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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 82 118
Rank change year-on-year -77 +36 -48
Permanent jobs citing Docker 27 85 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.43% 3.10% 1.91%
As % of the System Software category 11.07% 23.04% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 15 66 102
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £73,125 £70,625 £91,875
90th Percentile £82,250 £82,500 £93,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% -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 244 369 864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 3.85% 13.46% 14.25%
Number of salaries quoted 175 292 724
10th Percentile £27,850 £25,500 £24,888
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -13.98%
75th Percentile £61,875 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,500 £72,450 £67,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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
Cambridgeshire -41 11 £65,000 +9.70% 9
Hertfordshire -44 9 £61,250 +10.72% 7
Norfolk -16 3 £37,500 +1.35% 1
Essex -48 2 - -
Suffolk +10 1 - -
Bedfordshire +3 1 - - 1
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 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) GitHub
3 6 (22.22%) Azure
4 4 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (14.81%) Serverless
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 3 (11.11%) GCP
5 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (7.41%) Azure AI
6 2 (7.41%) Datadog
6 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (7.41%) SaaS
6 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Broadband
2 2 (7.41%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) Network Security
3 1 (3.70%) AMQP
3 1 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) HTTP
3 1 (3.70%) MQTT
3 1 (3.70%) VLAN
3 1 (3.70%) VPN
3 1 (3.70%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.81%) MongoDB
3 3 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (11.11%) Redis
4 2 (7.41%) MySQL
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.70%) Big Data
5 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.70%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (3.70%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (3.70%) InfluxDB
5 1 (3.70%) Metadata
5 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Power BI
5 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
2 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 6 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Electronics
3 2 (7.41%) Marketing
3 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Billing
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Games
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Administrator
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Junior
4 3 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (7.41%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Junior Systems Administrator
5 2 (7.41%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) Node.js
2 5 (18.52%) .NET
2 5 (18.52%) React
3 4 (14.81%) .NET Core
3 4 (14.81%) REST
4 3 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 3 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 3 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (11.11%) CSS
4 3 (11.11%) FastAPI
4 3 (11.11%) HTML
5 2 (7.41%) Django
5 2 (7.41%) gRPC
5 2 (7.41%) JSON
5 2 (7.41%) LangGraph
5 2 (7.41%) ML.NET
6 1 (3.70%) Kafka
6 1 (3.70%) RESTful
6 1 (3.70%) Spring
6 1 (3.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
1 4 (14.81%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.41%) AI Agents
3 2 (7.41%) Digital TV
3 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.41%) Over-the-Top Content
3 2 (7.41%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.70%) IoT
4 1 (3.70%) Linked Data
4 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.70%) Semantic Web
4 1 (3.70%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
2 4 (14.81%) Windows
3 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) CI/CD
2 11 (40.74%) Containerisation
3 10 (37.04%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (29.63%) Machine Learning
4 8 (29.63%) Software Engineering
5 7 (25.93%) AI
5 7 (25.93%) Microservices
6 6 (22.22%) B2B
6 6 (22.22%) B2C
6 6 (22.22%) DevOps
7 5 (18.52%) Agile
7 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (18.52%) Observability
7 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
8 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
8 3 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (11.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
2 12 (44.44%) SQL
3 7 (25.93%) TypeScript
4 5 (18.52%) Bash
5 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
6 3 (11.11%) C#
7 2 (7.41%) Go
7 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
7 2 (7.41%) Scala
8 1 (3.70%) C++
8 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (3.70%) R
8 1 (3.70%) Rust
8 1 (3.70%) SHACL
8 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.70%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (18.52%) Terraform
3 3 (11.11%) Grafana
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.70%) Ansible
5 1 (3.70%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Typelevel
3 1 (3.70%) New Relic
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) SAP