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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 35 37
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +17
Contract jobs citing Docker 150 48 70
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 7.03% 5.26% 3.93%
As % of the System Software category 44.38% 28.92% 23.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 29 55
10th Percentile £412 £413 £376
25th Percentile £450 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £608
90th Percentile £630 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £66.50 £27.50 £66.50
% change year-on-year +141.82% -58.65% -2.92%

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 338 166 302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.84% 18.18% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 106 230
10th Percentile £190 £203 £178
25th Percentile £344 £263 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -6.43%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £506
90th Percentile £580 £624 £615
England median daily rate £500 £525 £478
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.95% -9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £26.81 - -
25th Percentile £27.65 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £29.68 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -46.33%
75th Percentile £31.08 - £16.19
90th Percentile £31.55 - £22.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £30.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.57% -5.38% -15.58%

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 February 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 February 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 -12 84 £475 -9.52% 13
West Yorkshire +9 66 £500 +2.56% 17
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 4 (2.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.33%) Apache
3 1 (0.67%) Confluence
3 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 90 (60.00%) AWS
2 63 (42.00%) GCP
3 44 (29.33%) Azure
4 38 (25.33%) Serverless
5 24 (16.00%) GitHub
6 20 (13.33%) Amazon S3
7 15 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (7.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (6.00%) AWS KMS
11 9 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (4.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (4.67%) OpenShift
13 6 (4.00%) Amazon ELB
14 5 (3.33%) Apigee
14 5 (3.33%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (19.33%) Firewall
2 15 (10.00%) DNS
3 11 (7.33%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.67%) VPN
5 5 (3.33%) Network Security
5 5 (3.33%) SSL
6 1 (0.67%) FTP
6 1 (0.67%) HTTP
6 1 (0.67%) VLAN
6 1 (0.67%) VSAN
6 1 (0.67%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (19.33%) NoSQL
3 15 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (4.67%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.67%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.00%) Redis
7 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.67%) MySQL
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.67%) Power BI
7 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 61 (40.67%) Jenkins
2 47 (31.33%) GitLab
3 31 (20.67%) Git
4 23 (15.33%) JIRA
5 19 (12.67%) Liquibase
6 9 (6.00%) Jaeger
7 7 (4.67%) Selenium
8 4 (2.67%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.67%) Maven
9 3 (2.00%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.00%) Gatling
9 3 (2.00%) Mocha
9 3 (2.00%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.00%) Serenity BDD
9 3 (2.00%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.33%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.67%) Gradle
General
1 51 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 45 (30.00%) Finance
3 32 (21.33%) Banking
4 24 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (14.67%) Financial Institution
6 15 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.00%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.00%) Law
9 2 (1.33%) Military
9 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (28.00%) Developer
2 40 (26.67%) Senior
3 29 (19.33%) Software Engineer
4 28 (18.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (14.67%) Python Developer
6 16 (10.67%) GCP Engineer
7 15 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
7 15 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 15 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (9.33%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (8.67%) Lead
10 12 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (7.33%) GCP DevOps
11 11 (7.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 9 (6.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (6.00%) Senior Developer
13 8 (5.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 8 (5.33%) Java Developer
14 7 (4.67%) AWS Software Engineer
15 6 (4.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (23.33%) OpenTelemetry
1 35 (23.33%) RESTful
2 28 (18.67%) REST
3 24 (16.00%) Elastic Stack
3 24 (16.00%) FastAPI
4 23 (15.33%) Node.js
5 21 (14.00%) React
6 20 (13.33%) Kafka
7 19 (12.67%) Spring Boot
8 10 (6.67%) Jest
8 10 (6.67%) Spring
9 9 (6.00%) .NET
9 9 (6.00%) Middleware
10 6 (4.00%) FHIR
11 5 (3.33%) .NET Core
11 5 (3.33%) Django
11 5 (3.33%) Flask
12 4 (2.67%) CSS
12 4 (2.67%) HTML
12 4 (2.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 31 (20.67%) Cloud Native
1 31 (20.67%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (16.00%) Public Cloud
3 11 (7.33%) NHS
4 10 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (5.33%) Management Information System
6 7 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.67%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.00%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.00%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.33%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.33%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.67%) CUDA
10 1 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.67%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.67%) Life Science
10 1 (0.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 52 (34.67%) Linux
2 12 (8.00%) Windows
3 5 (3.33%) Unix
4 3 (2.00%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.67%) CentOS
5 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (74.00%) CI/CD
2 86 (57.33%) Containerisation
2 86 (57.33%) DevOps
3 73 (48.67%) Agile
4 62 (41.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (38.67%) Microservices
6 46 (30.67%) Observability
7 39 (26.00%) Software Engineering
8 37 (24.67%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (21.33%) Root Cause Analysis
10 31 (20.67%) Mentoring
11 29 (19.33%) Computer Science
12 28 (18.67%) Infrastructure Automation
13 26 (17.33%) DevSecOps
14 25 (16.67%) High Availability
15 23 (15.33%) Cybersecurity
15 23 (15.33%) Full-Stack Development
15 23 (15.33%) Test Automation
16 22 (14.67%) API Development
17 20 (13.33%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 91 (60.67%) Python
2 40 (26.67%) Java
3 31 (20.67%) SQL
4 27 (18.00%) Go
5 25 (16.67%) Bash
6 17 (11.33%) JavaScript
7 15 (10.00%) TypeScript
8 11 (7.33%) C#
9 10 (6.67%) PowerShell
9 10 (6.67%) Rust
10 6 (4.00%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.67%) Groovy
12 3 (2.00%) Delphi
12 3 (2.00%) PHP
12 3 (2.00%) Ruby
13 2 (1.33%) Bicep
13 2 (1.33%) C++
14 1 (0.67%) C
14 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 30 (20.00%) Degree
2 23 (15.33%) Security Cleared
3 20 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (13.33%) Master's Degree
4 13 (8.67%) SC Cleared
5 10 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.67%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.67%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.33%) CCSP
8 2 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.33%) CISSP
9 1 (0.67%) CSPO
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.67%) OCP
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.00%) WCAG
3 5 (3.33%) SLA
4 4 (2.67%) HL7
5 2 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.33%) GDPR
5 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.33%) NIST
5 2 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.33%) PSD2
6 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.67%) KVM
1 4 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.33%) vSphere
3 1 (0.67%) Ceph
3 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.67%) QEMU
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 114 (76.00%) Kubernetes
2 71 (47.33%) Terraform
3 66 (44.00%) Grafana
4 62 (41.33%) Prometheus
5 46 (30.67%) Ansible
6 18 (12.00%) Control-M
6 18 (12.00%) IBM Guardium
6 18 (12.00%) Nessus
7 9 (6.00%) Kiali
8 5 (3.33%) Packer
9 3 (2.00%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.00%) Puppet
10 2 (1.33%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.33%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.33%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.67%) Argo
11 1 (0.67%) Kibana
11 1 (0.67%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.67%) logstash
11 1 (0.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 42 (28.00%) Splunk
2 18 (12.00%) Tenable
3 15 (10.00%) Google
4 7 (4.67%) F5
4 7 (4.67%) Oracle
4 7 (4.67%) Palo Alto
5 6 (4.00%) Brio
5 6 (4.00%) CheckPoint
5 6 (4.00%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.67%) AppDynamics
6 4 (2.67%) VMware
7 3 (2.00%) Databricks
7 3 (2.00%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.00%) SAP
7 3 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.33%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.33%) Veritas
8 2 (1.33%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.67%) CloudEndure
9 1 (0.67%) Dynatrace