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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 91 73
Rank change year-on-year +27 -18 -24
Permanent jobs citing Docker 34 35 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.83% 1.52% 2.80%
As % of the System Software category 26.36% 21.88% 23.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23 13 36
10th Percentile £63,750 £47,750 £46,875
25th Percentile £70,625 £51,544 £51,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -12.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,144 £81,563
90th Percentile - £97,750 £91,250
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% - -11.11%

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 129 160 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 10.75% 6.93% 12.01%
Number of salaries quoted 109 92 153
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,063 £25,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £32,188 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,750 £43,706
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +11.54% -20.54%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,000 £60,000
90th Percentile - £72,300 £77,000
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £48,900 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.86% +15.06% -10.53%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Docker 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Docker in Birmingham

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 20 (58.82%) Confluence
2 5 (14.71%) nginx
3 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 32 (94.12%) AWS
2 26 (76.47%) Amazon S3
3 24 (70.59%) Amazon EC2
3 24 (70.59%) AWS KMS
4 23 (67.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 20 (58.82%) Amazon ELB
5 20 (58.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 14 (41.18%) Amazon Glacier
7 9 (26.47%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (26.47%) Route 53
8 8 (23.53%) Azure
9 5 (14.71%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (14.71%) Serverless
10 4 (11.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (5.88%) SaaS
12 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
12 1 (2.94%) IaaS
12 1 (2.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (58.82%) Firewall
2 16 (47.06%) DNS
2 16 (47.06%) FTP
2 16 (47.06%) HTTP
2 16 (47.06%) SMTP
2 16 (47.06%) SSH
3 5 (14.71%) IMAP
3 5 (14.71%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (11.76%) SSL
5 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (70.59%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (32.35%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (29.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (17.65%) DynamoDB
5 3 (8.82%) MongoDB
6 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.94%) DB2
7 1 (2.94%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.94%) Metadata
7 1 (2.94%) MySQL
7 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.94%) Spark SQL
7 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (73.53%) Jenkins
2 23 (67.65%) Git
3 20 (58.82%) JIRA
4 19 (55.88%) Vagrant
5 8 (23.53%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (17.65%) Maven
7 4 (11.76%) DbUnit
7 4 (11.76%) jMock
7 4 (11.76%) JUnit
7 4 (11.76%) Mockito
7 4 (11.76%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.94%) MLflow
General
1 24 (70.59%) Public Sector
2 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Advertising
5 2 (5.88%) Finance
5 2 (5.88%) Retail
6 1 (2.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (58.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Developer
3 8 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (20.59%) Java Developer
5 6 (17.65%) Lead
5 6 (17.65%) Lead Developer
6 5 (14.71%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (14.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (14.71%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (14.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 5 (14.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (14.71%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 5 (14.71%) Lead Java Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Lead Software Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) Spring
1 7 (20.59%) Spring Boot
2 6 (17.65%) RESTful
2 6 (17.65%) Web Services
3 5 (14.71%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (14.71%) Bootstrap
3 5 (14.71%) LDAP
3 5 (14.71%) SOAP
4 4 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 4 (11.76%) Hibernate
4 4 (11.76%) JPA
4 4 (11.76%) PowerMock
4 4 (11.76%) Spring Batch
4 4 (11.76%) Spring Integration
5 3 (8.82%) REST
6 1 (2.94%) Pandas
6 1 (2.94%) React
6 1 (2.94%) scikit-learn
6 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Replication
2 4 (11.76%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 28 (82.35%) Linux
2 19 (55.88%) VMS
3 16 (47.06%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (29.41%) Ubuntu
5 8 (23.53%) Windows
6 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) DevOps
2 20 (58.82%) Patch Management
3 19 (55.88%) Cloud Security
3 19 (55.88%) Configuration Management
3 19 (55.88%) Platform Engineering
4 16 (47.06%) Change Management
5 11 (32.35%) Containerisation
6 10 (29.41%) Agile
7 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
8 8 (23.53%) Microservices
9 6 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (17.65%) Scrum
9 6 (17.65%) TDD
10 5 (14.71%) BDD
11 4 (11.76%) Capacity Management
11 4 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (11.76%) Kanban
11 4 (11.76%) Key Management
11 4 (11.76%) Open Source
11 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (67.65%) Python
2 21 (61.76%) Java
3 19 (55.88%) Groovy
4 17 (50.00%) PowerShell
5 14 (41.18%) Perl
6 8 (23.53%) SQL
7 4 (11.76%) Shell Script
8 3 (8.82%) Ruby
9 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
10 1 (2.94%) Bash
10 1 (2.94%) C#
10 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (67.65%) Security Cleared
2 21 (61.76%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.65%) AWS Certification
3 6 (17.65%) Azure Certification
3 6 (17.65%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.94%) NCSC
1 1 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (44.12%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.71%) DFS Replication
2 5 (14.71%) Dovecot
2 5 (14.71%) Postfix
2 5 (14.71%) Squid
3 4 (11.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (73.53%) Terraform
2 16 (47.06%) Grafana
2 16 (47.06%) Prometheus
3 9 (26.47%) Nessus
3 9 (26.47%) Proxmox
4 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
5 5 (14.71%) Ansible
6 3 (8.82%) Nagios
7 1 (2.94%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 16 (47.06%) ServiceNow
2 5 (14.71%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (11.76%) Atlassian
3 4 (11.76%) Juniper
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) Databricks
5 1 (2.94%) IBM
5 1 (2.94%) Splunk