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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 39 51
Rank change year-on-year -28 +12 -3
Contract jobs citing Docker 17 28 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.40% 3.65% 2.14%
As % of the System Software category 15.60% 33.33% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 10
10th Percentile £400 £280 £338
25th Percentile £413 £377 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £430 £431
Median % change year-on-year +16.41% -0.41% -13.75%
75th Percentile - £514 £530
90th Percentile £536 £537 £555
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 109 84 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.00% 10.95% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 60 68
10th Percentile £131 £157 £174
25th Percentile £215 £250 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £413 £379
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +8.84% +8.29%
75th Percentile £513 £500 £499
90th Percentile £659 £550 £546
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 3
10th Percentile - - £19.15
25th Percentile £12.76 - £20.63
Median hourly rate £25.75 £15.09 £24.20
Median % change year-on-year +70.64% -37.64% +21.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 - £38.60
90th Percentile - - £46.58
England median hourly rate £60.17 £40.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +50.41% +68.07% -31.01%

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 August 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 August 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
Northamptonshire +5 7 £500 +16.55% 2
Nottinghamshire -8 6 £530 +1.92% 8
Derbyshire -7 3 £473 -5.50% 3
Leicestershire -8 1 £450 - 7
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 (11.76%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 9 (52.94%) Azure AKS
3 8 (47.06%) AWS
4 5 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (23.53%) GCP
5 4 (23.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (17.65%) GitHub
7 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
7 2 (11.76%) IaaS
7 2 (11.76%) PaaS
7 2 (11.76%) SaaS
8 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
8 1 (5.88%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) GitLab
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (11.76%) Artifactory
3 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
3 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.88%) Ant
4 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (5.88%) Maven
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Senior
3 4 (23.53%) Software Developer
4 3 (17.65%) .NET Developer
4 3 (17.65%) .NET Software Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Lead
4 3 (17.65%) Site Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Kafka
2 5 (29.41%) .NET
3 4 (23.53%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (11.76%) ADO
4 2 (11.76%) ARM Templates
4 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (11.76%) OAuth
4 2 (11.76%) OAuth2
4 2 (11.76%) OpenID
4 2 (11.76%) REST
4 2 (11.76%) SAML
4 2 (11.76%) Spring
4 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
5 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.88%) RESTful
5 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (17.65%) CentOS
4 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
4 2 (11.76%) Unix
4 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Containerisation
2 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
3 10 (58.82%) Agile
4 9 (52.94%) DevOps
5 8 (47.06%) Microservices
6 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven
6 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (23.53%) Analytics
8 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
9 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
9 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
9 3 (17.65%) Migration
9 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (17.65%) User Stories
10 2 (11.76%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) C#
1 5 (29.41%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (35.29%) Ansible
3 4 (23.53%) Terraform
4 2 (11.76%) Istio
4 2 (11.76%) Puppet
5 1 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat