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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 49 46
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 +30
Contract jobs citing Docker 14 5 18
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.56% 0.89% 2.46%
As % of the System Software category 14.00% 10.20% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 18
10th Percentile £407 £251 £468
25th Percentile £413 £356 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £444 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -11.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £490 £564
90th Percentile £536 £519 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -10.20%

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 100 49 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.12% 8.70% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 28 70
10th Percentile £132 £172 £163
25th Percentile £189 £187 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £353 £369
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -4.27% -7.81%
75th Percentile £478 £430 £529
90th Percentile £538 £501 £625
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.65 £16.54
25th Percentile £17.39 £19.40 £16.99
Median hourly rate £23.71 £21.26 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.51% +19.98% +14.32%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.60 £21.24
90th Percentile £25.58 £24.62 £22.73
England median hourly rate £41.94 £28.71 £47.70
% change year-on-year +46.11% -39.82% +58.99%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 - 8 £413 - 31
Nottinghamshire - 4 £523 - 20
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 (35.71%) Jupyter
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
1 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
1 5 (35.71%) GitHub
2 3 (21.43%) Azure AKS
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (14.29%) ChatGPT
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
1 3 (21.43%) SonarQube
2 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
3 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Performance Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Architect
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (14.29%) Kafka
1 2 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) ADO
2 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.14%) Express.js
2 1 (7.14%) MERN Stack
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) RAML
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Beowulf
2 4 (28.57%) Contract for Difference
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
4 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Containerisation
2 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 8 (57.14%) DevOps
4 7 (50.00%) AI
5 6 (42.86%) Microservices
6 5 (35.71%) Agile
6 5 (35.71%) Data Science
6 5 (35.71%) SDLC
6 5 (35.71%) Use Case
7 4 (28.57%) GAP Analysis
8 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
8 3 (21.43%) Domain-Driven Design
8 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
8 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (21.43%) Runbook
9 2 (14.29%) GitOps
9 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (14.29%) Log Analytics
9 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) PHP
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (35.71%) Podman
3 3 (21.43%) Terraform
4 2 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Istio
4 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 2 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) NVIDIA
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Checkmarx
4 1 (7.14%) F5