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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 51 37
Rank change year-on-year +7 -14 +26
Contract jobs citing Docker 145 46 78
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.41% 4.09% 4.52%
As % of the System Software category 38.98% 22.44% 29.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 32 64
10th Percentile £364 £413 £314
25th Percentile £450 £496 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £514
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.19% -6.64%
75th Percentile £571 £607 £615
90th Percentile £604 £684 £644
England median daily rate £515 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -2.83% -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 372 205 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.89% 18.22% 15.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 125 189
10th Percentile £209 £214 £175
25th Percentile £358 £356 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £430
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.65% +1.78%
75th Percentile £539 £573 £575
90th Percentile £600 £625 £639
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -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 £52.50 £28.00 £22.23
% change year-on-year +87.50% +25.98% -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 10 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 10 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 +1 82 £500 -4.76% 7
West Yorkshire +5 59 £500 +2.04% 20
East Yorkshire - 5 - -
North Yorkshire - 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 8 (5.52%) Confluence
2 2 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.69%) Apache
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.69%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 72 (49.66%) AWS
2 44 (30.34%) GCP
3 39 (26.90%) Azure
3 39 (26.90%) GitHub
4 24 (16.55%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (10.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 15 (10.34%) Serverless
6 9 (6.21%) Cloud Run
7 7 (4.83%) Apigee
7 7 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (4.83%) OpenShift
8 6 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.76%) BrowserStack
10 4 (2.76%) Kong
11 3 (2.07%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.07%) AWS KMS
11 3 (2.07%) Stackdriver
12 2 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.97%) Firewall
2 6 (4.14%) DNS
3 5 (3.45%) 3GPP
3 5 (3.45%) RTP
3 5 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.45%) Wireshark
4 4 (2.76%) Network Security
5 1 (0.69%) Internet
5 1 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (28.97%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (17.24%) MongoDB
3 15 (10.34%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.59%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.45%) Redis
6 4 (2.76%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.76%) Neo4j
6 4 (2.76%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.76%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.07%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.69%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 54 (37.24%) Jenkins
2 33 (22.76%) GitLab
3 30 (20.69%) Git
4 28 (19.31%) JIRA
5 15 (10.34%) Gatling
6 13 (8.97%) Maven
7 12 (8.28%) Selenium
8 10 (6.90%) Jaeger
9 8 (5.52%) REST Assured
10 7 (4.83%) Serenity BDD
11 6 (4.14%) Artifactory
11 6 (4.14%) Gradle
12 5 (3.45%) Liquibase
12 5 (3.45%) TeamCity
13 4 (2.76%) Snyk
14 3 (2.07%) CircleCI
14 3 (2.07%) Cucumber
14 3 (2.07%) JUnit
15 2 (1.38%) git-flow
15 2 (1.38%) Mockito
General
1 37 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.00%) Finance
3 22 (15.17%) Banking
4 18 (12.41%) Public Sector
5 17 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.83%) Financial Institution
6 7 (4.83%) Law
7 6 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.45%) Aviation
8 5 (3.45%) Fire and Rescue
8 5 (3.45%) Police
9 4 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.07%) Military
11 2 (1.38%) Games
11 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.38%) Retail
12 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.69%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (35.17%) Developer
2 32 (22.07%) Senior
3 23 (15.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (14.48%) Python Developer
5 20 (13.79%) Senior Developer
6 15 (10.34%) Java Developer
6 15 (10.34%) Lead
7 13 (8.97%) Software Engineer
8 11 (7.59%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) GCP DevOps
9 10 (6.90%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) GCP Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) Test Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) Backend Developer
10 9 (6.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (6.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) Lead Test Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) Senior Backend Developer
11 7 (4.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 7 (4.83%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (24.83%) OpenTelemetry
2 35 (24.14%) Kafka
3 27 (18.62%) Spring Boot
4 20 (13.79%) Playwright
4 20 (13.79%) Spring
5 17 (11.72%) React
5 17 (11.72%) RESTful
6 16 (11.03%) FastAPI
7 15 (10.34%) Node.js
8 14 (9.66%) REST
9 12 (8.28%) RabbitMQ
10 11 (7.59%) .NET
11 8 (5.52%) Middleware
11 8 (5.52%) OAuth
11 8 (5.52%) Spring Cloud
12 7 (4.83%) JPA
12 7 (4.83%) JWT
12 7 (4.83%) OAuth2
12 7 (4.83%) Redux
12 7 (4.83%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.41%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.21%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (4.83%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.14%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.45%) PKI
6 5 (3.45%) Robotics
7 4 (2.76%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.07%) NHS
8 3 (2.07%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.38%) Clustering
9 2 (1.38%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.38%) Sports Betting
9 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (22.76%) Linux
2 14 (9.66%) Windows
3 5 (3.45%) Unix
4 4 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.69%) Android
6 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (75.86%) CI/CD
2 89 (61.38%) DevOps
3 63 (43.45%) Observability
4 62 (42.76%) Agile
5 58 (40.00%) Containerisation
6 57 (39.31%) Microservices
7 47 (32.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (21.38%) Test Automation
10 28 (19.31%) Software Engineering
11 24 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (15.17%) DevSecOps
12 22 (15.17%) Full-Stack Development
13 21 (14.48%) API Development
13 21 (14.48%) Incident Response
14 20 (13.79%) Mentoring
15 19 (13.10%) Performance Optimisation
15 19 (13.10%) Secrets Management
16 18 (12.41%) Identity Access Management
17 16 (11.03%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 75 (51.72%) Python
2 64 (44.14%) Java
3 39 (26.90%) SQL
4 18 (12.41%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.66%) TypeScript
6 12 (8.28%) Scala
7 11 (7.59%) Bash
7 11 (7.59%) C#
7 11 (7.59%) PowerShell
8 9 (6.21%) Go
9 8 (5.52%) Rust
10 6 (4.14%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.07%) Ruby
12 2 (1.38%) PromQL
13 1 (0.69%) Bicep
13 1 (0.69%) C
13 1 (0.69%) Groovy
13 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 27 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.72%) Degree
4 9 (6.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.66%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.83%) WCAG
3 5 (3.45%) QA
3 5 (3.45%) SLA
4 2 (1.38%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.69%) HL7
5 1 (0.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.69%) KVM
2 1 (0.69%) NFS
2 1 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 117 (80.69%) Kubernetes
2 56 (38.62%) Terraform
3 52 (35.86%) Grafana
4 49 (33.79%) Prometheus
5 27 (18.62%) Ansible
6 13 (8.97%) Control-M
6 13 (8.97%) IBM Guardium
6 13 (8.97%) Nessus
7 10 (6.90%) HAProxy
8 9 (6.21%) Kiali
9 5 (3.45%) Kustomize
10 4 (2.76%) Argo
11 2 (1.38%) Consul
11 2 (1.38%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.69%) Packer
12 1 (0.69%) Podman
12 1 (0.69%) SELinux
Vendors
1 27 (18.62%) Splunk
2 15 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 13 (8.97%) Tenable
4 7 (4.83%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.14%) Google
5 6 (4.14%) Oracle
6 5 (3.45%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.76%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.38%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.38%) IBM
8 2 (1.38%) Solace
8 2 (1.38%) VMware
9 1 (0.69%) Brio
9 1 (0.69%) New Relic
9 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.69%) Temenos
9 1 (0.69%) Trend Micro