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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 86 65
Rank change year-on-year 0 -21 +5
Permanent jobs citing Docker 20 38 62
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.06% 2.15% 3.21%
As % of the System Software category 32.79% 21.84% 27.07%
Number of salaries quoted 12 19 48
10th Percentile £45,350 - £52,125
25th Percentile £49,625 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,308 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% -1.39% -3.05%
75th Percentile £74,003 £95,625 £84,919
90th Percentile £78,387 £110,500 £91,934
West Midlands median annual salary £66,500 £69,308 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.05% +15.51% -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 61 174 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.24% 9.86% 11.84%
Number of salaries quoted 36 82 197
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £34,125 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £74,003 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £80,000 £85,545
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -

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 6 February 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 (30.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) AWS
2 11 (55.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (15.00%) dbt
5 3 (15.00%) GCP
5 3 (15.00%) Serverless
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (10.00%) PaaS
6 2 (10.00%) Pulumi
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon Glacier
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (5.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) FTP
2 1 (5.00%) HTTP
2 1 (5.00%) SMTP
2 1 (5.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) JUnit
1 8 (40.00%) Maven
1 8 (40.00%) Mockito
2 4 (20.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) JMeter
3 1 (5.00%) Locust
3 1 (5.00%) MLflow
3 1 (5.00%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Advertising
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
1 8 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 8 (40.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 8 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 8 (40.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) Senior Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Lead
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) SIEM Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) REST
2 4 (20.00%) React
2 4 (20.00%) Spring
3 2 (10.00%) Django
4 1 (5.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
4 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
4 1 (5.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Agile
2 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (55.00%) DevOps
3 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (40.00%) Microservices
4 8 (40.00%) Scrum
4 8 (40.00%) TDD
5 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (30.00%) SDLC
5 6 (30.00%) SOA
5 6 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
5 6 (30.00%) Unit Testing
6 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (20.00%) Clean Code
7 4 (20.00%) Deadline-Driven
7 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
7 4 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Java
2 9 (45.00%) Python
3 8 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 8 (40.00%) SQL
4 6 (30.00%) Bash
5 4 (20.00%) C
5 4 (20.00%) Go
5 4 (20.00%) R
5 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.00%) C++
6 1 (5.00%) Groovy
6 1 (5.00%) Perl
6 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (85.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (35.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Ansible
4 2 (10.00%) Grafana
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow