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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 38 29
Rank change year-on-year -6 -9 +27
Contract jobs citing Docker 152 87 87
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.28% 5.64% 5.80%
As % of the System Software category 39.90% 32.95% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 55 72
10th Percentile £350 £378 £376
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -10.22%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £606
90th Percentile £638 £663 £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 381 264 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.23% 17.11% 15.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 165 166
10th Percentile £200 £186 £196
25th Percentile £353 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £564 £538 £583
90th Percentile £648 £600 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 10
10th Percentile - - £13.98
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £25.84 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.36%
75th Percentile £28.00 - £21.50
90th Percentile - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £36.00 £24.35
% change year-on-year +80.56% +47.84% -49.09%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -6 75 £500 -3.85% 27
West Yorkshire -3 70 £494 +2.33% 47
East Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 4
North Yorkshire -9 1 £550 - 7
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 (9.87%) 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
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 75 (49.34%) AWS
2 57 (37.50%) Azure
3 45 (29.61%) GCP
4 41 (26.97%) GitHub
5 25 (16.45%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (11.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 17 (11.18%) Serverless
7 8 (5.26%) Apigee
7 8 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.26%) Cloud Run
8 7 (4.61%) OpenShift
9 6 (3.95%) Datadog
10 5 (3.29%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.29%) Kong
10 5 (3.29%) Vertex AI
11 4 (2.63%) Google Gemini
11 4 (2.63%) LangSmith
12 3 (1.97%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.97%) Stackdriver
13 2 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.29%) 3GPP
1 5 (3.29%) Network Security
1 5 (3.29%) RTP
1 5 (3.29%) Wireshark
2 3 (1.97%) DNS
2 3 (1.97%) Firewall
3 2 (1.32%) Internet
3 2 (1.32%) VPN
4 1 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.42%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (14.47%) SQL Server
3 15 (9.87%) MongoDB
4 8 (5.26%) Neo4j
4 8 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.95%) Redis
6 5 (3.29%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.29%) Hazelcast
6 5 (3.29%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.97%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.32%) Tableau
9 1 (0.66%) Big Data
9 1 (0.66%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.66%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.66%) Trino
Development Applications
1 58 (38.16%) Jenkins
2 28 (18.42%) Git
3 24 (15.79%) JIRA
4 17 (11.18%) GitLab
4 17 (11.18%) Maven
5 15 (9.87%) Gatling
6 8 (5.26%) Selenium
7 7 (4.61%) Gradle
7 7 (4.61%) JMeter
7 7 (4.61%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (3.95%) Artifactory
8 6 (3.95%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.95%) LoadRunner
9 5 (3.29%) REST Assured
9 5 (3.29%) TeamCity
10 4 (2.63%) JUnit
10 4 (2.63%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (2.63%) Snyk
11 3 (1.97%) Mockito
11 3 (1.97%) SoapUI
General
1 31 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.47%) Finance
3 18 (11.84%) Banking
3 18 (11.84%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.95%) Police
6 5 (3.29%) Aviation
6 5 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.29%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.63%) Law
8 3 (1.97%) Games
8 3 (1.97%) Retail
9 2 (1.32%) Military
10 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.66%) Legal
10 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (32.89%) Developer
2 30 (19.74%) Senior
3 21 (13.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 18 (11.84%) Python Developer
6 16 (10.53%) Lead
7 15 (9.87%) Java Developer
8 13 (8.55%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (7.24%) Backend Developer
10 10 (6.58%) Senior Backend Developer
10 10 (6.58%) Software Engineer
11 9 (5.92%) Architect
11 9 (5.92%) Test Engineer
12 8 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (5.26%) Java Engineer
12 8 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (4.61%) .NET Developer
13 7 (4.61%) Lead Developer
14 6 (3.95%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (34.87%) Terraform
2 31 (20.39%) Kafka
3 25 (16.45%) REST
3 25 (16.45%) Spring
4 23 (15.13%) Spring Boot
5 19 (12.50%) .NET
6 17 (11.18%) OpenTelemetry
6 17 (11.18%) Playwright
7 15 (9.87%) RabbitMQ
8 13 (8.55%) RESTful
9 12 (7.89%) .NET Core
9 12 (7.89%) OAuth
10 11 (7.24%) OAuth2
11 10 (6.58%) AngularJS
11 10 (6.58%) Flask
11 10 (6.58%) React
11 10 (6.58%) Vue
11 10 (6.58%) Web Services
12 9 (5.92%) CSS
12 9 (5.92%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.76%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.87%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.61%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (4.61%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.29%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.29%) PKI
5 5 (3.29%) Robotics
6 4 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.97%) NHS
7 3 (1.97%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.97%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.32%) Clustering
8 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.66%) Replication
9 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.16%) Linux
2 6 (3.95%) Windows
3 4 (2.63%) Unix
3 4 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.32%) VMS
5 1 (0.66%) Android
5 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (79.61%) CI/CD
2 80 (52.63%) DevOps
3 67 (44.08%) Agile
4 54 (35.53%) Containerisation
5 50 (32.89%) Microservices
6 48 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 45 (29.61%) Observability
8 38 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 28 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (17.11%) Software Engineering
11 24 (15.79%) AI
12 21 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (12.50%) API Development
14 18 (11.84%) DevSecOps
14 18 (11.84%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (11.18%) Identity Access Management
16 16 (10.53%) Code Quality
16 16 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
16 16 (10.53%) Validation
17 15 (9.87%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 73 (48.03%) Python
2 59 (38.82%) Java
3 41 (26.97%) SQL
4 18 (11.84%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.21%) C#
5 14 (9.21%) Scala
5 14 (9.21%) Shell Script
6 10 (6.58%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.92%) Groovy
8 6 (3.95%) Bash
8 6 (3.95%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.63%) Bicep
10 2 (1.32%) PromQL
11 1 (0.66%) Cypher
11 1 (0.66%) Go
11 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 27 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.26%) Degree
4 7 (4.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.24%) QA
2 6 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.97%) WCAG
4 2 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.32%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.66%) HL7
5 1 (0.66%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.32%) KVM
4 1 (0.66%) NFS
4 1 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 120 (78.95%) Kubernetes
2 31 (20.39%) Grafana
3 27 (17.76%) Prometheus
4 26 (17.11%) Ansible
5 10 (6.58%) HAProxy
6 6 (3.95%) Control-M
6 6 (3.95%) IBM Guardium
6 6 (3.95%) Kustomize
6 6 (3.95%) Nessus
7 5 (3.29%) Argo
8 2 (1.32%) Consul
8 2 (1.32%) Podman
8 2 (1.32%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.66%) Kiali
9 1 (0.66%) Packer
9 1 (0.66%) SELinux
9 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.21%) Google
3 11 (7.24%) Splunk
4 9 (5.92%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.61%) IBM
6 6 (3.95%) Centrify
6 6 (3.95%) CyberArk
6 6 (3.95%) Tenable
7 5 (3.29%) AppDynamics
7 5 (3.29%) New Relic
7 5 (3.29%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.97%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.32%) Checkmarx
9 2 (1.32%) Databricks
9 2 (1.32%) Oracle
9 2 (1.32%) Solace
10 1 (0.66%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.66%) Temenos
10 1 (0.66%) VMware