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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 78 84
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 -27
Permanent jobs citing Docker 19 30 62
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.67% 2.32% 2.28%
As % of the System Software category 33.93% 19.35% 24.41%
Number of salaries quoted 13 19 51
10th Percentile £45,000 - £46,250
25th Percentile £48,500 £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 £71,000 £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 56 155 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.99% 12.01% 9.35%
Number of salaries quoted 32 101 226
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £44,375 £39,000 £32,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £50,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year +23.50% +9.29% -16.82%
75th Percentile £74,300 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £76,250 £84,919
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.61% +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 26 April 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 12 (63.16%) 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%) Serverless
3 3 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
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 Monitor
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (5.26%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) JUnit
1 6 (31.58%) Maven
1 6 (31.58%) 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
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) Senior
2 7 (36.84%) Senior Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Java Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Lead
4 5 (26.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (26.32%) 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%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) REST
2 2 (10.53%) Gherkin
2 2 (10.53%) PyTorch
2 2 (10.53%) React
2 2 (10.53%) Spring
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%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.26%) SciPy
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 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 9 (47.37%) DevOps
3 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (36.84%) Containerisation
5 6 (31.58%) Decision-Making
5 6 (31.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (31.58%) Microservices
5 6 (31.58%) Scrum
5 6 (31.58%) TDD
6 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
6 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (26.32%) SDLC
6 5 (26.32%) SOA
6 5 (26.32%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (26.32%) Unit Testing
7 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (21.05%) Deadline-Driven
7 4 (21.05%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Java
2 8 (42.11%) SQL
3 7 (36.84%) Python
4 6 (31.58%) PL/SQL
5 5 (26.32%) Bash
5 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
6 4 (21.05%) C
6 4 (21.05%) R
7 3 (15.79%) Go
8 2 (10.53%) C#
8 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
9 1 (5.26%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
2 3 (15.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (15.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
4 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 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 6 (31.58%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) OpenAI