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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 21 58
Rank change year-on-year -29 +37 -2
Contract jobs citing Docker 27 39 7
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.01% 6.75% 1.00%
As % of the System Software category 24.32% 44.32% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 27 3
10th Percentile £364 £408 £638
25th Percentile £413 £444 £666
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £725
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -34.48% +3.57%
75th Percentile £469 £488 £738
90th Percentile £528 £500 -
West Midlands median daily rate £489 £515 £635
% change year-on-year -5.10% -18.90% +11.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £70.00 - -

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 111 88 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.37% 15.22% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 53 30
10th Percentile £210 £110 £148
25th Percentile £281 £282 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £225
Median % change year-on-year - +88.89% -44.62%
75th Percentile £537 £488 £425
90th Percentile £626 £500 £657
West Midlands median daily rate £458 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -8.35% -4.67% +21.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.51%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £56.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year +11.74% +253.13% -17.95%

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 24 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Birmingham

Docker
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Docker.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Docker

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 8 (29.63%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (7.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.70%) Apache
3 1 (3.70%) Jupyter
3 1 (3.70%) OpenStack
3 1 (3.70%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 26 (96.30%) AWS
2 19 (70.37%) GitHub
3 14 (51.85%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (44.44%) Azure
5 8 (29.63%) GCP
6 5 (18.52%) Amazon S3
7 4 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (7.41%) AWS KMS
9 2 (7.41%) Route 53
9 2 (7.41%) Serverless
10 1 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
10 1 (3.70%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.81%) MongoDB
3 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (7.41%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.70%) Data Vault
5 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 21 (77.78%) Jenkins
2 17 (62.96%) GitLab
3 12 (44.44%) Selenium
4 11 (40.74%) Git
5 10 (37.04%) JUnit
6 8 (29.63%) Cucumber
6 8 (29.63%) JIRA
6 8 (29.63%) JMeter
6 8 (29.63%) WebDriver
7 4 (14.81%) REST Assured
7 4 (14.81%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (7.41%) Gatling
8 2 (7.41%) Maven
8 2 (7.41%) Mockito
8 2 (7.41%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 12 (44.44%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Legal
3 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Military
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Senior
2 7 (25.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Tester
4 5 (18.52%) Automation Tester
4 5 (18.52%) Lead
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Automation Tester
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Tester
5 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Lead Test Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Test Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Product Manager
7 1 (3.70%) QA Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) Spring
2 10 (37.04%) Terraform
3 8 (29.63%) WireMock
4 6 (22.22%) Spring Boot
5 5 (18.52%) Kafka
6 4 (14.81%) Playwright
6 4 (14.81%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (11.11%) Node.js
7 3 (11.11%) REST
7 3 (11.11%) Web Services
8 2 (7.41%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
8 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
8 2 (7.41%) JPA
8 2 (7.41%) SOAP
8 2 (7.41%) Spring Batch
8 2 (7.41%) Spring Integration
9 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
9 1 (3.70%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Distributed Architecture
1 8 (29.63%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (96.30%) CI/CD
2 18 (66.67%) Agile
3 17 (62.96%) DevOps
4 16 (59.26%) Microservices
4 16 (59.26%) Test Automation
5 15 (55.56%) Observability
6 14 (51.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (44.44%) Test Strategy
8 11 (40.74%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 11 (40.74%) End-to-End Testing
8 11 (40.74%) TDD
9 10 (37.04%) BDD
9 10 (37.04%) Containerisation
10 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (29.63%) Validation
12 7 (25.93%) Load Testing
12 7 (25.93%) Performance Testing
13 6 (22.22%) Data Validation
13 6 (22.22%) Stress Testing
13 6 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) Java
2 5 (18.52%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) Bash
3 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 3 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Bicep
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) Go
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 21 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 16 (59.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 19 (70.37%) Grafana
2 18 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 17 (62.96%) Prometheus
4 5 (18.52%) Ansible
5 1 (3.70%) Argo
5 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 3 (11.11%) Splunk
2 2 (7.41%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) Informatica
3 1 (3.70%) New Relic
3 1 (3.70%) Trend Micro