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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 68 89
Rank change year-on-year -68 +21 -54
Permanent jobs citing Docker 22 42 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.52% 2.85% 2.55%
As % of the System Software category 10.84% 20.19% 19.15%
Number of salaries quoted 21 39 93
10th Percentile £48,750 - £37,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £45,000 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £69,250 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £68,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,310 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.28% +10.71% -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 203 208 543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.81% 14.12% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 173 194 486
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,075 £24,240
25th Percentile £28,500 £26,750 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £50,250 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £64,000 £62,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £51,375 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.59% +10.00% -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 18 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 18 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 -16 14 £67,500 +31.07% 7
Derbyshire -39 6 £52,500 +16.67% 3
Northamptonshire -14 1 £70,000 +20.69% 5
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 10 (45.45%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 14 (63.64%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (45.45%) npm
3 10 (45.45%) NuGet
3 10 (45.45%) SonarCloud
4 7 (31.82%) AWS
5 2 (9.09%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.55%) Pulumi
6 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 8 (36.36%) SQL Server
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database
4 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Jaeger
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) JUnit
2 1 (4.55%) Selenium
2 1 (4.55%) Subversion
2 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (13.64%) Retail
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (45.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 10 (45.45%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (45.45%) Senior
3 9 (40.91%) Senior DevOps
3 9 (40.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 6 (27.27%) Lead
5 3 (13.64%) Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (13.64%) IT Support
5 3 (13.64%) Lead DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Technical Leader
5 3 (13.64%) Technical Support
6 2 (9.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (59.09%) React
2 12 (54.55%) .NET
2 12 (54.55%) Node.js
3 10 (45.45%) YAML
4 7 (31.82%) .NET Framework
5 5 (22.73%) .NET Core
6 4 (18.18%) ASP.NET
6 4 (18.18%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (13.64%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (9.09%) Django
8 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (9.09%) Flask
9 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
9 1 (4.55%) pytest
9 1 (4.55%) REST
9 1 (4.55%) Spring
9 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 16 (72.73%) Linux
2 13 (59.09%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) DevOps
2 16 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 15 (68.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (59.09%) DevSecOps
5 12 (54.55%) Containerisation
6 11 (50.00%) Microservices
6 11 (50.00%) Test Automation
7 8 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (31.82%) Mentoring
8 7 (31.82%) Migration
9 6 (27.27%) Agile
10 5 (22.73%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (18.18%) High Availability
12 3 (13.64%) Coaching
12 3 (13.64%) Line Management
12 3 (13.64%) Project Delivery
12 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
12 3 (13.64%) Volume Testing
13 2 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Bash
2 11 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 10 (45.45%) C#
4 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 4 (18.18%) Python
4 4 (18.18%) SQL
5 2 (9.09%) Go
5 2 (9.09%) Java
6 1 (4.55%) Bicep
6 1 (4.55%) Delphi
6 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 19 (86.36%) Kubernetes
2 15 (68.18%) Terraform
3 3 (13.64%) Grafana
4 2 (9.09%) Ansible
5 1 (4.55%) Argo
5 1 (4.55%) Kustomize
5 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft