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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 110 114
Rank change year-on-year -23 +4 -62
Permanent jobs citing Docker 69 66 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.87% 1.94% 1.11%
As % of the System Software category 15.00% 17.98% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 57 28 26
10th Percentile £46,250 £39,625 £54,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £74,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +6.62% -6.21%

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 460 367 437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.79% 10.77% 9.86%
Number of salaries quoted 355 251 264
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £26,075
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £64,875 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £68,525
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -12.84% -0.91%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -11 29 £72,500 +31.82% 11
Cambridgeshire -23 25 £67,500 +12.50% 46
Suffolk +19 10 £50,000 +17.65% 19
Bedfordshire -18 2 £42,500 -15.00% 1
Norfolk -28 2 £41,250 - 1
Essex -29 1 - - 5
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 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.90%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 35 (50.72%) Azure
2 20 (28.99%) AWS
3 16 (23.19%) Azure Service Bus
3 16 (23.19%) GitHub
3 16 (23.19%) GitHub Copilot
4 9 (13.04%) Azure AI
5 6 (8.70%) GCP
6 5 (7.25%) Serverless
7 4 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.80%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.45%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (1.45%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.45%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (1.45%) dbt
9 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.45%) SaaS
9 1 (1.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (20.29%) MQTT
2 3 (4.35%) DNS
2 3 (4.35%) Internet
3 2 (2.90%) 4G
3 2 (2.90%) 5G
3 2 (2.90%) Broadband
3 2 (2.90%) HTTP
3 2 (2.90%) SSH
3 2 (2.90%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.45%) Firewall
4 1 (1.45%) VLAN
4 1 (1.45%) VPN
4 1 (1.45%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (26.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 18 (26.09%) MongoDB
2 11 (15.94%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (11.59%) MySQL
4 6 (8.70%) Relational Database
5 5 (7.25%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (5.80%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.80%) Redis
7 1 (1.45%) Airbyte
7 1 (1.45%) Big Data
7 1 (1.45%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.45%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.45%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.45%) Power BI
7 1 (1.45%) Power Query
7 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (15.94%) Git
2 4 (5.80%) GitLab
2 4 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.90%) Selenium
General
1 8 (11.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (7.25%) Finance
4 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.35%) Electronics
5 3 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Law
6 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (59.42%) Developer
2 27 (39.13%) Senior
3 17 (24.64%) Senior Developer
4 15 (21.74%) Python Developer
5 14 (20.29%) .NET Developer
6 12 (17.39%) Senior Python Developer
7 11 (15.94%) Software Engineer
8 7 (10.14%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (8.70%) Robotics Software Engineer
10 5 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (7.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (7.25%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 5 (7.25%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
11 4 (5.80%) Software Developer
12 3 (4.35%) C++ Software Engineer
12 3 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (4.35%) Python Engineer
12 3 (4.35%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 3 (4.35%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 2 (2.90%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.99%) RESTful
2 18 (26.09%) .NET
2 18 (26.09%) FastAPI
3 17 (24.64%) Kafka
3 17 (24.64%) RabbitMQ
4 16 (23.19%) CSS
4 16 (23.19%) HTML
5 14 (20.29%) .NET Core
5 14 (20.29%) ASP.NET
5 14 (20.29%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (20.29%) OpenAPI
5 14 (20.29%) Swagger
6 11 (15.94%) Node.js
7 9 (13.04%) ML.NET
8 8 (11.59%) React
9 6 (8.70%) Terraform
10 5 (7.25%) .NET Framework
10 5 (7.25%) AngularJS
10 5 (7.25%) Ruby on Rails
10 5 (7.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (24.64%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.14%) Robotics
3 6 (8.70%) Digital TV
4 5 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (7.25%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.45%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.45%) Life Science
6 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.45%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.29%) Linux
2 6 (8.70%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.35%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (2.90%) Windows
5 1 (1.45%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.45%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (55.07%) CI/CD
2 27 (39.13%) Full-Stack Development
3 24 (34.78%) Containerisation
3 24 (34.78%) Software Engineering
4 20 (28.99%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (27.54%) Agile
5 19 (27.54%) AI
6 18 (26.09%) Clean Code
6 18 (26.09%) Event-Driven
7 17 (24.64%) Machine Learning
8 16 (23.19%) Continuous Delivery
8 16 (23.19%) Validation
9 15 (21.74%) Acceptance Criteria
9 15 (21.74%) Mentoring
9 15 (21.74%) Roadmaps
10 14 (20.29%) API Design
11 13 (18.84%) DevOps
11 13 (18.84%) Scrum
12 12 (17.39%) Microservices
13 8 (11.59%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 31 (44.93%) Python
2 28 (40.58%) SQL
3 21 (30.43%) C#
4 16 (23.19%) TypeScript
5 11 (15.94%) JavaScript
6 8 (11.59%) C++
7 5 (7.25%) Bash
7 5 (7.25%) Java
7 5 (7.25%) Ruby
8 4 (5.80%) PowerShell
9 3 (4.35%) PHP
9 3 (4.35%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.90%) Scala
11 1 (1.45%) C
11 1 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.45%) Go
11 1 (1.45%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (5.80%) Degree
2 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.45%) HND
2 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) QA
Systems Management
1 43 (62.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.90%) Grafana
2 2 (2.90%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.45%) Ansible
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.45%) Podman
Vendors
1 19 (27.54%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.45%) Databricks
2 1 (1.45%) Google
2 1 (1.45%) Typelevel