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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 59 102
Rank change year-on-year -28 +43 -36
Permanent jobs citing Docker 29 42 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.93% 3.51% 1.69%
As % of the System Software category 35.80% 29.37% 21.25%
Number of salaries quoted 17 26 43
10th Percentile £47,400 £61,875 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £74,066 £73,750 £84,919
90th Percentile £76,720 £76,875 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £61,250 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +16.67% -4.00%

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 81 143 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.61% 11.94% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 55 121 197
10th Percentile £31,850 £28,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £66,875 £73,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,955 - £74,250
West Midlands median annual salary £47,750 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +0.53% +5.56% +1.69%

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 8 July 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 3 (10.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.45%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 21 (72.41%) AWS
2 18 (62.07%) Azure
3 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (13.79%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (13.79%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (13.79%) Serverless
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
4 3 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.90%) AWS IoT
5 2 (6.90%) Datadog
5 2 (6.90%) dbt
5 2 (6.90%) PaaS
5 2 (6.90%) SaaS
5 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (6.90%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (41.38%) JUnit
2 10 (34.48%) Maven
2 10 (34.48%) Mockito
3 6 (20.69%) Git
4 4 (13.79%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.90%) Gatling
5 2 (6.90%) GitLab
5 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
5 2 (6.90%) JMeter
5 2 (6.90%) Locust
5 2 (6.90%) Postman
5 2 (6.90%) Selenium
General
1 16 (55.17%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Advertising
3 2 (6.90%) Banking
3 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.90%) Investment Banking
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Developer
1 11 (37.93%) Senior
2 10 (34.48%) Lead
3 7 (24.14%) Senior Developer
4 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 6 (20.69%) Java Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Java Team Leader
5 4 (13.79%) Team Leader
6 3 (10.34%) Lead Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Lead Java Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Quality Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) React
2 9 (31.03%) Spring
3 7 (24.14%) REST
4 3 (10.34%) RESTful
5 2 (6.90%) Gherkin
5 2 (6.90%) Node.js
5 2 (6.90%) Playwright
6 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
6 1 (3.45%) Google JAX
6 1 (3.45%) JAX
6 1 (3.45%) NumPy
6 1 (3.45%) OpenCV
6 1 (3.45%) Pandas
6 1 (3.45%) PyTorch
6 1 (3.45%) SciPy
6 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
3 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (6.90%) IoT
5 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) CI/CD
2 20 (68.97%) Agile
3 17 (58.62%) Mentoring
4 12 (41.38%) TDD
5 10 (34.48%) Containerisation
5 10 (34.48%) Microservices
5 10 (34.48%) Scrum
6 8 (27.59%) AI
6 8 (27.59%) DevOps
6 8 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (27.59%) LLM
6 8 (27.59%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (27.59%) Unit Testing
7 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (20.69%) Sprint Planning
8 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
9 5 (17.24%) Code Quality
9 5 (17.24%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) SQL
2 13 (44.83%) Java
3 10 (34.48%) JavaScript
3 10 (34.48%) PL/SQL
4 7 (24.14%) Python
5 6 (20.69%) Bash
6 4 (13.79%) C#
7 3 (10.34%) Go
8 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
9 1 (3.45%) C
9 1 (3.45%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
1 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) Accessibility
2 4 (13.79%) WCAG
3 3 (10.34%) QA
Systems Management
1 25 (86.21%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.69%) Terraform
3 3 (10.34%) Grafana
4 2 (6.90%) Ansible
4 2 (6.90%) Argo
5 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) Databricks
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft