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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 35 57
Rank change year-on-year +3 +22 +1
Contract jobs citing Docker 46 16 6
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.00% 3.22% 0.81%
As % of the System Software category 36.51% 24.62% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 5
10th Percentile £325 £386 -
25th Percentile £366 £425 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -30.77%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £575
90th Percentile £576 £500 £624
West Midlands median daily rate £499 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -5.00% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £66.57 - -

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 126 65 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.70% 13.08% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 46 36
10th Percentile £192 £106 £188
25th Percentile £281 £211 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £350
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +25.00% -17.65%
75th Percentile £514 £641 £447
90th Percentile £597 £700 £628
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -3.37% +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.31
25th Percentile £65.00 - £14.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £17.98
90th Percentile - - £19.16
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £18.13 £16.00
% change year-on-year +248.23% +13.31% -4.23%

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 May 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 16 (34.78%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 33 (71.74%) AWS
2 20 (43.48%) Azure
3 19 (41.30%) GitHub
4 17 (36.96%) GCP
5 13 (28.26%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (19.57%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (19.57%) Amazon S3
7 8 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (17.39%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (17.39%) AWS KMS
7 8 (17.39%) Route 53
8 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.17%) BrowserStack
9 1 (2.17%) IaaS
9 1 (2.17%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (54.35%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (17.39%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (17.39%) DynamoDB
3 7 (15.22%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (10.87%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.17%) Data Vault
6 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 29 (63.04%) Jenkins
2 24 (52.17%) Git
3 21 (45.65%) JUnit
4 19 (41.30%) JIRA
5 18 (39.13%) Selenium
6 15 (32.61%) GitLab
7 13 (28.26%) Cucumber
7 13 (28.26%) JMeter
7 13 (28.26%) WebDriver
8 8 (17.39%) Maven
8 8 (17.39%) Mockito
8 8 (17.39%) SonarQube
9 5 (10.87%) REST Assured
9 5 (10.87%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (8.70%) DbUnit
10 4 (8.70%) jMock
11 3 (6.52%) Gatling
12 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
13 1 (2.17%) Liquibase
General
1 27 (58.70%) Social Skills
2 14 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (30.43%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Finance
5 2 (4.35%) Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Military
6 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Senior
2 11 (23.91%) Developer
3 10 (21.74%) Tester
4 8 (17.39%) Automation Tester
4 8 (17.39%) Java Developer
4 8 (17.39%) Lead
5 7 (15.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) Senior Automation Tester
5 7 (15.22%) Senior Tester
5 7 (15.22%) Site Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) Splunk Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Lead Test Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Test Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (6.52%) GCP DevOps
7 3 (6.52%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (52.17%) Spring
2 13 (28.26%) WireMock
3 11 (23.91%) Spring Boot
3 11 (23.91%) Spring Cloud
4 9 (19.57%) REST
5 8 (17.39%) ActiveMQ
5 8 (17.39%) AngularJS
5 8 (17.39%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (17.39%) Hibernate
5 8 (17.39%) JPA
5 8 (17.39%) Node.js
5 8 (17.39%) SOAP
5 8 (17.39%) Spring Batch
5 8 (17.39%) Spring Integration
5 8 (17.39%) Web Services
6 7 (15.22%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (10.87%) Kafka
7 5 (10.87%) Playwright
8 4 (8.70%) PowerMock
9 3 (6.52%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (23.91%) Distributed Architecture
3 7 (15.22%) Management Information System
4 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
5 3 (6.52%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.26%) Linux
2 7 (15.22%) Unix
3 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (80.43%) CI/CD
2 31 (67.39%) Observability
3 29 (63.04%) Containerisation
3 29 (63.04%) DevOps
4 26 (56.52%) Agile
4 26 (56.52%) Microservices
5 21 (45.65%) TDD
5 21 (45.65%) Test Automation
6 20 (43.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (43.48%) Validation
7 18 (39.13%) BDD
7 18 (39.13%) Test Strategy
8 17 (36.96%) End-to-End Testing
9 16 (34.78%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 16 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (28.26%) Load Testing
11 10 (21.74%) Incident Response
11 10 (21.74%) Performance Testing
11 10 (21.74%) Workshop Facilitation
12 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 15 (32.61%) Python
2 13 (28.26%) Java
3 9 (19.57%) SQL
4 8 (17.39%) Bash
5 2 (4.35%) Bicep
6 1 (2.17%) Go
6 1 (2.17%) Groovy
6 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (56.52%) Security Cleared
2 21 (45.65%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.39%) Degree
4 7 (15.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 34 (73.91%) Grafana
2 32 (69.57%) Kubernetes
3 26 (56.52%) Prometheus
4 10 (21.74%) Ansible
5 9 (19.57%) Terraform
6 7 (15.22%) Kibana
6 7 (15.22%) Puppet
7 3 (6.52%) Control-M
7 3 (6.52%) IBM Guardium
7 3 (6.52%) Nessus
8 1 (2.17%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Splunk
2 8 (17.39%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.70%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.52%) Tenable
6 1 (2.17%) Databricks
6 1 (2.17%) Google
6 1 (2.17%) Informatica
6 1 (2.17%) New Relic