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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 35 58
Rank change year-on-year -25 +23 +8
Contract jobs citing Docker 23 25 12
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.05% 4.15% 1.49%
As % of the System Software category 19.33% 39.68% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 10
10th Percentile £409 £343 £356
25th Percentile £413 £367 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £435 £424
Median % change year-on-year +0.06% +2.60% -11.26%
75th Percentile £494 £480 £513
90th Percentile £545 £537 £530
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -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 63 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.62% 10.45% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 43 74
10th Percentile £131 £215 £145
25th Percentile £190 £294 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £429 £350
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% +22.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £475 £530 £475
90th Percentile £656 £550 £557
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £15.44 - -
25th Percentile £57.69 - £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 £74.75 - -
England median hourly rate £53.00 £28.41 £22.15
% change year-on-year +86.55% +28.26% -57.81%

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 30 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 30 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 -2 9 £413 -17.40% 6
Northamptonshire -20 7 £424 -2.53% 2
Nottinghamshire - 6 £490 - 5
Leicestershire -9 1 £450 - 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 7 (30.43%) Jupyter
2 3 (13.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) Azure AKS
4 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) GitHub
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (8.70%) GCP
6 2 (8.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
1 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
2 4 (17.39%) GitLab
3 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.70%) Artifactory
4 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket
4 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.70%) JIRA
4 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (4.35%) Chocolatey
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Marketing
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Consultant
2 5 (21.74%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Performance Consultant
4 3 (13.04%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Site Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Lead Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Principal Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Kafka
2 4 (17.39%) .NET
2 4 (17.39%) RESTful
3 3 (13.04%) J2EE
3 3 (13.04%) OSGi
3 3 (13.04%) Spring
4 2 (8.70%) ADO
4 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (8.70%) OAuth
4 2 (8.70%) OAuth2
4 2 (8.70%) OpenID
4 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (8.70%) REST
4 2 (8.70%) SAML
4 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.35%) Express.js
5 1 (4.35%) Node.js
5 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Beowulf
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 4 (17.39%) Contract for Difference
3 3 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) CentOS
2 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.70%) Unix
3 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Containerisation
2 15 (65.22%) CI/CD
3 11 (47.83%) Microservices
4 10 (43.48%) Agile
5 9 (39.13%) DevOps
6 7 (30.43%) AI
6 7 (30.43%) Data Science
6 7 (30.43%) SDLC
6 7 (30.43%) Use Case
7 5 (21.74%) Analytics
7 5 (21.74%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (21.74%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (17.39%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
8 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (17.39%) GAP Analysis
8 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
9 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Java
2 4 (17.39%) C#
3 3 (13.04%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 18 (78.26%) Kubernetes
2 7 (30.43%) Podman
3 6 (26.09%) Ansible
4 5 (21.74%) Terraform
5 2 (8.70%) Istio
5 2 (8.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
1 4 (17.39%) NVIDIA
2 3 (13.04%) Adobe
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow