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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 51 51
Rank change year-on-year +14 0 +14
Contract jobs citing Docker 134 39 54
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.46% 3.82% 3.23%
As % of the System Software category 39.30% 19.90% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 24 47
10th Percentile £370 £424 £375
25th Percentile £450 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £550 £659 £615
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 341 196 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.88% 19.18% 15.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 125 190
10th Percentile £236 £186 £176
25th Percentile £358 £273 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £430
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -4.07% +1.18%
75th Percentile £529 £575 £575
90th Percentile £588 £645 £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 £28.39 - -
25th Percentile £28.97 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £29.93 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -76.60%
75th Percentile £30.90 - £15.19
90th Percentile £31.47 - £15.64
England median hourly rate £57.63 £28.21 £21.00
% change year-on-year +104.33% +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 7 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 7 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 -15 68 £470 -10.48% 2
West Yorkshire +16 63 £500 -14.89% 29
East Yorkshire - 4 - - 3
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 69 (51.49%) AWS
2 41 (30.60%) Azure
3 39 (29.10%) GCP
4 36 (26.87%) GitHub
5 25 (18.66%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (11.19%) Serverless
7 11 (8.21%) Apigee
8 10 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (6.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (6.72%) OpenShift
10 8 (5.97%) Amazon S3
10 8 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (5.22%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (4.48%) Cloud Run
13 4 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (2.99%) Azure AKS
13 4 (2.99%) Kong
14 3 (2.24%) AWS KMS
14 3 (2.24%) BrowserStack
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 54 (40.30%) Jenkins
2 32 (23.88%) GitLab
3 30 (22.39%) Git
4 20 (14.93%) 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%) Robot Framework
General
1 35 (26.12%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.15%) Finance
3 19 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (14.18%) Banking
4 17 (12.69%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.97%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.99%) Aviation
6 4 (2.99%) Fire and Rescue
6 4 (2.99%) Police
7 3 (2.24%) Law
7 3 (2.24%) Military
8 2 (1.49%) Games
8 2 (1.49%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.49%) Retail
9 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (38.81%) Developer
2 29 (21.64%) Senior
3 21 (15.67%) Python Developer
4 19 (14.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (12.69%) Senior Developer
5 17 (12.69%) Software Engineer
6 15 (11.19%) Java Developer
7 12 (8.96%) Lead
8 10 (7.46%) GCP DevOps
8 10 (7.46%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 10 (7.46%) GCP Engineer
9 9 (6.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (5.97%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 7 (5.22%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 6 (4.48%) Backend Developer
12 6 (4.48%) Java Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) Senior Backend Developer
12 6 (4.48%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (26.12%) OpenTelemetry
2 27 (20.15%) Kafka
3 24 (17.91%) Spring Boot
4 21 (15.67%) Node.js
5 19 (14.18%) React
6 18 (13.43%) FastAPI
6 18 (13.43%) Spring
7 16 (11.94%) Playwright
8 15 (11.19%) .NET
9 14 (10.45%) REST
9 14 (10.45%) RESTful
10 9 (6.72%) Middleware
11 7 (5.22%) .NET Core
11 7 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (5.22%) Redux
11 7 (5.22%) Zustand
12 6 (4.48%) OAuth
12 6 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (4.48%) Vue
13 5 (3.73%) Django
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 6 (4.48%) NHS
7 5 (3.73%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.99%) Robotics
9 3 (2.24%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.49%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.49%) Sports Betting
11 1 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.75%) Life Science
11 1 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 30 (22.39%) Linux
2 12 (8.96%) Windows
3 5 (3.73%) Unix
4 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (74.63%) CI/CD
2 79 (58.96%) DevOps
3 60 (44.78%) Containerisation
4 58 (43.28%) Agile
5 53 (39.55%) Observability
6 45 (33.58%) Microservices
7 43 (32.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (23.88%) Software Engineering
9 29 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (20.90%) Test Automation
11 23 (17.16%) Full-Stack Development
12 21 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (15.67%) DevSecOps
12 21 (15.67%) Performance Optimisation
13 19 (14.18%) API Development
14 17 (12.69%) Mentoring
15 16 (11.94%) Incident Response
15 16 (11.94%) Infrastructure Automation
16 14 (10.45%) Computer Science
16 14 (10.45%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (55.97%) Python
2 56 (41.79%) Java
3 34 (25.37%) SQL
4 19 (14.18%) JavaScript
5 16 (11.94%) Bash
5 16 (11.94%) C#
5 16 (11.94%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.21%) Scala
7 10 (7.46%) Go
8 9 (6.72%) Rust
9 8 (5.97%) PowerShell
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 26 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.93%) 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 14 (10.45%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.22%) WCAG
3 5 (3.73%) SLA
4 4 (2.99%) QA
5 2 (1.49%) HL7
5 2 (1.49%) ISO 20022
6 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 48 (35.82%) Grafana
4 44 (32.84%) Prometheus
5 22 (16.42%) 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%) Podman
10 1 (0.75%) SELinux
Vendors
1 26 (19.40%) 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%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.75%) Temenos