Docker Job Trends in Central London

Docker
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 90 70
Rank change year-on-year +3 -20 -50
Permanent jobs citing Docker 50 49 136
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 1.82% 2.59% 4.23%
As % of the System Software category 32.89% 20.68% 31.19%
Number of salaries quoted 42 36 104
10th Percentile £55,250 £60,625 £55,375
25th Percentile £60,625 £70,625 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.45% +4.55%
75th Percentile £97,188 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £117,250 £120,000 £126,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

All System Software Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 152 237 436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 5.55% 12.54% 13.55%
Number of salaries quoted 115 192 294
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,125 £40,000 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -12.73% +1.85%
75th Percentile £93,000 £81,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £113,000 £114,625 £110,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £71,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% -5.59% +10.00%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docker relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Docker job vacancy trend in Central London

Docker
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in Central London over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in Central London

Docker
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Central London region over the 6 months to 13 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +10 48 £80,000 - 69
City of Westminster +11 1 £66,000 - 19
West End of London - 1 £100,000 - 3
Docker
London

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (6.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.00%) Apache
2 2 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.00%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 26 (52.00%) AWS
2 24 (48.00%) Azure
3 11 (22.00%) GCP
4 10 (20.00%) GitHub
5 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Databricks
7 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.00%) Serverless
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.00%) Azure AI
8 2 (4.00%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.00%) Cloud Run
8 2 (4.00%) Datadog
8 2 (4.00%) dbt
8 2 (4.00%) LangSmith
8 2 (4.00%) SaaS
9 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.00%) DHCP
2 1 (2.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (14.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.00%) Pinecone
4 3 (6.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.00%) Chroma
5 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.00%) Delta Lake
5 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.00%) Power BI
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.00%) Metadata
6 1 (2.00%) OLAP
6 1 (2.00%) OLTP
6 1 (2.00%) SQLPlus
6 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (18.00%) Git
2 6 (12.00%) GitLab
2 6 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.00%) MLflow
4 2 (4.00%) Burp Suite
4 2 (4.00%) JIRA
4 2 (4.00%) Snyk
4 2 (4.00%) Vite
5 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.00%) Maven
5 1 (2.00%) Selenium
5 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (32.00%) Finance
2 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Banking
4 2 (4.00%) iGaming
4 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.00%) Marketing
4 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.00%) Retail
5 1 (2.00%) Advertising
5 1 (2.00%) Games
5 1 (2.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Senior
2 10 (20.00%) Developer
3 7 (14.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Software Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Python Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Backend Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Data Scientist
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Lead
6 3 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Databricks Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Data Scientist
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Databricks Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.00%) Terraform
2 9 (18.00%) LangChain
2 9 (18.00%) REST
3 7 (14.00%) FastAPI
3 7 (14.00%) React
4 6 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (12.00%) Kafka
4 6 (12.00%) LangGraph
5 4 (8.00%) .NET
5 4 (8.00%) CrewAI
5 4 (8.00%) Next.js
5 4 (8.00%) Node.js
5 4 (8.00%) OAuth
5 4 (8.00%) PyTorch
5 4 (8.00%) RESTful
6 3 (6.00%) Django
6 3 (6.00%) Flask
6 3 (6.00%) OpenID
6 3 (6.00%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (6.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 13 (26.00%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (16.00%) AI Agents
3 8 (16.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.00%) Sports Betting
5 1 (2.00%) Clustering
5 1 (2.00%) CUDA
5 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.00%) Replication
5 1 (2.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 22 (44.00%) AI
3 21 (42.00%) CI/CD
4 20 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 17 (34.00%) DevOps
6 16 (32.00%) Microservices
7 15 (30.00%) LLM
8 14 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (26.00%) Machine Learning
9 13 (26.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 11 (22.00%) Observability
11 10 (20.00%) Data Science
11 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (18.00%) API Development
12 9 (18.00%) Event-Driven
13 8 (16.00%) Agile
13 8 (16.00%) Data Engineering
13 8 (16.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 8 (16.00%) Generative AI
13 8 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (76.00%) Python
2 16 (32.00%) Java
3 12 (24.00%) SQL
4 11 (22.00%) Bash
5 8 (16.00%) C#
5 8 (16.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (12.00%) Rust
6 6 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 6 (12.00%) VBA
7 2 (4.00%) R
8 1 (2.00%) Bicep
8 1 (2.00%) C
8 1 (2.00%) C++
8 1 (2.00%) Scala
8 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (18.00%) Degree
2 7 (14.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.00%) CISSP
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) PSD2
2 1 (2.00%) SEPA
2 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (84.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.00%) Grafana
3 7 (14.00%) Ansible
3 7 (14.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) OpenAI
2 6 (12.00%) Google
2 6 (12.00%) Splunk
3 5 (10.00%) Databricks
3 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.00%) Mistral
5 2 (4.00%) Checkmarx
5 2 (4.00%) Foundry
5 2 (4.00%) Veracode
6 1 (2.00%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.00%) Confluent
6 1 (2.00%) Refinitiv