Docker Contracts in Birmingham

Docker
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 58 56
Rank change year-on-year +26 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Docker 22 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.21% 0.77% 2.02%
As % of the System Software category 29.33% 13.04% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 6
10th Percentile £418 £294 £498
25th Percentile £463 £378 £571
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -23.08% +11.35%
75th Percentile £494 £595 £700
90th Percentile £500 £632 -
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -7.41%

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 75 46 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.34% 5.93% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 36 64
10th Percentile £106 £168 £176
25th Percentile £287 £190 £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £556 £438 £631
90th Percentile £700 £628 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £430
% change year-on-year -5.00% +16.28% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £14.31 £15.44
25th Percentile - £14.94 £15.74
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £16.48
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +19.16%
75th Percentile - £17.98 £17.74
90th Percentile - £19.16 £18.35
West Midlands median hourly rate £36.65 £16.00 £21.75
% change year-on-year +129.03% -26.44% +31.82%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Docker in Birmingham

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Birmingham over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Birmingham

Docker
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 9 (40.91%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) AWS
2 15 (68.18%) Amazon S3
3 14 (63.64%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (50.00%) AWS KMS
5 10 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (31.82%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (27.27%) Route 53
7 6 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (22.73%) Amazon ELB
8 5 (22.73%) Amazon Glacier
9 3 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (13.64%) GitHub
10 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (9.09%) Serverless
11 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudTrail
11 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (4.55%) IaaS
11 1 (4.55%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) DNS
1 6 (27.27%) Firewall
1 6 (27.27%) HTTP
2 5 (22.73%) FTP
2 5 (22.73%) SMTP
2 5 (22.73%) SSH
3 1 (4.55%) DHCP
3 1 (4.55%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (4.55%) SAN
3 1 (4.55%) SSL
3 1 (4.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (40.91%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (31.82%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (31.82%) DynamoDB
4 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (77.27%) Jenkins
2 16 (72.73%) Git
3 10 (45.45%) JIRA
4 8 (36.36%) Maven
5 7 (31.82%) SonarQube
6 6 (27.27%) JUnit
7 5 (22.73%) Vagrant
8 4 (18.18%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (18.18%) DbUnit
8 4 (18.18%) jMock
8 4 (18.18%) Mockito
9 2 (9.09%) GitLab
9 2 (9.09%) JMeter
9 2 (9.09%) Postman
9 2 (9.09%) REST Assured
9 2 (9.09%) Selenium
9 2 (9.09%) TestNG
9 2 (9.09%) Travis CI
10 1 (4.55%) Snyk
10 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
1 8 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
1 8 (36.36%) Java Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Lead Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Lead Java Developer
3 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Site Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Tester
5 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) REST
1 8 (36.36%) Spring
1 8 (36.36%) Spring Boot
1 8 (36.36%) Web Services
2 7 (31.82%) ActiveMQ
2 7 (31.82%) SOAP
3 6 (27.27%) Hibernate
3 6 (27.27%) JPA
3 6 (27.27%) RESTful
3 6 (27.27%) Spring Batch
3 6 (27.27%) Spring Integration
4 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
4 4 (18.18%) Bootstrap
4 4 (18.18%) PowerMock
4 4 (18.18%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (13.64%) YAML
6 1 (4.55%) .NET
6 1 (4.55%) Kafka
6 1 (4.55%) Mustache
6 1 (4.55%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (22.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) Linux
2 7 (31.82%) Windows
3 5 (22.73%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (22.73%) VMS
4 1 (4.55%) CentOS
4 1 (4.55%) Debian
4 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) DevOps
2 13 (59.09%) Agile
3 9 (40.91%) Scrum
4 8 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 8 (36.36%) Microservices
4 8 (36.36%) TDD
5 6 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (27.27%) Patch Management
6 5 (22.73%) BDD
6 5 (22.73%) Change Management
6 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
6 5 (22.73%) Cloud Security
6 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
6 5 (22.73%) Configuration Management
6 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (22.73%) SIEM
7 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (18.18%) Open Source
7 4 (18.18%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Java
2 12 (54.55%) Python
3 7 (31.82%) Bash
3 7 (31.82%) SQL
4 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
5 5 (22.73%) Groovy
5 5 (22.73%) Perl
6 1 (4.55%) Bicep
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 5 (22.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (22.73%) Degree
4 2 (9.09%) CEH
4 2 (9.09%) CISSP
4 2 (9.09%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
1 5 (22.73%) DFS Replication
2 4 (18.18%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Terraform
2 9 (40.91%) Grafana
2 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (40.91%) Prometheus
3 4 (18.18%) Ansible
4 2 (9.09%) Kibana
5 1 (4.55%) Argo
5 1 (4.55%) Nessus
5 1 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) ServiceNow
2 4 (18.18%) Atlassian
2 4 (18.18%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (4.55%) BT
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.55%) Sophos
3 1 (4.55%) VMware