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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 59 43
Rank change year-on-year +7 -16 +26
Contract jobs citing Docker 23 11 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.93% 1.40% 3.12%
As % of the System Software category 27.71% 11.46% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 6 25
10th Percentile £280 £268 £300
25th Percentile £377 £395 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £476 £530 £650
90th Percentile £536 £653 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% 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 83 96 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.57% 12.24% 15.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 57 98
10th Percentile £147 £172 £157
25th Percentile £271 £263 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% +14.29% +25.00%
75th Percentile £489 £500 £530
90th Percentile £550 £530 £650
England median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - £18.65 £13.25
25th Percentile - £19.40 £14.20
Median hourly rate - £21.26 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year - +20.73% -2.17%
75th Percentile - £23.60 £20.38
90th Percentile - £24.62 £21.50
England median hourly rate £36.00 £24.35 £47.83
% change year-on-year +47.84% -49.09% +117.41%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Docker 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 +1 17 £429 +20.51% 9
Derbyshire - 3 £413 - 3
Nottinghamshire -5 1 £520 -30.67% 4
Docker
England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (4.35%) JBoss
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) AWS
2 10 (43.48%) GCP
3 5 (21.74%) Azure
4 4 (17.39%) GitHub
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) ChatGPT
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (8.70%) Serverless
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Batch
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) HTTP
1 3 (13.04%) HTTPS
1 3 (13.04%) SSL
2 2 (8.70%) DMZ
2 2 (8.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle Database
2 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
2 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) Jenkins
2 7 (30.43%) Git
3 3 (13.04%) Maven
3 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.70%) Gradle
4 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (8.70%) TeamCity
5 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (4.35%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (4.35%) CircleCI
5 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
5 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Java Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Identity Management Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) .NET Developer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Architect
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Java Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Security Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Senior C# .NET Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) Spring
2 9 (39.13%) RESTful
3 8 (34.78%) Hibernate
3 8 (34.78%) LDAP
3 8 (34.78%) OAuth
3 8 (34.78%) OpenID
3 8 (34.78%) SAML
4 6 (26.09%) Spring Boot
5 5 (21.74%) Web Services
6 4 (17.39%) RAML
7 3 (13.04%) AngularJS
7 3 (13.04%) CSS
7 3 (13.04%) HTML
7 3 (13.04%) JPA
7 3 (13.04%) Kafka
7 3 (13.04%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (13.04%) React
7 3 (13.04%) REST
7 3 (13.04%) Spring Batch
8 2 (8.70%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (13.04%) State Machine
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) CI/CD
2 18 (78.26%) Containerisation
3 11 (47.83%) Microservices
3 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (39.13%) DevSecOps
5 8 (34.78%) RBAC
6 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (26.09%) Design Patterns
7 6 (26.09%) DevOps
7 6 (26.09%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (21.74%) Service Delivery
9 4 (17.39%) Agile
9 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (13.04%) API Development
10 3 (13.04%) Clean Code
10 3 (13.04%) Domain-Driven Design
10 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven
10 3 (13.04%) Kalman Filter
10 3 (13.04%) Migration
11 2 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) Java
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
3 4 (17.39%) PL/SQL
4 3 (13.04%) Python
5 2 (8.70%) Bash
5 2 (8.70%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) PHP
5 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.35%) Bicep
6 1 (4.35%) Perl
6 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) GDPR
1 8 (34.78%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (78.26%) Kubernetes
2 8 (34.78%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) Kibana
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.35%) Podman
4 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 8 (34.78%) IBM
3 7 (30.43%) Ping Identity
4 5 (21.74%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) AppDynamics
5 1 (4.35%) Checkmarx
5 1 (4.35%) Google
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.35%) Splunk
5 1 (4.35%) VMware