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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 39 41
Rank change year-on-year +10 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Docker 139 57 73
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 7.60% 4.83% 4.00%
As % of the System Software category 46.33% 31.15% 24.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 42 57
10th Percentile £390 £381 £404
25th Percentile £434 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £622 £588
90th Percentile £593 £700 £646
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -14.29% +19.66%

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 300 183 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.39% 15.50% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 123 217
10th Percentile £200 £201 £189
25th Percentile £372 £289 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £440 £430
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% +2.33% +1.18%
75th Percentile £538 £561 £569
90th Percentile £588 £661 £627
England median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile £26.81 - £16.55
25th Percentile £27.65 £20.50 £17.54
Median hourly rate £29.68 £21.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.33% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £31.08 £21.50 £22.00
90th Percentile £31.55 - £26.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £31.75 £42.04
% change year-on-year +49.61% -24.47% +68.15%

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 15 December 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 15 December 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 +8 70 £500 +17.65% 70
South Yorkshire -4 65 £500 -19.16% 26
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 10
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 (2.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.44%) Apache
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 96 (69.06%) AWS
2 62 (44.60%) GCP
3 55 (39.57%) Azure
4 49 (35.25%) Serverless
5 24 (17.27%) Amazon S3
6 22 (15.83%) GitHub
7 19 (13.67%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (11.51%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (10.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (10.79%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (10.79%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (10.07%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (7.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (7.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (4.32%) Amazon ELB
13 6 (4.32%) AWS KMS
13 6 (4.32%) Azure Functions
14 5 (3.60%) Apigee
14 5 (3.60%) Azure AKS
14 5 (3.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (16.55%) Firewall
2 10 (7.19%) DNS
3 7 (5.04%) VPN
4 6 (4.32%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.60%) Network Security
5 5 (3.60%) SSL
6 1 (0.72%) FTP
6 1 (0.72%) HTTP
6 1 (0.72%) VLAN
6 1 (0.72%) VSAN
6 1 (0.72%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (29.50%) NoSQL
2 33 (23.74%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.91%) DynamoDB
3 11 (7.91%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.47%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.60%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.16%) Redis
8 2 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.72%) MySQL
9 1 (0.72%) Power BI
9 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 59 (42.45%) Jenkins
2 41 (29.50%) GitLab
3 29 (20.86%) Git
4 24 (17.27%) Liquibase
5 15 (10.79%) JIRA
6 4 (2.88%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.88%) Jaeger
6 4 (2.88%) Maven
6 4 (2.88%) Selenium
6 4 (2.88%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.16%) Mocha
7 3 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.44%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.44%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.72%) Gradle
9 1 (0.72%) JMeter
9 1 (0.72%) JUnit
9 1 (0.72%) TestNG
General
1 50 (35.97%) Social Skills
2 38 (27.34%) Finance
3 30 (21.58%) Banking
4 24 (17.27%) Financial Institution
5 16 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (10.07%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.60%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Local Government
9 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (24.46%) Software Engineer
2 33 (23.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (21.58%) Senior
4 26 (18.71%) Developer
5 19 (13.67%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (10.07%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (9.35%) Senior DevOps
7 13 (9.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 11 (7.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (7.91%) Python Developer
9 10 (7.19%) Architect
9 10 (7.19%) AWS Software Engineer
10 9 (6.47%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (5.04%) Lead
11 7 (5.04%) NetBackup Engineer
12 6 (4.32%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (4.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.32%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 6 (4.32%) Python Engineer
13 5 (3.60%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (29.50%) RESTful
2 37 (26.62%) REST
3 29 (20.86%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (15.83%) Node.js
5 19 (13.67%) React
6 18 (12.95%) FastAPI
7 16 (11.51%) OpenTelemetry
8 13 (9.35%) .NET
9 11 (7.91%) Kafka
9 11 (7.91%) Spring Boot
10 10 (7.19%) Jest
11 8 (5.76%) AngularJS
11 8 (5.76%) Django
11 8 (5.76%) Flask
12 7 (5.04%) Spring
12 7 (5.04%) WebSockets
13 6 (4.32%) .NET Core
13 6 (4.32%) CSS
13 6 (4.32%) GraphQL
13 6 (4.32%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (29.50%) Cloud Native
2 27 (19.42%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (18.71%) Public Cloud
4 9 (6.47%) NHS
5 8 (5.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.76%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.16%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.44%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.44%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.72%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.72%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (34.53%) Linux
2 4 (2.88%) Windows
3 3 (2.16%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.72%) CentOS
5 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (72.66%) CI/CD
2 86 (61.87%) DevOps
3 85 (61.15%) Containerisation
4 71 (51.08%) Agile
5 65 (46.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (35.97%) Microservices
7 45 (32.37%) Software Engineering
8 31 (22.30%) High Availability
8 31 (22.30%) Root Cause Analysis
9 29 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (19.42%) Computer Science
11 25 (17.99%) Infrastructure Automation
11 25 (17.99%) Mentoring
12 24 (17.27%) Data Security
13 22 (15.83%) Continuous Integration
13 22 (15.83%) Cybersecurity
14 21 (15.11%) Change Management
14 21 (15.11%) Continuous Delivery
14 21 (15.11%) Cryptography
15 19 (13.67%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 86 (61.87%) Python
2 28 (20.14%) Go
2 28 (20.14%) Java
3 26 (18.71%) Bash
4 20 (14.39%) SQL
5 14 (10.07%) C#
5 14 (10.07%) TypeScript
6 13 (9.35%) JavaScript
7 12 (8.63%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.60%) Bicep
8 5 (3.60%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.88%) Groovy
9 4 (2.88%) Rust
10 3 (2.16%) Delphi
10 3 (2.16%) PHP
11 2 (1.44%) C++
12 1 (0.72%) C
12 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 28 (20.14%) Degree
2 24 (17.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 24 (17.27%) Master's Degree
3 19 (13.67%) Security Cleared
4 15 (10.79%) AWS Certification
5 11 (7.91%) SC Cleared
6 9 (6.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.60%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (2.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.44%) CCSP
9 2 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.44%) CISSP
10 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.72%) CSPO
10 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.72%) OCP
10 1 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.88%) Accessibility
1 4 (2.88%) HL7
1 4 (2.88%) QA
2 2 (1.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.44%) GDPR
2 2 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.44%) NIST
2 2 (1.44%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.44%) PSD2
2 2 (1.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (5.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.16%) KVM
3 1 (0.72%) Ceph
3 1 (0.72%) QEMU
3 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 93 (66.91%) Kubernetes
2 76 (54.68%) Terraform
3 47 (33.81%) Prometheus
4 46 (33.09%) Ansible
4 46 (33.09%) Grafana
5 10 (7.19%) Control-M
5 10 (7.19%) IBM Guardium
5 10 (7.19%) Nessus
6 7 (5.04%) NetBackup
6 7 (5.04%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (3.60%) Packer
8 4 (2.88%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.88%) Puppet
9 3 (2.16%) Kiali
10 2 (1.44%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.72%) Argo
11 1 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.72%) Kibana
11 1 (0.72%) logstash
11 1 (0.72%) Podman
Vendors
1 31 (22.30%) Splunk
2 24 (17.27%) Google
3 11 (7.91%) Microsoft
4 10 (7.19%) Tenable
5 9 (6.47%) VMware
6 7 (5.04%) CyberArk
6 7 (5.04%) F5
6 7 (5.04%) Oracle
6 7 (5.04%) Palo Alto
6 7 (5.04%) Veritas
7 6 (4.32%) CheckPoint
8 5 (3.60%) Brio
9 3 (2.16%) Databricks
9 3 (2.16%) SAP
10 2 (1.44%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.44%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.44%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.72%) Cisco
11 1 (0.72%) NetApp
11 1 (0.72%) Red Hat