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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 58 92
Rank change year-on-year +24 +34 +21
Contract jobs citing Docker 172 42 20
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 5.67% 3.09% 1.05%
As % of the System Software category 44.56% 21.99% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 24 19
10th Percentile £328 £410 £348
25th Percentile £427 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £575 £681 £675
90th Percentile £638 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £72.67 - -
90th Percentile £75.57 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £53.10 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.41% -18.31% -13.33%

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 386 191 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.71% 14.04% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 136 119
10th Percentile £263 £161 £187
25th Percentile £350 £210 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £477 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +19.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £558 £641 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile - £15.22 £14.41
25th Percentile £42.50 £15.95 £15.21
Median hourly rate £63.14 £18.13 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +248.23% +1.85% -3.78%
75th Percentile £67.84 £29.85 £20.90
90th Percentile £73.64 £37.86 £22.61
England median hourly rate £56.25 £28.41 £21.00
% change year-on-year +97.99% +35.29% -57.58%

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 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the West Midlands

Docker
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Docker in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 22 April 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 22 April 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 +11 48 £475 +25.16% 8
Shropshire -11 38 £515 +11.35% 3
Herefordshire +2 23 £550 -21.43% 3
Warwickshire +3 21 £450 -10.00% 2
Worcestershire +4 20 £638 -8.93% 3
Solihull -4 15 £463 +10.12% 1
Coventry - 10 £450 - 2
Staffordshire -2 2 £325 -40.91%
Bilston - 1 £550 -
Wolverhampton - 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 36 (20.93%) SAS
2 30 (17.44%) Confluence
3 5 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.91%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.33%) Apache
4 4 (2.33%) JBoss
4 4 (2.33%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.74%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.58%) CMS
6 1 (0.58%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.58%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 93 (54.07%) AWS
2 73 (42.44%) Azure
3 50 (29.07%) GitHub
4 34 (19.77%) GCP
5 33 (19.19%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (18.60%) Amazon S3
7 29 (16.86%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (11.05%) Serverless
10 16 (9.30%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (9.30%) Route 53
11 14 (8.14%) AWS KMS
12 13 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (7.56%) OpenShift
13 12 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (5.23%) Datadog
16 8 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
17 7 (4.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) Network Security
1 2 (1.16%) VPN
2 1 (0.58%) AMQP
2 1 (0.58%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (27.33%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (14.53%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (13.95%) Pentaho
4 16 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (8.72%) DynamoDB
6 14 (8.14%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (3.49%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.49%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.91%) Redis
8 5 (2.91%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 4 (2.33%) Power BI
9 4 (2.33%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 4 (2.33%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 3 (1.74%) Big Data
10 3 (1.74%) InfluxDB
10 3 (1.74%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.74%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.16%) MySQL
12 1 (0.58%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 82 (47.67%) Jenkins
2 80 (46.51%) Git
3 53 (30.81%) JIRA
4 36 (20.93%) JUnit
5 33 (19.19%) GitLab
6 23 (13.37%) Selenium
7 16 (9.30%) SonarQube
8 15 (8.72%) Cucumber
8 15 (8.72%) Maven
9 14 (8.14%) JMeter
9 14 (8.14%) Mockito
9 14 (8.14%) WebDriver
10 11 (6.40%) DbUnit
10 11 (6.40%) jMock
11 9 (5.23%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (2.91%) Bitbucket
13 4 (2.33%) CircleCI
13 4 (2.33%) Eclipse
13 4 (2.33%) IntelliJ
13 4 (2.33%) MLflow
General
1 66 (38.37%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.51%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (16.28%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.49%) Finance
6 4 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.74%) Banking
7 3 (1.74%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.16%) Aeronautics
8 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.16%) Retail
9 1 (0.58%) Advertising
9 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.58%) Legal
9 1 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (20.93%) Data Engineer
2 32 (18.60%) Developer
3 27 (15.70%) Senior
4 19 (11.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 18 (10.47%) Site Engineer
6 17 (9.88%) Java Developer
7 12 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (5.81%) SAS Engineer
8 10 (5.81%) Tester
9 9 (5.23%) Lead
9 9 (5.23%) Splunk Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Automation Tester
11 7 (4.07%) Python Developer
11 7 (4.07%) Senior Automation Tester
11 7 (4.07%) Senior Tester
11 7 (4.07%) Software Engineer
12 6 (3.49%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.49%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (3.49%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (21.51%) Spring
2 33 (19.19%) REST
3 19 (11.05%) Spring Boot
4 18 (10.47%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (10.47%) Hibernate
4 18 (10.47%) SOAP
5 16 (9.30%) AngularJS
6 15 (8.72%) Node.js
6 15 (8.72%) Spring Cloud
6 15 (8.72%) Web Services
6 15 (8.72%) WireMock
7 14 (8.14%) ActiveMQ
7 14 (8.14%) JPA
7 14 (8.14%) RESTful
7 14 (8.14%) Spring Batch
7 14 (8.14%) Spring Integration
8 12 (6.98%) Kafka
9 11 (6.40%) PowerMock
10 9 (5.23%) .NET
10 9 (5.23%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.12%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (12.79%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.40%) Distributed Architecture
3 11 (6.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (6.40%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.74%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.74%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.16%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.16%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.58%) FPGA
8 1 (0.58%) Verilog
8 1 (0.58%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 46 (26.74%) Linux
2 13 (7.56%) Windows
3 12 (6.98%) Unix
4 5 (2.91%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.16%) Android
6 1 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (79.07%) CI/CD
2 111 (64.53%) DevOps
3 99 (57.56%) Agile
4 92 (53.49%) Containerisation
5 65 (37.79%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (34.88%) Scrum
7 58 (33.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 57 (33.14%) Microservices
9 55 (31.98%) Test Automation
10 48 (27.91%) Observability
11 43 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
12 42 (24.42%) Infrastructure as Code
13 38 (22.09%) Data Modelling
14 37 (21.51%) Analytics
15 35 (20.35%) TDD
16 34 (19.77%) ETL
17 32 (18.60%) Deployment Automation
18 31 (18.02%) Data Integration
19 30 (17.44%) Business Intelligence
20 29 (16.86%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 74 (43.02%) SQL
2 59 (34.30%) Python
3 27 (15.70%) Java
4 22 (12.79%) Bash
5 19 (11.05%) Go
6 12 (6.98%) PowerShell
7 11 (6.40%) JavaScript
8 9 (5.23%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.91%) Bicep
9 5 (2.91%) C#
10 4 (2.33%) Scala
11 3 (1.74%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.74%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.58%) C
12 1 (0.58%) C++
12 1 (0.58%) Groovy
12 1 (0.58%) PHP
12 1 (0.58%) SystemVerilog
12 1 (0.58%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 107 (62.21%) Security Cleared
2 91 (52.91%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.63%) DV Cleared
4 18 (10.47%) Azure Certification
5 15 (8.72%) Degree
6 14 (8.14%) AWS Certification
7 10 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (4.07%) CCNA
8 7 (4.07%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.91%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.33%) PhD
10 4 (2.33%) SAFe Agilist
11 2 (1.16%) MCSE
11 2 (1.16%) RHCA
11 2 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (17.44%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.81%) QA
3 3 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (5.81%) Postfix
2 5 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.74%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.58%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 129 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 65 (37.79%) Grafana
3 51 (29.65%) Prometheus
4 46 (26.74%) Terraform
5 29 (16.86%) Ansible
6 16 (9.30%) Puppet
7 11 (6.40%) Progress Chef
8 10 (5.81%) Kibana
9 5 (2.91%) Argo
9 5 (2.91%) Podman
10 3 (1.74%) Control-M
10 3 (1.74%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.74%) IBM Guardium
10 3 (1.74%) Nessus
11 2 (1.16%) logstash
Vendors
1 31 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 24 (13.95%) Denodo
2 24 (13.95%) Talend
3 23 (13.37%) Splunk
4 22 (12.79%) Oracle
5 14 (8.14%) Jaspersoft
6 13 (7.56%) Atlassian
7 7 (4.07%) AppDynamics
7 7 (4.07%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.33%) Databricks
8 4 (2.33%) webMethods
9 3 (1.74%) Tenable
9 3 (1.74%) VMware
10 2 (1.16%) Cisco
10 2 (1.16%) Siemens
11 1 (0.58%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.58%) Google
11 1 (0.58%) Informatica
11 1 (0.58%) New Relic
11 1 (0.58%) Xilinx