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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 89 78
Rank change year-on-year +17 -11 -16
Permanent jobs citing Docker 25 38 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.63% 1.83% 2.33%
As % of the System Software category 26.88% 24.68% 16.88%
Number of salaries quoted 17 16 20
10th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £45,925
25th Percentile £63,750 £63,353 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,404 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +4.43% -6.28%
75th Percentile £73,750 £104,063 £75,938
90th Percentile £78,790 £111,250 £79,125
West Midlands median annual salary £70,542 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.53% +8.33% -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 93 154 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.07% 7.44% 13.79%
Number of salaries quoted 68 76 146
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £30,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £52,500 £42,467
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% +23.63% -22.79%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,762 £81,875 £70,591
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £43,742
% change year-on-year +5.00% +14.31% -7.91%

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 December 2025.

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 10 (40.00%) Confluence
2 3 (12.00%) nginx
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 23 (92.00%) AWS
2 11 (44.00%) Amazon ELB
2 11 (44.00%) Amazon S3
2 11 (44.00%) Azure
3 10 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (40.00%) AWS KMS
3 10 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (28.00%) Amazon Glacier
5 5 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (16.00%) GCP
7 3 (12.00%) dbt
7 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (12.00%) Route 53
8 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (8.00%) PaaS
8 2 (8.00%) Pulumi
8 2 (8.00%) SaaS
9 1 (4.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) DNS
1 10 (40.00%) Firewall
1 10 (40.00%) FTP
1 10 (40.00%) HTTP
1 10 (40.00%) SMTP
1 10 (40.00%) SSH
2 5 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (12.00%) IMAP
3 3 (12.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (48.00%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (12.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (8.00%) Redis
5 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.00%) Metadata
5 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.00%) MySQL
5 1 (4.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Git
1 10 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (40.00%) JIRA
1 10 (40.00%) Vagrant
2 4 (16.00%) JUnit
2 4 (16.00%) Maven
2 4 (16.00%) Mockito
3 2 (8.00%) MLflow
4 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.00%) JMeter
4 1 (4.00%) Locust
General
1 13 (52.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Advertising
4 3 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Law
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Lead
3 4 (16.00%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (8.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) React
1 4 (16.00%) REST
1 4 (16.00%) Spring
2 3 (12.00%) LDAP
3 2 (8.00%) Django
3 2 (8.00%) PyTorch
3 2 (8.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (8.00%) TensorFlow
4 1 (4.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (4.00%) Keras
4 1 (4.00%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (4.00%) Metaflow
4 1 (4.00%) NumPy
4 1 (4.00%) Pandas
4 1 (4.00%) PySpark
4 1 (4.00%) RESTful
4 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Replication
2 2 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (68.00%) Linux
2 10 (40.00%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (40.00%) VMS
3 3 (12.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (12.00%) Unix
3 3 (12.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) DevOps
2 12 (48.00%) Platform Engineering
3 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
4 10 (40.00%) Change Management
4 10 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 10 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 10 (40.00%) Patch Management
5 7 (28.00%) Agile
6 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (20.00%) Clean Code
7 5 (20.00%) Microservices
7 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (16.00%) Scrum
8 4 (16.00%) TDD
9 3 (12.00%) AI
9 3 (12.00%) Observability
9 3 (12.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (72.00%) Python
2 13 (52.00%) Java
3 10 (40.00%) Groovy
3 10 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 8 (32.00%) SQL
5 7 (28.00%) Perl
6 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
7 4 (16.00%) PL/SQL
7 4 (16.00%) TypeScript
8 2 (8.00%) Bash
8 2 (8.00%) Go
9 1 (4.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Degree
3 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.00%) QA
1 1 (4.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.00%) DFS Replication
2 3 (12.00%) Dovecot
2 3 (12.00%) Postfix
2 3 (12.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 17 (68.00%) Terraform
2 12 (48.00%) Kubernetes
3 11 (44.00%) Grafana
4 10 (40.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (12.00%) Nessus
5 3 (12.00%) Proxmox
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (4.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle
3 3 (12.00%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (8.00%) Google
5 1 (4.00%) Databricks
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.00%) OpenAI