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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 51 46
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +15
Contract jobs citing Docker 142 43 65
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.62% 4.13% 3.91%
As % of the System Software category 40.92% 22.05% 25.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 27 55
10th Percentile £383 £417 £394
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £564 £618 £615
90th Percentile £588 £688 £644
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 347 195 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.73% 18.73% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 123 184
10th Percentile £263 £189 £178
25th Percentile £363 £305 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year +13.41% -1.16% +3.30%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £588 £625 £634
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 £52.75 £28.71 £21.00
% change year-on-year +83.77% +36.69% -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 19 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 19 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 -6 75 £475 -11.63% 4
West Yorkshire +20 64 £500 +5.26% 28
East Yorkshire - 4 - - 2
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 8 (5.63%) Confluence
2 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 75 (52.82%) AWS
2 41 (28.87%) Azure
2 41 (28.87%) GCP
3 39 (27.46%) GitHub
4 24 (16.90%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (9.15%) Serverless
6 11 (7.75%) Apigee
6 11 (7.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 9 (6.34%) OpenShift
8 8 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.93%) Cloud Run
10 5 (3.52%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.52%) Kong
11 4 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.82%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.82%) BrowserStack
12 3 (2.11%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.56%) Firewall
2 7 (4.93%) DNS
3 6 (4.23%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.82%) 3GPP
4 4 (2.82%) RTP
4 4 (2.82%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.41%) VPN
6 1 (0.70%) HTTP
6 1 (0.70%) Internet
6 1 (0.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (28.17%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (17.61%) MongoDB
3 18 (12.68%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.75%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.52%) Redis
7 4 (2.82%) Hazelcast
7 4 (2.82%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.11%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.41%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.70%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.70%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 56 (39.44%) Jenkins
2 36 (25.35%) GitLab
3 29 (20.42%) Git
4 25 (17.61%) JIRA
5 15 (10.56%) Gatling
5 15 (10.56%) Maven
6 13 (9.15%) Selenium
7 11 (7.75%) Jaeger
8 7 (4.93%) REST Assured
9 6 (4.23%) Artifactory
9 6 (4.23%) Gradle
9 6 (4.23%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (2.82%) CircleCI
10 4 (2.82%) Liquibase
10 4 (2.82%) Snyk
10 4 (2.82%) TeamCity
11 3 (2.11%) Cucumber
12 2 (1.41%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.41%) Robot Framework
12 2 (1.41%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.42%) Finance
3 21 (14.79%) Banking
4 18 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (11.97%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.63%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.82%) Aviation
7 4 (2.82%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (2.82%) Law
7 4 (2.82%) Police
8 3 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.11%) Military
9 2 (1.41%) Games
9 2 (1.41%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.41%) Retail
10 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Legal
10 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (35.92%) Developer
2 30 (21.13%) Senior
3 22 (15.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (14.08%) Python Developer
5 18 (12.68%) Senior Developer
6 17 (11.97%) Software Engineer
7 15 (10.56%) Java Developer
8 14 (9.86%) Lead
9 11 (7.75%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (7.04%) GCP DevOps
10 10 (7.04%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 10 (7.04%) GCP Engineer
11 9 (6.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (6.34%) Test Engineer
12 8 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (5.63%) Lead Test Engineer
13 7 (4.93%) Backend Developer
13 7 (4.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 7 (4.93%) Senior Backend Developer
13 7 (4.93%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (25.35%) OpenTelemetry
2 33 (23.24%) Kafka
3 26 (18.31%) Spring Boot
4 20 (14.08%) React
4 20 (14.08%) Spring
5 19 (13.38%) Node.js
5 19 (13.38%) Playwright
6 16 (11.27%) FastAPI
7 15 (10.56%) .NET
7 15 (10.56%) RESTful
8 13 (9.15%) REST
9 10 (7.04%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (6.34%) Middleware
11 7 (4.93%) .NET Core
11 7 (4.93%) Redux
11 7 (4.93%) Zustand
12 6 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (4.23%) OAuth
12 6 (4.23%) Spring Cloud
13 5 (3.52%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.97%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (9.15%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.04%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.63%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.93%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.52%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.82%) NHS
7 4 (2.82%) Robotics
8 3 (2.11%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.11%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.41%) PKI
9 2 (1.41%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.70%) Clustering
10 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.70%) Life Science
10 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 33 (23.24%) Linux
2 15 (10.56%) Windows
3 5 (3.52%) Unix
4 3 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.70%) Android
6 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (73.94%) CI/CD
2 85 (59.86%) DevOps
3 60 (42.25%) Containerisation
3 60 (42.25%) Observability
4 56 (39.44%) Agile
5 48 (33.80%) Microservices
6 46 (32.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (23.24%) Software Engineering
8 31 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (19.72%) Test Automation
10 22 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (15.49%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (14.79%) DevSecOps
12 20 (14.08%) Performance Optimisation
13 19 (13.38%) Incident Response
14 18 (12.68%) API Development
14 18 (12.68%) Mentoring
15 16 (11.27%) Secrets Management
16 15 (10.56%) Identity Access Management
16 15 (10.56%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 76 (53.52%) Python
2 60 (42.25%) Java
3 34 (23.94%) SQL
4 19 (13.38%) JavaScript
5 17 (11.97%) TypeScript
6 16 (11.27%) Bash
6 16 (11.27%) C#
7 12 (8.45%) Scala
8 11 (7.75%) PowerShell
9 10 (7.04%) Go
10 9 (6.34%) Rust
11 6 (4.23%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.82%) Groovy
13 3 (2.11%) Delphi
13 3 (2.11%) PHP
13 3 (2.11%) Ruby
14 2 (1.41%) Bicep
14 2 (1.41%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.70%) C
Qualifications
1 26 (18.31%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.27%) Degree
4 8 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.86%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.93%) WCAG
3 6 (4.23%) QA
4 5 (3.52%) SLA
5 2 (1.41%) HL7
5 2 (1.41%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.70%) KVM
2 1 (0.70%) NFS
2 1 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 111 (78.17%) Kubernetes
2 56 (39.44%) Terraform
3 50 (35.21%) Grafana
4 47 (33.10%) Prometheus
5 23 (16.20%) Ansible
6 13 (9.15%) Control-M
6 13 (9.15%) IBM Guardium
6 13 (9.15%) Nessus
7 10 (7.04%) HAProxy
7 10 (7.04%) Kiali
8 4 (2.82%) Argo
9 2 (1.41%) HP Fortify
9 2 (1.41%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.70%) Istio
10 1 (0.70%) Kibana
10 1 (0.70%) logstash
10 1 (0.70%) Packer
10 1 (0.70%) Podman
10 1 (0.70%) SELinux
Vendors
1 29 (20.42%) Splunk
2 16 (11.27%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.15%) Tenable
4 6 (4.23%) Oracle
4 6 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.52%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.82%) AppDynamics
6 4 (2.82%) Google
7 3 (2.11%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.41%) Brio
8 2 (1.41%) IBM
8 2 (1.41%) VMware
9 1 (0.70%) New Relic
9 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.70%) Temenos