Docker Contracts in the West Midlands

Docker
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 92 101
Rank change year-on-year +40 +9 -22
Contract jobs citing Docker 47 19 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.43% 1.00% 1.42%
As % of the System Software category 25.13% 12.50% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 18 24
10th Percentile £410 £264 £477
25th Percentile £458 £431 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £619 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.13% +15.12% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £612
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -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 187 152 295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.65% 7.99% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 115 190
10th Percentile £153 £178 £160
25th Percentile £226 £238 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £400 £458
Median % change year-on-year +18.88% -12.57% +14.38%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £550
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 9
10th Percentile - £14.59 £14.70
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.65 £16.23
Median hourly rate £18.13 £16.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.31% -13.51% +10.45%
75th Percentile - £19.95 £50.75
90th Percentile £32.44 £22.23 £52.50
England median hourly rate £28.21 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +34.31% -58.00% +163.16%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Docker in the West Midlands

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 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 14 May 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
Solihull - 10 £420 - 3
Birmingham +15 8 £380 -24.10% 33
Worcestershire - 8 £700 - 9
Herefordshire - 8 £700 - 1
Shropshire - 5 £463 - 16
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 19
Warwickshire - 2 £500 - 8
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 7 (14.89%) Confluence
2 5 (10.64%) Apache
3 3 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (6.38%) Moodle
4 2 (4.26%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.13%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 23 (48.94%) AWS
2 15 (31.91%) Azure
3 10 (21.28%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (21.28%) Amazon S3
4 9 (19.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (19.15%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (14.89%) GCP
6 6 (12.77%) AWS KMS
6 6 (12.77%) Route 53
7 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (6.38%) PaaS
7 3 (6.38%) SaaS
8 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.26%) Boomi
8 2 (4.26%) GitHub
8 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (4.26%) OCI
8 2 (4.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) Firewall
2 2 (4.26%) DHCP
2 2 (4.26%) DNS
2 2 (4.26%) HTTP
2 2 (4.26%) Network Security
2 2 (4.26%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (4.26%) SAN
2 2 (4.26%) SSL
2 2 (4.26%) VLAN
2 2 (4.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.53%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (19.15%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (14.89%) DynamoDB
4 6 (12.77%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (12.77%) Relational Database
5 4 (8.51%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (8.51%) NoSQL
6 3 (6.38%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.13%) Flink
8 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (40.43%) Jenkins
2 16 (34.04%) Git
3 11 (23.40%) Maven
4 10 (21.28%) JIRA
5 9 (19.15%) JUnit
6 7 (14.89%) GitLab
6 7 (14.89%) Mockito
7 6 (12.77%) Postman
8 4 (8.51%) SonarQube
9 3 (6.38%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (6.38%) DbUnit
9 3 (6.38%) JMeter
9 3 (6.38%) jMock
9 3 (6.38%) PHPUnit
9 3 (6.38%) REST Assured
9 3 (6.38%) Selenium
9 3 (6.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (6.38%) TestNG
9 3 (6.38%) Travis CI
10 1 (2.13%) Snyk
General
1 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.40%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Finance
5 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.13%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (42.55%) Developer
2 11 (23.40%) Java Developer
3 10 (21.28%) Senior
4 9 (19.15%) Senior Developer
5 5 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Lead
6 4 (8.51%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) AWS Developer
7 3 (6.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Moodle Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Python Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Product Owner
8 2 (4.26%) Python Data Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Site Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) Spring
1 11 (23.40%) Spring Boot
2 10 (21.28%) REST
2 10 (21.28%) Web Services
3 9 (19.15%) Hibernate
3 9 (19.15%) RESTful
4 6 (12.77%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (12.77%) AngularJS
4 6 (12.77%) JPA
4 6 (12.77%) SOAP
5 5 (10.64%) Bootstrap
5 5 (10.64%) HTML
5 5 (10.64%) Spring Batch
5 5 (10.64%) Spring Integration
6 4 (8.51%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (8.51%) PySpark
6 4 (8.51%) React
6 4 (8.51%) Spring Cloud
6 4 (8.51%) YAML
7 3 (6.38%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (10.64%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.38%) e-Learning
2 3 (6.38%) VLE
3 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.28%) Linux
2 3 (6.38%) Windows
3 2 (4.26%) Android
3 2 (4.26%) CentOS
3 2 (4.26%) Debian
3 2 (4.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (61.70%) Agile
2 23 (48.94%) CI/CD
3 20 (42.55%) Containerisation
3 20 (42.55%) DevOps
4 17 (36.17%) Microservices
5 14 (29.79%) Scrum
6 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (23.40%) TDD
8 10 (21.28%) BDD
9 9 (19.15%) Computer Science
9 9 (19.15%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (17.02%) Task Automation
10 8 (17.02%) Test Automation
11 7 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (14.89%) DevSecOps
12 6 (12.77%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (12.77%) Decision-Making
12 6 (12.77%) SIEM
12 6 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (44.68%) Python
2 17 (36.17%) Java
3 16 (34.04%) SQL
4 13 (27.66%) JavaScript
5 8 (17.02%) Bash
6 3 (6.38%) PHP
7 2 (4.26%) Go
7 2 (4.26%) R
7 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.13%) C#
8 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (46.81%) Security Cleared
2 18 (38.30%) SC Cleared
3 9 (19.15%) Degree
4 8 (17.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (17.02%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.38%) CEH
5 3 (6.38%) CISSP
5 3 (6.38%) ISTQB
6 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.15%) QA
2 4 (8.51%) NCSC
3 3 (6.38%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 32 (68.09%) Kubernetes
2 12 (25.53%) Terraform
3 9 (19.15%) Ansible
4 6 (12.77%) Grafana
4 6 (12.77%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.38%) Kibana
5 3 (6.38%) Puppet
6 2 (4.26%) Nessus
6 2 (4.26%) Podman
7 1 (2.13%) Argo
7 1 (2.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (6.38%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.26%) Cisco
3 2 (4.26%) Google
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle
3 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.26%) Sophos
3 2 (4.26%) VMware
4 1 (2.13%) BT
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.13%) Siemens