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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 58 52
Rank change year-on-year +39 -6 +18
Contract jobs citing Docker 66 5 17
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.33% 0.79% 2.41%
As % of the System Software category 48.89% 9.26% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 3 14
10th Percentile £433 £543 £294
25th Percentile £465 £606 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +45.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £584 £738 £656
90th Percentile £830 - £700
West Midlands median daily rate £537 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -2.36% +10.00% -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 135 54 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.05% 8.57% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 50 56
10th Percentile £134 £158 £200
25th Percentile £349 £190 £247
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £413
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +19.70% +13.71%
75th Percentile £545 £678 £506
90th Percentile £617 £700 £695
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £489 £421
% change year-on-year +6.34% +16.08% +5.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £19.95
Median % change year-on-year - - -76.46%
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £18.13 £18.50
% change year-on-year +211.64% -2.00% -23.71%

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 21 January 2026.

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 14 (21.21%) Confluence
2 9 (13.64%) nginx
3 3 (4.55%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.52%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (12.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 36 (54.55%) AWS
2 18 (27.27%) Amazon S3
2 18 (27.27%) AWS KMS
3 17 (25.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 17 (25.76%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (25.76%) Amazon ELB
3 17 (25.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 16 (24.24%) Azure
5 15 (22.73%) GCP
5 15 (22.73%) GitHub
6 14 (21.21%) Serverless
7 9 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (12.12%) Route 53
9 5 (7.58%) Amazon Glacier
10 3 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (3.03%) Azure AKS
11 2 (3.03%) Azure API Management
11 2 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 17 (25.76%) DNS
1 17 (25.76%) Firewall
2 13 (19.70%) FTP
2 13 (19.70%) HTTP
2 13 (19.70%) SMTP
2 13 (19.70%) SSH
3 8 (12.12%) IMAP
3 8 (12.12%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (6.06%) SSL
4 4 (6.06%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.06%) VPN
5 3 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (27.27%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (19.70%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (18.18%) NoSQL
5 8 (12.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (60.61%) Jenkins
2 22 (33.33%) Git
3 21 (31.82%) GitLab
4 19 (28.79%) JIRA
5 13 (19.70%) Vagrant
6 10 (15.15%) Liquibase
7 4 (6.06%) CircleCI
8 2 (3.03%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.52%) Selenium
General
1 45 (68.18%) Social Skills
2 19 (28.79%) Public Sector
3 16 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (18.18%) Finance
5 9 (13.64%) Banking
6 8 (12.12%) Financial Institution
6 8 (12.12%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.03%) Military
9 1 (1.52%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 29 (43.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (25.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 17 (25.76%) Splunk Engineer
4 16 (24.24%) AWS DevOps
4 16 (24.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 15 (22.73%) Senior
6 14 (21.21%) Site Engineer
7 13 (19.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 13 (19.70%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
8 11 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 9 (13.64%) GCP Engineer
9 9 (13.64%) Software Engineer
10 8 (12.12%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 7 (10.61%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 7 (10.61%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (9.09%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 5 (7.58%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (22.73%) REST
3 13 (19.70%) RESTful
4 8 (12.12%) LDAP
5 5 (7.58%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (4.55%) Kafka
6 3 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.03%) .NET
8 1 (1.52%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.52%) HTML
8 1 (1.52%) JSON
8 1 (1.52%) OAuth
8 1 (1.52%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.52%) pytest
8 1 (1.52%) SOAP
8 1 (1.52%) Web Services
8 1 (1.52%) XML
8 1 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.21%) Management Information System
2 13 (19.70%) Replication
3 12 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 12 (18.18%) Public Cloud
4 11 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (66.67%) Linux
2 16 (24.24%) Windows
3 14 (21.21%) Unix
4 13 (19.70%) Amazon Linux
4 13 (19.70%) VMS
5 8 (12.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (90.91%) DevOps
2 46 (69.70%) Containerisation
3 44 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 35 (53.03%) Change Management
5 27 (40.91%) Computer Science
6 23 (34.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (34.85%) Observability
7 22 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (31.82%) Migration
8 21 (31.82%) Root Cause Analysis
9 20 (30.30%) Incident Response
10 19 (28.79%) Agile
10 19 (28.79%) Data Ingestion
11 18 (27.27%) Cloud Security
11 18 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 17 (25.76%) High Availability
13 14 (21.21%) Data Modelling
13 14 (21.21%) Knowledge Transfer
13 14 (21.21%) Proactive Monitoring
13 14 (21.21%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 56 (84.85%) Python
2 20 (30.30%) Bash
2 20 (30.30%) Go
3 14 (21.21%) Groovy
3 14 (21.21%) PowerShell
3 14 (21.21%) SQL
4 6 (9.09%) Java
5 5 (7.58%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.58%) Perl
6 1 (1.52%) Bicep
6 1 (1.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (53.03%) Degree
2 27 (40.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (36.36%) Security Cleared
4 20 (30.30%) SC Cleared
5 12 (18.18%) AWS Certification
6 11 (16.67%) Azure Certification
7 10 (15.15%) Master's Degree
8 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 13 (19.70%) DFS Replication
2 8 (12.12%) Dovecot
2 8 (12.12%) Postfix
2 8 (12.12%) Squid
3 5 (7.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (65.15%) Kubernetes
2 41 (62.12%) Terraform
3 34 (51.52%) Grafana
4 32 (48.48%) Ansible
5 30 (45.45%) Prometheus
6 18 (27.27%) Kibana
7 14 (21.21%) Puppet
8 8 (12.12%) Nessus
8 8 (12.12%) Proxmox
9 4 (6.06%) logstash
10 3 (4.55%) Argo
Vendors
1 30 (45.45%) Splunk
2 13 (19.70%) ServiceNow
3 8 (12.12%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.06%) CheckPoint
5 4 (6.06%) F5
5 4 (6.06%) Google
5 4 (6.06%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.52%) Pega
6 1 (1.52%) VMware