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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 32 81
Rank change year-on-year -18 +49 +14
Contract jobs citing Docker 141 100 29
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.10% 5.87% 1.53%
As % of the System Software category 42.47% 40.82% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 69 25
10th Percentile £413 £413 £469
25th Percentile £450 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £503 £635
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% -20.87% +11.40%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £675
90th Percentile £639 £640 £685
England median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.11% -5.59% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile £75.25 - -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -1.49% -16.25% +6.67%

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 332 245 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.67% 14.39% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 172 150
10th Percentile £213 £228 £190
25th Percentile £346 £400 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% -4.76% +22.81%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £625
90th Percentile £624 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.95% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 1
10th Percentile £42.50 - -
25th Percentile £58.43 £54.75 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £56.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.74% +253.13% -17.95%
75th Percentile £75.00 £58.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.17 £40.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +50.41% +65.43% -37.28%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Hourly 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 20 August 2026. 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 -33 34 £492 -5.69% 13
Solihull +1 32 £475 +5.56% 1
Birmingham -20 28 £425 -10.53% 31
Warwickshire -1 13 £501 -14.72%
Coventry -12 10 £473 -5.97% 5
Herefordshire -2 8 £700 -
Worcestershire -6 8 £700 +21.74% 3
Staffordshire -4 1 £313 -
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 26 (18.44%) Confluence
2 23 (16.31%) SAS
3 6 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.13%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.13%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.71%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 91 (64.54%) AWS
2 67 (47.52%) GitHub
3 54 (38.30%) Azure
4 53 (37.59%) GitHub Actions
5 37 (26.24%) Amazon S3
6 34 (24.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 33 (23.40%) Amazon EC2
7 33 (23.40%) Serverless
8 25 (17.73%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (16.31%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (15.60%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (14.18%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (12.77%) GCP
13 14 (9.93%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (8.51%) Route 53
14 12 (8.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (7.80%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (7.80%) AWS CodePipeline
15 11 (7.80%) AWS KMS
16 7 (4.96%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) AMQP
1 1 (0.71%) IPsec
1 1 (0.71%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (0.71%) Modbus
1 1 (0.71%) MQTT
1 1 (0.71%) OpenVPN
1 1 (0.71%) VPN
1 1 (0.71%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (22.70%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (11.35%) Pentaho
3 13 (9.22%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (8.51%) DynamoDB
4 12 (8.51%) MongoDB
5 11 (7.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (3.55%) Redis
6 5 (3.55%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.55%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 5 (3.55%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 4 (2.84%) Power BI
7 4 (2.84%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 2 (1.42%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.42%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.42%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.42%) ZAP BI
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.71%) Big Data
9 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 79 (56.03%) Jenkins
2 63 (44.68%) Git
3 50 (35.46%) GitLab
4 32 (22.70%) JUnit
5 31 (21.99%) JIRA
6 22 (15.60%) Selenium
7 18 (12.77%) Cucumber
7 18 (12.77%) SonarQube
8 14 (9.93%) Maven
9 13 (9.22%) Mockito
10 12 (8.51%) Bitbucket
11 10 (7.09%) Gatling
11 10 (7.09%) JMeter
11 10 (7.09%) WebDriver
12 8 (5.67%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (5.67%) DbUnit
12 8 (5.67%) jMock
13 5 (3.55%) REST Assured
14 4 (2.84%) MLflow
14 4 (2.84%) Serenity BDD
General
1 50 (35.46%) Social Skills
2 38 (26.95%) Public Sector
3 19 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.96%) Legal
5 3 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.42%) Retail
7 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (17.73%) Developer
2 24 (17.02%) Senior
3 20 (14.18%) Data Engineer
4 19 (13.48%) Scrum Master
5 15 (10.64%) Java Developer
6 13 (9.22%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (7.09%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (6.38%) Architect
8 9 (6.38%) Lead
8 9 (6.38%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.67%) Quality Engineer
9 8 (5.67%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (5.67%) Tester
10 7 (4.96%) Senior Tester
11 6 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (4.26%) SAS Engineer
11 6 (4.26%) Site Engineer
11 6 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 5 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (31.91%) Spring
2 40 (28.37%) Terraform
3 27 (19.15%) Spring Boot
4 22 (15.60%) REST
5 19 (13.48%) RESTful
6 14 (9.93%) AngularJS
6 14 (9.93%) Playwright
6 14 (9.93%) Spring Cloud
6 14 (9.93%) Web Services
7 13 (9.22%) ActiveMQ
7 13 (9.22%) Hibernate
7 13 (9.22%) JPA
7 13 (9.22%) SOAP
7 13 (9.22%) WireMock
8 12 (8.51%) React
9 11 (7.80%) .NET
9 11 (7.80%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (7.80%) Node.js
9 11 (7.80%) Spring Batch
9 11 (7.80%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 34 (24.11%) Cloud Native
2 30 (21.28%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (17.73%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.38%) Distributed Architecture
5 7 (4.96%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.84%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.42%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.71%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.71%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.71%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 1 (0.71%) Industry 4.0
9 1 (0.71%) IoT
9 1 (0.71%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.71%) Verilog
9 1 (0.71%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.73%) Linux
2 6 (4.26%) Windows
3 4 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.71%) Android
4 1 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (82.98%) CI/CD
2 93 (65.96%) Agile
3 90 (63.83%) DevOps
4 78 (55.32%) Containerisation
5 66 (46.81%) Test Automation
6 64 (45.39%) Scrum
7 55 (39.01%) Continuous Improvement
7 55 (39.01%) Microservices
8 52 (36.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (24.82%) TDD
10 33 (23.40%) Observability
11 31 (21.99%) Deployment Automation
11 31 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (21.28%) Test Strategy
13 26 (18.44%) BDD
14 25 (17.73%) Data Pipeline
15 24 (17.02%) DevSecOps
16 23 (16.31%) Analytics
17 21 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
18 20 (14.18%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 44 (31.21%) Java
2 41 (29.08%) SQL
3 29 (20.57%) Python
4 14 (9.93%) Bash
4 14 (9.93%) PowerShell
5 10 (7.09%) JavaScript
6 9 (6.38%) Go
7 6 (4.26%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.84%) C#
9 3 (2.13%) Bicep
10 2 (1.42%) R
11 1 (0.71%) C
11 1 (0.71%) C++
11 1 (0.71%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.71%) SystemVerilog
11 1 (0.71%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 94 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 76 (53.90%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.77%) DV Cleared
4 14 (9.93%) AWS Certification
5 11 (7.80%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (6.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (4.26%) CCNA
7 6 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.55%) Azure Certification
8 5 (3.55%) Degree
9 4 (2.84%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.84%) MCSE
9 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.84%) PhD
9 4 (2.84%) RHCA
9 4 (2.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.18%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.09%) Accessibility
2 10 (7.09%) QA
3 7 (4.96%) WCAG
4 5 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (4.96%) Postfix
2 4 (2.84%) Hyper-V
2 4 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 92 (65.25%) Kubernetes
2 42 (29.79%) Grafana
3 35 (24.82%) Prometheus
4 17 (12.06%) Ansible
5 8 (5.67%) Progress Chef
5 8 (5.67%) Puppet
6 6 (4.26%) Podman
7 2 (1.42%) Argo
7 2 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.71%) Istio
8 1 (0.71%) Kibana
8 1 (0.71%) logstash
Vendors
1 20 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.35%) Denodo
2 16 (11.35%) Talend
3 15 (10.64%) Oracle
4 12 (8.51%) Atlassian
5 11 (7.80%) Jaspersoft
6 10 (7.09%) Splunk
7 5 (3.55%) Databricks
8 4 (2.84%) Cisco
8 4 (2.84%) VMware
9 2 (1.42%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.42%) Siemens
10 1 (0.71%) Informatica
10 1 (0.71%) New Relic
10 1 (0.71%) Trend Micro
10 1 (0.71%) Xilinx