Docker Contracts in the Midlands

Docker
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 100 126
Rank change year-on-year +45 +26 -41
Contract jobs citing Docker 59 33 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.08% 1.20% 1.19%
As % of the System Software category 25.00% 13.20% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 29 31
10th Percentile £359 £275 £438
25th Percentile £455 £356 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £616 £675 £588
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

All System Software Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 236 250 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.33% 9.07% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 182 338
10th Percentile £165 £150 £158
25th Percentile £250 £201 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £369 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.81% -18.06% +20.00%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £569
90th Percentile £700 £638 £690
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 26
10th Percentile £15.16 £14.59 £12.60
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.65 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.16 £19.95 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% +3.64% +13.24%
75th Percentile £18.13 £23.75 £48.13
90th Percentile £30.05 £40.64 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the Midlands

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Docker in the Midlands

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the Midlands

Docker
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +36 43 £538 -6.52% 77
East Midlands +12 15 £475 +5.56% 52
Docker
England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 7 (11.86%) Apache
1 7 (11.86%) Confluence
2 3 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.08%) Moodle
3 2 (3.39%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.39%) JBoss
3 2 (3.39%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) NetSuite
1 2 (3.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (57.63%) AWS
2 18 (30.51%) Azure
3 15 (25.42%) Amazon S3
4 12 (20.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (16.95%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (15.25%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (11.86%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (11.86%) GCP
7 7 (11.86%) Serverless
8 6 (10.17%) AWS KMS
8 6 (10.17%) Route 53
9 5 (8.47%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (5.08%) Amazon Glacier
11 3 (5.08%) GitHub
11 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (5.08%) PaaS
11 3 (5.08%) SaaS
12 2 (3.39%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) DHCP
1 2 (3.39%) DNS
1 2 (3.39%) Firewall
1 2 (3.39%) HTTP
1 2 (3.39%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (3.39%) SAN
1 2 (3.39%) SSL
1 2 (3.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (16.95%) DynamoDB
3 9 (15.25%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (13.56%) NoSQL
4 8 (13.56%) Relational Database
5 6 (10.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (10.17%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (6.78%) RDBMS
7 3 (5.08%) Flink
7 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.39%) Apache Hudi
8 2 (3.39%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (3.39%) Big Data
8 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.39%) Delta Lake
8 2 (3.39%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.39%) Parquet
9 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (42.37%) Jenkins
2 21 (35.59%) Git
3 12 (20.34%) JIRA
4 10 (16.95%) Maven
5 9 (15.25%) JUnit
5 9 (15.25%) SonarQube
6 7 (11.86%) Mockito
7 6 (10.17%) GitLab
7 6 (10.17%) Postman
8 5 (8.47%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (6.78%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (5.08%) Chocolatey
10 3 (5.08%) DbUnit
10 3 (5.08%) JMeter
10 3 (5.08%) jMock
10 3 (5.08%) PHPUnit
10 3 (5.08%) REST Assured
10 3 (5.08%) Selenium
10 3 (5.08%) TestNG
10 3 (5.08%) Travis CI
General
1 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.17%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Finance
5 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.69%) Legal
6 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (37.29%) Developer
2 12 (20.34%) Senior
3 11 (18.64%) Java Developer
4 9 (15.25%) Senior Developer
5 7 (11.86%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Lead
7 5 (8.47%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Data Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Architect
8 4 (6.78%) Python Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) AWS Developer
9 3 (5.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Moodle Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (3.39%) AWS Architect
10 2 (3.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 2 (3.39%) Java Solutions Architect
10 2 (3.39%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.34%) RESTful
1 12 (20.34%) Spring Boot
2 11 (18.64%) Spring
3 9 (15.25%) ActiveMQ
3 9 (15.25%) Hibernate
3 9 (15.25%) REST
3 9 (15.25%) Web Services
4 8 (13.56%) Kafka
5 6 (10.17%) .NET
5 6 (10.17%) AngularJS
5 6 (10.17%) JPA
5 6 (10.17%) SOAP
6 5 (8.47%) Bootstrap
6 5 (8.47%) HTML
6 5 (8.47%) JSON
6 5 (8.47%) Spring Batch
6 5 (8.47%) Spring Integration
7 4 (6.78%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (6.78%) React
7 4 (6.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (8.47%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.78%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.08%) e-Learning
3 3 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.08%) VLE
4 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.69%) LIMS
5 1 (1.69%) PACS
5 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.73%) Linux
2 6 (10.17%) Windows
3 2 (3.39%) CentOS
3 2 (3.39%) Debian
3 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.39%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.69%) Android
4 1 (1.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (59.32%) Agile
2 34 (57.63%) CI/CD
3 26 (44.07%) DevOps
3 26 (44.07%) Microservices
4 25 (42.37%) Containerisation
5 18 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (22.03%) Scrum
7 12 (20.34%) Computer Science
7 12 (20.34%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (18.64%) Task Automation
8 11 (18.64%) TDD
9 10 (16.95%) BDD
9 10 (16.95%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (16.95%) Test Automation
10 8 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (13.56%) SDLC
10 8 (13.56%) Service Delivery
10 8 (13.56%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (11.86%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 28 (47.46%) Python
2 21 (35.59%) Java
3 19 (32.20%) SQL
4 13 (22.03%) JavaScript
5 9 (15.25%) Bash
6 6 (10.17%) PowerShell
7 5 (8.47%) C#
8 4 (6.78%) Scala
9 3 (5.08%) PHP
10 2 (3.39%) Go
10 2 (3.39%) Perl
10 2 (3.39%) R
10 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
10 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 22 (37.29%) Security Cleared
2 19 (32.20%) SC Cleared
3 12 (20.34%) Degree
4 10 (16.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (11.86%) DV Cleared
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Certification
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.08%) CEH
7 3 (5.08%) CISSP
7 3 (5.08%) ISTQB
8 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.95%) QA
2 4 (6.78%) NCSC
3 3 (5.08%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.69%) HL7
5 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (6.78%) Postfix
2 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (69.49%) Kubernetes
2 17 (28.81%) Terraform
3 11 (18.64%) Ansible
4 5 (8.47%) Grafana
4 5 (8.47%) Kibana
4 5 (8.47%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.39%) Nessus
5 2 (3.39%) Podman
5 2 (3.39%) Progress Chef
5 2 (3.39%) Puppet
6 1 (1.69%) Argo
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.69%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (8.47%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (5.08%) Atlassian
2 3 (5.08%) Red Hat
2 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
2 3 (5.08%) VMware
3 2 (3.39%) AppDynamics
3 2 (3.39%) Databricks
3 2 (3.39%) Google
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle
3 2 (3.39%) Sophos
3 2 (3.39%) Splunk
4 1 (1.69%) BT
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.69%) Siemens