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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 29 54
Rank change year-on-year -12 +25 +2
Contract jobs citing Docker 83 87 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.41% 5.83% 3.17%
As % of the System Software category 32.17% 38.33% 25.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 72 53
10th Percentile £379 £376 £415
25th Percentile £414 £400 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £551
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -10.22% -8.11%
75th Percentile £550 £606 £638
90th Percentile £669 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% 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 258 227 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.83% 15.21% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 161 170
10th Percentile £189 £209 £154
25th Percentile £353 £381 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £490 £469
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +4.53% +16.46%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £588
90th Percentile £600 £650 £653
England median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 8
10th Percentile - £13.98 £16.00
25th Percentile - £14.06 £18.18
Median hourly rate - £14.63 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -30.36% -2.33%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £22.00
90th Percentile - £22.00 £28.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £24.35 £47.86
% change year-on-year +47.84% -49.13% +117.56%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Docker 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -10 43 £483 +20.63% 34
South Yorkshire -14 37 £525 -15.59% 8
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
Docker
England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.20%) WebSphere
1 1 (1.20%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (62.65%) AWS
2 36 (43.37%) GCP
3 29 (34.94%) Azure
4 26 (31.33%) Serverless
5 15 (18.07%) GitHub
6 11 (13.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (13.25%) Amazon S3
6 11 (13.25%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (10.84%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (10.84%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (9.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (8.43%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (7.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (4.82%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (4.82%) Azure Functions
13 3 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (3.61%) PaaS
13 3 (3.61%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.66%) Firewall
2 6 (7.23%) SSL
2 6 (7.23%) VPN
3 5 (6.02%) DNS
3 5 (6.02%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.61%) Network Security
5 1 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.30%) NoSQL
2 9 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (9.64%) SQL Server
4 7 (8.43%) DynamoDB
5 6 (7.23%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.61%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.61%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.41%) Hazelcast
8 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.20%) MySQL
9 1 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 47 (56.63%) Jenkins
2 31 (37.35%) GitLab
3 19 (22.89%) Git
4 15 (18.07%) Liquibase
5 8 (9.64%) Selenium
6 7 (8.43%) Cypress.io
6 7 (8.43%) JMeter
6 7 (8.43%) TestNG
7 6 (7.23%) Cucumber
7 6 (7.23%) Maven
7 6 (7.23%) Postman
7 6 (7.23%) REST Assured
8 4 (4.82%) Jaeger
8 4 (4.82%) JIRA
8 4 (4.82%) JUnit
9 2 (2.41%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.20%) Appium
10 1 (1.20%) Log4j
10 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.20%) webpack
General
1 28 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 23 (27.71%) Finance
3 20 (24.10%) Banking
4 16 (19.28%) Financial Institution
5 9 (10.84%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.20%) Local Government
8 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (34.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (24.10%) Senior
3 17 (20.48%) Software Engineer
4 12 (14.46%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (13.25%) Developer
6 10 (12.05%) Senior DevOps
6 10 (12.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 8 (9.64%) Lead
7 8 (9.64%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (8.43%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (8.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (8.43%) NetBackup Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) Architect
9 6 (7.23%) Test Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) AWS Software Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Python Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Technical Architect
11 4 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.82%) Lead DevOps
11 4 (4.82%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (27.71%) RESTful
2 21 (25.30%) REST
3 17 (20.48%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (12.05%) Node.js
5 8 (9.64%) Kafka
5 8 (9.64%) React
6 7 (8.43%) .NET
6 7 (8.43%) Playwright
7 6 (7.23%) AngularJS
7 6 (7.23%) gRPC
8 5 (6.02%) Flask
8 5 (6.02%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.82%) Celery
9 4 (4.82%) Django
9 4 (4.82%) FastAPI
9 4 (4.82%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (4.82%) Spring Boot
9 4 (4.82%) WebSockets
10 3 (3.61%) CSS
10 3 (3.61%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (32.53%) Cloud Native
2 12 (14.46%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (13.25%) Public Cloud
4 5 (6.02%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.41%) NHS
6 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (32.53%) Linux
2 4 (4.82%) Unix
3 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (71.08%) CI/CD
2 52 (62.65%) DevOps
3 50 (60.24%) Containerisation
4 39 (46.99%) Agile
5 32 (38.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (34.94%) Microservices
7 24 (28.92%) Software Engineering
8 19 (22.89%) Infrastructure Automation
9 16 (19.28%) High Availability
9 16 (19.28%) Root Cause Analysis
10 15 (18.07%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (18.07%) Cost Optimisation
10 15 (18.07%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (18.07%) Data Security
11 14 (16.87%) Non-Functional Testing
12 13 (15.66%) Computer Science
12 13 (15.66%) Continuous Delivery
12 13 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (14.46%) Change Management
13 12 (14.46%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 50 (60.24%) Python
2 25 (30.12%) Java
3 20 (24.10%) Bash
4 17 (20.48%) Go
5 11 (13.25%) JavaScript
6 9 (10.84%) Shell Script
6 9 (10.84%) SQL
7 8 (9.64%) PowerShell
8 6 (7.23%) TypeScript
9 5 (6.02%) C#
10 3 (3.61%) Bicep
10 3 (3.61%) Groovy
11 1 (1.20%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (24.10%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.07%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.87%) AWS Certification
4 13 (15.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (15.66%) Degree
4 13 (15.66%) Master's Degree
5 10 (12.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.20%) IBM Certification
8 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.20%) OCP
8 1 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) Accessibility
1 6 (7.23%) WCAG
2 5 (6.02%) QA
3 3 (3.61%) GDPR
3 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.61%) NIST
3 3 (3.61%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.41%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.20%) HL7
System Software
1 8 (9.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (61.45%) Kubernetes
2 44 (53.01%) Terraform
3 31 (37.35%) Ansible
4 23 (27.71%) Grafana
5 22 (26.51%) Prometheus
6 7 (8.43%) NetBackup
6 7 (8.43%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (4.82%) Puppet
8 3 (3.61%) Control-M
8 3 (3.61%) Istio
8 3 (3.61%) Kiali
9 2 (2.41%) Kustomize
9 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (22.89%) Splunk
2 18 (21.69%) Google
3 10 (12.05%) Oracle
4 9 (10.84%) VMware
5 7 (8.43%) CyberArk
5 7 (8.43%) Microsoft
5 7 (8.43%) Veritas
6 4 (4.82%) CheckPoint
6 4 (4.82%) F5
6 4 (4.82%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.61%) AppDynamics
7 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.61%) xMatters
8 2 (2.41%) Commvault
8 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.41%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.20%) Databricks
9 1 (1.20%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (1.20%) SAP