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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 70 82
Rank change year-on-year +50 +12 +41
Contract jobs citing Docker 201 40 35
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.10% 2.21% 1.84%
As % of the System Software category 49.39% 20.10% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 27 26
10th Percentile £439 £475 £400
25th Percentile £480 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £612 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.25% +22.40% -16.67%
75th Percentile £592 £685 £639
90th Percentile £738 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -6.56%

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 407 199 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.42% 11.01% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 139 201
10th Percentile £249 £158 £163
25th Percentile £385 £208 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £583 £605 £575
90th Percentile £688 £685 £700
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - £16.82 £17.50
25th Percentile £54.75 £19.23 £17.75
Median hourly rate £56.50 £24.35 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +132.08% +31.59% -23.71%
75th Percentile £58.25 £29.60 £28.38
90th Percentile - £32.09 £28.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.33 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.77% -11.67% +58.42%

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 7 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 7 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 +10 68 £515 +0.10% 24
Birmingham +41 65 £478 -34.14% 21
Worcestershire +9 39 £650 +85.71% 9
Herefordshire +1 35 £650 +6.21% 4
Warwickshire -9 6 £588 +17.50% 5
Coventry -13 6 £275 -42.11% 12
Solihull +6 4 £563 +14.91%
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 6
Staffordshire - 1 £338 - 10
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 (26.87%) SAS
2 26 (12.94%) Confluence
3 14 (6.97%) nginx
4 9 (4.48%) JBoss
5 8 (3.98%) Apache
5 8 (3.98%) OpenStack
5 8 (3.98%) WebLogic
6 5 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.99%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (1.49%) Drupal
9 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (5.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.49%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 89 (44.28%) AWS
2 74 (36.82%) Azure
3 55 (27.36%) GitHub
4 33 (16.42%) Amazon S3
5 31 (15.42%) Amazon EC2
6 29 (14.43%) OpenShift
7 27 (13.43%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (12.94%) AWS KMS
8 26 (12.94%) Serverless
8 26 (12.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 25 (12.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (12.44%) Amazon ELB
9 25 (12.44%) GCP
10 15 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (6.47%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (5.47%) Route 53
14 10 (4.98%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (4.98%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.94%) DNS
2 25 (12.44%) Firewall
3 22 (10.95%) SSH
4 21 (10.45%) SMTP
5 20 (9.95%) FTP
5 20 (9.95%) HTTP
6 11 (5.47%) IMAP
6 11 (5.47%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (2.99%) SSL
7 6 (2.99%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.49%) VPN
9 4 (1.99%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (21.89%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (16.92%) Pentaho
3 27 (13.43%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (11.44%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (7.96%) NoSQL
6 15 (7.46%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 14 (6.97%) Oracle Database
8 12 (5.97%) MongoDB
9 11 (5.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (4.48%) Redis
11 7 (3.48%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 5 (2.49%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.99%) MySQL
13 4 (1.99%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 2 (1.00%) Big Data
14 2 (1.00%) Delta Lake
14 2 (1.00%) Hadoop
14 2 (1.00%) Parquet
14 2 (1.00%) SQL Server
15 1 (0.50%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 110 (54.73%) Jenkins
2 101 (50.25%) Git
3 68 (33.83%) JIRA
4 56 (27.86%) GitLab
5 27 (13.43%) JUnit
5 27 (13.43%) Selenium
6 21 (10.45%) Vagrant
7 19 (9.45%) SonarQube
8 10 (4.98%) Liquibase
9 8 (3.98%) CircleCI
9 8 (3.98%) Eclipse
9 8 (3.98%) IntelliJ
10 7 (3.48%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (2.49%) Bitbucket
11 5 (2.49%) Postman
12 4 (1.99%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.99%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.99%) Gradle
12 4 (1.99%) Maven
12 4 (1.99%) Snyk
General
1 77 (38.31%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.40%) Public Sector
3 14 (6.97%) Finance
4 13 (6.47%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.98%) Banking
6 8 (3.98%) Financial Institution
6 8 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.00%) Aeronautics
9 2 (1.00%) Military
10 1 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 46 (22.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (16.42%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (13.43%) Senior
4 26 (12.94%) Data Engineer
5 21 (10.45%) AWS DevOps
5 21 (10.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 21 (10.45%) Developer
5 21 (10.45%) Platform Engineer
6 19 (9.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 16 (7.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 15 (7.46%) Test Specialist
9 14 (6.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (6.47%) Site Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) Software Engineer
12 11 (5.47%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 11 (5.47%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 11 (5.47%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (5.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 11 (5.47%) Splunk Engineer
13 10 (4.98%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (25.87%) REST
2 36 (17.91%) Elastic Stack
3 21 (10.45%) RESTful
4 17 (8.46%) YAML
5 15 (7.46%) JSON
5 15 (7.46%) pytest
6 14 (6.97%) Kafka
6 14 (6.97%) Spring
7 12 (5.97%) HTML
8 11 (5.47%) Keycloak
8 11 (5.47%) LDAP
8 11 (5.47%) SOAP
9 10 (4.98%) Flask
9 10 (4.98%) XML
10 8 (3.98%) EJB
10 8 (3.98%) Hibernate
10 8 (3.98%) HTML5
10 8 (3.98%) J2EE
10 8 (3.98%) J2SE
10 8 (3.98%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.94%) Cloud Native
2 20 (9.95%) Replication
3 13 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.97%) Public Cloud
5 11 (5.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.48%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.99%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 63 (31.34%) Linux
2 29 (14.43%) Windows
3 21 (10.45%) Amazon Linux
3 21 (10.45%) VMS
4 16 (7.96%) Unix
5 10 (4.98%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.49%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.50%) Android
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (84.58%) DevOps
2 156 (77.61%) CI/CD
3 112 (55.72%) Containerisation
4 96 (47.76%) Agile
5 79 (39.30%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (34.83%) Test Automation
7 60 (29.85%) Data Pipeline
8 59 (29.35%) Analytics
9 56 (27.86%) Infrastructure as Code
10 55 (27.36%) Scrum
11 45 (22.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (22.39%) Deployment Automation
11 45 (22.39%) ETL
12 44 (21.89%) Data Modelling
12 44 (21.89%) Microservices
13 37 (18.41%) Change Management
13 37 (18.41%) Configuration Management
14 35 (17.41%) Data Integration
14 35 (17.41%) Platform Engineering
15 33 (16.42%) Data Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 102 (50.75%) Python
2 80 (39.80%) SQL
3 41 (20.40%) Go
4 28 (13.93%) Java
5 24 (11.94%) PowerShell
6 23 (11.44%) Groovy
7 20 (9.95%) Bash
8 11 (5.47%) Perl
9 9 (4.48%) JavaScript
10 8 (3.98%) Scala
10 8 (3.98%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.49%) Ruby
12 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.00%) PHP
13 1 (0.50%) Bicep
13 1 (0.50%) C#
13 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 130 (64.68%) Security Cleared
2 110 (54.73%) SC Cleared
3 36 (17.91%) Degree
4 30 (14.93%) Azure Certification
4 30 (14.93%) DV Cleared
5 24 (11.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (10.45%) AWS Certification
7 11 (5.47%) Master's Degree
8 8 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (3.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.93%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.47%) NCSC
3 6 (2.99%) QA
4 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (9.95%) DFS Replication
2 16 (7.96%) Active Directory
3 11 (5.47%) Dovecot
3 11 (5.47%) Postfix
3 11 (5.47%) Squid
4 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 157 (78.11%) Kubernetes
2 75 (37.31%) Terraform
3 57 (28.36%) Grafana
4 54 (26.87%) Prometheus
5 45 (22.39%) Ansible
6 22 (10.95%) Puppet
7 13 (6.47%) Kibana
8 11 (5.47%) Nessus
8 11 (5.47%) Progress Chef
9 10 (4.98%) Proxmox
10 8 (3.98%) Argo
11 5 (2.49%) Podman
12 4 (1.99%) logstash
13 2 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (1.00%) Istio
14 1 (0.50%) Consul
Vendors
1 45 (22.39%) Oracle
2 34 (16.92%) Denodo
2 34 (16.92%) Talend
3 31 (15.42%) Microsoft
3 31 (15.42%) Splunk
4 21 (10.45%) ServiceNow
5 11 (5.47%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (3.98%) webMethods
7 6 (2.99%) Google
8 5 (2.49%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.99%) F5
9 4 (1.99%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.99%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.49%) VMware
11 2 (1.00%) Cloudera
11 2 (1.00%) IBM
11 2 (1.00%) Pega
12 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.50%) Databricks
12 1 (0.50%) OpenAI