Docker Contracts in the West Midlands

Docker
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 92 92
Rank change year-on-year +51 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Docker 71 21 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.77% 1.02% 1.40%
As % of the System Software category 33.97% 10.24% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 19 18
10th Percentile £416 £275 £464
25th Percentile £463 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £584 £675 £621
90th Percentile £688 £690 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -

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 209 205 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.06% 9.99% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 154 198
10th Percentile £190 £186 £160
25th Percentile £372 £266 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +16.28% +4.88%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £576
90th Percentile £700 £675 £727
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - £14.59 £14.42
25th Percentile £31.32 £15.65 £15.98
Median hourly rate £36.65 £16.00 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +129.03% -26.44% +31.82%
75th Percentile £41.97 £19.95 £28.75
90th Percentile - £22.23 -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £22.30 £50.00
% change year-on-year +30.04% -55.40% +150.00%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the West Midlands

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Docker in the West Midlands

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 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 1 July 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
Birmingham +25 22 £475 -5.00% 62
Solihull - 15 £435 - 2
Worcestershire - 11 £600 - 23
Herefordshire - 9 £700 - 4
Shropshire +2 6 £494 -4.03% 38
Warwickshire - 4 £588 - 15
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 32
Docker
England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (22.54%) Confluence
2 5 (7.04%) Apache
3 3 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.23%) Moodle
4 2 (2.82%) nginx
4 2 (2.82%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.41%) JBoss
5 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.82%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 44 (61.97%) AWS
2 26 (36.62%) Amazon S3
3 25 (35.21%) Amazon EC2
4 23 (32.39%) Azure
5 19 (26.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (23.94%) AWS KMS
7 16 (22.54%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (16.90%) Route 53
9 10 (14.08%) GCP
10 8 (11.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (9.86%) Amazon ELB
12 5 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (7.04%) Amazon Glacier
12 5 (7.04%) GitHub
13 4 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (5.63%) PaaS
13 4 (5.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.08%) Firewall
2 8 (11.27%) DNS
3 7 (9.86%) HTTP
3 7 (9.86%) SMTP
4 5 (7.04%) FTP
4 5 (7.04%) SSH
5 4 (5.63%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (2.82%) DHCP
6 2 (2.82%) IMAP
6 2 (2.82%) Network Security
6 2 (2.82%) SAN
6 2 (2.82%) SSL
6 2 (2.82%) VLAN
6 2 (2.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (32.39%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (30.99%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (23.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (16.90%) DynamoDB
5 4 (5.63%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.63%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.63%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.41%) Flink
6 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (50.70%) Jenkins
2 34 (47.89%) Git
3 20 (28.17%) Maven
4 18 (25.35%) JIRA
5 15 (21.13%) JUnit
6 12 (16.90%) SonarQube
7 11 (15.49%) Mockito
8 10 (14.08%) GitLab
9 7 (9.86%) Bitbucket Server
9 7 (9.86%) DbUnit
9 7 (9.86%) jMock
9 7 (9.86%) Vagrant
10 6 (8.45%) Postman
11 3 (4.23%) JMeter
11 3 (4.23%) PHPUnit
11 3 (4.23%) REST Assured
11 3 (4.23%) Selenium
11 3 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (4.23%) TestNG
11 3 (4.23%) Travis CI
General
1 26 (36.62%) Public Sector
2 16 (22.54%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.04%) Finance
5 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.41%) Legal
6 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Retail
6 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (39.44%) Developer
2 19 (26.76%) Java Developer
3 14 (19.72%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (16.90%) Senior
5 10 (14.08%) Senior Developer
6 8 (11.27%) Lead
7 6 (8.45%) Lead Developer
7 6 (8.45%) Lead Java Developer
7 6 (8.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 5 (7.04%) AWS Developer
8 5 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Architect
9 4 (5.63%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (4.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Python Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.17%) Spring
2 19 (26.76%) Spring Boot
3 18 (25.35%) REST
4 16 (22.54%) Web Services
5 15 (21.13%) ActiveMQ
5 15 (21.13%) SOAP
6 14 (19.72%) JPA
6 14 (19.72%) RESTful
7 13 (18.31%) Hibernate
8 12 (16.90%) AngularJS
9 11 (15.49%) Bootstrap
9 11 (15.49%) Spring Batch
9 11 (15.49%) Spring Integration
10 10 (14.08%) Spring Cloud
11 7 (9.86%) PowerMock
12 6 (8.45%) React
13 5 (7.04%) YAML
14 4 (5.63%) Elastic Stack
14 4 (5.63%) LDAP
14 4 (5.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.04%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.04%) Replication
3 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.23%) e-Learning
4 3 (4.23%) VLE
5 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 23 (32.39%) Linux
2 10 (14.08%) Windows
3 7 (9.86%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (9.86%) VMS
4 3 (4.23%) Android
5 2 (2.82%) CentOS
5 2 (2.82%) Debian
5 2 (2.82%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (56.34%) DevOps
2 39 (54.93%) Agile
3 34 (47.89%) Containerisation
4 31 (43.66%) CI/CD
5 29 (40.85%) Microservices
6 20 (28.17%) Scrum
6 20 (28.17%) TDD
7 16 (22.54%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (22.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (19.72%) BDD
9 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (15.49%) Cloud Security
11 10 (14.08%) Configuration Management
12 9 (12.68%) Change Management
12 9 (12.68%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (12.68%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (11.27%) Computer Science
13 8 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (11.27%) Decision-Making
13 8 (11.27%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 31 (43.66%) Java
2 28 (39.44%) Python
3 25 (35.21%) SQL
4 12 (16.90%) JavaScript
5 11 (15.49%) Bash
6 9 (12.68%) PowerShell
7 7 (9.86%) Groovy
8 5 (7.04%) Perl
9 3 (4.23%) Go
9 3 (4.23%) PHP
9 3 (4.23%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.82%) R
10 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.41%) Bicep
11 1 (1.41%) C#
Qualifications
1 39 (54.93%) Security Cleared
2 33 (46.48%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.68%) DV Cleared
4 8 (11.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (11.27%) Degree
5 3 (4.23%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.23%) CEH
5 3 (4.23%) CISSP
5 3 (4.23%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) QA
2 4 (5.63%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.63%) NCSC
3 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (14.08%) Postfix
2 7 (9.86%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.04%) DFS Replication
4 2 (2.82%) Dovecot
4 2 (2.82%) Squid
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (56.34%) Kubernetes
2 23 (32.39%) Terraform
3 19 (26.76%) Grafana
3 19 (26.76%) Prometheus
4 13 (18.31%) Ansible
5 4 (5.63%) Nessus
5 4 (5.63%) Puppet
6 3 (4.23%) Kibana
6 3 (4.23%) Podman
7 1 (1.41%) Argo
7 1 (1.41%) Consul
7 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.41%) Rancher
Vendors
1 11 (15.49%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (9.86%) Atlassian
2 7 (9.86%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.82%) Cisco
4 2 (2.82%) Google
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle
4 2 (2.82%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.82%) Sophos
4 2 (2.82%) VMware
5 1 (1.41%) BT
5 1 (1.41%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.41%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.41%) Splunk