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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 54 33
Rank change year-on-year +14 -21 +31
Contract jobs citing Docker 154 56 88
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.42% 4.15% 5.25%
As % of the System Software category 38.02% 24.03% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 38 71
10th Percentile £362 £384 £381
25th Percentile £450 £428 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% -11.82%
75th Percentile £583 £588 £591
90th Percentile £630 £661 £650
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 405 233 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.26% 17.25% 14.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 146 164
10th Percentile £200 £218 £178
25th Percentile £358 £364 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £431 £466
Median % change year-on-year +15.94% -7.51% +13.03%
75th Percentile £551 £538 £576
90th Percentile £638 £600 £649
England median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 25
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.52%
75th Percentile £28.00 - £15.19
90th Percentile - - £21.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +59.42% +55.76% -50.64%

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 17 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 17 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 +4 86 £500 -4.76% 11
West Yorkshire +10 61 £500 +3.63% 11
East Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 2
North Yorkshire -11 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 14 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (1.30%) Apache
2 2 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 73 (47.40%) AWS
2 47 (30.52%) GCP
3 44 (28.57%) Azure
4 38 (24.68%) GitHub
5 20 (12.99%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 12 (7.79%) Serverless
8 10 (6.49%) Cloud Run
8 10 (6.49%) OpenShift
9 7 (4.55%) Apigee
9 7 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.25%) Vertex AI
11 4 (2.60%) BrowserStack
11 4 (2.60%) Google Gemini
11 4 (2.60%) Kong
11 4 (2.60%) LangSmith
12 3 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.95%) Stackdriver
13 2 (1.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.25%) 3GPP
1 5 (3.25%) RTP
1 5 (3.25%) Wireshark
2 4 (2.60%) Network Security
3 3 (1.95%) DNS
4 2 (1.30%) Firewall
4 2 (1.30%) Internet
4 2 (1.30%) VPN
5 1 (0.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (14.94%) MongoDB
3 20 (12.99%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.25%) BigQuery
5 5 (3.25%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.25%) Redis
6 4 (2.60%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.60%) Neo4j
6 4 (2.60%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.65%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.65%) Trino
Development Applications
1 60 (38.96%) Jenkins
2 32 (20.78%) JIRA
3 27 (17.53%) Git
4 25 (16.23%) GitLab
5 15 (9.74%) Gatling
6 14 (9.09%) Maven
7 11 (7.14%) Selenium
8 8 (5.19%) REST Assured
9 7 (4.55%) Serenity BDD
10 6 (3.90%) Artifactory
10 6 (3.90%) Gradle
11 5 (3.25%) Liquibase
11 5 (3.25%) TeamCity
12 4 (2.60%) Snyk
12 4 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (1.95%) Cucumber
13 3 (1.95%) Jaeger
13 3 (1.95%) JUnit
14 2 (1.30%) Mockito
14 2 (1.30%) Terragrunt
General
1 29 (18.83%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.64%) Finance
3 19 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.69%) Banking
5 11 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.90%) Police
7 5 (3.25%) Aviation
7 5 (3.25%) Fire and Rescue
8 4 (2.60%) Games
8 4 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.60%) Law
8 4 (2.60%) Retail
9 3 (1.95%) Military
10 2 (1.30%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Legal
11 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (37.66%) Developer
2 27 (17.53%) Senior
3 26 (16.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (14.29%) Python Developer
4 22 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 15 (9.74%) Java Developer
6 13 (8.44%) Backend Developer
6 13 (8.44%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (7.79%) Senior Backend Developer
8 11 (7.14%) Lead
8 11 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.49%) GCP DevOps
9 10 (6.49%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 10 (6.49%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (5.84%) Test Engineer
11 8 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (5.19%) Lead Test Engineer
12 7 (4.55%) Java Engineer
13 6 (3.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (20.13%) OpenTelemetry
2 26 (16.88%) Kafka
3 25 (16.23%) Spring
4 24 (15.58%) REST
4 24 (15.58%) Spring Boot
5 20 (12.99%) Playwright
6 17 (11.04%) .NET
6 17 (11.04%) FastAPI
6 17 (11.04%) RESTful
7 14 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
7 14 (9.09%) React
8 11 (7.14%) Node.js
9 10 (6.49%) .NET Core
10 8 (5.19%) OAuth
10 8 (5.19%) Spring Cloud
11 7 (4.55%) AngularJS
11 7 (4.55%) JPA
11 7 (4.55%) JWT
11 7 (4.55%) OAuth2
12 6 (3.90%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.34%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.49%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.84%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.25%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.25%) PKI
5 5 (3.25%) Robotics
6 4 (2.60%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.60%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.30%) Clustering
7 2 (1.30%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.30%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.65%) Replication
8 1 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 25 (16.23%) Linux
2 9 (5.84%) Windows
3 4 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.65%) Android
5 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (75.32%) CI/CD
2 88 (57.14%) DevOps
3 67 (43.51%) Agile
4 65 (42.21%) Containerisation
5 57 (37.01%) Observability
6 56 (36.36%) Microservices
7 43 (27.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (22.73%) Test Automation
9 34 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (18.18%) Software Engineering
11 27 (17.53%) API Development
12 22 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (12.99%) Code Quality
14 18 (11.69%) AI
15 17 (11.04%) Incident Response
16 16 (10.39%) Secrets Management
17 15 (9.74%) BDD
17 15 (9.74%) Full-Stack Development
17 15 (9.74%) Platform Engineering
17 15 (9.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 77 (50.00%) Python
2 57 (37.01%) Java
3 38 (24.68%) SQL
4 15 (9.74%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.09%) Scala
6 13 (8.44%) C#
7 12 (7.79%) TypeScript
8 9 (5.84%) Shell Script
9 8 (5.19%) Bash
9 8 (5.19%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.90%) Go
11 5 (3.25%) Groovy
12 3 (1.95%) Bicep
13 2 (1.30%) PromQL
14 1 (0.65%) C
14 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.65%) Ruby
14 1 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 23 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.04%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.49%) Degree
4 8 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.30%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.79%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.19%) QA
3 6 (3.90%) WCAG
4 2 (1.30%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.65%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (3.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.95%) KVM
2 3 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.65%) NFS
4 1 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 123 (79.87%) Kubernetes
2 51 (33.12%) Terraform
3 48 (31.17%) Prometheus
4 45 (29.22%) Grafana
5 27 (17.53%) Ansible
6 14 (9.09%) Control-M
6 14 (9.09%) IBM Guardium
6 14 (9.09%) Nessus
7 10 (6.49%) HAProxy
8 4 (2.60%) Argo
8 4 (2.60%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.30%) Consul
9 2 (1.30%) Kiali
9 2 (1.30%) Podman
9 2 (1.30%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.65%) Packer
10 1 (0.65%) SELinux
10 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.74%) Splunk
3 14 (9.09%) Tenable
4 12 (7.79%) Google
5 6 (3.90%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.60%) Centrify
6 4 (2.60%) CyberArk
6 4 (2.60%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.60%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.30%) IBM
7 2 (1.30%) Oracle
7 2 (1.30%) Solace
7 2 (1.30%) VMware
8 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.65%) New Relic
8 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.65%) Temenos
8 1 (0.65%) Trend Micro