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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 77 90
Rank change year-on-year -16 +13 -25
Permanent jobs citing Docker 19 30 58
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.66% 2.35% 2.13%
As % of the System Software category 33.33% 19.23% 23.20%
Number of salaries quoted 14 19 49
10th Percentile £45,000 - £46,250
25th Percentile £48,875 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,626 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% -3.39% -1.41%
75th Percentile £70,125 £79,375 £84,919
90th Percentile £74,066 £100,000 £91,934
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -7.69%

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 57 156 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.98% 12.20% 9.16%
Number of salaries quoted 33 104 224
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £44,343 £38,883 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £74,066 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £84,919
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £45,074 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +0.16% -

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 3 May 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 5 (26.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) AWS
2 10 (52.63%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (15.79%) Serverless
3 3 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (10.53%) Datadog
4 2 (10.53%) dbt
4 2 (10.53%) PaaS
4 2 (10.53%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) JUnit
1 5 (26.32%) Maven
1 5 (26.32%) Mockito
2 4 (21.05%) Git
3 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
4 2 (10.53%) Cucumber
4 2 (10.53%) JMeter
4 2 (10.53%) Locust
5 1 (5.26%) MLflow
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Advertising
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
2 3 (15.79%) Investment Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) Senior
2 7 (36.84%) Senior Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Java Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Lead
4 4 (21.05%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Test Leader
7 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) REST
2 2 (10.53%) Gherkin
2 2 (10.53%) PyTorch
2 2 (10.53%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.26%) Google JAX
3 1 (5.26%) JAX
3 1 (5.26%) NumPy
3 1 (5.26%) OpenCV
3 1 (5.26%) Pandas
3 1 (5.26%) React
3 1 (5.26%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.26%) SciPy
3 1 (5.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
3 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
2 9 (47.37%) DevOps
2 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (36.84%) Containerisation
4 6 (31.58%) Decision-Making
4 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
5 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (26.32%) Microservices
5 5 (26.32%) Scrum
5 5 (26.32%) SOA
5 5 (26.32%) TDD
5 5 (26.32%) Unit Testing
6 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (21.05%) Emotional Intelligence
6 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
6 4 (21.05%) Resource Management
6 4 (21.05%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Java
1 8 (42.11%) SQL
2 7 (36.84%) Python
3 5 (26.32%) Bash
3 5 (26.32%) PL/SQL
4 4 (21.05%) C
4 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 4 (21.05%) R
5 3 (15.79%) C#
5 3 (15.79%) Go
6 1 (5.26%) C++
6 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Certification
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) Degree
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.53%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 18 (94.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Terraform
3 3 (15.79%) Ansible
3 3 (15.79%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Argo
4 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) OpenAI