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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 33 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 -5 +18
Contract jobs citing Docker 131 112 91
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.61% 6.73% 6.16%
As % of the System Software category 36.90% 39.16% 42.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 69 74
10th Percentile £350 £383 £375
25th Percentile £409 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year - +0.50% -9.55%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £617
90th Percentile £638 £635 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.38%

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 355 286 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.49% 17.18% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 182 154
10th Percentile £200 £185 £202
25th Percentile £352 £350 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +4.11%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £573
90th Percentile £650 £600 £649
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £23.00 - £15.35
25th Percentile £23.50 - £17.28
Median hourly rate £25.42 - £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £27.46 - £21.50
90th Percentile £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £34.50 £36.17
% change year-on-year +83.00% -4.60% -22.79%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -17 68 £500 -2.91% 22
West Yorkshire -10 59 £488 - 36
East Yorkshire - 4 £550 - 3
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 13 (9.92%) Confluence
2 3 (2.29%) Apache
3 2 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.76%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 62 (47.33%) AWS
2 52 (39.69%) Azure
3 43 (32.82%) GCP
4 36 (27.48%) GitHub
5 21 (16.03%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (14.50%) Serverless
7 17 (12.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (6.11%) Cloud Run
9 6 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.82%) Apigee
10 5 (3.82%) Datadog
10 5 (3.82%) Kong
10 5 (3.82%) OpenShift
11 4 (3.05%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.29%) Stackdriver
12 3 (2.29%) Vertex AI
13 2 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.34%) Network Security
2 4 (3.05%) DNS
3 3 (2.29%) 3GPP
3 3 (2.29%) Firewall
3 3 (2.29%) RTP
3 3 (2.29%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.53%) Internet
4 2 (1.53%) VPN
5 1 (0.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.79%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (12.21%) MongoDB
3 14 (10.69%) SQL Server
4 8 (6.11%) Neo4j
4 8 (6.11%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.82%) Hazelcast
5 5 (3.82%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.82%) Redis
6 4 (3.05%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.29%) Tableau
8 2 (1.53%) Big Data
8 2 (1.53%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.53%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.76%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.76%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.76%) Looker
Development Applications
1 49 (37.40%) Jenkins
2 25 (19.08%) Git
3 23 (17.56%) JIRA
4 15 (11.45%) GitLab
5 11 (8.40%) Gatling
5 11 (8.40%) Maven
6 9 (6.87%) Selenium
7 8 (6.11%) Cucumber
8 7 (5.34%) JMeter
8 7 (5.34%) LoadRunner
8 7 (5.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (3.82%) Gradle
9 5 (3.82%) Postman
9 5 (3.82%) SoapUI
10 4 (3.05%) REST Assured
10 4 (3.05%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (3.05%) Snyk
11 3 (2.29%) Artifactory
11 3 (2.29%) Liquibase
11 3 (2.29%) Mockito
General
1 28 (21.37%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.03%) Finance
3 16 (12.21%) Banking
4 14 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.58%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.05%) Law
7 4 (3.05%) Police
8 3 (2.29%) Aviation
8 3 (2.29%) Fire and Rescue
8 3 (2.29%) Games
8 3 (2.29%) Retail
9 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 45 (34.35%) Developer
2 24 (18.32%) Senior
3 20 (15.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (14.50%) Python Developer
5 16 (12.21%) Senior Developer
6 15 (11.45%) Lead
7 13 (9.92%) Java Developer
8 11 (8.40%) Backend Developer
9 10 (7.63%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.63%) Senior Backend Developer
10 8 (6.11%) Architect
10 8 (6.11%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (6.11%) Test Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (4.58%) .NET Developer
12 6 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.58%) Lead Test Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) Security Architect
13 5 (3.82%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (33.59%) Terraform
2 31 (23.66%) Kafka
3 23 (17.56%) REST
4 22 (16.79%) Spring
5 20 (15.27%) Spring Boot
6 16 (12.21%) OpenTelemetry
7 14 (10.69%) RabbitMQ
8 12 (9.16%) .NET
8 12 (9.16%) RESTful
9 11 (8.40%) OAuth
10 10 (7.63%) .NET Core
10 10 (7.63%) FastAPI
10 10 (7.63%) Flask
10 10 (7.63%) HTML
10 10 (7.63%) OAuth2
10 10 (7.63%) Web Services
11 9 (6.87%) AngularJS
11 9 (6.87%) Playwright
11 9 (6.87%) Vue
12 8 (6.11%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.85%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.45%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.82%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.82%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.82%) PKI
4 5 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.29%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.29%) NHS
6 3 (2.29%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.29%) Robotics
6 3 (2.29%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.53%) Clustering
7 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.98%) Linux
2 6 (4.58%) Windows
3 4 (3.05%) Unix
3 4 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.53%) VMS
5 1 (0.76%) Android
5 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (83.97%) CI/CD
2 66 (50.38%) DevOps
3 62 (47.33%) Agile
4 50 (38.17%) Containerisation
5 47 (35.88%) Microservices
6 45 (34.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 40 (30.53%) Observability
8 34 (25.95%) Test Automation
9 30 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (15.27%) AI
10 20 (15.27%) Software Engineering
11 17 (12.98%) API Development
11 17 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (12.21%) DevSecOps
12 16 (12.21%) Identity Access Management
12 16 (12.21%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (10.69%) Code Quality
13 14 (10.69%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (10.69%) Scrum
14 13 (9.92%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 66 (50.38%) Python
2 48 (36.64%) Java
3 36 (27.48%) SQL
4 15 (11.45%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.92%) Shell Script
6 10 (7.63%) Scala
7 9 (6.87%) Groovy
8 7 (5.34%) Bash
8 7 (5.34%) C#
8 7 (5.34%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.58%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.05%) Bicep
11 2 (1.53%) Go
11 2 (1.53%) PromQL
12 1 (0.76%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 23 (17.56%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.27%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.34%) Degree
4 6 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.87%) QA
2 4 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.29%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.76%) HL7
4 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (6.11%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.53%) KVM
4 1 (0.76%) NFS
4 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 107 (81.68%) Kubernetes
2 34 (25.95%) Grafana
3 27 (20.61%) Prometheus
4 24 (18.32%) Ansible
5 7 (5.34%) Control-M
5 7 (5.34%) IBM Guardium
5 7 (5.34%) Nessus
6 6 (4.58%) Kustomize
7 5 (3.82%) Argo
7 5 (3.82%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.53%) Consul
8 2 (1.53%) Podman
8 2 (1.53%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.76%) SELinux
9 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.16%) Google
3 10 (7.63%) Splunk
4 8 (6.11%) Dynatrace
5 7 (5.34%) IBM
5 7 (5.34%) Tenable
6 6 (4.58%) Centrify
6 6 (4.58%) CyberArk
6 6 (4.58%) New Relic
7 5 (3.82%) ServiceNow
8 4 (3.05%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.29%) Databricks
10 2 (1.53%) Checkmarx
10 2 (1.53%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.53%) Solace
11 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.76%) Oracle
11 1 (0.76%) Trend Micro
11 1 (0.76%) VMware