Docker Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Docker
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 86 84
Rank change year-on-year +59 -2 +44
Contract jobs citing Docker 217 42 50
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 6.88% 1.82% 1.94%
As % of the System Software category 42.97% 17.28% 14.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 29 43
10th Percentile £413 £426 £425
25th Percentile £468 £475 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -14.82%
75th Percentile £588 £685 £530
90th Percentile £700 £725 £698
England median daily rate £525 £575 £558
% change year-on-year -8.70% +3.14% -8.98%

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 505 243 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.02% 10.53% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 164 249
10th Percentile £188 £158 £163
25th Percentile £315 £200 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £418
Median % change year-on-year +17.61% +1.83% +11.33%
75th Percentile £575 £571 £530
90th Percentile £653 £654 £663
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 13
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.10 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.54 £17.43 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.26 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% +14.92% +4.40%
75th Percentile £25.58 £27.41 £21.50
90th Percentile £38.90 £31.22 £23.28
England median hourly rate £47.50 £31.75 £40.33
% change year-on-year +49.61% -21.26% +61.30%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Docker job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 December 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 17 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
West Midlands +49 205 £534 -12.75% 31
East Midlands -16 12 £440 -1.01% 35
Docker
England

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 54 (24.88%) SAS
2 26 (11.98%) Confluence
3 14 (6.45%) nginx
4 9 (4.15%) JBoss
4 9 (4.15%) OpenStack
5 8 (3.69%) Apache
5 8 (3.69%) WebLogic
6 5 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.84%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (1.38%) Drupal
9 2 (0.92%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (5.07%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 97 (44.70%) AWS
2 82 (37.79%) Azure
3 61 (28.11%) GitHub
4 34 (15.67%) Amazon S3
5 33 (15.21%) GCP
6 32 (14.75%) Amazon EC2
6 32 (14.75%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (14.29%) OpenShift
8 28 (12.90%) Serverless
9 26 (11.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 25 (11.52%) Amazon ELB
10 25 (11.52%) AWS KMS
11 24 (11.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (9.22%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (6.91%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (5.53%) Route 53
16 10 (4.61%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (4.61%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.52%) DNS
1 25 (11.52%) Firewall
2 21 (9.68%) SSH
3 20 (9.22%) SMTP
4 19 (8.76%) FTP
4 19 (8.76%) HTTP
5 11 (5.07%) IMAP
5 11 (5.07%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (2.76%) SSL
6 6 (2.76%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.76%) VPN
7 5 (2.30%) Network Security
8 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (21.20%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (15.67%) Pentaho
3 28 (12.90%) Amazon RDS
4 25 (11.52%) Elasticsearch
5 18 (8.29%) NoSQL
6 15 (6.91%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 14 (6.45%) Oracle Database
8 13 (5.99%) MongoDB
9 11 (5.07%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (4.15%) Redis
11 7 (3.23%) Relational Database
11 7 (3.23%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 4 (1.84%) MySQL
12 4 (1.84%) SAS Data Integration Studio
13 3 (1.38%) Big Data
13 3 (1.38%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.92%) InfluxDB
14 2 (0.92%) Parquet
14 2 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 115 (53.00%) Jenkins
2 104 (47.93%) Git
3 68 (31.34%) JIRA
4 59 (27.19%) GitLab
5 28 (12.90%) JUnit
5 28 (12.90%) Selenium
6 24 (11.06%) SonarQube
7 20 (9.22%) Vagrant
8 10 (4.61%) CircleCI
8 10 (4.61%) Liquibase
8 10 (4.61%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (4.15%) IntelliJ
10 8 (3.69%) Bitbucket
10 8 (3.69%) Eclipse
11 6 (2.76%) Artifactory
11 6 (2.76%) Maven
11 6 (2.76%) Postman
12 5 (2.30%) Gradle
12 5 (2.30%) Snyk
12 5 (2.30%) webpack
General
1 87 (40.09%) Social Skills
2 38 (17.51%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (7.37%) Finance
4 13 (5.99%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (4.15%) Banking
6 8 (3.69%) Financial Institution
6 8 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.38%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.92%) Aeronautics
9 2 (0.92%) Military
10 1 (0.46%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 48 (22.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (14.75%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (13.82%) Senior
4 26 (11.98%) Data Engineer
4 26 (11.98%) Developer
5 21 (9.68%) AWS DevOps
5 21 (9.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 21 (9.68%) Platform Engineer
6 19 (8.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 18 (8.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 16 (7.37%) Site Engineer
9 15 (6.91%) Test Specialist
10 14 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (5.99%) Splunk Engineer
12 12 (5.53%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (5.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.53%) Software Engineer
13 11 (5.07%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 10 (4.61%) DevOps Platform Engineer
14 10 (4.61%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (24.42%) REST
2 40 (18.43%) Elastic Stack
3 23 (10.60%) RESTful
4 18 (8.29%) Spring
4 18 (8.29%) YAML
5 17 (7.83%) JSON
6 16 (7.37%) Kafka
7 15 (6.91%) pytest
8 13 (5.99%) LDAP
9 12 (5.53%) HTML
10 11 (5.07%) Keycloak
10 11 (5.07%) SOAP
11 10 (4.61%) Flask
11 10 (4.61%) Hibernate
11 10 (4.61%) XML
12 9 (4.15%) J2EE
12 9 (4.15%) Spring Boot
13 8 (3.69%) FastAPI
13 8 (3.69%) GraphQL
13 8 (3.69%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.82%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.76%) Replication
3 13 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.53%) Public Cloud
5 11 (5.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (5.07%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.30%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.38%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.46%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (29.95%) Linux
2 26 (11.98%) Windows
3 20 (9.22%) Amazon Linux
3 20 (9.22%) Unix
3 20 (9.22%) VMS
4 10 (4.61%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.84%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.46%) Android
6 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (83.87%) DevOps
2 172 (79.26%) CI/CD
3 125 (57.60%) Containerisation
4 99 (45.62%) Agile
5 82 (37.79%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (32.26%) Test Automation
7 61 (28.11%) Analytics
7 61 (28.11%) Data Pipeline
8 59 (27.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 56 (25.81%) Scrum
10 52 (23.96%) Microservices
11 47 (21.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (21.20%) Data Modelling
12 46 (21.20%) Deployment Automation
13 45 (20.74%) ETL
14 41 (18.89%) Change Management
15 37 (17.05%) Configuration Management
16 35 (16.13%) Data Integration
16 35 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
17 33 (15.21%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 110 (50.69%) Python
2 83 (38.25%) SQL
3 42 (19.35%) Go
4 35 (16.13%) Java
5 27 (12.44%) PowerShell
6 26 (11.98%) Bash
7 22 (10.14%) Groovy
8 11 (5.07%) JavaScript
9 10 (4.61%) Perl
9 10 (4.61%) Shell Script
10 8 (3.69%) Scala
11 4 (1.84%) PHP
12 3 (1.38%) C#
12 3 (1.38%) Ruby
13 2 (0.92%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 134 (61.75%) Security Cleared
2 112 (51.61%) SC Cleared
3 38 (17.51%) Degree
4 31 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 29 (13.36%) Azure Certification
6 26 (11.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (9.22%) AWS Certification
8 11 (5.07%) Master's Degree
9 7 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (13.82%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.07%) NCSC
3 6 (2.76%) QA
4 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.92%) GDPR
5 2 (0.92%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (8.76%) DFS Replication
2 14 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 11 (5.07%) Dovecot
3 11 (5.07%) Postfix
3 11 (5.07%) Squid
4 1 (0.46%) HDFS
4 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 171 (78.80%) Kubernetes
2 77 (35.48%) Terraform
3 61 (28.11%) Grafana
4 60 (27.65%) Prometheus
5 49 (22.58%) Ansible
6 28 (12.90%) Puppet
7 15 (6.91%) Kibana
8 13 (5.99%) Progress Chef
9 11 (5.07%) Nessus
10 10 (4.61%) Proxmox
11 8 (3.69%) Argo
12 6 (2.76%) Podman
13 4 (1.84%) Istio
13 4 (1.84%) logstash
14 3 (1.38%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.92%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 47 (21.66%) Oracle
2 36 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 36 (16.59%) Splunk
3 34 (15.67%) Denodo
3 34 (15.67%) Talend
4 20 (9.22%) ServiceNow
5 11 (5.07%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (3.69%) webMethods
7 6 (2.76%) Google
8 5 (2.30%) CheckPoint
8 5 (2.30%) F5
9 4 (1.84%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.84%) IBM
9 4 (1.84%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.84%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.38%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.38%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.38%) VMware
11 2 (0.92%) Pega
11 2 (0.92%) Ping Identity