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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 59 53
Rank change year-on-year +42 -6 +15
Contract jobs citing Docker 70 8 20
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 9.96% 1.11% 2.53%
As % of the System Software category 50.72% 13.56% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 3 12
10th Percentile £413 £543 £475
25th Percentile £463 £606 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £725 £500
Median % change year-on-year -34.48% +45.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £545 £738 £633
90th Percentile £675 - £700
West Midlands median daily rate £530 £612 £500
% change year-on-year -13.40% +22.40% -16.67%

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 138 59 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.63% 8.16% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 47 65
10th Percentile £185 £155 £191
25th Percentile £361 £174 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £200 £413
Median % change year-on-year +137.50% -51.52% +17.86%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £525
90th Percentile £613 £613 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £418
% change year-on-year +3.00% +19.76% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -76.99%
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £24.35 £18.50
% change year-on-year +132.08% +31.59% -7.50%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 (31.43%) Confluence
2 10 (14.29%) nginx
3 3 (4.29%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.43%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 48 (68.57%) AWS
2 33 (47.14%) Amazon S3
3 31 (44.29%) AWS KMS
4 30 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
5 28 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 25 (35.71%) Amazon ELB
6 25 (35.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 17 (24.29%) GitHub
8 16 (22.86%) Azure
9 14 (20.00%) GCP
9 14 (20.00%) Route 53
9 14 (20.00%) Serverless
10 12 (17.14%) Amazon Glacier
11 11 (15.71%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (12.86%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (8.57%) Amazon SQS
15 2 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
15 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
15 2 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 26 (37.14%) DNS
2 25 (35.71%) Firewall
3 23 (32.86%) SSH
4 21 (30.00%) FTP
4 21 (30.00%) HTTP
4 21 (30.00%) SMTP
5 9 (12.86%) IMAP
5 9 (12.86%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (8.57%) TCP/IP
7 5 (7.14%) SSL
8 4 (5.71%) VPN
9 3 (4.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (37.14%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (34.29%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 10 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (7.14%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.86%) Big Data
6 2 (2.86%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.86%) Parquet
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 52 (74.29%) Jenkins
2 33 (47.14%) Git
3 27 (38.57%) JIRA
4 21 (30.00%) GitLab
4 21 (30.00%) Vagrant
5 10 (14.29%) Liquibase
6 7 (10.00%) SonarQube
7 5 (7.14%) JUnit
7 5 (7.14%) Maven
8 4 (5.71%) CircleCI
9 3 (4.29%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (4.29%) DbUnit
9 3 (4.29%) jMock
9 3 (4.29%) Mockito
10 2 (2.86%) Jaeger
10 2 (2.86%) MLflow
10 2 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.43%) Poetry
11 1 (1.43%) PyCharm
11 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (54.29%) Social Skills
2 30 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 12 (17.14%) Finance
4 9 (12.86%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (11.43%) Banking
5 8 (11.43%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.86%) Military
8 1 (1.43%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 34 (48.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (35.71%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (27.14%) AWS DevOps
3 19 (27.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 16 (22.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 16 (22.86%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (21.43%) Senior
6 11 (15.71%) Senior DevOps
6 11 (15.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 10 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (12.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 9 (12.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 9 (12.86%) Software Engineer
8 9 (12.86%) Splunk Engineer
9 8 (11.43%) Developer
9 8 (11.43%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 7 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
10 7 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (8.57%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 6 (8.57%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (38.57%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (28.57%) REST
3 18 (25.71%) RESTful
4 9 (12.86%) LDAP
5 6 (8.57%) SOAP
5 6 (8.57%) Web Services
6 5 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (7.14%) Hibernate
6 5 (7.14%) JPA
6 5 (7.14%) Spring
6 5 (7.14%) Spring Batch
6 5 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 5 (7.14%) Spring Integration
7 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.29%) Bootstrap
7 3 (4.29%) Kafka
7 3 (4.29%) PowerMock
7 3 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (4.29%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (2.86%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 21 (30.00%) Replication
2 14 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (17.14%) Cloud Native
3 12 (17.14%) Public Cloud
4 6 (8.57%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (70.00%) Linux
2 24 (34.29%) Windows
3 21 (30.00%) Amazon Linux
3 21 (30.00%) VMS
4 9 (12.86%) Ubuntu
5 6 (8.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (88.57%) DevOps
2 44 (62.86%) CI/CD
3 40 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 35 (50.00%) Change Management
5 26 (37.14%) Cloud Security
6 24 (34.29%) Agile
7 21 (30.00%) Configuration Management
7 21 (30.00%) Patch Management
7 21 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (27.14%) Computer Science
10 18 (25.71%) Microservices
10 18 (25.71%) Root Cause Analysis
11 16 (22.86%) High Availability
11 16 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (18.57%) Migration
13 12 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (17.14%) Cryptography
13 12 (17.14%) Observability
13 12 (17.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (78.57%) Python
2 23 (32.86%) Groovy
3 22 (31.43%) PowerShell
3 22 (31.43%) SQL
4 20 (28.57%) Go
5 18 (25.71%) Java
6 14 (20.00%) Bash
7 12 (17.14%) Perl
8 5 (7.14%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.43%) Bicep
9 1 (1.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (44.29%) SC Cleared
3 28 (40.00%) Degree
4 19 (27.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (18.57%) AWS Certification
6 12 (17.14%) Azure Certification
7 10 (14.29%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) QA
System Software
1 21 (30.00%) DFS Replication
2 12 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 12 (17.14%) Postfix
3 9 (12.86%) Dovecot
3 9 (12.86%) Squid
Systems Management
1 46 (65.71%) Terraform
2 42 (60.00%) Grafana
3 38 (54.29%) Prometheus
4 34 (48.57%) Kubernetes
5 24 (34.29%) Ansible
6 10 (14.29%) Kibana
7 9 (12.86%) Nessus
7 9 (12.86%) Proxmox
8 6 (8.57%) Puppet
9 5 (7.14%) Argo
10 4 (5.71%) logstash
11 2 (2.86%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (31.43%) Splunk
2 21 (30.00%) ServiceNow
3 12 (17.14%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.71%) CheckPoint
5 4 (5.71%) F5
5 4 (5.71%) Google
5 4 (5.71%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.29%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.86%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.43%) Pega
8 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.43%) VMware