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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 54 46
Rank change year-on-year +13 -8 +20
Contract jobs citing Docker 144 38 54
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.91% 3.74% 3.20%
As % of the System Software category 41.38% 20.00% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 24 47
10th Percentile £393 £424 £375
25th Percentile £450 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £659 £615
90th Percentile £588 £711 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%

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 348 190 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.29% 18.68% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 122 191
10th Percentile £230 £186 £178
25th Percentile £358 £279 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £430
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -4.07% +1.18%
75th Percentile £526 £574 £575
90th Percentile £588 £649 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £494
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.33% -5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 23
10th Percentile £28.39 - -
25th Percentile £28.97 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £29.93 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -76.60%
75th Percentile £30.90 - £15.19
90th Percentile £31.47 - £15.64
England median hourly rate £57.63 £27.94 £21.00
% change year-on-year +106.27% +33.05% -58.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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
West Yorkshire +18 72 £500 -14.89% 21
South Yorkshire -12 69 £475 -9.52% 2
East Yorkshire - 4 - - 2
North Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 2
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 5 (3.47%) Confluence
2 3 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.69%) Apache
3 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 77 (53.47%) AWS
2 46 (31.94%) Azure
3 41 (28.47%) GCP
4 38 (26.39%) GitHub
5 24 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (14.58%) Serverless
7 12 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 12 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (7.64%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (6.94%) Apigee
9 10 (6.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (6.25%) OpenShift
11 8 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (3.47%) Azure AKS
12 5 (3.47%) Cloud Run
13 3 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (2.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.50%) Firewall
2 10 (6.94%) DNS
3 6 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.78%) 3GPP
4 4 (2.78%) RTP
4 4 (2.78%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.39%) VPN
6 1 (0.69%) HTTP
6 1 (0.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (29.86%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (15.28%) MongoDB
3 17 (11.81%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.64%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.17%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.08%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.08%) Redis
9 2 (1.39%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.39%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.69%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.69%) Power BI
10 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 31 (21.53%) GitLab
3 29 (20.14%) Git
4 20 (13.89%) JIRA
5 13 (9.03%) Gatling
5 13 (9.03%) Maven
6 11 (7.64%) Jaeger
7 10 (6.94%) Selenium
8 7 (4.86%) Artifactory
9 4 (2.78%) CircleCI
9 4 (2.78%) Gradle
9 4 (2.78%) Liquibase
9 4 (2.78%) REST Assured
9 4 (2.78%) TeamCity
10 3 (2.08%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.08%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (1.39%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.39%) Postman
11 2 (1.39%) Snyk
11 2 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 39 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.75%) Finance
3 21 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (13.19%) Banking
4 19 (13.19%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.17%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.78%) Aviation
7 4 (2.78%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (2.78%) Police
8 3 (2.08%) Law
8 3 (2.08%) Military
9 2 (1.39%) Games
9 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Retail
10 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Legal
10 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (36.11%) Developer
2 28 (19.44%) Senior
3 21 (14.58%) Python Developer
4 19 (13.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (13.19%) Software Engineer
5 16 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 14 (9.72%) Java Developer
7 13 (9.03%) Lead
8 10 (6.94%) GCP DevOps
8 10 (6.94%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 10 (6.94%) GCP Engineer
8 10 (6.94%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.86%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 7 (4.86%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 6 (4.17%) Java Engineer
12 6 (4.17%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (23.61%) OpenTelemetry
2 27 (18.75%) Kafka
3 24 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 22 (15.28%) Node.js
5 21 (14.58%) React
6 18 (12.50%) FastAPI
7 17 (11.81%) .NET
7 17 (11.81%) Spring
8 16 (11.11%) Playwright
8 16 (11.11%) RESTful
9 14 (9.72%) REST
10 9 (6.25%) .NET Core
10 9 (6.25%) Middleware
11 7 (4.86%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (4.86%) Redux
11 7 (4.86%) Zustand
12 6 (4.17%) FHIR
12 6 (4.17%) Jest
12 6 (4.17%) Vue
13 5 (3.47%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.81%) Cloud Native
1 17 (11.81%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.64%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (7.64%) NHS
3 9 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.47%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.78%) Robotics
7 3 (2.08%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.39%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.69%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.69%) Life Science
9 1 (0.69%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.69%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 33 (22.92%) Linux
2 12 (8.33%) Windows
3 5 (3.47%) Unix
4 3 (2.08%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (72.92%) CI/CD
2 81 (56.25%) DevOps
3 64 (44.44%) Agile
3 64 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 52 (36.11%) Observability
5 47 (32.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (32.64%) Microservices
6 34 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (22.92%) Software Engineering
8 28 (19.44%) Test Automation
9 25 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (17.36%) Full-Stack Development
10 23 (15.97%) DevSecOps
11 21 (14.58%) Performance Optimisation
12 20 (13.89%) Mentoring
13 19 (13.19%) API Development
14 16 (11.11%) Incident Response
14 16 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
15 15 (10.42%) Computer Science
15 15 (10.42%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 80 (55.56%) Python
2 57 (39.58%) Java
3 35 (24.31%) SQL
4 20 (13.89%) JavaScript
5 18 (12.50%) C#
5 18 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 16 (11.11%) Bash
7 11 (7.64%) Scala
8 10 (6.94%) Go
9 9 (6.25%) Rust
10 8 (5.56%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.47%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.78%) Groovy
13 3 (2.08%) Delphi
13 3 (2.08%) PHP
13 3 (2.08%) Ruby
14 2 (1.39%) Bicep
14 2 (1.39%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.69%) C
Qualifications
1 29 (20.14%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.97%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.81%) Degree
4 8 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.69%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.72%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.86%) WCAG
3 5 (3.47%) SLA
4 4 (2.78%) HL7
4 4 (2.78%) QA
5 2 (1.39%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.39%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.69%) KVM
2 1 (0.69%) NFS
2 1 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 110 (76.39%) Kubernetes
2 61 (42.36%) Terraform
3 47 (32.64%) Grafana
4 43 (29.86%) Prometheus
5 22 (15.28%) Ansible
6 13 (9.03%) Control-M
6 13 (9.03%) IBM Guardium
6 13 (9.03%) Nessus
7 10 (6.94%) HAProxy
7 10 (6.94%) Kiali
8 4 (2.78%) Packer
9 2 (1.39%) Argo
9 2 (1.39%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.69%) Istio
10 1 (0.69%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.69%) logstash
10 1 (0.69%) Podman
10 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.69%) SELinux
Vendors
1 29 (20.14%) Splunk
2 16 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.03%) Tenable
4 6 (4.17%) Brio
4 6 (4.17%) Oracle
5 5 (3.47%) Google
5 5 (3.47%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.78%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.08%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.39%) Databricks
8 2 (1.39%) IBM
8 2 (1.39%) VMware
9 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.69%) Temenos