Docker Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Docker
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 71 80
Rank change year-on-year +49 +9 +41
Contract jobs citing Docker 200 38 33
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 8.83% 2.27% 1.82%
As % of the System Software category 48.66% 20.65% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 24 26
10th Percentile £424 £475 £400
25th Percentile £473 £490 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £612 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% +22.40% -16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £685 £639
90th Percentile £738 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -10.20%

All System Software Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 411 184 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.15% 11.00% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 130 181
10th Percentile £237 £158 £160
25th Percentile £365 £200 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £456 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.97% +7.35% +6.25%
75th Percentile £582 £598 £550
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - - £17.50
25th Percentile £54.75 £15.22 £17.69
Median hourly rate £56.50 £18.13 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +211.64% -2.00% -23.71%
75th Percentile £58.25 - £19.38
90th Percentile - £27.50 £22.23
England median hourly rate £47.50 £29.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +63.79% -33.71% +75.00%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Docker job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the West Midlands

Docker
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 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
Shropshire - 67 £515 - 27
Birmingham +41 64 £480 -33.79% 31
Worcestershire +10 38 £650 +85.71% 16
Herefordshire -1 35 £650 +6.21% 1
Warwickshire -2 8 £269 -46.20% 3
Coventry -14 6 £275 -42.11% 17
Solihull +2 4 £563 +14.91%
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 17
Staffordshire - 1 £338 - 16
Docker
England

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 (27.00%) SAS
2 22 (11.00%) Confluence
3 14 (7.00%) nginx
4 9 (4.50%) JBoss
4 9 (4.50%) OpenStack
5 8 (4.00%) Apache
5 8 (4.00%) WebLogic
6 5 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (2.00%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (1.50%) Drupal
9 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (5.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 88 (44.00%) AWS
2 74 (37.00%) Azure
3 55 (27.50%) GitHub
4 33 (16.50%) Amazon S3
5 31 (15.50%) Amazon EC2
5 31 (15.50%) OpenShift
6 28 (14.00%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (14.00%) Serverless
7 27 (13.50%) GCP
8 25 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 24 (12.00%) Amazon ELB
9 24 (12.00%) AWS KMS
10 23 (11.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (6.50%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (6.00%) Route 53
14 10 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.50%) DNS
2 22 (11.00%) Firewall
3 20 (10.00%) SSH
4 19 (9.50%) SMTP
5 18 (9.00%) FTP
5 18 (9.00%) HTTP
6 11 (5.50%) IMAP
6 11 (5.50%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (3.00%) SSL
7 6 (3.00%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.00%) VPN
8 5 (2.50%) Network Security
9 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (22.00%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (17.00%) Pentaho
3 27 (13.50%) Amazon RDS
4 25 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (8.00%) NoSQL
6 15 (7.50%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 14 (7.00%) Oracle Database
8 12 (6.00%) MongoDB
9 11 (5.50%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (4.50%) Redis
11 7 (3.50%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 6 (3.00%) Relational Database
13 4 (2.00%) MySQL
13 4 (2.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 3 (1.50%) Big Data
14 3 (1.50%) Hadoop
15 2 (1.00%) Delta Lake
15 2 (1.00%) InfluxDB
15 2 (1.00%) Parquet
15 2 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 110 (55.00%) Jenkins
2 99 (49.50%) Git
3 65 (32.50%) JIRA
4 57 (28.50%) GitLab
5 28 (14.00%) JUnit
5 28 (14.00%) Selenium
6 20 (10.00%) SonarQube
7 19 (9.50%) Vagrant
8 10 (5.00%) Liquibase
9 9 (4.50%) CircleCI
10 8 (4.00%) Eclipse
10 8 (4.00%) IntelliJ
10 8 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (3.00%) Bitbucket
11 6 (3.00%) Postman
12 5 (2.50%) Artifactory
12 5 (2.50%) Cypress.io
12 5 (2.50%) Gradle
12 5 (2.50%) Snyk
12 5 (2.50%) webpack
General
1 81 (40.50%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.50%) Public Sector
3 16 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.00%) Finance
5 13 (6.50%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (4.00%) Banking
6 8 (4.00%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.50%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.00%) Aeronautics
9 2 (1.00%) Military
10 1 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 44 (22.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (16.00%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (13.00%) Data Engineer
3 26 (13.00%) Senior
4 21 (10.50%) AWS DevOps
4 21 (10.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 21 (10.50%) Developer
5 20 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 19 (9.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 18 (9.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 16 (8.00%) Site Engineer
9 15 (7.50%) Test Specialist
10 14 (7.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (6.50%) Splunk Engineer
12 12 (6.00%) Software Engineer
13 11 (5.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 11 (5.50%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (5.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 10 (5.00%) Backend Developer
14 10 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (26.50%) REST
2 38 (19.00%) Elastic Stack
3 21 (10.50%) RESTful
4 18 (9.00%) YAML
5 17 (8.50%) JSON
6 15 (7.50%) pytest
7 14 (7.00%) Kafka
7 14 (7.00%) Spring
8 12 (6.00%) HTML
9 11 (5.50%) Keycloak
9 11 (5.50%) LDAP
9 11 (5.50%) SOAP
10 10 (5.00%) Flask
10 10 (5.00%) XML
11 8 (4.00%) EJB
11 8 (4.00%) Hibernate
11 8 (4.00%) HTML5
11 8 (4.00%) J2EE
11 8 (4.00%) J2SE
11 8 (4.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.00%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.00%) Replication
3 13 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (6.00%) Public Cloud
5 11 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (5.50%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.50%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.50%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 62 (31.00%) Linux
2 25 (12.50%) Windows
3 19 (9.50%) Amazon Linux
3 19 (9.50%) VMS
4 18 (9.00%) Unix
5 10 (5.00%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.00%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (85.00%) DevOps
2 158 (79.00%) CI/CD
3 109 (54.50%) Containerisation
4 94 (47.00%) Agile
5 81 (40.50%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (35.00%) Test Automation
7 61 (30.50%) Data Pipeline
8 59 (29.50%) Analytics
9 56 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 55 (27.50%) Scrum
11 46 (23.00%) Data Modelling
12 45 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (22.50%) Deployment Automation
12 45 (22.50%) ETL
13 44 (22.00%) Microservices
14 41 (20.50%) Change Management
15 35 (17.50%) Configuration Management
15 35 (17.50%) Data Integration
16 33 (16.50%) Data Analytics
16 33 (16.50%) Data Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 107 (53.50%) Python
2 80 (40.00%) SQL
3 41 (20.50%) Go
4 27 (13.50%) Java
5 25 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 24 (12.00%) Bash
7 21 (10.50%) Groovy
8 9 (4.50%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.50%) Perl
8 9 (4.50%) Shell Script
9 8 (4.00%) Scala
10 3 (1.50%) Ruby
11 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.00%) PHP
12 1 (0.50%) C#
12 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 129 (64.50%) Security Cleared
2 110 (55.00%) SC Cleared
3 37 (18.50%) Degree
4 30 (15.00%) DV Cleared
5 29 (14.50%) Azure Certification
6 25 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (10.00%) AWS Certification
8 11 (5.50%) Master's Degree
9 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.50%) NCSC
3 5 (2.50%) QA
4 3 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (9.00%) DFS Replication
2 13 (6.50%) Active Directory
3 11 (5.50%) Dovecot
3 11 (5.50%) Postfix
3 11 (5.50%) Squid
4 1 (0.50%) HDFS
4 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 158 (79.00%) Kubernetes
2 73 (36.50%) Terraform
3 61 (30.50%) Grafana
4 58 (29.00%) Prometheus
5 46 (23.00%) Ansible
6 25 (12.50%) Puppet
7 15 (7.50%) Kibana
8 12 (6.00%) Progress Chef
9 11 (5.50%) Nessus
10 10 (5.00%) Proxmox
11 8 (4.00%) Argo
12 5 (2.50%) Podman
13 4 (2.00%) logstash
14 3 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (1.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 45 (22.50%) Oracle
2 37 (18.50%) Splunk
3 34 (17.00%) Denodo
3 34 (17.00%) Talend
4 31 (15.50%) Microsoft
5 19 (9.50%) ServiceNow
6 11 (5.50%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (4.00%) webMethods
8 6 (3.00%) Google
9 5 (2.50%) AppDynamics
9 5 (2.50%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.00%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.00%) F5
10 4 (2.00%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.00%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.50%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.50%) VMware
12 2 (1.00%) IBM
12 2 (1.00%) Pega
13 1 (0.50%) Databricks