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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 47 46
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +18
Contract jobs citing Docker 144 43 55
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.96% 4.23% 3.28%
As % of the System Software category 40.91% 22.75% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 28 48
10th Percentile £390 £439 £375
25th Percentile £450 £500 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £538 £650 £615
90th Percentile £588 £711 £645
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 352 189 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.56% 18.60% 15.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 123 194
10th Percentile £226 £187 £178
25th Percentile £358 £305 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year +12.35% -1.16% +0.58%
75th Percentile £528 £575 £569
90th Percentile £588 £648 £634
England median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
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 - - -69.21%
75th Percentile £30.90 - £15.19
90th Percentile £31.47 - £15.64
England median hourly rate £56.25 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +100.89% +30.23% -56.57%

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 25 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 25 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 -10 72 £475 -11.63% 3
West Yorkshire +21 70 £500 -14.89% 15
East Yorkshire - 3 - - 2
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 79 (54.86%) AWS
2 48 (33.33%) Azure
3 44 (30.56%) 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 10 (6.94%) OpenShift
10 9 (6.25%) Apigee
10 9 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (3.47%) Azure AKS
13 4 (2.78%) Cloud Run
14 3 (2.08%) Amazon EventBridge
14 3 (2.08%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.89%) Firewall
2 11 (7.64%) 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%) VPN
6 1 (0.69%) FTP
6 1 (0.69%) HTTP
6 1 (0.69%) Internet
6 1 (0.69%) Network Security
6 1 (0.69%) VLAN
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 29 (20.14%) Finance
3 22 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.89%) Banking
5 19 (13.19%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.25%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.17%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.08%) Aviation
8 3 (2.08%) Fire and Rescue
8 3 (2.08%) Law
8 3 (2.08%) Military
8 3 (2.08%) Police
9 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Legal
10 1 (0.69%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Retail
10 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
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 19 (13.19%) 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
5 8 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.56%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.08%) Robotics
7 3 (2.08%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.39%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.69%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.69%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.69%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.69%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 35 (24.31%) Linux
2 12 (8.33%) Windows
3 5 (3.47%) Unix
4 4 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.08%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.69%) CentOS
6 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (72.22%) CI/CD
2 81 (56.25%) DevOps
3 66 (45.83%) Containerisation
4 61 (42.36%) Agile
5 50 (34.72%) Observability
6 49 (34.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (31.94%) Microservices
8 35 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (22.22%) Software Engineering
10 28 (19.44%) Test Automation
11 24 (16.67%) 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 15 (10.42%) Computer Science
16 15 (10.42%) Identity Access Management
16 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%) Bash
5 17 (11.81%) C#
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 30 (20.83%) 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 3 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.69%) CCSP
8 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.69%) CISSP
8 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%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.69%) GDPR
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.69%) NIST
6 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.69%) PSD2
6 1 (0.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.39%) KVM
2 2 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.39%) vSphere
3 1 (0.69%) Ceph
3 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.69%) NFS
3 1 (0.69%) QEMU
3 1 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
3 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 25 (17.36%) 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
9 2 (1.39%) Podman
10 1 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.69%) Istio
10 1 (0.69%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.69%) logstash
10 1 (0.69%) SELinux
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
4 6 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.47%) Google
6 4 (2.78%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.08%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.08%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.08%) VMware
8 2 (1.39%) Databricks
8 2 (1.39%) IBM
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