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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 31 41
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +9
Contract jobs citing Docker 124 74 79
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.89% 5.52% 4.18%
As % of the System Software category 42.32% 36.45% 28.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 55 62
10th Percentile £384 £288 £413
25th Percentile £438 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £605 £600
90th Percentile £600 £700 £649
England median daily rate £525 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +11.67% -17.24% +45.00%

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 293 203 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.27% 15.14% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 138 195
10th Percentile £199 £188 £194
25th Percentile £359 £288 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile £26.81 - £16.92
25th Percentile £27.65 £20.50 £17.86
Median hourly rate £29.68 £21.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.33% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £31.08 £21.50 -
90th Percentile £31.55 - £44.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -40.00% +14.06% +75.34%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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
West Yorkshire +5 64 £500 +25.00% 48
South Yorkshire -10 56 £515 -17.20% 4
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
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 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.61%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.81%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.81%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 84 (67.74%) AWS
2 55 (44.35%) GCP
3 47 (37.90%) Azure
4 46 (37.10%) Serverless
5 21 (16.94%) Amazon S3
6 18 (14.52%) GitHub
7 17 (13.71%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (12.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (12.10%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (10.48%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (8.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (8.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (5.65%) AWS KMS
15 6 (4.84%) Amazon ELB
16 5 (4.03%) Azure Functions
17 4 (3.23%) AWS Direct Connect
17 4 (3.23%) OpenShift
17 4 (3.23%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.94%) Firewall
2 10 (8.06%) DNS
3 7 (5.65%) SSL
3 7 (5.65%) VPN
4 6 (4.84%) Network Security
4 6 (4.84%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.81%) FTP
5 1 (0.81%) VLAN
5 1 (0.81%) VSAN
5 1 (0.81%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (31.45%) NoSQL
2 30 (24.19%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (8.06%) DynamoDB
4 8 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (6.45%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.45%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.03%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.42%) Redis
7 2 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.81%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 54 (43.55%) Jenkins
2 37 (29.84%) GitLab
3 26 (20.97%) Git
4 23 (18.55%) Liquibase
5 14 (11.29%) JIRA
6 3 (2.42%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.42%) Maven
6 3 (2.42%) Mocha
6 3 (2.42%) Selenium
7 2 (1.61%) JMeter
7 2 (1.61%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.61%) TestNG
8 1 (0.81%) Appium
8 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.81%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.81%) JUnit
8 1 (0.81%) Log4j
8 1 (0.81%) Postman
8 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
General
1 41 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 34 (27.42%) Finance
3 28 (22.58%) Banking
4 22 (17.74%) Financial Institution
5 17 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (10.48%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.23%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Local Government
9 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (24.19%) Software Engineer
3 27 (21.77%) Senior
4 21 (16.94%) Developer
5 20 (16.13%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (11.29%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (10.48%) Senior DevOps
7 13 (10.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 11 (8.87%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (8.06%) Architect
9 10 (8.06%) AWS Software Engineer
10 9 (7.26%) Python Developer
11 8 (6.45%) GCP Engineer
11 8 (6.45%) Lead
12 7 (5.65%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (5.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (5.65%) NetBackup Engineer
13 6 (4.84%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 6 (4.84%) Python Engineer
14 5 (4.03%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (31.45%) RESTful
2 32 (25.81%) REST
3 29 (23.39%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (14.52%) Node.js
5 17 (13.71%) FastAPI
6 16 (12.90%) React
7 12 (9.68%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (7.26%) .NET
8 9 (7.26%) Jest
9 8 (6.45%) Kafka
10 7 (5.65%) Django
10 7 (5.65%) Flask
10 7 (5.65%) Spring Boot
11 6 (4.84%) AngularJS
11 6 (4.84%) CSS
11 6 (4.84%) FHIR
11 6 (4.84%) GraphQL
11 6 (4.84%) HTML
12 5 (4.03%) .NET Core
12 5 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 41 (33.06%) Cloud Native
2 25 (20.16%) Public Cloud
3 23 (18.55%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (6.45%) NHS
5 7 (5.65%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.42%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.61%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.81%) CUDA
9 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 44 (35.48%) Linux
2 3 (2.42%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.81%) CentOS
4 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (73.39%) CI/CD
2 78 (62.90%) Containerisation
3 77 (62.10%) DevOps
4 69 (55.65%) Agile
5 56 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (36.29%) Microservices
7 39 (31.45%) Software Engineering
8 29 (23.39%) High Availability
8 29 (23.39%) Root Cause Analysis
9 27 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (19.35%) Computer Science
11 23 (18.55%) Infrastructure Automation
12 22 (17.74%) Data Security
13 21 (16.94%) Continuous Delivery
13 21 (16.94%) Continuous Integration
13 21 (16.94%) Cryptography
13 21 (16.94%) Mentoring
14 20 (16.13%) Non-Functional Testing
15 19 (15.32%) Change Management
15 19 (15.32%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 79 (63.71%) Python
2 27 (21.77%) Go
3 24 (19.35%) Java
4 21 (16.94%) Bash
5 14 (11.29%) SQL
6 12 (9.68%) JavaScript
7 11 (8.87%) TypeScript
8 10 (8.06%) PowerShell
9 8 (6.45%) C#
10 6 (4.84%) Shell Script
11 4 (3.23%) Bicep
12 2 (1.61%) C++
13 1 (0.81%) C
13 1 (0.81%) Groovy
13 1 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (19.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 24 (19.35%) Degree
1 24 (19.35%) Master's Degree
2 20 (16.13%) Security Cleared
3 16 (12.90%) AWS Certification
4 12 (9.68%) SC Cleared
5 10 (8.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.23%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.42%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.61%) CCSP
8 2 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.61%) CISSP
9 1 (0.81%) CSPO
9 1 (0.81%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.81%) OCP
9 1 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.42%) GDPR
2 3 (2.42%) HL7
2 3 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.42%) NIST
2 3 (2.42%) QA
2 3 (2.42%) WCAG
3 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.61%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.61%) PSD2
4 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.42%) KVM
3 1 (0.81%) Ceph
3 1 (0.81%) QEMU
3 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 83 (66.94%) Kubernetes
2 68 (54.84%) Terraform
3 44 (35.48%) Prometheus
4 43 (34.68%) Ansible
5 42 (33.87%) Grafana
6 10 (8.06%) Control-M
6 10 (8.06%) IBM Guardium
6 10 (8.06%) Nessus
7 7 (5.65%) NetBackup
7 7 (5.65%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (4.03%) Packer
9 4 (3.23%) Puppet
10 3 (2.42%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.81%) Argo
11 1 (0.81%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.81%) Podman
11 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (23.39%) Splunk
2 24 (19.35%) Google
3 10 (8.06%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.06%) Tenable
4 9 (7.26%) VMware
5 7 (5.65%) CyberArk
5 7 (5.65%) F5
5 7 (5.65%) Oracle
5 7 (5.65%) Palo Alto
5 7 (5.65%) Veritas
6 6 (4.84%) CheckPoint
7 5 (4.03%) Brio
8 3 (2.42%) Databricks
8 3 (2.42%) SAP
9 2 (1.61%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.61%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.61%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.81%) Cisco
10 1 (0.81%) IBM