Docker Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Docker
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 39 39
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Docker 149 43 71
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 7.39% 4.63% 3.85%
As % of the System Software category 44.74% 27.56% 22.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 27 56
10th Percentile £400 £413 £381
25th Percentile £448 £491 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £504
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +4.22% -8.41%
75th Percentile £538 £622 £604
90th Percentile £588 £695 £638
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £68.00 £27.50 £66.50
% change year-on-year +147.27% -58.65% -2.92%

All System Software Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 333 156 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.52% 16.81% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 101 235
10th Percentile £193 £200 £180
25th Percentile £350 £263 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £556 £525
90th Percentile £575 £625 £615
England median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 13
10th Percentile £26.81 - -
25th Percentile £27.65 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £29.68 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -46.33%
75th Percentile £31.08 - £18.07
90th Percentile £31.55 - £22.00
England median hourly rate £32.93 £28.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year +15.91% -28.98% +3.90%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Docker job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Docker

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Yorkshire

Docker
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Docker.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Docker

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 February 2026. 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
South Yorkshire -7 81 £476 -17.66% 7
West Yorkshire +15 68 £500 +1.27% 26
Docker
England

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 4 (2.68%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.34%) Apache
3 1 (0.67%) Confluence
3 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 93 (62.42%) AWS
2 66 (44.30%) GCP
3 47 (31.54%) Azure
4 39 (26.17%) Serverless
5 25 (16.78%) GitHub
6 21 (14.09%) Amazon S3
7 16 (10.74%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (10.07%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (9.40%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (8.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (7.38%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (7.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (6.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (6.04%) AWS KMS
13 9 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (4.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (4.70%) OpenShift
15 6 (4.03%) Amazon ELB
16 5 (3.36%) Apigee
16 5 (3.36%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (22.15%) Firewall
2 15 (10.07%) DNS
3 11 (7.38%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.70%) VPN
5 5 (3.36%) Network Security
5 5 (3.36%) SSL
6 1 (0.67%) FTP
6 1 (0.67%) HTTP
6 1 (0.67%) VLAN
6 1 (0.67%) VSAN
6 1 (0.67%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (26.85%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (20.13%) NoSQL
3 12 (8.05%) MongoDB
4 9 (6.04%) SQL Server
5 8 (5.37%) DynamoDB
6 7 (4.70%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (4.03%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.01%) Redis
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.67%) MySQL
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.67%) Power BI
9 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 61 (40.94%) Jenkins
2 47 (31.54%) GitLab
3 30 (20.13%) Git
4 22 (14.77%) JIRA
5 20 (13.42%) Liquibase
6 10 (6.71%) Jaeger
7 5 (3.36%) Selenium
8 4 (2.68%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.68%) Maven
9 3 (2.01%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.01%) Mocha
9 3 (2.01%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.34%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.34%) Gatling
10 2 (1.34%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.34%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.67%) Postman
11 1 (0.67%) Spinnaker
General
1 53 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 43 (28.86%) Finance
3 34 (22.82%) Banking
4 23 (15.44%) Financial Institution
5 21 (14.09%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (10.07%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.03%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.01%) Law
9 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Military
10 1 (0.67%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (26.17%) Senior
2 37 (24.83%) Developer
3 31 (20.81%) Software Engineer
4 27 (18.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (12.08%) Python Developer
6 16 (10.74%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (10.74%) GCP Engineer
6 16 (10.74%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (9.40%) Senior DevOps
7 14 (9.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 12 (8.05%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (7.38%) Lead
10 10 (6.71%) GCP DevOps
10 10 (6.71%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 9 (6.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (5.37%) AWS Software Engineer
13 7 (4.70%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 7 (4.70%) Java Developer
13 7 (4.70%) Senior Developer
14 6 (4.03%) NetBackup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (22.82%) RESTful
2 33 (22.15%) OpenTelemetry
3 29 (19.46%) REST
4 24 (16.11%) Elastic Stack
5 23 (15.44%) Node.js
6 21 (14.09%) FastAPI
7 20 (13.42%) React
8 19 (12.75%) Kafka
9 18 (12.08%) Spring Boot
10 10 (6.71%) Jest
11 9 (6.04%) .NET
11 9 (6.04%) Middleware
11 9 (6.04%) Spring
12 6 (4.03%) FHIR
13 5 (3.36%) .NET Core
13 5 (3.36%) Django
13 5 (3.36%) Flask
14 4 (2.68%) CSS
14 4 (2.68%) HTML
15 3 (2.01%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.15%) Cloud Native
2 32 (21.48%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (16.11%) Public Cloud
4 11 (7.38%) NHS
5 8 (5.37%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (5.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.37%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.68%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.01%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.01%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.01%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.34%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.34%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.67%) CUDA
9 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.67%) Life Science
9 1 (0.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 56 (37.58%) Linux
2 11 (7.38%) Windows
3 5 (3.36%) Unix
4 3 (2.01%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.67%) CentOS
5 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (73.15%) CI/CD
2 87 (58.39%) Containerisation
3 86 (57.72%) DevOps
4 71 (47.65%) Agile
5 63 (42.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 56 (37.58%) Microservices
7 43 (28.86%) Observability
8 40 (26.85%) Software Engineering
9 35 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (22.82%) Root Cause Analysis
11 31 (20.81%) Mentoring
12 30 (20.13%) Computer Science
13 28 (18.79%) Infrastructure Automation
14 26 (17.45%) DevSecOps
14 26 (17.45%) High Availability
15 25 (16.78%) Cybersecurity
16 23 (15.44%) Full-Stack Development
17 21 (14.09%) Data Security
17 21 (14.09%) Test Automation
18 19 (12.75%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (61.07%) Python
2 39 (26.17%) Java
3 29 (19.46%) Bash
3 29 (19.46%) Go
4 28 (18.79%) SQL
5 16 (10.74%) JavaScript
6 15 (10.07%) TypeScript
7 13 (8.72%) PowerShell
8 11 (7.38%) C#
9 10 (6.71%) Rust
10 6 (4.03%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.68%) Groovy
12 3 (2.01%) Delphi
12 3 (2.01%) PHP
12 3 (2.01%) Ruby
13 2 (1.34%) Bicep
13 2 (1.34%) C++
14 1 (0.67%) C
14 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 31 (20.81%) Degree
2 21 (14.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 21 (14.09%) Master's Degree
2 21 (14.09%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.38%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.68%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.68%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.34%) CCSP
7 2 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.34%) CISSP
8 1 (0.67%) CSPO
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.67%) OCP
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.71%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.36%) SLA
2 5 (3.36%) WCAG
3 4 (2.68%) HL7
4 2 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.34%) GDPR
4 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.34%) NIST
4 2 (1.34%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.34%) PSD2
5 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 7 (4.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.01%) KVM
3 1 (0.67%) Ceph
3 1 (0.67%) QEMU
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 107 (71.81%) Kubernetes
2 72 (48.32%) Terraform
3 63 (42.28%) Grafana
4 59 (39.60%) Prometheus
5 46 (30.87%) Ansible
6 16 (10.74%) Control-M
6 16 (10.74%) IBM Guardium
6 16 (10.74%) Nessus
7 9 (6.04%) Kiali
8 6 (4.03%) NetBackup
8 6 (4.03%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (3.36%) Packer
10 3 (2.01%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.01%) Puppet
11 2 (1.34%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.67%) Kibana
12 1 (0.67%) logstash
12 1 (0.67%) Podman
12 1 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (27.52%) Splunk
2 19 (12.75%) Google
3 16 (10.74%) Tenable
4 11 (7.38%) Oracle
5 8 (5.37%) VMware
6 7 (4.70%) F5
6 7 (4.70%) Palo Alto
7 6 (4.03%) Brio
7 6 (4.03%) CheckPoint
7 6 (4.03%) CyberArk
7 6 (4.03%) Microsoft
7 6 (4.03%) Veritas
8 4 (2.68%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.01%) Databricks
9 3 (2.01%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.01%) SAP
9 3 (2.01%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.34%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.67%) CloudEndure
11 1 (0.67%) Dynatrace