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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 67 109
Rank change year-on-year -81 +42 -39
Permanent jobs citing Docker 28 90 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.46% 3.47% 2.03%
As % of the System Software category 11.43% 23.50% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 18 71 108
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,813 £49,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% -14.81% +3.85%
75th Percentile £73,438 £73,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £93,750
England median annual salary £70,079 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.58% +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 245 383 864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.00% 14.78% 14.37%
Number of salaries quoted 183 304 727
10th Percentile £27,550 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% +15.63% -13.98%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,063 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £50,860 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.53% +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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -39 12 £67,500 +12.50% 16
Hertfordshire -39 8 £61,250 +6.52% 9
Norfolk -16 3 £37,500 +1.35% 3
Bedfordshire -3 2 £47,500 -5.00% 5
Essex -38 2 £42,500 -26.09% 3
Suffolk +4 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 (3.57%) Apache
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) GitHub
3 7 (25.00%) Azure
4 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (14.29%) Serverless
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
5 3 (10.71%) GCP
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (7.14%) Azure AI
6 2 (7.14%) Datadog
6 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (7.14%) SaaS
6 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Broadband
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
1 2 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (3.57%) AMQP
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) HTTP
2 1 (3.57%) MQTT
2 1 (3.57%) VLAN
2 1 (3.57%) VPN
2 1 (3.57%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (17.86%) Redis
3 3 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.57%) Big Data
5 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.57%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (3.57%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (3.57%) InfluxDB
5 1 (3.57%) Metadata
5 1 (3.57%) MySQL
5 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
1 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) CircleCI
2 1 (3.57%) gulp
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) webpack
General
1 5 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Electronics
3 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.14%) Marketing
3 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Billing
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Games
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Administrator
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Junior
4 3 (10.71%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Development Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Software Development Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) .NET
2 6 (21.43%) Node.js
3 5 (17.86%) React
3 5 (17.86%) REST
4 4 (14.29%) .NET Core
4 4 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 4 (14.29%) CSS
4 4 (14.29%) HTML
5 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
5 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (10.71%) FastAPI
5 3 (10.71%) JSON
6 2 (7.14%) Django
6 2 (7.14%) gRPC
6 2 (7.14%) LangGraph
6 2 (7.14%) ML.NET
7 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (3.57%) RESTful
7 1 (3.57%) Spring
7 1 (3.57%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (7.14%) AI Agents
3 2 (7.14%) Digital TV
3 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.14%) Over-the-Top Content
3 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.14%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.57%) IoT
4 1 (3.57%) Linked Data
4 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.57%) Semantic Web
4 1 (3.57%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Linux
2 4 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 11 (39.29%) Containerisation
2 11 (39.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 8 (28.57%) Microservices
3 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 7 (25.00%) Agile
4 7 (25.00%) AI
4 7 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (21.43%) DevOps
6 5 (17.86%) B2B
6 5 (17.86%) B2C
6 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (17.86%) Observability
6 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
7 4 (14.29%) Project Management
8 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
8 3 (10.71%) Scrum
8 3 (10.71%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Python
2 12 (42.86%) SQL
3 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 5 (17.86%) Bash
5 4 (14.29%) C#
5 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
7 2 (7.14%) Go
7 2 (7.14%) Scala
8 1 (3.57%) C++
8 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
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%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.57%) GDPR
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.86%) Terraform
3 3 (10.71%) Grafana
4 2 (7.14%) Ansible
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.57%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Typelevel
3 1 (3.57%) New Relic
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) SAP