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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 43 62
Rank change year-on-year +5 +19 +4
Contract jobs citing Docker 137 43 44
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.91% 4.55% 2.60%
As % of the System Software category 39.94% 25.60% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 26 38
10th Percentile £407 £431 £367
25th Percentile £450 £500 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £486
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +7.97% -11.59%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £584
90th Percentile £588 £711 £622
England median daily rate £525 £550 £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 343 168 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.78% 17.76% 15.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 111 189
10th Percentile £202 £220 £165
25th Percentile £358 £311 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £412
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +9.24% -3.08%
75th Percentile £526 £575 £530
90th Percentile £588 £638 £615
England median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 21
10th Percentile £26.81 - -
25th Percentile £27.65 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £29.68 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -55.00%
75th Percentile £31.08 - £15.19
90th Percentile £31.55 - £15.75
England median hourly rate £51.00 £28.41 £21.00
% change year-on-year +79.51% +35.29% -47.50%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -12 70 £475 -11.63% 12
West Yorkshire +14 67 £500 +1.27% 31
North Yorkshire - 1 £550 -
East Yorkshire - 1 - - 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 (2.92%) Confluence
2 3 (2.19%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.46%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.73%) Apache
4 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 80 (58.39%) AWS
2 46 (33.58%) GCP
3 44 (32.12%) Azure
4 32 (23.36%) GitHub
5 27 (19.71%) Serverless
6 18 (13.14%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (10.22%) Amazon S3
7 14 (10.22%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (8.03%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (8.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (6.57%) OpenShift
11 8 (5.84%) Apigee
12 7 (5.11%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (5.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.92%) AWS KMS
14 4 (2.92%) Azure AKS
14 4 (2.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 3 (2.19%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.06%) Firewall
2 10 (7.30%) DNS
3 6 (4.38%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.46%) Network Security
5 1 (0.73%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.73%) FTP
5 1 (0.73%) HTTP
5 1 (0.73%) RTP
5 1 (0.73%) VLAN
5 1 (0.73%) VPN
5 1 (0.73%) VSAN
5 1 (0.73%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.73%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (28.47%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (13.14%) MongoDB
3 14 (10.22%) NoSQL
4 12 (8.76%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.57%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.38%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.19%) Redis
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.73%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.73%) Power BI
8 1 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (37.96%) Jenkins
2 31 (22.63%) GitLab
3 25 (18.25%) Git
4 17 (12.41%) JIRA
5 10 (7.30%) Jaeger
5 10 (7.30%) Selenium
6 8 (5.84%) Gatling
6 8 (5.84%) Maven
7 6 (4.38%) Liquibase
8 4 (2.92%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.92%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.92%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.19%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.19%) Mocha
9 3 (2.19%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (1.46%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.46%) Gradle
10 2 (1.46%) Postman
10 2 (1.46%) Robot Framework
10 2 (1.46%) SonarQube
General
1 41 (29.93%) Social Skills
2 32 (23.36%) Finance
3 19 (13.87%) Banking
3 19 (13.87%) Public Sector
4 18 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.30%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.38%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.19%) Law
8 2 (1.46%) Military
8 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Aviation
9 1 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Games
9 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Legal
9 1 (0.73%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.73%) Retail
9 1 (0.73%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (33.58%) Developer
2 26 (18.98%) Senior
3 19 (13.87%) Software Engineer
4 18 (13.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (13.14%) Python Developer
5 13 (9.49%) GCP Engineer
5 13 (9.49%) Lead
5 13 (9.49%) Senior Developer
6 11 (8.03%) Java Developer
7 10 (7.30%) GCP DevOps
7 10 (7.30%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.57%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (6.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (5.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 8 (5.84%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 7 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.11%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) Java Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (20.44%) OpenTelemetry
2 24 (17.52%) Kafka
2 24 (17.52%) Node.js
3 23 (16.79%) React
3 23 (16.79%) Spring Boot
4 20 (14.60%) RESTful
5 18 (13.14%) REST
6 15 (10.95%) FastAPI
6 15 (10.95%) Spring
7 14 (10.22%) .NET
8 11 (8.03%) Playwright
9 10 (7.30%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (6.57%) Jest
10 9 (6.57%) Middleware
11 6 (4.38%) .NET Core
11 6 (4.38%) FHIR
11 6 (4.38%) pytest
11 6 (4.38%) Redux
11 6 (4.38%) Zustand
12 5 (3.65%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.33%) Cloud Native
1 21 (15.33%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (9.49%) Public Cloud
3 11 (8.03%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (8.03%) NHS
4 8 (5.84%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.38%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.19%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.46%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.46%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.73%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.73%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.73%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 35 (25.55%) Linux
2 11 (8.03%) Windows
3 5 (3.65%) Unix
4 3 (2.19%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.73%) CentOS
5 1 (0.73%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (70.80%) CI/CD
2 76 (55.47%) DevOps
3 62 (45.26%) Containerisation
4 60 (43.80%) Agile
5 50 (36.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 46 (33.58%) Microservices
7 43 (31.39%) Observability
8 31 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (21.90%) Software Engineering
10 29 (21.17%) Test Automation
11 25 (18.25%) Full-Stack Development
12 24 (17.52%) DevSecOps
12 24 (17.52%) Mentoring
13 22 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (13.14%) Infrastructure Automation
15 17 (12.41%) Performance Optimisation
16 16 (11.68%) API Development
16 16 (11.68%) Computer Science
16 16 (11.68%) Root Cause Analysis
17 15 (10.95%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 72 (52.55%) Python
2 49 (35.77%) Java
3 31 (22.63%) SQL
4 21 (15.33%) JavaScript
5 17 (12.41%) TypeScript
6 16 (11.68%) Bash
7 15 (10.95%) C#
8 13 (9.49%) Go
9 9 (6.57%) PowerShell
9 9 (6.57%) Rust
10 5 (3.65%) Scala
10 5 (3.65%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.92%) Groovy
12 3 (2.19%) Delphi
12 3 (2.19%) PHP
12 3 (2.19%) Ruby
13 2 (1.46%) C
13 2 (1.46%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.73%) Bicep
14 1 (0.73%) C++
Qualifications
1 26 (18.98%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.87%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.41%) Degree
4 7 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.38%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.65%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.46%) CCSP
8 2 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.46%) CISSP
9 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.73%) CSPO
9 1 (0.73%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.22%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.84%) WCAG
3 5 (3.65%) SLA
4 4 (2.92%) HL7
4 4 (2.92%) QA
5 2 (1.46%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.46%) GDPR
5 2 (1.46%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.46%) NIST
5 2 (1.46%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.46%) PSD2
6 1 (0.73%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (1.46%) KVM
1 2 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (1.46%) vSphere
2 1 (0.73%) Ceph
2 1 (0.73%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.73%) QEMU
2 1 (0.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.73%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 103 (75.18%) Kubernetes
2 62 (45.26%) Terraform
3 45 (32.85%) Grafana
4 39 (28.47%) Prometheus
5 26 (18.98%) Ansible
6 10 (7.30%) Control-M
6 10 (7.30%) IBM Guardium
6 10 (7.30%) Kiali
6 10 (7.30%) Nessus
7 5 (3.65%) HAProxy
8 4 (2.92%) Packer
9 2 (1.46%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.73%) Argo
10 1 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.73%) Istio
10 1 (0.73%) Kibana
10 1 (0.73%) logstash
10 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.73%) Puppet
10 1 (0.73%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (23.36%) Splunk
2 10 (7.30%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.30%) Tenable
3 7 (5.11%) Google
4 6 (4.38%) Brio
4 6 (4.38%) Oracle
5 5 (3.65%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.92%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.19%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.46%) Databricks
8 2 (1.46%) IBM
8 2 (1.46%) VMware
9 1 (0.73%) Cisco
9 1 (0.73%) CloudEndure
9 1 (0.73%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.73%) F5
9 1 (0.73%) NetApp
9 1 (0.73%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.73%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.73%) Temenos