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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 42 46
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +10
Contract jobs citing Docker 139 45 57
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.23% 4.90% 3.27%
As % of the System Software category 41.37% 26.63% 20.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 27 45
10th Percentile £418 £435 £344
25th Percentile £454 £491 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -11.36%
75th Percentile £544 £614 £588
90th Percentile £588 £650 £633
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £27.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +136.36% -56.00% -10.71%

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 336 169 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.07% 18.41% 15.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 114 193
10th Percentile £200 £223 £178
25th Percentile £358 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £412
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% +12.89% -3.08%
75th Percentile £527 £575 £511
90th Percentile £588 £625 £615
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 20
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 - £17.67
England median hourly rate £47.25 £29.00 £22.15
% change year-on-year +62.93% +30.93% -44.63%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -13 74 £479 -9.63% 12
West Yorkshire +15 66 £500 +2.56% 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 3 (2.16%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.44%) Apache
2 2 (1.44%) Confluence
2 2 (1.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 86 (61.87%) AWS
2 52 (37.41%) GCP
3 42 (30.22%) Azure
4 33 (23.74%) GitHub
4 33 (23.74%) Serverless
5 18 (12.95%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (11.51%) Amazon S3
7 14 (10.07%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (7.91%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (7.91%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (7.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (6.47%) AWS KMS
10 9 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (6.47%) OpenShift
11 8 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (5.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (4.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (3.60%) Apigee
15 4 (2.88%) Azure AKS
16 3 (2.16%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 23 (16.55%) Firewall
2 12 (8.63%) DNS
3 8 (5.76%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.88%) Network Security
5 3 (2.16%) VPN
6 2 (1.44%) SSL
7 1 (0.72%) FTP
7 1 (0.72%) HTTP
7 1 (0.72%) VLAN
7 1 (0.72%) VSAN
7 1 (0.72%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (32.37%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (15.83%) NoSQL
3 18 (12.95%) MongoDB
4 10 (7.19%) SQL Server
5 8 (5.76%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.32%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.44%) Redis
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.72%) Power BI
8 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (41.73%) Jenkins
2 39 (28.06%) GitLab
3 26 (18.71%) Git
4 18 (12.95%) JIRA
5 12 (8.63%) Liquibase
6 9 (6.47%) Jaeger
7 8 (5.76%) Selenium
8 7 (5.04%) Gatling
8 7 (5.04%) Maven
9 4 (2.88%) Artifactory
9 4 (2.88%) CircleCI
10 3 (2.16%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.16%) Mocha
10 3 (2.16%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.16%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (1.44%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.44%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.72%) Gradle
General
1 42 (30.22%) Social Skills
2 36 (25.90%) Finance
3 22 (15.83%) Banking
4 19 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (11.51%) Financial Institution
6 15 (10.79%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.32%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.16%) Law
9 2 (1.44%) Military
9 2 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Games
10 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.72%) Retail
10 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (30.22%) Developer
2 32 (23.02%) Senior
3 25 (17.99%) Software Engineer
4 22 (15.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (13.67%) Python Developer
6 16 (11.51%) GCP Engineer
7 13 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (9.35%) Lead
8 11 (7.91%) GCP DevOps
8 11 (7.91%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 11 (7.91%) Senior Developer
9 10 (7.19%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (7.19%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (6.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (6.47%) Java Developer
11 8 (5.76%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (5.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 7 (5.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 7 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.04%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.86%) OpenTelemetry
2 28 (20.14%) RESTful
3 25 (17.99%) Node.js
4 23 (16.55%) React
4 23 (16.55%) REST
5 21 (15.11%) Kafka
6 20 (14.39%) Spring Boot
7 18 (12.95%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (12.23%) FastAPI
9 12 (8.63%) Spring
10 10 (7.19%) Jest
11 9 (6.47%) .NET
11 9 (6.47%) Middleware
12 7 (5.04%) Playwright
13 6 (4.32%) FHIR
14 5 (3.60%) .NET Core
14 5 (3.60%) CSS
14 5 (3.60%) Flask
14 5 (3.60%) HTML
14 5 (3.60%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.99%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (17.27%) Cloud Native
3 19 (13.67%) Public Cloud
4 11 (7.91%) NHS
5 9 (6.47%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (5.76%) Management Information System
7 7 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.60%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.88%) Onboarding
10 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (2.16%) Security Posture
10 3 (2.16%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.44%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.72%) CUDA
12 1 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.72%) Embedded Systems
12 1 (0.72%) Life Science
12 1 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (32.37%) Linux
2 12 (8.63%) Windows
3 5 (3.60%) Unix
4 3 (2.16%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.72%) CentOS
5 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (72.66%) CI/CD
2 81 (58.27%) DevOps
3 71 (51.08%) Containerisation
4 63 (45.32%) Agile
5 55 (39.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 52 (37.41%) Microservices
7 41 (29.50%) Observability
8 37 (26.62%) Software Engineering
9 31 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (19.42%) Mentoring
10 27 (19.42%) Test Automation
11 25 (17.99%) DevSecOps
12 24 (17.27%) Root Cause Analysis
13 23 (16.55%) Full-Stack Development
14 21 (15.11%) Computer Science
15 20 (14.39%) Infrastructure Automation
16 18 (12.95%) API Development
17 17 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (12.23%) High Availability
18 16 (11.51%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 77 (55.40%) Python
2 43 (30.94%) Java
3 29 (20.86%) SQL
4 21 (15.11%) JavaScript
5 20 (14.39%) Bash
6 19 (13.67%) Go
7 18 (12.95%) TypeScript
8 11 (7.91%) C#
9 9 (6.47%) PowerShell
9 9 (6.47%) Rust
10 6 (4.32%) Shell Script
11 5 (3.60%) Groovy
11 5 (3.60%) Scala
12 3 (2.16%) Delphi
12 3 (2.16%) PHP
12 3 (2.16%) Ruby
13 2 (1.44%) C
13 2 (1.44%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.72%) Bicep
14 1 (0.72%) C++
Qualifications
1 26 (18.71%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.83%) Degree
3 17 (12.23%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (8.63%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.60%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.16%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.44%) CCSP
8 2 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.44%) CISSP
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.72%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.35%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.04%) WCAG
3 5 (3.60%) SLA
4 4 (2.88%) HL7
5 2 (1.44%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.44%) GDPR
5 2 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.44%) NIST
5 2 (1.44%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.44%) PSD2
5 2 (1.44%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.88%) KVM
2 2 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.44%) vSphere
3 1 (0.72%) Ceph
3 1 (0.72%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.72%) QEMU
3 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 106 (76.26%) Kubernetes
2 64 (46.04%) Terraform
3 55 (39.57%) Grafana
4 50 (35.97%) Prometheus
5 37 (26.62%) Ansible
6 12 (8.63%) Control-M
6 12 (8.63%) IBM Guardium
6 12 (8.63%) Nessus
7 9 (6.47%) Kiali
8 6 (4.32%) Packer
9 5 (3.60%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.44%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.44%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.44%) Puppet
11 1 (0.72%) Argo
11 1 (0.72%) Istio
11 1 (0.72%) Kibana
11 1 (0.72%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.72%) logstash
11 1 (0.72%) Podman
Vendors
1 36 (25.90%) Splunk
2 12 (8.63%) Tenable
3 9 (6.47%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.04%) Google
5 6 (4.32%) Brio
6 5 (3.60%) Oracle
7 4 (2.88%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.88%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.16%) F5
8 3 (2.16%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.16%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.44%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.44%) Databricks
9 2 (1.44%) VMware
10 1 (0.72%) Cisco
10 1 (0.72%) CloudEndure
10 1 (0.72%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.72%) NetApp