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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 84 74
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Docker 23 32 67
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.01% 2.11% 2.89%
As % of the System Software category 41.07% 20.38% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15 23 53
10th Percentile £45,000 - £47,000
25th Percentile £49,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,626 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% -4.18% +3.03%
75th Percentile £74,066 £78,750 £84,919
90th Percentile £77,178 £107,500 £91,047
West Midlands median annual salary £66,500 £67,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year -1.48% +5.88% -1.92%

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 56 157 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.45% 10.35% 10.94%
Number of salaries quoted 32 94 221
10th Percentile £30,250 £34,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £50,000 £46,750
Median % change year-on-year +23.50% +6.95% -15.00%
75th Percentile £74,821 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,661 £77,125 £86,485
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £49,504 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.10% +10.01% -

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 13 March 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 6 (26.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) AWS
2 12 (52.17%) Azure
3 5 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (21.74%) dbt
4 4 (17.39%) PaaS
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (13.04%) Datadog
5 3 (13.04%) GCP
5 3 (13.04%) SaaS
5 3 (13.04%) Serverless
5 3 (13.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (8.70%) Pulumi
7 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (4.35%) Prefect
7 1 (4.35%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) JUnit
1 8 (34.78%) Maven
1 8 (34.78%) Mockito
2 4 (17.39%) Git
3 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
3 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.04%) JMeter
3 3 (13.04%) Locust
4 1 (4.35%) MLflow
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Advertising
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Investment Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Senior
3 8 (34.78%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (34.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 8 (34.78%) Java Developer
4 7 (30.43%) Lead
4 7 (30.43%) Senior Developer
5 6 (26.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (26.09%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (17.39%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (13.04%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 3 (13.04%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 3 (13.04%) SIEM Engineer
7 3 (13.04%) Test Leader
8 1 (4.35%) Site Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) REST
2 4 (17.39%) React
2 4 (17.39%) Spring
3 3 (13.04%) Gherkin
4 2 (8.70%) Django
4 2 (8.70%) PyTorch
4 2 (8.70%) TensorFlow
5 1 (4.35%) Google JAX
5 1 (4.35%) JAX
5 1 (4.35%) NumPy
5 1 (4.35%) OpenCV
5 1 (4.35%) Pandas
5 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
5 1 (4.35%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (17.39%) Management Information System
2 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
3 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Agile
2 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
3 12 (52.17%) DevOps
4 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (34.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (34.78%) Microservices
5 8 (34.78%) Scrum
5 8 (34.78%) TDD
6 7 (30.43%) Containerisation
7 6 (26.09%) Decision-Making
7 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (26.09%) SDLC
7 6 (26.09%) SOA
7 6 (26.09%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (26.09%) Unit Testing
8 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
8 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (21.74%) Observability
9 4 (17.39%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Java
2 11 (47.83%) Python
3 9 (39.13%) SQL
4 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
4 8 (34.78%) PL/SQL
5 6 (26.09%) Bash
6 4 (17.39%) C
6 4 (17.39%) Go
6 4 (17.39%) R
6 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.35%) C#
7 1 (4.35%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) AWS Certification
2 3 (13.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (13.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) QA
2 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
2 3 (13.04%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 20 (86.96%) Kubernetes
2 8 (34.78%) Terraform
3 3 (13.04%) Ansible
3 3 (13.04%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) OpenAI