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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 80 48
Rank change year-on-year -50 -32 +7
Permanent jobs citing Docker 28 107 94
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.68% 2.98% 4.42%
As % of the System Software category 10.04% 20.54% 21.96%
Number of salaries quoted 25 39 90
10th Percentile £41,750 £47,500 £57,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £54,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year - -24.59% +5.90%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £93,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -6.67%

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 279 521 428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.73% 14.49% 20.10%
Number of salaries quoted 210 298 334
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,094 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £58,750 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £85,525
England median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire +2 16 £60,000 -11.11% 14
Hertfordshire -12 5 £52,500 -34.38% 7
Suffolk -14 3 £42,500 -
Bedfordshire +14 2 £47,500 -5.00% 3
Essex -36 2 £42,500 -26.09% 7
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 (10.71%) Apache Solr
2 1 (3.57%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 18 (64.29%) AWS
2 15 (53.57%) Azure
3 5 (17.86%) GCP
4 4 (14.29%) GitHub
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (10.71%) SaaS
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.57%) Cloudflare
7 1 (3.57%) Datadog
7 1 (3.57%) Figma
7 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) HTTP
1 1 (3.57%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 4 (14.29%) MySQL
1 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) Big Data
2 3 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (10.71%) Redis
3 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 2 (7.14%) Neo4j
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.57%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (3.57%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
4 1 (3.57%) Metadata
4 1 (3.57%) Parquet
4 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Git
2 7 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.14%) GitLab
3 2 (7.14%) JMeter
3 2 (7.14%) MSTest
3 2 (7.14%) NUnit
3 2 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (7.14%) Postman
3 2 (7.14%) Selenium
3 2 (7.14%) SpecFlow
3 2 (7.14%) TeamCity
3 2 (7.14%) TestNG
4 1 (3.57%) CircleCI
4 1 (3.57%) gulp
4 1 (3.57%) webpack
General
1 4 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Law
2 3 (10.71%) Retail
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Electronics
4 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.57%) Billing
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
4 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (14.29%) Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) .NET Development Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Backend Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Development Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Integration Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Junior
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Development Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Software Development Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) .NET
2 7 (25.00%) React
3 5 (17.86%) REST
4 3 (10.71%) JSON
4 3 (10.71%) Node.js
4 3 (10.71%) Playwright
5 2 (7.14%) .NET Core
5 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
5 2 (7.14%) HTML
5 2 (7.14%) Kafka
5 2 (7.14%) RESTful
5 2 (7.14%) Spring
5 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.57%) CSS
6 1 (3.57%) Django
6 1 (3.57%) Laravel
6 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.57%) Sass
6 1 (3.57%) Three.js
6 1 (3.57%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.57%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (3.57%) IoT
3 1 (3.57%) Life Science
3 1 (3.57%) Linked Data
3 1 (3.57%) Omics
3 1 (3.57%) Semantic Web
3 1 (3.57%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (14.29%) Windows
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Containerisation
2 16 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 11 (39.29%) Agile
3 11 (39.29%) DevOps
4 8 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 8 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 6 (21.43%) AI
5 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.86%) Microservices
7 4 (14.29%) API Testing
7 4 (14.29%) ETL
7 4 (14.29%) Machine Learning
7 4 (14.29%) Security Testing
8 3 (10.71%) Natural Language Processing
8 3 (10.71%) Project Management
8 3 (10.71%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 10 (35.71%) SQL
3 8 (28.57%) C#
4 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 3 (10.71%) Bash
6 3 (10.71%) PHP
6 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
7 2 (7.14%) Java
8 1 (3.57%) C++
8 1 (3.57%) R
8 1 (3.57%) Rust
8 1 (3.57%) SHACL
8 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.57%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.14%) Degree
3 2 (7.14%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.57%) CDISC
3 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.57%) DICOM
3 1 (3.57%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.57%) HL7
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (46.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.29%) Ansible
2 4 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle
2 1 (3.57%) SAP