Docker Job Trends in Belfast

Docker
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 34 37
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -23
Permanent jobs citing Docker 4 14 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 1.19% 4.88% 2.96%
As % of the System Software category 50.00% 46.67% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £62,763 - £73,500
25th Percentile £65,031 £64,471 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -36.99% +83.33%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 -
90th Percentile - - £113,000
County Antrim median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £110,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% -36.99% +83.33%

All System Software Skills
Belfast

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8 30 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 2.39% 10.45% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 28
10th Percentile £42,950 - £32,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,250 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £52,500 £41,750
Median % change year-on-year +21.90% +25.75% -24.09%
75th Percentile £78,790 £58,849 £55,000
90th Percentile - £74,144 £89,000
County Antrim median annual salary £64,000 £52,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +21.90% +31.25% -20.00%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Belfast

Docker
Salary Trend in Belfast

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Docker

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) dbt
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Pulumi
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (25.00%) Datadog
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Locust
General
1 1 (25.00%) Advertising
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (25.00%) LangChain
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) AI
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) FinOps
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) LLM
4 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google