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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 48 60
Rank change year-on-year +13 +12 +4
Contract jobs citing Docker 143 42 44
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.23% 4.44% 2.59%
As % of the System Software category 41.45% 24.71% 16.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 25 38
10th Percentile £410 £428 £367
25th Percentile £450 £500 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £486
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.97% -11.59%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £584
90th Percentile £588 £711 £622
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 345 170 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.02% 17.95% 15.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 112 191
10th Percentile £209 £211 £165
25th Percentile £358 £308 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £412
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +9.24% -3.08%
75th Percentile £526 £575 £534
90th Percentile £588 £636 £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 21
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 - £15.19
90th Percentile £31.55 - £15.75
England median hourly rate £50.00 £28.41 £22.00
% change year-on-year +75.99% +29.14% -45.00%

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 4 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 4 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 -10 75 £475 -13.64% 12
West Yorkshire +15 69 £500 +1.27% 31
North Yorkshire - 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 4 (2.80%) Confluence
2 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.40%) Apache
3 2 (1.40%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 86 (60.14%) AWS
2 52 (36.36%) GCP
3 46 (32.17%) Azure
4 33 (23.08%) GitHub
5 32 (22.38%) Serverless
6 19 (13.29%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (9.79%) Amazon S3
7 14 (9.79%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (6.99%) OpenShift
10 9 (6.29%) AWS KMS
11 8 (5.59%) Apigee
12 7 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (4.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.80%) Azure AKS
14 4 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 3 (2.10%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.69%) Firewall
2 10 (6.99%) DNS
3 6 (4.20%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.40%) Network Security
5 1 (0.70%) FTP
5 1 (0.70%) HTTP
5 1 (0.70%) VLAN
5 1 (0.70%) VPN
5 1 (0.70%) VSAN
5 1 (0.70%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (13.99%) NoSQL
3 18 (12.59%) MongoDB
4 12 (8.39%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.29%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.20%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.10%) Redis
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.70%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.70%) Power BI
8 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (40.56%) Jenkins
2 37 (25.87%) GitLab
3 25 (17.48%) Git
4 17 (11.89%) JIRA
5 11 (7.69%) Liquibase
6 10 (6.99%) Selenium
7 9 (6.29%) Jaeger
8 8 (5.59%) Gatling
8 8 (5.59%) Maven
9 4 (2.80%) Artifactory
9 4 (2.80%) CircleCI
9 4 (2.80%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.10%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.10%) Mocha
10 3 (2.10%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (1.40%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.40%) Gradle
11 2 (1.40%) Postman
11 2 (1.40%) Robot Framework
11 2 (1.40%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (31.47%) Social Skills
2 37 (25.87%) Finance
3 24 (16.78%) Banking
4 19 (13.29%) Public Sector
5 18 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (10.49%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.20%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.10%) Law
9 2 (1.40%) Military
9 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Games
10 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Legal
10 1 (0.70%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.70%) Retail
10 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (31.47%) Developer
2 29 (20.28%) Senior
3 24 (16.78%) Software Engineer
4 18 (12.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (12.59%) Python Developer
5 15 (10.49%) GCP Engineer
6 13 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (9.09%) Lead
6 13 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 10 (6.99%) GCP DevOps
7 10 (6.99%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 10 (6.99%) Java Developer
8 9 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 8 (5.59%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 7 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.88%) OpenTelemetry
2 26 (18.18%) RESTful
3 25 (17.48%) Node.js
4 24 (16.78%) Kafka
4 24 (16.78%) React
5 23 (16.08%) REST
6 22 (15.38%) Spring Boot
7 16 (11.19%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (10.49%) FastAPI
9 14 (9.79%) Spring
10 13 (9.09%) .NET
11 11 (7.69%) Playwright
12 9 (6.29%) Jest
12 9 (6.29%) Middleware
13 6 (4.20%) FHIR
13 6 (4.20%) pytest
13 6 (4.20%) Redux
13 6 (4.20%) Zustand
14 5 (3.50%) .NET Core
14 5 (3.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 25 (17.48%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (12.59%) Public Cloud
4 11 (7.69%) NHS
5 10 (6.99%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (5.59%) Management Information System
7 7 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (4.20%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
10 3 (2.10%) Security Posture
10 3 (2.10%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.40%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.70%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.70%) Replication
12 1 (0.70%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 41 (28.67%) Linux
2 12 (8.39%) Windows
3 5 (3.50%) Unix
4 3 (2.10%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.70%) CentOS
5 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (72.03%) CI/CD
2 81 (56.64%) DevOps
3 70 (48.95%) Containerisation
4 64 (44.76%) Agile
5 56 (39.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (35.66%) Microservices
7 42 (29.37%) Observability
8 35 (24.48%) Software Engineering
9 34 (23.78%) Test Automation
10 31 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (17.48%) Full-Stack Development
12 24 (16.78%) DevSecOps
12 24 (16.78%) Mentoring
13 21 (14.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (14.69%) Root Cause Analysis
14 20 (13.99%) Computer Science
15 18 (12.59%) Infrastructure Automation
16 16 (11.19%) API Development
16 16 (11.19%) High Availability
16 16 (11.19%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 79 (55.24%) Python
2 49 (34.27%) Java
3 29 (20.28%) SQL
4 22 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 18 (12.59%) Bash
5 18 (12.59%) Go
5 18 (12.59%) TypeScript
6 15 (10.49%) C#
7 10 (6.99%) PowerShell
8 9 (6.29%) Rust
9 6 (4.20%) Shell Script
10 5 (3.50%) Scala
11 4 (2.80%) Groovy
12 3 (2.10%) Delphi
12 3 (2.10%) PHP
12 3 (2.10%) Ruby
13 2 (1.40%) C
13 2 (1.40%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.70%) Bicep
14 1 (0.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 26 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.69%) Degree
3 19 (13.29%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (7.69%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.50%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.10%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.40%) CCSP
7 2 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.40%) CISSP
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.70%) CSPO
8 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.79%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.59%) WCAG
3 5 (3.50%) SLA
4 4 (2.80%) HL7
4 4 (2.80%) QA
5 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.40%) GDPR
5 2 (1.40%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.40%) NIST
5 2 (1.40%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.40%) PSD2
6 1 (0.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (2.10%) KVM
2 2 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.40%) vSphere
3 1 (0.70%) Ceph
3 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.70%) QEMU
3 1 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 110 (76.92%) Kubernetes
2 68 (47.55%) Terraform
3 51 (35.66%) Grafana
4 45 (31.47%) Prometheus
5 32 (22.38%) Ansible
6 10 (6.99%) Control-M
6 10 (6.99%) IBM Guardium
6 10 (6.99%) Nessus
7 9 (6.29%) Kiali
8 5 (3.50%) HAProxy
9 4 (2.80%) Packer
10 2 (1.40%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.70%) Istio
11 1 (0.70%) Kibana
11 1 (0.70%) logstash
11 1 (0.70%) Podman
11 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.70%) Puppet
11 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (25.17%) Splunk
2 10 (6.99%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.99%) Tenable
3 7 (4.90%) Google
4 6 (4.20%) Brio
4 6 (4.20%) Oracle
5 5 (3.50%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.10%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.40%) Databricks
7 2 (1.40%) IBM
7 2 (1.40%) VMware
8 1 (0.70%) Cisco
8 1 (0.70%) CloudEndure
8 1 (0.70%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.70%) F5
8 1 (0.70%) NetApp
8 1 (0.70%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.70%) Temenos