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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 69 73
Rank change year-on-year -64 +4 -40
Permanent jobs citing Docker 21 41 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.55% 2.86% 2.83%
As % of the System Software category 10.66% 22.28% 20.64%
Number of salaries quoted 20 38 100
10th Percentile £48,125 - £40,875
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £51,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,000 £60,875
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -1.44% +3.62%
75th Percentile £69,250 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.01% +12.59% -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 197 184 528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.20% 12.84% 13.71%
Number of salaries quoted 169 170 472
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,625 £24,240
25th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £62,750 £62,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £56,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.50% +13.00% -9.09%

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

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Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 4 April 2026.

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 4 April 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 -9 13 £67,500 +31.07% 6
Derbyshire -43 7 £52,500 +16.67% 5
Northamptonshire -10 1 £70,000 +20.69% 3
Docker
England

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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 9 (42.86%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) Azure
2 12 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (42.86%) npm
3 9 (42.86%) NuGet
3 9 (42.86%) SonarCloud
4 6 (28.57%) AWS
5 2 (9.52%) GCP
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.76%) GitHub
6 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.76%) Pulumi
6 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) NoSQL
2 8 (38.10%) SQL Server
3 4 (19.05%) Oracle Database
4 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Jaeger
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) JUnit
2 1 (4.76%) Selenium
2 1 (4.76%) Subversion
2 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (14.29%) Retail
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (42.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 9 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (38.10%) Senior
4 7 (33.33%) Lead
4 7 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Support
5 4 (19.05%) IT Support
5 4 (19.05%) Technical Leader
5 4 (19.05%) Technical Support
6 3 (14.29%) Developer
6 3 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (9.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) React
2 11 (52.38%) .NET
2 11 (52.38%) Node.js
3 9 (42.86%) YAML
4 6 (28.57%) .NET Framework
5 5 (23.81%) .NET Core
6 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET
6 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (9.52%) Django
7 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (9.52%) Flask
8 1 (4.76%) FastAPI
8 1 (4.76%) pytest
8 1 (4.76%) REST
8 1 (4.76%) Spring
8 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 16 (76.19%) Linux
2 13 (61.90%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) DevOps
2 14 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 13 (61.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (57.14%) Containerisation
5 11 (52.38%) DevSecOps
6 10 (47.62%) Microservices
6 10 (47.62%) Test Automation
7 8 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (38.10%) Mentoring
8 7 (33.33%) Migration
9 6 (28.57%) Agile
10 5 (23.81%) High Availability
10 5 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (19.05%) Coaching
11 4 (19.05%) Line Management
11 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
12 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
12 3 (14.29%) Volume Testing
13 2 (9.52%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Bash
2 10 (47.62%) PowerShell
3 9 (42.86%) C#
4 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 4 (19.05%) Python
5 3 (14.29%) SQL
6 2 (9.52%) Go
6 2 (9.52%) Java
7 1 (4.76%) Delphi
7 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 19 (90.48%) Kubernetes
2 13 (61.90%) Terraform
3 3 (14.29%) Grafana
4 2 (9.52%) Ansible
5 1 (4.76%) Argo
5 1 (4.76%) Kustomize
5 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) CrowdStrike
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft