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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 53 38
Rank change year-on-year +11 -15 +28
Contract jobs citing Docker 152 54 84
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.45% 4.29% 4.87%
As % of the System Software category 37.72% 23.48% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 36 68
10th Percentile £363 £399 £375
25th Percentile £450 £469 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -10.00%
75th Percentile £573 £602 £604
90th Percentile £630 £669 £645
England median daily rate £525 £525 £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 403 230 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.45% 18.25% 14.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 141 175
10th Percentile £200 £200 £178
25th Percentile £358 £361 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.17% +8.24%
75th Percentile £554 £575 £576
90th Percentile £638 £619 £645
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 24
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -55.00%
75th Percentile £28.00 - £15.19
90th Percentile - - £19.78
England median hourly rate £53.00 £29.00 £22.30
% change year-on-year +82.76% +30.04% -55.40%

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 2 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 2 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 +2 86 £500 -4.76% 14
West Yorkshire +1 62 £500 +5.26% 18
East Yorkshire - 5 - - 1
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 13 (8.55%) Confluence
2 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.66%) Apache
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.66%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 72 (47.37%) AWS
2 44 (28.95%) GCP
3 39 (25.66%) Azure
4 38 (25.00%) GitHub
5 21 (13.82%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (9.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 14 (9.21%) Serverless
8 10 (6.58%) Cloud Run
8 10 (6.58%) OpenShift
9 7 (4.61%) Apigee
9 7 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.29%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (2.63%) BrowserStack
11 4 (2.63%) Kong
11 4 (2.63%) Vertex AI
12 3 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.97%) Google Gemini
12 3 (1.97%) LangSmith
12 3 (1.97%) Stackdriver
13 2 (1.32%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.29%) 3GPP
1 5 (3.29%) Firewall
1 5 (3.29%) RTP
1 5 (3.29%) Wireshark
2 4 (2.63%) Network Security
3 3 (1.97%) DNS
4 2 (1.32%) Internet
4 2 (1.32%) VPN
5 1 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (26.97%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (14.47%) MongoDB
3 19 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.58%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.29%) Redis
6 4 (2.63%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.63%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.63%) Neo4j
6 4 (2.63%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.63%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.66%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 56 (36.84%) Jenkins
2 31 (20.39%) JIRA
3 28 (18.42%) GitLab
4 27 (17.76%) Git
5 15 (9.87%) Gatling
6 14 (9.21%) Maven
7 12 (7.89%) Selenium
8 8 (5.26%) REST Assured
9 7 (4.61%) Serenity BDD
10 6 (3.95%) Artifactory
10 6 (3.95%) Gradle
10 6 (3.95%) Jaeger
11 5 (3.29%) Liquibase
11 5 (3.29%) TeamCity
12 4 (2.63%) Snyk
13 3 (1.97%) Cucumber
13 3 (1.97%) JUnit
13 3 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (1.32%) git-flow
14 2 (1.32%) Mockito
General
1 31 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.13%) Finance
3 19 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.18%) Banking
5 14 (9.21%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.29%) Aviation
7 5 (3.29%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (3.29%) Police
8 4 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.63%) Law
9 3 (1.97%) Games
9 3 (1.97%) Military
9 3 (1.97%) Retail
10 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Legal
11 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (38.16%) Developer
2 29 (19.08%) Senior
3 26 (17.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (15.13%) Python Developer
5 21 (13.82%) Senior Developer
6 16 (10.53%) Java Developer
7 12 (7.89%) Backend Developer
7 12 (7.89%) Lead
7 12 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (7.24%) Senior Backend Developer
8 11 (7.24%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.58%) GCP DevOps
9 10 (6.58%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 10 (6.58%) GCP Engineer
9 10 (6.58%) Test Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) Lead Test Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.61%) Java Engineer
13 6 (3.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 6 (3.95%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (22.37%) OpenTelemetry
2 29 (19.08%) Kafka
3 27 (17.76%) Spring Boot
4 25 (16.45%) Spring
5 22 (14.47%) REST
6 20 (13.16%) Playwright
7 17 (11.18%) FastAPI
8 16 (10.53%) .NET
8 16 (10.53%) RESTful
9 14 (9.21%) Node.js
9 14 (9.21%) React
10 13 (8.55%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (5.92%) .NET Core
12 8 (5.26%) OAuth
12 8 (5.26%) Spring Cloud
13 7 (4.61%) JPA
13 7 (4.61%) JWT
13 7 (4.61%) OAuth2
14 6 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
14 6 (3.95%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.82%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.58%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (4.61%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.61%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.29%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.29%) PKI
5 5 (3.29%) Robotics
6 4 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.97%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.97%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.32%) Clustering
8 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.66%) Life Science
9 1 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.42%) Linux
2 9 (5.92%) Windows
3 4 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.66%) Android
5 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (73.68%) CI/CD
2 89 (58.55%) DevOps
3 65 (42.76%) Agile
4 63 (41.45%) Containerisation
5 57 (37.50%) Microservices
5 57 (37.50%) Observability
6 44 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (23.03%) Test Automation
8 32 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (17.11%) API Development
10 25 (16.45%) Software Engineering
11 21 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (11.84%) Code Quality
13 17 (11.18%) DevSecOps
13 17 (11.18%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (11.18%) Incident Response
13 17 (11.18%) Secrets Management
14 16 (10.53%) AI
14 16 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
15 15 (9.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 76 (50.00%) Python
2 60 (39.47%) Java
3 39 (25.66%) SQL
4 16 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 13 (8.55%) C#
5 13 (8.55%) Scala
5 13 (8.55%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.26%) Bash
6 8 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.95%) Go
8 5 (3.29%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.63%) Rust
10 3 (1.97%) Bicep
10 3 (1.97%) Ruby
11 2 (1.32%) PromQL
12 1 (0.66%) C
12 1 (0.66%) Groovy
12 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 25 (16.45%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.84%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.55%) Degree
4 9 (5.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.89%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.26%) QA
3 6 (3.95%) WCAG
4 2 (1.32%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.66%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.97%) KVM
2 3 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.66%) NFS
4 1 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 122 (80.26%) Kubernetes
2 54 (35.53%) Terraform
3 48 (31.58%) Prometheus
4 46 (30.26%) Grafana
5 26 (17.11%) Ansible
6 14 (9.21%) Control-M
6 14 (9.21%) IBM Guardium
6 14 (9.21%) Nessus
7 10 (6.58%) HAProxy
8 5 (3.29%) Kiali
8 5 (3.29%) Kustomize
9 4 (2.63%) Argo
10 2 (1.32%) Consul
10 2 (1.32%) Podman
10 2 (1.32%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.66%) Packer
11 1 (0.66%) SELinux
11 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (11.84%) Microsoft
1 18 (11.84%) Splunk
2 14 (9.21%) Tenable
3 9 (5.92%) Google
4 6 (3.95%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.63%) Centrify
5 4 (2.63%) CyberArk
5 4 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.97%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.32%) IBM
7 2 (1.32%) Oracle
7 2 (1.32%) Solace
7 2 (1.32%) VMware
8 1 (0.66%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.66%) New Relic
8 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.66%) Temenos
8 1 (0.66%) Trend Micro