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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 49 33
Rank change year-on-year +10 -16 +26
Contract jobs citing Docker 150 64 87
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.32% 4.36% 5.48%
As % of the System Software category 38.86% 25.60% 37.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 43 70
10th Percentile £364 £384 £381
25th Percentile £450 £435 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -10.91%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £592
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +0.48% -5.00% -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 386 250 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.69% 17.04% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 156 155
10th Percentile £200 £218 £182
25th Percentile £358 £371 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £557 £550 £582
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 21
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 - £15.19
90th Percentile - - £21.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.57 £22.28
% change year-on-year +54.61% +59.70% -44.31%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +1 80 £500 -9.09% 9
West Yorkshire +11 63 £500 +2.04% 16
East Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 3
North Yorkshire -8 1 £550 -
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 14 (9.33%) 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
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 76 (50.67%) AWS
2 47 (31.33%) Azure
3 45 (30.00%) GCP
4 37 (24.67%) GitHub
5 20 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (11.33%) Serverless
7 11 (7.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 10 (6.67%) Cloud Run
9 9 (6.00%) OpenShift
10 7 (4.67%) Apigee
10 7 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.33%) Vertex AI
12 4 (2.67%) Google Gemini
12 4 (2.67%) Kong
12 4 (2.67%) LangSmith
13 3 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (2.00%) Datadog
13 3 (2.00%) Stackdriver
14 2 (1.33%) Google Compute Engine
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 39 (26.00%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (14.00%) MongoDB
2 21 (14.00%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.00%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.33%) BigQuery
4 5 (3.33%) Neo4j
4 5 (3.33%) Redis
5 4 (2.67%) Hazelcast
5 4 (2.67%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.67%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.67%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.67%) Trino
Development Applications
1 54 (36.00%) Jenkins
2 29 (19.33%) JIRA
3 24 (16.00%) Git
4 22 (14.67%) GitLab
5 14 (9.33%) Gatling
5 14 (9.33%) Maven
6 9 (6.00%) Selenium
7 6 (4.00%) Artifactory
7 6 (4.00%) Gradle
7 6 (4.00%) REST Assured
8 5 (3.33%) Serenity BDD
8 5 (3.33%) TeamCity
9 4 (2.67%) Liquibase
9 4 (2.67%) Snyk
9 4 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.00%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.00%) JUnit
11 2 (1.33%) Flyway
11 2 (1.33%) JMeter
11 2 (1.33%) Mockito
General
1 30 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.33%) Finance
3 18 (12.00%) Banking
4 16 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.00%) Police
7 5 (3.33%) Aviation
7 5 (3.33%) Fire and Rescue
8 4 (2.67%) Games
8 4 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.67%) Law
8 4 (2.67%) Retail
9 2 (1.33%) Military
9 2 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.67%) Legal
10 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (39.33%) Developer
2 27 (18.00%) Senior
3 24 (16.00%) Python Developer
4 22 (14.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (14.00%) Senior Developer
6 15 (10.00%) Java Developer
7 13 (8.67%) Backend Developer
7 13 (8.67%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) Lead
8 12 (8.00%) Senior Backend Developer
9 11 (7.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (7.33%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (5.33%) Java Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) Architect
12 7 (4.67%) Test Engineer
13 6 (4.00%) .NET Developer
13 6 (4.00%) GCP DevOps
13 6 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
13 6 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.67%) REST
2 24 (16.00%) Kafka
3 23 (15.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 23 (15.33%) Spring
4 21 (14.00%) Spring Boot
5 18 (12.00%) Playwright
6 17 (11.33%) .NET
7 16 (10.67%) RESTful
8 15 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
9 14 (9.33%) FastAPI
9 14 (9.33%) React
10 10 (6.67%) .NET Core
10 10 (6.67%) Node.js
10 10 (6.67%) OAuth
11 9 (6.00%) OAuth2
11 9 (6.00%) Vue
12 8 (5.33%) CSS
12 8 (5.33%) Flask
13 7 (4.67%) AngularJS
13 7 (4.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.33%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.33%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.33%) PKI
6 5 (3.33%) Robotics
7 4 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.67%) Sports Betting
8 3 (2.00%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.00%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.33%) Clustering
9 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.33%) NHS
9 2 (1.33%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.67%) Linux
2 8 (5.33%) 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
1 113 (75.33%) CI/CD
2 82 (54.67%) DevOps
3 69 (46.00%) Agile
4 61 (40.67%) Containerisation
5 52 (34.67%) Microservices
6 48 (32.00%) Observability
7 45 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (23.33%) Test Automation
9 34 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (18.67%) Software Engineering
11 24 (16.00%) API Development
12 21 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (12.67%) AI
13 19 (12.67%) Code Quality
13 19 (12.67%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (10.67%) Platform Engineering
15 15 (10.00%) Scrum
15 15 (10.00%) Validation
16 13 (8.67%) BDD
16 13 (8.67%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 75 (50.00%) Python
2 56 (37.33%) Java
3 41 (27.33%) SQL
4 19 (12.67%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.33%) Scala
6 13 (8.67%) C#
7 11 (7.33%) TypeScript
8 10 (6.67%) Shell Script
9 8 (5.33%) PowerShell
10 7 (4.67%) Bash
11 6 (4.00%) Groovy
12 4 (2.67%) Go
13 3 (2.00%) Bicep
14 2 (1.33%) PromQL
15 1 (0.67%) C
15 1 (0.67%) Cypher
15 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (15.33%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (5.33%) Degree
4 7 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.00%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.33%) QA
3 5 (3.33%) WCAG
4 2 (1.33%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (4.00%) 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 51 (34.00%) Terraform
3 37 (24.67%) Prometheus
4 34 (22.67%) Grafana
5 25 (16.67%) Ansible
6 11 (7.33%) Control-M
6 11 (7.33%) IBM Guardium
6 11 (7.33%) Nessus
7 10 (6.67%) HAProxy
8 4 (2.67%) 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 20 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.67%) Google
3 11 (7.33%) Splunk
3 11 (7.33%) Tenable
4 5 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 5 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.67%) Centrify
5 4 (2.67%) CyberArk
5 4 (2.67%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.33%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.33%) IBM
6 2 (1.33%) Oracle
6 2 (1.33%) Solace
6 2 (1.33%) VMware
7 1 (0.67%) New Relic
7 1 (0.67%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.67%) Temenos
7 1 (0.67%) Trend Micro