Docker Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Docker
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 21 40
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 -17
Contract jobs citing Docker 64 19 15
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 8.95% 6.17% 3.85%
As % of the System Software category 42.95% 29.69% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 16 9
10th Percentile £392 £517 £400
25th Percentile £441 £558 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £619 £490
Median % change year-on-year -19.16% +26.22% -19.67%
75th Percentile £547 £700 £700
90th Percentile £675 £719 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £619 £490
% change year-on-year -19.16% +26.22% -19.67%

All System Software Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 149 64 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 20.84% 20.78% 17.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 46 46
10th Percentile £355 £236 £220
25th Percentile £420 £471 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £550 £430
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +27.91% -21.82%
75th Percentile £538 £624 £592
90th Percentile £624 £688 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £484 £550 £430
% change year-on-year -12.09% +27.91% -21.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +100.82%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Sheffield over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Sheffield

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 37 (57.81%) AWS
1 37 (57.81%) GCP
2 24 (37.50%) Serverless
3 13 (20.31%) Azure
4 10 (15.63%) GitHub
5 8 (12.50%) AWS KMS
6 5 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.81%) OpenShift
7 3 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.56%) Apigee
9 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) Firewall
2 4 (6.25%) DNS
3 3 (4.69%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.56%) HTTP
4 1 (1.56%) VPN
4 1 (1.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (40.63%) NoSQL
2 23 (35.94%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.56%) Power BI
4 1 (1.56%) Redis
4 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (57.81%) Jenkins
2 31 (48.44%) GitLab
3 24 (37.50%) Liquibase
4 14 (21.88%) JIRA
5 5 (7.81%) Git
6 4 (6.25%) Jaeger
7 3 (4.69%) CircleCI
8 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.56%) Gradle
9 1 (1.56%) Maven
9 1 (1.56%) Postman
9 1 (1.56%) Travis CI
General
1 35 (54.69%) Finance
2 33 (51.56%) Social Skills
3 26 (40.63%) Banking
4 23 (35.94%) Financial Institution
5 11 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Law
6 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 14 (21.88%) Senior
4 13 (20.31%) Developer
5 12 (18.75%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (15.63%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (15.63%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (14.06%) GCP Engineer
8 8 (12.50%) Python Developer
9 7 (10.94%) AWS Software Engineer
10 6 (9.38%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 5 (7.81%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (7.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 4 (6.25%) GCP Software Engineer
12 4 (6.25%) Lead
12 4 (6.25%) Python Engineer
12 4 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 3 (4.69%) GCP DevOps
13 3 (4.69%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (46.88%) REST
2 27 (42.19%) Elastic Stack
3 25 (39.06%) RESTful
4 16 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (15.63%) FastAPI
6 6 (9.38%) Kafka
7 5 (7.81%) Spring Boot
8 4 (6.25%) Node.js
9 3 (4.69%) Middleware
10 2 (3.13%) .NET
10 2 (3.13%) AngularJS
10 2 (3.13%) CSS
10 2 (3.13%) CSS3
10 2 (3.13%) Express.js
10 2 (3.13%) HTML
10 2 (3.13%) HTML5
10 2 (3.13%) Jest
10 2 (3.13%) MEAN Stack
10 2 (3.13%) NgRx
10 2 (3.13%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 26 (40.63%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (37.50%) Cloud Native
3 22 (34.38%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 34 (53.13%) Linux
2 2 (3.13%) Unix
2 2 (3.13%) Windows
3 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (85.94%) CI/CD
2 50 (78.13%) DevOps
3 49 (76.56%) Containerisation
4 40 (62.50%) Agile
5 35 (54.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (45.31%) Microservices
6 29 (45.31%) Root Cause Analysis
7 26 (40.63%) Computer Science
8 25 (39.06%) Software Engineering
9 24 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
9 24 (37.50%) High Availability
10 21 (32.81%) Change Management
10 21 (32.81%) Continuous Integration
10 21 (32.81%) Cryptography
11 20 (31.25%) Data Security
11 20 (31.25%) Infrastructure Automation
12 19 (29.69%) Continuous Delivery
12 19 (29.69%) Non-Functional Testing
13 18 (28.13%) Observability
14 17 (26.56%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 51 (79.69%) Python
2 29 (45.31%) Go
3 16 (25.00%) Java
4 12 (18.75%) SQL
5 9 (14.06%) Bash
6 7 (10.94%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.69%) Groovy
7 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.69%) Rust
8 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 26 (40.63%) Degree
2 23 (35.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 23 (35.94%) Master's Degree
3 11 (17.19%) AWS Certification
4 8 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.69%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (4.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) KVM
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (85.94%) Kubernetes
2 45 (70.31%) Grafana
3 44 (68.75%) Prometheus
4 39 (60.94%) Terraform
5 35 (54.69%) Ansible
6 10 (15.63%) Control-M
6 10 (15.63%) IBM Guardium
6 10 (15.63%) Nessus
7 3 (4.69%) Kiali
8 2 (3.13%) Packer
8 2 (3.13%) Progress Chef
8 2 (3.13%) Puppet
9 1 (1.56%) Argo
9 1 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.56%) Kibana
9 1 (1.56%) logstash
9 1 (1.56%) Podman
9 1 (1.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (46.88%) Splunk
2 14 (21.88%) Google
3 10 (15.63%) Tenable
4 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.13%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.13%) Oracle
5 2 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.13%) VMware
6 1 (1.56%) Cisco
6 1 (1.56%) F5
6 1 (1.56%) NetApp
6 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.56%) SAP