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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 40 27
Rank change year-on-year -5 -13 +28
Contract jobs citing Docker 145 91 87
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.01% 5.88% 5.89%
As % of the System Software category 38.67% 34.60% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 59 72
10th Percentile £350 £378 £376
25th Percentile £415 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -10.22%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £606
90th Percentile £638 £678 £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 375 263 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.94% 17.00% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 165 163
10th Percentile £200 £186 £189
25th Percentile £350 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -2.11% +1.33%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £579
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £25.84 - £17.81
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.18%
75th Percentile £28.00 - £21.63
90th Percentile - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £34.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +88.41% +25.45% -42.31%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -9 75 £500 -1.48% 24
West Yorkshire -5 64 £494 +2.33% 39
East Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 4
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 15 (10.34%) Confluence
2 2 (1.38%) Apache
2 2 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.38%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.69%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 67 (46.21%) AWS
2 53 (36.55%) Azure
3 45 (31.03%) GCP
4 36 (24.83%) GitHub
5 21 (14.48%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (11.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 17 (11.72%) Serverless
7 8 (5.52%) Apigee
7 8 (5.52%) Cloud Run
8 7 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.83%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (3.45%) Datadog
9 5 (3.45%) Kong
9 5 (3.45%) Vertex AI
10 4 (2.76%) Google Gemini
10 4 (2.76%) LangSmith
11 3 (2.07%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.07%) Stackdriver
12 2 (1.38%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.45%) 3GPP
1 5 (3.45%) Network Security
1 5 (3.45%) RTP
1 5 (3.45%) Wireshark
2 3 (2.07%) DNS
2 3 (2.07%) Firewall
3 2 (1.38%) Internet
3 2 (1.38%) VPN
4 1 (0.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.86%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (11.03%) MongoDB
2 16 (11.03%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.52%) Neo4j
3 8 (5.52%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.14%) Redis
5 5 (3.45%) BigQuery
5 5 (3.45%) Hazelcast
5 5 (3.45%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.07%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.07%) Tableau
7 2 (1.38%) Big Data
8 1 (0.69%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.69%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.69%) Trino
Development Applications
1 52 (35.86%) Jenkins
2 28 (19.31%) Git
3 25 (17.24%) JIRA
4 16 (11.03%) GitLab
5 13 (8.97%) Maven
6 12 (8.28%) Gatling
7 8 (5.52%) JMeter
7 8 (5.52%) Selenium
8 7 (4.83%) Gradle
8 7 (4.83%) LoadRunner
8 7 (4.83%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (4.14%) Cucumber
10 5 (3.45%) REST Assured
10 5 (3.45%) TeamCity
11 4 (2.76%) JUnit
11 4 (2.76%) Serenity BDD
11 4 (2.76%) Snyk
12 3 (2.07%) Artifactory
12 3 (2.07%) Mockito
12 3 (2.07%) SoapUI
General
1 31 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.17%) Finance
3 18 (12.41%) Banking
3 18 (12.41%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.14%) Police
6 5 (3.45%) Aviation
6 5 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.45%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.76%) Law
8 3 (2.07%) Games
8 3 (2.07%) Retail
9 2 (1.38%) Military
10 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.69%) Legal
10 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (34.48%) Developer
2 27 (18.62%) Senior
3 20 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (13.10%) Python Developer
5 18 (12.41%) Senior Developer
6 16 (11.03%) Lead
7 15 (10.34%) Java Developer
8 11 (7.59%) Backend Developer
9 10 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) Senior Backend Developer
10 9 (6.21%) Architect
10 9 (6.21%) Test Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (5.52%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (4.83%) .NET Developer
12 7 (4.83%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.83%) Software Engineer
13 6 (4.14%) Lead Test Engineer
14 5 (3.45%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (33.10%) Terraform
2 32 (22.07%) Kafka
3 25 (17.24%) REST
3 25 (17.24%) Spring
4 23 (15.86%) Spring Boot
5 18 (12.41%) .NET
5 18 (12.41%) OpenTelemetry
6 15 (10.34%) RabbitMQ
7 13 (8.97%) Playwright
8 12 (8.28%) .NET Core
8 12 (8.28%) OAuth
8 12 (8.28%) RESTful
9 11 (7.59%) OAuth2
10 10 (6.90%) AngularJS
10 10 (6.90%) FastAPI
10 10 (6.90%) Flask
10 10 (6.90%) Vue
10 10 (6.90%) Web Services
11 9 (6.21%) CSS
11 9 (6.21%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.62%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.83%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.14%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.45%) PKI
5 5 (3.45%) Robotics
6 4 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.07%) NHS
7 3 (2.07%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.38%) Clustering
8 2 (1.38%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.69%) Replication
9 1 (0.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.10%) Linux
2 6 (4.14%) Windows
3 4 (2.76%) Unix
3 4 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.38%) VMS
5 1 (0.69%) Android
5 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (81.38%) CI/CD
2 74 (51.03%) DevOps
3 65 (44.83%) Agile
4 53 (36.55%) Containerisation
5 50 (34.48%) Microservices
6 46 (31.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 46 (31.72%) Observability
7 37 (25.52%) Test Automation
8 29 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (16.55%) AI
10 21 (14.48%) Software Engineering
11 20 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (13.10%) API Development
13 17 (11.72%) DevSecOps
14 16 (11.03%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (11.03%) Identity Access Management
14 16 (11.03%) Validation
15 15 (10.34%) Code Quality
15 15 (10.34%) LLM
16 14 (9.66%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 69 (47.59%) Python
2 52 (35.86%) Java
3 40 (27.59%) SQL
4 17 (11.72%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.66%) Shell Script
6 13 (8.97%) C#
7 10 (6.90%) Scala
8 9 (6.21%) Groovy
9 8 (5.52%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.14%) Bash
10 6 (4.14%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.76%) Bicep
12 2 (1.38%) PromQL
13 1 (0.69%) Cypher
13 1 (0.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 23 (15.86%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.52%) Degree
4 7 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.59%) QA
2 5 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.07%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.38%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.38%) WCAG
5 1 (0.69%) HL7
5 1 (0.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (5.52%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.38%) KVM
4 1 (0.69%) NFS
4 1 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 115 (79.31%) Kubernetes
2 32 (22.07%) Grafana
3 27 (18.62%) Prometheus
4 25 (17.24%) Ansible
5 7 (4.83%) Control-M
5 7 (4.83%) IBM Guardium
5 7 (4.83%) Nessus
6 6 (4.14%) Kustomize
7 5 (3.45%) Argo
7 5 (3.45%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.38%) Consul
8 2 (1.38%) Podman
8 2 (1.38%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.69%) Kiali
9 1 (0.69%) SELinux
9 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.97%) Google
3 12 (8.28%) Splunk
4 10 (6.90%) Dynatrace
5 8 (5.52%) IBM
6 7 (4.83%) Tenable
7 6 (4.14%) Centrify
7 6 (4.14%) CyberArk
7 6 (4.14%) New Relic
8 5 (3.45%) AppDynamics
8 5 (3.45%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.07%) Databricks
9 3 (2.07%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.38%) Checkmarx
10 2 (1.38%) Oracle
10 2 (1.38%) Solace
11 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.69%) Temenos
11 1 (0.69%) Trend Micro
11 1 (0.69%) VMware