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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 108 105
Rank change year-on-year -26 -3 -64
Permanent jobs citing Docker 80 63 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.95% 1.90% 1.78%
As % of the System Software category 16.49% 17.75% 15.79%
Number of salaries quoted 68 27 21
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -4.17% -16.08%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £74,500 £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 485 355 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.74% 10.71% 11.27%
Number of salaries quoted 347 239 248
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £59,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £69,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -6 36 £72,500 +38.10% 9
Cambridgeshire -20 29 £67,500 +12.50% 44
Suffolk +21 10 £50,000 +17.65% 14
Bedfordshire -31 3 £42,500 -15.00% 6
Essex -27 1 - - 3
Norfolk -33 1 £45,000 - 3
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 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.50%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.25%) Camunda
2 1 (1.25%) Ethereum
2 1 (1.25%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.25%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.25%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 47 (58.75%) Azure
2 23 (28.75%) Azure Service Bus
3 22 (27.50%) AWS
4 19 (23.75%) GitHub
5 17 (21.25%) GitHub Copilot
6 10 (12.50%) Azure AI
6 10 (12.50%) GCP
7 5 (6.25%) Serverless
8 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.00%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.25%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (1.25%) dbt
10 1 (1.25%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (26.25%) MQTT
2 4 (5.00%) Internet
3 2 (2.50%) 4G
3 2 (2.50%) 5G
3 2 (2.50%) DNS
3 2 (2.50%) HTTP
3 2 (2.50%) SSH
3 2 (2.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (23.75%) Azure SQL Database
1 19 (23.75%) MongoDB
2 10 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.00%) MySQL
4 7 (8.75%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (6.25%) Redis
6 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.50%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (2.50%) Spatial Data
8 1 (1.25%) Airbyte
8 1 (1.25%) Big Data
8 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.25%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.25%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.25%) Power BI
8 1 (1.25%) Power Query
8 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (21.25%) Git
2 7 (8.75%) GitLab
3 5 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.50%) Selenium
5 1 (1.25%) JIRA
5 1 (1.25%) Rational DOORS
General
1 10 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.75%) Finance
3 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.75%) Electronics
5 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.50%) Law
5 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (57.50%) Developer
2 31 (38.75%) Senior
3 20 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 19 (23.75%) Python Developer
5 18 (22.50%) Senior Developer
6 15 (18.75%) .NET Developer
7 13 (16.25%) Senior Python Developer
8 11 (13.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (12.50%) Python Engineer
10 9 (11.25%) Python Software Engineer
11 6 (7.50%) Robotics Software Engineer
12 5 (6.25%) Ruby on Rails Developer
12 5 (6.25%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
13 4 (5.00%) Software Developer
14 3 (3.75%) C++ Software Engineer
14 3 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
14 3 (3.75%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
14 3 (3.75%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 2 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 2 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (36.25%) RESTful
2 26 (32.50%) FastAPI
3 25 (31.25%) Kafka
3 25 (31.25%) RabbitMQ
4 21 (26.25%) OpenAPI
4 21 (26.25%) Swagger
5 19 (23.75%) .NET
6 17 (21.25%) CSS
6 17 (21.25%) HTML
7 15 (18.75%) .NET Core
7 15 (18.75%) ASP.NET
7 15 (18.75%) ASP.NET Core
8 10 (12.50%) ML.NET
9 9 (11.25%) Node.js
10 7 (8.75%) REST
10 7 (8.75%) Terraform
11 6 (7.50%) Flask
11 6 (7.50%) React
12 5 (6.25%) AngularJS
12 5 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.75%) Robotics
3 6 (7.50%) Digital TV
4 5 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.25%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.25%) Linux
2 5 (6.25%) Ubuntu
3 3 (3.75%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.25%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 35 (43.75%) Software Engineering
3 31 (38.75%) Containerisation
4 27 (33.75%) Event-Driven
4 27 (33.75%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (30.00%) AI
5 24 (30.00%) Validation
6 23 (28.75%) Agile
6 23 (28.75%) Clean Code
7 22 (27.50%) Mentoring
7 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (26.25%) Acceptance Criteria
8 21 (26.25%) API Design
8 21 (26.25%) Continuous Delivery
8 21 (26.25%) Roadmaps
9 18 (22.50%) Machine Learning
10 15 (18.75%) DevOps
11 14 (17.50%) Microservices
11 14 (17.50%) Scrum
12 9 (11.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (53.75%) Python
2 27 (33.75%) SQL
3 22 (27.50%) C#
4 15 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 15 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 12 (15.00%) C++
6 6 (7.50%) Java
7 5 (6.25%) Bash
7 5 (6.25%) Ruby
8 4 (5.00%) Rust
9 3 (3.75%) PHP
9 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.75%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.25%) C
10 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.25%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.25%) Scala
10 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.25%) HND
2 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 52 (65.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.50%) Grafana
2 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.25%) Ansible
3 1 (1.25%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 19 (23.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.25%) Databricks
2 1 (1.25%) Google
2 1 (1.25%) HP
2 1 (1.25%) IBM