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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 39 37
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing Docker 143 52 73
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 7.56% 4.73% 4.10%
As % of the System Software category 47.99% 31.90% 25.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 36 59
10th Percentile £400 £381 £400
25th Percentile £438 £409 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% -13.79%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £600
90th Percentile £589 £700 £644
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £68.63
% change year-on-year +11.67% -12.57% -1.96%

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 298 163 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.76% 14.83% 16.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 110 218
10th Percentile £200 £199 £189
25th Percentile £365 £263 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -1.16% +1.18%
75th Percentile £537 £547 £569
90th Percentile £588 £650 £627
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £26.81 - £16.17
25th Percentile £27.65 £20.50 £17.22
Median hourly rate £29.68 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.33% +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £31.08 £21.50 £22.00
90th Percentile £31.55 - £30.00
England median hourly rate £48.11 £28.71 £46.18
% change year-on-year +67.60% -37.84% +82.89%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 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
South Yorkshire -4 71 £500 -19.16% 113
West Yorkshire +11 68 £500 +17.65% 195
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 45
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 (2.80%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.40%) Apache
3 1 (0.70%) Confluence
3 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (68.53%) AWS
2 65 (45.45%) GCP
3 57 (39.86%) Azure
4 49 (34.27%) Serverless
5 26 (18.18%) GitHub
6 24 (16.78%) Amazon S3
7 19 (13.29%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (11.19%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (10.49%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (9.79%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (9.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (6.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (6.29%) AWS KMS
14 6 (4.20%) Amazon ELB
14 6 (4.20%) Azure AKS
14 6 (4.20%) Azure Functions
15 5 (3.50%) Apigee
15 5 (3.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (20.28%) Firewall
2 15 (10.49%) DNS
3 11 (7.69%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.90%) VPN
5 5 (3.50%) Network Security
5 5 (3.50%) SSL
6 1 (0.70%) FTP
6 1 (0.70%) HTTP
6 1 (0.70%) VLAN
6 1 (0.70%) VSAN
6 1 (0.70%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 36 (25.17%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.99%) DynamoDB
3 10 (6.99%) MongoDB
3 10 (6.99%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.20%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.10%) Redis
7 2 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.70%) MySQL
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.70%) Power BI
8 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 60 (41.96%) Jenkins
2 45 (31.47%) GitLab
3 32 (22.38%) Git
4 24 (16.78%) Liquibase
5 18 (12.59%) JIRA
6 6 (4.20%) Jaeger
7 4 (2.80%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.80%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.80%) Maven
8 3 (2.10%) Mocha
8 3 (2.10%) Selenium
8 3 (2.10%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.10%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.40%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.70%) Gradle
10 1 (0.70%) TestNG
10 1 (0.70%) Travis CI
General
1 54 (37.76%) Social Skills
2 43 (30.07%) Finance
3 35 (24.48%) Banking
4 26 (18.18%) Financial Institution
5 16 (11.19%) Public Sector
6 15 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.20%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.10%) Law
9 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Local Government
10 1 (0.70%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (23.78%) Senior
1 34 (23.78%) Software Engineer
2 31 (21.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (20.28%) Developer
4 19 (13.29%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (10.49%) Senior Software Engineer
6 13 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
6 13 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 12 (8.39%) Python Developer
8 11 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (6.99%) AWS Software Engineer
10 9 (6.29%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (6.29%) Lead
11 7 (4.90%) Architect
12 6 (4.20%) .NET Software Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (4.20%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) NetBackup Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) Python Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (27.97%) RESTful
2 37 (25.87%) REST
3 29 (20.28%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (15.38%) Node.js
5 21 (14.69%) React
6 18 (12.59%) OpenTelemetry
7 16 (11.19%) FastAPI
8 14 (9.79%) .NET
9 13 (9.09%) Kafka
10 12 (8.39%) Spring Boot
11 9 (6.29%) Jest
12 8 (5.59%) AngularJS
13 7 (4.90%) .NET Core
13 7 (4.90%) FHIR
13 7 (4.90%) Spring
14 6 (4.20%) CSS
14 6 (4.20%) Django
14 6 (4.20%) Flask
14 6 (4.20%) HTML
15 5 (3.50%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 29 (20.28%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (18.18%) Public Cloud
4 11 (7.69%) NHS
5 8 (5.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.50%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.50%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.10%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.40%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.40%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.70%) CUDA
10 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 54 (37.76%) Linux
2 9 (6.29%) Windows
3 5 (3.50%) Unix
4 3 (2.10%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.70%) CentOS
6 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (73.43%) CI/CD
2 92 (64.34%) DevOps
3 85 (59.44%) Containerisation
4 69 (48.25%) Agile
5 68 (47.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (35.66%) Microservices
7 46 (32.17%) Software Engineering
8 36 (25.17%) Root Cause Analysis
9 31 (21.68%) High Availability
10 29 (20.28%) Computer Science
10 29 (20.28%) Infrastructure Automation
10 29 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (19.58%) Mentoring
12 27 (18.88%) Cybersecurity
13 25 (17.48%) Data Security
14 24 (16.78%) Observability
15 22 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
16 21 (14.69%) Change Management
16 21 (14.69%) Continuous Delivery
16 21 (14.69%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 86 (60.14%) Python
2 35 (24.48%) Java
3 31 (21.68%) Go
4 28 (19.58%) Bash
5 27 (18.88%) SQL
6 15 (10.49%) C#
6 15 (10.49%) TypeScript
7 13 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 13 (9.09%) PowerShell
8 8 (5.59%) Shell Script
9 6 (4.20%) Rust
10 5 (3.50%) Bicep
11 4 (2.80%) Groovy
12 3 (2.10%) Delphi
12 3 (2.10%) PHP
13 2 (1.40%) C++
14 1 (0.70%) C
14 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 30 (20.98%) Degree
2 24 (16.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 24 (16.78%) Master's Degree
3 20 (13.99%) Security Cleared
4 14 (9.79%) AWS Certification
5 11 (7.69%) SC Cleared
6 9 (6.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.80%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.10%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (2.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.40%) CCSP
9 2 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.40%) CISSP
10 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.70%) CSPO
10 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.70%) OCP
10 1 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.20%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.50%) HL7
2 5 (3.50%) SLA
3 4 (2.80%) QA
4 3 (2.10%) WCAG
5 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.40%) GDPR
5 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.40%) NIST
5 2 (1.40%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.40%) PSD2
System Software
1 7 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.10%) KVM
3 1 (0.70%) Ceph
3 1 (0.70%) QEMU
3 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.70%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (69.93%) Kubernetes
2 78 (54.55%) Terraform
3 52 (36.36%) Grafana
4 50 (34.97%) Ansible
5 48 (33.57%) Prometheus
6 10 (6.99%) Control-M
6 10 (6.99%) IBM Guardium
6 10 (6.99%) Nessus
7 6 (4.20%) NetBackup
7 6 (4.20%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (3.50%) Kiali
8 5 (3.50%) Packer
9 3 (2.10%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.10%) Puppet
10 2 (1.40%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.70%) Kibana
11 1 (0.70%) logstash
11 1 (0.70%) Podman
11 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (26.57%) Splunk
2 23 (16.08%) Google
3 12 (8.39%) Microsoft
4 11 (7.69%) Oracle
5 10 (6.99%) Tenable
6 8 (5.59%) VMware
7 7 (4.90%) F5
7 7 (4.90%) Palo Alto
8 6 (4.20%) Brio
8 6 (4.20%) CheckPoint
8 6 (4.20%) CyberArk
8 6 (4.20%) Veritas
9 4 (2.80%) AppDynamics
10 3 (2.10%) Databricks
10 3 (2.10%) SAP
10 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.40%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.40%) Zscaler
12 1 (0.70%) CloudEndure
12 1 (0.70%) Dynatrace