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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 64 97
Rank change year-on-year -63 +33 -52
Permanent jobs citing Docker 33 75 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.71% 3.89% 2.15%
As % of the System Software category 14.47% 29.07% 17.91%
Number of salaries quoted 28 25 87
10th Percentile £42,500 - £39,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.08% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,500 £70,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -3.45%

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 228 258 564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.88% 13.39% 12.03%
Number of salaries quoted 196 198 498
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £24,240
25th Percentile £29,625 £26,750 £28,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £33,750 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -15.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £55,500 £47,125 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £60,375 £62,888
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -24 15 £67,500 +21.08% 3
Derbyshire -28 9 £45,000 - 6
Northamptonshire -11 6 £70,000 - 2
Nottinghamshire -14 1 £60,000 - 3
Lincolnshire -24 1 £37,500 -48.28%
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 11 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (3.03%) CMS
2 1 (3.03%) Headless CMS
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 27 (81.82%) Azure
2 16 (48.48%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (42.42%) AWS
4 11 (33.33%) npm
4 11 (33.33%) NuGet
4 11 (33.33%) SonarCloud
5 8 (24.24%) GCP
6 3 (9.09%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.03%) Algolia
7 1 (3.03%) Azure AI
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.03%) GitHub
7 1 (3.03%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.03%) Pulumi
7 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Broadband
1 1 (3.03%) DHCP
1 1 (3.03%) DNS
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
1 1 (3.03%) VLAN
1 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (36.36%) NoSQL
2 9 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.06%) Redis
3 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.03%) KNIME
4 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (42.42%) Git
2 3 (9.09%) Subversion
3 1 (3.03%) Jaeger
3 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (3.03%) Vite
General
1 4 (12.12%) Retail
2 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.06%) Law
4 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (51.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 11 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (30.30%) Senior
3 10 (30.30%) Senior DevOps
3 10 (30.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Lead
5 4 (12.12%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (9.09%) Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Technical Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Software Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Technical Leader
8 1 (3.03%) .NET Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (51.52%) .NET
2 15 (45.45%) React
3 14 (42.42%) Node.js
4 11 (33.33%) YAML
5 8 (24.24%) .NET Framework
6 6 (18.18%) .NET Core
6 6 (18.18%) ASP.NET
6 6 (18.18%) ASP.NET Core
6 6 (18.18%) REST
7 3 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
8 2 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (3.03%) CSS
9 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (3.03%) Flask
9 1 (3.03%) Laravel
9 1 (3.03%) NumPy
9 1 (3.03%) Pandas
9 1 (3.03%) scikit-learn
9 1 (3.03%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.03%) Digital TV
3 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (51.52%) Linux
2 12 (36.36%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Alpine Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (78.79%) CI/CD
2 23 (69.70%) DevOps
3 20 (60.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (45.45%) DevSecOps
5 14 (42.42%) Microservices
5 14 (42.42%) Test Automation
6 12 (36.36%) Containerisation
7 10 (30.30%) Agile
8 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (21.21%) Migration
9 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (21.21%) Software Engineering
10 6 (18.18%) Roadmaps
11 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (15.15%) Observability
11 5 (15.15%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
12 4 (12.12%) AI
12 4 (12.12%) Data Modelling
12 4 (12.12%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) C#
2 13 (39.39%) Bash
2 13 (39.39%) PowerShell
3 10 (30.30%) JavaScript
4 7 (21.21%) Python
4 7 (21.21%) SQL
5 4 (12.12%) Go
5 4 (12.12%) Java
5 4 (12.12%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.06%) Bicep
7 1 (3.03%) PHP
7 1 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (78.79%) Kubernetes
2 19 (57.58%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Ansible
3 2 (6.06%) Grafana
3 2 (6.06%) Istio
4 1 (3.03%) Argo
4 1 (3.03%) Kustomize
4 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.06%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.03%) Google
4 1 (3.03%) WooCommerce