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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 67 78
Rank change year-on-year +47 +11 +35
Contract jobs citing Docker 212 38 31
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 8.97% 2.39% 1.73%
As % of the System Software category 52.61% 20.77% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 22 26
10th Percentile £413 £475 £317
25th Percentile £484 £489 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £685 £563
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 403 183 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.05% 11.52% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 124 152
10th Percentile £212 £160 £162
25th Percentile £360 £200 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £490 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.10% +15.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £616 £535
90th Percentile £683 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -7.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 6
10th Percentile - - £17.63
25th Percentile - £15.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £18.13 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - -2.00% -23.71%
75th Percentile - - £19.25
90th Percentile - £27.50 £19.60
England median hourly rate £37.97 £28.71 £43.84
% change year-on-year +32.28% -34.52% +13.87%

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 22 January 2026.

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 22 January 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 +9 68 £515 -1.90% 8
Birmingham +43 66 £525 -27.59% 17
Worcestershire +7 39 £650 +85.71% 7
Herefordshire 0 39 £650 +6.21% 2
Warwickshire 0 14 £306 -38.75% 4
Coventry -14 5 £273 -42.63% 3
Solihull -1 3 £569 +16.19%
Staffordshire +2 1 £338 -38.64% 4
Bilston - 1 £550 -
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 1
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 58 (27.36%) SAS
2 20 (9.43%) Confluence
3 13 (6.13%) nginx
4 9 (4.25%) OpenStack
5 8 (3.77%) Apache
5 8 (3.77%) JBoss
5 8 (3.77%) WebLogic
6 4 (1.89%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (1.42%) Drupal
8 1 (0.47%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (4.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.47%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 89 (41.98%) AWS
2 80 (37.74%) Azure
3 56 (26.42%) GitHub
4 33 (15.57%) OpenShift
5 31 (14.62%) GCP
6 29 (13.68%) Serverless
7 28 (13.21%) Amazon S3
8 27 (12.74%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (12.74%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (9.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 19 (8.96%) Amazon ELB
10 19 (8.96%) AWS KMS
11 18 (8.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (6.13%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (5.66%) Datadog
14 11 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.49%) DNS
1 18 (8.49%) Firewall
2 14 (6.60%) FTP
2 14 (6.60%) HTTP
2 14 (6.60%) SMTP
2 14 (6.60%) SSH
3 9 (4.25%) IMAP
3 9 (4.25%) OpenLDAP
4 6 (2.83%) VPN
5 5 (2.36%) Network Security
5 5 (2.36%) SSL
6 4 (1.89%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.47%) AMQP
7 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (19.34%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (17.92%) Pentaho
3 28 (13.21%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (10.85%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (7.08%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 14 (6.60%) NoSQL
6 14 (6.60%) Oracle Database
7 12 (5.66%) MongoDB
8 10 (4.72%) Redis
9 9 (4.25%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (3.30%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 5 (2.36%) MySQL
11 5 (2.36%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.89%) SAS Data Integration Studio
13 3 (1.42%) InfluxDB
14 1 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
14 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.47%) Impala
14 1 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 112 (52.83%) Jenkins
2 99 (46.70%) Git
3 63 (29.72%) JIRA
4 56 (26.42%) GitLab
5 28 (13.21%) JUnit
5 28 (13.21%) Selenium
6 17 (8.02%) SonarQube
7 14 (6.60%) Vagrant
8 10 (4.72%) Liquibase
9 9 (4.25%) CircleCI
10 8 (3.77%) Eclipse
10 8 (3.77%) IntelliJ
11 6 (2.83%) Postman
12 5 (2.36%) Artifactory
12 5 (2.36%) Bitbucket
12 5 (2.36%) Gradle
12 5 (2.36%) Maven
12 5 (2.36%) Snyk
12 5 (2.36%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (2.36%) webpack
General
1 87 (41.04%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.09%) Public Sector
3 25 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.60%) Finance
5 12 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.25%) Banking
7 8 (3.77%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.94%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.94%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 40 (18.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (13.21%) Data Engineer
3 27 (12.74%) AWS Engineer
4 26 (12.26%) Senior
4 26 (12.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 23 (10.85%) Site Engineer
6 21 (9.91%) Developer
7 17 (8.02%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (8.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 17 (8.02%) Splunk Engineer
8 16 (7.55%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (7.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (7.08%) Test Specialist
10 14 (6.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (5.66%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 12 (5.66%) Software Engineer
12 11 (5.19%) Backend Developer
12 11 (5.19%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (5.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 10 (4.72%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (26.42%) REST
2 39 (18.40%) Elastic Stack
3 20 (9.43%) RESTful
4 19 (8.96%) YAML
5 17 (8.02%) JSON
6 15 (7.08%) pytest
7 14 (6.60%) Kafka
8 13 (6.13%) HTML
8 13 (6.13%) Spring
9 11 (5.19%) Keycloak
9 11 (5.19%) SOAP
10 10 (4.72%) XML
11 9 (4.25%) FastAPI
11 9 (4.25%) Flask
11 9 (4.25%) GraphQL
11 9 (4.25%) HTML5
11 9 (4.25%) LDAP
11 9 (4.25%) WebSockets
12 8 (3.77%) gRPC
12 8 (3.77%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.08%) Management Information System
3 14 (6.60%) Replication
4 12 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (5.66%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.36%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 64 (30.19%) Linux
2 22 (10.38%) Unix
3 21 (9.91%) Windows
4 14 (6.60%) Amazon Linux
4 14 (6.60%) VMS
5 9 (4.25%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (84.43%) DevOps
2 168 (79.25%) CI/CD
3 116 (54.72%) Containerisation
4 99 (46.70%) Agile
5 87 (41.04%) Problem-Solving
6 75 (35.38%) Test Automation
7 65 (30.66%) Analytics
8 64 (30.19%) Data Pipeline
9 62 (29.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 58 (27.36%) Scrum
11 54 (25.47%) Data Modelling
12 49 (23.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 48 (22.64%) Deployment Automation
14 47 (22.17%) ETL
14 47 (22.17%) Microservices
15 44 (20.75%) Change Management
16 41 (19.34%) Data Integration
17 39 (18.40%) Data Analytics
18 37 (17.45%) Data Virtualisation
19 34 (16.04%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 110 (51.89%) Python
2 87 (41.04%) SQL
3 42 (19.81%) Go
4 31 (14.62%) Bash
5 24 (11.32%) PowerShell
6 23 (10.85%) Java
7 15 (7.08%) Groovy
8 12 (5.66%) Shell Script
9 10 (4.72%) JavaScript
10 8 (3.77%) Scala
11 5 (2.36%) Perl
12 3 (1.42%) Bicep
12 3 (1.42%) PHP
12 3 (1.42%) Ruby
13 2 (0.94%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.47%) C#
14 1 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 136 (64.15%) Security Cleared
2 116 (54.72%) SC Cleared
3 39 (18.40%) Degree
4 33 (15.57%) DV Cleared
5 29 (13.68%) Azure Certification
6 28 (13.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (8.96%) AWS Certification
8 11 (5.19%) Master's Degree
9 8 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.47%) CCNA
12 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (16.04%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.19%) NCSC
3 6 (2.83%) QA
4 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (6.60%) DFS Replication
2 10 (4.72%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.25%) Dovecot
3 9 (4.25%) Postfix
3 9 (4.25%) Squid
4 1 (0.47%) HDFS
4 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 172 (81.13%) Kubernetes
2 78 (36.79%) Terraform
3 66 (31.13%) Grafana
4 63 (29.72%) Prometheus
5 52 (24.53%) Ansible
6 29 (13.68%) Puppet
7 18 (8.49%) Kibana
8 14 (6.60%) Progress Chef
9 9 (4.25%) Nessus
9 9 (4.25%) Proxmox
10 6 (2.83%) Argo
11 5 (2.36%) Podman
12 4 (1.89%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (1.89%) logstash
Vendors
1 45 (21.23%) Oracle
2 43 (20.28%) Splunk
3 38 (17.92%) Denodo
3 38 (17.92%) Talend
4 33 (15.57%) Microsoft
5 14 (6.60%) ServiceNow
6 9 (4.25%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (3.77%) webMethods
8 7 (3.30%) AppDynamics
8 7 (3.30%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.83%) Google
10 5 (2.36%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.89%) F5
11 4 (1.89%) Palo Alto
12 3 (1.42%) VMware
13 2 (0.94%) IBM
13 2 (0.94%) Pega
13 2 (0.94%) Red Hat
14 1 (0.47%) Cloudera
14 1 (0.47%) Databricks