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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 93 39
Rank change year-on-year -22 -54 +7
Permanent jobs citing Docker 36 91 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.15% 2.17% 5.04%
As % of the System Software category 10.88% 18.16% 23.50%
Number of salaries quoted 30 20 100
10th Percentile £41,000 - £55,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -15.25% +11.32%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £86,188
90th Percentile £78,125 £85,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £71,750 £71,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year +1.06% -0.70% -4.67%

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 331 501 451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 10.53% 11.97% 21.46%
Number of salaries quoted 246 258 362
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,600 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,357 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £61,125 £58,750 £64,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +9 19 £60,000 - 38
Hertfordshire -5 5 £52,500 -34.38% 38
Bedfordshire +15 4 £50,000 - 9
Suffolk -16 4 £42,500 -45.16% 6
Essex -24 3 £65,000 +13.04% 11
Norfolk +10 1 - - 5
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 4 (11.11%) Apache Solr
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.56%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) AWS
2 19 (52.78%) Azure
3 6 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.33%) SaaS
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.56%) Cloudflare
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.78%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.78%) Figma
7 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
1 1 (2.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (19.44%) NoSQL
2 5 (13.89%) MongoDB
2 5 (13.89%) Redis
3 4 (11.11%) MySQL
3 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.33%) Big Data
5 2 (5.56%) Delta Lake
5 2 (5.56%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.56%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.56%) Metadata
5 2 (5.56%) Neo4j
5 2 (5.56%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.78%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.78%) Parquet
6 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (33.33%) Git
2 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.11%) GitLab
3 4 (11.11%) Selenium
4 3 (8.33%) JIRA
4 3 (8.33%) JMeter
4 3 (8.33%) Postman
5 2 (5.56%) MLflow
5 2 (5.56%) MSTest
5 2 (5.56%) NUnit
5 2 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (5.56%) SpecFlow
5 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
5 2 (5.56%) TestNG
6 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.78%) gulp
6 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.78%) webpack
General
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Automotive
2 3 (8.33%) Finance
2 3 (8.33%) Law
2 3 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 3 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.78%) Banking
3 1 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Developer
2 6 (16.67%) Senior
3 5 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Test Automation Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Test Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) .NET Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Backend Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Junior
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Integration Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) .NET
2 7 (19.44%) React
2 7 (19.44%) RESTful
3 6 (16.67%) HTML
4 5 (13.89%) .NET Core
4 5 (13.89%) CSS
4 5 (13.89%) REST
5 4 (11.11%) .NET Framework
5 4 (11.11%) CSS3
5 4 (11.11%) HTML5
5 4 (11.11%) MassTransit
5 4 (11.11%) PyTorch
5 4 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (11.11%) TensorFlow
6 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET
6 3 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (8.33%) LINQ
6 3 (8.33%) scikit-learn
6 3 (8.33%) Spring
6 3 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.78%) Biopharmaceutical
2 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.78%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (2.78%) IoT
2 1 (2.78%) Life Science
2 1 (2.78%) Low-Code
2 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.78%) Omics
2 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
1 4 (11.11%) Windows
1 4 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 2 (5.56%) Unix
2 2 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) Containerisation
2 21 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 14 (38.89%) Agile
3 14 (38.89%) DevOps
4 11 (30.56%) Test Automation
5 10 (27.78%) AI
5 10 (27.78%) Machine Learning
6 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 7 (19.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (19.44%) Microservices
8 6 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (16.67%) LLM
8 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 5 (13.89%) API Testing
9 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (13.89%) Data Science
9 5 (13.89%) Security Testing
10 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
10 4 (11.11%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 19 (52.78%) Python
2 13 (36.11%) SQL
3 12 (33.33%) C#
4 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.11%) Java
5 4 (11.11%) PHP
5 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 3 (8.33%) Bicep
6 3 (8.33%) T-SQL
6 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.56%) Bash
8 1 (2.78%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
1 3 (8.33%) ISTQB
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) CDISC
3 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) DICOM
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.78%) HL7
3 1 (2.78%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 20 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 8 (22.22%) Terraform
3 4 (11.11%) Ansible
4 2 (5.56%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (2.78%) DataCore
3 1 (2.78%) Google
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) Solace