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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 87 122
Rank change year-on-year -63 +35 -54
Permanent jobs citing Docker 33 92 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.52% 3.13% 1.80%
As % of the System Software category 12.00% 23.17% 13.06%
Number of salaries quoted 21 58 97
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,188 £90,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £107,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -3.73%

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 275 397 850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.37% 13.50% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 198 286 711
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,500 £24,807
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -13.98%
75th Percentile £63,125 £60,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,875 £66,250
England median annual salary £53,688 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +7.38% -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 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 21 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
Hertfordshire -40 15 £62,500 +10.80% 4
Cambridgeshire -46 12 £65,000 +8.33% 11
Norfolk -18 3 £37,500 +1.35% 1
Suffolk +17 1 - - 3
Bedfordshire +2 1 - -
Essex -35 1 - - 2
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 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) AWS
2 12 (36.36%) GitHub
3 10 (30.30%) Azure
4 8 (24.24%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (18.18%) Azure AI
6 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (12.12%) Serverless
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 3 (9.09%) GCP
7 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (6.06%) Datadog
8 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (6.06%) SaaS
8 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) Broadband
2 2 (6.06%) Internet
2 2 (6.06%) Network Security
3 1 (3.03%) AMQP
3 1 (3.03%) DNS
3 1 (3.03%) Firewall
3 1 (3.03%) MQTT
3 1 (3.03%) VLAN
3 1 (3.03%) VPN
3 1 (3.03%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 8 (24.24%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.06%) Redis
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.03%) Big Data
4 1 (3.03%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (3.03%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (3.03%) Metadata
4 1 (3.03%) MySQL
4 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Power BI
4 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.03%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 7 (21.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (12.12%) Finance
2 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Electronics
3 2 (6.06%) Marketing
3 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Games
4 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
4 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Developer
2 8 (24.24%) .NET Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Senior
4 5 (15.15%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Junior
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Administrator
6 2 (6.06%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Junior Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.06%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (27.27%) .NET
1 9 (27.27%) .NET Core
2 8 (24.24%) ASP.NET
2 8 (24.24%) ASP.NET Core
2 8 (24.24%) Node.js
3 7 (21.21%) CSS
3 7 (21.21%) HTML
4 6 (18.18%) ML.NET
5 5 (15.15%) React
6 4 (12.12%) FastAPI
7 3 (9.09%) .NET Framework
8 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
8 2 (6.06%) gRPC
8 2 (6.06%) Kafka
8 2 (6.06%) LangGraph
8 2 (6.06%) REST
8 2 (6.06%) RESTful
8 2 (6.06%) Vue
9 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
9 1 (3.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.12%) Digital TV
3 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.06%) AI Agents
4 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.06%) Over-the-Top Content
4 2 (6.06%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.03%) Linked Data
5 1 (3.03%) Robotics
5 1 (3.03%) Semantic Web
5 1 (3.03%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.03%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 14 (42.42%) Full-Stack Development
3 12 (36.36%) Machine Learning
4 11 (33.33%) AI
5 10 (30.30%) Containerisation
6 7 (21.21%) B2B
6 7 (21.21%) B2C
6 7 (21.21%) Software Engineering
7 6 (18.18%) Agile
7 6 (18.18%) DevOps
7 6 (18.18%) Microservices
8 5 (15.15%) Observability
8 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
9 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
9 4 (12.12%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 3 (9.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (48.48%) SQL
2 15 (45.45%) Python
3 8 (24.24%) C#
3 8 (24.24%) TypeScript
4 4 (12.12%) Bash
4 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.06%) C++
5 2 (6.06%) Go
5 2 (6.06%) Scala
6 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) R
6 1 (3.03%) Rust
6 1 (3.03%) SHACL
6 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.03%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.03%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.03%) HND
4 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) QA
Systems Management
1 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 6 (18.18%) Terraform
3 3 (9.09%) Grafana
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.03%) Ansible
5 1 (3.03%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Typelevel
3 1 (3.03%) New Relic
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) SAP