Docker Job Trends in Birmingham

Docker
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 58 97
Rank change year-on-year -30 +39 -31
Permanent jobs citing Docker 38 40 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.09% 3.21% 1.15%
As % of the System Software category 35.19% 28.57% 17.31%
Number of salaries quoted 13 25 12
10th Percentile £48,100 £63,750 £47,625
25th Percentile £58,750 £68,750 £50,846
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +16.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £74,985 £73,750 £75,296
90th Percentile £77,189 £75,250 £100,125
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £71,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% -

All System Software Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 108 140 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.09% 11.24% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 63 117 108
10th Percentile £41,050 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,000 £38,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £43,227
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +15.67% -3.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £59,063
90th Percentile £80,000 - £69,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +5.88%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Docker
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in Birmingham over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in Birmingham

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 7 (18.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.63%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 31 (81.58%) AWS
1 31 (81.58%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
2 4 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.26%) AWS IoT
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.26%) IaaS
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.26%) Serverless
5 1 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.63%) Datadog
5 1 (2.63%) dbt
5 1 (2.63%) GCP
5 1 (2.63%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) DynamoDB
1 2 (5.26%) Power BI
1 2 (5.26%) Power Query
2 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 20 (52.63%) JUnit
2 16 (42.11%) Maven
3 14 (36.84%) Mockito
4 10 (26.32%) Git
5 7 (18.42%) Cucumber
6 6 (15.79%) Gatling
6 6 (15.79%) GitLab
6 6 (15.79%) Postman
6 6 (15.79%) Selenium
7 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
8 2 (5.26%) Ant
8 2 (5.26%) Apache Ivy
8 2 (5.26%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (2.63%) JMeter
9 1 (2.63%) Locust
General
1 24 (63.16%) Finance
2 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (50.00%) Senior
2 15 (39.47%) Developer
3 11 (28.95%) Senior Developer
4 10 (26.32%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (26.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 10 (26.32%) Java Developer
5 8 (21.05%) Lead
6 7 (18.42%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (18.42%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (15.79%) Quality Engineer
8 5 (13.16%) Senior Quality Engineer
9 4 (10.53%) Java Team Leader
9 4 (10.53%) Team Leader
10 3 (7.89%) Lead Developer
10 3 (7.89%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (7.89%) Lead Java Developer
10 3 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (7.89%) Software Engineer
11 2 (5.26%) Administrator
11 2 (5.26%) AWS Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (42.11%) React
2 14 (36.84%) Spring
3 11 (28.95%) REST
4 8 (21.05%) Terraform
5 6 (15.79%) Playwright
6 3 (7.89%) RESTful
7 2 (5.26%) Node.js
8 1 (2.63%) AWS CDK
8 1 (2.63%) Gherkin
8 1 (2.63%) Google JAX
8 1 (2.63%) JAX
8 1 (2.63%) NumPy
8 1 (2.63%) OpenCV
8 1 (2.63%) Pandas
8 1 (2.63%) PyTorch
8 1 (2.63%) SciPy
8 1 (2.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 7 (18.42%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
4 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.26%) IoT
5 2 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (42.11%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
3 2 (5.26%) Solaris
3 2 (5.26%) Windows
3 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (81.58%) Agile
1 31 (81.58%) CI/CD
2 26 (68.42%) Mentoring
3 20 (52.63%) TDD
4 17 (44.74%) Scrum
5 16 (42.11%) Containerisation
6 15 (39.47%) AI
7 14 (36.84%) Microservices
8 13 (34.21%) LLM
9 12 (31.58%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (31.58%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (28.95%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (26.32%) Sprint Planning
11 10 (26.32%) Technical Architecture
12 9 (23.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (23.68%) DevOps
12 9 (23.68%) Test Automation
13 8 (21.05%) Coaching
13 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (18.42%) Emotional Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 19 (50.00%) SQL
2 16 (42.11%) Java
3 14 (36.84%) JavaScript
3 14 (36.84%) PL/SQL
4 10 (26.32%) Bash
5 7 (18.42%) Python
6 4 (10.53%) C#
7 2 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (5.26%) Go
7 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (55.26%) SC Cleared
1 21 (55.26%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) Accessibility
2 7 (18.42%) WCAG
3 2 (5.26%) SLA
4 1 (2.63%) QA
Systems Management
1 34 (89.47%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Ansible
2 2 (5.26%) Argo
2 2 (5.26%) Grafana
2 2 (5.26%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.26%) Puppet
3 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) Oracle
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.89%) Workday
4 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks