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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 119 49
Rank change year-on-year +3 -70 +2
Permanent jobs citing Docker 64 50 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.89% 1.12% 4.34%
As % of the System Software category 17.83% 11.11% 21.24%
Number of salaries quoted 26 26 90
10th Percentile £42,500 £54,375 £54,750
25th Percentile £47,813 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £85,563
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +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 359 450 518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 10.58% 10.05% 20.44%
Number of salaries quoted 243 269 394
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,200 £26,075
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £59,000 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,650 £69,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% - -

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Docker 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +21 19 £60,000 - 16
Hertfordshire +17 15 £55,000 -31.25% 8
Bedfordshire +1 13 £50,000 -16.67% 4
Essex -8 10 £65,000 +36.84% 5
Suffolk -25 4 £42,500 -45.16% 1
Norfolk +19 3 - - 5
Docker
England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (20.31%) Confluence
2 4 (6.25%) Apache Solr
3 3 (4.69%) CMS
4 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 45 (70.31%) AWS
2 43 (67.19%) Azure
3 18 (28.13%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (25.00%) GCP
5 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.69%) Cloudflare
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.56%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.56%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.56%) SaaS
7 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) 3GPP
1 1 (1.56%) 5G
1 1 (1.56%) Firewall
1 1 (1.56%) Internet
1 1 (1.56%) VLAN
1 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (34.38%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (26.56%) SQL Server
3 7 (10.94%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.81%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.25%) Big Data
5 4 (6.25%) MySQL
6 3 (4.69%) Redis
7 2 (3.13%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.13%) DynamoDB
7 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.13%) Metadata
7 2 (3.13%) Neo4j
7 2 (3.13%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.56%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.56%) Parquet
8 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (29.69%) GitLab
2 18 (28.13%) Selenium
3 17 (26.56%) JIRA
4 16 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 15 (23.44%) Bitbucket
5 15 (23.44%) Cucumber
5 15 (23.44%) Maven
5 15 (23.44%) SonarQube
6 11 (17.19%) Git
7 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
8 3 (4.69%) JMeter
8 3 (4.69%) Postman
9 2 (3.13%) MLflow
9 2 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (3.13%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.56%) CircleCI
General
1 30 (46.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 18 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (25.00%) Finance
4 15 (23.44%) Banking
5 8 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 4 (6.25%) Retail
7 3 (4.69%) Automotive
8 2 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (3.13%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.13%) Law
8 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (31.25%) Developer
2 17 (26.56%) Software Engineer
3 15 (23.44%) Software Developer
4 5 (7.81%) Senior
5 4 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Data Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Junior
6 3 (4.69%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Senior Test Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Test Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Web Manager
7 2 (3.13%) .NET Developer
7 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Backend Developer
7 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 2 (3.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (32.81%) .NET
1 21 (32.81%) HTML
2 20 (31.25%) CSS
3 19 (29.69%) React
4 17 (26.56%) Node.js
4 17 (26.56%) Pandas
5 16 (25.00%) Kafka
5 16 (25.00%) Spring
5 16 (25.00%) Spring Boot
6 15 (23.44%) JPA
6 15 (23.44%) Redux
7 13 (20.31%) Hibernate
8 8 (12.50%) RESTful
9 6 (9.38%) REST
10 5 (7.81%) .NET Core
10 5 (7.81%) CSS3
10 5 (7.81%) HTML5
11 4 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (6.25%) PyTorch
11 4 (6.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.44%) Cyberattack
1 15 (23.44%) Enterprise Software
1 15 (23.44%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (3.13%) LIMS
2 2 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.56%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.56%) IoT
3 1 (1.56%) Life Science
3 1 (1.56%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.56%) Omics
3 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 23 (35.94%) Linux
2 15 (23.44%) Android
3 4 (6.25%) Windows
3 4 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.13%) Unix
6 1 (1.56%) CentOS
6 1 (1.56%) Debian
6 1 (1.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (79.69%) Containerisation
2 50 (78.13%) CI/CD
3 40 (62.50%) Agile
4 34 (53.13%) Software Engineering
5 24 (37.50%) DevOps
5 24 (37.50%) Test Automation
6 20 (31.25%) Microservices
7 18 (28.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (28.13%) OO
8 17 (26.56%) Mathematics
8 17 (26.56%) OOP
8 17 (26.56%) OWASP
8 17 (26.56%) SDLC
9 16 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (25.00%) Kanban
9 16 (25.00%) Statistics
10 15 (23.44%) Android Development
10 15 (23.44%) Front End Development
10 15 (23.44%) Line Management
10 15 (23.44%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 38 (59.38%) JavaScript
1 38 (59.38%) Python
2 33 (51.56%) Java
3 26 (40.63%) SQL
4 16 (25.00%) C++
4 16 (25.00%) Go
5 15 (23.44%) Rust
6 9 (14.06%) C#
7 6 (9.38%) Bash
8 5 (7.81%) PowerShell
9 3 (4.69%) Bicep
9 3 (4.69%) PHP
9 3 (4.69%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.44%) DV Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) Degree
4 3 (4.69%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.56%) PhD
6 1 (1.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (29.69%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) CDISC
3 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.56%) DICOM
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.56%) HL7
3 1 (1.56%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 50 (78.13%) Kubernetes
2 22 (34.38%) Terraform
3 21 (32.81%) Ansible
4 2 (3.13%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.56%) Grafana
5 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.56%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (23.44%) Solace
2 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.69%) Oracle
4 2 (3.13%) Databricks
4 2 (3.13%) NetApp
4 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.13%) VMware
5 1 (1.56%) DataCore
5 1 (1.56%) Google