Docker Job Trends in Chester

Docker
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +19
Permanent jobs citing Docker 10 6 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Chester 7.41% 3.87% 4.17%
As % of the System Software category 71.43% 75.00% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £48,950 - -
25th Percentile £54,125 £51,250 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £75,104
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -30.10% +114.58%
75th Percentile £75,500 £53,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £86,600 - -
Cheshire median annual salary £67,500 £64,750 £79,632
% change year-on-year +4.25% -18.69% +44.79%

All System Software Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 14 8 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 10.37% 5.16% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 9
10th Percentile £46,250 £30,550 -
25th Percentile £53,500 £35,875 £25,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £46,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.41% -20.51% +67.14%
75th Percentile £75,000 £51,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £76,000 £52,650 £84,056
Cheshire median annual salary £62,500 £47,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +31.58% +26.67% +7.14%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Chester

Docker
Salary Trend in Chester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in Chester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in Chester over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Docker in Chester

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (30.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (30.00%) GitLab
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) Maven
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (30.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (50.00%) Banking
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Retail
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (10.00%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) React
2 6 (60.00%) Jest
2 6 (60.00%) Redux
3 5 (50.00%) CSS
3 5 (50.00%) HTML
3 5 (50.00%) RESTful
3 5 (50.00%) Spring
3 5 (50.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (40.00%) CSS3
4 4 (40.00%) HTML5
5 3 (30.00%) JPA
5 3 (30.00%) Kafka
6 2 (20.00%) Playwright
6 2 (20.00%) REST
6 2 (20.00%) Sass
7 1 (10.00%) Next.js
7 1 (10.00%) NLTK
7 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
7 1 (10.00%) Seaborn
7 1 (10.00%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (20.00%) Online Banking
4 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (10.00%) Blog
4 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 8 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (50.00%) TDD
3 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) Front End Development
4 4 (40.00%) SDLC
5 3 (30.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (30.00%) Microservices
5 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (20.00%) Migration
6 2 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (20.00%) Scrum
6 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
1 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) Julia
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Solace
2 2 (20.00%) Google