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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 50 28
Rank change year-on-year +7 -22 +33
Contract jobs citing Docker 151 68 88
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.28% 4.46% 5.70%
As % of the System Software category 40.27% 26.77% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 45 74
10th Percentile £350 £384 £377
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -10.00%
75th Percentile £572 £550 £599
90th Percentile £638 £619 £650
England median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.25% -5.73% -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 375 254 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.12% 16.64% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 161 155
10th Percentile £200 £200 £210
25th Percentile £350 £360 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -9.09% +4.21%
75th Percentile £559 £538 £587
90th Percentile £638 £600 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £25.84 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.36%
75th Percentile £28.00 - £15.75
90th Percentile - - £21.70
England median hourly rate £62.50 £38.75 £23.80
% change year-on-year +61.29% +62.82% -45.60%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 +1 74 £500 -4.76% 5
West Yorkshire +5 70 £500 +5.26% 27
East Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 4
North Yorkshire -10 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 16 (10.60%) 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
3 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 79 (52.32%) AWS
2 57 (37.75%) Azure
3 44 (29.14%) GitHub
4 43 (28.48%) GCP
5 26 (17.22%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (12.58%) Serverless
7 13 (8.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (5.96%) OpenShift
9 8 (5.30%) Apigee
9 8 (5.30%) Cloud Run
10 7 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.31%) Kong
12 5 (3.31%) Vertex AI
13 4 (2.65%) Datadog
13 4 (2.65%) Google Gemini
13 4 (2.65%) LangSmith
14 3 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (1.99%) Stackdriver
15 2 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.31%) 3GPP
1 5 (3.31%) RTP
1 5 (3.31%) Wireshark
2 4 (2.65%) Network Security
3 3 (1.99%) DNS
4 2 (1.32%) Internet
4 2 (1.32%) VPN
5 1 (0.66%) Firewall
5 1 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (20.53%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (15.23%) SQL Server
3 18 (11.92%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.96%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.64%) Neo4j
6 6 (3.97%) Redis
7 5 (3.31%) BigQuery
7 5 (3.31%) Hazelcast
7 5 (3.31%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.65%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.32%) Tableau
10 1 (0.66%) Big Data
10 1 (0.66%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.66%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.66%) Trino
Development Applications
1 59 (39.07%) Jenkins
2 28 (18.54%) Git
3 27 (17.88%) JIRA
4 19 (12.58%) GitLab
5 15 (9.93%) Gatling
5 15 (9.93%) Maven
6 9 (5.96%) Selenium
7 7 (4.64%) Gradle
7 7 (4.64%) JMeter
8 6 (3.97%) Artifactory
8 6 (3.97%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.97%) LoadRunner
9 5 (3.31%) REST Assured
9 5 (3.31%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (3.31%) TeamCity
10 4 (2.65%) JUnit
10 4 (2.65%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (2.65%) Snyk
11 3 (1.99%) Mockito
11 3 (1.99%) SoapUI
General
1 33 (21.85%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.25%) Finance
3 19 (12.58%) Public Sector
4 17 (11.26%) Banking
5 13 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.97%) Police
7 5 (3.31%) Aviation
7 5 (3.31%) Fire and Rescue
8 4 (2.65%) Games
8 4 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.65%) Law
8 4 (2.65%) Retail
9 2 (1.32%) Military
9 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.66%) Legal
10 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (35.10%) Developer
2 28 (18.54%) Senior
3 20 (13.25%) Python Developer
4 19 (12.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (12.58%) Senior Developer
5 15 (9.93%) Java Developer
5 15 (9.93%) Lead
6 13 (8.61%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (7.95%) Backend Developer
8 11 (7.28%) Senior Backend Developer
9 10 (6.62%) Software Engineer
10 9 (5.96%) Architect
10 9 (5.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (5.96%) Test Engineer
11 8 (5.30%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (5.30%) Java Engineer
12 7 (4.64%) .NET Developer
12 7 (4.64%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.64%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (3.97%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (33.77%) Terraform
2 32 (21.19%) Kafka
3 26 (17.22%) REST
4 25 (16.56%) Spring
5 22 (14.57%) Spring Boot
6 19 (12.58%) .NET
7 18 (11.92%) OpenTelemetry
8 17 (11.26%) Playwright
9 16 (10.60%) RabbitMQ
10 13 (8.61%) RESTful
11 12 (7.95%) .NET Core
12 11 (7.28%) OAuth
12 11 (7.28%) React
12 11 (7.28%) Vue
13 10 (6.62%) CSS
13 10 (6.62%) Flask
13 10 (6.62%) HTML
13 10 (6.62%) OAuth2
14 9 (5.96%) FastAPI
14 9 (5.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.23%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.93%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.97%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.31%) PKI
5 5 (3.31%) Robotics
6 4 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.65%) Sports Betting
7 3 (1.99%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.99%) NHS
8 2 (1.32%) Clustering
8 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.66%) Replication
9 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.92%) Linux
2 6 (3.97%) Windows
3 4 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.66%) Android
4 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (78.81%) CI/CD
2 79 (52.32%) DevOps
3 69 (45.70%) Agile
4 55 (36.42%) Containerisation
5 50 (33.11%) Microservices
6 46 (30.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 45 (29.80%) Observability
8 41 (27.15%) Test Automation
9 31 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (17.22%) Software Engineering
11 21 (13.91%) AI
11 21 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (13.25%) API Development
13 17 (11.26%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (10.60%) Code Quality
14 16 (10.60%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (10.60%) Validation
15 15 (9.93%) Event-Driven
15 15 (9.93%) Identity Access Management
16 14 (9.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 73 (48.34%) Python
2 57 (37.75%) Java
3 42 (27.81%) SQL
4 21 (13.91%) JavaScript
5 15 (9.93%) Scala
6 14 (9.27%) C#
7 11 (7.28%) Shell Script
8 9 (5.96%) TypeScript
9 8 (5.30%) Groovy
10 7 (4.64%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.31%) Bash
12 3 (1.99%) Bicep
13 2 (1.32%) PromQL
14 1 (0.66%) C
14 1 (0.66%) Cypher
14 1 (0.66%) Go
14 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 28 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.89%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.30%) Degree
4 7 (4.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.28%) QA
2 6 (3.97%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.99%) 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 (5.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.99%) 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
1 117 (77.48%) Kubernetes
2 31 (20.53%) Grafana
3 29 (19.21%) Prometheus
4 25 (16.56%) Ansible
5 10 (6.62%) HAProxy
6 7 (4.64%) Control-M
6 7 (4.64%) IBM Guardium
6 7 (4.64%) Nessus
7 5 (3.31%) Argo
7 5 (3.31%) Kustomize
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 23 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.28%) Google
2 11 (7.28%) Splunk
3 9 (5.96%) Dynatrace
4 7 (4.64%) IBM
4 7 (4.64%) Tenable
5 6 (3.97%) Centrify
5 6 (3.97%) CyberArk
6 5 (3.31%) New Relic
6 5 (3.31%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.65%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.99%) AppDynamics
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%) Trend Micro
10 1 (0.66%) VMware