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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 58 53
Rank change year-on-year +40 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Docker 51 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 8.61% 1.12% 2.46%
As % of the System Software category 49.51% 18.60% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 3 9
10th Percentile £413 £638 £465
25th Percentile £463 £666 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -34.48% +3.57% +17.40%
75th Percentile £500 £738 -
90th Percentile £633 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £624 £550
% change year-on-year -15.80% +13.36% -3.93%

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 103 43 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.40% 6.03% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 28 62
10th Percentile £116 £143 £190
25th Percentile £266 £190 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £200 £400
Median % change year-on-year +118.75% -50.00% -8.05%
75th Percentile £488 £444 £575
90th Percentile £545 £659 £723
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.35
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.79% -57.78%
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - £19.65
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £16.00 £22.25
% change year-on-year +253.13% -28.09% +30.88%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Docker 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 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (45.10%) Confluence
2 10 (19.61%) nginx
3 2 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (17.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 40 (78.43%) AWS
2 36 (70.59%) Amazon S3
3 32 (62.75%) Amazon EC2
4 28 (54.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 26 (50.98%) AWS KMS
6 25 (49.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 24 (47.06%) Amazon ELB
8 14 (27.45%) Route 53
9 12 (23.53%) Amazon Glacier
10 11 (21.57%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (21.57%) Azure
11 9 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (15.69%) GitHub
12 8 (15.69%) Serverless
13 7 (13.73%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (11.76%) GCP
14 6 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
16 1 (1.96%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 25 (49.02%) DNS
2 24 (47.06%) Firewall
3 23 (45.10%) SSH
4 21 (41.18%) FTP
4 21 (41.18%) HTTP
4 21 (41.18%) SMTP
5 9 (17.65%) IMAP
5 9 (17.65%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (9.80%) TCP/IP
7 4 (7.84%) SSL
8 3 (5.88%) VPN
9 2 (3.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (52.94%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (37.25%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (29.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (11.76%) DynamoDB
4 6 (11.76%) NoSQL
5 4 (7.84%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.92%) Big Data
6 2 (3.92%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.92%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.92%) Parquet
6 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 39 (76.47%) Jenkins
2 33 (64.71%) Git
3 25 (49.02%) JIRA
4 21 (41.18%) Vagrant
5 8 (15.69%) SonarQube
6 7 (13.73%) GitLab
7 6 (11.76%) Maven
8 5 (9.80%) JUnit
9 4 (7.84%) Liquibase
10 3 (5.88%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (5.88%) DbUnit
10 3 (5.88%) jMock
10 3 (5.88%) Mockito
11 2 (3.92%) Jaeger
11 2 (3.92%) MLflow
11 2 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (1.96%) Poetry
12 1 (1.96%) PyCharm
12 1 (1.96%) Travis CI
12 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (56.86%) Public Sector
2 22 (43.14%) Social Skills
3 10 (19.61%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.84%) Finance
6 2 (3.92%) Banking
6 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.96%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.96%) Military
7 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (56.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (39.22%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (37.25%) AWS DevOps
3 19 (37.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 16 (31.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 16 (31.37%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (19.61%) Developer
6 9 (17.65%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 8 (15.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 7 (13.73%) Java Developer
8 7 (13.73%) Senior
9 5 (9.80%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (9.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (7.84%) Lead
10 4 (7.84%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (7.84%) Site Engineer
10 4 (7.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (7.84%) Software Engineer
11 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 3 (5.88%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.53%) REST
2 10 (19.61%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (19.61%) RESTful
3 9 (17.65%) LDAP
4 7 (13.73%) SOAP
4 7 (13.73%) Spring
4 7 (13.73%) Spring Boot
4 7 (13.73%) Web Services
5 6 (11.76%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (9.80%) Hibernate
6 5 (9.80%) JPA
6 5 (9.80%) Spring Batch
6 5 (9.80%) Spring Integration
7 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.88%) Bootstrap
7 3 (5.88%) PowerMock
7 3 (5.88%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (3.92%) Flask
8 2 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (3.92%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 21 (41.18%) Replication
2 7 (13.73%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (9.80%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.84%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (70.59%) Linux
2 22 (43.14%) Windows
3 21 (41.18%) Amazon Linux
3 21 (41.18%) VMS
4 9 (17.65%) Ubuntu
5 3 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (88.24%) DevOps
2 26 (50.98%) Change Management
3 25 (49.02%) CI/CD
4 23 (45.10%) Cloud Security
5 21 (41.18%) Configuration Management
5 21 (41.18%) Patch Management
5 21 (41.18%) Platform Engineering
6 18 (35.29%) Containerisation
7 15 (29.41%) Agile
8 12 (23.53%) Microservices
8 12 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (21.57%) Computer Science
10 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (15.69%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (15.69%) Scrum
13 7 (13.73%) Continuous Integration
13 7 (13.73%) Incident Response
13 7 (13.73%) TDD
14 5 (9.80%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 40 (78.43%) Python
2 23 (45.10%) Groovy
3 22 (43.14%) PowerShell
4 20 (39.22%) Java
4 20 (39.22%) SQL
5 14 (27.45%) Bash
6 12 (23.53%) Perl
7 6 (11.76%) Go
8 1 (1.96%) Bicep
8 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 31 (60.78%) Security Cleared
2 30 (58.82%) SC Cleared
3 20 (39.22%) Degree
4 11 (21.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (19.61%) AWS Certification
6 9 (17.65%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) CEH
8 1 (1.96%) CISSP
8 1 (1.96%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 21 (41.18%) DFS Replication
2 12 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 12 (23.53%) Postfix
3 9 (17.65%) Dovecot
3 9 (17.65%) Squid
Systems Management
1 34 (66.67%) Terraform
2 30 (58.82%) Grafana
2 30 (58.82%) Prometheus
3 16 (31.37%) Kubernetes
4 13 (25.49%) Ansible
5 9 (17.65%) Nessus
5 9 (17.65%) Proxmox
6 4 (7.84%) Kibana
7 3 (5.88%) Argo
7 3 (5.88%) Puppet
8 2 (3.92%) Istio
Vendors
1 21 (41.18%) ServiceNow
2 12 (23.53%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (13.73%) Splunk
4 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.88%) Atlassian
5 3 (5.88%) CheckPoint
5 3 (5.88%) F5
5 3 (5.88%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.92%) Cloudera
6 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.96%) BT
7 1 (1.96%) Google
7 1 (1.96%) Pega
7 1 (1.96%) VMware