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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 89 71
Rank change year-on-year +26 -18 -16
Permanent jobs citing Docker 36 37 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.89% 1.70% 2.42%
As % of the System Software category 30.77% 24.34% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 26 14 23
10th Percentile £63,750 £53,331 £45,750
25th Percentile £67,828 £58,125 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% +6.63% -13.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,599 £73,750
90th Percentile £76,776 £106,875 £81,500
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +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 117 152 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.39% 6.99% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 93 73 142
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £25,809
25th Percentile £39,000 £40,000 £30,760
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 £68,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,559 £74,065 £67,375
West Midlands median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £43,103
% change year-on-year +8.00% +16.00% -9.26%

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 1 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 20 (55.56%) Confluence
2 5 (13.89%) nginx
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 33 (91.67%) AWS
2 22 (61.11%) Amazon S3
3 21 (58.33%) Amazon EC2
4 20 (55.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 20 (55.56%) AWS KMS
5 17 (47.22%) Amazon ELB
6 16 (44.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (33.33%) Azure
8 11 (30.56%) Amazon Glacier
9 9 (25.00%) Route 53
10 7 (19.44%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (8.33%) dbt
13 3 (8.33%) GCP
14 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
14 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (5.56%) PaaS
14 2 (5.56%) Pulumi
14 2 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (44.44%) DNS
1 16 (44.44%) Firewall
1 16 (44.44%) FTP
1 16 (44.44%) HTTP
1 16 (44.44%) SMTP
1 16 (44.44%) SSH
2 5 (13.89%) IMAP
2 5 (13.89%) OpenLDAP
2 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (63.89%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (36.11%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (27.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (16.67%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.56%) Redis
5 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.78%) Metadata
6 1 (2.78%) MySQL
6 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.78%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (63.89%) Git
2 21 (58.33%) Jenkins
3 20 (55.56%) JIRA
4 16 (44.44%) Vagrant
5 9 (25.00%) Maven
6 7 (19.44%) JUnit
6 7 (19.44%) Mockito
7 4 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (11.11%) DbUnit
7 4 (11.11%) jMock
7 4 (11.11%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.78%) JMeter
8 1 (2.78%) Locust
8 1 (2.78%) MLflow
General
1 26 (72.22%) Public Sector
2 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Advertising
5 2 (5.56%) Retail
6 1 (2.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (55.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) Developer
3 10 (27.78%) Java Developer
4 8 (22.22%) Lead
5 6 (16.67%) Lead Developer
5 6 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (13.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) Lead Java Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Senior
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
9 1 (2.78%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) Spring
2 7 (19.44%) Spring Boot
3 6 (16.67%) REST
3 6 (16.67%) RESTful
3 6 (16.67%) Web Services
4 5 (13.89%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (13.89%) Bootstrap
4 5 (13.89%) LDAP
4 5 (13.89%) SOAP
5 4 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 4 (11.11%) Hibernate
5 4 (11.11%) JPA
5 4 (11.11%) PowerMock
5 4 (11.11%) React
5 4 (11.11%) Spring Batch
5 4 (11.11%) Spring Integration
6 2 (5.56%) Django
7 1 (2.78%) jQuery
7 1 (2.78%) NumPy
7 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Replication
2 4 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (72.22%) Linux
2 16 (44.44%) Amazon Linux
2 16 (44.44%) VMS
3 5 (13.89%) Ubuntu
3 5 (13.89%) Windows
4 3 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) DevOps
2 18 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 16 (44.44%) Change Management
3 16 (44.44%) Cloud Security
3 16 (44.44%) Configuration Management
3 16 (44.44%) Patch Management
4 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
5 11 (30.56%) Agile
5 11 (30.56%) Containerisation
5 11 (30.56%) Microservices
6 9 (25.00%) Scrum
6 9 (25.00%) TDD
7 6 (16.67%) BDD
7 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (13.89%) Open Source
8 5 (13.89%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
9 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (11.11%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 22 (61.11%) Java
1 22 (61.11%) Python
2 16 (44.44%) Groovy
2 16 (44.44%) PowerShell
3 11 (30.56%) Perl
3 11 (30.56%) SQL
4 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.11%) PL/SQL
6 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.78%) Bash
7 1 (2.78%) C#
7 1 (2.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 25 (69.44%) SC Cleared
1 25 (69.44%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) AWS Certification
2 5 (13.89%) Azure Certification
2 5 (13.89%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.78%) QA
1 1 (2.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (30.56%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.89%) DFS Replication
2 5 (13.89%) Dovecot
2 5 (13.89%) Postfix
2 5 (13.89%) Squid
Systems Management
1 23 (63.89%) Terraform
2 17 (47.22%) Grafana
3 16 (44.44%) Prometheus
4 12 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 5 (13.89%) Nessus
5 5 (13.89%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (2.78%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 16 (44.44%) ServiceNow
2 5 (13.89%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 4 (11.11%) Oracle
4 2 (5.56%) Google
5 1 (2.78%) Databricks
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.78%) Splunk