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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 39 95
Rank change year-on-year -5 +56 +3
Contract jobs citing Docker 154 70 20
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.67% 4.77% 0.97%
As % of the System Software category 44.25% 33.02% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 44 19
10th Percentile £350 £415 £275
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £547 £595 £675
90th Percentile £630 £693 £690
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile £75.75 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £78.70 £72.75
% change year-on-year -17.41% +8.18% -1.69%

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 348 212 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.55% 14.43% 9.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 145 150
10th Percentile £212 £187 £184
25th Percentile £326 £375 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £600
90th Percentile £600 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £42.50 - £14.59
25th Percentile £58.43 £31.32 £15.65
Median hourly rate £66.57 £36.65 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.66% +129.03% -13.51%
75th Percentile £75.00 £41.97 £19.95
90th Percentile £75.25 - £22.23
England median hourly rate £52.50 £29.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +81.03% +28.89% -55.00%

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

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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 21 June 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 21 June 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 21 June 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
Birmingham -1 47 £425 -10.53% 5
Shropshire -29 28 £525 +6.33% 3
Solihull -3 27 £475 +13.10% 1
Warwickshire -2 17 £501 -14.72%
Herefordshire 0 13 £625 -10.71%
Worcestershire -3 10 £700 +16.67% 2
Coventry - 9 £450 - 1
Staffordshire -5 1 £313 -43.18%
Bilston - 1 £550 -
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 38 (24.68%) Confluence
2 29 (18.83%) SAS
3 6 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.95%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.30%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.65%) Apache
6 1 (0.65%) CMS
6 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.65%) nginx
6 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.65%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 95 (61.69%) AWS
2 62 (40.26%) Azure
3 57 (37.01%) GitHub
4 44 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (24.68%) Amazon S3
6 35 (22.73%) Amazon EC2
7 32 (20.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (19.48%) GCP
9 24 (15.58%) Serverless
10 19 (12.34%) Amazon SQS
10 19 (12.34%) Route 53
11 17 (11.04%) AWS KMS
12 16 (10.39%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (9.74%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (8.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (7.79%) AWS CodePipeline
17 11 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
18 8 (5.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (29.22%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (14.94%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (11.69%) DynamoDB
3 18 (11.69%) Pentaho
4 17 (11.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (3.90%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.25%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.25%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 4 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.60%) Power BI
7 4 (2.60%) Redis
7 4 (2.60%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 4 (2.60%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (1.30%) Big Data
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.65%) MySQL
9 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 89 (57.79%) Jenkins
2 71 (46.10%) Git
3 50 (32.47%) JIRA
4 42 (27.27%) GitLab
5 36 (23.38%) JUnit
6 24 (15.58%) Selenium
7 19 (12.34%) SonarQube
8 18 (11.69%) Cucumber
9 17 (11.04%) JMeter
9 17 (11.04%) Maven
9 17 (11.04%) Mockito
9 17 (11.04%) WebDriver
10 13 (8.44%) DbUnit
10 13 (8.44%) jMock
11 11 (7.14%) Bitbucket
11 11 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (4.55%) REST Assured
13 5 (3.25%) Serenity BDD
14 4 (2.60%) Gatling
14 4 (2.60%) MLflow
General
1 60 (38.96%) Social Skills
2 37 (24.03%) Public Sector
3 33 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.25%) Finance
6 3 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.95%) Legal
6 3 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.30%) Banking
7 2 (1.30%) Retail
8 1 (0.65%) Advertising
8 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (22.08%) Developer
2 24 (15.58%) Data Engineer
2 24 (15.58%) Senior
3 19 (12.34%) Java Developer
4 14 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (7.79%) Lead
5 12 (7.79%) Scrum Master
5 12 (7.79%) Tester
6 11 (7.14%) Site Engineer
6 11 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 10 (6.49%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (5.84%) Senior Tester
9 8 (5.19%) Automation Tester
9 8 (5.19%) SAS Engineer
10 7 (4.55%) Python Developer
10 7 (4.55%) Senior Automation Tester
10 7 (4.55%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 6 (3.90%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (25.32%) Spring
2 27 (17.53%) REST
3 23 (14.94%) Spring Boot
4 19 (12.34%) Spring Cloud
5 18 (11.69%) AngularJS
5 18 (11.69%) Web Services
5 18 (11.69%) WireMock
6 17 (11.04%) ActiveMQ
6 17 (11.04%) Hibernate
6 17 (11.04%) JPA
6 17 (11.04%) Node.js
6 17 (11.04%) SOAP
6 17 (11.04%) Spring Batch
6 17 (11.04%) Spring Integration
7 14 (9.09%) RESTful
8 13 (8.44%) PowerMock
9 11 (7.14%) Bootstrap
10 10 (6.49%) AWS CDK
10 10 (6.49%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (6.49%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.48%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (15.58%) Cloud Native
3 15 (9.74%) Product Ownership
4 14 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.95%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.95%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.95%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.30%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.65%) FPGA
9 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Verilog
9 1 (0.65%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 39 (25.32%) Linux
2 9 (5.84%) Windows
3 4 (2.60%) Unix
4 3 (1.95%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.30%) Android
6 1 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (83.12%) CI/CD
2 101 (65.58%) DevOps
3 99 (64.29%) Agile
4 86 (55.84%) Containerisation
5 67 (43.51%) Test Automation
6 62 (40.26%) Scrum
7 61 (39.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 57 (37.01%) Microservices
9 49 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (29.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 42 (27.27%) Observability
12 39 (25.32%) TDD
13 32 (20.78%) BDD
14 31 (20.13%) Data Pipeline
15 28 (18.18%) Analytics
15 28 (18.18%) Data Modelling
16 27 (17.53%) Test Strategy
17 26 (16.88%) Data Integration
18 25 (16.23%) Business Intelligence
18 25 (16.23%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 62 (40.26%) SQL
2 41 (26.62%) Python
3 28 (18.18%) Java
4 17 (11.04%) Bash
5 12 (7.79%) PowerShell
6 8 (5.19%) Go
7 6 (3.90%) Bicep
7 6 (3.90%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.25%) C#
9 4 (2.60%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.95%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.65%) C
12 1 (0.65%) C++
12 1 (0.65%) Groovy
12 1 (0.65%) PHP
12 1 (0.65%) SystemVerilog
12 1 (0.65%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 105 (68.18%) Security Cleared
2 89 (57.79%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.69%) DV Cleared
4 11 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 11 (7.14%) SAFe Agilist
5 9 (5.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 9 (5.84%) Degree
6 8 (5.19%) Azure Certification
6 8 (5.19%) CCNA
6 8 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.60%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.60%) PhD
9 3 (1.95%) MCSE
9 3 (1.95%) RHCA
9 3 (1.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.88%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.49%) QA
3 4 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (7.14%) Postfix
2 3 (1.95%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 100 (64.94%) Kubernetes
2 63 (40.91%) Grafana
3 51 (33.12%) Prometheus
4 46 (29.87%) Terraform
5 20 (12.99%) Ansible
6 8 (5.19%) Progress Chef
6 8 (5.19%) Puppet
7 5 (3.25%) Podman
8 4 (2.60%) Kibana
9 3 (1.95%) Control-M
9 3 (1.95%) IBM Guardium
9 3 (1.95%) Nessus
10 2 (1.30%) Argo
11 1 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.65%) Istio
Vendors
1 26 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.69%) Denodo
2 18 (11.69%) Talend
3 17 (11.04%) Jaspersoft
4 16 (10.39%) Atlassian
5 15 (9.74%) Splunk
6 14 (9.09%) Oracle
7 5 (3.25%) Databricks
8 3 (1.95%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.95%) Cisco
8 3 (1.95%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.95%) Tenable
8 3 (1.95%) VMware
9 2 (1.30%) Siemens
10 1 (0.65%) AVEVA
10 1 (0.65%) Google
10 1 (0.65%) Informatica
10 1 (0.65%) New Relic
10 1 (0.65%) Trend Micro
10 1 (0.65%) Xilinx