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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 67 89
Rank change year-on-year -18 +22 -25
Permanent jobs citing Docker 28 35 56
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.93% 3.11% 1.95%
As % of the System Software category 38.89% 22.73% 22.67%
Number of salaries quoted 15 21 47
10th Percentile £45,000 - £46,250
25th Percentile £49,250 £57,500 £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 £77,500 £91,934
West Midlands median annual salary £63,750 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -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 72 154 247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.38% 13.66% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 42 104 216
10th Percentile £30,350 £28,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £44,508 £38,625 £31,888
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70,125 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,375 £73,750 £84,919
West Midlands median annual salary £47,250 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.72% +2.22% -

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 27 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 6 (21.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 21 (75.00%) AWS
2 18 (64.29%) Azure
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 4 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (14.29%) Serverless
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (10.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (7.14%) Datadog
5 2 (7.14%) dbt
5 2 (7.14%) PaaS
5 2 (7.14%) SaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.57%) AWS IoT
6 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.57%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (46.43%) JUnit
1 13 (46.43%) Maven
1 13 (46.43%) Mockito
2 4 (14.29%) Git
3 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
4 2 (7.14%) JMeter
4 2 (7.14%) Locust
5 1 (3.57%) MLflow
General
1 16 (57.14%) Finance
2 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Advertising
3 3 (10.71%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Developer
2 11 (39.29%) Lead
3 10 (35.71%) Senior
4 9 (32.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (32.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 9 (32.14%) Java Developer
4 9 (32.14%) Senior Developer
5 6 (21.43%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (21.43%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (14.29%) Java Team Leader
6 4 (14.29%) Team Leader
7 3 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (10.71%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (10.71%) Lead Developer
7 3 (10.71%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (10.71%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
8 2 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) React
1 10 (35.71%) REST
2 9 (32.14%) Spring
3 3 (10.71%) RESTful
4 2 (7.14%) Gherkin
4 2 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 2 (7.14%) TensorFlow
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.57%) Google JAX
5 1 (3.57%) JAX
5 1 (3.57%) Node.js
5 1 (3.57%) NumPy
5 1 (3.57%) OpenCV
5 1 (3.57%) Pandas
5 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
5 1 (3.57%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 4 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.57%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Agile
2 19 (67.86%) CI/CD
3 13 (46.43%) Containerisation
3 13 (46.43%) Microservices
3 13 (46.43%) Scrum
3 13 (46.43%) TDD
4 12 (42.86%) Mentoring
5 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (39.29%) Unit Testing
6 10 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (32.14%) DevOps
7 9 (32.14%) Sprint Planning
8 8 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (25.00%) AI
9 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
10 6 (21.43%) SDLC
10 6 (21.43%) SOA
10 6 (21.43%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) Java
1 16 (57.14%) SQL
2 13 (46.43%) PL/SQL
3 11 (39.29%) JavaScript
4 9 (32.14%) Bash
5 7 (25.00%) Python
6 4 (14.29%) C
6 4 (14.29%) R
7 3 (10.71%) C#
7 3 (10.71%) Go
8 1 (3.57%) C++
8 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
1 9 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 26 (92.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (10.71%) Ansible
3 3 (10.71%) Grafana
4 2 (7.14%) Argo
5 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Oracle
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) OpenAI