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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 45 61
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 -3
Contract jobs citing Docker 139 42 41
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.94% 4.26% 2.46%
As % of the System Software category 40.41% 23.08% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 26 35
10th Percentile £390 £431 £344
25th Percentile £450 £500 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £601
90th Percentile £588 £711 £629
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 344 182 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.69% 18.46% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 120 186
10th Percentile £213 £203 £171
25th Percentile £358 £300 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £425 £414
Median % change year-on-year +12.35% +2.72% -3.22%
75th Percentile £527 £575 £550
90th Percentile £588 £626 £615
England median daily rate £500 £525 £485
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -7.62%
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 - - -55.00%
75th Percentile £30.90 - £15.19
90th Percentile £31.47 - £15.64
England median hourly rate £55.00 £29.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +89.66% +38.10% -52.00%

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 17 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 17 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 -12 70 £475 -9.52% 9
West Yorkshire +10 68 £500 - 21
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
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 4 (2.88%) Confluence
2 3 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.44%) 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 79 (56.83%) AWS
2 46 (33.09%) Azure
3 44 (31.65%) GCP
4 35 (25.18%) GitHub
5 22 (15.83%) Serverless
6 21 (15.11%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (8.63%) Amazon S3
7 12 (8.63%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (7.91%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (6.47%) OpenShift
11 8 (5.76%) Apigee
12 7 (5.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (2.88%) Azure AKS
15 3 (2.16%) Amazon ECR
15 3 (2.16%) Amazon EventBridge
15 3 (2.16%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.11%) Firewall
2 10 (7.19%) DNS
3 6 (4.32%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.44%) 3GPP
4 2 (1.44%) Network Security
4 2 (1.44%) RTP
4 2 (1.44%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.72%) FTP
5 1 (0.72%) HTTP
5 1 (0.72%) Internet
5 1 (0.72%) VLAN
5 1 (0.72%) VPN
5 1 (0.72%) VSAN
5 1 (0.72%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (30.22%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (14.39%) MongoDB
3 16 (11.51%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.47%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.76%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.32%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.16%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.72%) Power BI
9 1 (0.72%) Redis
9 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (38.13%) Jenkins
2 29 (20.86%) GitLab
3 24 (17.27%) Git
4 19 (13.67%) JIRA
5 12 (8.63%) Gatling
6 10 (7.19%) Jaeger
6 10 (7.19%) Maven
6 10 (7.19%) Selenium
7 6 (4.32%) Artifactory
8 5 (3.60%) Liquibase
9 4 (2.88%) CircleCI
9 4 (2.88%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.16%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.16%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (1.44%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.44%) Gradle
11 2 (1.44%) Postman
11 2 (1.44%) Robot Framework
11 2 (1.44%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.44%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 30 (21.58%) Finance
3 21 (15.11%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (14.39%) Banking
4 20 (14.39%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.47%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.32%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.16%) Law
7 3 (2.16%) Military
8 2 (1.44%) Aviation
8 2 (1.44%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.44%) Police
8 2 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Games
9 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Legal
9 1 (0.72%) Retail
9 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (33.81%) Developer
2 24 (17.27%) Senior
3 21 (15.11%) Python Developer
4 19 (13.67%) Software Engineer
5 18 (12.95%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (9.35%) Lead
7 12 (8.63%) Java Developer
8 11 (7.91%) Senior Developer
9 10 (7.19%) GCP DevOps
9 10 (7.19%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 10 (7.19%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (6.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (6.47%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (5.04%) Java Engineer
13 6 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (4.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 6 (4.32%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 6 (4.32%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (22.30%) OpenTelemetry
2 24 (17.27%) Kafka
3 23 (16.55%) Spring Boot
4 21 (15.11%) Node.js
5 19 (13.67%) React
6 17 (12.23%) FastAPI
7 16 (11.51%) RESTful
8 15 (10.79%) .NET
8 15 (10.79%) Playwright
8 15 (10.79%) REST
8 15 (10.79%) Spring
9 9 (6.47%) Middleware
10 7 (5.04%) .NET Core
10 7 (5.04%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (4.32%) FHIR
11 6 (4.32%) Jest
11 6 (4.32%) Redux
11 6 (4.32%) Zustand
12 5 (3.60%) pytest
12 5 (3.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.39%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.95%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.91%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (7.91%) NHS
4 9 (6.47%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.47%) Public Cloud
5 8 (5.76%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.88%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.16%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.16%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.44%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.44%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.44%) Robotics
10 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.72%) Life Science
10 1 (0.72%) Replication
10 1 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.72%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.02%) Linux
2 11 (7.91%) Windows
3 5 (3.60%) Unix
4 3 (2.16%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.16%) 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 77 (55.40%) DevOps
3 65 (46.76%) Containerisation
4 60 (43.17%) Agile
5 48 (34.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (34.53%) Observability
6 45 (32.37%) Microservices
7 34 (24.46%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (21.58%) Software Engineering
9 29 (20.86%) Test Automation
10 24 (17.27%) DevSecOps
10 24 (17.27%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (16.55%) Mentoring
12 20 (14.39%) API Development
13 19 (13.67%) Performance Optimisation
14 18 (12.95%) Infrastructure Automation
15 15 (10.79%) Identity Access Management
15 15 (10.79%) Incident Response
16 14 (10.07%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 76 (54.68%) Python
2 53 (38.13%) Java
3 30 (21.58%) SQL
4 19 (13.67%) JavaScript
5 16 (11.51%) C#
5 16 (11.51%) TypeScript
6 15 (10.79%) Bash
7 10 (7.19%) Go
8 9 (6.47%) Rust
8 9 (6.47%) Scala
9 8 (5.76%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.60%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.88%) Groovy
12 3 (2.16%) Delphi
12 3 (2.16%) PHP
12 3 (2.16%) Ruby
13 2 (1.44%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.72%) Bicep
14 1 (0.72%) C
Qualifications
1 30 (21.58%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.55%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.79%) Degree
4 8 (5.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.88%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.16%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.16%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.44%) CCSP
8 2 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.44%) CISSP
9 1 (0.72%) CSPO
9 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.35%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.32%) WCAG
3 5 (3.60%) SLA
4 4 (2.88%) HL7
4 4 (2.88%) QA
5 2 (1.44%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.44%) GDPR
5 2 (1.44%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.44%) NIST
5 2 (1.44%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.44%) PSD2
6 1 (0.72%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (1.44%) KVM
1 2 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (1.44%) 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
1 107 (76.98%) Kubernetes
2 60 (43.17%) Terraform
3 45 (32.37%) Grafana
4 41 (29.50%) Prometheus
5 22 (15.83%) Ansible
6 13 (9.35%) Control-M
6 13 (9.35%) IBM Guardium
6 13 (9.35%) Nessus
7 10 (7.19%) Kiali
8 9 (6.47%) HAProxy
9 4 (2.88%) Packer
10 2 (1.44%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.72%) Argo
11 1 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.72%) Istio
11 1 (0.72%) Kibana
11 1 (0.72%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.72%) logstash
11 1 (0.72%) Podman
11 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (20.86%) Splunk
2 15 (10.79%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.35%) Tenable
4 6 (4.32%) Brio
4 6 (4.32%) Oracle
5 5 (3.60%) Google
5 5 (3.60%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.88%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.16%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.44%) Databricks
8 2 (1.44%) IBM
8 2 (1.44%) VMware
9 1 (0.72%) Cisco
9 1 (0.72%) F5
9 1 (0.72%) NetApp
9 1 (0.72%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.72%) Temenos