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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 27 52
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 +9
Contract jobs citing Docker 43 29 9
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.63% 5.25% 1.26%
As % of the System Software category 36.13% 38.16% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 5
10th Percentile £350 £398 £465
25th Percentile £371 £453 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £638
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -25.49% -1.92%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £738
90th Percentile £538 £500 -
West Midlands median daily rate £499 £500 £624
% change year-on-year -0.25% -19.81% +18.76%
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 119 76 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.81% 13.77% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 50 34
10th Percentile £210 £106 £150
25th Percentile £313 £253 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £514 £488 £519
90th Percentile £615 £489 £639
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £475 £522
% change year-on-year -2.63% -9.00% +22.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.10
25th Percentile £65.00 - £14.41
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £15.30
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.55%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £15.82
90th Percentile - - £15.93
West Midlands median hourly rate £66.57 £46.57 £15.65
% change year-on-year +42.93% +197.59% -19.74%

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 27 July 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 16 (37.21%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.33%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 40 (93.02%) AWS
2 24 (55.81%) GitHub
3 22 (51.16%) Azure
4 18 (41.86%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (34.88%) GCP
6 11 (25.58%) Amazon S3
7 10 (23.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (23.26%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (20.93%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (18.60%) AWS KMS
9 8 (18.60%) Route 53
10 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (4.65%) Serverless
13 1 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 1 (2.33%) Amazon SageMaker
13 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
13 1 (2.33%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (58.14%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (18.60%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (18.60%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (18.60%) DynamoDB
3 5 (11.63%) MongoDB
4 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.33%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 33 (76.74%) Jenkins
2 23 (53.49%) Git
3 22 (51.16%) JUnit
4 21 (48.84%) GitLab
5 19 (44.19%) Selenium
6 18 (41.86%) JIRA
7 14 (32.56%) Cucumber
7 14 (32.56%) JMeter
7 14 (32.56%) WebDriver
8 8 (18.60%) Maven
8 8 (18.60%) Mockito
8 8 (18.60%) SonarQube
9 5 (11.63%) REST Assured
9 5 (11.63%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (9.30%) DbUnit
10 4 (9.30%) jMock
11 3 (6.98%) Gatling
12 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket Server
13 1 (2.33%) Liquibase
General
1 21 (48.84%) Social Skills
2 18 (41.86%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.95%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Finance
6 2 (4.65%) Legal
7 1 (2.33%) Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Military
7 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Senior
2 11 (25.58%) Developer
3 10 (23.26%) Tester
4 9 (20.93%) Java Developer
4 9 (20.93%) Lead
5 8 (18.60%) Automation Tester
5 8 (18.60%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (16.28%) Senior Automation Tester
6 7 (16.28%) Senior Tester
7 4 (9.30%) Lead Test Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Test Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Automation Test Lead
8 3 (6.98%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (6.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Systems Tester
8 3 (6.98%) Test Leader
9 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (62.79%) Spring
2 14 (32.56%) WireMock
3 13 (30.23%) Spring Boot
4 11 (25.58%) Spring Cloud
5 10 (23.26%) REST
6 9 (20.93%) Node.js
6 9 (20.93%) Web Services
7 8 (18.60%) ActiveMQ
7 8 (18.60%) AngularJS
7 8 (18.60%) Hibernate
7 8 (18.60%) JPA
7 8 (18.60%) SOAP
7 8 (18.60%) Spring Batch
7 8 (18.60%) Spring Integration
8 6 (13.95%) Kafka
9 5 (11.63%) Playwright
10 4 (9.30%) PowerMock
11 3 (6.98%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (6.98%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (6.98%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (37.21%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (27.91%) Distributed Architecture
3 7 (16.28%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.98%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (97.67%) CI/CD
2 30 (69.77%) Agile
3 29 (67.44%) Microservices
4 25 (58.14%) DevOps
5 24 (55.81%) Observability
6 23 (53.49%) TDD
6 23 (53.49%) Test Automation
7 22 (51.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (48.84%) Containerisation
9 19 (44.19%) BDD
9 19 (44.19%) Test Strategy
10 17 (39.53%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 17 (39.53%) End-to-End Testing
11 14 (32.56%) Validation
12 13 (30.23%) Load Testing
13 10 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (23.26%) Performance Testing
13 10 (23.26%) Scrum
13 10 (23.26%) Workshop Facilitation
14 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) Java
2 8 (18.60%) Python
2 8 (18.60%) SQL
3 3 (6.98%) Bash
3 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.65%) Go
5 1 (2.33%) Bicep
5 1 (2.33%) C#
5 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (74.42%) Security Cleared
2 26 (60.47%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.33%) Degree
5 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 35 (81.40%) Grafana
2 27 (62.79%) Kubernetes
2 27 (62.79%) Prometheus
3 11 (25.58%) Terraform
4 6 (13.95%) Ansible
5 2 (4.65%) Control-M
5 2 (4.65%) IBM Guardium
5 2 (4.65%) Nessus
6 1 (2.33%) Argo
6 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Jaspersoft
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) Splunk
3 4 (9.30%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.65%) Tenable
5 1 (2.33%) Databricks
5 1 (2.33%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) Informatica
5 1 (2.33%) New Relic
5 1 (2.33%) Trend Micro