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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 54 55
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -8
Contract jobs citing Docker 24 22 12
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.75% 2.60% 1.56%
As % of the System Software category 22.86% 27.16% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 7
10th Percentile £300 £309 £286
25th Percentile £400 £396 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £429 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -17.50% +4.00%
75th Percentile £500 £462 £534
90th Percentile - £537 £633
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.38%

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 105 81 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.64% 9.59% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 62 57
10th Percentile £206 £137 £172
25th Percentile £275 £314 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £383
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +10.84% +9.43%
75th Percentile £500 £498 £475
90th Percentile £549 £575 £525
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 2
10th Percentile £12.76 - £18.65
25th Percentile £18.09 - £19.40
Median hourly rate £25.75 - £21.26
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.49%
75th Percentile - - £23.60
90th Percentile £26.43 - £24.62
England median hourly rate £63.14 £34.50 £33.58
% change year-on-year +83.00% +2.73% -28.30%

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 October 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 October 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 £500 -10.11%
Nottinghamshire -6 8 £400 -23.08% 14
Northamptonshire +8 7 £401 -6.53% 6
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) Azure
2 12 (50.00%) AWS
3 8 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 8 (33.33%) GitHub
3 8 (33.33%) IaaS
3 8 (33.33%) PaaS
3 8 (33.33%) SaaS
4 7 (29.17%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (29.17%) Serverless
5 6 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (20.83%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (16.67%) Azure AKS
8 3 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) SSL
3 1 (4.17%) Network Security
3 1 (4.17%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 8 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 7 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (20.83%) MySQL
4 5 (20.83%) Redis
5 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) GitLab
2 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.33%) Git
3 2 (8.33%) Maven
4 1 (4.17%) Ant
4 1 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (4.17%) git-flow
4 1 (4.17%) Gradle
4 1 (4.17%) Selenium
4 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (29.17%) Manufacturing
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Lead
5 3 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 2 (8.33%) .NET Developer
6 2 (8.33%) .NET Software Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Security Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (8.33%) Site Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Celery
1 5 (20.83%) Django
1 5 (20.83%) FastAPI
1 5 (20.83%) Kafka
1 5 (20.83%) Playwright
1 5 (20.83%) pytest
2 4 (16.67%) Spring
2 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (12.50%) OAuth
3 3 (12.50%) OAuth2
3 3 (12.50%) REST
3 3 (12.50%) Terraform
4 2 (8.33%) .NET
4 2 (8.33%) ARM Templates
4 2 (8.33%) Hibernate
4 2 (8.33%) JWT
4 2 (8.33%) OpenID
4 2 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (8.33%) RESTful
4 2 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.33%) CentOS
2 2 (8.33%) Ubuntu
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) DevOps
2 14 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 11 (45.83%) Containerisation
4 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (33.33%) Migration
6 7 (29.17%) Agile
7 6 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
7 6 (25.00%) Cloud Security
7 6 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (25.00%) Microservices
8 5 (20.83%) Cloud Operations
8 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (20.83%) Event-Driven
9 4 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 3 (12.50%) Analytics
10 3 (12.50%) API Development
10 3 (12.50%) Code Quality
10 3 (12.50%) DevSecOps
10 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) Java
4 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.33%) C#
6 1 (4.17%) Bicep
6 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Databricks
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat