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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 49 31
Rank change year-on-year +7 -18 +29
Contract jobs citing Docker 151 69 86
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.27% 4.54% 5.70%
As % of the System Software category 39.95% 26.95% 40.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 45 71
10th Percentile £362 £384 £375
25th Percentile £450 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £587
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £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 378 256 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.20% 16.83% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 156 149
10th Percentile £200 £218 £207
25th Percentile £357 £359 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £580
90th Percentile £638 £608 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £25.84 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.36%
75th Percentile £28.00 - £15.75
90th Percentile - - £21.70
England median hourly rate £60.00 £40.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +50.00% +65.43% -39.55%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +9 81 £500 -6.98% 10
West Yorkshire +7 63 £500 +3.63% 27
East Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 4
North Yorkshire -6 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 15 (9.93%) Confluence
2 2 (1.32%) Apache
2 2 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.32%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.66%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 77 (50.99%) AWS
2 49 (32.45%) Azure
3 43 (28.48%) GCP
4 38 (25.17%) GitHub
5 20 (13.25%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (12.58%) Serverless
7 11 (7.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (5.30%) Cloud Run
8 8 (5.30%) OpenShift
9 7 (4.64%) Apigee
9 7 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.31%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.31%) Vertex AI
11 4 (2.65%) Datadog
11 4 (2.65%) Google Gemini
11 4 (2.65%) Kong
11 4 (2.65%) LangSmith
12 3 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.99%) Stackdriver
13 2 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.31%) 3GPP
1 5 (3.31%) RTP
1 5 (3.31%) Wireshark
2 4 (2.65%) Network Security
3 3 (1.99%) DNS
4 2 (1.32%) Internet
4 2 (1.32%) VPN
5 1 (0.66%) Firewall
5 1 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (25.83%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (14.57%) MongoDB
2 22 (14.57%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.96%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.97%) Neo4j
5 5 (3.31%) BigQuery
5 5 (3.31%) Redis
6 4 (2.65%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.65%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.65%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.66%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.66%) Tableau
7 1 (0.66%) Trino
Development Applications
1 53 (35.10%) Jenkins
2 31 (20.53%) JIRA
3 26 (17.22%) Git
4 20 (13.25%) GitLab
5 16 (10.60%) Gatling
6 14 (9.27%) Maven
7 9 (5.96%) Selenium
8 6 (3.97%) Artifactory
8 6 (3.97%) Gradle
8 6 (3.97%) REST Assured
9 5 (3.31%) Serenity BDD
9 5 (3.31%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (3.31%) TeamCity
10 4 (2.65%) JMeter
10 4 (2.65%) Snyk
11 3 (1.99%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.99%) JUnit
11 3 (1.99%) Liquibase
11 3 (1.99%) LoadRunner
12 2 (1.32%) Mockito
General
1 31 (20.53%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (12.58%) Finance
3 17 (11.26%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.60%) Banking
5 6 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.97%) Police
6 5 (3.31%) Aviation
6 5 (3.31%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (2.65%) Games
7 4 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.65%) Law
7 4 (2.65%) Retail
8 2 (1.32%) Military
8 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.66%) Legal
9 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (39.07%) Developer
2 26 (17.22%) Python Developer
2 26 (17.22%) Senior
3 20 (13.25%) Senior Developer
4 19 (12.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (9.27%) Java Developer
5 14 (9.27%) Lead
6 13 (8.61%) Backend Developer
6 13 (8.61%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (7.95%) Senior Backend Developer
8 11 (7.28%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.62%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (5.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (5.30%) Architect
11 8 (5.30%) Java Engineer
11 8 (5.30%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.97%) .NET Developer
12 6 (3.97%) Lead Developer
12 6 (3.97%) Lead Test Engineer
12 6 (3.97%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.22%) REST
2 25 (16.56%) Kafka
3 23 (15.23%) OpenTelemetry
3 23 (15.23%) Spring
4 21 (13.91%) Spring Boot
5 18 (11.92%) .NET
5 18 (11.92%) Playwright
6 15 (9.93%) FastAPI
6 15 (9.93%) RabbitMQ
6 15 (9.93%) RESTful
7 12 (7.95%) React
8 11 (7.28%) .NET Core
9 10 (6.62%) OAuth
9 10 (6.62%) Vue
10 9 (5.96%) CSS
10 9 (5.96%) Flask
10 9 (5.96%) Node.js
10 9 (5.96%) OAuth2
11 8 (5.30%) AngularJS
11 8 (5.30%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.91%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.95%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.96%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.30%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.31%) PKI
6 5 (3.31%) Robotics
7 4 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.65%) Sports Betting
8 3 (1.99%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.99%) NHS
9 2 (1.32%) Clustering
9 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.25%) Linux
2 7 (4.64%) Windows
3 4 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.66%) Android
4 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (75.50%) CI/CD
2 81 (53.64%) DevOps
3 71 (47.02%) Agile
4 61 (40.40%) Containerisation
5 51 (33.77%) Microservices
6 49 (32.45%) Observability
7 44 (29.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 38 (25.17%) Test Automation
9 36 (23.84%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (17.88%) Software Engineering
11 25 (16.56%) API Development
12 21 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (12.58%) AI
14 18 (11.92%) Code Quality
14 18 (11.92%) Full-Stack Development
15 16 (10.60%) Platform Engineering
15 16 (10.60%) Validation
16 14 (9.27%) Roadmaps
16 14 (9.27%) Scrum
17 13 (8.61%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 75 (49.67%) Python
2 56 (37.09%) Java
3 42 (27.81%) SQL
4 20 (13.25%) JavaScript
5 15 (9.93%) Scala
6 13 (8.61%) C#
7 10 (6.62%) Shell Script
7 10 (6.62%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.30%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.64%) Groovy
10 6 (3.97%) Bash
11 3 (1.99%) Bicep
12 2 (1.32%) Go
12 2 (1.32%) PromQL
13 1 (0.66%) C
13 1 (0.66%) Cypher
13 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 24 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.30%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (5.30%) Degree
4 7 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.96%) QA
2 8 (5.30%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.65%) WCAG
4 2 (1.32%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.66%) HL7
5 1 (0.66%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (4.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.99%) KVM
2 3 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.66%) NFS
4 1 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 116 (76.82%) Kubernetes
2 49 (32.45%) Terraform
3 36 (23.84%) Prometheus
4 35 (23.18%) Grafana
5 25 (16.56%) Ansible
6 12 (7.95%) Control-M
6 12 (7.95%) IBM Guardium
6 12 (7.95%) Nessus
7 10 (6.62%) HAProxy
8 4 (2.65%) Argo
8 4 (2.65%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.32%) Consul
9 2 (1.32%) Podman
9 2 (1.32%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.66%) Kiali
10 1 (0.66%) Packer
10 1 (0.66%) SELinux
10 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.95%) Google
2 12 (7.95%) Tenable
3 10 (6.62%) Splunk
4 6 (3.97%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.31%) Centrify
5 5 (3.31%) CyberArk
5 5 (3.31%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.65%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.99%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.99%) IBM
8 2 (1.32%) New Relic
8 2 (1.32%) Oracle
8 2 (1.32%) Solace
8 2 (1.32%) VMware
9 1 (0.66%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.66%) Temenos
9 1 (0.66%) Trend Micro