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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 46 46
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +10
Contract jobs citing Docker 142 44 63
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.48% 4.18% 3.76%
As % of the System Software category 40.80% 22.45% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 30 53
10th Percentile £376 £413 £405
25th Percentile £451 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £570 £609 £615
90th Percentile £588 £688 £645
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -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 348 196 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.44% 18.63% 15.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 124 187
10th Percentile £238 £200 £173
25th Percentile £358 £318 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £444 £430
Median % change year-on-year +9.75% +3.20% +7.50%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £588 £625 £638
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 23
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -72.27%
75th Percentile £26.50 - £15.19
90th Percentile £27.40 - £15.64
England median hourly rate £52.75 £28.46 £22.00
% change year-on-year +85.38% +29.34% -57.80%

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 26 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 26 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 -11 80 £479 -8.86% 8
West Yorkshire +8 59 £500 +5.26% 21
East Yorkshire - 4 - - 1
North Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 1
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 9 (6.34%) Confluence
2 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 73 (51.41%) AWS
2 42 (29.58%) Azure
2 42 (29.58%) GCP
3 41 (28.87%) GitHub
4 23 (16.20%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (9.86%) Serverless
6 13 (9.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 9 (6.34%) OpenShift
8 8 (5.63%) Apigee
9 7 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.93%) Cloud Run
10 5 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.52%) Kong
11 4 (2.82%) BrowserStack
12 3 (2.11%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.11%) AWS KMS
12 3 (2.11%) Azure AKS
13 2 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
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%) Network Security
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 39 (27.46%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (18.31%) MongoDB
3 15 (10.56%) 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%) Neo4j
7 4 (2.82%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.11%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.70%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 56 (39.44%) Jenkins
2 35 (24.65%) GitLab
3 31 (21.83%) Git
4 29 (20.42%) JIRA
5 15 (10.56%) Gatling
6 13 (9.15%) Maven
7 12 (8.45%) Selenium
8 11 (7.75%) Jaeger
9 8 (5.63%) REST Assured
10 7 (4.93%) Serenity BDD
11 6 (4.23%) Artifactory
11 6 (4.23%) Gradle
12 5 (3.52%) Liquibase
13 4 (2.82%) CircleCI
13 4 (2.82%) Snyk
13 4 (2.82%) TeamCity
14 3 (2.11%) Cucumber
14 3 (2.11%) JUnit
15 2 (1.41%) Mockito
15 2 (1.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 39 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.83%) Finance
3 23 (16.20%) Banking
4 18 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.68%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.63%) Financial Institution
6 7 (4.93%) Law
7 6 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.82%) Aviation
8 4 (2.82%) Fire and Rescue
8 4 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.82%) Police
9 3 (2.11%) Military
10 2 (1.41%) Games
10 2 (1.41%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.41%) Retail
11 1 (0.70%) Legal
11 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (35.21%) Developer
2 32 (22.54%) Senior
3 25 (17.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (14.08%) Senior Developer
5 19 (13.38%) Python Developer
6 16 (11.27%) Java Developer
7 14 (9.86%) Lead
7 14 (9.86%) Software Engineer
8 11 (7.75%) GCP DevOps
8 11 (7.75%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 11 (7.75%) GCP Engineer
8 11 (7.75%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.04%) Test Engineer
10 9 (6.34%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (6.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (6.34%) 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 Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (26.76%) OpenTelemetry
2 37 (26.06%) Kafka
3 26 (18.31%) Spring Boot
4 20 (14.08%) Playwright
4 20 (14.08%) React
4 20 (14.08%) Spring
5 17 (11.97%) RESTful
6 16 (11.27%) FastAPI
6 16 (11.27%) Node.js
7 12 (8.45%) .NET
8 11 (7.75%) REST
9 10 (7.04%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (6.34%) Middleware
11 8 (5.63%) OAuth
11 8 (5.63%) Spring Cloud
12 7 (4.93%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.93%) JPA
12 7 (4.93%) JWT
12 7 (4.93%) OAuth2
12 7 (4.93%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (10.56%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.34%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.63%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.23%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.82%) NHS
6 4 (2.82%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.82%) Robotics
6 4 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.11%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.41%) PKI
8 2 (1.41%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.70%) Clustering
9 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.70%) Life Science
9 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 30 (21.13%) Linux
2 12 (8.45%) Windows
3 5 (3.52%) Unix
4 2 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.70%) Android
5 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (77.46%) CI/CD
2 90 (63.38%) DevOps
3 65 (45.77%) Observability
4 62 (43.66%) Containerisation
5 60 (42.25%) Agile
6 54 (38.03%) Microservices
7 47 (33.10%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (23.24%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (22.54%) Test Automation
10 28 (19.72%) Software Engineering
11 26 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (16.90%) DevSecOps
12 24 (16.90%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (15.49%) Incident Response
14 20 (14.08%) API Development
14 20 (14.08%) Mentoring
14 20 (14.08%) Performance Optimisation
15 19 (13.38%) Secrets Management
16 18 (12.68%) Identity Access Management
17 16 (11.27%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 74 (52.11%) Python
2 61 (42.96%) Java
3 33 (23.24%) SQL
4 18 (12.68%) JavaScript
5 15 (10.56%) TypeScript
6 14 (9.86%) Bash
7 12 (8.45%) C#
7 12 (8.45%) Scala
8 10 (7.04%) PowerShell
9 9 (6.34%) Go
9 9 (6.34%) Rust
10 6 (4.23%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.11%) Groovy
11 3 (2.11%) Ruby
12 2 (1.41%) PromQL
13 1 (0.70%) Bicep
13 1 (0.70%) C
13 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 27 (19.01%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.97%) Degree
4 8 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.93%) 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%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.86%) 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
1 116 (81.69%) Kubernetes
2 56 (39.44%) Terraform
3 52 (36.62%) Grafana
4 49 (34.51%) Prometheus
5 28 (19.72%) 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 5 (3.52%) Kustomize
9 4 (2.82%) Argo
10 2 (1.41%) Consul
10 2 (1.41%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.70%) Kibana
11 1 (0.70%) logstash
11 1 (0.70%) Packer
11 1 (0.70%) Podman
11 1 (0.70%) SELinux
Vendors
1 29 (20.42%) Splunk
2 16 (11.27%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.15%) Tenable
4 7 (4.93%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.23%) Oracle
6 5 (3.52%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.82%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.82%) Google
8 2 (1.41%) Brio
8 2 (1.41%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.41%) IBM
8 2 (1.41%) Solace
8 2 (1.41%) VMware
9 1 (0.70%) New Relic
9 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.70%) Temenos