Docker Contracts in Birmingham

Docker
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 55 62
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -12
Contract jobs citing Docker 10 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.92% 0.95% 1.61%
As % of the System Software category 16.13% 15.56% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £308 £238 £485
25th Percentile £347 £284 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -28.57% +33.33%
75th Percentile £463 £636 -
90th Percentile £478 £741 -
West Midlands median daily rate £538 £619 £538
% change year-on-year -13.13% +15.12% +7.50%

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 62 45 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.92% 6.10% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 35 61
10th Percentile £106 £188 £185
25th Percentile £190 £200 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £689 £525 £600
90th Percentile £700 £677 £713
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £14.31 £15.44
25th Percentile - £14.94 £15.74
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £16.48
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +9.87%
75th Percentile - £17.98 £17.74
90th Percentile - £19.16 £18.35
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £16.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +13.31% -13.51% +10.45%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in Birmingham

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Docker in Birmingham

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Birmingham over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Birmingham

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) Route 53
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) SonarCloud
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
1 1 (10.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Git
1 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (40.00%) JIRA
3 3 (30.00%) Maven
4 2 (20.00%) GitLab
4 2 (20.00%) JMeter
4 2 (20.00%) Postman
4 2 (20.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (20.00%) Selenium
4 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (20.00%) TestNG
4 2 (20.00%) Travis CI
5 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (10.00%) DbUnit
5 1 (10.00%) jMock
5 1 (10.00%) JUnit
5 1 (10.00%) Mockito
5 1 (10.00%) Snyk
5 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) REST
1 3 (30.00%) Spring
1 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (30.00%) Web Services
2 2 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (20.00%) SOAP
2 2 (20.00%) YAML
3 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (10.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (10.00%) JPA
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) LDAP
3 1 (10.00%) Mustache
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) PowerMock
3 1 (10.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Batch
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) CentOS
2 1 (10.00%) Debian
2 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) SIEM
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (40.00%) Scrum
3 4 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) TDD
5 2 (20.00%) BDD
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Bash
3 3 (30.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) CEH
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP
2 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Kibana
4 1 (10.00%) Argo
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Nessus
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (10.00%) BT
1 1 (10.00%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (10.00%) Sophos
1 1 (10.00%) VMware