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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 68 97
Rank change year-on-year -58 +29 -56
Permanent jobs citing Docker 35 76 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.71% 3.66% 2.12%
As % of the System Software category 14.34% 26.67% 18.41%
Number of salaries quoted 30 23 88
10th Percentile £42,500 - £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.30% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £69,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,500 £67,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -6.67%

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 244 285 603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.94% 13.71% 11.49%
Number of salaries quoted 214 215 512
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £29,625 £26,500 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £32,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £53,750 £46,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £63,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -10.00%

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

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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 June 2026.

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 June 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
Leicestershire -30 12 £67,500 +12.50% 1
Derbyshire -15 11 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Northamptonshire -19 5 £70,000 +21.74% 5
Nottinghamshire -22 4 £62,500 +4.17% 2
Lincolnshire -22 1 £37,500 -48.28% 3
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 8 (22.86%) IIS
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.86%) CMS
3 1 (2.86%) Headless CMS
3 1 (2.86%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 30 (85.71%) Azure
2 16 (45.71%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (37.14%) AWS
4 9 (25.71%) GCP
5 8 (22.86%) npm
5 8 (22.86%) NuGet
5 8 (22.86%) SonarCloud
6 6 (17.14%) GitHub
7 5 (14.29%) Azure AKS
8 3 (8.57%) Azure AI
8 3 (8.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
8 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (8.57%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (5.71%) SaaS
10 1 (2.86%) Algolia
10 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (2.86%) IaaS
10 1 (2.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Firewall
1 4 (11.43%) VLAN
1 4 (11.43%) VPN
2 2 (5.71%) DHCP
2 2 (5.71%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) NoSQL
2 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.71%) KNIME
4 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.71%) Redis
5 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (37.14%) Git
2 3 (8.57%) Subversion
3 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (2.86%) Vite
General
1 5 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 4 (11.43%) Retail
3 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Law
4 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (25.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 9 (25.71%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (22.86%) Developer
4 7 (20.00%) Senior
4 7 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Lead
6 4 (11.43%) Architect
6 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) .NET Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) IT Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (8.57%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Technical Architect
8 2 (5.71%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Technical Leader
9 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (45.71%) .NET
2 12 (34.29%) React
3 11 (31.43%) Node.js
4 8 (22.86%) ASP.NET
4 8 (22.86%) ASP.NET Core
4 8 (22.86%) YAML
5 6 (17.14%) .NET Core
5 6 (17.14%) .NET Framework
5 6 (17.14%) REST
6 4 (11.43%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (8.57%) CSS
7 3 (8.57%) HTML
7 3 (8.57%) ML.NET
8 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
8 2 (5.71%) Middleware
8 2 (5.71%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (2.86%) Flask
9 1 (2.86%) Pandas
9 1 (2.86%) scikit-learn
9 1 (2.86%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) Digital TV
2 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (5.71%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) SCADA
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (48.57%) Linux
2 13 (37.14%) Windows
3 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.86%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 22 (62.86%) DevOps
3 20 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (40.00%) DevSecOps
5 12 (34.29%) Containerisation
5 12 (34.29%) Test Automation
6 11 (31.43%) Microservices
7 9 (25.71%) Observability
7 9 (25.71%) Roadmaps
7 9 (25.71%) Software Engineering
8 8 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (20.00%) Agile
9 7 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (17.14%) AI
11 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (14.29%) Migration
11 5 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (45.71%) C#
2 13 (37.14%) PowerShell
3 10 (28.57%) Bash
4 8 (22.86%) JavaScript
4 8 (22.86%) SQL
5 7 (20.00%) Python
6 4 (11.43%) Bicep
6 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
7 3 (8.57%) Go
7 3 (8.57%) Java
8 1 (2.86%) PHP
8 1 (2.86%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.71%) CISSP
2 2 (5.71%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (8.57%) QA
3 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 18 (51.43%) Terraform
3 4 (11.43%) Grafana
4 3 (8.57%) Ansible
4 3 (8.57%) Istio
5 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.86%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) CrowdStrike
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Dynatrace
2 2 (5.71%) VMware
3 1 (2.86%) WooCommerce