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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 28 41
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 +6
Contract jobs citing Docker 132 75 77
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 7.35% 5.76% 4.17%
As % of the System Software category 44.59% 35.89% 27.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 55 61
10th Percentile £387 £288 £406
25th Percentile £428 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £605 £588
90th Percentile £598 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -5.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -14.29% +33.33%

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 296 209 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.49% 16.06% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 139 198
10th Percentile £200 £199 £190
25th Percentile £363 £288 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £598 £650 £645
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 10
10th Percentile £26.81 - £16.55
25th Percentile £27.65 £20.50 £17.54
Median hourly rate £29.68 £21.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.33% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £31.08 £21.50 £22.00
90th Percentile £31.55 - £26.00
England median hourly rate £33.39 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -33.23% +33.33% +50.00%

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 November 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 November 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
West Yorkshire +5 71 £500 +25.00% 20
South Yorkshire -5 57 £500 -19.61%
North Yorkshire - 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 4 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.52%) Apache
3 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.76%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (68.94%) AWS
2 58 (43.94%) GCP
3 51 (38.64%) Azure
4 49 (37.12%) Serverless
5 24 (18.18%) Amazon S3
6 19 (14.39%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (14.39%) GitHub
7 15 (11.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (11.36%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (11.36%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (7.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (4.55%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (4.55%) AWS KMS
11 6 (4.55%) Azure Functions
12 5 (3.79%) Azure AKS
13 4 (3.03%) Apigee
13 4 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (15.15%) Firewall
2 9 (6.82%) DNS
3 6 (4.55%) SSL
3 6 (4.55%) VPN
4 5 (3.79%) Network Security
4 5 (3.79%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.76%) FTP
5 1 (0.76%) VLAN
5 1 (0.76%) VSAN
5 1 (0.76%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (30.30%) NoSQL
2 33 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 11 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 8 (6.06%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.79%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.27%) Redis
8 2 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.76%) MySQL
9 1 (0.76%) Power BI
9 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (42.42%) Jenkins
2 37 (28.03%) GitLab
3 26 (19.70%) Git
4 24 (18.18%) Liquibase
5 14 (10.61%) JIRA
6 4 (3.03%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.03%) Maven
6 4 (3.03%) Selenium
6 4 (3.03%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.27%) Mocha
7 3 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.52%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.52%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.76%) Appium
9 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.76%) Gradle
9 1 (0.76%) JMeter
9 1 (0.76%) JUnit
9 1 (0.76%) Log4j
9 1 (0.76%) TestNG
General
1 45 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 35 (26.52%) Finance
3 29 (21.97%) Banking
4 22 (16.67%) Financial Institution
5 16 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (11.36%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.79%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Local Government
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (26.52%) Software Engineer
2 30 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (20.45%) Senior
4 24 (18.18%) Developer
5 19 (14.39%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (10.61%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (9.85%) Senior DevOps
7 13 (9.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 11 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (8.33%) Python Developer
9 10 (7.58%) Architect
9 10 (7.58%) AWS Software Engineer
10 8 (6.06%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (5.30%) Lead
11 7 (5.30%) NetBackup Engineer
12 6 (4.55%) .NET Software Engineer
12 6 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.55%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 6 (4.55%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (31.06%) RESTful
2 37 (28.03%) REST
3 28 (21.21%) Elastic Stack
4 21 (15.91%) Node.js
5 18 (13.64%) FastAPI
5 18 (13.64%) React
6 13 (9.85%) .NET
7 12 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
8 10 (7.58%) Jest
9 8 (6.06%) AngularJS
9 8 (6.06%) Django
9 8 (6.06%) Flask
9 8 (6.06%) Kafka
9 8 (6.06%) Spring Boot
10 7 (5.30%) FHIR
10 7 (5.30%) WebSockets
11 6 (4.55%) .NET Core
11 6 (4.55%) CSS
11 6 (4.55%) GraphQL
11 6 (4.55%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (31.82%) Cloud Native
2 26 (19.70%) Public Cloud
3 24 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (7.58%) NHS
5 8 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (6.06%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.27%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.52%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.76%) CUDA
9 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (35.61%) Linux
2 4 (3.03%) Windows
3 3 (2.27%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.76%) CentOS
5 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (71.21%) CI/CD
2 80 (60.61%) Containerisation
2 80 (60.61%) DevOps
3 71 (53.79%) Agile
4 61 (46.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (34.85%) Microservices
5 46 (34.85%) Software Engineering
6 30 (22.73%) High Availability
6 30 (22.73%) Root Cause Analysis
7 27 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (18.18%) Computer Science
8 24 (18.18%) Data Security
9 23 (17.42%) Infrastructure Automation
10 22 (16.67%) Mentoring
11 21 (15.91%) Change Management
11 21 (15.91%) Continuous Delivery
11 21 (15.91%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (15.91%) Cryptography
12 20 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
13 19 (14.39%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 82 (62.12%) Python
2 28 (21.21%) Go
3 24 (18.18%) Java
4 23 (17.42%) Bash
5 18 (13.64%) SQL
6 14 (10.61%) TypeScript
7 13 (9.85%) C#
8 12 (9.09%) JavaScript
9 11 (8.33%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.79%) Bicep
10 5 (3.79%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.27%) Delphi
11 3 (2.27%) PHP
12 2 (1.52%) C++
12 2 (1.52%) Groovy
13 1 (0.76%) C
13 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 25 (18.94%) Degree
2 24 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 24 (18.18%) Master's Degree
3 18 (13.64%) Security Cleared
4 15 (11.36%) AWS Certification
5 10 (7.58%) SC Cleared
6 9 (6.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.79%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.27%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.52%) CCSP
9 2 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.52%) CISSP
10 1 (0.76%) CSPO
10 1 (0.76%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.76%) OCP
10 1 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.03%) Accessibility
1 4 (3.03%) HL7
2 3 (2.27%) QA
3 2 (1.52%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.52%) GDPR
3 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.52%) NIST
3 2 (1.52%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.52%) PSD2
3 2 (1.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.27%) KVM
3 1 (0.76%) Ceph
3 1 (0.76%) QEMU
3 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.76%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (65.15%) Kubernetes
2 73 (55.30%) Terraform
3 43 (32.58%) Ansible
3 43 (32.58%) Prometheus
4 41 (31.06%) Grafana
5 10 (7.58%) Control-M
5 10 (7.58%) IBM Guardium
5 10 (7.58%) Nessus
6 7 (5.30%) NetBackup
6 7 (5.30%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (3.79%) Packer
8 3 (2.27%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.27%) Puppet
9 2 (1.52%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.76%) Argo
10 1 (0.76%) Istio
10 1 (0.76%) Podman
10 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (21.21%) Splunk
2 24 (18.18%) Google
3 11 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 10 (7.58%) Tenable
5 9 (6.82%) VMware
6 7 (5.30%) CyberArk
6 7 (5.30%) F5
6 7 (5.30%) Oracle
6 7 (5.30%) Palo Alto
6 7 (5.30%) Veritas
7 6 (4.55%) Brio
7 6 (4.55%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.27%) Databricks
8 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.27%) SAP
9 2 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.52%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.76%) Cisco
10 1 (0.76%) TIBCO