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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 108 126
Rank change year-on-year -23 +18 -69
Permanent jobs citing Docker 71 66 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.91% 1.94% 1.01%
As % of the System Software category 15.17% 18.44% 10.45%
Number of salaries quoted 59 28 27
10th Percentile £46,250 £39,625 £49,750
25th Percentile £53,125 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -6.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £73,750 £63,125 £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% -8.72%

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 468 358 421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.00% 10.53% 9.62%
Number of salaries quoted 363 250 270
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £26,000
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% -5.56%
75th Percentile £64,750 £59,125 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £68,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £53,050
% change year-on-year +15.79% -10.46% -3.55%

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 8 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 8 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 -14 31 £72,500 +31.82% 12
Cambridgeshire -19 25 £67,500 +13.92% 37
Suffolk +17 10 £50,000 +17.65% 13
Bedfordshire -20 2 £42,500 -15.00% 1
Norfolk -32 2 £41,250 - 2
Essex -31 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 3 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.82%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.82%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.41%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 36 (50.70%) Azure
2 23 (32.39%) AWS
3 19 (26.76%) GitHub
4 18 (25.35%) GitHub Copilot
5 15 (21.13%) Azure Service Bus
6 10 (14.08%) Azure AI
7 7 (9.86%) GCP
8 6 (8.45%) Serverless
9 4 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.63%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.82%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.41%) Datadog
11 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.31%) MQTT
2 3 (4.23%) Broadband
2 3 (4.23%) DNS
2 3 (4.23%) Internet
3 2 (2.82%) 4G
3 2 (2.82%) 5G
3 2 (2.82%) HTTP
3 2 (2.82%) SSH
3 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.41%) Firewall
4 1 (1.41%) VLAN
4 1 (1.41%) VPN
4 1 (1.41%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.17%) Azure SQL Database
1 20 (28.17%) MongoDB
2 11 (15.49%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (11.27%) MySQL
4 6 (8.45%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (8.45%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.63%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.63%) Redis
6 2 (2.82%) Big Data
6 2 (2.82%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (2.82%) Power BI
7 1 (1.41%) Airbyte
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.41%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.41%) Power Query
7 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (15.49%) Git
2 5 (7.04%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.63%) GitLab
4 2 (2.82%) Selenium
5 1 (1.41%) JIRA
General
1 7 (9.86%) Finance
1 7 (9.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.23%) Electronics
4 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Law
5 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 41 (57.75%) Developer
2 26 (36.62%) Senior
3 16 (22.54%) .NET Developer
3 16 (22.54%) Senior Developer
4 13 (18.31%) Python Developer
5 11 (15.49%) Senior Python Developer
5 11 (15.49%) Software Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Robotics Software Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 5 (7.04%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
9 4 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Software Developer
10 3 (4.23%) C++ Software Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Data Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Python Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.17%) .NET
2 19 (26.76%) RESTful
3 17 (23.94%) CSS
3 17 (23.94%) FastAPI
3 17 (23.94%) HTML
4 16 (22.54%) .NET Core
4 16 (22.54%) ASP.NET
4 16 (22.54%) ASP.NET Core
4 16 (22.54%) Kafka
4 16 (22.54%) RabbitMQ
5 13 (18.31%) OpenAPI
5 13 (18.31%) Swagger
6 12 (16.90%) Node.js
7 10 (14.08%) ML.NET
8 8 (11.27%) React
9 7 (9.86%) Terraform
10 6 (8.45%) .NET Framework
10 6 (8.45%) AngularJS
10 6 (8.45%) Vue
11 5 (7.04%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.94%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.86%) Digital TV
2 7 (9.86%) Robotics
3 6 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (7.04%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.82%) Over-the-Top Content
5 2 (2.82%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.41%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.41%) Life Science
6 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.72%) Linux
2 6 (8.45%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.23%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (2.82%) Windows
5 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.41%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (56.34%) CI/CD
2 29 (40.85%) Full-Stack Development
3 25 (35.21%) Software Engineering
4 24 (33.80%) Containerisation
5 21 (29.58%) Agile
6 20 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (26.76%) AI
8 18 (25.35%) Machine Learning
9 17 (23.94%) Clean Code
9 17 (23.94%) Event-Driven
10 16 (22.54%) Continuous Delivery
11 15 (21.13%) Validation
12 14 (19.72%) Acceptance Criteria
12 14 (19.72%) DevOps
12 14 (19.72%) Mentoring
12 14 (19.72%) Microservices
12 14 (19.72%) Roadmaps
12 14 (19.72%) Scrum
13 13 (18.31%) API Design
14 9 (12.68%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 31 (43.66%) Python
1 31 (43.66%) SQL
2 23 (32.39%) C#
3 17 (23.94%) TypeScript
4 11 (15.49%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.27%) C++
6 5 (7.04%) Bash
6 5 (7.04%) Java
6 5 (7.04%) Ruby
7 4 (5.63%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.23%) PHP
8 3 (4.23%) Scala
8 3 (4.23%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.82%) Go
10 1 (1.41%) C
10 1 (1.41%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (5.63%) Degree
2 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.41%) HND
2 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) QA
Systems Management
1 44 (61.97%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.23%) Grafana
3 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.41%) Ansible
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 21 (29.58%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.82%) Typelevel
3 1 (1.41%) Databricks
3 1 (1.41%) Google