Docker Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Docker
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Docker 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.37% - 2.03%
As % of the System Software category 11.11% - 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £331 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile £344 - £538
90th Percentile - - £560
West Midlands median daily rate £530 £612 £500
% change year-on-year -13.40% +22.40% -16.67%

All System Software Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 9 17 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 12.33% 16.67% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 33
10th Percentile £186 £181 £167
25th Percentile £195 £244 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year -47.43% -11.22% +125.00%
75th Percentile £260 £476 £575
90th Percentile £318 £618 £620
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +15.56% +5.88% +6.25%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Docker

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £338 - 19
Docker
West Midlands

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DocumentDB
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SignalR
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes