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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 73 80
Rank change year-on-year +52 +7 +31
Contract jobs citing Docker 202 38 32
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 8.83% 2.26% 1.77%
As % of the System Software category 48.91% 20.54% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 24 26
10th Percentile £410 £475 £400
25th Percentile £473 £490 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £612 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% +22.40% -16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £685 £639
90th Percentile £738 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £554
% change year-on-year -8.70% +3.84% -9.59%

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 413 185 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.06% 11.03% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 130 177
10th Percentile £249 £158 £160
25th Percentile £360 £200 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £582 £608 £550
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - - £17.50
25th Percentile £54.75 £15.22 £17.69
Median hourly rate £56.50 £18.13 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +211.64% -2.00% -23.71%
75th Percentile £58.25 - £19.38
90th Percentile - £27.50 £22.23
England median hourly rate £48.11 £29.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year +63.08% -32.71% +75.35%

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 25 December 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 25 December 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
Shropshire - 67 £515 - 26
Birmingham +40 65 £480 -33.79% 27
Worcestershire +10 38 £650 +85.71% 18
Herefordshire -1 35 £650 +6.21% 2
Warwickshire -4 10 £288 -42.38% 1
Coventry -12 6 £275 -42.11% 20
Solihull +1 3 £569 +16.19%
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 13
Staffordshire - 1 £338 - 17
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 54 (26.73%) SAS
2 21 (10.40%) Confluence
3 13 (6.44%) nginx
4 9 (4.46%) JBoss
4 9 (4.46%) OpenStack
5 8 (3.96%) Apache
5 8 (3.96%) WebLogic
6 5 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.98%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (1.49%) Drupal
9 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (4.95%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 89 (44.06%) AWS
2 76 (37.62%) Azure
3 55 (27.23%) GitHub
4 32 (15.84%) Amazon S3
5 31 (15.35%) OpenShift
6 30 (14.85%) Amazon EC2
7 29 (14.36%) GCP
8 28 (13.86%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (13.86%) Serverless
9 24 (11.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 23 (11.39%) Amazon ELB
10 23 (11.39%) AWS KMS
11 22 (10.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (6.44%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (5.45%) Datadog
15 11 (5.45%) Route 53
16 10 (4.95%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.39%) DNS
2 22 (10.89%) Firewall
3 20 (9.90%) SSH
4 18 (8.91%) FTP
4 18 (8.91%) HTTP
4 18 (8.91%) SMTP
5 10 (4.95%) IMAP
5 10 (4.95%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (2.97%) SSL
6 6 (2.97%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.97%) VPN
7 5 (2.48%) Network Security
8 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (21.29%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (16.83%) Pentaho
3 26 (12.87%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (12.87%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (7.92%) NoSQL
5 15 (7.43%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 14 (6.93%) Oracle Database
7 12 (5.94%) MongoDB
8 10 (4.95%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (4.46%) Redis
10 7 (3.47%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 6 (2.97%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.98%) MySQL
12 4 (1.98%) SAS Data Integration Studio
13 3 (1.49%) Big Data
13 3 (1.49%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.99%) Delta Lake
14 2 (0.99%) InfluxDB
14 2 (0.99%) Parquet
14 2 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 109 (53.96%) Jenkins
2 98 (48.51%) Git
3 64 (31.68%) JIRA
4 57 (28.22%) GitLab
5 28 (13.86%) JUnit
5 28 (13.86%) Selenium
6 20 (9.90%) SonarQube
7 18 (8.91%) Vagrant
8 10 (4.95%) Liquibase
9 9 (4.46%) CircleCI
10 8 (3.96%) Eclipse
10 8 (3.96%) IntelliJ
10 8 (3.96%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (2.97%) Bitbucket
11 6 (2.97%) Postman
12 5 (2.48%) Artifactory
12 5 (2.48%) Cypress.io
12 5 (2.48%) Gradle
12 5 (2.48%) Snyk
12 5 (2.48%) webpack
General
1 84 (41.58%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.33%) Public Sector
3 19 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.93%) Finance
5 13 (6.44%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.96%) Banking
6 8 (3.96%) Financial Institution
6 8 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.99%) Aeronautics
9 2 (0.99%) Military
10 1 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 43 (21.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (15.35%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (12.87%) Data Engineer
3 26 (12.87%) Senior
4 21 (10.40%) Developer
5 20 (9.90%) AWS DevOps
5 20 (9.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 20 (9.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 19 (9.41%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (8.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 17 (8.42%) Site Engineer
8 15 (7.43%) Test Specialist
9 14 (6.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (6.93%) Splunk Engineer
10 12 (5.94%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.45%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (5.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.95%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.95%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 10 (4.95%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (26.24%) REST
2 39 (19.31%) Elastic Stack
3 21 (10.40%) RESTful
4 18 (8.91%) YAML
5 17 (8.42%) JSON
6 15 (7.43%) pytest
7 14 (6.93%) Kafka
7 14 (6.93%) Spring
8 12 (5.94%) HTML
9 11 (5.45%) Keycloak
9 11 (5.45%) SOAP
10 10 (4.95%) Flask
10 10 (4.95%) LDAP
10 10 (4.95%) XML
11 8 (3.96%) EJB
11 8 (3.96%) Hibernate
11 8 (3.96%) HTML5
11 8 (3.96%) J2EE
11 8 (3.96%) J2SE
11 8 (3.96%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.85%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.91%) Replication
3 13 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.94%) Management Information System
4 12 (5.94%) Public Cloud
5 11 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.48%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 62 (30.69%) Linux
2 25 (12.38%) Windows
3 19 (9.41%) Unix
4 18 (8.91%) Amazon Linux
4 18 (8.91%) VMS
5 10 (4.95%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.98%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (85.15%) DevOps
2 159 (78.71%) CI/CD
3 110 (54.46%) Containerisation
4 94 (46.53%) Agile
5 82 (40.59%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (34.65%) Test Automation
7 61 (30.20%) Data Pipeline
8 59 (29.21%) Analytics
9 56 (27.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 55 (27.23%) Scrum
11 47 (23.27%) Data Modelling
12 46 (22.77%) Microservices
13 45 (22.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (22.28%) Deployment Automation
13 45 (22.28%) ETL
14 43 (21.29%) Change Management
15 35 (17.33%) Data Integration
16 34 (16.83%) Configuration Management
17 33 (16.34%) Data Analytics
17 33 (16.34%) Data Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 109 (53.96%) Python
2 79 (39.11%) SQL
3 41 (20.30%) Go
4 27 (13.37%) Bash
4 27 (13.37%) Java
5 26 (12.87%) PowerShell
6 20 (9.90%) Groovy
7 9 (4.46%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.46%) Perl
7 9 (4.46%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.96%) Scala
9 3 (1.49%) Ruby
10 2 (0.99%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.99%) PHP
11 1 (0.50%) C#
11 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 130 (64.36%) Security Cleared
2 111 (54.95%) SC Cleared
3 38 (18.81%) Degree
4 30 (14.85%) DV Cleared
5 29 (14.36%) Azure Certification
6 26 (12.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (9.90%) AWS Certification
8 11 (5.45%) Master's Degree
9 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.85%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.45%) NCSC
3 5 (2.48%) QA
4 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (8.91%) DFS Replication
2 13 (6.44%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.95%) Dovecot
3 10 (4.95%) Postfix
3 10 (4.95%) Squid
4 1 (0.50%) HDFS
4 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 161 (79.70%) Kubernetes
2 72 (35.64%) Terraform
3 62 (30.69%) Grafana
4 59 (29.21%) Prometheus
5 47 (23.27%) Ansible
6 26 (12.87%) Puppet
7 16 (7.92%) Kibana
8 12 (5.94%) Progress Chef
9 10 (4.95%) Nessus
9 10 (4.95%) Proxmox
10 8 (3.96%) Argo
11 5 (2.48%) Podman
12 4 (1.98%) logstash
13 3 (1.49%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.99%) Istio
Vendors
1 45 (22.28%) Oracle
2 40 (19.80%) Splunk
3 34 (16.83%) Denodo
3 34 (16.83%) Talend
4 31 (15.35%) Microsoft
5 18 (8.91%) ServiceNow
6 10 (4.95%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (3.96%) webMethods
8 7 (3.47%) AppDynamics
9 6 (2.97%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.97%) Google
10 5 (2.48%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.98%) F5
11 4 (1.98%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.98%) Red Hat
12 3 (1.49%) Cloudera
12 3 (1.49%) VMware
13 2 (0.99%) IBM
13 2 (0.99%) Pega
14 1 (0.50%) Databricks