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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 73 38
Rank change year-on-year -35 -35 +15
Permanent jobs citing Docker 22 85 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.00% 2.55% 5.66%
As % of the System Software category 10.53% 24.57% 31.06%
Number of salaries quoted 16 38 81
10th Percentile - £40,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,100 £46,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.14% -26.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £62,813 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £74,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year -2.03% +2.78% -4.00%

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 209 346 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.54% 10.37% 18.23%
Number of salaries quoted 176 181 238
10th Percentile £24,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £40,000 £60,000 £63,250
90th Percentile £57,500 £80,000 £70,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £56,525 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.97% +2.77% -

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 18 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Docker in the East Midlands

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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 18 November 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
Derbyshire -15 10 £52,500 -12.50% 4
Northamptonshire +37 7 £60,000 - 1
Leicestershire +9 3 £57,600 +44.00% 1
Lincolnshire -17 1 - -
Nottinghamshire -26 1 £52,500 +13.51% 8
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 (18.18%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) AWS
2 11 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (22.73%) GCP
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
6 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub
6 2 (9.09%) PaaS
7 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) DynamoDB
2 4 (18.18%) Big Data
2 4 (18.18%) Delta Lake
2 4 (18.18%) Metadata
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle Database
2 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (18.18%) Spark SQL
3 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.09%) SAP HANA
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 4 (18.18%) GitLab
2 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) MLflow
3 2 (9.09%) JUnit
3 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.55%) Mockito
4 1 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (18.18%) IT Support
2 4 (18.18%) Lead
2 4 (18.18%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) Technical Leader
2 4 (18.18%) Technical Support
3 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Python Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Django
1 6 (27.27%) Flask
2 4 (18.18%) Keras
2 4 (18.18%) Lambda Expressions
2 4 (18.18%) Metaflow
2 4 (18.18%) NumPy
2 4 (18.18%) Pandas
2 4 (18.18%) PySpark
2 4 (18.18%) PyTorch
2 4 (18.18%) scikit-learn
2 4 (18.18%) TensorFlow
2 4 (18.18%) YAML
3 3 (13.64%) REST
3 3 (13.64%) RESTful
4 2 (9.09%) FastAPI
4 2 (9.09%) Node.js
4 2 (9.09%) Spring
4 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (4.55%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 4 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (9.09%) IoT
3 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) Unix
2 4 (18.18%) Windows
3 2 (9.09%) AIX
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (9.09%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 15 (68.18%) DevOps
3 11 (50.00%) Agile
3 11 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 10 (45.45%) Containerisation
5 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (27.27%) High Availability
6 6 (27.27%) Machine Learning
6 6 (27.27%) Microservices
7 5 (22.73%) AI
7 5 (22.73%) Coaching
7 5 (22.73%) Observability
7 5 (22.73%) OOP
7 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
8 4 (18.18%) Data Science
8 4 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (18.18%) MLOps
8 4 (18.18%) OO
8 4 (18.18%) OWASP
8 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) Java
2 4 (18.18%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) Bash
3 3 (13.64%) Go
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) Korn
4 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) Delphi
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (45.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (90.91%) Kubernetes
2 15 (68.18%) Terraform
3 4 (18.18%) Grafana
3 4 (18.18%) Kubeflow
4 3 (13.64%) Ansible
5 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (9.09%) ZABBIX
6 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 4 (18.18%) Databricks
3 2 (9.09%) AppDynamics
3 2 (9.09%) IBM
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 2 (9.09%) SAP
3 2 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft