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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 62 51
Rank change year-on-year +41 -11 +16
Contract jobs citing Docker 64 4 16
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.10% 0.63% 2.20%
As % of the System Software category 48.85% 6.56% 22.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 1 13
10th Percentile £413 - £285
25th Percentile £465 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -18.37%
75th Percentile £584 - £700
90th Percentile £830 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £537 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.29% +5.00% -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 131 61 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.58% 9.55% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 51 55
10th Percentile £132 £158 £194
25th Percentile £360 £190 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% +14.12%
75th Percentile £545 £689 £513
90th Percentile £621 £700 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £490 £418
% change year-on-year +5.82% +17.37% -1.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £19.95
Median % change year-on-year - - -83.98%
West Midlands median hourly rate - £18.13 £18.50
% change year-on-year - -2.00% -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 27 January 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 12 (18.75%) Confluence
2 8 (12.50%) nginx
3 3 (4.69%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.56%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 33 (51.56%) AWS
2 16 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 15 (23.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 15 (23.44%) Amazon EC2
3 15 (23.44%) Amazon ELB
3 15 (23.44%) Amazon S3
3 15 (23.44%) GCP
3 15 (23.44%) GitHub
3 15 (23.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 14 (21.88%) Azure
5 13 (20.31%) Serverless
6 9 (14.06%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (10.94%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (10.94%) Route 53
9 4 (6.25%) Amazon Glacier
10 3 (4.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (3.13%) Azure AKS
11 2 (3.13%) Azure API Management
11 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 15 (23.44%) DNS
1 15 (23.44%) Firewall
2 11 (17.19%) FTP
2 11 (17.19%) HTTP
2 11 (17.19%) SMTP
2 11 (17.19%) SSH
3 7 (10.94%) IMAP
3 7 (10.94%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (6.25%) SSL
4 4 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.25%) VPN
5 3 (4.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.13%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (18.75%) NoSQL
4 11 (17.19%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (10.94%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (59.38%) Jenkins
2 21 (32.81%) GitLab
3 20 (31.25%) Git
4 18 (28.13%) JIRA
5 11 (17.19%) Vagrant
6 10 (15.63%) Liquibase
7 4 (6.25%) CircleCI
8 2 (3.13%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.56%) Selenium
General
1 44 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 17 (26.56%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 13 (20.31%) Finance
5 9 (14.06%) Banking
6 8 (12.50%) Financial Institution
7 7 (10.94%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.69%) Telecoms
9 2 (3.13%) Military
10 1 (1.56%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 26 (40.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (29.69%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (26.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 17 (26.56%) Splunk Engineer
4 15 (23.44%) Senior
5 14 (21.88%) Site Engineer
6 13 (20.31%) AWS DevOps
6 13 (20.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 11 (17.19%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (17.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 11 (17.19%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (17.19%) Senior DevOps
7 11 (17.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 9 (14.06%) GCP Engineer
8 9 (14.06%) Software Engineer
9 7 (10.94%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 7 (10.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (9.38%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 6 (9.38%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 5 (7.81%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (51.56%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (23.44%) REST
3 13 (20.31%) RESTful
4 7 (10.94%) LDAP
5 6 (9.38%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (4.69%) Kafka
6 3 (4.69%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.13%) .NET
8 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.56%) FastAPI
8 1 (1.56%) HTML
8 1 (1.56%) JSON
8 1 (1.56%) OAuth
8 1 (1.56%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.56%) pytest
8 1 (1.56%) SOAP
8 1 (1.56%) Web Services
8 1 (1.56%) XML
8 1 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.88%) Management Information System
2 12 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 12 (18.75%) Public Cloud
3 11 (17.19%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (17.19%) Replication
4 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (65.63%) Linux
2 14 (21.88%) Unix
2 14 (21.88%) Windows
3 11 (17.19%) Amazon Linux
3 11 (17.19%) VMS
4 7 (10.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (89.06%) DevOps
2 47 (73.44%) Containerisation
3 44 (68.75%) CI/CD
4 33 (51.56%) Change Management
5 27 (42.19%) Computer Science
6 24 (37.50%) Observability
7 23 (35.94%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (32.81%) Migration
9 21 (32.81%) Root Cause Analysis
10 20 (31.25%) Agile
10 20 (31.25%) Incident Response
11 19 (29.69%) Data Ingestion
12 18 (28.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 17 (26.56%) High Availability
14 16 (25.00%) Cloud Security
15 14 (21.88%) Dashboard Development
15 14 (21.88%) Knowledge Transfer
15 14 (21.88%) Performance Metrics
15 14 (21.88%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 54 (84.38%) Python
2 20 (31.25%) Bash
2 20 (31.25%) Go
3 12 (18.75%) Groovy
3 12 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 12 (18.75%) SQL
4 5 (7.81%) Java
4 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.25%) Perl
6 1 (1.56%) Bicep
6 1 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (53.13%) Degree
2 27 (42.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (32.81%) Security Cleared
4 17 (26.56%) SC Cleared
5 11 (17.19%) AWS Certification
6 10 (15.63%) Azure Certification
6 10 (15.63%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.13%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) QA
System Software
1 11 (17.19%) DFS Replication
2 7 (10.94%) Dovecot
2 7 (10.94%) Postfix
2 7 (10.94%) Squid
3 4 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (68.75%) Kubernetes
2 38 (59.38%) Terraform
3 33 (51.56%) Grafana
4 32 (50.00%) Ansible
5 29 (45.31%) Prometheus
6 18 (28.13%) Kibana
7 14 (21.88%) Puppet
8 8 (12.50%) Nessus
9 7 (10.94%) Proxmox
10 4 (6.25%) logstash
11 3 (4.69%) Argo
12 1 (1.56%) Control-M
12 1 (1.56%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 30 (46.88%) Splunk
2 11 (17.19%) ServiceNow
3 7 (10.94%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (10.94%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.25%) CheckPoint
4 4 (6.25%) F5
4 4 (6.25%) Google
4 4 (6.25%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.56%) Pega
5 1 (1.56%) Tenable
5 1 (1.56%) VMware