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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 37 37
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +14
Contract jobs citing Docker 151 43 73
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 7.24% 4.71% 3.96%
As % of the System Software category 44.54% 27.04% 23.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 26 57
10th Percentile £407 £413 £386
25th Percentile £450 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £596 £600
90th Percentile £630 £706 £638
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £66.50 £27.50 £66.50
% change year-on-year +141.82% -58.65% -0.75%

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 339 159 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.26% 17.42% 16.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 104 234
10th Percentile £190 £202 £179
25th Percentile £334 £263 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% +11.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £520
90th Percentile £579 £624 £615
England median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile £26.81 - -
25th Percentile £27.65 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £29.68 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -55.00%
75th Percentile £31.08 - £17.41
90th Percentile £31.55 - £21.61
England median hourly rate £34.00 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.24% -27.50% +3.90%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -6 84 £475 -9.52% 11
West Yorkshire +12 67 £500 +1.27% 22
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 (2.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.32%) Apache
3 1 (0.66%) Confluence
3 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 92 (60.93%) AWS
2 65 (43.05%) GCP
3 44 (29.14%) Azure
4 39 (25.83%) Serverless
5 24 (15.89%) GitHub
6 20 (13.25%) Amazon S3
7 15 (9.93%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (9.93%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (7.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (7.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (6.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (5.96%) AWS KMS
11 9 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (4.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (4.64%) OpenShift
13 6 (3.97%) Amazon ELB
14 5 (3.31%) Apigee
14 5 (3.31%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (19.87%) Firewall
2 15 (9.93%) DNS
3 11 (7.28%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.64%) VPN
5 5 (3.31%) Network Security
5 5 (3.31%) SSL
6 1 (0.66%) FTP
6 1 (0.66%) HTTP
6 1 (0.66%) VLAN
6 1 (0.66%) VSAN
6 1 (0.66%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (29.14%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (19.87%) NoSQL
3 14 (9.27%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (4.64%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.64%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.97%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.99%) Redis
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.66%) MySQL
7 1 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.66%) Power BI
7 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 62 (41.06%) Jenkins
2 48 (31.79%) GitLab
3 31 (20.53%) Git
4 22 (14.57%) JIRA
5 21 (13.91%) Liquibase
6 9 (5.96%) Jaeger
7 7 (4.64%) Selenium
8 4 (2.65%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.65%) Maven
9 3 (1.99%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.99%) Gatling
9 3 (1.99%) Mocha
9 3 (1.99%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.99%) Serenity BDD
9 3 (1.99%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.32%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.66%) Gradle
General
1 52 (34.44%) Social Skills
2 46 (30.46%) Finance
3 34 (22.52%) Banking
4 23 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (15.23%) Financial Institution
5 15 (9.93%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.97%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.99%) Law
8 2 (1.32%) Military
8 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (27.15%) Developer
1 41 (27.15%) Senior
2 30 (19.87%) Software Engineer
3 28 (18.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (13.91%) Python Developer
5 17 (11.26%) GCP Engineer
6 16 (10.60%) Senior Software Engineer
7 15 (9.93%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (9.93%) Senior DevOps
7 15 (9.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 13 (8.61%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (8.61%) Lead
9 11 (7.28%) GCP DevOps
9 11 (7.28%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (5.96%) Senior Developer
11 8 (5.30%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 8 (5.30%) Java Developer
12 7 (4.64%) AWS Software Engineer
13 6 (3.97%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (23.84%) RESTful
2 34 (22.52%) OpenTelemetry
3 30 (19.87%) REST
4 25 (16.56%) Elastic Stack
5 23 (15.23%) FastAPI
5 23 (15.23%) Node.js
6 21 (13.91%) React
7 20 (13.25%) Kafka
8 19 (12.58%) Spring Boot
9 10 (6.62%) Jest
9 10 (6.62%) Spring
10 9 (5.96%) .NET
10 9 (5.96%) Middleware
11 6 (3.97%) FHIR
12 5 (3.31%) .NET Core
12 5 (3.31%) Django
12 5 (3.31%) Flask
13 4 (2.65%) CSS
13 4 (2.65%) HTML
13 4 (2.65%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.85%) Cloud Native
2 32 (21.19%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (16.56%) Public Cloud
4 11 (7.28%) NHS
5 9 (5.96%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (5.30%) Management Information System
7 7 (4.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.65%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.99%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.99%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.99%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.32%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.66%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.66%) CUDA
11 1 (0.66%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.66%) Life Science
11 1 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 53 (35.10%) Linux
2 11 (7.28%) Windows
3 5 (3.31%) Unix
4 3 (1.99%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.66%) CentOS
5 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (74.17%) CI/CD
2 87 (57.62%) DevOps
3 86 (56.95%) Containerisation
4 73 (48.34%) Agile
5 63 (41.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 59 (39.07%) Microservices
7 44 (29.14%) Observability
8 40 (26.49%) Software Engineering
9 36 (23.84%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (22.52%) Root Cause Analysis
11 31 (20.53%) Mentoring
12 30 (19.87%) Computer Science
13 29 (19.21%) Infrastructure Automation
14 26 (17.22%) DevSecOps
14 26 (17.22%) High Availability
15 25 (16.56%) Cybersecurity
16 23 (15.23%) Full-Stack Development
16 23 (15.23%) Test Automation
17 22 (14.57%) Data Security
18 21 (13.91%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 92 (60.93%) Python
2 41 (27.15%) Java
3 31 (20.53%) SQL
4 29 (19.21%) Go
5 25 (16.56%) Bash
6 17 (11.26%) JavaScript
7 15 (9.93%) TypeScript
8 11 (7.28%) C#
9 10 (6.62%) PowerShell
9 10 (6.62%) Rust
10 6 (3.97%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.65%) Groovy
12 3 (1.99%) Delphi
12 3 (1.99%) PHP
12 3 (1.99%) Ruby
13 2 (1.32%) Bicep
13 2 (1.32%) C++
14 1 (0.66%) C
14 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 31 (20.53%) Degree
2 23 (15.23%) Security Cleared
3 21 (13.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (13.91%) Master's Degree
4 13 (8.61%) SC Cleared
5 11 (7.28%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.65%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.65%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.32%) CCSP
9 2 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.32%) CISSP
10 1 (0.66%) CSPO
10 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.66%) OCP
10 1 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.95%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.97%) WCAG
3 5 (3.31%) SLA
4 4 (2.65%) HL7
5 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.32%) GDPR
5 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.32%) NIST
5 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.32%) PSD2
6 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.99%) KVM
3 1 (0.66%) Ceph
3 1 (0.66%) QEMU
3 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 113 (74.83%) Kubernetes
2 72 (47.68%) Terraform
3 66 (43.71%) Grafana
4 62 (41.06%) Prometheus
5 47 (31.13%) Ansible
6 17 (11.26%) Control-M
6 17 (11.26%) IBM Guardium
6 17 (11.26%) Nessus
7 9 (5.96%) Kiali
8 5 (3.31%) Packer
9 3 (1.99%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.99%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.99%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.99%) Puppet
10 2 (1.32%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.66%) Argo
11 1 (0.66%) Kibana
11 1 (0.66%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.66%) logstash
11 1 (0.66%) Podman
Vendors
1 43 (28.48%) Splunk
2 17 (11.26%) Google
2 17 (11.26%) Tenable
3 8 (5.30%) Oracle
4 7 (4.64%) F5
4 7 (4.64%) Palo Alto
5 6 (3.97%) Brio
5 6 (3.97%) CheckPoint
5 6 (3.97%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.65%) AppDynamics
6 4 (2.65%) VMware
7 3 (1.99%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.99%) Databricks
7 3 (1.99%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.99%) SAP
7 3 (1.99%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.99%) Veritas
8 2 (1.32%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.66%) CloudEndure
9 1 (0.66%) Dynatrace