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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 51 46
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 +16
Contract jobs citing Docker 134 39 57
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.47% 3.78% 3.43%
As % of the System Software category 39.76% 20.10% 22.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 24 50
10th Percentile £366 £465 £389
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £556 £659 £620
90th Percentile £588 £711 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £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 337 194 253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.76% 18.82% 15.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 122 182
10th Percentile £260 £185 £178
25th Percentile £360 £265 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £430
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -4.07% +1.18%
75th Percentile £530 £575 £575
90th Percentile £588 £649 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 23
10th Percentile £23.50 - -
25th Percentile £24.25 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -76.60%
75th Percentile £27.25 - £15.19
90th Percentile £27.70 - £15.64
England median hourly rate £57.50 £28.21 £21.00
% change year-on-year +103.86% +34.31% -58.00%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -7 70 £475 -9.52% 6
West Yorkshire +16 61 £488 -27.78% 24
East Yorkshire - 4 - - 2
North Yorkshire - 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 5 (3.73%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (50.75%) AWS
2 41 (30.60%) Azure
3 39 (29.10%) GCP
4 35 (26.12%) GitHub
5 24 (17.91%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (9.70%) Serverless
7 11 (8.21%) Apigee
8 10 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (6.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (6.72%) OpenShift
10 7 (5.22%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (4.48%) Cloud Run
12 4 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.99%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.99%) BrowserStack
12 4 (2.99%) Kong
13 3 (2.24%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.19%) Firewall
2 7 (5.22%) DNS
3 6 (4.48%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.99%) 3GPP
4 4 (2.99%) RTP
4 4 (2.99%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.49%) VPN
6 1 (0.75%) HTTP
6 1 (0.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (29.85%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (15.67%) MongoDB
3 17 (12.69%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.72%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.48%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.99%) Redis
7 3 (2.24%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.24%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.24%) Hazelcast
7 3 (2.24%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.75%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.75%) Power BI
8 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (38.81%) Jenkins
2 32 (23.88%) GitLab
3 28 (20.90%) Git
4 21 (15.67%) JIRA
5 14 (10.45%) Maven
6 13 (9.70%) Gatling
7 11 (8.21%) Jaeger
8 10 (7.46%) Selenium
9 7 (5.22%) Artifactory
10 5 (3.73%) Gradle
11 4 (2.99%) CircleCI
11 4 (2.99%) Liquibase
11 4 (2.99%) REST Assured
11 4 (2.99%) TeamCity
12 3 (2.24%) Cucumber
12 3 (2.24%) Serenity BDD
12 3 (2.24%) Snyk
13 2 (1.49%) Cypress.io
13 2 (1.49%) Postman
13 2 (1.49%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.90%) Finance
3 20 (14.93%) Banking
4 18 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (11.19%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.97%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.99%) Aviation
7 4 (2.99%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (2.99%) Law
7 4 (2.99%) Police
8 3 (2.24%) Military
9 2 (1.49%) Games
9 2 (1.49%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (37.31%) Developer
2 29 (21.64%) Senior
3 20 (14.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (14.93%) Python Developer
4 17 (12.69%) Senior Developer
4 17 (12.69%) Software Engineer
5 14 (10.45%) Java Developer
6 12 (8.96%) Lead
7 10 (7.46%) GCP DevOps
7 10 (7.46%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 10 (7.46%) GCP Engineer
8 9 (6.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 7 (5.22%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.22%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 6 (4.48%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (4.48%) Backend Developer
11 6 (4.48%) Java Engineer
11 6 (4.48%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (26.12%) OpenTelemetry
2 28 (20.90%) Kafka
3 23 (17.16%) Spring Boot
4 20 (14.93%) Node.js
5 19 (14.18%) React
6 17 (12.69%) FastAPI
6 17 (12.69%) Spring
7 16 (11.94%) Playwright
8 15 (11.19%) .NET
8 15 (11.19%) RESTful
9 13 (9.70%) REST
10 9 (6.72%) Middleware
11 8 (5.97%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (5.22%) .NET Core
12 7 (5.22%) Redux
12 7 (5.22%) Zustand
13 6 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (4.48%) OAuth
14 5 (3.73%) pytest
14 5 (3.73%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.69%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (9.70%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.46%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.97%) Management Information System
5 7 (5.22%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.73%) NHS
6 5 (3.73%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.99%) Robotics
8 3 (2.24%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.24%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.49%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.49%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.75%) Life Science
10 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.88%) Linux
2 14 (10.45%) Windows
3 5 (3.73%) Unix
4 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.75%) Android
5 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (73.13%) CI/CD
2 78 (58.21%) DevOps
3 59 (44.03%) Containerisation
4 56 (41.79%) Agile
5 53 (39.55%) Observability
6 44 (32.84%) Microservices
7 42 (31.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (23.88%) Software Engineering
9 28 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (19.40%) Test Automation
11 22 (16.42%) Full-Stack Development
12 21 (15.67%) DevSecOps
12 21 (15.67%) Performance Optimisation
13 20 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (13.43%) API Development
14 18 (13.43%) Mentoring
15 16 (11.94%) Incident Response
15 16 (11.94%) Infrastructure Automation
16 14 (10.45%) Data Protection
16 14 (10.45%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (56.72%) Python
2 56 (41.79%) Java
3 34 (25.37%) SQL
4 19 (14.18%) JavaScript
5 17 (12.69%) TypeScript
6 16 (11.94%) Bash
6 16 (11.94%) C#
7 12 (8.96%) Scala
8 10 (7.46%) Go
8 10 (7.46%) PowerShell
9 9 (6.72%) Rust
10 5 (3.73%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.99%) Groovy
12 3 (2.24%) Delphi
12 3 (2.24%) PHP
12 3 (2.24%) Ruby
13 2 (1.49%) Bicep
13 2 (1.49%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.75%) C
Qualifications
1 25 (18.66%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.94%) Degree
4 8 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.70%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.22%) WCAG
3 5 (3.73%) QA
3 5 (3.73%) SLA
4 2 (1.49%) HL7
4 2 (1.49%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.75%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.75%) KVM
2 1 (0.75%) NFS
2 1 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 106 (79.10%) Kubernetes
2 55 (41.04%) Terraform
3 47 (35.07%) Grafana
4 44 (32.84%) Prometheus
5 23 (17.16%) Ansible
6 13 (9.70%) Control-M
6 13 (9.70%) IBM Guardium
6 13 (9.70%) Nessus
7 10 (7.46%) HAProxy
7 10 (7.46%) Kiali
8 3 (2.24%) Argo
9 2 (1.49%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.75%) Istio
10 1 (0.75%) Kibana
10 1 (0.75%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.75%) logstash
10 1 (0.75%) Packer
10 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.75%) SELinux
Vendors
1 27 (20.15%) Splunk
2 15 (11.19%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.70%) Tenable
4 6 (4.48%) Oracle
5 5 (3.73%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.99%) AppDynamics
6 4 (2.99%) Google
7 3 (2.24%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.24%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.49%) Brio
8 2 (1.49%) IBM
8 2 (1.49%) VMware
9 1 (0.75%) New Relic
9 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.75%) Temenos