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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 26 29
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -
Contract jobs citing Docker 7 22 7
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 3.27% 7.36% 2.63%
As % of the System Software category 33.33% 61.11% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 5
10th Percentile £383 £349 -
25th Percentile £401 £387 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £429 £356
Median % change year-on-year +16.55% +20.51% -
75th Percentile - £450 £369
90th Percentile - £537 £463
East Midlands median daily rate £500 £430 £431
% change year-on-year +16.41% -0.41% -13.75%

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 21 36 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 9.81% 12.04% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 31 22
10th Percentile £260 £367 £356
25th Percentile £275 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £379 £429 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.66% +7.25% +77.78%
75th Percentile £494 £475 £497
90th Percentile £500 £525 £572
East Midlands median daily rate £400 £415 £379
% change year-on-year -3.61% +9.50% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £23.10
Median hourly rate - - £24.20
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile - - £25.30
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.75 £15.09 £24.20
% change year-on-year +70.64% -37.64% +18.05%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in Northamptonshire

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 11 August 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 +6 7 £500 +16.55%
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon EKS
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure AKS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Service Bus
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Software Developer
3 3 (42.86%) .NET Developer
3 3 (42.86%) .NET Software Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Lead
4 2 (28.57%) Lead Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) IAM Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Kafka
2 4 (57.14%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (42.86%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) OAuth
4 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
4 2 (28.57%) OpenID
4 2 (28.57%) REST
4 2 (28.57%) SAML
4 2 (28.57%) Spring
4 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
5 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (85.71%) Event-Driven
2 6 (85.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (71.43%) Microservices
4 4 (57.14%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
5 3 (42.86%) DevOps
6 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
6 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (14.29%) Agile
7 1 (14.29%) API Development
7 1 (14.29%) Asynchronous Programming
7 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
7 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
7 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (14.29%) Low Latency
7 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Rust
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft