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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 45 31
Rank change year-on-year +5 -14 +28
Contract jobs citing Docker 150 71 86
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.21% 4.67% 5.64%
As % of the System Software category 39.68% 27.95% 39.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 47 72
10th Percentile £350 £384 £376
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +2.04% -10.91%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £596
90th Percentile £628 £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 378 254 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.13% 16.70% 14.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 159 152
10th Percentile £200 £200 £210
25th Percentile £350 £360 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £465 £492
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -5.39% +7.73%
75th Percentile £551 £550 £584
90th Percentile £638 £607 £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 - - -33.52%
75th Percentile £28.00 - £15.75
90th Percentile - - £21.70
England median hourly rate £61.50 £37.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +64.00% +57.56% -40.50%

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 22 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 22 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 +4 74 £475 -13.64% 4
West Yorkshire +9 69 £494 +3.95% 14
East Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 4
North Yorkshire -8 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 16 (10.67%) Confluence
2 2 (1.33%) Apache
2 2 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 80 (53.33%) AWS
2 57 (38.00%) Azure
3 44 (29.33%) GitHub
4 43 (28.67%) GCP
5 26 (17.33%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (12.67%) Serverless
7 12 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (6.00%) OpenShift
9 8 (5.33%) Apigee
9 8 (5.33%) Cloud Run
10 7 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.33%) Kong
12 5 (3.33%) Vertex AI
13 4 (2.67%) Datadog
13 4 (2.67%) Google Gemini
13 4 (2.67%) LangSmith
14 3 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (2.00%) Stackdriver
15 2 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.33%) 3GPP
1 5 (3.33%) RTP
1 5 (3.33%) Wireshark
2 4 (2.67%) Network Security
3 3 (2.00%) DNS
4 2 (1.33%) Internet
4 2 (1.33%) VPN
5 1 (0.67%) Firewall
5 1 (0.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (20.67%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (15.33%) SQL Server
3 19 (12.67%) MongoDB
4 9 (6.00%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.00%) Neo4j
5 6 (4.00%) Redis
6 5 (3.33%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.33%) Hazelcast
6 5 (3.33%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.67%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.33%) Tableau
9 1 (0.67%) Big Data
9 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.67%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.67%) Trino
Development Applications
1 59 (39.33%) Jenkins
2 28 (18.67%) Git
2 28 (18.67%) JIRA
3 19 (12.67%) GitLab
4 15 (10.00%) Gatling
4 15 (10.00%) Maven
5 9 (6.00%) Selenium
6 7 (4.67%) Gradle
6 7 (4.67%) JMeter
7 6 (4.00%) Artifactory
7 6 (4.00%) Cucumber
7 6 (4.00%) LoadRunner
8 5 (3.33%) REST Assured
8 5 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (3.33%) TeamCity
9 4 (2.67%) JUnit
9 4 (2.67%) Serenity BDD
9 4 (2.67%) Snyk
10 3 (2.00%) Mockito
10 3 (2.00%) SoapUI
General
1 33 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.67%) Finance
2 19 (12.67%) Public Sector
3 17 (11.33%) Banking
4 14 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.00%) Police
6 5 (3.33%) Aviation
6 5 (3.33%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (2.67%) Games
7 4 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.67%) Law
7 4 (2.67%) Retail
8 2 (1.33%) Military
8 2 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.67%) Legal
9 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (36.00%) Developer
2 26 (17.33%) Senior
3 21 (14.00%) Python Developer
4 19 (12.67%) Senior Developer
5 18 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 15 (10.00%) Lead
7 13 (8.67%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) Backend Developer
9 11 (7.33%) Senior Backend Developer
10 10 (6.67%) Software Engineer
11 9 (6.00%) Architect
11 9 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (6.00%) Test Engineer
12 8 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (4.67%) .NET Developer
13 7 (4.67%) Java Engineer
13 7 (4.67%) Lead Developer
13 7 (4.67%) Senior Java Developer
14 6 (4.00%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (33.33%) Terraform
2 30 (20.00%) Kafka
3 26 (17.33%) REST
4 24 (16.00%) Spring
5 21 (14.00%) Spring Boot
6 19 (12.67%) .NET
6 19 (12.67%) OpenTelemetry
7 17 (11.33%) Playwright
8 16 (10.67%) RabbitMQ
9 13 (8.67%) RESTful
10 12 (8.00%) .NET Core
11 11 (7.33%) OAuth
11 11 (7.33%) React
11 11 (7.33%) Vue
12 10 (6.67%) CSS
12 10 (6.67%) FastAPI
12 10 (6.67%) Flask
12 10 (6.67%) HTML
12 10 (6.67%) OAuth2
13 9 (6.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.00%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.33%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.67%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.33%) PKI
5 5 (3.33%) Robotics
6 4 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.67%) Sports Betting
7 3 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.00%) NHS
8 2 (1.33%) Clustering
8 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) Replication
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.67%) Linux
2 7 (4.67%) Windows
3 4 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.67%) Android
4 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (78.00%) CI/CD
2 78 (52.00%) DevOps
3 68 (45.33%) Agile
4 57 (38.00%) Containerisation
5 48 (32.00%) Microservices
6 47 (31.33%) Observability
7 45 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (27.33%) Test Automation
9 32 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 21 (14.00%) API Development
11 21 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (12.67%) AI
13 16 (10.67%) Code Quality
13 16 (10.67%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (10.67%) Platform Engineering
13 16 (10.67%) Validation
14 14 (9.33%) Event-Driven
14 14 (9.33%) Identity Access Management
14 14 (9.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 74 (49.33%) Python
2 56 (37.33%) Java
3 42 (28.00%) SQL
4 21 (14.00%) JavaScript
5 15 (10.00%) Scala
6 14 (9.33%) C#
7 11 (7.33%) Shell Script
8 9 (6.00%) TypeScript
9 8 (5.33%) Groovy
9 8 (5.33%) PowerShell
10 6 (4.00%) Bash
11 3 (2.00%) Bicep
12 2 (1.33%) PromQL
13 1 (0.67%) C
13 1 (0.67%) Cypher
13 1 (0.67%) Go
13 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 28 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.33%) Degree
4 7 (4.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.33%) QA
2 6 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.00%) WCAG
4 2 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.33%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.67%) HL7
5 1 (0.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.00%) KVM
2 3 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.67%) NFS
4 1 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 116 (77.33%) Kubernetes
2 32 (21.33%) Grafana
3 30 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 25 (16.67%) Ansible
5 10 (6.67%) HAProxy
6 8 (5.33%) Control-M
6 8 (5.33%) IBM Guardium
6 8 (5.33%) Nessus
7 5 (3.33%) Argo
8 4 (2.67%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.33%) Consul
9 2 (1.33%) Podman
9 2 (1.33%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.67%) Kiali
10 1 (0.67%) Packer
10 1 (0.67%) SELinux
10 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.33%) Google
2 11 (7.33%) Splunk
3 9 (6.00%) Dynatrace
4 8 (5.33%) Tenable
5 7 (4.67%) IBM
6 6 (4.00%) Centrify
6 6 (4.00%) CyberArk
7 5 (3.33%) New Relic
7 5 (3.33%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.67%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.00%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.33%) Databricks
10 2 (1.33%) Oracle
10 2 (1.33%) Solace
10 2 (1.33%) VMware
11 1 (0.67%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.67%) Temenos
11 1 (0.67%) Trend Micro