Docker Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Docker
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 39 50
Rank change year-on-year -17 +11 +13
Contract jobs citing Docker 24 29 18
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.15% 4.25% 2.07%
As % of the System Software category 20.17% 40.28% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 22 12
10th Percentile £409 £317 £356
25th Percentile £413 £367 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £429 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £455 £530
90th Percentile £545 £537 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%

All System Software Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 119 72 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.66% 10.54% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 49 79
10th Percentile £131 £197 £148
25th Percentile £190 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £415 £375
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% +10.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £497
90th Percentile £656 £550 £567
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 1
10th Percentile £12.76 - -
25th Percentile £13.34 - £45.22
Median hourly rate £49.88 £15.09 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year +230.52% -68.93% +131.24%
75th Percentile £74.00 - £51.91
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £53.00 £28.75 £22.35
% change year-on-year +84.35% +28.64% -55.30%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Docker job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the East Midlands

Docker
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire -1 9 £445 -11.00% 1
Northamptonshire -9 9 £447 +4.20% 5
Nottinghamshire - 5 £530 - 2
Leicestershire -7 1 £450 - 1
Docker
England

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (20.83%) Jupyter
2 3 (12.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) Azure
2 10 (41.67%) AWS
3 9 (37.50%) Azure AKS
4 4 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (12.50%) GitHub
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 2 (8.33%) IaaS
6 2 (8.33%) PaaS
6 2 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (12.50%) GitLab
2 3 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 2 (8.33%) Artifactory
3 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Marketing
4 2 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 4 (16.67%) Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Consultant
3 4 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 3 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 3 (12.50%) .NET Software Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Performance Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Principal Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) .NET
1 6 (25.00%) Kafka
2 4 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (16.67%) RESTful
3 3 (12.50%) J2EE
3 3 (12.50%) OSGi
4 2 (8.33%) ADO
4 2 (8.33%) ARM Templates
4 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (8.33%) OAuth
4 2 (8.33%) OAuth2
4 2 (8.33%) OpenID
4 2 (8.33%) REST
4 2 (8.33%) SAML
4 2 (8.33%) Spring
4 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Beowulf
1 5 (20.83%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 2 (8.33%) Contract for Difference
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
2 5 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (12.50%) CentOS
4 2 (8.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (8.33%) Unix
4 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) Containerisation
2 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 12 (50.00%) Microservices
4 11 (45.83%) Agile
4 11 (45.83%) DevOps
5 7 (29.17%) Analytics
5 7 (29.17%) Performance Optimisation
6 6 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 6 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (20.83%) AI
7 5 (20.83%) Data Science
7 5 (20.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 5 (20.83%) SDLC
7 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (20.83%) Use Case
8 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
9 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Java
2 6 (25.00%) C#
3 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 3 (12.50%) Python
4 2 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (25.00%) Ansible
3 5 (20.83%) Podman
3 5 (20.83%) Terraform
4 2 (8.33%) Istio
4 2 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Adobe
3 2 (8.33%) Databricks
3 2 (8.33%) NVIDIA
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow