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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 41 44
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Docker 154 42 73
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 7.51% 4.64% 3.97%
As % of the System Software category 45.16% 27.27% 23.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 26 57
10th Percentile £400 £413 £386
25th Percentile £449 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £596 £600
90th Percentile £596 £706 £638
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £66.50 £27.50 £66.50
% change year-on-year +141.82% -58.65% -0.75%

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 341 154 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.63% 17.02% 16.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 101 234
10th Percentile £192 £200 £179
25th Percentile £355 £263 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% +10.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £520
90th Percentile £575 £625 £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 12
10th Percentile £26.81 - -
25th Percentile £27.65 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £29.68 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -46.33%
75th Percentile £31.08 - £17.41
90th Percentile £31.55 - £21.61
England median hourly rate £31.86 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.86% -27.50% +1.91%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -5 85 £475 -9.52% 11
West Yorkshire +12 69 £500 +1.27% 28
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 (2.60%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (0.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 93 (60.39%) AWS
2 67 (43.51%) GCP
3 47 (30.52%) Azure
4 39 (25.32%) Serverless
5 25 (16.23%) GitHub
6 20 (12.99%) Amazon S3
7 15 (9.74%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (9.74%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (8.44%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (7.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (6.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (5.84%) AWS KMS
12 9 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (4.55%) OpenShift
14 6 (3.90%) Amazon ELB
15 5 (3.25%) Apigee
15 5 (3.25%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (21.43%) Firewall
2 15 (9.74%) DNS
3 11 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.55%) VPN
5 5 (3.25%) Network Security
5 5 (3.25%) SSL
6 1 (0.65%) FTP
6 1 (0.65%) HTTP
6 1 (0.65%) VLAN
6 1 (0.65%) VSAN
6 1 (0.65%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (19.48%) NoSQL
3 14 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.84%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.55%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.55%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.95%) Redis
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.65%) MySQL
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.65%) Power BI
7 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 62 (40.26%) Jenkins
2 48 (31.17%) GitLab
3 31 (20.13%) Git
4 22 (14.29%) JIRA
5 20 (12.99%) Liquibase
6 10 (6.49%) Jaeger
7 7 (4.55%) Selenium
8 4 (2.60%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.60%) Maven
9 3 (1.95%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.95%) Gatling
9 3 (1.95%) Mocha
9 3 (1.95%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.95%) Serenity BDD
9 3 (1.95%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.30%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.65%) Gradle
General
1 53 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 45 (29.22%) Finance
3 35 (22.73%) Banking
4 23 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (14.94%) Financial Institution
5 15 (9.74%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.90%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.95%) Law
8 2 (1.30%) Military
8 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (26.62%) Developer
2 40 (25.97%) Senior
3 30 (19.48%) Software Engineer
4 27 (17.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (13.64%) Python Developer
6 16 (10.39%) GCP Engineer
6 16 (10.39%) Senior Software Engineer
7 15 (9.74%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
8 14 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 13 (8.44%) Lead
10 12 (7.79%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (6.49%) GCP DevOps
11 10 (6.49%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 9 (5.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (5.19%) Java Developer
13 8 (5.19%) Senior Developer
14 7 (4.55%) AWS Software Engineer
14 7 (4.55%) Cloud Software Engineer
15 6 (3.90%) NetBackup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (23.38%) RESTful
2 35 (22.73%) OpenTelemetry
3 29 (18.83%) REST
4 24 (15.58%) Elastic Stack
5 23 (14.94%) FastAPI
5 23 (14.94%) Node.js
6 20 (12.99%) Kafka
6 20 (12.99%) React
6 20 (12.99%) Spring Boot
7 11 (7.14%) Jest
8 10 (6.49%) Spring
9 9 (5.84%) .NET
9 9 (5.84%) Middleware
10 6 (3.90%) FHIR
11 5 (3.25%) .NET Core
11 5 (3.25%) Django
11 5 (3.25%) Flask
12 4 (2.60%) CSS
12 4 (2.60%) HTML
13 3 (1.95%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 32 (20.78%) Cloud Native
1 32 (20.78%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (15.58%) Public Cloud
3 11 (7.14%) NHS
4 9 (5.84%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.19%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.95%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.95%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.95%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.30%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.65%) Life Science
9 1 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 56 (36.36%) Linux
2 11 (7.14%) Windows
3 5 (3.25%) Unix
4 3 (1.95%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.65%) CentOS
5 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (72.08%) CI/CD
2 89 (57.79%) Containerisation
3 86 (55.84%) DevOps
4 73 (47.40%) Agile
5 62 (40.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 60 (38.96%) Microservices
7 45 (29.22%) Observability
8 40 (25.97%) Software Engineering
9 37 (24.03%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (22.08%) Root Cause Analysis
11 31 (20.13%) Mentoring
12 30 (19.48%) Computer Science
13 28 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
14 26 (16.88%) DevSecOps
14 26 (16.88%) High Availability
15 25 (16.23%) Cybersecurity
16 23 (14.94%) Full-Stack Development
16 23 (14.94%) Test Automation
17 21 (13.64%) API Development
17 21 (13.64%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 94 (61.04%) Python
2 42 (27.27%) Java
3 30 (19.48%) SQL
4 29 (18.83%) Bash
4 29 (18.83%) Go
5 17 (11.04%) JavaScript
6 14 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 13 (8.44%) PowerShell
8 11 (7.14%) C#
9 10 (6.49%) Rust
10 6 (3.90%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.60%) Groovy
12 3 (1.95%) Delphi
12 3 (1.95%) PHP
12 3 (1.95%) Ruby
13 2 (1.30%) Bicep
13 2 (1.30%) C++
14 1 (0.65%) C
14 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 31 (20.13%) Degree
2 23 (14.94%) Security Cleared
3 21 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (13.64%) Master's Degree
4 13 (8.44%) SC Cleared
5 11 (7.14%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.60%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.30%) CCSP
9 2 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.65%) CSPO
10 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.65%) OCP
10 1 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.25%) SLA
2 5 (3.25%) WCAG
3 4 (2.60%) HL7
4 2 (1.30%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.30%) GDPR
4 2 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.30%) NIST
4 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.30%) PSD2
5 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 7 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.95%) KVM
3 1 (0.65%) Ceph
3 1 (0.65%) QEMU
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 111 (72.08%) Kubernetes
2 71 (46.10%) Terraform
3 66 (42.86%) Grafana
4 62 (40.26%) Prometheus
5 46 (29.87%) Ansible
6 17 (11.04%) Control-M
6 17 (11.04%) IBM Guardium
6 17 (11.04%) Nessus
7 9 (5.84%) Kiali
8 6 (3.90%) NetBackup
8 6 (3.90%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (3.25%) Packer
10 3 (1.95%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.95%) Puppet
11 2 (1.30%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.65%) Argo
12 1 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.65%) Istio
12 1 (0.65%) Podman
12 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (27.27%) Splunk
2 19 (12.34%) Google
3 17 (11.04%) Tenable
4 11 (7.14%) Oracle
5 8 (5.19%) VMware
6 7 (4.55%) F5
6 7 (4.55%) Palo Alto
7 6 (3.90%) Brio
7 6 (3.90%) CheckPoint
7 6 (3.90%) CyberArk
7 6 (3.90%) Microsoft
7 6 (3.90%) Veritas
8 4 (2.60%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.95%) Databricks
9 3 (1.95%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.95%) SAP
9 3 (1.95%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.30%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.65%) CloudEndure
11 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace