Docker Job Trends in the East of England

Docker
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 110 100
Rank change year-on-year -28 -10 -59
Permanent jobs citing Docker 72 62 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.86% 1.87% 1.75%
As % of the System Software category 15.35% 17.51% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 62 26 22
10th Percentile £46,375 £42,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,813 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -4.17% -16.08%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £77,813
90th Percentile £82,250 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £71,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.93% +1.43% -3.45%

All System Software Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 469 354 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.61% 10.69% 11.12%
Number of salaries quoted 337 237 249
10th Percentile £26,900 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £45,000 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.12% +4.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £69,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docker relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Docker job vacancy trend in the East of England

Docker
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in the East of England

Docker
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Hertfordshire -15 33 £72,500 +38.10% 9
Cambridgeshire -20 26 £67,500 +12.50% 49
Suffolk +17 9 £50,000 +17.65% 17
Bedfordshire -33 2 £42,500 -15.00% 4
Norfolk -28 1 £45,000 - 3
Essex -32 1 - - 3
Docker
England

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.78%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 44 (61.11%) Azure
2 22 (30.56%) Azure Service Bus
3 21 (29.17%) AWS
4 18 (25.00%) GitHub
5 16 (22.22%) GitHub Copilot
6 9 (12.50%) Azure AI
6 9 (12.50%) GCP
7 5 (6.94%) Serverless
8 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.56%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.39%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.39%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.39%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (1.39%) dbt
10 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (27.78%) MQTT
2 3 (4.17%) Internet
3 2 (2.78%) 4G
3 2 (2.78%) 5G
3 2 (2.78%) DNS
3 2 (2.78%) HTTP
3 2 (2.78%) SSH
3 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.39%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 18 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 10 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (11.11%) MySQL
4 7 (9.72%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.94%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (6.94%) Redis
6 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.78%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (2.78%) Spatial Data
8 1 (1.39%) Airbyte
8 1 (1.39%) Big Data
8 1 (1.39%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.39%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.39%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.39%) Power BI
8 1 (1.39%) Power Query
8 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (19.44%) Git
2 6 (8.33%) GitLab
3 4 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.78%) Selenium
General
1 9 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.33%) Finance
3 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.17%) Electronics
5 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.78%) Law
5 2 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (56.94%) Developer
2 31 (43.06%) Senior
3 18 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 18 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 16 (22.22%) Python Developer
5 14 (19.44%) .NET Developer
6 13 (18.06%) Senior Python Developer
7 11 (15.28%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (12.50%) Python Engineer
9 8 (11.11%) Python Software Engineer
10 6 (8.33%) Robotics Software Engineer
11 5 (6.94%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 5 (6.94%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
12 4 (5.56%) Software Developer
13 3 (4.17%) C++ Software Engineer
13 3 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
13 3 (4.17%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
13 3 (4.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 2 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
14 2 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (38.89%) RESTful
2 25 (34.72%) FastAPI
3 23 (31.94%) Kafka
3 23 (31.94%) RabbitMQ
4 20 (27.78%) OpenAPI
4 20 (27.78%) Swagger
5 18 (25.00%) .NET
6 16 (22.22%) CSS
6 16 (22.22%) HTML
7 14 (19.44%) .NET Core
7 14 (19.44%) ASP.NET
7 14 (19.44%) ASP.NET Core
8 9 (12.50%) ML.NET
8 9 (12.50%) Node.js
9 7 (9.72%) Terraform
10 6 (8.33%) Flask
10 6 (8.33%) React
11 5 (6.94%) AngularJS
11 5 (6.94%) REST
11 5 (6.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (31.94%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.72%) Robotics
3 6 (8.33%) Digital TV
4 4 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Life Science
6 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.06%) Linux
2 5 (6.94%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.17%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.39%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (52.78%) CI/CD
2 30 (41.67%) Containerisation
2 30 (41.67%) Software Engineering
3 25 (34.72%) Full-Stack Development
4 24 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 22 (30.56%) Clean Code
5 22 (30.56%) Validation
6 21 (29.17%) Agile
6 21 (29.17%) Mentoring
7 20 (27.78%) Acceptance Criteria
7 20 (27.78%) API Design
7 20 (27.78%) Continuous Delivery
7 20 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (27.78%) Roadmaps
8 19 (26.39%) AI
9 17 (23.61%) Machine Learning
10 14 (19.44%) DevOps
11 13 (18.06%) Microservices
11 13 (18.06%) Scrum
12 9 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (51.39%) Python
2 26 (36.11%) SQL
3 21 (29.17%) C#
4 14 (19.44%) TypeScript
5 12 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 9 (12.50%) C++
7 5 (6.94%) Bash
7 5 (6.94%) Java
7 5 (6.94%) Ruby
8 3 (4.17%) PHP
8 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.17%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.39%) C
9 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.39%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.39%) Rust
9 1 (1.39%) Scala
9 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.39%) HND
2 1 (1.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 48 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.78%) Grafana
2 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.39%) Databricks
2 1 (1.39%) Google