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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 52 29
Rank change year-on-year +13 -23 +34
Contract jobs citing Docker 154 59 88
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.39% 4.07% 5.47%
As % of the System Software category 38.12% 24.08% 37.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 39 71
10th Percentile £362 £377 £381
25th Percentile £450 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% -11.82%
75th Percentile £586 £575 £591
90th Percentile £633 £658 £650
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -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 404 245 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.15% 16.91% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 153 157
10th Percentile £200 £207 £183
25th Percentile £358 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -5.89% +14.46%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £580
90th Percentile £638 £608 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 23
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.36%
75th Percentile £28.00 - £15.19
90th Percentile - - £21.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.57 £21.00
% change year-on-year +54.61% +69.39% -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 26 July 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 26 July 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 84 £500 -4.76% 9
West Yorkshire +7 63 £500 +2.04% 15
East Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 3
North Yorkshire -7 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 14 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (1.30%) Apache
2 2 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 76 (49.35%) AWS
2 46 (29.87%) GCP
3 45 (29.22%) Azure
4 38 (24.68%) GitHub
5 20 (12.99%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (9.74%) Serverless
7 12 (7.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 10 (6.49%) Cloud Run
8 10 (6.49%) OpenShift
9 7 (4.55%) Apigee
9 7 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.25%) Vertex AI
11 4 (2.60%) BrowserStack
11 4 (2.60%) Google Gemini
11 4 (2.60%) Kong
11 4 (2.60%) LangSmith
12 3 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.95%) Stackdriver
13 2 (1.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.25%) 3GPP
1 5 (3.25%) RTP
1 5 (3.25%) Wireshark
2 4 (2.60%) Network Security
3 3 (1.95%) DNS
4 2 (1.30%) Firewall
4 2 (1.30%) Internet
4 2 (1.30%) VPN
5 1 (0.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (26.62%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (14.94%) MongoDB
3 20 (12.99%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.25%) BigQuery
5 5 (3.25%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.25%) Redis
6 4 (2.60%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.60%) Neo4j
6 4 (2.60%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.65%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.65%) Trino
Development Applications
1 58 (37.66%) Jenkins
2 31 (20.13%) JIRA
3 25 (16.23%) Git
3 25 (16.23%) GitLab
4 15 (9.74%) Gatling
5 14 (9.09%) Maven
6 11 (7.14%) Selenium
7 8 (5.19%) REST Assured
8 7 (4.55%) Serenity BDD
9 6 (3.90%) Artifactory
9 6 (3.90%) Gradle
10 5 (3.25%) Liquibase
10 5 (3.25%) TeamCity
11 4 (2.60%) Snyk
11 4 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (1.95%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.95%) Jaeger
12 3 (1.95%) JUnit
13 2 (1.30%) Mockito
13 2 (1.30%) Terragrunt
General
1 31 (20.13%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.29%) Finance
3 19 (12.34%) Banking
4 18 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.90%) Police
7 5 (3.25%) Aviation
7 5 (3.25%) Fire and Rescue
8 4 (2.60%) Games
8 4 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.60%) Law
8 4 (2.60%) Retail
9 3 (1.95%) Military
10 2 (1.30%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Legal
11 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (38.31%) Developer
2 27 (17.53%) Senior
3 24 (15.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (15.58%) Python Developer
4 21 (13.64%) Senior Developer
5 15 (9.74%) Java Developer
6 13 (8.44%) Backend Developer
6 13 (8.44%) Lead
6 13 (8.44%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (7.79%) Senior Backend Developer
8 11 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.49%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (5.84%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (5.84%) Test Engineer
11 8 (5.19%) GCP DevOps
11 8 (5.19%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 8 (5.19%) GCP Engineer
11 8 (5.19%) Java Engineer
11 8 (5.19%) Lead Test Engineer
12 6 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
2 27 (17.53%) Kafka
3 26 (16.88%) REST
4 25 (16.23%) Spring
5 24 (15.58%) Spring Boot
6 20 (12.99%) Playwright
7 17 (11.04%) .NET
7 17 (11.04%) RESTful
8 16 (10.39%) FastAPI
9 15 (9.74%) RabbitMQ
10 13 (8.44%) React
11 10 (6.49%) .NET Core
11 10 (6.49%) Node.js
11 10 (6.49%) OAuth
12 9 (5.84%) OAuth2
13 8 (5.19%) Spring Cloud
14 7 (4.55%) AngularJS
14 7 (4.55%) JPA
14 7 (4.55%) JWT
14 7 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (6.49%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.19%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.25%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.25%) PKI
5 5 (3.25%) Robotics
6 4 (2.60%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.60%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.30%) Clustering
7 2 (1.30%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.30%) NHS
7 2 (1.30%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (16.23%) Linux
2 9 (5.84%) Windows
3 4 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.65%) Android
5 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (75.32%) CI/CD
2 86 (55.84%) DevOps
3 69 (44.81%) Agile
4 65 (42.21%) Containerisation
5 57 (37.01%) Microservices
6 54 (35.06%) Observability
7 44 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 37 (24.03%) Test Automation
9 36 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (18.83%) Software Engineering
11 26 (16.88%) API Development
12 21 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (12.34%) AI
13 19 (12.34%) Code Quality
14 18 (11.69%) Full-Stack Development
15 15 (9.74%) BDD
15 15 (9.74%) Platform Engineering
15 15 (9.74%) Validation
16 14 (9.09%) Scrum
16 14 (9.09%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (50.00%) Python
2 58 (37.66%) Java
3 41 (26.62%) SQL
4 17 (11.04%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.09%) Scala
6 13 (8.44%) C#
7 11 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 9 (5.84%) Shell Script
9 8 (5.19%) Bash
9 8 (5.19%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.90%) Go
11 5 (3.25%) Groovy
12 3 (1.95%) Bicep
13 2 (1.30%) PromQL
14 1 (0.65%) C
14 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.65%) Ruby
14 1 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (15.58%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.69%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.49%) Degree
4 8 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.30%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.19%) QA
3 5 (3.25%) WCAG
4 2 (1.30%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.65%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (3.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.95%) KVM
2 3 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.65%) NFS
4 1 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 120 (77.92%) Kubernetes
2 52 (33.77%) Terraform
3 45 (29.22%) Prometheus
4 42 (27.27%) Grafana
5 27 (17.53%) Ansible
6 13 (8.44%) Control-M
6 13 (8.44%) IBM Guardium
6 13 (8.44%) Nessus
7 10 (6.49%) HAProxy
8 4 (2.60%) Argo
8 4 (2.60%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.30%) Consul
9 2 (1.30%) Kiali
9 2 (1.30%) Podman
9 2 (1.30%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.65%) Packer
10 1 (0.65%) SELinux
10 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.74%) Splunk
3 13 (8.44%) Tenable
4 12 (7.79%) Google
5 6 (3.90%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.60%) Centrify
6 4 (2.60%) CyberArk
6 4 (2.60%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.60%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.30%) IBM
7 2 (1.30%) Oracle
7 2 (1.30%) Solace
7 2 (1.30%) VMware
8 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.65%) New Relic
8 1 (0.65%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.65%) Temenos
8 1 (0.65%) Trend Micro