Docker
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Docker skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Docker over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 39 20
Rank change year-on-year -41 -19 0
Permanent jobs citing Docker 3,281 7,095 16,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.35% 6.78% 10.90%
As % of the System Software category 26.79% 44.25% 59.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,597 4,092 7,404
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.69% +11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £108,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +18.18%

All System Software Skills
UK

Docker is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,249 16,035 28,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.49% 15.32% 18.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,715 10,596 15,794
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £27,825
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Docker.

Salary trend for Docker in the UK

Docker
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Docker in the UK

Docker
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -32 2,904 £70,000 -6.67% 748
UK excluding London -37 2,111 £62,500 -3.85% 439
Work from Home -27 1,545 £67,500 -3.57% 532
London -29 1,045 £82,500 - 365
South East -4 679 £70,000 +3.70% 85
North of England -36 446 £60,500 -6.92% 116
South West -30 347 £60,000 -7.69% 68
Midlands -42 258 £60,000 -3.23% 64
North West -34 255 £65,000 -3.70% 65
Scotland -94 170 £70,000 +3.50% 50
West Midlands -11 158 £60,000 -7.69% 28
Yorkshire -29 152 £55,000 -10.20% 40
East of England -51 115 £65,000 - 32
East Midlands -55 103 £57,500 +4.55% 36
Wales -1 71 £47,500 -20.83% 16
North East -37 39 £60,000 -7.69% 13
Northern Ireland -34 28 £72,500 +20.83% 13
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 158 (4.82%) Apache
2 112 (3.41%) nginx
3 67 (2.04%) OpenStack
4 62 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 46 (1.40%) CMS
6 42 (1.28%) Confluence
7 37 (1.13%) Camunda
8 34 (1.04%) Drupal
9 28 (0.85%) Jupyter
10 27 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
11 20 (0.61%) JBoss
12 17 (0.52%) Tomcat
13 16 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
14 15 (0.46%) WordPress
15 14 (0.43%) IIS
16 10 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
17 8 (0.24%) WildFly
18 7 (0.21%) SharePoint
18 7 (0.21%) Umbraco
18 7 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.21%) GNU Octave
3 7 (0.21%) Simulink
4 6 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.091%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.030%) Blender
Business Applications
1 12 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 9 (0.27%) Shopify
3 7 (0.21%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.12%) Magento
5 3 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.091%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.061%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.030%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,742 (53.09%) AWS
2 1,250 (38.10%) Azure
3 396 (12.07%) GCP
4 363 (11.06%) Serverless
5 357 (10.88%) Azure DevOps
6 340 (10.36%) GitHub
7 282 (8.59%) SaaS
8 247 (7.53%) Amazon S3
9 221 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
10 207 (6.31%) OpenShift
11 202 (6.16%) Amazon ECS
12 176 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 147 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
14 143 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
15 115 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
16 103 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
17 92 (2.80%) IBM Cloud
18 81 (2.47%) PaaS
19 79 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
20 72 (2.19%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 153 (4.66%) Firewall
2 106 (3.23%) VPN
3 104 (3.17%) DNS
4 84 (2.56%) TCP/IP
5 83 (2.53%) Internet
6 64 (1.95%) SNMP
7 61 (1.86%) HTTP
8 59 (1.80%) DHCP
8 59 (1.80%) IPsec
9 45 (1.37%) WAN
10 37 (1.13%) Network Security
11 36 (1.10%) SD-WAN
12 24 (0.73%) BGP
13 13 (0.40%) SSL
14 12 (0.37%) AMQP
15 11 (0.34%) 5G
15 11 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.34%) LAN
15 11 (0.34%) MPLS
15 11 (0.34%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 369 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
2 324 (9.88%) NoSQL
3 292 (8.90%) MySQL
4 259 (7.89%) MongoDB
5 225 (6.86%) SQL Server
6 201 (6.13%) Relational Database
7 183 (5.58%) Elasticsearch
8 147 (4.48%) Redis
9 134 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
10 99 (3.02%) Big Data
11 60 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 43 (1.31%) Oracle Database
13 41 (1.25%) DynamoDB
14 39 (1.19%) Hadoop
14 39 (1.19%) RDBMS
15 38 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
16 28 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
17 27 (0.82%) Data Lake
18 24 (0.73%) InfluxDB
19 23 (0.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 773 (23.56%) Git
2 704 (21.46%) Jenkins
3 246 (7.50%) GitLab
4 190 (5.79%) JIRA
5 147 (4.48%) Selenium
6 95 (2.90%) TeamCity
7 91 (2.77%) Cypress.io
8 85 (2.59%) JUnit
9 63 (1.92%) Maven
10 57 (1.74%) Bitbucket
11 53 (1.62%) Cucumber
12 51 (1.55%) SonarQube
13 49 (1.49%) CircleCI
14 45 (1.37%) Artifactory
14 45 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
14 45 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
15 40 (1.22%) Gradle
16 38 (1.16%) Mockito
17 36 (1.10%) IntelliJ
18 28 (0.85%) SoapUI
General
1 679 (20.69%) Finance
2 596 (18.17%) Social Skills
3 286 (8.72%) Public Sector
4 172 (5.24%) Banking
5 171 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 141 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
7 111 (3.38%) Retail
8 97 (2.96%) Law
9 93 (2.83%) Marketing
10 66 (2.01%) Games
11 65 (1.98%) Telecoms
12 64 (1.95%) Aerospace
13 52 (1.58%) Front Office
14 43 (1.31%) Financial Institution
15 42 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
16 36 (1.10%) Retail Banking
17 32 (0.98%) Automotive
18 31 (0.94%) Manufacturing
19 30 (0.91%) Legal
20 25 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,198 (36.51%) Developer
2 838 (25.54%) Senior
3 500 (15.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 399 (12.16%) Lead
5 374 (11.40%) Software Engineer
6 356 (10.85%) Senior Developer
7 291 (8.87%) Java Developer
8 226 (6.89%) Software Developer
9 197 (6.00%) Architect
10 193 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
11 188 (5.73%) AWS Engineer
12 130 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 129 (3.93%) .NET Developer
13 129 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
14 119 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
15 117 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
16 113 (3.44%) Lead Developer
17 111 (3.38%) AWS DevOps
18 110 (3.35%) Java Engineer
19 107 (3.26%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 750 (22.86%) React
2 579 (17.65%) .NET
3 383 (11.67%) Kafka
4 362 (11.03%) Spring
5 355 (10.82%) AngularJS
6 345 (10.52%) Node.js
6 345 (10.52%) Spring Boot
7 340 (10.36%) REST
8 268 (8.17%) HTML
9 258 (7.86%) CSS
10 217 (6.61%) RabbitMQ
11 211 (6.43%) RESTful
12 184 (5.61%) Web Services
13 159 (4.85%) Vue
14 143 (4.36%) .NET Core
14 143 (4.36%) ASP.NET
15 141 (4.30%) JSON
16 128 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
17 122 (3.72%) Laravel
18 118 (3.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 206 (6.28%) Distributed Systems
2 126 (3.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 125 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
4 124 (3.78%) Product Ownership
5 121 (3.69%) Public Cloud
6 117 (3.57%) Blockchain
7 116 (3.54%) Data Centre
8 110 (3.35%) Cloud Native
9 102 (3.11%) Management Information System
10 75 (2.29%) Algorithms
11 66 (2.01%) Data Structures
12 64 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
13 58 (1.77%) Private Cloud
14 57 (1.74%) Mobile App
15 51 (1.55%) Client/Server
15 51 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
16 46 (1.40%) e-Learning
17 40 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
18 37 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
19 36 (1.10%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 795 (24.23%) Linux
2 314 (9.57%) Windows
3 96 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 83 (2.53%) CentOS
5 65 (1.98%) Unix
6 64 (1.95%) Windows Server
7 54 (1.65%) Data ONTAP
8 47 (1.43%) Debian
9 46 (1.40%) Alpine Linux
10 29 (0.88%) Android
11 28 (0.85%) Apple iOS
12 22 (0.67%) Ubuntu
13 19 (0.58%) VMS
14 14 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
15 12 (0.37%) Windows 10
16 11 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
16 11 (0.34%) Solaris
17 10 (0.30%) Mac OS
18 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
19 7 (0.21%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,440 (43.89%) DevOps
2 1,360 (41.45%) Agile
3 1,257 (38.31%) CI/CD
4 881 (26.85%) Software Engineering
5 862 (26.27%) Containerisation
6 761 (23.19%) Microservices
7 642 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
8 494 (15.06%) Full Stack Development
9 487 (14.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 455 (13.87%) Computer Science
11 393 (11.98%) Mentoring
12 379 (11.55%) Artificial Intelligence
12 379 (11.55%) TDD
13 378 (11.52%) Continuous Integration
14 353 (10.76%) Scrum
15 349 (10.64%) SDLC
16 285 (8.69%) Test Automation
17 232 (7.07%) Fintech
18 216 (6.58%) Roadmaps
19 212 (6.46%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,115 (33.98%) Python
2 1,066 (32.49%) Java
3 840 (25.60%) JavaScript
4 634 (19.32%) C#
5 621 (18.93%) SQL
6 474 (14.45%) TypeScript
7 302 (9.20%) Bash
8 265 (8.08%) PHP
9 261 (7.95%) Go
10 229 (6.98%) PowerShell
11 90 (2.74%) C++
12 83 (2.53%) Shell Script
13 79 (2.41%) Ruby
14 67 (2.04%) C
15 53 (1.62%) Kotlin
16 46 (1.40%) Perl
17 41 (1.25%) Bicep
18 36 (1.10%) Groovy
18 36 (1.10%) Lua
19 29 (0.88%) Rust
Qualifications
1 541 (16.49%) Degree
2 429 (13.08%) Security Cleared
3 322 (9.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 254 (7.74%) SC Cleared
5 152 (4.63%) AWS Certification
6 139 (4.24%) DV Cleared
7 129 (3.93%) Azure Certification
8 101 (3.08%) Master's Degree
9 68 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 51 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 41 (1.25%) MCSA
11 41 (1.25%) MCSE
12 37 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 35 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
13 35 (1.07%) PhD
14 34 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 34 (1.04%) CCSK
14 34 (1.04%) CCSP
14 34 (1.04%) CISSP
15 33 (1.01%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (4.27%) QA
2 38 (1.16%) NIST
3 36 (1.10%) WCAG
4 32 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (0.64%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (0.46%) NCSC
8 11 (0.34%) SEPA
9 10 (0.30%) GDPR
10 5 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.12%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 4 (0.12%) WAI
12 3 (0.091%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.091%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.061%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.061%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.030%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 145 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 118 (3.60%) Hyper-V
3 83 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 53 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.37%) Firmware
6 12 (0.37%) NFS
6 12 (0.37%) pfSense
7 8 (0.24%) KVM
8 7 (0.21%) vSphere
9 6 (0.18%) Ceph
9 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.18%) VirtualBox
10 4 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.091%) Gluster
11 3 (0.091%) oVirt
11 3 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.061%) QEMU
12 2 (0.061%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2,242 (68.33%) Kubernetes
2 936 (28.53%) Terraform
3 587 (17.89%) Ansible
4 208 (6.34%) Prometheus
5 185 (5.64%) Puppet
6 181 (5.52%) Grafana
7 93 (2.83%) Progress Chef
8 76 (2.32%) vCenter Server
9 57 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
10 42 (1.28%) Kibana
11 31 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
11 31 (0.94%) HAProxy
12 30 (0.91%) Nagios
13 29 (0.88%) ZABBIX
14 23 (0.70%) Consul
15 22 (0.67%) Packer
16 21 (0.64%) Salt
17 15 (0.46%) Podman
17 15 (0.46%) SCCM
18 14 (0.43%) Rancher
Vendors
1 317 (9.66%) Microsoft
2 261 (7.95%) Google
3 212 (6.46%) Red Hat
4 188 (5.73%) Oracle
5 180 (5.49%) VMware
6 107 (3.26%) IBM
7 71 (2.16%) Splunk
8 58 (1.77%) Palo Alto
9 57 (1.74%) NetApp
10 54 (1.65%) SolidFire
11 42 (1.28%) Dynatrace
11 42 (1.28%) WSO2
12 32 (0.98%) Cisco
13 30 (0.91%) Atlassian
14 26 (0.79%) Facebook
15 23 (0.70%) Veeam
16 20 (0.61%) ForgeRock
16 20 (0.61%) Juniper
17 18 (0.55%) Apple
17 18 (0.55%) McAfee