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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 51 29
Rank change year-on-year +11 -22 +35
Contract jobs citing Docker 153 68 87
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.29% 4.43% 5.77%
As % of the System Software category 40.16% 27.20% 39.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 44 73
10th Percentile £350 £384 £376
25th Percentile £424 £461 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% -11.82%
75th Percentile £587 £600 £594
90th Percentile £638 £650 £649
England median daily rate £525 £525 £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 381 250 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.17% 16.30% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 154 152
10th Percentile £200 £200 £210
25th Percentile £350 £358 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £458 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -6.15% +8.33%
75th Percentile £561 £550 £584
90th Percentile £638 £608 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £25.84 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.52%
75th Percentile £28.00 - £15.75
90th Percentile - - £21.70
England median hourly rate £60.17 £40.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +50.41% +68.07% -31.01%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +5 75 £475 -13.64% 4
West Yorkshire +6 71 £494 +0.77% 19
East Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 4
North Yorkshire -7 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 15 (9.80%) Confluence
2 2 (1.31%) Apache
2 2 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.31%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 82 (53.59%) AWS
2 56 (36.60%) Azure
3 45 (29.41%) GCP
4 44 (28.76%) GitHub
5 26 (16.99%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (13.07%) Serverless
7 12 (7.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (5.88%) Cloud Run
8 9 (5.88%) OpenShift
9 8 (5.23%) Apigee
10 7 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.27%) Kong
12 5 (3.27%) Vertex AI
13 4 (2.61%) Datadog
13 4 (2.61%) Google Gemini
13 4 (2.61%) LangSmith
14 3 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (1.96%) Stackdriver
15 2 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.27%) 3GPP
1 5 (3.27%) RTP
1 5 (3.27%) Wireshark
2 4 (2.61%) Network Security
3 3 (1.96%) DNS
4 2 (1.31%) Internet
4 2 (1.31%) VPN
5 1 (0.65%) Firewall
5 1 (0.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (21.57%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (14.38%) SQL Server
3 20 (13.07%) MongoDB
4 10 (6.54%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.92%) Neo4j
5 6 (3.92%) Redis
6 5 (3.27%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.27%) Hazelcast
6 5 (3.27%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.61%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.31%) Tableau
9 1 (0.65%) Big Data
9 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.65%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.65%) Trino
Development Applications
1 60 (39.22%) Jenkins
2 29 (18.95%) Git
3 27 (17.65%) JIRA
4 21 (13.73%) GitLab
5 16 (10.46%) Gatling
6 15 (9.80%) Maven
7 10 (6.54%) Selenium
8 7 (4.58%) Gradle
8 7 (4.58%) JMeter
9 6 (3.92%) Artifactory
9 6 (3.92%) Cucumber
9 6 (3.92%) LoadRunner
9 6 (3.92%) REST Assured
10 5 (3.27%) Serenity BDD
10 5 (3.27%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (3.27%) TeamCity
11 4 (2.61%) JUnit
11 4 (2.61%) Snyk
12 3 (1.96%) Liquibase
12 3 (1.96%) Postman
General
1 32 (20.92%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.07%) Finance
3 19 (12.42%) Banking
3 19 (12.42%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.92%) Police
6 5 (3.27%) Aviation
6 5 (3.27%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (2.61%) Games
7 4 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.61%) Law
7 4 (2.61%) Retail
8 3 (1.96%) Military
9 2 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.65%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (36.60%) Developer
2 28 (18.30%) Senior
3 22 (14.38%) Python Developer
4 21 (13.73%) Senior Developer
5 19 (12.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (10.46%) Java Developer
6 16 (10.46%) Lead
7 13 (8.50%) Backend Developer
7 13 (8.50%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (7.84%) Senior Backend Developer
9 11 (7.19%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.54%) Test Engineer
11 9 (5.88%) Architect
11 9 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.58%) Java Engineer
12 7 (4.58%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.58%) Lead Test Engineer
12 7 (4.58%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (3.92%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (20.26%) Kafka
2 27 (17.65%) REST
3 25 (16.34%) Spring
4 22 (14.38%) Spring Boot
5 19 (12.42%) OpenTelemetry
6 18 (11.76%) .NET
6 18 (11.76%) Playwright
7 16 (10.46%) RabbitMQ
8 15 (9.80%) RESTful
9 13 (8.50%) React
10 11 (7.19%) .NET Core
10 11 (7.19%) OAuth
10 11 (7.19%) Vue
11 10 (6.54%) CSS
11 10 (6.54%) FastAPI
11 10 (6.54%) Flask
11 10 (6.54%) HTML
11 10 (6.54%) OAuth2
12 8 (5.23%) JWT
12 8 (5.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.38%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.50%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (5.23%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (5.23%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.27%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.27%) PKI
5 5 (3.27%) Robotics
6 4 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.61%) Sports Betting
7 3 (1.96%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.96%) NHS
8 2 (1.31%) Clustering
8 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.65%) Replication
9 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.07%) Linux
2 7 (4.58%) Windows
3 4 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.65%) Android
4 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 81 (52.94%) DevOps
3 70 (45.75%) Agile
4 59 (38.56%) Containerisation
5 51 (33.33%) Microservices
6 48 (31.37%) Observability
7 46 (30.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (26.80%) Test Automation
9 32 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (17.65%) Software Engineering
11 22 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (13.73%) API Development
13 19 (12.42%) AI
14 18 (11.76%) Code Quality
15 17 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
15 17 (11.11%) Validation
16 16 (10.46%) Platform Engineering
17 15 (9.80%) BDD
18 14 (9.15%) Scrum
18 14 (9.15%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 76 (49.67%) Python
2 58 (37.91%) Java
3 44 (28.76%) SQL
4 22 (14.38%) JavaScript
5 15 (9.80%) Scala
6 13 (8.50%) C#
7 11 (7.19%) Shell Script
8 10 (6.54%) TypeScript
9 8 (5.23%) Groovy
9 8 (5.23%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.92%) Bash
11 3 (1.96%) Bicep
12 2 (1.31%) Go
12 2 (1.31%) PromQL
13 1 (0.65%) C
13 1 (0.65%) Cypher
13 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 29 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 25 (16.34%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.23%) Degree
4 7 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.31%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.54%) QA
2 8 (5.23%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.61%) WCAG
4 2 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.31%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.65%) HL7
5 1 (0.65%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (4.58%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.96%) KVM
2 3 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.65%) NFS
4 1 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 118 (77.12%) Kubernetes
2 51 (33.33%) Terraform
3 34 (22.22%) Grafana
4 32 (20.92%) Prometheus
5 25 (16.34%) Ansible
6 10 (6.54%) HAProxy
7 8 (5.23%) Control-M
7 8 (5.23%) IBM Guardium
7 8 (5.23%) Nessus
8 5 (3.27%) Argo
9 4 (2.61%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.31%) Consul
10 2 (1.31%) Podman
10 2 (1.31%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.65%) Kiali
11 1 (0.65%) Packer
11 1 (0.65%) SELinux
11 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.50%) Splunk
3 12 (7.84%) Google
4 9 (5.88%) Dynatrace
5 8 (5.23%) Tenable
6 7 (4.58%) IBM
7 5 (3.27%) Centrify
7 5 (3.27%) CyberArk
7 5 (3.27%) New Relic
7 5 (3.27%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.61%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.96%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.31%) Databricks
10 2 (1.31%) Oracle
10 2 (1.31%) Solace
10 2 (1.31%) VMware
11 1 (0.65%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.65%) Temenos
11 1 (0.65%) Trend Micro