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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 38 29
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 +27
Contract jobs citing Docker 142 98 89
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.87% 6.23% 6.03%
As % of the System Software category 37.77% 36.57% 39.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 64 73
10th Percentile £350 £379 £375
25th Percentile £413 £416 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +1.01% -13.91%
75th Percentile £555 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £684 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%

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 376 268 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.89% 17.04% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 172 160
10th Percentile £200 £188 £199
25th Percentile £350 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £573 £538 £570
90th Percentile £650 £602 £645
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.86% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £25.84 - £17.81
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.03%
75th Percentile £28.00 - £21.50
90th Percentile - - £21.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £34.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +88.41% +25.45% -40.22%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -13 74 £475 -9.52% 24
West Yorkshire -6 62 £494 +2.60% 46
East Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 4
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 15 (10.56%) Confluence
2 3 (2.11%) Apache
3 2 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 64 (45.07%) AWS
2 54 (38.03%) Azure
3 46 (32.39%) GCP
4 36 (25.35%) GitHub
5 21 (14.79%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (13.38%) Serverless
7 17 (11.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (5.63%) Cloud Run
9 7 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (4.23%) OpenShift
11 5 (3.52%) Apigee
11 5 (3.52%) Datadog
11 5 (3.52%) Kong
11 5 (3.52%) Vertex AI
12 4 (2.82%) Google Gemini
12 4 (2.82%) LangSmith
13 3 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (2.11%) Azure AKS
13 3 (2.11%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.23%) Network Security
2 5 (3.52%) 3GPP
2 5 (3.52%) RTP
2 5 (3.52%) Wireshark
3 3 (2.11%) DNS
3 3 (2.11%) Firewall
4 2 (1.41%) Internet
4 2 (1.41%) VPN
5 1 (0.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.49%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (11.27%) MongoDB
3 14 (9.86%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.63%) Neo4j
4 8 (5.63%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.52%) BigQuery
5 5 (3.52%) Hazelcast
5 5 (3.52%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.52%) Redis
6 4 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.11%) Tableau
8 2 (1.41%) Big Data
8 2 (1.41%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.70%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.70%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.70%) Looker
Development Applications
1 52 (36.62%) Jenkins
2 27 (19.01%) Git
3 25 (17.61%) JIRA
4 17 (11.97%) GitLab
5 13 (9.15%) Maven
6 12 (8.45%) Gatling
7 11 (7.75%) Selenium
8 9 (6.34%) Cucumber
9 8 (5.63%) JMeter
10 7 (4.93%) Gradle
10 7 (4.93%) LoadRunner
10 7 (4.93%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (4.23%) Postman
11 6 (4.23%) SoapUI
12 5 (3.52%) REST Assured
12 5 (3.52%) TeamCity
13 4 (2.82%) JUnit
13 4 (2.82%) Serenity BDD
13 4 (2.82%) Snyk
14 3 (2.11%) Mockito
General
1 31 (21.83%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.20%) Finance
3 18 (12.68%) Banking
4 14 (9.86%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.23%) Police
7 5 (3.52%) Aviation
7 5 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.52%) Fire and Rescue
8 4 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.82%) Law
9 3 (2.11%) Games
9 3 (2.11%) Retail
10 2 (1.41%) Military
11 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (33.80%) Developer
2 26 (18.31%) Senior
3 19 (13.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (13.38%) Python Developer
4 17 (11.97%) Senior Developer
5 15 (10.56%) Lead
6 14 (9.86%) Java Developer
7 11 (7.75%) Backend Developer
8 10 (7.04%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (7.04%) Senior Backend Developer
9 9 (6.34%) Test Engineer
10 8 (5.63%) Architect
10 8 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (5.63%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (4.93%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.93%) Software Engineer
12 6 (4.23%) .NET Developer
12 6 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 6 (4.23%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.23%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (30.99%) Terraform
2 33 (23.24%) Kafka
3 25 (17.61%) REST
4 24 (16.90%) Spring
5 22 (15.49%) Spring Boot
6 18 (12.68%) OpenTelemetry
7 14 (9.86%) .NET
7 14 (9.86%) RabbitMQ
8 12 (8.45%) .NET Core
8 12 (8.45%) OAuth
8 12 (8.45%) RESTful
9 11 (7.75%) OAuth2
10 10 (7.04%) FastAPI
10 10 (7.04%) Flask
10 10 (7.04%) HTML
10 10 (7.04%) Playwright
10 10 (7.04%) Web Services
11 9 (6.34%) AngularJS
11 9 (6.34%) CSS
11 9 (6.34%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.01%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.56%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.93%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.23%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.52%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.52%) PKI
5 5 (3.52%) Robotics
6 4 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.11%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.11%) NHS
7 3 (2.11%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.11%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.41%) Clustering
9 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.70%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.70%) Replication
9 1 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.38%) Linux
2 6 (4.23%) Windows
3 4 (2.82%) Unix
3 4 (2.82%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.41%) VMS
5 1 (0.70%) Android
5 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (83.10%) CI/CD
2 73 (51.41%) DevOps
3 66 (46.48%) Agile
4 53 (37.32%) Containerisation
5 51 (35.92%) Microservices
6 46 (32.39%) Observability
7 45 (31.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 37 (26.06%) Test Automation
9 30 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (16.90%) AI
11 23 (16.20%) Software Engineering
12 20 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (13.38%) API Development
14 17 (11.97%) DevSecOps
15 16 (11.27%) Identity Access Management
16 15 (10.56%) BDD
16 15 (10.56%) Code Quality
16 15 (10.56%) Full-Stack Development
16 15 (10.56%) LLM
16 15 (10.56%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (49.30%) Python
2 51 (35.92%) Java
3 40 (28.17%) SQL
4 17 (11.97%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.15%) Shell Script
6 10 (7.04%) Scala
7 9 (6.34%) C#
7 9 (6.34%) Groovy
8 8 (5.63%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.23%) Bash
9 6 (4.23%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.82%) Bicep
11 2 (1.41%) Go
11 2 (1.41%) PromQL
12 1 (0.70%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 23 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.34%) Degree
4 8 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.04%) QA
2 5 (3.52%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.41%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.41%) WCAG
5 1 (0.70%) HL7
5 1 (0.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.41%) KVM
4 1 (0.70%) NFS
4 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 116 (81.69%) Kubernetes
2 34 (23.94%) Grafana
3 29 (20.42%) Prometheus
4 24 (16.90%) Ansible
5 7 (4.93%) Control-M
5 7 (4.93%) IBM Guardium
5 7 (4.93%) Nessus
6 6 (4.23%) Kustomize
7 5 (3.52%) Argo
7 5 (3.52%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.41%) Consul
8 2 (1.41%) Podman
8 2 (1.41%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.70%) Kiali
9 1 (0.70%) SELinux
9 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (13.38%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.15%) Google
2 13 (9.15%) Splunk
3 10 (7.04%) Dynatrace
4 8 (5.63%) IBM
5 7 (4.93%) Tenable
6 6 (4.23%) Centrify
6 6 (4.23%) CyberArk
6 6 (4.23%) New Relic
7 5 (3.52%) AppDynamics
7 5 (3.52%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.11%) Databricks
8 3 (2.11%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.41%) Checkmarx
9 2 (1.41%) Solace
10 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.70%) Oracle
10 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.70%) Trend Micro
10 1 (0.70%) VMware