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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 87 72
Rank change year-on-year +3 -15 -5
Permanent jobs citing Docker 20 34 62
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.98% 1.99% 3.13%
As % of the System Software category 36.36% 20.00% 26.16%
Number of salaries quoted 12 21 48
10th Percentile £45,350 - £52,500
25th Percentile £49,625 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,308 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% -1.80% -2.65%
75th Percentile £71,940 £93,750 £85,310
90th Percentile £78,387 £110,000 £91,934
West Midlands median annual salary £66,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +12.50% -8.40%

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 55 170 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.71% 9.93% 11.95%
Number of salaries quoted 31 89 204
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,800 £28,150
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £80,000 £86,485
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -

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 20 February 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 6 (30.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) AWS
2 12 (60.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.00%) dbt
4 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 3 (15.00%) Serverless
4 3 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (10.00%) PaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Pulumi
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) JUnit
1 8 (40.00%) Maven
1 8 (40.00%) Mockito
2 3 (15.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) JMeter
3 1 (5.00%) Locust
3 1 (5.00%) MLflow
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Advertising
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
1 9 (45.00%) Senior
2 8 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 7 (35.00%) Senior Developer
4 6 (30.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (30.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (25.00%) Lead
6 4 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (15.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 3 (15.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 3 (15.00%) SIEM Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) REST
2 4 (20.00%) React
2 4 (20.00%) Spring
3 2 (10.00%) Django
4 1 (5.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
4 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
4 1 (5.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Agile
2 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (50.00%) DevOps
5 8 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (40.00%) Microservices
5 8 (40.00%) Scrum
5 8 (40.00%) TDD
6 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (30.00%) SDLC
6 6 (30.00%) SOA
6 6 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
6 6 (30.00%) Unit Testing
7 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 4 (20.00%) Clean Code
8 4 (20.00%) Emotional Intelligence
8 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (20.00%) Product Backlog
8 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Java
2 9 (45.00%) SQL
3 8 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 8 (40.00%) Python
4 6 (30.00%) Bash
5 4 (20.00%) C
5 4 (20.00%) Go
5 4 (20.00%) R
5 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.00%) C#
6 1 (5.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 18 (90.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (30.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) OpenAI