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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 76 87
Rank change year-on-year +52 +11 +14
Contract jobs citing Docker 135 38 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.37% 1.99% 1.60%
As % of the System Software category 46.23% 18.54% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 28 17
10th Percentile £426 £475 £425
25th Percentile £463 £517 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £612 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.81% +11.27% -3.93%
75th Percentile £592 £675 £700
90th Percentile £700 £685 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -

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 292 205 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.95% 10.71% 15.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 141 207
10th Percentile £200 £173 £163
25th Percentile £358 £298 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £582 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £725
England median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £17.73
25th Percentile £54.75 - £17.88
Median hourly rate £56.50 £16.00 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +253.13% -28.09% +18.67%
75th Percentile £58.25 - £28.56
90th Percentile - - £28.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £47.86
% change year-on-year +50.00% -47.77% +117.56%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Docker 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 52 £475 -34.48% 13
Shropshire +12 35 £525 +2.04% 6
Worcestershire - 20 £581 - 4
Herefordshire +6 14 £675 +10.29% 4
Solihull +6 12 £475 -2.96%
Warwickshire -3 4 £588 - 1
Coventry -14 1 £503 -22.69% 1
Staffordshire - 1 - - 12
Docker
England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 30 (22.22%) Confluence
2 22 (16.30%) SAS
3 14 (10.37%) nginx
4 6 (4.44%) JBoss
5 5 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (3.70%) OpenStack
6 4 (2.96%) Apache
6 4 (2.96%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (2.96%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.48%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.48%) Moodle
8 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (8.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 77 (57.04%) AWS
2 47 (34.81%) Azure
3 43 (31.85%) Amazon S3
4 40 (29.63%) Amazon EC2
5 35 (25.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 31 (22.96%) AWS KMS
7 27 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
7 27 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 26 (19.26%) GitHub
9 19 (14.07%) Route 53
10 18 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (12.59%) GCP
12 16 (11.85%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (11.11%) Serverless
14 13 (9.63%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (8.89%) Amazon Glacier
16 10 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
17 9 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
18 7 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 28 (20.74%) Firewall
2 27 (20.00%) DNS
3 24 (17.78%) SMTP
3 24 (17.78%) SSH
4 22 (16.30%) FTP
4 22 (16.30%) HTTP
5 12 (8.89%) IMAP
5 12 (8.89%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (3.70%) TCP/IP
6 5 (3.70%) VPN
7 4 (2.96%) Network Security
7 4 (2.96%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (23.70%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (16.30%) Amazon Aurora
4 18 (13.33%) Pentaho
5 8 (5.93%) DynamoDB
5 8 (5.93%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (5.19%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 6 (4.44%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.70%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.96%) Redis
9 4 (2.96%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 4 (2.96%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 3 (2.22%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.48%) Big Data
11 2 (1.48%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.48%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.48%) Parquet
11 2 (1.48%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 76 (56.30%) Git
2 75 (55.56%) Jenkins
3 50 (37.04%) JIRA
4 26 (19.26%) GitLab
5 24 (17.78%) Vagrant
6 23 (17.04%) SonarQube
7 17 (12.59%) JUnit
8 14 (10.37%) Maven
9 9 (6.67%) Selenium
10 7 (5.19%) Mockito
10 7 (5.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (4.44%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (4.44%) Postman
12 5 (3.70%) DbUnit
12 5 (3.70%) jMock
13 4 (2.96%) Bitbucket
13 4 (2.96%) Eclipse
13 4 (2.96%) IntelliJ
13 4 (2.96%) Liquibase
14 3 (2.22%) Gradle
General
1 45 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 41 (30.37%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.15%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.67%) Finance
6 5 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Banking
8 2 (1.48%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.74%) Military
9 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (31.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (20.74%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (20.00%) Developer
4 22 (16.30%) AWS DevOps
4 22 (16.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 22 (16.30%) Platform Engineer
5 20 (14.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 13 (9.63%) Java Developer
7 12 (8.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 12 (8.89%) Senior
8 10 (7.41%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.67%) Lead
10 7 (5.19%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Data Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.70%) Python Developer
12 5 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (3.70%) Site Engineer
12 5 (3.70%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (20.74%) REST
2 19 (14.07%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (14.07%) Spring
3 16 (11.85%) RESTful
3 16 (11.85%) SOAP
4 15 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 12 (8.89%) JSON
5 12 (8.89%) LDAP
5 12 (8.89%) YAML
6 11 (8.15%) Hibernate
7 10 (7.41%) ActiveMQ
7 10 (7.41%) Web Services
8 9 (6.67%) AngularJS
8 9 (6.67%) JPA
9 8 (5.93%) HTML
9 8 (5.93%) XML
10 7 (5.19%) Bootstrap
10 7 (5.19%) Spring Batch
10 7 (5.19%) Spring Cloud
10 7 (5.19%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.30%) Replication
2 13 (9.63%) Cloud Native
3 11 (8.15%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.96%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.22%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.48%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.48%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.48%) VLE
8 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 51 (37.78%) Linux
2 27 (20.00%) Windows
3 24 (17.78%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (17.78%) VMS
4 10 (7.41%) Ubuntu
5 8 (5.93%) Unix
6 3 (2.22%) Android
6 3 (2.22%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (83.70%) DevOps
2 91 (67.41%) CI/CD
3 61 (45.19%) Containerisation
4 58 (42.96%) Agile
5 40 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (28.89%) Scrum
7 36 (26.67%) Microservices
8 35 (25.93%) Configuration Management
8 35 (25.93%) Platform Engineering
8 35 (25.93%) Test Automation
9 32 (23.70%) Change Management
9 32 (23.70%) Cloud Security
10 28 (20.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (20.74%) Deployment Automation
11 24 (17.78%) Analytics
12 23 (17.04%) Data Modelling
12 23 (17.04%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (16.30%) Patch Management
14 21 (15.56%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 58 (42.96%) Python
1 58 (42.96%) SQL
2 36 (26.67%) Java
3 28 (20.74%) PowerShell
4 26 (19.26%) Groovy
5 20 (14.81%) Bash
6 13 (9.63%) Perl
7 12 (8.89%) Go
8 8 (5.93%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.96%) Scala
10 2 (1.48%) C#
10 2 (1.48%) PHP
10 2 (1.48%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.74%) Bicep
11 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 86 (63.70%) Security Cleared
2 75 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 26 (19.26%) Degree
4 17 (12.59%) DV Cleared
5 15 (11.11%) AWS Certification
5 15 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (10.37%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.74%) CEH
9 1 (0.74%) CISSP
9 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.59%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.93%) NCSC
3 5 (3.70%) QA
4 3 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.48%) WCAG
6 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (16.30%) DFS Replication
2 17 (12.59%) Postfix
3 16 (11.85%) Active Directory
4 12 (8.89%) Dovecot
4 12 (8.89%) Squid
5 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 81 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 57 (42.22%) Terraform
3 47 (34.81%) Grafana
3 47 (34.81%) Prometheus
4 27 (20.00%) Ansible
5 13 (9.63%) Puppet
6 12 (8.89%) Nessus
7 10 (7.41%) Proxmox
8 7 (5.19%) Kibana
9 6 (4.44%) Podman
10 5 (3.70%) Progress Chef
11 4 (2.96%) Argo
12 2 (1.48%) Istio
13 1 (0.74%) Consul
13 1 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.74%) logstash
Vendors
1 25 (18.52%) Oracle
2 24 (17.78%) ServiceNow
3 21 (15.56%) Microsoft
4 18 (13.33%) Denodo
4 18 (13.33%) Talend
5 17 (12.59%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (11.11%) Splunk
7 5 (3.70%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.96%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.96%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.96%) webMethods
9 3 (2.22%) F5
9 3 (2.22%) Google
9 3 (2.22%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.48%) Cisco
10 2 (1.48%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.48%) IBM
10 2 (1.48%) Pega
10 2 (1.48%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.48%) VMware