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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 37 54
Rank change year-on-year -21 +17 +14
Contract jobs citing Docker 24 20 12
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.17% 3.50% 1.58%
As % of the System Software category 19.83% 36.36% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 10
10th Percentile £412 £326 £356
25th Percentile £413 £360 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £440 £424
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% +3.72% -11.72%
75th Percentile £513 £525 £513
90th Percentile £545 £537 £560
England median daily rate £525 £550 £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 121 55 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.92% 9.63% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 36 67
10th Percentile £131 £196 £145
25th Percentile £169 £258 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £440 £338
Median % change year-on-year -24.63% +30.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £484 £537 £475
90th Percentile £656 £550 £576
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £15.71 - -
25th Percentile £16.25 - £45.22
Median hourly rate £74.00 £15.09 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year +390.39% -68.93% +83.38%
75th Percentile - - £51.91
90th Percentile £74.50 - -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £28.21 £21.00
% change year-on-year +99.43% +34.31% -58.00%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -3 9 £413 -17.40% 6
Nottinghamshire - 8 £525 - 9
Northamptonshire -22 6 £435 -0.94% 4
Leicestershire -5 1 £450 - 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 (29.17%) Jupyter
2 4 (16.67%) Confluence
3 3 (12.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) AWS
3 7 (29.17%) Azure AKS
4 6 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) GitHub
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (8.33%) GCP
6 2 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Git
2 5 (20.83%) SonarQube
3 4 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 4 (16.67%) GitLab
3 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (16.67%) JIRA
4 3 (12.50%) Artifactory
4 3 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (4.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Marketing
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Architect
1 6 (25.00%) Consultant
1 6 (25.00%) Senior
2 5 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes Consultant
3 4 (16.67%) Performance Consultant
4 3 (12.50%) DevOps Architect
4 3 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Principal Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) .NET
1 4 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (16.67%) Kafka
1 4 (16.67%) RESTful
2 3 (12.50%) ADO
2 3 (12.50%) J2EE
2 3 (12.50%) OSGi
3 2 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (8.33%) Spring
4 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) Express.js
4 1 (4.17%) Node.js
4 1 (4.17%) OAuth
4 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.17%) React
4 1 (4.17%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) SAML
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Beowulf
2 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
3 4 (16.67%) Contract for Difference
4 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
5 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) CentOS
2 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Unix
3 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Containerisation
2 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 12 (50.00%) Microservices
4 11 (45.83%) Agile
5 10 (41.67%) DevOps
6 7 (29.17%) AI
6 7 (29.17%) Data Science
6 7 (29.17%) SDLC
6 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (29.17%) Use Case
7 5 (20.83%) Analytics
7 5 (20.83%) Incident Response
7 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (20.83%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (16.67%) Design Patterns
8 4 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
8 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Java
2 4 (16.67%) C#
3 3 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (79.17%) Kubernetes
2 8 (33.33%) Ansible
3 7 (29.17%) Podman
4 5 (20.83%) Terraform
5 4 (16.67%) Istio
5 4 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (16.67%) NVIDIA
2 3 (12.50%) Adobe
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow