Docker Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Docker
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Docker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 22 31
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 -
Contract jobs citing Docker 8 19 8
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 3.23% 7.85% 2.88%
As % of the System Software category 47.06% 65.52% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 6
10th Percentile £401 £357 -
25th Percentile £409 £368 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £435 £359
Median % change year-on-year +0.14% +21.02% -
75th Percentile £500 £466 £397
90th Percentile - £537 £466
East Midlands median daily rate £435 £435 £450
% change year-on-year +0.06% -3.39% -6.25%

All System Software Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 17 29 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 6.85% 11.98% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 21
10th Percentile £388 £361 £250
25th Percentile £407 £373 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £430 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.77% +7.38% +52.38%
75th Percentile £488 £478 £488
90th Percentile £500 £533 £525
East Midlands median daily rate £338 £420 £356
% change year-on-year -19.55% +17.84% -5.07%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Docker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Docker job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Docker
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Docker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Docker

Docker
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Northampton -7 8 £435 +0.14%
Docker
East Midlands

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 3 (37.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Marketing
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Software Developer
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Software Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Lead Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) IAM Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Kafka
2 4 (50.00%) RESTful
3 3 (37.50%) J2EE
3 3 (37.50%) OSGi
3 3 (37.50%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (25.00%) .NET
4 2 (25.00%) OAuth
4 2 (25.00%) OAuth2
4 2 (25.00%) OpenID
4 2 (25.00%) REST
4 2 (25.00%) SAML
4 2 (25.00%) Spring
4 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 7 (87.50%) Microservices
3 6 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (62.50%) DevOps
4 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven
4 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 5 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (37.50%) Analytics
6 3 (37.50%) Architectural Design
6 3 (37.50%) Data Privacy
6 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (37.50%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
7 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 1 (12.50%) Asynchronous Programming
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Adobe
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft