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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 31 37
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -
Contract jobs citing Docker 9 17 2
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 3.52% 5.74% 0.70%
As % of the System Software category 39.13% 56.67% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 1
10th Percentile £350 £336 -
25th Percentile £390 £396 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £429 £356
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% +20.51% -
75th Percentile £500 £440 -
90th Percentile - £512 -
East Midlands median daily rate £463 £429 £520
% change year-on-year +7.81% -17.50% +4.00%

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 23 30 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 8.98% 10.14% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 20
10th Percentile £255 £363 £345
25th Percentile £275 £375 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £420 £431
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% -2.44% +91.33%
75th Percentile £475 £441 £506
90th Percentile £500 £489 £578
East Midlands median daily rate £400 £410 £392
% change year-on-year -2.44% +4.73% +11.86%
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 - £24.20
% change year-on-year - - +36.57%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +10 9 £451 +5.13% 2
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 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) Azure AKS
3 4 (44.44%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 4 (44.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
5 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
2 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) GitLab
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) git-flow
3 1 (11.11%) Gradle
3 1 (11.11%) Maven
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Software Developer
3 3 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 3 (33.33%) .NET Software Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Lead
4 2 (22.22%) Lead Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) IAM Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Kafka
2 4 (44.44%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (44.44%) Spring
2 4 (44.44%) Spring Boot
3 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 3 (33.33%) OAuth
3 3 (33.33%) OAuth2
3 3 (33.33%) REST
4 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
4 2 (22.22%) JWT
4 2 (22.22%) OpenID
4 2 (22.22%) RESTful
4 2 (22.22%) SAML
5 1 (11.11%) CSS
5 1 (11.11%) HTML
5 1 (11.11%) HTML5
5 1 (11.11%) JPA
5 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
5 1 (11.11%) SOAP
5 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (77.78%) Event-Driven
3 7 (77.78%) Microservices
4 6 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (44.44%) Code Quality
5 4 (44.44%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (33.33%) Agile
6 3 (33.33%) API Development
6 3 (33.33%) DevOps
7 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (11.11%) Asynchronous Programming
8 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
8 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (11.11%) Observability
8 1 (11.11%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle