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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 17 61
Rank change year-on-year -36 +44 -9
Contract jobs citing Docker 21 52 8
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.30% 8.60% 1.11%
As % of the System Software category 19.09% 49.06% 18.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 34 3
10th Percentile £367 £405 £638
25th Percentile £382 £463 £666
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £475 £725
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% -34.48% +3.57%
75th Percentile £520 £500 £738
90th Percentile £644 £633 -
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £528 £612
% change year-on-year -7.11% -13.81% +11.27%
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 110 106 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.05% 17.52% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 63 28
10th Percentile £190 £116 £143
25th Percentile £213 £256 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £425 £200
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +112.50% -50.00%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £444
90th Percentile £638 £545 £659
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +17.65%
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 - - -15.79%
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% -28.09%

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 September 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 2 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Jupyter
2 1 (4.76%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.76%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 18 (85.71%) AWS
2 15 (71.43%) GitHub
3 8 (38.10%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (23.81%) Amazon S3
4 5 (23.81%) Azure
5 4 (19.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (9.52%) AWS KMS
7 2 (9.52%) Route 53
7 2 (9.52%) Serverless
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
8 1 (4.76%) Datadog
8 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) BGP
1 2 (9.52%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (9.52%) NX-OS
1 2 (9.52%) TACACS
1 2 (9.52%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) MongoDB
1 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (9.52%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.76%) Data Vault
4 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 15 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 14 (66.67%) GitLab
3 6 (28.57%) Git
4 5 (23.81%) Selenium
5 4 (19.05%) REST Assured
5 4 (19.05%) Serenity BDD
6 3 (14.29%) JUnit
7 2 (9.52%) Gatling
7 2 (9.52%) Maven
7 2 (9.52%) Mockito
7 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
8 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
8 1 (4.76%) JIRA
8 1 (4.76%) JMeter
8 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (52.38%) Public Sector
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Legal
3 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Lead
3 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Lead Test Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Automation Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Data Centre Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Network Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) DataOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) Terraform
2 7 (33.33%) Spring
3 6 (28.57%) Spring Boot
4 5 (23.81%) Kafka
4 5 (23.81%) REST
5 4 (19.05%) Playwright
5 4 (19.05%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (14.29%) Node.js
6 3 (14.29%) Web Services
7 2 (9.52%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
7 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (9.52%) Hibernate
7 2 (9.52%) JPA
7 2 (9.52%) JSON
7 2 (9.52%) SOAP
7 2 (9.52%) Spring Batch
7 2 (9.52%) Spring Integration
7 2 (9.52%) YAML
8 1 (4.76%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (76.19%) DevOps
3 11 (52.38%) Agile
3 11 (52.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (52.38%) Test Automation
4 9 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (42.86%) Microservices
5 8 (38.10%) Containerisation
6 7 (33.33%) Observability
7 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (23.81%) SDET
8 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (23.81%) Test Strategy
9 4 (19.05%) Application Packaging
9 4 (19.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 4 (19.05%) End-to-End Testing
9 4 (19.05%) Non-Functional Testing
9 4 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (19.05%) Scrum
9 4 (19.05%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Java
2 7 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) Bash
3 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) Bicep
4 1 (4.76%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) Go
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (9.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Grafana
2 10 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 10 (47.62%) Prometheus
3 7 (33.33%) Ansible
4 1 (4.76%) Argo
4 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 3 (14.29%) Splunk
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco
2 2 (9.52%) Infoblox
2 2 (9.52%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
2 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.52%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Informatica
3 1 (4.76%) New Relic
3 1 (4.76%) Trend Micro