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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 61 83
Rank change year-on-year -81 +22 -26
Permanent jobs citing Docker 24 114 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.49% 3.76% 2.89%
As % of the System Software category 10.08% 23.85% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 21 57 125
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,000 £48,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,554 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -23.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £68,750 £78,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £71,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.39% +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 238 478 788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.81% 15.76% 16.14%
Number of salaries quoted 164 295 681
10th Percentile £26,650 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,456 £30,000 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.50% +25.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £60,625 £60,000 £59,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -14 14 £62,500 -7.41% 26
Hertfordshire -41 3 £62,500 -0.79% 32
Bedfordshire +8 2 £47,500 -5.00% 20
Norfolk 0 2 £37,500 +1.35% 21
Essex -29 2 £42,500 -26.09% 27
Suffolk - 1 £57,500 - 19
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 (4.17%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) AWS
2 11 (45.83%) Azure
3 7 (29.17%) GitHub
4 4 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (16.67%) SaaS
5 3 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (12.50%) Serverless
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.17%) Datadog
7 1 (4.17%) Figma
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.17%) PaaS
7 1 (4.17%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) AMQP
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Redis
2 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.33%) MySQL
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.17%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (4.17%) InfluxDB
4 1 (4.17%) Metadata
4 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
1 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) MSTest
2 2 (8.33%) NUnit
2 2 (8.33%) SpecFlow
2 2 (8.33%) TestNG
3 1 (4.17%) CircleCI
3 1 (4.17%) gulp
3 1 (4.17%) webpack
General
1 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Electronics
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (4.17%) Billing
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.17%) Law
3 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Developer
1 6 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) .NET Developer
3 2 (8.33%) .NET Development Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Administrator
3 2 (8.33%) Development Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Junior
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Development Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Software Development Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Software Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) .NET
2 5 (20.83%) REST
3 4 (16.67%) React
4 3 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 3 (12.50%) CSS
4 3 (12.50%) HTML
4 3 (12.50%) JSON
4 3 (12.50%) Kafka
4 3 (12.50%) Node.js
4 3 (12.50%) Playwright
4 3 (12.50%) Spring
4 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
5 2 (8.33%) Django
5 2 (8.33%) FastAPI
6 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (4.17%) Jest
6 1 (4.17%) MassTransit
6 1 (4.17%) ML.NET
6 1 (4.17%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.17%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Digital TV
3 1 (4.17%) IoT
3 1 (4.17%) Linked Data
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Semantic Web
3 1 (4.17%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) VMS
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 13 (54.17%) Containerisation
3 11 (45.83%) DevOps
4 9 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 8 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (25.00%) Agile
7 6 (25.00%) Microservices
8 5 (20.83%) AI
9 4 (16.67%) Machine Learning
9 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (16.67%) Project Management
10 3 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
10 3 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
10 3 (12.50%) Event-Driven
10 3 (12.50%) Observability
10 3 (12.50%) Scrum
10 3 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) Bash
3 5 (20.83%) C#
3 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
4 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.33%) Java
6 1 (4.17%) C++
6 1 (4.17%) PHP
6 1 (4.17%) R
6 1 (4.17%) Rust
6 1 (4.17%) SHACL
6 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.17%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Kubernetes
2 6 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.50%) Ansible
4 2 (8.33%) Grafana
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) New Relic
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) SAP