Docker Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Docker
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 21 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +10
Contract jobs citing Docker 3 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 1.71% 1.72% 3.95%
As % of the System Software category 14.29% 14.29% 38.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £513 - £449
25th Percentile £514 £725 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +7.14% +14.29%
75th Percentile £531 £775 -
90th Percentile £535 - £750
East Midlands median daily rate £422 £467 £500
% change year-on-year -9.64% -6.60% -15.82%

All System Software Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 21 21 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 12.00% 12.07% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 14
10th Percentile £158 £185 £205
25th Percentile £198 £275 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £375 £391
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -4.15% -28.86%
75th Percentile £515 £501 £669
90th Percentile £563 £506 £700
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £379 £375
% change year-on-year +8.18% +1.07% +14.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.25 - £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -77.50%
75th Percentile £16.75 - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £21.26 £17.72
% change year-on-year +18.30% +19.98% +14.32%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Docker

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Nottingham -3 3 £525 -30.00% 14
Docker
East Midlands

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ChatGPT
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Istio
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle