Docker Job Trends in the East Midlands

Docker
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 75 42
Rank change year-on-year -5 -33 +9
Permanent jobs citing Docker 66 87 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 2.94% 2.51% 5.33%
As % of the System Software category 25.48% 24.79% 29.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13 41 76
10th Percentile £48,750 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £41,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -2.78% -0.69%

All System Software Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 259 351 301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.55% 10.13% 18.22%
Number of salaries quoted 178 188 241
10th Percentile £24,250 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.88% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £40,000 £61,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £56,625 £77,375 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Docker job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Docker
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Docker in the East Midlands

Docker
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 October 2025. 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
Northamptonshire +47 32 £60,000 - 2
Derbyshire -4 22 £55,000 -8.33% 7
Leicestershire +11 8 £60,000 +50.00% 1
Lincolnshire -11 3 - - 1
Nottinghamshire -38 1 £52,500 +16.67% 4
Docker
England

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 34 (51.52%) Confluence
2 4 (6.06%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 55 (83.33%) AWS
2 50 (75.76%) Azure
3 39 (59.09%) GCP
4 4 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (6.06%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (6.06%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.03%) PaaS
6 1 (1.52%) GitHub
6 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.12%) Cisco IOS
1 8 (12.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (60.61%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.61%) DynamoDB
3 4 (6.06%) Big Data
3 4 (6.06%) Delta Lake
3 4 (6.06%) Metadata
3 4 (6.06%) Spark SQL
4 3 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.03%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.03%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.03%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (63.64%) GitLab
2 41 (62.12%) SonarQube
3 39 (59.09%) Bitbucket
3 39 (59.09%) Cucumber
3 39 (59.09%) JIRA
3 39 (59.09%) Maven
3 39 (59.09%) Selenium
3 39 (59.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (6.06%) Git
4 4 (6.06%) MLflow
5 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.52%) JUnit
6 1 (1.52%) Mockito
General
1 47 (71.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 39 (59.09%) Banking
2 39 (59.09%) Finance
3 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.58%) Corporate Banking
4 5 (7.58%) Investment Banking
4 5 (7.58%) Retail
4 5 (7.58%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (62.12%) Software Engineer
2 8 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (6.06%) Developer
3 4 (6.06%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 4 (6.06%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (4.55%) Senior
5 2 (3.03%) Administrator
5 2 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (3.03%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (3.03%) Lead
5 2 (3.03%) Python Engineer
5 2 (3.03%) Python Software Engineer
5 2 (3.03%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (3.03%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (3.03%) Technical Leader
5 2 (3.03%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (60.61%) CSS
1 40 (60.61%) HTML
1 40 (60.61%) JPA
1 40 (60.61%) React
1 40 (60.61%) Redux
1 40 (60.61%) Spring
1 40 (60.61%) Spring Boot
2 39 (59.09%) Kafka
3 35 (53.03%) Hibernate
4 8 (12.12%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (12.12%) REST
4 8 (12.12%) RESTful
5 6 (9.09%) Jest
6 5 (7.58%) CSS3
6 5 (7.58%) Django
6 5 (7.58%) Flask
6 5 (7.58%) HTML5
6 5 (7.58%) Sass
7 4 (6.06%) NumPy
7 4 (6.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (60.61%) Product Ownership
2 39 (59.09%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (12.12%) Cyberattack
4 5 (7.58%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.03%) IoT
7 1 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (18.18%) Linux
2 10 (15.15%) Windows
3 8 (12.12%) Android
4 4 (6.06%) Unix
5 2 (3.03%) AIX
5 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.03%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (89.39%) DevOps
2 54 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 50 (75.76%) Agile
4 46 (69.70%) Containerisation
5 44 (66.67%) Microservices
6 43 (65.15%) Test Automation
7 42 (63.64%) Software Engineering
8 41 (62.12%) SDLC
9 40 (60.61%) Front End Development
10 39 (59.09%) Full-Stack Development
10 39 (59.09%) Performance Optimisation
11 37 (56.06%) TDD
12 36 (54.55%) Clean Code
13 35 (53.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (19.70%) Mentoring
15 10 (15.15%) Line Management
16 9 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (13.64%) Task Automation
17 8 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 8 (12.12%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (65.15%) SQL
2 42 (63.64%) Java
3 41 (62.12%) JavaScript
4 19 (28.79%) Python
5 11 (16.67%) Bash
6 9 (13.64%) PowerShell
7 6 (9.09%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.55%) Go
9 2 (3.03%) Korn
9 2 (3.03%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.52%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.12%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (60.61%) QA
2 5 (7.58%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (12.12%) Hyper-V
1 8 (12.12%) VMware NSX
1 8 (12.12%) vSphere
2 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (84.85%) Kubernetes
2 23 (34.85%) Terraform
3 11 (16.67%) Ansible
4 4 (6.06%) Kubeflow
5 3 (4.55%) Grafana
6 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (3.03%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (59.09%) Solace
2 8 (12.12%) 3PAR
2 8 (12.12%) Cisco
2 8 (12.12%) Juniper
2 8 (12.12%) Splunk
3 4 (6.06%) Databricks
4 2 (3.03%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.03%) IBM
4 2 (3.03%) Oracle
4 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.03%) SAP
4 2 (3.03%) VMware
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft