3 17 (25.76%) Go
4 11 (16.67%) SQL
5 7 (10.61%) Java
6 5 (7.58%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.03%) Groovy
7 2 (3.03%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.52%) Bicep
8 1 (1.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (36.36%) Degree
2 23 (34.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 23 (34.85%) Security Cleared
3 18 (27.27%) SC Cleared
4 10 (15.15%) Master's Degree
5 7 (10.61%) AWS Certification
6 6 (9.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (7.58%) Postfix
2 1 (1.52%) DFS Replication
2 1 (1.52%) Dovecot
2 1 (1.52%) Squid
Systems Management
1 53 (80.30%) Kubernetes
2 38 (57.58%) Grafana
3 30 (45.45%) Ansible
4 28 (42.42%) Prometheus
5 26 (39.39%) Terraform
6 17 (25.76%) Kibana
7 13 (19.70%) Puppet
8 4 (6.06%) logstash
8 4 (6.06%) Nessus
9 3 (4.55%) Argo
9 3 (4.55%) Control-M
9 3 (4.55%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (1.52%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 29 (43.94%) Splunk
2 7 (10.61%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.58%) Google
5 4 (6.06%) Atlassian
5 4 (6.06%) CheckPoint
5 4 (6.06%) F5
5 4 (6.06%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.55%) Tenable
7 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow