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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 48 44
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +27
Contract jobs citing Docker 143 46 68
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.38% 4.24% 4.04%
As % of the System Software category 39.50% 22.89% 26.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 32 56
10th Percentile £363 £413 £383
25th Percentile £450 £496 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £571 £607 £615
90th Percentile £610 £684 £644
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -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 362 201 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.63% 18.53% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 126 183
10th Percentile £207 £218 £168
25th Percentile £358 £355 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £430
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.65% +10.97%
75th Percentile £538 £574 £576
90th Percentile £588 £625 £638
England median daily rate £500 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 23
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.50 - £15.19
90th Percentile £27.40 - £15.64
England median hourly rate £52.75 £28.46 £22.23
% change year-on-year +85.38% +28.03% -57.37%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -4 81 £488 -7.14% 9
West Yorkshire +9 58 £500 +2.04% 21
East Yorkshire - 5 - -
North Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 1
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 9 (6.29%) Confluence
2 2 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) Apache
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 74 (51.75%) AWS
2 42 (29.37%) GCP
3 40 (27.97%) Azure
3 40 (27.97%) GitHub
4 24 (16.78%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (10.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 13 (9.09%) Serverless
7 8 (5.59%) Apigee
8 7 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.90%) Cloud Run
8 7 (4.90%) OpenShift
9 6 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.50%) Kong
11 4 (2.80%) BrowserStack
12 3 (2.10%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.10%) AWS KMS
13 2 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.40%) AWS CodeBuild
13 2 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.49%) Firewall
2 7 (4.90%) DNS
3 6 (4.20%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.50%) 3GPP
4 5 (3.50%) RTP
4 5 (3.50%) Wireshark
5 4 (2.80%) Network Security
6 2 (1.40%) VPN
7 1 (0.70%) HTTP
7 1 (0.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 15 (10.49%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.50%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.50%) Redis
6 4 (2.80%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.80%) Neo4j
6 4 (2.80%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.10%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.70%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 55 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 35 (24.48%) GitLab
3 31 (21.68%) Git
4 29 (20.28%) JIRA
5 15 (10.49%) Gatling
6 13 (9.09%) Maven
7 12 (8.39%) Selenium
8 11 (7.69%) Jaeger
9 8 (5.59%) REST Assured
10 7 (4.90%) Serenity BDD
11 6 (4.20%) Artifactory
11 6 (4.20%) Gradle
12 5 (3.50%) Liquibase
12 5 (3.50%) TeamCity
13 4 (2.80%) CircleCI
13 4 (2.80%) Snyk
14 3 (2.10%) Cucumber
14 3 (2.10%) JUnit
15 2 (1.40%) Mockito
15 2 (1.40%) Terragrunt
General
1 38 (26.57%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.68%) Finance
3 23 (16.08%) Banking
4 18 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.59%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.59%) Financial Institution
6 7 (4.90%) Law
7 6 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.50%) Aviation
8 5 (3.50%) Fire and Rescue
8 5 (3.50%) Police
9 4 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.10%) Military
11 2 (1.40%) Games
11 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.40%) Retail
12 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.70%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (34.97%) Developer
2 31 (21.68%) Senior
3 24 (16.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (13.29%) Python Developer
4 19 (13.29%) Senior Developer
5 16 (11.19%) Java Developer
6 15 (10.49%) Lead
7 13 (9.09%) Software Engineer
8 11 (7.69%) GCP DevOps
8 11 (7.69%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 11 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
8 11 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (6.99%) Test Engineer
10 9 (6.29%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (6.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (6.29%) Lead Test Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) Backend Developer
11 7 (4.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 7 (4.90%) Senior Backend Developer
11 7 (4.90%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (26.57%) OpenTelemetry
2 37 (25.87%) Kafka
3 27 (18.88%) Spring Boot
4 20 (13.99%) Playwright
4 20 (13.99%) Spring
5 18 (12.59%) React
6 16 (11.19%) FastAPI
6 16 (11.19%) Node.js
7 15 (10.49%) RESTful
8 11 (7.69%) .NET
8 11 (7.69%) REST
9 10 (6.99%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (6.29%) Middleware
11 8 (5.59%) OAuth
11 8 (5.59%) Spring Cloud
12 7 (4.90%) JPA
12 7 (4.90%) JWT
12 7 (4.90%) OAuth2
12 7 (4.90%) Redux
12 7 (4.90%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.89%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.19%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.29%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.59%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.20%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.50%) Robotics
7 4 (2.80%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.10%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.10%) NHS
8 3 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.10%) PKI
9 2 (1.40%) Clustering
9 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.40%) Sports Betting
9 2 (1.40%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (22.38%) Linux
2 12 (8.39%) Windows
3 5 (3.50%) Unix
4 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.40%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.70%) Android
5 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (77.62%) CI/CD
2 91 (63.64%) DevOps
3 65 (45.45%) Observability
4 61 (42.66%) Agile
5 58 (40.56%) Containerisation
6 55 (38.46%) Microservices
7 48 (33.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (22.38%) Test Automation
9 28 (19.58%) Software Engineering
10 25 (17.48%) DevSecOps
11 24 (16.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (16.08%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (15.38%) Incident Response
14 20 (13.99%) API Development
14 20 (13.99%) Mentoring
14 20 (13.99%) Performance Optimisation
14 20 (13.99%) Secrets Management
15 18 (12.59%) Identity Access Management
16 17 (11.89%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 73 (51.05%) Python
2 64 (44.76%) Java
3 36 (25.17%) SQL
4 19 (13.29%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.79%) TypeScript
6 12 (8.39%) Bash
6 12 (8.39%) Scala
7 11 (7.69%) C#
8 10 (6.99%) PowerShell
9 9 (6.29%) Go
9 9 (6.29%) Rust
10 6 (4.20%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.10%) Ruby
12 2 (1.40%) PromQL
13 1 (0.70%) Bicep
13 1 (0.70%) C
13 1 (0.70%) Groovy
13 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 28 (19.58%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.29%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.59%) Degree
4 9 (6.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.79%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.90%) WCAG
3 6 (4.20%) QA
4 5 (3.50%) SLA
5 2 (1.40%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.70%) HL7
6 1 (0.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.70%) KVM
2 1 (0.70%) NFS
2 1 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 115 (80.42%) Kubernetes
2 57 (39.86%) Terraform
3 54 (37.76%) Grafana
4 51 (35.66%) Prometheus
5 26 (18.18%) Ansible
6 13 (9.09%) Control-M
6 13 (9.09%) IBM Guardium
6 13 (9.09%) Nessus
7 10 (6.99%) HAProxy
7 10 (6.99%) Kiali
8 5 (3.50%) Kustomize
9 4 (2.80%) Argo
10 2 (1.40%) Consul
10 2 (1.40%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.70%) Kibana
11 1 (0.70%) logstash
11 1 (0.70%) Packer
11 1 (0.70%) Podman
11 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.70%) SELinux
Vendors
1 29 (20.28%) Splunk
2 15 (10.49%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.09%) Tenable
4 7 (4.90%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.20%) Oracle
6 5 (3.50%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.80%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.80%) Google
8 2 (1.40%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.40%) IBM
8 2 (1.40%) Solace
8 2 (1.40%) VMware
9 1 (0.70%) Brio
9 1 (0.70%) New Relic
9 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.70%) Temenos
9 1 (0.70%) Trend Micro