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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 36 29
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +28
Contract jobs citing Docker 141 94 90
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.89% 6.08% 6.04%
As % of the System Software category 37.50% 35.74% 39.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 60 74
10th Percentile £350 £378 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% -13.78%
75th Percentile £559 £550 £599
90th Percentile £638 £676 £650
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 376 263 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.05% 17.02% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 167 162
10th Percentile £200 £186 £193
25th Percentile £350 £354 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -1.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £571 £538 £573
90th Percentile £650 £601 £645
England median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -0.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £25.84 - £21.00
75th Percentile £28.00 - £21.75
90th Percentile - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £36.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +80.56% +30.91% -40.22%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -15 73 £488 -5.34% 24
West Yorkshire -5 62 £500 +3.63% 38
East Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 4
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 (10.64%) Confluence
2 2 (1.42%) Apache
2 2 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.71%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 65 (46.10%) AWS
2 49 (34.75%) Azure
3 44 (31.21%) GCP
4 35 (24.82%) GitHub
5 20 (14.18%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (12.77%) Serverless
7 17 (12.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (5.67%) Apigee
8 8 (5.67%) Cloud Run
9 7 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.96%) OpenShift
10 5 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.55%) Datadog
10 5 (3.55%) Kong
10 5 (3.55%) Vertex AI
11 4 (2.84%) Google Gemini
11 4 (2.84%) LangSmith
12 3 (2.13%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.13%) Stackdriver
13 2 (1.42%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.55%) 3GPP
1 5 (3.55%) Network Security
1 5 (3.55%) RTP
1 5 (3.55%) Wireshark
2 3 (2.13%) DNS
2 3 (2.13%) Firewall
3 2 (1.42%) Internet
3 2 (1.42%) VPN
4 1 (0.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.60%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (11.35%) MongoDB
3 14 (9.93%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.67%) Neo4j
5 7 (4.96%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.55%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.55%) Hazelcast
6 5 (3.55%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.55%) Redis
7 4 (2.84%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.13%) Tableau
9 2 (1.42%) Big Data
10 1 (0.71%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.71%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.71%) Trino
Development Applications
1 51 (36.17%) Jenkins
2 27 (19.15%) Git
3 25 (17.73%) JIRA
4 17 (12.06%) GitLab
5 13 (9.22%) Maven
6 12 (8.51%) Gatling
7 8 (5.67%) JMeter
7 8 (5.67%) Selenium
8 7 (4.96%) Gradle
8 7 (4.96%) LoadRunner
8 7 (4.96%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (4.26%) Cucumber
10 5 (3.55%) REST Assured
10 5 (3.55%) TeamCity
11 4 (2.84%) JUnit
11 4 (2.84%) Serenity BDD
11 4 (2.84%) Snyk
12 3 (2.13%) Artifactory
12 3 (2.13%) Mockito
12 3 (2.13%) SoapUI
General
1 32 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.60%) Finance
3 18 (12.77%) Banking
4 16 (11.35%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.26%) Police
7 5 (3.55%) Aviation
7 5 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.55%) Fire and Rescue
8 4 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.84%) Law
9 3 (2.13%) Games
9 3 (2.13%) Retail
10 2 (1.42%) Military
11 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.71%) Legal
11 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (34.04%) Developer
2 26 (18.44%) Senior
3 19 (13.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (13.48%) Python Developer
4 17 (12.06%) Senior Developer
5 15 (10.64%) Lead
6 14 (9.93%) Java Developer
7 11 (7.80%) Backend Developer
8 10 (7.09%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (7.09%) Senior Backend Developer
9 9 (6.38%) Test Engineer
10 8 (5.67%) Architect
10 8 (5.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (5.67%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.96%) Software Engineer
12 6 (4.26%) .NET Developer
12 6 (4.26%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.26%) Lead Test Engineer
13 5 (3.55%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (32.62%) Terraform
2 31 (21.99%) Kafka
3 25 (17.73%) REST
4 24 (17.02%) Spring
5 22 (15.60%) Spring Boot
6 18 (12.77%) OpenTelemetry
7 17 (12.06%) .NET
8 14 (9.93%) RabbitMQ
9 13 (9.22%) Playwright
10 12 (8.51%) .NET Core
10 12 (8.51%) OAuth
10 12 (8.51%) RESTful
11 11 (7.80%) OAuth2
12 10 (7.09%) FastAPI
12 10 (7.09%) Flask
12 10 (7.09%) Web Services
13 9 (6.38%) AngularJS
13 9 (6.38%) CSS
13 9 (6.38%) HTML
13 9 (6.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.64%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.55%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.55%) PKI
4 5 (3.55%) Robotics
5 4 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.13%) NHS
6 3 (2.13%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.13%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.42%) Clustering
7 2 (1.42%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.71%) Replication
8 1 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.48%) Linux
2 6 (4.26%) Windows
3 4 (2.84%) Unix
3 4 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.42%) VMS
5 1 (0.71%) Android
5 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (81.56%) CI/CD
2 73 (51.77%) DevOps
3 65 (46.10%) Agile
4 53 (37.59%) Containerisation
5 50 (35.46%) Microservices
6 45 (31.91%) Observability
7 44 (31.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (25.53%) Test Automation
9 30 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (16.31%) AI
11 22 (15.60%) Software Engineering
12 20 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (13.48%) API Development
14 17 (12.06%) DevSecOps
15 16 (11.35%) Identity Access Management
15 16 (11.35%) Validation
16 15 (10.64%) Code Quality
16 15 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
16 15 (10.64%) Platform Engineering
17 14 (9.93%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 69 (48.94%) Python
2 51 (36.17%) Java
3 40 (28.37%) SQL
4 17 (12.06%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.22%) Shell Script
6 12 (8.51%) C#
7 10 (7.09%) Scala
8 9 (6.38%) Groovy
9 8 (5.67%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.26%) Bash
10 6 (4.26%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.84%) Bicep
12 2 (1.42%) Go
12 2 (1.42%) PromQL
13 1 (0.71%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 22 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.67%) Degree
4 7 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.42%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.09%) QA
2 5 (3.55%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.42%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.42%) WCAG
5 1 (0.71%) HL7
5 1 (0.71%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (5.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.42%) KVM
4 1 (0.71%) NFS
4 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 112 (79.43%) Kubernetes
2 33 (23.40%) Grafana
3 28 (19.86%) Prometheus
4 24 (17.02%) Ansible
5 7 (4.96%) Control-M
5 7 (4.96%) IBM Guardium
5 7 (4.96%) Nessus
6 6 (4.26%) Kustomize
7 5 (3.55%) Argo
7 5 (3.55%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.42%) Consul
8 2 (1.42%) Podman
8 2 (1.42%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.71%) Kiali
9 1 (0.71%) SELinux
9 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.22%) Google
2 13 (9.22%) Splunk
3 10 (7.09%) Dynatrace
4 8 (5.67%) IBM
5 7 (4.96%) Tenable
6 6 (4.26%) Centrify
6 6 (4.26%) CyberArk
6 6 (4.26%) New Relic
7 5 (3.55%) AppDynamics
7 5 (3.55%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.13%) Databricks
8 3 (2.13%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.42%) Checkmarx
9 2 (1.42%) Solace
10 1 (0.71%) Oracle
10 1 (0.71%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.71%) Temenos
10 1 (0.71%) Trend Micro
10 1 (0.71%) VMware