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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 17 56
Rank change year-on-year -35 +39 0
Contract jobs citing Docker 23 51 7
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.52% 8.54% 0.98%
As % of the System Software category 20.54% 50.50% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 34 3
10th Percentile £370 £413 £638
25th Percentile £413 £463 £666
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £725
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -34.48% +3.57%
75th Percentile £469 £500 £738
90th Percentile £580 £633 -
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £525 £624
% change year-on-year -7.14% -15.80% +13.36%
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 112 101 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.27% 16.92% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 60 28
10th Percentile £192 £123 £143
25th Percentile £256 £300 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £468 £206
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +126.67% -48.44%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £444
90th Percentile £638 £579 £659
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £503
% change year-on-year -10.00% -0.50% +11.67%
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 £70.00 £56.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year +23.89% +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 10 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 4 (17.39%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) Jupyter
3 1 (4.35%) OpenStack
3 1 (4.35%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 22 (95.65%) AWS
2 16 (69.57%) GitHub
3 11 (47.83%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (34.78%) Azure
5 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
6 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (17.39%) GCP
7 3 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (8.70%) AWS KMS
8 2 (8.70%) Route 53
8 2 (8.70%) Serverless
9 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
9 1 (4.35%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
3 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.35%) Data Vault
5 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (78.26%) Jenkins
2 15 (65.22%) GitLab
3 8 (34.78%) Selenium
4 7 (30.43%) Git
5 6 (26.09%) JUnit
6 4 (17.39%) Cucumber
6 4 (17.39%) JIRA
6 4 (17.39%) JMeter
6 4 (17.39%) REST Assured
6 4 (17.39%) Serenity BDD
6 4 (17.39%) WebDriver
7 2 (8.70%) Gatling
7 2 (8.70%) Maven
7 2 (8.70%) Mockito
7 2 (8.70%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (52.17%) Public Sector
2 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Military
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Lead
4 3 (13.04%) Automation Tester
4 3 (13.04%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Lead Test Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Automation Tester
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Tester
4 3 (13.04%) Test Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Tester
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Principal Test Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) Spring
1 10 (43.48%) Terraform
2 6 (26.09%) Spring Boot
3 5 (21.74%) Kafka
4 4 (17.39%) Playwright
4 4 (17.39%) Spring Cloud
4 4 (17.39%) WireMock
5 3 (13.04%) Node.js
5 3 (13.04%) REST
5 3 (13.04%) Web Services
6 2 (8.70%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
6 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (8.70%) Hibernate
6 2 (8.70%) JPA
6 2 (8.70%) SOAP
6 2 (8.70%) Spring Batch
6 2 (8.70%) Spring Integration
7 1 (4.35%) Loki
7 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 5 (21.74%) Distributed Architecture
2 5 (21.74%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) CI/CD
2 17 (73.91%) DevOps
3 15 (65.22%) Agile
4 12 (52.17%) Microservices
4 12 (52.17%) Test Automation
5 11 (47.83%) Observability
6 10 (43.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (39.13%) Containerisation
7 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (34.78%) Test Strategy
9 7 (30.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 7 (30.43%) End-to-End Testing
9 7 (30.43%) TDD
10 6 (26.09%) BDD
11 5 (21.74%) Performance Testing
11 5 (21.74%) SDET
11 5 (21.74%) Technical Leadership
12 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (17.39%) Stress Testing
12 4 (17.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Java
2 5 (21.74%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) Bash
3 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 1 (4.35%) Bicep
4 1 (4.35%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) Go
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (78.26%) Security Cleared
2 13 (56.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) QA
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Grafana
2 14 (60.87%) Kubernetes
3 13 (56.52%) Prometheus
4 5 (21.74%) Ansible
5 1 (4.35%) Argo
5 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.04%) Splunk
2 2 (8.70%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Informatica
3 1 (4.35%) New Relic
3 1 (4.35%) Trend Micro