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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 74 75
Rank change year-on-year +54 +1 +33
Contract jobs citing Docker 194 38 40
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.66% 2.01% 2.07%
As % of the System Software category 51.32% 17.51% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 26 25
10th Percentile £429 £482 £425
25th Percentile £468 £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £612 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% +22.40% -16.67%
75th Percentile £592 £685 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £695
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%

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 378 217 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.82% 11.47% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 151 211
10th Percentile £224 £173 £160
25th Percentile £400 £300 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £490 £418
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% +17.37% +4.38%
75th Percentile £581 £612 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £17.53
25th Percentile £54.75 £31.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.85% +71.05% +0.74%
75th Percentile £58.25 £33.75 £28.19
90th Percentile - - £28.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £51.25 £43.75
% change year-on-year -41.46% +17.14% +84.21%

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 1 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 1 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 +43 66 £475 -30.28% 15
Shropshire +13 64 £515 +0.10% 15
Worcestershire +13 34 £650 +85.71% 5
Herefordshire +1 28 £650 +6.21% 7
Solihull +6 11 £450 -8.07% 1
Warwickshire -3 7 £588 - 6
Coventry -12 4 £275 -42.11% 4
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 (25.26%) SAS
2 28 (14.43%) Confluence
3 15 (7.73%) nginx
4 10 (5.15%) JBoss
5 8 (4.12%) Apache
5 8 (4.12%) WebLogic
6 6 (3.09%) OpenStack
7 5 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (2.06%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (1.55%) Drupal
10 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (6.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 96 (49.48%) AWS
2 68 (35.05%) Azure
3 44 (22.68%) GitHub
4 43 (22.16%) Amazon S3
5 40 (20.62%) Amazon EC2
6 35 (18.04%) AWS KMS
7 33 (17.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (14.43%) Amazon ELB
8 28 (14.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 27 (13.92%) GCP
9 27 (13.92%) Serverless
10 25 (12.89%) OpenShift
11 23 (11.86%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (9.28%) Route 53
13 16 (8.25%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (6.19%) Amazon Glacier
15 11 (5.67%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (5.67%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (14.95%) Firewall
2 28 (14.43%) DNS
3 24 (12.37%) SMTP
3 24 (12.37%) SSH
4 22 (11.34%) FTP
4 22 (11.34%) HTTP
5 12 (6.19%) IMAP
5 12 (6.19%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (3.09%) TCP/IP
6 6 (3.09%) VPN
7 5 (2.58%) Network Security
7 5 (2.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (26.80%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (18.04%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (14.95%) Pentaho
4 21 (10.82%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (7.73%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (7.73%) NoSQL
5 15 (7.73%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 12 (6.19%) Oracle Database
7 11 (5.67%) MongoDB
8 8 (4.12%) Redis
9 7 (3.61%) DynamoDB
9 7 (3.61%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 5 (2.58%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.06%) MySQL
11 4 (2.06%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 2 (1.03%) Big Data
12 2 (1.03%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.03%) Parquet
12 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 114 (58.76%) Jenkins
2 108 (55.67%) Git
3 60 (30.93%) JIRA
4 50 (25.77%) GitLab
5 35 (18.04%) JUnit
6 27 (13.92%) Selenium
6 27 (13.92%) SonarQube
7 24 (12.37%) Vagrant
8 14 (7.22%) Maven
9 10 (5.15%) Liquibase
10 8 (4.12%) Eclipse
10 8 (4.12%) IntelliJ
10 8 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (3.61%) Mockito
12 6 (3.09%) CircleCI
13 5 (2.58%) Bitbucket
13 5 (2.58%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (2.58%) Postman
14 4 (2.06%) DbUnit
14 4 (2.06%) jMock
General
1 70 (36.08%) Social Skills
2 48 (24.74%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.76%) Finance
4 14 (7.22%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.12%) Banking
6 8 (4.12%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.03%) Military
10 1 (0.52%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (25.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (17.53%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (15.46%) Developer
4 23 (11.86%) AWS DevOps
4 23 (11.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 23 (11.86%) Senior
5 21 (10.82%) Platform Engineer
6 20 (10.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 17 (8.76%) Data Engineer
8 15 (7.73%) Test Specialist
9 13 (6.70%) Java Developer
10 12 (6.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 12 (6.19%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (5.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 10 (5.15%) Backend Developer
12 10 (5.15%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.15%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (5.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (31.44%) REST
2 31 (15.98%) Elastic Stack
3 26 (13.40%) RESTful
4 25 (12.89%) Spring
5 20 (10.31%) SOAP
6 17 (8.76%) Spring Boot
6 17 (8.76%) YAML
7 15 (7.73%) JSON
7 15 (7.73%) pytest
8 14 (7.22%) Hibernate
9 12 (6.19%) HTML
9 12 (6.19%) LDAP
9 12 (6.19%) Web Services
10 10 (5.15%) AngularJS
10 10 (5.15%) Flask
10 10 (5.15%) XML
11 9 (4.64%) ActiveMQ
12 8 (4.12%) EJB
12 8 (4.12%) J2EE
12 8 (4.12%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.37%) Cloud Native
2 22 (11.34%) Replication
3 19 (9.79%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (6.19%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.61%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.06%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 64 (32.99%) Linux
2 27 (13.92%) Windows
3 24 (12.37%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (12.37%) VMS
4 14 (7.22%) Unix
5 10 (5.15%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.55%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.03%) Android
8 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (86.60%) DevOps
2 145 (74.74%) CI/CD
3 106 (54.64%) Containerisation
4 99 (51.03%) Agile
5 70 (36.08%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (34.02%) Test Automation
7 62 (31.96%) Scrum
8 55 (28.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 52 (26.80%) Analytics
9 52 (26.80%) Data Pipeline
9 52 (26.80%) Microservices
10 42 (21.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (21.65%) Deployment Automation
11 40 (20.62%) Change Management
12 38 (19.59%) Platform Engineering
13 37 (19.07%) Configuration Management
13 37 (19.07%) Data Modelling
13 37 (19.07%) ETL
14 34 (17.53%) Cloud Security
15 31 (15.98%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 95 (48.97%) Python
2 79 (40.72%) SQL
3 40 (20.62%) Java
4 32 (16.49%) Go
5 27 (13.92%) PowerShell
6 26 (13.40%) Groovy
7 19 (9.79%) Bash
8 13 (6.70%) Perl
9 8 (4.12%) Scala
10 5 (2.58%) JavaScript
11 4 (2.06%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.55%) Ruby
13 2 (1.03%) C#
13 2 (1.03%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.03%) PHP
13 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.52%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 125 (64.43%) Security Cleared
2 108 (55.67%) SC Cleared
3 33 (17.01%) Degree
4 27 (13.92%) DV Cleared
5 22 (11.34%) Azure Certification
6 21 (10.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (9.28%) AWS Certification
8 11 (5.67%) Master's Degree
9 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.06%) 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 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.40%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.67%) NCSC
3 4 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.06%) QA
4 3 (1.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (11.34%) DFS Replication
2 16 (8.25%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.25%) Postfix
3 12 (6.19%) Dovecot
3 12 (6.19%) Squid
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 137 (70.62%) Kubernetes
2 70 (36.08%) Terraform
3 60 (30.93%) Prometheus
4 59 (30.41%) Grafana
5 35 (18.04%) Ansible
6 20 (10.31%) Puppet
7 12 (6.19%) Nessus
8 10 (5.15%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.64%) Kibana
10 7 (3.61%) Progress Chef
11 6 (3.09%) Podman
12 4 (2.06%) Argo
13 2 (1.03%) Istio
13 2 (1.03%) logstash
14 1 (0.52%) Consul
14 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 38 (19.59%) Oracle
2 29 (14.95%) Denodo
2 29 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.95%) Talend
3 27 (13.92%) Splunk
4 24 (12.37%) ServiceNow
5 16 (8.25%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (4.12%) Google
6 8 (4.12%) webMethods
7 5 (2.58%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.06%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.06%) F5
8 4 (2.06%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.06%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.03%) Cisco
9 2 (1.03%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.03%) IBM
9 2 (1.03%) Pega
9 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.03%) VMware