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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 44 45
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +16
Contract jobs citing Docker 141 41 58
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.18% 4.38% 3.38%
As % of the System Software category 41.72% 24.26% 21.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 24 45
10th Percentile £410 £424 £394
25th Percentile £450 £495 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -11.82%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £575
90th Percentile £588 £650 £615
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £53.10 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.41% -15.04% -10.71%

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 338 169 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.82% 18.04% 15.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 109 193
10th Percentile £208 £209 £178
25th Percentile £358 £310 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -2.94%
75th Percentile £526 £575 £530
90th Percentile £587 £628 £615
England median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 21
10th Percentile £26.81 - -
25th Percentile £27.65 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £29.68 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -55.00%
75th Percentile £31.08 - £15.19
90th Percentile £31.55 - £17.19
England median hourly rate £50.00 £29.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +72.41% +31.82% -45.00%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -10 73 £475 -11.63% 12
West Yorkshire +15 69 £500 +1.27% 31
North Yorkshire - 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 3 (2.13%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.13%) Confluence
2 2 (1.42%) Apache
2 2 (1.42%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 87 (61.70%) AWS
2 51 (36.17%) GCP
3 45 (31.91%) Azure
4 33 (23.40%) GitHub
5 32 (22.70%) Serverless
6 19 (13.48%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (10.64%) Amazon S3
8 14 (9.93%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (7.80%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (7.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (7.09%) OpenShift
11 9 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (6.38%) AWS KMS
12 8 (5.67%) Apigee
13 7 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (4.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (3.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (2.84%) Azure AKS
16 3 (2.13%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.60%) Firewall
2 11 (7.80%) DNS
3 7 (4.96%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.13%) Network Security
5 2 (1.42%) VPN
6 1 (0.71%) FTP
6 1 (0.71%) HTTP
6 1 (0.71%) SSL
6 1 (0.71%) VLAN
6 1 (0.71%) VSAN
6 1 (0.71%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (31.21%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (14.18%) NoSQL
3 18 (12.77%) MongoDB
4 12 (8.51%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.38%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.26%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.13%) Redis
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.71%) Power BI
8 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (41.13%) Jenkins
2 37 (26.24%) GitLab
3 25 (17.73%) Git
4 16 (11.35%) JIRA
5 11 (7.80%) Liquibase
6 9 (6.38%) Jaeger
6 9 (6.38%) Selenium
7 7 (4.96%) Gatling
8 6 (4.26%) Maven
9 4 (2.84%) Artifactory
9 4 (2.84%) CircleCI
10 3 (2.13%) Mocha
10 3 (2.13%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.13%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (1.42%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.42%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.42%) Robot Framework
11 2 (1.42%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.71%) Subversion
General
1 44 (31.21%) Social Skills
2 36 (25.53%) Finance
3 23 (16.31%) Banking
4 19 (13.48%) Public Sector
5 17 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (10.64%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.26%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.13%) Law
9 2 (1.42%) Military
9 2 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Games
10 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Legal
10 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Retail
10 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (30.50%) Developer
2 30 (21.28%) Senior
3 24 (17.02%) Software Engineer
4 20 (14.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (12.77%) Python Developer
6 15 (10.64%) GCP Engineer
7 14 (9.93%) Lead
8 13 (9.22%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (8.51%) Senior Developer
10 10 (7.09%) GCP DevOps
10 10 (7.09%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 10 (7.09%) Java Developer
11 9 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (6.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (4.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 7 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.96%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 6 (4.26%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.44%) OpenTelemetry
1 26 (18.44%) RESTful
2 24 (17.02%) Node.js
3 23 (16.31%) React
4 22 (15.60%) Kafka
5 21 (14.89%) REST
5 21 (14.89%) Spring Boot
6 16 (11.35%) Elastic Stack
7 15 (10.64%) FastAPI
8 13 (9.22%) .NET
8 13 (9.22%) Spring
9 10 (7.09%) Playwright
10 9 (6.38%) Jest
10 9 (6.38%) Middleware
11 6 (4.26%) FHIR
11 6 (4.26%) pytest
12 5 (3.55%) .NET Core
12 5 (3.55%) Flask
12 5 (3.55%) Redux
12 5 (3.55%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.44%) Cloud Native
2 25 (17.73%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (12.77%) Public Cloud
4 11 (7.80%) NHS
5 9 (6.38%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (5.67%) Management Information System
7 7 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.55%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
10 3 (2.13%) Security Posture
10 3 (2.13%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.71%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (29.79%) Linux
2 12 (8.51%) Windows
3 5 (3.55%) Unix
4 3 (2.13%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.71%) CentOS
5 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (71.63%) CI/CD
2 80 (56.74%) DevOps
3 69 (48.94%) Containerisation
4 63 (44.68%) Agile
5 57 (40.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (35.46%) Microservices
7 40 (28.37%) Observability
8 35 (24.82%) Software Engineering
9 32 (22.70%) Test Automation
10 30 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (17.73%) DevSecOps
11 25 (17.73%) Mentoring
12 24 (17.02%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (15.60%) Root Cause Analysis
14 20 (14.18%) Computer Science
15 19 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (13.48%) Infrastructure Automation
16 16 (11.35%) API Development
16 16 (11.35%) High Availability
17 15 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 78 (55.32%) Python
2 47 (33.33%) Java
3 28 (19.86%) SQL
4 20 (14.18%) JavaScript
5 19 (13.48%) Bash
6 18 (12.77%) Go
7 17 (12.06%) TypeScript
8 15 (10.64%) C#
9 10 (7.09%) PowerShell
10 9 (6.38%) Rust
11 6 (4.26%) Shell Script
12 5 (3.55%) Scala
13 4 (2.84%) Groovy
14 3 (2.13%) Delphi
14 3 (2.13%) PHP
14 3 (2.13%) Ruby
15 2 (1.42%) C
15 2 (1.42%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.71%) Bicep
16 1 (0.71%) C++
Qualifications
1 28 (19.86%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.89%) Degree
3 19 (13.48%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (7.80%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.55%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.13%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.42%) CCSP
8 2 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.42%) CISSP
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.71%) CSPO
9 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.22%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.96%) WCAG
3 5 (3.55%) SLA
4 4 (2.84%) HL7
4 4 (2.84%) QA
5 2 (1.42%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.42%) GDPR
5 2 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.42%) NIST
5 2 (1.42%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.42%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (2.13%) KVM
2 2 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.42%) vSphere
3 1 (0.71%) Ceph
3 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.71%) QEMU
3 1 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 106 (75.18%) Kubernetes
2 69 (48.94%) Terraform
3 51 (36.17%) Grafana
4 45 (31.91%) Prometheus
5 34 (24.11%) Ansible
6 10 (7.09%) Control-M
6 10 (7.09%) IBM Guardium
6 10 (7.09%) Nessus
7 9 (6.38%) Kiali
8 5 (3.55%) HAProxy
8 5 (3.55%) Packer
9 2 (1.42%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.71%) Argo
10 1 (0.71%) Istio
10 1 (0.71%) Kibana
10 1 (0.71%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.71%) logstash
10 1 (0.71%) Podman
10 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (24.82%) Splunk
2 10 (7.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.09%) Tenable
3 6 (4.26%) Brio
3 6 (4.26%) Google
3 6 (4.26%) Oracle
4 5 (3.55%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.13%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.42%) Databricks
6 2 (1.42%) F5
6 2 (1.42%) IBM
6 2 (1.42%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.42%) VMware
7 1 (0.71%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.71%) CloudEndure
7 1 (0.71%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.71%) NetApp
7 1 (0.71%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.71%) Temenos