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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 66 96
Rank change year-on-year -18 +30 -38
Permanent jobs citing Docker 30 39 56
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.00% 3.35% 1.80%
As % of the System Software category 41.10% 23.78% 21.79%
Number of salaries quoted 15 25 47
10th Percentile £46,400 £57,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +1.08%
75th Percentile £72,533 £73,750 £85,702
90th Percentile £75,377 £77,000 £91,934
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -5.88%

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 73 164 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.44% 14.09% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 44 115 217
10th Percentile £30,550 £28,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £44,343 £39,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +7.53% -15.45%
75th Percentile £68,375 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,125 £73,750 £82,717
West Midlands median annual salary £47,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.05% +5.56% -

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 10 June 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 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 23 (76.67%) AWS
2 19 (63.33%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (16.67%) Serverless
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon S3
4 4 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (6.67%) AWS IoT
6 2 (6.67%) Datadog
6 2 (6.67%) dbt
6 2 (6.67%) PaaS
6 2 (6.67%) SaaS
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (50.00%) JUnit
2 13 (43.33%) Maven
2 13 (43.33%) Mockito
3 6 (20.00%) Git
4 4 (13.33%) Cucumber
5 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (6.67%) Gatling
6 2 (6.67%) GitLab
6 2 (6.67%) JMeter
6 2 (6.67%) Locust
6 2 (6.67%) Postman
6 2 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 18 (60.00%) Finance
2 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Advertising
3 3 (10.00%) Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Developer
2 11 (36.67%) Lead
2 11 (36.67%) Senior
3 9 (30.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (30.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 9 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 9 (30.00%) Senior Developer
4 6 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Java Team Leader
5 4 (13.33%) Team Leader
6 3 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Lead Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) React
2 10 (33.33%) REST
3 9 (30.00%) Spring
4 3 (10.00%) RESTful
5 2 (6.67%) Gherkin
5 2 (6.67%) Node.js
5 2 (6.67%) Playwright
6 1 (3.33%) AWS CDK
6 1 (3.33%) Google JAX
6 1 (3.33%) JAX
6 1 (3.33%) NumPy
6 1 (3.33%) OpenCV
6 1 (3.33%) Pandas
6 1 (3.33%) PyTorch
6 1 (3.33%) SciPy
6 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 4 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (6.67%) IoT
4 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 10 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (73.33%) Agile
1 22 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 15 (50.00%) TDD
3 14 (46.67%) Mentoring
4 13 (43.33%) Containerisation
4 13 (43.33%) Microservices
4 13 (43.33%) Scrum
5 11 (36.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (36.67%) Unit Testing
6 10 (33.33%) DevOps
6 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
8 8 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (23.33%) AI
9 7 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (23.33%) LLM
10 6 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (20.00%) SOA
10 6 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) SQL
2 15 (50.00%) Java
3 13 (43.33%) PL/SQL
4 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
5 9 (30.00%) Bash
6 7 (23.33%) Python
7 4 (13.33%) C
7 4 (13.33%) Go
7 4 (13.33%) R
8 3 (10.00%) C#
9 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) SC Cleared
1 11 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) QA
2 4 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 4 (13.33%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 27 (90.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (23.33%) Terraform
3 3 (10.00%) Ansible
3 3 (10.00%) Grafana
4 2 (6.67%) Argo
5 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Oracle
2 1 (3.33%) Databricks
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft