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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 52 38
Rank change year-on-year +12 -14 +24
Contract jobs citing Docker 144 47 81
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.30% 4.04% 4.71%
As % of the System Software category 38.92% 21.86% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 32 65
10th Percentile £363 £413 £323
25th Percentile £450 £496 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £507
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +1.08% -7.82%
75th Percentile £571 £607 £615
90th Percentile £612 £684 £644
England median daily rate £514 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -3.02% -3.64% -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 370 215 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.61% 18.50% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 131 168
10th Percentile £201 £200 £164
25th Percentile £358 £359 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £541 £574 £584
90th Percentile £612 £625 £644
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 24
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -61.26%
75th Percentile £28.00 - £15.19
90th Percentile - - £19.78
England median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £22.30
% change year-on-year +87.50% +25.56% -57.22%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 0 82 £500 -4.76% 27
West Yorkshire +7 58 £500 +2.04% 52
East Yorkshire - 5 - - 6
North Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 11
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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.69%) Apache
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.69%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 70 (48.61%) AWS
2 42 (29.17%) GCP
3 37 (25.69%) GitHub
4 36 (25.00%) Azure
5 22 (15.28%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (10.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 15 (10.42%) Serverless
7 9 (6.25%) Cloud Run
7 9 (6.25%) OpenShift
8 7 (4.86%) Apigee
9 6 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.47%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.78%) BrowserStack
11 4 (2.78%) Kong
12 3 (2.08%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.08%) Stackdriver
13 2 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.39%) Datadog
13 2 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.94%) Firewall
2 5 (3.47%) 3GPP
2 5 (3.47%) RTP
2 5 (3.47%) Wireshark
3 4 (2.78%) DNS
3 4 (2.78%) Network Security
4 3 (2.08%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.69%) Internet
5 1 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (28.47%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (15.97%) MongoDB
3 15 (10.42%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.64%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.47%) Redis
6 4 (2.78%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.78%) Neo4j
6 4 (2.78%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.08%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.08%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.69%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 53 (36.81%) Jenkins
2 31 (21.53%) GitLab
3 28 (19.44%) Git
4 27 (18.75%) JIRA
5 15 (10.42%) Gatling
6 14 (9.72%) Maven
7 12 (8.33%) Selenium
8 8 (5.56%) Jaeger
8 8 (5.56%) REST Assured
9 7 (4.86%) Serenity BDD
10 6 (4.17%) Artifactory
10 6 (4.17%) Gradle
11 5 (3.47%) Liquibase
11 5 (3.47%) TeamCity
12 4 (2.78%) Snyk
13 3 (2.08%) Cucumber
13 3 (2.08%) JUnit
14 2 (1.39%) Flyway
14 2 (1.39%) Mockito
14 2 (1.39%) Terragrunt
General
1 34 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.06%) Finance
3 20 (13.89%) Banking
4 17 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.81%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.47%) Aviation
6 5 (3.47%) Fire and Rescue
6 5 (3.47%) Law
6 5 (3.47%) Police
7 4 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.08%) Military
9 2 (1.39%) Games
9 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Retail
10 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (36.11%) Developer
2 30 (20.83%) Senior
3 24 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (14.58%) Python Developer
5 20 (13.89%) Senior Developer
6 16 (11.11%) Java Developer
7 13 (9.03%) Lead
8 12 (8.33%) Software Engineer
9 11 (7.64%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.94%) GCP DevOps
10 10 (6.94%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 10 (6.94%) GCP Engineer
10 10 (6.94%) Test Engineer
11 9 (6.25%) Backend Developer
11 9 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (6.25%) Lead Test Engineer
11 9 (6.25%) Senior Backend Developer
12 7 (4.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 7 (4.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (4.86%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (23.61%) OpenTelemetry
2 31 (21.53%) Kafka
3 26 (18.06%) Spring Boot
4 21 (14.58%) Spring
5 20 (13.89%) Playwright
6 16 (11.11%) FastAPI
6 16 (11.11%) React
6 16 (11.11%) RESTful
7 14 (9.72%) Node.js
7 14 (9.72%) REST
8 12 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (7.64%) .NET
10 8 (5.56%) OAuth
10 8 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
11 7 (4.86%) JPA
11 7 (4.86%) JWT
11 7 (4.86%) OAuth2
11 7 (4.86%) Redux
11 7 (4.86%) Zustand
12 6 (4.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.03%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.94%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.47%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.47%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.47%) PKI
5 5 (3.47%) Robotics
6 4 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.08%) NHS
7 3 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.39%) Clustering
8 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.39%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.39%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (22.22%) Linux
2 12 (8.33%) Windows
3 4 (2.78%) Unix
3 4 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.69%) Android
5 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (76.39%) CI/CD
2 89 (61.81%) DevOps
3 63 (43.75%) Agile
4 59 (40.97%) Observability
5 57 (39.58%) Containerisation
6 55 (38.19%) Microservices
7 46 (31.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (21.53%) Test Automation
9 27 (18.75%) Software Engineering
10 24 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (14.58%) API Development
11 21 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (14.58%) Incident Response
12 20 (13.89%) DevSecOps
13 17 (11.81%) Identity Access Management
13 17 (11.81%) Mentoring
13 17 (11.81%) Performance Optimisation
13 17 (11.81%) Secrets Management
14 16 (11.11%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 73 (50.69%) Python
2 61 (42.36%) Java
3 36 (25.00%) SQL
4 18 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.72%) TypeScript
6 12 (8.33%) Scala
7 11 (7.64%) C#
8 9 (6.25%) Bash
8 9 (6.25%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.86%) Go
10 6 (4.17%) Rust
10 6 (4.17%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.08%) Ruby
12 2 (1.39%) PromQL
13 1 (0.69%) Bicep
13 1 (0.69%) C
13 1 (0.69%) Groovy
13 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 26 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.42%) Degree
4 9 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.72%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.86%) WCAG
3 5 (3.47%) QA
4 3 (2.08%) SLA
5 2 (1.39%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.69%) HL7
6 1 (0.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (2.08%) KVM
2 2 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.69%) NFS
3 1 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 116 (80.56%) Kubernetes
2 54 (37.50%) Terraform
3 49 (34.03%) Grafana
4 48 (33.33%) Prometheus
5 25 (17.36%) Ansible
6 13 (9.03%) Control-M
6 13 (9.03%) IBM Guardium
6 13 (9.03%) Nessus
7 10 (6.94%) HAProxy
8 7 (4.86%) Kiali
9 5 (3.47%) Kustomize
10 4 (2.78%) Argo
11 2 (1.39%) Consul
11 2 (1.39%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.69%) Packer
12 1 (0.69%) Podman
12 1 (0.69%) SELinux
Vendors
1 23 (15.97%) Splunk
2 15 (10.42%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.03%) Tenable
4 6 (4.17%) Google
5 5 (3.47%) Oracle
5 5 (3.47%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.47%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.78%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.39%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.39%) IBM
7 2 (1.39%) Solace
7 2 (1.39%) VMware
8 1 (0.69%) Brio
8 1 (0.69%) New Relic
8 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.69%) Temenos
8 1 (0.69%) Trend Micro