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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 62 49
Rank change year-on-year +44 -13 +18
Contract jobs citing Docker 66 8 17
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 9.23% 1.09% 2.24%
As % of the System Software category 50.00% 13.11% 19.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 3 12
10th Percentile £413 £543 £475
25th Percentile £463 £606 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £725 £500
Median % change year-on-year -34.14% +45.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £549 £738 £700
90th Percentile £727 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £536 £612 £500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 132 61 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.46% 8.33% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 49 64
10th Percentile £185 £155 £195
25th Percentile £360 £174 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £225 £413
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% -45.45% +17.86%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £541
90th Percentile £616 £630 £700
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 £24.35 £18.50
% change year-on-year +132.08% +31.59% -23.71%

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 29 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 21 (31.82%) Confluence
2 10 (15.15%) nginx
3 3 (4.55%) OpenStack
4 2 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.03%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.52%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (13.64%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 43 (65.15%) AWS
2 28 (42.42%) Amazon S3
3 26 (39.39%) AWS KMS
4 25 (37.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 25 (37.88%) Amazon EC2
5 24 (36.36%) Amazon ELB
5 24 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 17 (25.76%) GitHub
7 16 (24.24%) Azure
8 14 (21.21%) GCP
8 14 (21.21%) Serverless
9 11 (16.67%) Amazon Glacier
9 11 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (15.15%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (15.15%) Route 53
11 9 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (3.03%) Azure API Management
12 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (37.88%) DNS
2 24 (36.36%) Firewall
3 22 (33.33%) SSH
4 20 (30.30%) FTP
4 20 (30.30%) HTTP
4 20 (30.30%) SMTP
5 9 (13.64%) IMAP
5 9 (13.64%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (9.09%) TCP/IP
7 5 (7.58%) SSL
8 4 (6.06%) VPN
9 3 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (31.82%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (30.30%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (21.21%) NoSQL
4 11 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (15.15%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.03%) Big Data
6 2 (3.03%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.03%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.03%) Parquet
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 47 (71.21%) Jenkins
2 28 (42.42%) Git
3 26 (39.39%) JIRA
4 21 (31.82%) GitLab
5 20 (30.30%) Vagrant
6 10 (15.15%) Liquibase
7 4 (6.06%) CircleCI
8 3 (4.55%) SonarQube
9 2 (3.03%) Jaeger
9 2 (3.03%) MLflow
9 2 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (1.52%) DbUnit
10 1 (1.52%) jMock
10 1 (1.52%) JUnit
10 1 (1.52%) Mockito
10 1 (1.52%) Poetry
10 1 (1.52%) PyCharm
10 1 (1.52%) Selenium
10 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 27 (40.91%) Public Sector
3 12 (18.18%) Finance
4 9 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (12.12%) Banking
5 8 (12.12%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.03%) Military
8 1 (1.52%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 33 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (37.88%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (28.79%) AWS DevOps
3 19 (28.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 16 (24.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 16 (24.24%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (22.73%) Senior
6 11 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
6 11 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 10 (15.15%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 10 (15.15%) Splunk Engineer
8 9 (13.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 9 (13.64%) Software Engineer
9 8 (12.12%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 7 (10.61%) GCP Engineer
10 7 (10.61%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (10.61%) Site Engineer
11 6 (9.09%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 5 (7.58%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (42.42%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (24.24%) REST
3 14 (21.21%) RESTful
4 9 (13.64%) LDAP
5 3 (4.55%) Kafka
5 3 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.03%) Apache Avro
6 2 (3.03%) Flask
6 2 (3.03%) NumPy
6 2 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (3.03%) Pandas
6 2 (3.03%) SOAP
6 2 (3.03%) Web Services
7 1 (1.52%) .NET
7 1 (1.52%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.52%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.52%) HTML
7 1 (1.52%) JSON
7 1 (1.52%) Spring
7 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (30.30%) Replication
2 12 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 12 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (18.18%) Public Cloud
3 7 (10.61%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (71.21%) Linux
2 23 (34.85%) Windows
3 20 (30.30%) Amazon Linux
3 20 (30.30%) VMS
4 9 (13.64%) Ubuntu
5 7 (10.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (90.91%) DevOps
2 44 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 39 (59.09%) Containerisation
4 35 (53.03%) Change Management
5 25 (37.88%) Cloud Security
6 20 (30.30%) Agile
6 20 (30.30%) Computer Science
6 20 (30.30%) Configuration Management
6 20 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (30.30%) Patch Management
6 20 (30.30%) Platform Engineering
7 18 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
8 17 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (24.24%) High Availability
10 14 (21.21%) Microservices
10 14 (21.21%) Migration
11 13 (19.70%) Observability
12 12 (18.18%) Cryptography
12 12 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
12 12 (18.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (83.33%) Python
2 22 (33.33%) Groovy
3 21 (31.82%) PowerShell
4 20 (30.30%) Go
5 18 (27.27%) SQL
6 15 (22.73%) Bash
7 13 (19.70%) Java
8 11 (16.67%) Perl
9 5 (7.58%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.52%) Bicep
10 1 (1.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (48.48%) Security Cleared
2 29 (43.94%) Degree
3 28 (42.42%) SC Cleared
4 20 (30.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (19.70%) AWS Certification
6 12 (18.18%) Azure Certification
7 10 (15.15%) Master's Degree
8 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 20 (30.30%) DFS Replication
2 11 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 10 (15.15%) Postfix
4 9 (13.64%) Dovecot
4 9 (13.64%) Squid
Systems Management
1 45 (68.18%) Terraform
2 39 (59.09%) Grafana
3 35 (53.03%) Kubernetes
3 35 (53.03%) Prometheus
4 25 (37.88%) Ansible
5 11 (16.67%) Kibana
6 9 (13.64%) Nessus
6 9 (13.64%) Proxmox
7 7 (10.61%) Puppet
8 5 (7.58%) Argo
9 4 (6.06%) logstash
10 2 (3.03%) Istio
Vendors
1 23 (34.85%) Splunk
2 20 (30.30%) ServiceNow
3 10 (15.15%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.06%) CheckPoint
5 4 (6.06%) F5
5 4 (6.06%) Google
5 4 (6.06%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.03%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.52%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.52%) Pega
7 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.52%) VMware