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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 49 30
Rank change year-on-year +9 -19 +29
Contract jobs citing Docker 150 71 87
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.26% 4.67% 5.65%
As % of the System Software category 40.11% 28.06% 38.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 47 73
10th Percentile £350 £384 £376
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -10.00%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £594
90th Percentile £628 £650 £649
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 374 253 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.12% 16.64% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 159 154
10th Percentile £200 £200 £210
25th Percentile £350 £359 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £465 £494
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -5.87% +9.78%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £586
90th Percentile £638 £607 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £25.84 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.36%
75th Percentile £28.00 - £15.75
90th Percentile - - £21.70
England median hourly rate £60.92 £37.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +62.44% +57.56% -45.60%

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 August 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 August 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 +8 74 £488 -11.36% 7
West Yorkshire +7 69 £494 +3.95% 23
East Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 3
North Yorkshire -8 1 £550 - 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 16 (10.67%) Confluence
2 2 (1.33%) Apache
2 2 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 80 (53.33%) AWS
2 58 (38.67%) Azure
3 44 (29.33%) GitHub
4 43 (28.67%) GCP
5 26 (17.33%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (12.67%) Serverless
7 12 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (6.00%) OpenShift
9 8 (5.33%) Apigee
9 8 (5.33%) Cloud Run
10 7 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.33%) Kong
12 5 (3.33%) Vertex AI
13 4 (2.67%) Datadog
13 4 (2.67%) Google Gemini
13 4 (2.67%) LangSmith
14 3 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (2.00%) Stackdriver
15 2 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.33%) 3GPP
1 5 (3.33%) RTP
1 5 (3.33%) Wireshark
2 4 (2.67%) Network Security
3 3 (2.00%) DNS
4 2 (1.33%) Internet
4 2 (1.33%) VPN
5 1 (0.67%) Firewall
5 1 (0.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (20.67%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (15.33%) SQL Server
3 18 (12.00%) MongoDB
4 9 (6.00%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.00%) Neo4j
5 6 (4.00%) Redis
6 5 (3.33%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.33%) Hazelcast
6 5 (3.33%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.67%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.33%) Tableau
9 1 (0.67%) Big Data
9 1 (0.67%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.67%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.67%) Trino
Development Applications
1 59 (39.33%) Jenkins
2 28 (18.67%) Git
3 27 (18.00%) JIRA
4 19 (12.67%) GitLab
5 15 (10.00%) Gatling
5 15 (10.00%) Maven
6 9 (6.00%) Selenium
7 7 (4.67%) Gradle
7 7 (4.67%) JMeter
8 6 (4.00%) Artifactory
8 6 (4.00%) Cucumber
8 6 (4.00%) LoadRunner
9 5 (3.33%) REST Assured
9 5 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (3.33%) TeamCity
10 4 (2.67%) JUnit
10 4 (2.67%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (2.67%) Snyk
11 3 (2.00%) Mockito
11 3 (2.00%) SoapUI
General
1 33 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.67%) Finance
2 19 (12.67%) Public Sector
3 17 (11.33%) Banking
4 13 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.00%) Police
6 5 (3.33%) Aviation
6 5 (3.33%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (2.67%) Games
7 4 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.67%) Law
7 4 (2.67%) Retail
8 2 (1.33%) Military
8 2 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.67%) Legal
9 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (35.33%) Developer
2 27 (18.00%) Senior
3 20 (13.33%) Python Developer
4 19 (12.67%) Senior Developer
5 18 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 15 (10.00%) Lead
7 13 (8.67%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) Backend Developer
9 11 (7.33%) Senior Backend Developer
10 10 (6.67%) Software Engineer
11 9 (6.00%) Architect
11 9 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (6.00%) Test Engineer
12 8 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (5.33%) Java Engineer
13 7 (4.67%) .NET Developer
13 7 (4.67%) Lead Developer
13 7 (4.67%) Senior Java Developer
14 6 (4.00%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (33.33%) Terraform
2 31 (20.67%) Kafka
3 26 (17.33%) REST
4 25 (16.67%) Spring
5 22 (14.67%) Spring Boot
6 19 (12.67%) .NET
7 18 (12.00%) OpenTelemetry
8 17 (11.33%) Playwright
9 16 (10.67%) RabbitMQ
10 13 (8.67%) RESTful
11 12 (8.00%) .NET Core
12 11 (7.33%) OAuth
12 11 (7.33%) React
12 11 (7.33%) Vue
13 10 (6.67%) CSS
13 10 (6.67%) Flask
13 10 (6.67%) HTML
13 10 (6.67%) OAuth2
14 9 (6.00%) AngularJS
14 9 (6.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.67%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.67%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.33%) PKI
5 5 (3.33%) Robotics
6 4 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.67%) Sports Betting
7 3 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.00%) NHS
8 2 (1.33%) Clustering
8 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) Replication
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.67%) Linux
2 7 (4.67%) Windows
3 4 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.67%) Android
4 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (78.00%) CI/CD
2 79 (52.67%) DevOps
3 68 (45.33%) Agile
4 56 (37.33%) Containerisation
5 49 (32.67%) Microservices
6 46 (30.67%) Observability
7 45 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (27.33%) Test Automation
9 31 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (17.33%) Software Engineering
11 21 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (13.33%) API Development
13 19 (12.67%) AI
14 16 (10.67%) Code Quality
14 16 (10.67%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (10.67%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (10.67%) Validation
15 15 (10.00%) Event-Driven
16 14 (9.33%) BDD
16 14 (9.33%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (48.67%) Python
2 57 (38.00%) Java
3 42 (28.00%) SQL
4 21 (14.00%) JavaScript
5 15 (10.00%) Scala
6 14 (9.33%) C#
7 11 (7.33%) Shell Script
8 9 (6.00%) TypeScript
9 8 (5.33%) Groovy
9 8 (5.33%) PowerShell
10 6 (4.00%) Bash
11 3 (2.00%) Bicep
12 2 (1.33%) PromQL
13 1 (0.67%) C
13 1 (0.67%) Cypher
13 1 (0.67%) Go
13 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 28 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.33%) Degree
4 7 (4.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.33%) QA
2 6 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.00%) WCAG
4 2 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.33%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.67%) HL7
5 1 (0.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.00%) KVM
2 3 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.67%) NFS
4 1 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 116 (77.33%) Kubernetes
2 31 (20.67%) Grafana
3 29 (19.33%) Prometheus
4 25 (16.67%) Ansible
5 10 (6.67%) HAProxy
6 7 (4.67%) Control-M
6 7 (4.67%) IBM Guardium
6 7 (4.67%) Nessus
7 5 (3.33%) Argo
8 4 (2.67%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.33%) Consul
9 2 (1.33%) Podman
9 2 (1.33%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.67%) Kiali
10 1 (0.67%) Packer
10 1 (0.67%) SELinux
10 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.33%) Google
2 11 (7.33%) Splunk
3 9 (6.00%) Dynatrace
4 7 (4.67%) IBM
4 7 (4.67%) Tenable
5 6 (4.00%) Centrify
5 6 (4.00%) CyberArk
6 5 (3.33%) New Relic
6 5 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.67%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.00%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.33%) Databricks
9 2 (1.33%) Oracle
9 2 (1.33%) Solace
9 2 (1.33%) VMware
10 1 (0.67%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.67%) Temenos
10 1 (0.67%) Trend Micro