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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 76 76
Rank change year-on-year +56 0 +38
Contract jobs citing Docker 195 38 40
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.21% 2.01% 2.05%
As % of the System Software category 48.63% 17.35% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 26 26
10th Percentile £433 £475 £400
25th Percentile £468 £498 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £612 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% +22.40% -16.67%
75th Percentile £589 £685 £601
90th Percentile £700 £725 £694
England median daily rate £525 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -5.43%

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 401 219 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.94% 11.56% 15.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 154 209
10th Percentile £222 £164 £162
25th Percentile £378 £315 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £418
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +19.76% +4.38%
75th Percentile £582 £613 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - £17.50
25th Percentile £54.75 £31.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.85% +75.68% -7.50%
75th Percentile £58.25 £33.75 £28.38
90th Percentile - - £28.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -40.00% +14.06% +78.02%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 +44 69 £475 -34.48% 18
Shropshire +11 64 £515 +0.10% 9
Worcestershire +11 35 £650 +85.71% 5
Herefordshire 0 30 £650 +6.21% 6
Solihull +8 8 £506 +3.42%
Warwickshire +2 7 £588 +17.50% 9
Coventry -11 4 £275 -42.11% 9
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 49 (25.13%) SAS
2 28 (14.36%) Confluence
3 15 (7.69%) nginx
4 9 (4.62%) JBoss
5 8 (4.10%) Apache
5 8 (4.10%) WebLogic
6 6 (3.08%) OpenStack
7 5 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (2.05%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (1.54%) Drupal
10 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (6.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 94 (48.21%) AWS
2 68 (34.87%) Azure
3 48 (24.62%) GitHub
4 44 (22.56%) Amazon S3
5 41 (21.03%) Amazon EC2
6 35 (17.95%) AWS KMS
7 33 (16.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (14.36%) Amazon ELB
8 28 (14.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 27 (13.85%) Serverless
10 26 (13.33%) OpenShift
11 24 (12.31%) GCP
12 23 (11.79%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (9.23%) Route 53
14 16 (8.21%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (8.21%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (6.15%) Amazon Glacier
17 11 (5.64%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (5.64%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (14.36%) DNS
2 27 (13.85%) Firewall
3 24 (12.31%) SMTP
3 24 (12.31%) SSH
4 22 (11.28%) FTP
4 22 (11.28%) HTTP
5 12 (6.15%) IMAP
5 12 (6.15%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (3.08%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.56%) SSL
8 4 (2.05%) VPN
9 3 (1.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (27.18%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (18.46%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (14.87%) Pentaho
4 21 (10.77%) Amazon Aurora
5 19 (9.74%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 15 (7.69%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 13 (6.67%) Oracle Database
8 11 (5.64%) MongoDB
9 8 (4.10%) Redis
10 7 (3.59%) DynamoDB
10 7 (3.59%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 5 (2.56%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.05%) MySQL
12 4 (2.05%) SAS Data Integration Studio
13 2 (1.03%) Big Data
13 2 (1.03%) Delta Lake
13 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
13 2 (1.03%) Parquet
13 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 113 (57.95%) Jenkins
2 107 (54.87%) Git
3 60 (30.77%) JIRA
4 49 (25.13%) GitLab
5 35 (17.95%) JUnit
6 27 (13.85%) Selenium
6 27 (13.85%) SonarQube
7 24 (12.31%) Vagrant
8 13 (6.67%) Maven
9 10 (5.13%) Liquibase
10 8 (4.10%) Eclipse
10 8 (4.10%) IntelliJ
11 7 (3.59%) Mockito
11 7 (3.59%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (3.08%) CircleCI
13 5 (2.56%) Bitbucket
13 5 (2.56%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (2.56%) Postman
14 4 (2.05%) Artifactory
14 4 (2.05%) Gradle
General
1 71 (36.41%) Social Skills
2 46 (23.59%) Public Sector
3 15 (7.69%) Finance
4 14 (7.18%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.10%) Banking
6 8 (4.10%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Military
9 1 (0.51%) Aeronautics
9 1 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (24.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (17.44%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (15.38%) Developer
4 25 (12.82%) Senior
5 23 (11.79%) AWS DevOps
5 23 (11.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 21 (10.77%) Platform Engineer
7 20 (10.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 19 (9.74%) Data Engineer
9 15 (7.69%) Test Specialist
10 13 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (6.67%) Java Developer
11 12 (6.15%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 12 (6.15%) Software Engineer
12 11 (5.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 11 (5.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 10 (5.13%) Backend Developer
13 10 (5.13%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 10 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
13 10 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (30.77%) REST
2 32 (16.41%) Elastic Stack
3 26 (13.33%) RESTful
4 24 (12.31%) Spring
5 20 (10.26%) SOAP
6 17 (8.72%) YAML
7 16 (8.21%) Spring Boot
8 15 (7.69%) JSON
8 15 (7.69%) pytest
9 14 (7.18%) Hibernate
10 12 (6.15%) HTML
10 12 (6.15%) LDAP
11 11 (5.64%) Web Services
12 10 (5.13%) AngularJS
12 10 (5.13%) Flask
12 10 (5.13%) XML
13 9 (4.62%) ActiveMQ
13 9 (4.62%) Kafka
13 9 (4.62%) Keycloak
14 8 (4.10%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.31%) Cloud Native
2 22 (11.28%) Replication
3 19 (9.74%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (6.15%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.59%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.05%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 63 (32.31%) Linux
2 27 (13.85%) Windows
3 24 (12.31%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (12.31%) VMS
4 14 (7.18%) Unix
5 10 (5.13%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.54%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.51%) Android
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (85.64%) DevOps
2 146 (74.87%) CI/CD
3 108 (55.38%) Containerisation
4 96 (49.23%) Agile
5 71 (36.41%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (33.85%) Test Automation
7 60 (30.77%) Scrum
8 54 (27.69%) Analytics
8 54 (27.69%) Data Pipeline
9 53 (27.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 51 (26.15%) Microservices
11 42 (21.54%) Deployment Automation
12 41 (21.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (20.00%) ETL
14 38 (19.49%) Change Management
14 38 (19.49%) Platform Engineering
15 37 (18.97%) Configuration Management
15 37 (18.97%) Data Modelling
16 33 (16.92%) Cloud Security
17 31 (15.90%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 96 (49.23%) Python
2 79 (40.51%) SQL
3 39 (20.00%) Java
4 34 (17.44%) Go
5 27 (13.85%) PowerShell
6 26 (13.33%) Groovy
7 18 (9.23%) Bash
8 13 (6.67%) Perl
9 8 (4.10%) Scala
10 5 (2.56%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.56%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.54%) Ruby
12 2 (1.03%) C#
12 2 (1.03%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.03%) PHP
12 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.51%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 127 (65.13%) Security Cleared
2 111 (56.92%) SC Cleared
3 33 (16.92%) Degree
4 27 (13.85%) DV Cleared
5 25 (12.82%) Azure Certification
6 21 (10.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (9.23%) AWS Certification
8 11 (5.64%) Master's Degree
9 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.64%) NCSC
3 4 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.05%) QA
4 3 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (11.28%) DFS Replication
2 16 (8.21%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.21%) Postfix
3 12 (6.15%) Dovecot
3 12 (6.15%) Squid
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 139 (71.28%) Kubernetes
2 71 (36.41%) Terraform
3 60 (30.77%) Prometheus
4 59 (30.26%) Grafana
5 35 (17.95%) Ansible
6 19 (9.74%) Puppet
7 12 (6.15%) Nessus
8 11 (5.64%) Kibana
9 10 (5.13%) Proxmox
10 8 (4.10%) Progress Chef
11 5 (2.56%) Podman
12 4 (2.05%) Argo
12 4 (2.05%) logstash
13 2 (1.03%) Istio
14 1 (0.51%) Consul
14 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 39 (20.00%) Oracle
2 29 (14.87%) Denodo
2 29 (14.87%) Splunk
2 29 (14.87%) Talend
3 27 (13.85%) Microsoft
4 24 (12.31%) ServiceNow
5 16 (8.21%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (4.10%) webMethods
7 6 (3.08%) Google
8 5 (2.56%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.05%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.05%) F5
9 4 (2.05%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.05%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.03%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.03%) IBM
10 2 (1.03%) Pega
10 2 (1.03%) VMware
11 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.51%) Databricks