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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 29 41
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +9
Contract jobs citing Docker 131 81 78
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 7.25% 5.90% 4.14%
As % of the System Software category 44.41% 39.51% 27.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 63 61
10th Percentile £384 £306 £413
25th Percentile £434 £400 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £600
90th Percentile £601 £648 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +11.67% -17.24% +45.00%

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 295 205 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.33% 14.92% 14.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 143 190
10th Percentile £196 £202 £185
25th Percentile £378 £300 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £443 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% -6.84% +14.80%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £600 £638 £643
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - - £16.92
25th Percentile £26.25 £20.50 £17.86
Median hourly rate £27.50 £21.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £28.75 £21.50 -
90th Percentile - - £44.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +14.29% +86.17%

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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
West Yorkshire +1 67 £495 +23.75% 65
South Yorkshire -5 59 £525 -14.63% 7
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
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 (3.05%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.53%) Apache
3 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.76%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 84 (64.12%) AWS
2 56 (42.75%) GCP
3 46 (35.11%) Azure
4 44 (33.59%) Serverless
5 19 (14.50%) Amazon S3
5 19 (14.50%) GitHub
6 17 (12.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (11.45%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (11.45%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (9.92%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (9.92%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (9.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (7.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (6.87%) AWS KMS
13 6 (4.58%) Amazon ELB
14 5 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (3.82%) AWS Direct Connect
14 5 (3.82%) Azure Functions
15 4 (3.05%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.79%) Firewall
2 11 (8.40%) DNS
3 8 (6.11%) SSL
3 8 (6.11%) VPN
4 7 (5.34%) Network Security
4 7 (5.34%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.76%) FTP
5 1 (0.76%) VLAN
5 1 (0.76%) VSAN
5 1 (0.76%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (29.77%) NoSQL
2 30 (22.90%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.63%) DynamoDB
4 9 (6.87%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (6.11%) MongoDB
5 8 (6.11%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.82%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.29%) Redis
8 2 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.76%) MySQL
9 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 61 (46.56%) Jenkins
2 43 (32.82%) GitLab
3 25 (19.08%) Git
4 23 (17.56%) Liquibase
5 14 (10.69%) JIRA
6 8 (6.11%) Cypress.io
6 8 (6.11%) Selenium
7 7 (5.34%) JMeter
7 7 (5.34%) Maven
7 7 (5.34%) TestNG
8 6 (4.58%) Cucumber
8 6 (4.58%) Postman
8 6 (4.58%) REST Assured
9 4 (3.05%) JUnit
10 2 (1.53%) Jaeger
10 2 (1.53%) Mocha
10 2 (1.53%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.76%) Appium
11 1 (0.76%) Gradle
General
1 43 (32.82%) Social Skills
2 35 (26.72%) Finance
3 28 (21.37%) Banking
4 23 (17.56%) Financial Institution
5 16 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (9.16%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.05%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Local Government
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (25.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (22.90%) Senior
2 30 (22.90%) Software Engineer
3 21 (16.03%) AWS Engineer
4 20 (15.27%) Developer
5 14 (10.69%) Senior DevOps
5 14 (10.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 14 (10.69%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (8.40%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (7.63%) Architect
7 10 (7.63%) AWS Software Engineer
7 10 (7.63%) Lead
8 8 (6.11%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (6.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.11%) GCP Engineer
8 8 (6.11%) Python Developer
9 7 (5.34%) NetBackup Engineer
9 7 (5.34%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (29.77%) RESTful
2 31 (23.66%) REST
3 29 (22.14%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (12.21%) FastAPI
4 16 (12.21%) Node.js
4 16 (12.21%) React
5 12 (9.16%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (6.87%) .NET
7 8 (6.11%) Jest
7 8 (6.11%) Kafka
8 7 (5.34%) Playwright
9 6 (4.58%) AngularJS
9 6 (4.58%) CSS
9 6 (4.58%) Django
9 6 (4.58%) FHIR
9 6 (4.58%) Flask
9 6 (4.58%) HTML
9 6 (4.58%) Spring Boot
10 5 (3.82%) GraphQL
10 5 (3.82%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 40 (30.53%) Cloud Native
2 25 (19.08%) Public Cloud
3 22 (16.79%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.34%) NHS
5 7 (5.34%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.53%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.53%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.53%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.76%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.76%) CUDA
8 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (34.35%) Linux
2 3 (2.29%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.76%) CentOS
4 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.76%) Unix
4 1 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (73.28%) CI/CD
2 80 (61.07%) Containerisation
3 77 (58.78%) DevOps
4 71 (54.20%) Agile
5 56 (42.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (33.59%) Microservices
7 39 (29.77%) Software Engineering
8 28 (21.37%) High Availability
8 28 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (21.37%) Root Cause Analysis
9 24 (18.32%) Computer Science
10 23 (17.56%) Continuous Integration
10 23 (17.56%) Infrastructure Automation
11 22 (16.79%) Non-Functional Testing
12 21 (16.03%) Cryptography
12 21 (16.03%) Data Security
12 21 (16.03%) Mentoring
13 20 (15.27%) Continuous Delivery
14 19 (14.50%) Change Management
14 19 (14.50%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 81 (61.83%) Python
2 29 (22.14%) Java
3 27 (20.61%) Go
4 23 (17.56%) Bash
5 15 (11.45%) JavaScript
6 14 (10.69%) SQL
7 11 (8.40%) TypeScript
8 10 (7.63%) PowerShell
9 9 (6.87%) Shell Script
10 8 (6.11%) C#
11 4 (3.05%) Bicep
12 2 (1.53%) C++
12 2 (1.53%) Groovy
13 1 (0.76%) C
13 1 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 26 (19.85%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.32%) Computer Science Degree
2 24 (18.32%) Degree
2 24 (18.32%) Master's Degree
3 18 (13.74%) AWS Certification
3 18 (13.74%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.05%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.29%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.53%) CCSP
8 2 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.53%) CISSP
9 1 (0.76%) CSPO
9 1 (0.76%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.76%) OCP
9 1 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.11%) Accessibility
1 8 (6.11%) WCAG
2 5 (3.82%) GDPR
2 5 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.82%) NIST
2 5 (3.82%) QA
3 3 (2.29%) HL7
3 3 (2.29%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.53%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.53%) PSD2
System Software
1 8 (6.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.29%) KVM
3 1 (0.76%) Ceph
3 1 (0.76%) QEMU
3 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.76%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (65.65%) Kubernetes
2 69 (52.67%) Terraform
3 47 (35.88%) Ansible
4 46 (35.11%) Prometheus
5 43 (32.82%) Grafana
6 11 (8.40%) Control-M
7 10 (7.63%) IBM Guardium
7 10 (7.63%) Nessus
8 7 (5.34%) NetBackup
8 7 (5.34%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (3.82%) Packer
9 5 (3.82%) Puppet
10 3 (2.29%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.53%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.76%) Argo
12 1 (0.76%) Istio
12 1 (0.76%) Kiali
12 1 (0.76%) Podman
12 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (23.66%) Splunk
2 24 (18.32%) Google
3 10 (7.63%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.63%) Tenable
4 9 (6.87%) VMware
5 8 (6.11%) Oracle
6 7 (5.34%) CyberArk
6 7 (5.34%) F5
6 7 (5.34%) Palo Alto
6 7 (5.34%) Veritas
7 6 (4.58%) CheckPoint
8 5 (3.82%) Brio
9 3 (2.29%) Databricks
9 3 (2.29%) SAP
10 2 (1.53%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.53%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.53%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.53%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.53%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.76%) TIBCO