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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 50 47
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 +18
Contract jobs citing Docker 139 42 61
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.59% 4.06% 3.66%
As % of the System Software category 40.64% 21.32% 23.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 26 51
10th Percentile £373 £431 £390
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £569 £650 £619
90th Percentile £588 £711 £645
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 342 197 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.76% 19.03% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 124 182
10th Percentile £263 £185 £178
25th Percentile £362 £270 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £419 £430
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% -2.62% +1.18%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £588 £646 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 23
10th Percentile £23.50 - -
25th Percentile £24.25 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -76.60%
75th Percentile £27.25 - £15.19
90th Percentile £27.70 - £15.64
England median hourly rate £57.50 £28.21 £21.00
% change year-on-year +103.86% +34.31% -58.00%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -11 72 £475 -11.63% 4
West Yorkshire +19 64 £500 -14.89% 29
East Yorkshire - 4 - - 1
North Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 2
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 6 (4.32%) Confluence
2 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 71 (51.08%) AWS
2 40 (28.78%) Azure
2 40 (28.78%) GCP
3 38 (27.34%) GitHub
4 24 (17.27%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (9.35%) Serverless
6 11 (7.91%) Apigee
7 10 (7.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.47%) OpenShift
9 7 (5.04%) Cloud Run
10 6 (4.32%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.60%) Kong
12 4 (2.88%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.88%) BrowserStack
13 3 (2.16%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.79%) Firewall
2 7 (5.04%) DNS
3 6 (4.32%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.88%) 3GPP
4 4 (2.88%) RTP
4 4 (2.88%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.44%) VPN
6 1 (0.72%) HTTP
6 1 (0.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (28.78%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (17.27%) MongoDB
3 18 (12.95%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.91%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.32%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.60%) Redis
7 4 (2.88%) Hazelcast
7 4 (2.88%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.16%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.44%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.72%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.72%) Power BI
10 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (39.57%) Jenkins
2 35 (25.18%) GitLab
3 29 (20.86%) Git
4 22 (15.83%) JIRA
5 15 (10.79%) Gatling
5 15 (10.79%) Maven
6 12 (8.63%) Selenium
7 11 (7.91%) Jaeger
8 7 (5.04%) Artifactory
9 6 (4.32%) Gradle
9 6 (4.32%) REST Assured
10 5 (3.60%) Serenity BDD
11 4 (2.88%) CircleCI
11 4 (2.88%) Liquibase
11 4 (2.88%) Snyk
11 4 (2.88%) TeamCity
12 3 (2.16%) Cucumber
13 2 (1.44%) Cypress.io
13 2 (1.44%) Robot Framework
13 2 (1.44%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (25.90%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.86%) Finance
3 20 (14.39%) Banking
4 18 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (11.51%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.76%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.88%) Aviation
7 4 (2.88%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (2.88%) Law
7 4 (2.88%) Police
8 3 (2.16%) Military
9 2 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.44%) Games
9 2 (1.44%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.44%) Retail
10 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (37.41%) Developer
2 30 (21.58%) Senior
3 21 (15.11%) Python Developer
4 20 (14.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (12.95%) Senior Developer
6 17 (12.23%) Software Engineer
7 15 (10.79%) Java Developer
8 13 (9.35%) Lead
9 10 (7.19%) GCP DevOps
9 10 (7.19%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 10 (7.19%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (6.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (6.47%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.76%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (5.76%) Test Engineer
12 7 (5.04%) Backend Developer
12 7 (5.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 7 (5.04%) Lead Test Engineer
12 7 (5.04%) Senior Backend Developer
12 7 (5.04%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (25.90%) OpenTelemetry
2 31 (22.30%) Kafka
3 26 (18.71%) Spring Boot
4 20 (14.39%) React
4 20 (14.39%) Spring
5 19 (13.67%) Node.js
6 18 (12.95%) Playwright
7 17 (12.23%) FastAPI
8 15 (10.79%) .NET
8 15 (10.79%) RESTful
9 14 (10.07%) REST
10 10 (7.19%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (6.47%) Middleware
12 7 (5.04%) .NET Core
12 7 (5.04%) Redux
12 7 (5.04%) Zustand
13 6 (4.32%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (4.32%) OAuth
13 6 (4.32%) Spring Cloud
13 6 (4.32%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.23%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (8.63%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.19%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.76%) Management Information System
5 7 (5.04%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.60%) NHS
6 5 (3.60%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.88%) Robotics
8 3 (2.16%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.16%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.44%) PKI
9 2 (1.44%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.72%) Clustering
10 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.72%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.72%) Life Science
10 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 33 (23.74%) Linux
2 15 (10.79%) Windows
3 5 (3.60%) Unix
4 3 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.72%) Android
6 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (73.38%) CI/CD
2 81 (58.27%) DevOps
3 59 (42.45%) Containerisation
4 57 (41.01%) Agile
4 57 (41.01%) Observability
5 46 (33.09%) Microservices
6 44 (31.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (23.74%) Software Engineering
8 30 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (19.42%) Test Automation
10 23 (16.55%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (14.39%) DevSecOps
12 20 (14.39%) Performance Optimisation
13 18 (12.95%) API Development
13 18 (12.95%) Mentoring
14 17 (12.23%) Incident Response
15 15 (10.79%) Infrastructure Automation
16 14 (10.07%) Identity Access Management
16 14 (10.07%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (55.40%) Python
2 59 (42.45%) Java
3 35 (25.18%) SQL
4 20 (14.39%) JavaScript
5 17 (12.23%) TypeScript
6 16 (11.51%) Bash
6 16 (11.51%) C#
7 12 (8.63%) Scala
8 11 (7.91%) PowerShell
9 10 (7.19%) Go
10 9 (6.47%) Rust
11 5 (3.60%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.88%) Groovy
13 3 (2.16%) Delphi
13 3 (2.16%) PHP
13 3 (2.16%) Ruby
14 2 (1.44%) Bicep
14 2 (1.44%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.72%) C
Qualifications
1 25 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.95%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.51%) Degree
4 8 (5.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.44%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.79%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.04%) WCAG
3 6 (4.32%) QA
4 5 (3.60%) SLA
5 2 (1.44%) HL7
5 2 (1.44%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.72%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.72%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.72%) KVM
2 1 (0.72%) NFS
2 1 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 109 (78.42%) Kubernetes
2 56 (40.29%) Terraform
3 50 (35.97%) Grafana
4 47 (33.81%) Prometheus
5 23 (16.55%) Ansible
6 13 (9.35%) Control-M
6 13 (9.35%) IBM Guardium
6 13 (9.35%) Nessus
7 10 (7.19%) HAProxy
7 10 (7.19%) Kiali
8 4 (2.88%) Argo
9 2 (1.44%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.72%) Istio
10 1 (0.72%) Kibana
10 1 (0.72%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.72%) logstash
10 1 (0.72%) Packer
10 1 (0.72%) Podman
10 1 (0.72%) SELinux
Vendors
1 29 (20.86%) Splunk
2 15 (10.79%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.35%) Tenable
4 6 (4.32%) Oracle
5 5 (3.60%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.88%) AppDynamics
6 4 (2.88%) Google
6 4 (2.88%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.16%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.44%) Brio
8 2 (1.44%) IBM
8 2 (1.44%) VMware
9 1 (0.72%) New Relic
9 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.72%) Temenos