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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 108 119
Rank change year-on-year -27 +11 -64
Permanent jobs citing Docker 72 64 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.89% 1.90% 1.15%
As % of the System Software category 15.25% 17.88% 11.28%
Number of salaries quoted 58 26 27
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £54,500
25th Percentile £52,813 £47,813 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% -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 472 358 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.81% 10.62% 10.22%
Number of salaries quoted 358 242 269
10th Percentile £27,525 £27,000 £26,200
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,345 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,700 £69,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -12.73% -

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 20 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 20 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 -19 30 £72,500 +31.82% 15
Cambridgeshire -26 27 £67,500 +12.50% 50
Suffolk +20 10 £50,000 +17.65% 23
Bedfordshire -24 2 £42,500 -15.00%
Norfolk -30 2 £41,250 - 1
Essex -30 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 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.78%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 38 (52.78%) Azure
2 22 (30.56%) AWS
3 17 (23.61%) Azure Service Bus
3 17 (23.61%) GitHub
4 16 (22.22%) GitHub Copilot
5 9 (12.50%) Azure AI
6 8 (11.11%) GCP
7 5 (6.94%) Serverless
8 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.56%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.39%) Amazon Bedrock
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%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.39%) SaaS
10 1 (1.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (20.83%) MQTT
2 3 (4.17%) DNS
2 3 (4.17%) Internet
3 2 (2.78%) 4G
3 2 (2.78%) 5G
3 2 (2.78%) Broadband
3 2 (2.78%) HTTP
3 2 (2.78%) SSH
3 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.39%) Firewall
4 1 (1.39%) VLAN
4 1 (1.39%) VPN
4 1 (1.39%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 18 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 12 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (11.11%) MySQL
4 6 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.94%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (6.94%) Redis
6 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.39%) Big Data
7 1 (1.39%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.39%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.39%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.39%) Power BI
7 1 (1.39%) Power Query
7 1 (1.39%) Spatial Data
7 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (18.06%) Git
2 5 (6.94%) GitLab
3 4 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.78%) Selenium
General
1 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.94%) Finance
4 3 (4.17%) Electronics
4 3 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Law
5 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (58.33%) Developer
2 28 (38.89%) Senior
3 18 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 16 (22.22%) Python Developer
5 14 (19.44%) .NET Developer
6 13 (18.06%) Senior Python Developer
7 12 (16.67%) Software Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (8.33%) Robotics Software Engineer
10 5 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (6.94%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 5 (6.94%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
11 4 (5.56%) Python Engineer
11 4 (5.56%) Software Developer
12 3 (4.17%) C++ Software Engineer
12 3 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (4.17%) Python Software Engineer
12 3 (4.17%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 3 (4.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (30.56%) RESTful
2 20 (27.78%) FastAPI
3 18 (25.00%) .NET
3 18 (25.00%) Kafka
3 18 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
4 16 (22.22%) CSS
4 16 (22.22%) HTML
5 15 (20.83%) OpenAPI
5 15 (20.83%) Swagger
6 14 (19.44%) .NET Core
6 14 (19.44%) ASP.NET
6 14 (19.44%) ASP.NET Core
7 11 (15.28%) Node.js
8 9 (12.50%) ML.NET
9 8 (11.11%) React
10 6 (8.33%) Terraform
11 5 (6.94%) .NET Framework
11 5 (6.94%) AngularJS
11 5 (6.94%) Ruby on Rails
11 5 (6.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.72%) Robotics
3 6 (8.33%) Digital TV
4 5 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.94%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.39%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Life Science
6 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.39%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.44%) Linux
2 6 (8.33%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.17%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (2.78%) Windows
5 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.39%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 27 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 26 (36.11%) Containerisation
4 25 (34.72%) Software Engineering
5 21 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (27.78%) Agile
6 20 (27.78%) AI
7 19 (26.39%) Clean Code
7 19 (26.39%) Event-Driven
7 19 (26.39%) Machine Learning
8 17 (23.61%) Continuous Delivery
8 17 (23.61%) Mentoring
8 17 (23.61%) Validation
9 16 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
9 16 (22.22%) Roadmaps
10 15 (20.83%) API Design
11 13 (18.06%) DevOps
11 13 (18.06%) Microservices
11 13 (18.06%) Scrum
12 8 (11.11%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 34 (47.22%) Python
2 28 (38.89%) SQL
3 21 (29.17%) C#
4 16 (22.22%) 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 4 (5.56%) PowerShell
9 3 (4.17%) PHP
9 3 (4.17%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.78%) Scala
11 1 (1.39%) C
11 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.39%) Go
11 1 (1.39%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.39%) Rust
11 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 44 (61.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.78%) Grafana
2 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.39%) Ansible
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.39%) Podman
Vendors
1 19 (26.39%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.39%) Databricks
2 1 (1.39%) Google
2 1 (1.39%) Typelevel