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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 38 40
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +8
Contract jobs citing Docker 147 49 68
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.72% 5.31% 3.80%
As % of the System Software category 43.11% 27.53% 22.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 30 53
10th Percentile £412 £413 £393
25th Percentile £450 £467 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £605 £600
90th Percentile £630 £650 £635
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £26.50 £66.50
% change year-on-year +145.28% -60.15% -5.00%

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 341 178 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.59% 19.28% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 117 223
10th Percentile £190 £207 £179
25th Percentile £325 £275 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £455 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +13.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £509
90th Percentile £579 £623 £612
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 14
10th Percentile £26.81 - -
25th Percentile £27.65 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £29.68 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -46.33%
75th Percentile £31.08 - £15.19
90th Percentile £31.55 - £20.56
England median hourly rate £34.00 £29.00 £25.06
% change year-on-year +17.24% +15.73% -34.92%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -12 85 £475 -10.29% 16
West Yorkshire +8 62 £500 +2.56% 29
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 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.36%) Apache
2 2 (1.36%) Confluence
2 2 (1.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 86 (58.50%) AWS
2 60 (40.82%) GCP
3 42 (28.57%) Azure
4 37 (25.17%) Serverless
5 26 (17.69%) GitHub
6 18 (12.24%) Amazon S3
7 15 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (8.84%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (7.48%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (7.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (6.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (6.12%) AWS KMS
12 9 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (6.12%) OpenShift
13 7 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (3.40%) Apigee
14 5 (3.40%) Azure AKS
15 3 (2.04%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 26 (17.69%) Firewall
2 13 (8.84%) DNS
3 9 (6.12%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.40%) Network Security
5 4 (2.72%) VPN
6 3 (2.04%) SSL
7 1 (0.68%) FTP
7 1 (0.68%) HTTP
7 1 (0.68%) VLAN
7 1 (0.68%) VSAN
7 1 (0.68%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (31.97%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (17.69%) NoSQL
3 17 (11.56%) MongoDB
4 8 (5.44%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.76%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.40%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.36%) Redis
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.68%) MySQL
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.68%) Power BI
8 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (39.46%) Jenkins
2 45 (30.61%) GitLab
3 28 (19.05%) Git
4 25 (17.01%) JIRA
5 17 (11.56%) Liquibase
6 9 (6.12%) Jaeger
7 8 (5.44%) Selenium
8 4 (2.72%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.04%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.04%) Gatling
9 3 (2.04%) Maven
9 3 (2.04%) Mocha
9 3 (2.04%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.04%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (1.36%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.36%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.68%) Robot Framework
General
1 49 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 42 (28.57%) Finance
3 30 (20.41%) Banking
4 25 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (13.61%) Financial Institution
6 15 (10.20%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.08%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.04%) Law
9 2 (1.36%) Military
9 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (29.93%) Developer
2 34 (23.13%) Senior
3 27 (18.37%) Software Engineer
4 25 (17.01%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (15.65%) Python Developer
6 17 (11.56%) GCP Engineer
7 14 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (8.84%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (8.84%) Lead
9 12 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (8.16%) GCP DevOps
9 12 (8.16%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 10 (6.80%) Senior DevOps
10 10 (6.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 9 (6.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (6.12%) Java Developer
11 9 (6.12%) Senior Developer
12 8 (5.44%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 6 (4.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 6 (4.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (24.49%) OpenTelemetry
2 33 (22.45%) RESTful
3 28 (19.05%) REST
4 25 (17.01%) FastAPI
5 24 (16.33%) Node.js
6 23 (15.65%) Elastic Stack
7 22 (14.97%) React
8 20 (13.61%) Kafka
8 20 (13.61%) Spring Boot
9 11 (7.48%) Spring
10 10 (6.80%) Jest
11 9 (6.12%) Middleware
12 8 (5.44%) .NET
13 6 (4.08%) FHIR
14 5 (3.40%) .NET Core
14 5 (3.40%) Django
14 5 (3.40%) Flask
15 4 (2.72%) CSS
15 4 (2.72%) HTML
15 4 (2.72%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.41%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (19.73%) Cloud Native
3 22 (14.97%) Public Cloud
4 11 (7.48%) NHS
5 10 (6.80%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (5.44%) Management Information System
7 7 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.72%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.72%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.04%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.04%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.36%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.68%) CUDA
11 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.68%) Life Science
11 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (34.01%) Linux
2 12 (8.16%) Windows
3 5 (3.40%) Unix
4 3 (2.04%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.68%) CentOS
5 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (74.83%) CI/CD
2 85 (57.82%) Containerisation
3 81 (55.10%) DevOps
4 71 (48.30%) Agile
5 60 (40.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 57 (38.78%) Microservices
7 47 (31.97%) Observability
8 39 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (25.17%) Software Engineering
10 30 (20.41%) Root Cause Analysis
11 28 (19.05%) Mentoring
12 26 (17.69%) Computer Science
13 25 (17.01%) DevSecOps
13 25 (17.01%) Infrastructure Automation
14 24 (16.33%) Test Automation
15 23 (15.65%) API Development
15 23 (15.65%) Full-Stack Development
16 22 (14.97%) High Availability
17 21 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
18 18 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 88 (59.86%) Python
2 39 (26.53%) Java
3 30 (20.41%) SQL
4 24 (16.33%) Bash
4 24 (16.33%) Go
5 18 (12.24%) JavaScript
6 15 (10.20%) TypeScript
7 11 (7.48%) PowerShell
8 10 (6.80%) C#
9 9 (6.12%) Rust
10 6 (4.08%) Shell Script
11 5 (3.40%) Groovy
12 3 (2.04%) Delphi
12 3 (2.04%) PHP
12 3 (2.04%) Ruby
13 2 (1.36%) Bicep
13 2 (1.36%) C
13 2 (1.36%) C++
14 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 27 (18.37%) Degree
2 22 (14.97%) Security Cleared
3 17 (11.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (11.56%) Master's Degree
4 12 (8.16%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.44%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.04%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.36%) CCSP
7 2 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.36%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.16%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.08%) WCAG
3 5 (3.40%) SLA
4 4 (2.72%) HL7
5 2 (1.36%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.36%) GDPR
5 2 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.36%) NIST
5 2 (1.36%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.36%) PSD2
5 2 (1.36%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.72%) KVM
1 4 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.36%) vSphere
3 1 (0.68%) Ceph
3 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.68%) QEMU
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 114 (77.55%) Kubernetes
2 66 (44.90%) Terraform
3 65 (44.22%) Grafana
4 61 (41.50%) Prometheus
5 42 (28.57%) Ansible
6 19 (12.93%) Control-M
6 19 (12.93%) IBM Guardium
6 19 (12.93%) Nessus
7 9 (6.12%) Kiali
8 5 (3.40%) Packer
9 3 (2.04%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.04%) Puppet
10 2 (1.36%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.36%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.36%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.68%) Kibana
11 1 (0.68%) logstash
11 1 (0.68%) Podman
11 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (27.21%) Splunk
2 19 (12.93%) Tenable
3 13 (8.84%) Google
4 7 (4.76%) Oracle
5 6 (4.08%) Brio
6 5 (3.40%) Microsoft
7 4 (2.72%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.72%) F5
7 4 (2.72%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.72%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.72%) VMware
8 3 (2.04%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.04%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.36%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.36%) Databricks
9 2 (1.36%) SAP
9 2 (1.36%) Veritas
10 1 (0.68%) Cisco
10 1 (0.68%) CloudEndure
10 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace