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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 79 59
Rank change year-on-year +2 -20 +1
Permanent jobs citing Docker 67 102 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.89% 2.57% 3.85%
As % of the System Software category 21.97% 24.11% 24.36%
Number of salaries quoted 12 58 51
10th Percentile £51,375 £40,875 £33,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,563 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £56,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -6.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,875 £69,375
90th Percentile £72,000 £65,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £69,654 £72,500
% change year-on-year +4.09% -3.93% -

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 305 423 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.16% 10.65% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 229 283 210
10th Percentile £25,375 £28,000 £25,975
25th Percentile £26,500 £34,348 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £41,000 £58,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £53,750 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,683 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.30% - -

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Docker 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +43 32 £60,000 - 8
Derbyshire +2 22 £60,000 - 3
Leicestershire +26 8 £60,000 +50.00% 2
Lincolnshire -1 4 - - 3
Nottinghamshire -32 1 £52,500 +5.00% 4
Docker
England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 34 (50.75%) Confluence
2 4 (5.97%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.49%) Mendix
Cloud Services
1 57 (85.07%) AWS
2 52 (77.61%) Azure
3 39 (58.21%) GCP
4 5 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (5.97%) Amazon ELB
5 4 (5.97%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.99%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.99%) PaaS
8 1 (1.49%) GitHub
8 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.43%) VPN
2 8 (11.94%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.49%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (59.70%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.45%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.97%) Big Data
3 4 (5.97%) Delta Lake
3 4 (5.97%) Metadata
3 4 (5.97%) Spark SQL
4 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.99%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 42 (62.69%) GitLab
2 41 (61.19%) SonarQube
3 40 (59.70%) JIRA
4 39 (58.21%) Bitbucket
4 39 (58.21%) Cucumber
4 39 (58.21%) Maven
4 39 (58.21%) Selenium
4 39 (58.21%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (5.97%) Git
5 4 (5.97%) MLflow
6 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.49%) JUnit
7 1 (1.49%) Mockito
General
1 50 (74.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 41 (61.19%) Finance
3 39 (58.21%) Banking
4 10 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.96%) Social Skills
6 5 (7.46%) Corporate Banking
6 5 (7.46%) Investment Banking
6 5 (7.46%) Retail
7 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.49%) Electronics
7 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 41 (61.19%) Software Engineer
2 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (8.96%) Developer
4 4 (5.97%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 4 (5.97%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Senior
6 2 (2.99%) Administrator
6 2 (2.99%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (2.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Python Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Software Developer
6 2 (2.99%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (2.99%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (1.49%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (1.49%) Junior Python Developer
7 1 (1.49%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (59.70%) CSS
1 40 (59.70%) HTML
1 40 (59.70%) JPA
1 40 (59.70%) React
1 40 (59.70%) Redux
1 40 (59.70%) Spring
1 40 (59.70%) Spring Boot
2 39 (58.21%) Kafka
3 35 (52.24%) Hibernate
4 9 (13.43%) REST
5 8 (11.94%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (11.94%) RESTful
6 6 (8.96%) Jest
7 5 (7.46%) CSS3
7 5 (7.46%) Django
7 5 (7.46%) Flask
7 5 (7.46%) HTML5
7 5 (7.46%) Pandas
7 5 (7.46%) Sass
8 4 (5.97%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 40 (59.70%) Product Ownership
2 39 (58.21%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (14.93%) Cyberattack
4 5 (7.46%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.97%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.99%) IoT
7 1 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.91%) Linux
2 10 (14.93%) Android
3 8 (11.94%) Windows
4 4 (5.97%) Unix
5 2 (2.99%) AIX
5 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.99%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (86.57%) DevOps
2 56 (83.58%) CI/CD
3 53 (79.10%) Agile
4 46 (68.66%) Containerisation
5 44 (65.67%) Microservices
6 43 (64.18%) Software Engineering
6 43 (64.18%) Test Automation
7 41 (61.19%) SDLC
8 40 (59.70%) Front End Development
9 39 (58.21%) Full-Stack Development
9 39 (58.21%) Performance Optimisation
10 37 (55.22%) TDD
11 36 (53.73%) Clean Code
12 35 (52.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (17.91%) Mentoring
14 10 (14.93%) Line Management
14 10 (14.93%) Mathematics
15 9 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (13.43%) Task Automation
16 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (67.16%) Java
2 44 (65.67%) SQL
3 43 (64.18%) JavaScript
4 21 (31.34%) Python
5 11 (16.42%) Bash
6 9 (13.43%) PowerShell
7 6 (8.96%) TypeScript
8 5 (7.46%) Go
9 2 (2.99%) C++
9 2 (2.99%) Korn
9 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.49%) C#
10 1 (1.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.96%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (59.70%) QA
2 5 (7.46%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (11.94%) Hyper-V
1 8 (11.94%) VMware NSX
1 8 (11.94%) vSphere
2 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (83.58%) Kubernetes
2 24 (35.82%) Terraform
3 13 (19.40%) Ansible
4 4 (5.97%) Kubeflow
5 3 (4.48%) Grafana
6 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (2.99%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.49%) Marathon
7 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (58.21%) Solace
2 8 (11.94%) 3PAR
2 8 (11.94%) Cisco
2 8 (11.94%) Juniper
2 8 (11.94%) Splunk
3 4 (5.97%) Databricks
4 2 (2.99%) AppDynamics
4 2 (2.99%) IBM
4 2 (2.99%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.99%) SAP
4 2 (2.99%) VMware
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft