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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 44 53
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 -10
Contract jobs citing Docker 30 23 12
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.24% 2.88% 1.50%
As % of the System Software category 25.86% 28.05% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 22 7
10th Percentile £312 £280 £286
25th Percentile £400 £377 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £429 £520
Median % change year-on-year +16.55% -17.50% +4.00%
75th Percentile - £476 £530
90th Percentile £527 £536 £628
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 116 82 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.66% 10.28% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 65 58
10th Percentile £133 £144 £174
25th Percentile £275 £275 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £420 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £500 £490 £500
90th Percentile £538 £550 £530
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 2
10th Percentile £12.76 - £18.65
25th Percentile £17.50 - £19.40
Median hourly rate £25.75 - £21.26
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.73%
75th Percentile £74.00 - £23.60
90th Percentile - - £24.62
England median hourly rate £65.00 £34.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year +88.41% +40.82% -48.81%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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
Nottinghamshire 0 11 £400 -23.08% 14
Derbyshire +1 10 £500 +21.21% 3
Northamptonshire +2 9 £451 +5.13% 3
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 2 (6.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) Azure
2 15 (50.00%) AWS
3 9 (30.00%) GitHub
4 8 (26.67%) Azure AKS
4 8 (26.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (26.67%) Entra ID
4 8 (26.67%) IaaS
4 8 (26.67%) PaaS
4 8 (26.67%) SaaS
5 7 (23.33%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (23.33%) Serverless
6 6 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (13.33%) GCP
8 4 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (30.00%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) SSL
3 1 (3.33%) Network Security
3 1 (3.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 8 (26.67%) Data Lake
2 8 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (16.67%) MySQL
3 5 (16.67%) Redis
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) GitLab
2 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (13.33%) Git
4 3 (10.00%) SonarQube
4 3 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (6.67%) Artifactory
5 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket
5 2 (6.67%) JIRA
5 2 (6.67%) Maven
6 1 (3.33%) Ant
6 1 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (3.33%) git-flow
6 1 (3.33%) Gradle
6 1 (3.33%) Selenium
6 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (23.33%) Manufacturing
2 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Lead
4 5 (16.67%) Senior
5 4 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Software Developer
6 3 (10.00%) .NET Developer
6 3 (10.00%) .NET Software Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Site Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Security Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) Kafka
2 5 (16.67%) Celery
2 5 (16.67%) Django
2 5 (16.67%) FastAPI
2 5 (16.67%) Playwright
2 5 (16.67%) pytest
3 4 (13.33%) .NET
3 4 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (13.33%) Spring
3 4 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 4 (13.33%) Terraform
4 3 (10.00%) OAuth
4 3 (10.00%) OAuth2
4 3 (10.00%) REST
5 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.67%) ARM Templates
5 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (6.67%) JWT
5 2 (6.67%) OpenID
5 2 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Linux
2 5 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (10.00%) CentOS
3 3 (10.00%) Windows
4 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
4 2 (6.67%) Unix
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) DevOps
2 19 (63.33%) CI/CD
3 16 (53.33%) Containerisation
4 11 (36.67%) Agile
5 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (30.00%) Microservices
7 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (26.67%) Migration
8 7 (23.33%) Event-Driven
9 6 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
9 6 (20.00%) Cloud Security
9 6 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
10 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
11 4 (13.33%) Code Quality
11 4 (13.33%) Design Patterns
11 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
11 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) SQL
2 9 (30.00%) Python
3 7 (23.33%) Java
4 4 (13.33%) C#
4 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) Bicep
5 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (56.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Istio
3 2 (6.67%) Puppet
4 1 (3.33%) Grafana
4 1 (3.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Databricks
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat