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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 48 46
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +14
Contract jobs citing Docker 142 43 65
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.66% 4.11% 3.90%
As % of the System Software category 41.16% 21.83% 25.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 27 55
10th Percentile £380 £417 £394
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £566 £618 £615
90th Percentile £588 £688 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £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 345 197 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.75% 18.85% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 124 184
10th Percentile £263 £190 £178
25th Percentile £362 £293 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £423 £430
Median % change year-on-year +13.61% -1.74% +3.30%
75th Percentile £534 £575 £575
90th Percentile £588 £625 £634
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 23
10th Percentile £23.50 - -
25th Percentile £24.25 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -76.60%
75th Percentile £27.25 - £15.19
90th Percentile £27.70 - £15.64
England median hourly rate £56.25 £28.71 £21.00
% change year-on-year +95.96% +36.69% -58.00%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 £475 -11.63% 4
West Yorkshire +22 65 £500 +5.26% 28
East Yorkshire - 4 - - 2
North Yorkshire - 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 7 (4.93%) Confluence
2 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 74 (52.11%) AWS
2 41 (28.87%) Azure
3 40 (28.17%) GCP
3 40 (28.17%) GitHub
4 25 (17.61%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (9.15%) Serverless
6 11 (7.75%) Apigee
7 10 (7.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (6.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.34%) OpenShift
9 7 (4.93%) Cloud Run
10 6 (4.23%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.52%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.52%) Kong
12 4 (2.82%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.82%) BrowserStack
13 3 (2.11%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.56%) Firewall
2 7 (4.93%) DNS
3 6 (4.23%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.82%) 3GPP
4 4 (2.82%) RTP
4 4 (2.82%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.41%) VPN
6 1 (0.70%) HTTP
6 1 (0.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (28.17%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (17.61%) MongoDB
3 18 (12.68%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.75%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.52%) Redis
7 4 (2.82%) Hazelcast
7 4 (2.82%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.11%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.41%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.70%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.70%) Power BI
10 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (40.14%) Jenkins
2 36 (25.35%) GitLab
3 29 (20.42%) Git
4 23 (16.20%) JIRA
5 15 (10.56%) Gatling
5 15 (10.56%) Maven
6 13 (9.15%) Selenium
7 11 (7.75%) Jaeger
8 7 (4.93%) Artifactory
8 7 (4.93%) REST Assured
9 6 (4.23%) Gradle
9 6 (4.23%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (2.82%) CircleCI
10 4 (2.82%) Liquibase
10 4 (2.82%) Snyk
10 4 (2.82%) TeamCity
11 3 (2.11%) Cucumber
12 2 (1.41%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.41%) Robot Framework
12 2 (1.41%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.42%) Finance
3 20 (14.08%) Banking
4 18 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.68%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.63%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.82%) Aviation
6 4 (2.82%) Fire and Rescue
6 4 (2.82%) Law
6 4 (2.82%) Police
7 3 (2.11%) Military
8 2 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.41%) Games
8 2 (1.41%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.41%) Retail
9 1 (0.70%) Legal
9 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (36.62%) Developer
2 30 (21.13%) Senior
3 21 (14.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (14.79%) Python Developer
4 18 (12.68%) Senior Developer
5 17 (11.97%) Software Engineer
6 15 (10.56%) Java Developer
7 14 (9.86%) Lead
8 10 (7.04%) GCP DevOps
8 10 (7.04%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 10 (7.04%) GCP Engineer
8 10 (7.04%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (6.34%) Test Engineer
10 8 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (5.63%) Lead Test Engineer
11 7 (4.93%) Backend Developer
11 7 (4.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 7 (4.93%) Senior Backend Developer
11 7 (4.93%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (25.35%) OpenTelemetry
2 32 (22.54%) Kafka
3 26 (18.31%) Spring Boot
4 20 (14.08%) React
4 20 (14.08%) Spring
5 19 (13.38%) Node.js
5 19 (13.38%) Playwright
6 17 (11.97%) FastAPI
7 15 (10.56%) .NET
7 15 (10.56%) RESTful
8 14 (9.86%) REST
9 10 (7.04%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (6.34%) Middleware
11 7 (4.93%) .NET Core
11 7 (4.93%) Redux
11 7 (4.93%) Zustand
12 6 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (4.23%) OAuth
12 6 (4.23%) Spring Cloud
12 6 (4.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.97%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (8.45%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.04%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.63%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.93%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.52%) NHS
6 5 (3.52%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.82%) Robotics
8 3 (2.11%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.11%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.41%) PKI
9 2 (1.41%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.70%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.70%) Life Science
10 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 33 (23.24%) Linux
2 15 (10.56%) Windows
3 5 (3.52%) Unix
4 3 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.70%) Android
6 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (73.94%) CI/CD
2 84 (59.15%) DevOps
3 59 (41.55%) Containerisation
4 58 (40.85%) Observability
5 57 (40.14%) Agile
6 47 (33.10%) Microservices
7 46 (32.39%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (23.24%) Software Engineering
9 30 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (19.72%) Test Automation
11 23 (16.20%) Full-Stack Development
12 22 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (14.08%) DevSecOps
13 20 (14.08%) Performance Optimisation
14 18 (12.68%) API Development
14 18 (12.68%) Incident Response
14 18 (12.68%) Mentoring
15 15 (10.56%) Infrastructure Automation
15 15 (10.56%) Secrets Management
16 14 (9.86%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (54.93%) Python
2 60 (42.25%) Java
3 35 (24.65%) SQL
4 20 (14.08%) JavaScript
5 17 (11.97%) TypeScript
6 16 (11.27%) Bash
6 16 (11.27%) C#
7 12 (8.45%) Scala
8 11 (7.75%) PowerShell
9 10 (7.04%) Go
10 9 (6.34%) Rust
11 6 (4.23%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.82%) Groovy
13 3 (2.11%) Delphi
13 3 (2.11%) PHP
13 3 (2.11%) Ruby
14 2 (1.41%) Bicep
14 2 (1.41%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.70%) C
Qualifications
1 26 (18.31%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.27%) Degree
4 8 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.56%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.93%) WCAG
3 6 (4.23%) QA
4 5 (3.52%) SLA
5 2 (1.41%) HL7
5 2 (1.41%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.70%) KVM
2 1 (0.70%) NFS
2 1 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 111 (78.17%) Kubernetes
2 57 (40.14%) Terraform
3 50 (35.21%) Grafana
4 47 (33.10%) Prometheus
5 23 (16.20%) Ansible
6 13 (9.15%) Control-M
6 13 (9.15%) IBM Guardium
6 13 (9.15%) Nessus
7 10 (7.04%) HAProxy
7 10 (7.04%) Kiali
8 4 (2.82%) Argo
9 2 (1.41%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.70%) Istio
10 1 (0.70%) Kibana
10 1 (0.70%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.70%) logstash
10 1 (0.70%) Podman
10 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.70%) Puppet
10 1 (0.70%) SELinux
Vendors
1 29 (20.42%) Splunk
2 15 (10.56%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.15%) Tenable
4 6 (4.23%) Oracle
5 5 (3.52%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.52%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.82%) AppDynamics
6 4 (2.82%) Google
7 3 (2.11%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.41%) Brio
8 2 (1.41%) IBM
8 2 (1.41%) VMware
9 1 (0.70%) New Relic
9 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.70%) Temenos