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

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 29 47
Rank change year-on-year -4 +18 0
Contract jobs citing Docker 116 80 82
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.91% 5.65% 4.10%
As % of the System Software category 41.58% 40.00% 28.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 63 61
10th Percentile £384 £305 £413
25th Percentile £420 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £585 £620
90th Percentile £600 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -4.29% -3.45% +45.00%

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 279 200 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.62% 14.11% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 139 186
10th Percentile £193 £192 £179
25th Percentile £372 £294 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £469
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -1.87% +13.29%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £600 £645 £650
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - - £16.92
25th Percentile £26.25 £20.50 £17.86
Median hourly rate £27.50 £21.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £28.75 £21.50 -
90th Percentile - - £44.50
England median hourly rate £31.39 £52.50 £46.09
% change year-on-year -40.22% +13.91% +102.59%

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 24 October 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 24 October 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 -2 56 £488 +21.88% 53
South Yorkshire -5 55 £515 -17.20% 14
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
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 1 (0.86%) Apache
1 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.86%) WebSphere
1 1 (0.86%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 72 (62.07%) AWS
2 50 (43.10%) GCP
3 39 (33.62%) Azure
4 37 (31.90%) Serverless
5 16 (13.79%) GitHub
6 15 (12.93%) Amazon S3
7 14 (12.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (11.21%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (9.48%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (7.76%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (7.76%) AWS KMS
12 9 (7.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (5.17%) Amazon ELB
14 5 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (3.45%) Azure Functions
16 3 (2.59%) AWS CloudTrail
16 3 (2.59%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.66%) Firewall
2 8 (6.90%) SSL
2 8 (6.90%) VPN
3 7 (6.03%) DNS
3 7 (6.03%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.17%) Network Security
5 1 (0.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (31.03%) NoSQL
2 27 (23.28%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.03%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (5.17%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.59%) Redis
7 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.86%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.86%) MySQL
8 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 57 (49.14%) Jenkins
2 43 (37.07%) GitLab
3 25 (21.55%) Git
4 22 (18.97%) Liquibase
5 15 (12.93%) JIRA
6 8 (6.90%) Cypress.io
6 8 (6.90%) Selenium
7 7 (6.03%) JMeter
7 7 (6.03%) Maven
7 7 (6.03%) TestNG
8 6 (5.17%) Cucumber
8 6 (5.17%) Postman
8 6 (5.17%) REST Assured
9 4 (3.45%) JUnit
10 2 (1.72%) Jaeger
10 2 (1.72%) Mocha
10 2 (1.72%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.86%) Appium
11 1 (0.86%) webpack
General
1 37 (31.90%) Social Skills
2 33 (28.45%) Finance
3 27 (23.28%) Banking
4 22 (18.97%) Financial Institution
5 13 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (8.62%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.86%) Local Government
8 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (28.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (25.00%) Senior
3 26 (22.41%) Software Engineer
4 20 (17.24%) Developer
5 17 (14.66%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (11.21%) Senior DevOps
6 13 (11.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 13 (11.21%) Senior Software Engineer
7 10 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (7.76%) AWS Software Engineer
9 8 (6.90%) Architect
9 8 (6.90%) GCP Engineer
9 8 (6.90%) Lead
9 8 (6.90%) Python Developer
10 7 (6.03%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (6.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) NetBackup Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) Python Engineer
11 6 (5.17%) Test Engineer
12 5 (4.31%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (31.90%) RESTful
2 31 (26.72%) REST
3 28 (24.14%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (13.79%) FastAPI
5 15 (12.93%) Node.js
6 14 (12.07%) React
7 12 (10.34%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (6.03%) .NET
8 7 (6.03%) AngularJS
8 7 (6.03%) CSS
8 7 (6.03%) Flask
8 7 (6.03%) HTML
8 7 (6.03%) Jest
8 7 (6.03%) Playwright
9 6 (5.17%) Django
9 6 (5.17%) Kafka
10 5 (4.31%) GraphQL
11 4 (3.45%) CSS3
11 4 (3.45%) gRPC
11 4 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (29.31%) Cloud Native
2 22 (18.97%) Public Cloud
3 21 (18.10%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.31%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.72%) NHS
8 1 (0.86%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.86%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.86%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.86%) CUDA
8 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.86%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.86%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (34.48%) Linux
2 1 (0.86%) Unix
2 1 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 74 (63.79%) Containerisation
3 70 (60.34%) DevOps
4 64 (55.17%) Agile
5 47 (40.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (34.48%) Microservices
7 35 (30.17%) Software Engineering
8 27 (23.28%) Root Cause Analysis
9 26 (22.41%) High Availability
10 22 (18.97%) Computer Science
10 22 (18.97%) Continuous Integration
10 22 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (18.10%) Infrastructure Automation
11 21 (18.10%) Non-Functional Testing
12 20 (17.24%) Cryptography
13 19 (16.38%) Continuous Delivery
13 19 (16.38%) Data Security
14 18 (15.52%) Change Management
14 18 (15.52%) Cost Optimisation
14 18 (15.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 75 (64.66%) Python
2 26 (22.41%) Go
2 26 (22.41%) Java
3 23 (19.83%) Bash
4 15 (12.93%) JavaScript
5 11 (9.48%) SQL
6 10 (8.62%) PowerShell
7 9 (7.76%) Shell Script
7 9 (7.76%) TypeScript
8 6 (5.17%) C#
9 4 (3.45%) Bicep
10 2 (1.72%) C++
10 2 (1.72%) Groovy
11 1 (0.86%) C
11 1 (0.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (18.97%) Computer Science Degree
1 22 (18.97%) Degree
1 22 (18.97%) Master's Degree
1 22 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.79%) AWS Certification
3 14 (12.07%) SC Cleared
4 11 (9.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.59%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.86%) CCSP
8 1 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.86%) CISSP
8 1 (0.86%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.86%) OCP
8 1 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.90%) Accessibility
1 8 (6.90%) WCAG
2 5 (4.31%) QA
3 4 (3.45%) GDPR
3 4 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.45%) NIST
4 3 (2.59%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.86%) HL7
6 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.86%) PSD2
System Software
1 7 (6.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.72%) KVM
3 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (67.24%) Kubernetes
2 58 (50.00%) Terraform
3 45 (38.79%) Prometheus
4 44 (37.93%) Ansible
5 42 (36.21%) Grafana
6 11 (9.48%) Control-M
7 10 (8.62%) IBM Guardium
7 10 (8.62%) Nessus
8 7 (6.03%) NetBackup
8 7 (6.03%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (4.31%) Puppet
10 3 (2.59%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.72%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.72%) Packer
12 1 (0.86%) Istio
12 1 (0.86%) Kiali
12 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (23.28%) Splunk
2 23 (19.83%) Google
3 10 (8.62%) Tenable
4 9 (7.76%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.90%) Oracle
5 8 (6.90%) VMware
6 7 (6.03%) CyberArk
6 7 (6.03%) Veritas
7 6 (5.17%) CheckPoint
7 6 (5.17%) F5
7 6 (5.17%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.59%) SAP
9 2 (1.72%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.72%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.72%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.86%) CloudEndure
10 1 (0.86%) Databricks
10 1 (0.86%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.86%) xMatters