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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 54 101
Rank change year-on-year -28 +47 -37
Permanent jobs citing Docker 39 47 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.15% 3.74% 1.04%
As % of the System Software category 38.61% 32.41% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 14 30 20
10th Percentile £49,275 £63,392 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +21.85% -15.00%
75th Percentile £74,755 £73,750 £79,375
90th Percentile £77,072 £76,250 £86,485
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -4.00%

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 101 145 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.97% 11.54% 6.72%
Number of salaries quoted 56 122 135
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,500 £26,450
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £43,227
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +15.67% -3.94%
75th Percentile £66,563 £73,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,000 - £69,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +5.88%

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 5 August 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 7 (17.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 32 (82.05%) AWS
2 31 (79.49%) Azure
3 4 (10.26%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (10.26%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.13%) AWS IoT
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.13%) Datadog
5 2 (5.13%) dbt
5 2 (5.13%) IaaS
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (5.13%) PaaS
5 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.13%) SaaS
5 2 (5.13%) Serverless
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.56%) GCP
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) DynamoDB
1 2 (5.13%) Power BI
1 2 (5.13%) Power Query
2 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 20 (51.28%) JUnit
2 16 (41.03%) Maven
3 14 (35.90%) Mockito
4 10 (25.64%) Git
5 8 (20.51%) Cucumber
6 6 (15.38%) Gatling
6 6 (15.38%) GitLab
6 6 (15.38%) Postman
6 6 (15.38%) Selenium
7 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
8 2 (5.13%) Ant
8 2 (5.13%) Apache Ivy
8 2 (5.13%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (5.13%) JMeter
8 2 (5.13%) Locust
General
1 24 (61.54%) Finance
2 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Senior
2 15 (38.46%) Developer
3 11 (28.21%) Senior Developer
4 10 (25.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (25.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 10 (25.64%) Java Developer
5 9 (23.08%) Lead
6 7 (17.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (17.95%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (15.38%) Quality Engineer
8 5 (12.82%) Senior Quality Engineer
9 4 (10.26%) Java Team Leader
9 4 (10.26%) Team Leader
10 3 (7.69%) Lead Developer
10 3 (7.69%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
10 3 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
11 2 (5.13%) AWS Administrator
11 2 (5.13%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (41.03%) React
2 14 (35.90%) Spring
3 11 (28.21%) REST
4 6 (15.38%) Playwright
5 3 (7.69%) RESTful
6 2 (5.13%) Gherkin
6 2 (5.13%) Node.js
7 1 (2.56%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.56%) Google JAX
7 1 (2.56%) JAX
7 1 (2.56%) NumPy
7 1 (2.56%) OpenCV
7 1 (2.56%) Pandas
7 1 (2.56%) PyTorch
7 1 (2.56%) SciPy
7 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Cloud Native
2 7 (17.95%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (10.26%) Onboarding
4 3 (7.69%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.13%) IoT
5 2 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (41.03%) Linux
2 3 (7.69%) Unix
3 2 (5.13%) Solaris
3 2 (5.13%) Windows
3 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (82.05%) Agile
1 32 (82.05%) CI/CD
2 26 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 20 (51.28%) TDD
4 17 (43.59%) Containerisation
4 17 (43.59%) Scrum
5 15 (38.46%) AI
6 14 (35.90%) Microservices
7 13 (33.33%) LLM
7 13 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (28.21%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (25.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (25.64%) DevOps
10 10 (25.64%) Sprint Planning
10 10 (25.64%) Technical Architecture
10 10 (25.64%) Test Automation
11 8 (20.51%) Coaching
11 8 (20.51%) End-to-End Testing
11 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) SQL
2 17 (43.59%) Java
3 14 (35.90%) JavaScript
3 14 (35.90%) PL/SQL
4 10 (25.64%) Bash
5 8 (20.51%) Python
6 4 (10.26%) C#
7 2 (5.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (5.13%) Go
7 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 21 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) Accessibility
2 8 (20.51%) WCAG
3 2 (5.13%) QA
3 2 (5.13%) SLA
Systems Management
1 35 (89.74%) Kubernetes
2 9 (23.08%) Terraform
3 3 (7.69%) Grafana
4 2 (5.13%) Ansible
4 2 (5.13%) Argo
4 2 (5.13%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.13%) Puppet
5 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (35.90%) Oracle
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) Workday
4 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.56%) Databricks