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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 48 61
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 -1
Contract jobs citing Docker 144 43 43
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.07% 4.31% 2.58%
As % of the System Software category 40.79% 23.12% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 28 37
10th Percentile £393 £439 £350
25th Percentile £450 £500 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £615
90th Percentile £588 £711 £638
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 353 186 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.88% 18.66% 15.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 124 189
10th Percentile £213 £187 £175
25th Percentile £358 £299 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £415
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +2.41% -2.35%
75th Percentile £527 £575 £550
90th Percentile £588 £646 £615
England median daily rate £500 £525 £485
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.36% -7.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 23
10th Percentile £28.39 - -
25th Percentile £28.97 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £29.93 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -55.00%
75th Percentile £30.90 - £15.19
90th Percentile £31.47 - £15.64
England median hourly rate £55.00 £28.71 £21.00
% change year-on-year +91.60% +36.69% -49.85%

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 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 18 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 -7 72 £475 -11.63% 8
West Yorkshire +15 70 £494 -15.96% 21
East Yorkshire - 3 - - 3
North Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 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 5 (3.47%) Confluence
2 3 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.39%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.69%) Apache
4 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 80 (55.56%) AWS
2 48 (33.33%) Azure
3 45 (31.25%) GCP
4 37 (25.69%) GitHub
5 23 (15.97%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (15.28%) Serverless
7 12 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 12 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (7.64%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (6.25%) Apigee
9 9 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (6.25%) OpenShift
10 8 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.78%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.78%) Cloud Run
13 3 (2.08%) AWS Direct Connect
13 3 (2.08%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.58%) Firewall
2 10 (6.94%) DNS
3 6 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.08%) 3GPP
4 3 (2.08%) RTP
4 3 (2.08%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.39%) Network Security
6 1 (0.69%) FTP
6 1 (0.69%) HTTP
6 1 (0.69%) Internet
6 1 (0.69%) VLAN
6 1 (0.69%) VPN
6 1 (0.69%) VSAN
6 1 (0.69%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (29.86%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (14.58%) MongoDB
3 17 (11.81%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.94%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.17%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.08%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.39%) Redis
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.69%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.69%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.69%) Power BI
10 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 31 (21.53%) GitLab
3 27 (18.75%) Git
4 20 (13.89%) JIRA
5 13 (9.03%) Gatling
6 12 (8.33%) Maven
7 11 (7.64%) Jaeger
8 10 (6.94%) Selenium
9 7 (4.86%) Artifactory
10 5 (3.47%) Liquibase
11 4 (2.78%) CircleCI
11 4 (2.78%) REST Assured
12 3 (2.08%) Cucumber
12 3 (2.08%) Gradle
12 3 (2.08%) Serenity BDD
12 3 (2.08%) TeamCity
13 2 (1.39%) Cypress.io
13 2 (1.39%) Postman
13 2 (1.39%) Robot Framework
13 2 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.83%) Finance
3 22 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.89%) Banking
4 20 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.17%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.08%) Aviation
7 3 (2.08%) Fire and Rescue
7 3 (2.08%) Law
7 3 (2.08%) Military
7 3 (2.08%) Police
8 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Games
9 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Legal
9 1 (0.69%) Retail
9 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (33.33%) Developer
2 25 (17.36%) Senior
3 21 (14.58%) Python Developer
4 20 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (13.89%) Software Engineer
5 13 (9.03%) Java Developer
5 13 (9.03%) Lead
6 12 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 10 (6.94%) GCP DevOps
7 10 (6.94%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 10 (6.94%) GCP Engineer
7 10 (6.94%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.86%) Java Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (4.17%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 6 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (22.92%) OpenTelemetry
2 26 (18.06%) Kafka
3 24 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 21 (14.58%) Node.js
5 19 (13.19%) React
6 17 (11.81%) FastAPI
7 16 (11.11%) .NET
7 16 (11.11%) Playwright
7 16 (11.11%) RESTful
7 16 (11.11%) Spring
8 15 (10.42%) REST
9 9 (6.25%) Middleware
10 8 (5.56%) .NET Core
10 8 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (4.17%) FHIR
11 6 (4.17%) Jest
11 6 (4.17%) Redux
11 6 (4.17%) Zustand
12 5 (3.47%) pytest
12 5 (3.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.64%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (7.64%) NHS
4 9 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 8 (5.56%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.78%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.08%) Robotics
8 3 (2.08%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.08%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.69%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.69%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.69%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 34 (23.61%) Linux
2 12 (8.33%) Windows
3 5 (3.47%) Unix
4 3 (2.08%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.69%) CentOS
5 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (72.92%) CI/CD
2 81 (56.25%) DevOps
3 66 (45.83%) Containerisation
4 61 (42.36%) Agile
5 50 (34.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (34.72%) Observability
6 46 (31.94%) Microservices
7 35 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (22.22%) Software Engineering
9 29 (20.14%) Test Automation
10 25 (17.36%) DevSecOps
11 24 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
12 23 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (15.97%) Mentoring
13 20 (13.89%) API Development
14 19 (13.19%) Performance Optimisation
15 18 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
16 16 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
17 15 (10.42%) Computer Science
17 15 (10.42%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 79 (54.86%) Python
2 56 (38.89%) Java
3 32 (22.22%) SQL
4 19 (13.19%) JavaScript
5 17 (11.81%) C#
6 16 (11.11%) Bash
6 16 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 11 (7.64%) Go
8 10 (6.94%) Scala
9 9 (6.25%) Rust
10 8 (5.56%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.47%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.78%) Groovy
13 3 (2.08%) Delphi
13 3 (2.08%) PHP
13 3 (2.08%) Ruby
14 2 (1.39%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.69%) Bicep
15 1 (0.69%) C
Qualifications
1 31 (21.53%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.81%) Degree
4 8 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.08%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.39%) CCSP
8 2 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.39%) CISSP
8 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.69%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.03%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.17%) WCAG
3 5 (3.47%) SLA
4 4 (2.78%) HL7
4 4 (2.78%) QA
5 2 (1.39%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.39%) GDPR
5 2 (1.39%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.39%) NIST
5 2 (1.39%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.39%) PSD2
6 1 (0.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (1.39%) KVM
1 2 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (1.39%) vSphere
2 1 (0.69%) Ceph
2 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.69%) QEMU
2 1 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 111 (77.08%) Kubernetes
2 63 (43.75%) Terraform
3 47 (32.64%) Grafana
4 43 (29.86%) Prometheus
5 24 (16.67%) Ansible
6 13 (9.03%) Control-M
6 13 (9.03%) IBM Guardium
6 13 (9.03%) Nessus
7 10 (6.94%) HAProxy
7 10 (6.94%) Kiali
8 4 (2.78%) Packer
9 2 (1.39%) Argo
9 2 (1.39%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.69%) Istio
10 1 (0.69%) Kibana
10 1 (0.69%) logstash
10 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.69%) Puppet
10 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (20.83%) Splunk
2 16 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.03%) Tenable
4 6 (4.17%) Brio
4 6 (4.17%) Oracle
5 5 (3.47%) Google
5 5 (3.47%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.78%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.08%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.39%) Databricks
8 2 (1.39%) IBM
8 2 (1.39%) VMware
9 1 (0.69%) Cisco
9 1 (0.69%) F5
9 1 (0.69%) NetApp
9 1 (0.69%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.69%) Temenos