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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 64 33
Rank change year-on-year -54 -31 +8
Permanent jobs citing Docker 17 70 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.67% 2.95% 6.36%
As % of the System Software category 8.63% 25.09% 31.94%
Number of salaries quoted 11 34 82
10th Percentile - £41,250 £38,125
25th Percentile £48,750 £43,125 £52,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% -12.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £69,375 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.33% +6.27% -5.90%

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 197 279 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.74% 11.74% 19.90%
Number of salaries quoted 166 154 238
10th Percentile £25,375 £26,075 £26,775
25th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,250 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.18% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £38,750 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +11 6 £70,000 +20.69%
Leicestershire +8 5 £67,250 +23.39% 5
Derbyshire -24 5 £52,500 +16.67% 4
Lincolnshire -18 1 - - 1
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 4 (23.53%) Apache Spark
2 3 (17.65%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon ELB
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) npm
4 3 (17.65%) NuGet
4 3 (17.65%) OpenShift
4 3 (17.65%) SonarCloud
5 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.76%) PaaS
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Delta Lake
1 4 (23.53%) DynamoDB
1 4 (23.53%) Metadata
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle Database
1 4 (23.53%) Spark SQL
2 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 4 (23.53%) GitLab
2 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 4 (23.53%) MLflow
3 2 (11.76%) JUnit
3 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.88%) Mockito
4 1 (5.88%) Selenium
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (23.53%) IT Support
2 4 (23.53%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Technical Leader
2 4 (23.53%) Technical Support
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) YAML
2 4 (23.53%) Keras
2 4 (23.53%) Lambda Expressions
2 4 (23.53%) Metaflow
2 4 (23.53%) Node.js
2 4 (23.53%) NumPy
2 4 (23.53%) Pandas
2 4 (23.53%) PySpark
2 4 (23.53%) PyTorch
2 4 (23.53%) React
2 4 (23.53%) scikit-learn
2 4 (23.53%) TensorFlow
3 3 (17.65%) .NET
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
4 2 (11.76%) Spring
4 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.88%) Flask
5 1 (5.88%) pytest
5 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
1 13 (76.47%) DevOps
2 12 (70.59%) Containerisation
3 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
4 5 (29.41%) Microservices
4 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
5 4 (23.53%) AI
5 4 (23.53%) Coaching
5 4 (23.53%) Data Science
5 4 (23.53%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (23.53%) High Availability
5 4 (23.53%) Information Security
5 4 (23.53%) Line Management
5 4 (23.53%) Machine Learning
5 4 (23.53%) Metadata Management
5 4 (23.53%) MLOps
5 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
5 4 (23.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Bash
2 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) C#
5 2 (11.76%) Go
5 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.88%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 17 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (64.71%) Terraform
3 4 (23.53%) Kubeflow
4 2 (11.76%) Ansible
5 1 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle
2 4 (23.53%) Databricks
3 3 (17.65%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (11.76%) AppDynamics