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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 61 53
Rank change year-on-year +44 -8 +14
Contract jobs citing Docker 69 8 22
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 9.91% 1.11% 2.78%
As % of the System Software category 50.36% 14.04% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 3 12
10th Percentile £413 £543 £475
25th Percentile £463 £606 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £725 £500
Median % change year-on-year -34.48% +45.00% -16.74%
75th Percentile £544 £738 £633
90th Percentile £685 - £700
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 137 57 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.68% 7.93% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 45 66
10th Percentile £185 £155 £191
25th Percentile £360 £174 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £213 £406
Median % change year-on-year +123.53% -47.69% +10.92%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £525
90th Percentile £614 £644 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £510 £500 £418
% change year-on-year +2.00% +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 £18.50
% change year-on-year +73.85% +75.68% -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 15 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 (31.88%) Confluence
2 10 (14.49%) nginx
3 2 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.45%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (13.04%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 50 (72.46%) AWS
2 36 (52.17%) Amazon S3
3 32 (46.38%) Amazon EC2
4 31 (44.93%) AWS KMS
5 29 (42.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 25 (36.23%) Amazon ELB
6 25 (36.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 16 (23.19%) Serverless
8 15 (21.74%) Azure
9 14 (20.29%) GCP
9 14 (20.29%) GitHub
9 14 (20.29%) Route 53
10 12 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (17.39%) Amazon Glacier
11 9 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (11.59%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (10.14%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
15 2 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 26 (37.68%) DNS
2 25 (36.23%) Firewall
3 23 (33.33%) SSH
4 21 (30.43%) FTP
4 21 (30.43%) HTTP
4 21 (30.43%) SMTP
5 9 (13.04%) IMAP
5 9 (13.04%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (8.70%) TCP/IP
7 5 (7.25%) SSL
8 4 (5.80%) VPN
9 3 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (39.13%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (37.68%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (21.74%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (20.29%) NoSQL
5 10 (14.49%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (8.70%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.90%) Big Data
7 2 (2.90%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.90%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.90%) Parquet
7 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 52 (75.36%) Jenkins
2 35 (50.72%) Git
3 23 (33.33%) JIRA
4 21 (30.43%) Vagrant
5 17 (24.64%) GitLab
6 10 (14.49%) Liquibase
7 7 (10.14%) SonarQube
8 6 (8.70%) Maven
9 5 (7.25%) JUnit
10 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (4.35%) DbUnit
10 3 (4.35%) jMock
10 3 (4.35%) Mockito
11 2 (2.90%) CircleCI
11 2 (2.90%) Jaeger
11 2 (2.90%) MLflow
11 2 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (1.45%) PyCharm
12 1 (1.45%) Selenium
12 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (50.72%) Social Skills
2 31 (44.93%) Public Sector
3 13 (18.84%) Finance
4 10 (14.49%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (11.59%) Banking
5 8 (11.59%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.90%) Military
7 1 (1.45%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (49.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (37.68%) AWS Engineer
3 20 (28.99%) AWS DevOps
3 20 (28.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 16 (23.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 16 (23.19%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (20.29%) Senior
6 10 (14.49%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (14.49%) Developer
6 10 (14.49%) Senior DevOps
6 10 (14.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 9 (13.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 9 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (13.04%) Software Engineer
7 9 (13.04%) Splunk Engineer
8 8 (11.59%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 7 (10.14%) GCP Engineer
9 7 (10.14%) Java Developer
9 7 (10.14%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (8.70%) Cloud Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (36.23%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (31.88%) REST
3 18 (26.09%) RESTful
4 9 (13.04%) LDAP
5 8 (11.59%) Web Services
6 7 (10.14%) SOAP
6 7 (10.14%) Spring
6 7 (10.14%) Spring Boot
7 6 (8.70%) ActiveMQ
8 5 (7.25%) Hibernate
8 5 (7.25%) JPA
8 5 (7.25%) Spring Batch
8 5 (7.25%) Spring Integration
9 3 (4.35%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.35%) Bootstrap
9 3 (4.35%) PowerMock
9 3 (4.35%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (2.90%) Apache Avro
10 2 (2.90%) Flask
10 2 (2.90%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 21 (30.43%) Replication
2 16 (23.19%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (17.39%) Cloud Native
3 12 (17.39%) Public Cloud
4 6 (8.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.90%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (68.12%) Linux
2 22 (31.88%) Windows
3 21 (30.43%) Amazon Linux
3 21 (30.43%) VMS
4 9 (13.04%) Ubuntu
5 6 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (86.96%) DevOps
2 42 (60.87%) CI/CD
3 37 (53.62%) Containerisation
4 35 (50.72%) Change Management
5 26 (37.68%) Cloud Security
6 22 (31.88%) Agile
7 21 (30.43%) Configuration Management
7 21 (30.43%) Patch Management
7 21 (30.43%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (28.99%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (27.54%) Computer Science
10 18 (26.09%) Microservices
10 18 (26.09%) Root Cause Analysis
11 16 (23.19%) High Availability
12 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (18.84%) Migration
14 12 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (17.39%) Cryptography
14 12 (17.39%) Observability
15 11 (15.94%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 52 (75.36%) Python
2 23 (33.33%) Groovy
3 22 (31.88%) PowerShell
3 22 (31.88%) SQL
4 20 (28.99%) Java
5 16 (23.19%) Go
6 15 (21.74%) Bash
7 12 (17.39%) Perl
8 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.45%) Bicep
9 1 (1.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 32 (46.38%) SC Cleared
3 28 (40.58%) Degree
4 19 (27.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (18.84%) AWS Certification
6 12 (17.39%) Azure Certification
7 10 (14.49%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 21 (30.43%) DFS Replication
2 12 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 12 (17.39%) Postfix
3 9 (13.04%) Dovecot
3 9 (13.04%) Squid
Systems Management
1 43 (62.32%) Terraform
2 38 (55.07%) Grafana
2 38 (55.07%) Prometheus
3 32 (46.38%) Kubernetes
4 21 (30.43%) Ansible
5 10 (14.49%) Kibana
6 9 (13.04%) Nessus
6 9 (13.04%) Proxmox
7 6 (8.70%) Puppet
8 4 (5.80%) logstash
9 2 (2.90%) Argo
9 2 (2.90%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (31.88%) Splunk
2 21 (30.43%) ServiceNow
3 12 (17.39%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (10.14%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.80%) CheckPoint
5 4 (5.80%) F5
5 4 (5.80%) Google
5 4 (5.80%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.35%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.90%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.45%) Pega
8 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.45%) VMware