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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 99 37
Rank change year-on-year -24 -62 +9
Permanent jobs citing Docker 48 83 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.44% 1.99% 4.90%
As % of the System Software category 14.12% 16.90% 22.57%
Number of salaries quoted 27 24 101
10th Percentile £43,250 £55,375 £55,000
25th Percentile £48,125 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -16.08% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £79,063 £85,750
90th Percentile £74,500 £88,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £71,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.43% -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 340 491 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 10.22% 11.77% 21.73%
Number of salaries quoted 240 258 385
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,219 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £59,250 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £83,750
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 19 October 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 19 October 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 +10 20 £60,000 - 11
Bedfordshire +10 13 £50,000 - 5
Hertfordshire -3 6 £52,500 -34.38% 12
Suffolk -20 4 £42,500 -45.16% 2
Norfolk +16 3 - - 6
Essex -20 2 £65,000 +13.04% 4
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 13 (27.08%) Confluence
2 4 (8.33%) Apache Solr
3 2 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.17%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 33 (68.75%) AWS
2 32 (66.67%) Azure
3 19 (39.58%) GCP
4 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.25%) SaaS
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.17%) Cloudflare
6 2 (4.17%) GitHub
6 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.08%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) 3GPP
1 1 (2.08%) 5G
1 1 (2.08%) DNS
1 1 (2.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (35.42%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.58%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (14.58%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.42%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.33%) MySQL
5 3 (6.25%) Big Data
5 3 (6.25%) Redis
6 2 (4.17%) Delta Lake
6 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 2 (4.17%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.17%) Metadata
6 2 (4.17%) Neo4j
6 2 (4.17%) Spark SQL
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.08%) MariaDB
7 1 (2.08%) Parquet
7 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (37.50%) GitLab
1 18 (37.50%) Selenium
2 17 (35.42%) JIRA
3 15 (31.25%) Bitbucket
3 15 (31.25%) Cucumber
3 15 (31.25%) Maven
3 15 (31.25%) SonarQube
3 15 (31.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (22.92%) Git
5 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
6 3 (6.25%) JMeter
6 3 (6.25%) Postman
7 2 (4.17%) MLflow
7 2 (4.17%) MSTest
7 2 (4.17%) NUnit
7 2 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (4.17%) SpecFlow
7 2 (4.17%) TeamCity
7 2 (4.17%) TestNG
8 1 (2.08%) CircleCI
General
1 17 (35.42%) Finance
2 15 (31.25%) Banking
2 15 (31.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Retail
5 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Automotive
5 3 (6.25%) Law
6 2 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Developer
3 5 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Senior
3 5 (10.42%) Test Automation Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Test Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Backend Developer
4 3 (6.25%) Data Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Junior
4 3 (6.25%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) .NET Developer
5 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Integration Developer
5 2 (4.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Technical Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (41.67%) React
2 19 (39.58%) HTML
3 18 (37.50%) CSS
4 17 (35.42%) Kafka
4 17 (35.42%) Spring
4 17 (35.42%) Spring Boot
5 15 (31.25%) JPA
5 15 (31.25%) Redux
6 13 (27.08%) Hibernate
7 8 (16.67%) .NET
7 8 (16.67%) RESTful
8 6 (12.50%) REST
9 5 (10.42%) .NET Core
9 5 (10.42%) CSS3
9 5 (10.42%) HTML5
10 4 (8.33%) PyTorch
10 4 (8.33%) TensorFlow
11 3 (6.25%) MassTransit
11 3 (6.25%) Playwright
11 3 (6.25%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.25%) Enterprise Software
1 15 (31.25%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.08%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (2.08%) IoT
3 1 (2.08%) Life Science
3 1 (2.08%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.08%) Omics
3 1 (2.08%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Linux
1 4 (8.33%) Windows
1 4 (8.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
2 2 (4.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 34 (70.83%) CI/CD
3 27 (56.25%) DevOps
4 26 (54.17%) Agile
5 25 (52.08%) Test Automation
6 21 (43.75%) Software Engineering
7 20 (41.67%) Microservices
8 19 (39.58%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (35.42%) SDLC
10 16 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (31.25%) Clean Code
11 15 (31.25%) Front End Development
11 15 (31.25%) Performance Optimisation
12 14 (29.17%) TDD
13 10 (20.83%) AI
13 10 (20.83%) Machine Learning
14 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
15 6 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
15 6 (12.50%) LLM
15 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 26 (54.17%) SQL
2 21 (43.75%) JavaScript
3 19 (39.58%) Java
3 19 (39.58%) Python
4 11 (22.92%) C#
5 4 (8.33%) PHP
5 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.25%) Bicep
6 3 (6.25%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.17%) Bash
8 1 (2.08%) C++
8 1 (2.08%) Go
8 1 (2.08%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (6.25%) Degree
1 3 (6.25%) ISTQB
1 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (39.58%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) CDISC
3 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.08%) DICOM
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.08%) HL7
3 1 (2.08%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 33 (68.75%) Kubernetes
2 8 (16.67%) Terraform
3 3 (6.25%) Ansible
4 2 (4.17%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 15 (31.25%) Solace
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (2.08%) DataCore
4 1 (2.08%) Google
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle