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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 85 83
Rank change year-on-year +14 -2 -22
Permanent jobs citing Docker 30 40 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.11% 1.81% 2.12%
As % of the System Software category 29.41% 24.54% 16.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22 17 19
10th Percentile £62,625 £57,500 £45,600
25th Percentile £64,393 £64,471 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% -5.90%
75th Percentile £73,750 £102,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £78,387 £111,000 £79,500
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% -9.77%

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 102 163 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.16% 7.38% 13.16%
Number of salaries quoted 79 83 141
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £43,250 £30,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +29.41% -22.73%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £79,750 £67,500
West Midlands median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £43,706
% change year-on-year +8.00% +14.40% -7.99%

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 25 November 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 14 (46.67%) Confluence
2 3 (10.00%) nginx
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 27 (90.00%) AWS
2 15 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 14 (46.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (46.67%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (46.67%) AWS KMS
4 13 (43.33%) Amazon ELB
5 12 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (33.33%) Azure
7 9 (30.00%) Amazon Glacier
8 5 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (16.67%) Route 53
9 3 (10.00%) dbt
9 3 (10.00%) GCP
9 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (6.67%) PaaS
10 2 (6.67%) Pulumi
10 2 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (40.00%) DNS
1 12 (40.00%) Firewall
1 12 (40.00%) FTP
1 12 (40.00%) HTTP
1 12 (40.00%) SMTP
1 12 (40.00%) SSH
2 5 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 3 (10.00%) IMAP
3 3 (10.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (53.33%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (10.00%) DynamoDB
5 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.67%) Redis
6 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
6 1 (3.33%) Metadata
6 1 (3.33%) MySQL
6 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (50.00%) Git
2 14 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 14 (46.67%) JIRA
3 12 (40.00%) Vagrant
4 7 (23.33%) Maven
5 6 (20.00%) JUnit
5 6 (20.00%) Mockito
6 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (6.67%) DbUnit
6 2 (6.67%) jMock
6 2 (6.67%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.33%) JMeter
7 1 (3.33%) Locust
7 1 (3.33%) MLflow
General
1 19 (63.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Advertising
4 3 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) Developer
3 8 (26.67%) Java Developer
4 6 (20.00%) Lead
5 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Senior
7 3 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Lead Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (6.67%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) Spring
2 5 (16.67%) React
2 5 (16.67%) REST
3 4 (13.33%) RESTful
3 4 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 3 (10.00%) LDAP
5 2 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.67%) Bootstrap
5 2 (6.67%) Django
5 2 (6.67%) Hibernate
5 2 (6.67%) JPA
5 2 (6.67%) PowerMock
5 2 (6.67%) SOAP
5 2 (6.67%) Spring Batch
5 2 (6.67%) Spring Integration
5 2 (6.67%) Web Services
6 1 (3.33%) Gherkin
6 1 (3.33%) NumPy
6 1 (3.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Replication
2 2 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.33%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 21 (70.00%) Linux
2 12 (40.00%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (40.00%) VMS
3 3 (10.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (10.00%) Unix
3 3 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) DevOps
2 14 (46.67%) Platform Engineering
3 13 (43.33%) CI/CD
4 12 (40.00%) Change Management
4 12 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 12 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 12 (40.00%) Patch Management
5 10 (33.33%) Agile
6 9 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 9 (30.00%) Microservices
7 7 (23.33%) Scrum
7 7 (23.33%) TDD
8 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (16.67%) Clean Code
9 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (10.00%) BDD
11 3 (10.00%) Test Automation
11 3 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) Python
2 18 (60.00%) Java
3 12 (40.00%) Groovy
3 12 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 9 (30.00%) Perl
4 9 (30.00%) SQL
5 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
6 5 (16.67%) PL/SQL
7 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
8 2 (6.67%) Bash
8 2 (6.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (63.33%) SC Cleared
1 19 (63.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.33%) QA
1 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) DFS Replication
2 3 (10.00%) Dovecot
2 3 (10.00%) Postfix
2 3 (10.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 19 (63.33%) Terraform
2 13 (43.33%) Grafana
2 13 (43.33%) Kubernetes
3 12 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (10.00%) Nessus
4 3 (10.00%) Proxmox
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (3.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (10.00%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (6.67%) Atlassian
4 2 (6.67%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) Databricks
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk