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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 47 59
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 +7
Contract jobs citing Docker 138 42 42
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.92% 4.40% 2.50%
As % of the System Software category 40.47% 24.14% 16.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 26 36
10th Percentile £407 £431 £351
25th Percentile £450 £500 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £494
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.33% -10.23%
75th Percentile £541 £623 £594
90th Percentile £588 £711 £626
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 341 174 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.62% 18.24% 15.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 114 187
10th Percentile £213 £221 £164
25th Percentile £358 £314 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -2.94%
75th Percentile £527 £575 £544
90th Percentile £588 £634 £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 £26.81 - -
25th Percentile £27.65 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £29.68 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -55.00%
75th Percentile £31.08 - £15.19
90th Percentile £31.55 - £16.90
England median hourly rate £51.75 £28.71 £21.00
% change year-on-year +80.28% +36.69% -47.50%

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 10 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 10 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
West Yorkshire +17 70 £500 +1.27% 31
South Yorkshire -7 67 £475 -11.63% 12
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
North Yorkshire - 1 £550 -
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 (2.90%) Confluence
2 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.45%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.72%) Apache
4 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 80 (57.97%) AWS
2 45 (32.61%) Azure
2 45 (32.61%) GCP
3 32 (23.19%) GitHub
4 24 (17.39%) Serverless
5 18 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (10.14%) Amazon S3
6 14 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (7.97%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (7.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (6.52%) OpenShift
10 8 (5.80%) Apigee
11 7 (5.07%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (5.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (2.90%) Azure AKS
13 4 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (2.17%) Amazon ECR
14 3 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.94%) Firewall
2 10 (7.25%) DNS
3 6 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.45%) 3GPP
4 2 (1.45%) Network Security
4 2 (1.45%) RTP
4 2 (1.45%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.72%) FTP
5 1 (0.72%) HTTP
5 1 (0.72%) VLAN
5 1 (0.72%) VPN
5 1 (0.72%) VSAN
5 1 (0.72%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (13.04%) MongoDB
3 12 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.97%) NoSQL
5 9 (6.52%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.35%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.17%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.17%) Redis
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.72%) Power BI
8 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (36.23%) Jenkins
2 29 (21.01%) GitLab
3 26 (18.84%) Git
4 17 (12.32%) JIRA
5 10 (7.25%) Jaeger
5 10 (7.25%) Selenium
6 8 (5.80%) Gatling
6 8 (5.80%) Maven
7 5 (3.62%) Liquibase
8 4 (2.90%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.90%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.90%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.17%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.17%) Mocha
9 3 (2.17%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (1.45%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.45%) Gradle
10 2 (1.45%) Robot Framework
10 2 (1.45%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.45%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.01%) Finance
3 19 (13.77%) Banking
3 19 (13.77%) Public Sector
4 18 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.52%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.35%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.17%) Law
7 3 (2.17%) Military
8 2 (1.45%) Aviation
8 2 (1.45%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.45%) Police
8 2 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Legal
9 1 (0.72%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Retail
9 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (33.33%) Developer
2 27 (19.57%) Senior
3 20 (14.49%) Software Engineer
4 18 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (13.04%) Python Developer
5 13 (9.42%) Lead
5 13 (9.42%) Senior Developer
6 11 (7.97%) Java Developer
7 10 (7.25%) GCP DevOps
7 10 (7.25%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 10 (7.25%) GCP Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (5.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 8 (5.80%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 7 (5.07%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.07%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (4.35%) Java Engineer
11 6 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (20.29%) OpenTelemetry
2 24 (17.39%) Kafka
2 24 (17.39%) Node.js
3 23 (16.67%) React
3 23 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 17 (12.32%) RESTful
5 15 (10.87%) .NET
5 15 (10.87%) FastAPI
5 15 (10.87%) REST
5 15 (10.87%) Spring
6 11 (7.97%) Playwright
7 9 (6.52%) Jest
7 9 (6.52%) Middleware
8 7 (5.07%) .NET Core
8 7 (5.07%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (4.35%) FHIR
9 6 (4.35%) pytest
9 6 (4.35%) Redux
9 6 (4.35%) Zustand
10 5 (3.62%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.49%) Cloud Native
2 18 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.97%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (7.97%) NHS
4 10 (7.25%) Public Cloud
5 8 (5.80%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.35%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.17%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.17%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.45%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.45%) Robotics
10 1 (0.72%) CUDA
10 1 (0.72%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.72%) Life Science
10 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 33 (23.91%) Linux
2 11 (7.97%) Windows
3 5 (3.62%) Unix
4 3 (2.17%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.72%) CentOS
5 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (71.01%) CI/CD
2 75 (54.35%) DevOps
3 61 (44.20%) Containerisation
4 59 (42.75%) Agile
5 47 (34.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (34.06%) Microservices
6 45 (32.61%) Observability
7 31 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (22.46%) Software Engineering
8 29 (21.01%) Test Automation
9 25 (18.12%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (17.39%) DevSecOps
10 24 (17.39%) Mentoring
11 22 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (13.77%) Performance Optimisation
13 18 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
14 17 (12.32%) API Development
15 15 (10.87%) Incident Response
16 14 (10.14%) Process Improvement
16 14 (10.14%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (51.45%) Python
2 49 (35.51%) Java
3 32 (23.19%) SQL
4 21 (15.22%) JavaScript
5 17 (12.32%) TypeScript
6 16 (11.59%) Bash
6 16 (11.59%) C#
7 10 (7.25%) Go
8 9 (6.52%) PowerShell
8 9 (6.52%) Rust
9 5 (3.62%) Scala
9 5 (3.62%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.90%) Groovy
11 3 (2.17%) Delphi
11 3 (2.17%) PHP
11 3 (2.17%) Ruby
12 2 (1.45%) C
12 2 (1.45%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.72%) Bicep
13 1 (0.72%) C++
Qualifications
1 26 (18.84%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.77%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.87%) Degree
4 5 (3.62%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.45%) CCSP
6 2 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.45%) CISSP
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.72%) CSPO
7 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.14%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.80%) WCAG
3 5 (3.62%) SLA
4 4 (2.90%) HL7
4 4 (2.90%) QA
5 2 (1.45%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.45%) GDPR
5 2 (1.45%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.45%) NIST
5 2 (1.45%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.45%) PSD2
6 1 (0.72%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (1.45%) KVM
1 2 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (1.45%) vSphere
2 1 (0.72%) Ceph
2 1 (0.72%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.72%) QEMU
2 1 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 103 (74.64%) Kubernetes
2 59 (42.75%) Terraform
3 42 (30.43%) Grafana
4 38 (27.54%) Prometheus
5 23 (16.67%) Ansible
6 10 (7.25%) Control-M
6 10 (7.25%) IBM Guardium
6 10 (7.25%) Kiali
6 10 (7.25%) Nessus
7 5 (3.62%) HAProxy
8 4 (2.90%) Packer
9 2 (1.45%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.72%) Argo
10 1 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.72%) Istio
10 1 (0.72%) Kibana
10 1 (0.72%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.72%) logstash
10 1 (0.72%) Podman
10 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (21.01%) Splunk
2 10 (7.25%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.25%) Tenable
3 6 (4.35%) Brio
3 6 (4.35%) Oracle
4 5 (3.62%) Google
4 5 (3.62%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.90%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.17%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.45%) Databricks
7 2 (1.45%) IBM
7 2 (1.45%) VMware
8 1 (0.72%) Cisco
8 1 (0.72%) CloudEndure
8 1 (0.72%) F5
8 1 (0.72%) NetApp
8 1 (0.72%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.72%) Temenos