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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 40 50
Rank change year-on-year -29 +10 +29
Contract jobs citing Docker 16 13 14
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.57% 2.43% 1.81%
As % of the System Software category 13.68% 22.81% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 13
10th Percentile £412 £363 £356
25th Percentile £413 £406 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £459 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.68% +2.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £488 £514 £525
90th Percentile £538 £537 -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 117 57 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.52% 10.65% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 31 64
10th Percentile £131 £175 £150
25th Percentile £183 £197 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £400 £325
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% +23.08% -13.33%
75th Percentile £500 £483 £402
90th Percentile £656 £537 £534
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £15.17 - £16.71
25th Percentile £16.25 - £17.39
Median hourly rate £22.27 £15.09 £19.89
Median % change year-on-year +47.55% -24.12% +28.31%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £22.48
90th Percentile £25.49 - £23.23
England median hourly rate £37.97 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.83% +44.44% -41.56%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 10 £413 - 3
Northamptonshire -27 3 £424 -7.68% 1
Nottinghamshire - 3 £525 - 5
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 7 (43.75%) Jupyter
2 3 (18.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) SonarQube
3 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
4 1 (6.25%) Chocolatey
4 1 (6.25%) GitLab
4 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (18.75%) Marketing
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Consultant
2 5 (31.25%) Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes Consultant
3 4 (25.00%) Performance Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Architect
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Principal Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) J2EE
1 3 (18.75%) OSGi
1 3 (18.75%) RESTful
2 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) ADO
3 1 (6.25%) Express.js
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) MERN Stack
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Beowulf
2 4 (25.00%) Contract for Difference
3 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Containerisation
2 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) DevOps
4 7 (43.75%) AI
4 7 (43.75%) Data Science
4 7 (43.75%) Microservices
4 7 (43.75%) SDLC
4 7 (43.75%) Use Case
5 5 (31.25%) Analytics
5 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 4 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
7 3 (18.75%) Data Privacy
7 3 (18.75%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
7 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (18.75%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 15 (93.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (43.75%) Podman
3 3 (18.75%) Ansible
3 3 (18.75%) Terraform
4 2 (12.50%) Istio
4 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) NVIDIA
2 3 (18.75%) Adobe
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) F5
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow