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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 51 43
Rank change year-on-year -13 -8 +31
Contract jobs citing Docker 12 8 22
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.40% 1.21% 2.92%
As % of the System Software category 13.64% 12.50% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 22
10th Percentile £275 £268 -
25th Percentile £407 £378 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% -6.60% -15.82%
75th Percentile £524 £526 £564
90th Percentile £526 £656 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -6.56%

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 88 64 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.24% 9.68% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 35 70
10th Percentile £131 £181 £169
25th Percentile £186 £220 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £375 £375
Median % change year-on-year +9.67% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £494 £475 £530
90th Percentile £568 £525 £631
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.65 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.39 £19.40 £14.75
Median hourly rate £23.71 £21.26 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.51% +19.98% +14.32%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.60 £21.50
90th Percentile £25.58 £24.62 £22.39
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.33 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.77% -11.67% +58.42%

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 12 December 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 12 December 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 -10 4 £415 -11.13% 10
Nottinghamshire -1 3 £525 -30.00% 20
Derbyshire - 3 £413 - 18
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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
1 5 (41.67%) GitHub
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (16.67%) ChatGPT
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 3 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
4 1 (8.33%) IntelliJ
4 1 (8.33%) Maven
4 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Architect
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Identity Management Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (25.00%) LDAP
2 3 (25.00%) OAuth
2 3 (25.00%) OpenID
2 3 (25.00%) SAML
3 2 (16.67%) .NET
3 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (16.67%) RESTful
3 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (8.33%) ADO
4 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (8.33%) J2EE
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
4 1 (8.33%) RAML
4 1 (8.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (91.67%) Containerisation
3 8 (66.67%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Microservices
5 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 4 (33.33%) DevSecOps
5 4 (33.33%) RBAC
6 3 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
6 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
6 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (25.00%) Runbook
7 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity Planning
7 2 (16.67%) GitOps
7 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (16.67%) Log Analytics
7 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 2 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Bash
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) PHP
3 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
1 3 (25.00%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Istio
3 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 2 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) IBM
2 3 (25.00%) Ping Identity
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Checkmarx
4 1 (8.33%) F5