Docker Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Docker
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 18 23
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +11
Contract jobs citing Docker 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 0.65% 1.03% 2.76%
As % of the System Software category 6.25% 11.11% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £475 - £525
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £435 £452 £450
% change year-on-year -3.57% +0.33% -6.25%

All System Software Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 16 9 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 10.32% 9.28% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 15
10th Percentile - - £201
25th Percentile £131 £250 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £131 £308 £500
Median % change year-on-year -57.34% -38.50% +52.67%
75th Percentile £238 £536 £570
90th Percentile £458 £537 £625
East Midlands median daily rate £275 £400 £325
% change year-on-year -31.25% +23.08% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.54 - -
Median hourly rate £14.48 - -
75th Percentile £15.41 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £22.27 £15.09 £35.42
% change year-on-year +47.55% -57.39% +114.65%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

Docker job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Docker

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform