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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 93 67
Rank change year-on-year +18 -26 +1
Permanent jobs citing Docker 24 36 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.40% 1.91% 2.71%
As % of the System Software category 30.77% 20.93% 20.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16 15 26
10th Percentile £53,750 - £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,021 £69,308 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% -1.80% -5.90%
75th Percentile £74,003 £98,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £111,500 £89,717
West Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +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 78 172 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.55% 9.11% 13.39%
Number of salaries quoted 53 75 153
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,266 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +17.65% -22.73%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,782 £80,000 £74,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -2.17%

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 31 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 6 (25.00%) Confluence
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (8.33%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 21 (87.50%) AWS
2 12 (50.00%) Azure
3 7 (29.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (29.17%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (29.17%) Amazon S3
3 7 (29.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (25.00%) AWS KMS
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon Glacier
5 4 (16.67%) GCP
6 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (12.50%) dbt
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (8.33%) PaaS
7 2 (8.33%) Pulumi
7 2 (8.33%) Route 53
7 2 (8.33%) SaaS
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) DNS
1 6 (25.00%) Firewall
1 6 (25.00%) FTP
1 6 (25.00%) HTTP
1 6 (25.00%) SMTP
1 6 (25.00%) SSH
2 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.33%) IMAP
3 2 (8.33%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.33%) Redis
4 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Git
1 7 (29.17%) Jenkins
2 6 (25.00%) JIRA
2 6 (25.00%) JUnit
2 6 (25.00%) Maven
2 6 (25.00%) Mockito
2 6 (25.00%) Vagrant
3 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.17%) JMeter
3 1 (4.17%) Locust
3 1 (4.17%) MLflow
General
1 9 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Advertising
4 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Law
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Senior
4 5 (20.83%) Lead
5 4 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 3 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (12.50%) SIEM Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) REST
2 4 (16.67%) React
2 4 (16.67%) Spring
3 2 (8.33%) Django
3 2 (8.33%) LDAP
4 1 (4.17%) Gherkin
4 1 (4.17%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.17%) RESTful
4 1 (4.17%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) Replication
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Linux
2 6 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
2 6 (25.00%) VMS
3 2 (8.33%) Ubuntu
3 2 (8.33%) Unix
3 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) DevOps
2 11 (45.83%) CI/CD
3 10 (41.67%) Agile
4 8 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
5 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (29.17%) Microservices
6 6 (25.00%) Change Management
6 6 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 6 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 6 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (25.00%) Patch Management
6 6 (25.00%) Scrum
6 6 (25.00%) TDD
7 5 (20.83%) Clean Code
8 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (16.67%) SDLC
8 4 (16.67%) SOA
8 4 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) Python
2 12 (50.00%) Java
3 8 (33.33%) SQL
4 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
5 6 (25.00%) Groovy
5 6 (25.00%) PL/SQL
5 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (16.67%) Bash
6 4 (16.67%) Perl
6 4 (16.67%) TypeScript
7 3 (12.50%) Go
8 2 (8.33%) C
8 2 (8.33%) R
9 1 (4.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) SC Cleared
1 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) DFS Replication
2 2 (8.33%) Dovecot
2 2 (8.33%) Postfix
2 2 (8.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 15 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 13 (54.17%) Terraform
3 7 (29.17%) Grafana
4 6 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.33%) Nessus
5 2 (8.33%) Proxmox
6 1 (4.17%) Ansible
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Oracle
1 6 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (8.33%) Google
2 2 (8.33%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) OpenAI