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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 45 58
Rank change year-on-year +13 +13 +8
Contract jobs citing Docker 49 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.41% 1.52% 0.93%
As % of the System Software category 38.58% 12.70% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 2 6
10th Percentile £340 £300 £238
25th Percentile £425 £327 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £380 £475
Median % change year-on-year +25.16% -20.11% -32.14%
75th Percentile £561 £437 £556
90th Percentile £600 £467 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -2.22%

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 127 63 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.02% 11.95% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 51 44
10th Percentile £204 £160 £186
25th Percentile £350 £195 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +42.86% -17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £689 £461
90th Percentile £600 £700 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £477 £400
% change year-on-year +3.14% +19.25% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.49
25th Percentile - - £15.40
Median hourly rate - - £17.27
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.79%
75th Percentile - - £18.79
90th Percentile - - £19.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £18.13 £17.80
% change year-on-year +248.23% +1.85% -16.73%

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 18 April 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 (32.65%) Confluence
2 3 (6.12%) OpenStack
3 2 (4.08%) SAS
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 28 (57.14%) AWS
2 22 (44.90%) Azure
3 19 (38.78%) GitHub
4 18 (36.73%) GCP
5 15 (30.61%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (16.33%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (16.33%) Amazon S3
7 7 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (14.29%) AWS KMS
7 7 (14.29%) Route 53
8 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.04%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.04%) BrowserStack
9 1 (2.04%) IaaS
9 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (48.98%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (20.41%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (14.29%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.04%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (55.10%) Jenkins
2 24 (48.98%) Git
3 23 (46.94%) JIRA
4 20 (40.82%) JUnit
5 15 (30.61%) GitLab
5 15 (30.61%) Selenium
6 13 (26.53%) Cucumber
6 13 (26.53%) JMeter
6 13 (26.53%) WebDriver
7 7 (14.29%) Maven
7 7 (14.29%) Mockito
7 7 (14.29%) SonarQube
8 4 (8.16%) DbUnit
8 4 (8.16%) jMock
9 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (4.08%) CircleCI
9 2 (4.08%) Liquibase
10 1 (2.04%) Gatling
10 1 (2.04%) REST Assured
10 1 (2.04%) Serenity BDD
General
1 32 (65.31%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.61%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.37%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.24%) Finance
4 6 (12.24%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.04%) Military
6 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Senior
2 10 (20.41%) Developer
2 10 (20.41%) Tester
3 9 (18.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Splunk Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) Automation Tester
4 8 (16.33%) Site Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 7 (14.29%) Senior Automation Tester
5 7 (14.29%) Senior Tester
6 6 (12.24%) Lead
7 4 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Automation Test Lead
8 3 (6.12%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Python Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (6.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Systems Tester
8 3 (6.12%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (42.86%) Spring
2 15 (30.61%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (26.53%) WireMock
4 10 (20.41%) REST
5 8 (16.33%) Spring Boot
5 8 (16.33%) Spring Cloud
6 7 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 7 (14.29%) Hibernate
6 7 (14.29%) JPA
6 7 (14.29%) Node.js
6 7 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (14.29%) SOAP
6 7 (14.29%) Spring Batch
6 7 (14.29%) Spring Integration
6 7 (14.29%) Web Services
7 4 (8.16%) Kafka
7 4 (8.16%) PowerMock
8 3 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (6.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.61%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (20.41%) Distributed Architecture
3 8 (16.33%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.12%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (6.12%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 17 (34.69%) Linux
2 8 (16.33%) Unix
3 3 (6.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (79.59%) CI/CD
2 37 (75.51%) Containerisation
3 32 (65.31%) Observability
4 29 (59.18%) Agile
5 28 (57.14%) DevOps
6 24 (48.98%) Microservices
7 21 (42.86%) Validation
8 20 (40.82%) TDD
9 19 (38.78%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (32.65%) BDD
10 16 (32.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (32.65%) Test Automation
11 14 (28.57%) Test Strategy
12 13 (26.53%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 13 (26.53%) End-to-End Testing
12 13 (26.53%) Load Testing
13 11 (22.45%) Incident Response
13 11 (22.45%) Migration
14 10 (20.41%) Change Management
14 10 (20.41%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.90%) Python
2 9 (18.37%) Bash
2 9 (18.37%) SQL
3 8 (16.33%) Java
4 6 (12.24%) Go
5 4 (8.16%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.08%) Bicep
7 1 (2.04%) Groovy
7 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (44.90%) Security Cleared
2 20 (40.82%) SC Cleared
3 10 (20.41%) Degree
4 9 (18.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.12%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.12%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 40 (81.63%) Kubernetes
2 34 (69.39%) Grafana
3 23 (46.94%) Prometheus
4 13 (26.53%) Ansible
5 12 (24.49%) Terraform
6 10 (20.41%) Kibana
7 8 (16.33%) Puppet
8 4 (8.16%) Argo
9 3 (6.12%) Control-M
9 3 (6.12%) IBM Guardium
9 3 (6.12%) Nessus
10 2 (4.08%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (26.53%) Splunk
2 7 (14.29%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.16%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.12%) Tenable
6 1 (2.04%) Databricks
6 1 (2.04%) Google
6 1 (2.04%) Informatica
6 1 (2.04%) New Relic