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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 73 84
Rank change year-on-year +53 +11 +33
Contract jobs citing Docker 203 40 37
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.49% 2.14% 1.93%
As % of the System Software category 50.25% 18.78% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 27 26
10th Percentile £450 £475 £400
25th Percentile £475 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £612 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +22.40% -16.67%
75th Percentile £589 £685 £601
90th Percentile £734 £725 £694
England median daily rate £525 £571 £575
% change year-on-year -8.10% -0.65% -5.74%

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 404 213 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.89% 11.38% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 148 208
10th Percentile £249 £159 £163
25th Percentile £400 £209 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £477 £421
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +13.23% +5.31%
75th Percentile £582 £611 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £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 £31.86 £50.00 £40.16
% change year-on-year -36.28% +24.49% +60.65%

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 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 25 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 +45 68 £475 -34.48% 16
Shropshire +12 68 £515 +0.10% 6
Worcestershire +12 38 £650 +85.71% 3
Herefordshire 0 33 £650 +6.21% 4
Warwickshire -5 7 £588 +17.50% 4
Solihull +8 6 £506 +3.42%
Coventry -14 5 £273 -42.63% 9
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 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 54 (26.60%) SAS
2 28 (13.79%) Confluence
3 15 (7.39%) nginx
4 9 (4.43%) JBoss
5 8 (3.94%) Apache
5 8 (3.94%) OpenStack
5 8 (3.94%) WebLogic
6 5 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.97%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (1.48%) Drupal
9 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (5.91%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.48%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 93 (45.81%) AWS
2 74 (36.45%) Azure
3 52 (25.62%) GitHub
4 39 (19.21%) Amazon S3
5 37 (18.23%) Amazon EC2
6 33 (16.26%) AWS KMS
7 31 (15.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (13.79%) Amazon ELB
8 28 (13.79%) OpenShift
8 28 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 26 (12.81%) GitHub Actions
9 26 (12.81%) Serverless
10 25 (12.32%) GCP
11 16 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (7.88%) Route 53
12 15 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (5.91%) Amazon Glacier
15 10 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (4.93%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 28 (13.79%) DNS
2 27 (13.30%) Firewall
3 24 (11.82%) SMTP
3 24 (11.82%) SSH
4 22 (10.84%) FTP
4 22 (10.84%) HTTP
5 12 (5.91%) IMAP
5 12 (5.91%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (2.96%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.46%) SSL
8 4 (1.97%) Network Security
8 4 (1.97%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (23.65%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (16.75%) Pentaho
3 33 (16.26%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (9.85%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (7.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 15 (7.39%) NoSQL
6 15 (7.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 14 (6.90%) Oracle Database
8 11 (5.42%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.94%) Redis
10 7 (3.45%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 5 (2.46%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.97%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.97%) MySQL
12 4 (1.97%) SAS Data Integration Studio
13 2 (0.99%) Big Data
13 2 (0.99%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.99%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.99%) Parquet
13 2 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 116 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 107 (52.71%) Git
3 69 (33.99%) JIRA
4 56 (27.59%) GitLab
5 31 (15.27%) JUnit
6 27 (13.30%) Selenium
7 24 (11.82%) Vagrant
8 23 (11.33%) SonarQube
9 10 (4.93%) Liquibase
10 8 (3.94%) CircleCI
10 8 (3.94%) Eclipse
10 8 (3.94%) IntelliJ
10 8 (3.94%) Maven
11 7 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (2.46%) Bitbucket
12 5 (2.46%) Postman
13 4 (1.97%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.97%) Cypress.io
13 4 (1.97%) Mockito
13 4 (1.97%) Snyk
General
1 75 (36.95%) Social Skills
2 44 (21.67%) Public Sector
3 14 (6.90%) Finance
4 13 (6.40%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.94%) Banking
6 8 (3.94%) Financial Institution
6 8 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.48%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.99%) Aeronautics
9 2 (0.99%) Military
10 1 (0.49%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 48 (23.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (16.75%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (13.30%) Senior
4 25 (12.32%) Data Engineer
5 24 (11.82%) Developer
6 22 (10.84%) AWS DevOps
6 22 (10.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 22 (10.84%) Platform Engineer
7 20 (9.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 15 (7.39%) Test Specialist
9 14 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (6.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 12 (5.91%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 12 (5.91%) Software Engineer
12 11 (5.42%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 11 (5.42%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (5.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 10 (4.93%) Backend Developer
13 10 (4.93%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 10 (4.93%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (27.09%) REST
2 34 (16.75%) Elastic Stack
3 24 (11.82%) RESTful
4 18 (8.87%) Spring
5 17 (8.37%) YAML
6 15 (7.39%) JSON
6 15 (7.39%) pytest
6 15 (7.39%) SOAP
7 12 (5.91%) Hibernate
7 12 (5.91%) HTML
7 12 (5.91%) Kafka
7 12 (5.91%) LDAP
8 10 (4.93%) Flask
8 10 (4.93%) Keycloak
8 10 (4.93%) Spring Boot
8 10 (4.93%) XML
9 8 (3.94%) FastAPI
9 8 (3.94%) GraphQL
9 8 (3.94%) J2SE
9 8 (3.94%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.82%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.84%) Replication
3 16 (7.88%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.91%) Public Cloud
5 10 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.45%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.97%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.48%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 66 (32.51%) Linux
2 31 (15.27%) Windows
3 24 (11.82%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (11.82%) VMS
4 14 (6.90%) Unix
5 10 (4.93%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.46%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.49%) Android
7 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (85.22%) DevOps
2 154 (75.86%) CI/CD
3 111 (54.68%) Containerisation
4 101 (49.75%) Agile
5 78 (38.42%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (34.48%) Test Automation
7 59 (29.06%) Analytics
7 59 (29.06%) Data Pipeline
7 59 (29.06%) Scrum
8 56 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
9 47 (23.15%) Microservices
10 45 (22.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 45 (22.17%) Deployment Automation
11 44 (21.67%) ETL
12 42 (20.69%) Data Modelling
13 39 (19.21%) Configuration Management
14 38 (18.72%) Change Management
14 38 (18.72%) Platform Engineering
15 35 (17.24%) Cloud Security
15 35 (17.24%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 102 (50.25%) Python
2 84 (41.38%) SQL
3 40 (19.70%) Go
4 34 (16.75%) Java
5 27 (13.30%) PowerShell
6 26 (12.81%) Groovy
7 18 (8.87%) Bash
8 13 (6.40%) Perl
9 8 (3.94%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.94%) Scala
10 7 (3.45%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.48%) Ruby
12 2 (0.99%) C#
12 2 (0.99%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.99%) PHP
12 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.49%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 132 (65.02%) Security Cleared
2 114 (56.16%) SC Cleared
3 34 (16.75%) Degree
4 29 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 29 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 22 (10.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (10.34%) AWS Certification
7 11 (5.42%) Master's Degree
8 8 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.78%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.42%) NCSC
3 6 (2.96%) QA
4 4 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (10.84%) DFS Replication
2 18 (8.87%) Active Directory
3 15 (7.39%) Postfix
4 12 (5.91%) Dovecot
4 12 (5.91%) Squid
5 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 152 (74.88%) Kubernetes
2 77 (37.93%) Terraform
3 62 (30.54%) Grafana
4 59 (29.06%) Prometheus
5 42 (20.69%) Ansible
6 20 (9.85%) Puppet
7 12 (5.91%) Nessus
8 11 (5.42%) Kibana
9 10 (4.93%) Progress Chef
9 10 (4.93%) Proxmox
10 7 (3.45%) Argo
11 5 (2.46%) Podman
12 4 (1.97%) logstash
13 2 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.99%) Istio
14 1 (0.49%) Consul
Vendors
1 45 (22.17%) Oracle
2 34 (16.75%) Denodo
2 34 (16.75%) Talend
3 31 (15.27%) Microsoft
4 29 (14.29%) Splunk
5 24 (11.82%) ServiceNow
6 15 (7.39%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (3.94%) webMethods
8 6 (2.96%) Google
9 5 (2.46%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.97%) F5
10 4 (1.97%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.97%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.48%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.48%) VMware
12 2 (0.99%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.99%) IBM
12 2 (0.99%) Pega
13 1 (0.49%) AppDynamics
13 1 (0.49%) Databricks