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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 101 135
Rank change year-on-year -30 +34 -72
Permanent jobs citing Docker 59 82 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.88% 2.36% 1.06%
As % of the System Software category 15.53% 21.47% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 48 44 51
10th Percentile £45,125 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,688 £45,938 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,625 £90,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 380 382 667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.64% 10.98% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 294 267 533
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £24,807
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +16.88% -14.44%
75th Percentile £64,750 £59,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -27 27 £66,250 +20.45% 12
Hertfordshire -20 24 £62,500 +12.98% 5
Norfolk -27 4 £37,500 +1.35% 1
Suffolk +23 3 £50,000 +17.65% 3
Essex -22 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 2 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.69%) Apache
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.68%) AWS
2 23 (38.98%) Azure
3 19 (32.20%) GitHub
4 16 (27.12%) GitHub Copilot
5 10 (16.95%) Azure AI
6 6 (10.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (6.78%) GCP
7 4 (6.78%) Serverless
8 3 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.39%) SaaS
9 2 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.69%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (1.69%) Datadog
10 1 (1.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) MQTT
2 3 (5.08%) Broadband
2 3 (5.08%) Internet
3 2 (3.39%) Network Security
4 1 (1.69%) AMQP
4 1 (1.69%) DNS
4 1 (1.69%) Firewall
4 1 (1.69%) VLAN
4 1 (1.69%) VPN
4 1 (1.69%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (30.51%) MongoDB
2 16 (27.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (20.34%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (10.17%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (10.17%) MySQL
5 3 (5.08%) Redis
6 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.39%) Power BI
6 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.69%) Airbyte
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.69%) Big Data
7 1 (1.69%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.69%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.69%) Power Query
7 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Git
2 1 (1.69%) GitLab
2 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 7 (11.86%) Finance
1 7 (11.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (6.78%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.08%) Electronics
4 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Games
5 1 (1.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (50.85%) Developer
2 21 (35.59%) Senior
3 16 (27.12%) .NET Developer
4 12 (20.34%) Senior Developer
5 8 (13.56%) Software Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Python Developer
6 6 (10.17%) Robotics Software Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Senior Python Developer
6 6 (10.17%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 5 (8.47%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
8 4 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) C++ Software Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Data Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Junior
9 3 (5.08%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (28.81%) .NET
1 17 (28.81%) .NET Core
2 16 (27.12%) ASP.NET
2 16 (27.12%) ASP.NET Core
2 16 (27.12%) CSS
2 16 (27.12%) HTML
3 13 (22.03%) Node.js
4 10 (16.95%) ML.NET
5 8 (13.56%) FastAPI
5 8 (13.56%) Kafka
5 8 (13.56%) RESTful
6 7 (11.86%) .NET Framework
6 7 (11.86%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (10.17%) AngularJS
7 6 (10.17%) OpenAPI
7 6 (10.17%) Swagger
7 6 (10.17%) Vue
8 5 (8.47%) React
8 5 (8.47%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (3.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.86%) Digital TV
2 7 (11.86%) Robotics
3 5 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.47%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.39%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.39%) Over-the-Top Content
5 2 (3.39%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.03%) Linux
2 6 (10.17%) Ubuntu
3 3 (5.08%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (5.08%) Windows
4 1 (1.69%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.69%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (57.63%) CI/CD
2 27 (45.76%) Full-Stack Development
3 19 (32.20%) Machine Learning
4 18 (30.51%) AI
5 17 (28.81%) Containerisation
6 15 (25.42%) Agile
6 15 (25.42%) Software Engineering
7 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (20.34%) Scrum
9 11 (18.64%) Microservices
10 9 (15.25%) Continuous Delivery
10 9 (15.25%) DevOps
10 9 (15.25%) Kanban
11 8 (13.56%) Clean Code
12 7 (11.86%) Acceptance Criteria
12 7 (11.86%) API Design
12 7 (11.86%) Collaborative Culture
12 7 (11.86%) Event-Driven
12 7 (11.86%) Observability
12 7 (11.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 25 (42.37%) SQL
2 23 (38.98%) Python
3 17 (28.81%) TypeScript
4 16 (27.12%) C#
5 7 (11.86%) C++
5 7 (11.86%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.47%) Bash
6 5 (8.47%) PowerShell
6 5 (8.47%) Ruby
7 2 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.39%) Go
7 2 (3.39%) Scala
8 1 (1.69%) Java
8 1 (1.69%) PHP
8 1 (1.69%) R
8 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.78%) Degree
2 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.69%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.69%) HND
3 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) QA
Systems Management
1 35 (59.32%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.56%) Terraform
3 2 (3.39%) Grafana
3 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.69%) Ansible
4 1 (1.69%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (30.51%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.39%) Typelevel
3 1 (1.69%) New Relic
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle