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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 106 120
Rank change year-on-year -27 +14 -74
Permanent jobs citing Docker 74 63 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.89% 1.89% 1.38%
As % of the System Software category 15.61% 17.45% 12.84%
Number of salaries quoted 60 25 24
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £54,688 £47,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £75,938
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £71,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.93% +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 474 361 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.72% 10.83% 10.74%
Number of salaries quoted 349 242 259
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £69,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -16 33 £72,500 +34.88% 13
Cambridgeshire -28 28 £67,500 +12.50% 64
Suffolk +17 9 £50,000 +17.65% 21
Bedfordshire -21 2 £42,500 -15.00% 1
Essex -28 1 - - 6
Norfolk -29 1 £45,000 - 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 2 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.70%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 42 (56.76%) Azure
2 23 (31.08%) AWS
3 20 (27.03%) Azure Service Bus
4 18 (24.32%) GitHub
5 16 (21.62%) GitHub Copilot
6 9 (12.16%) Azure AI
6 9 (12.16%) GCP
7 5 (6.76%) Serverless
8 4 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.41%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.35%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (1.35%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.35%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (1.35%) dbt
10 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.35%) SaaS
10 1 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (24.32%) MQTT
2 3 (4.05%) DNS
2 3 (4.05%) Internet
3 2 (2.70%) 4G
3 2 (2.70%) 5G
3 2 (2.70%) HTTP
3 2 (2.70%) SSH
3 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.35%) Broadband
4 1 (1.35%) Firewall
4 1 (1.35%) VLAN
4 1 (1.35%) VPN
4 1 (1.35%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (24.32%) Azure SQL Database
1 18 (24.32%) MongoDB
2 13 (17.57%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.81%) MySQL
4 6 (8.11%) Redis
4 6 (8.11%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.76%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (5.41%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.70%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.70%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (2.70%) Spatial Data
8 1 (1.35%) Airbyte
8 1 (1.35%) Big Data
8 1 (1.35%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.35%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.35%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.35%) Power BI
8 1 (1.35%) Power Query
8 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (18.92%) Git
2 6 (8.11%) GitLab
3 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.70%) Selenium
General
1 9 (12.16%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.76%) Finance
4 3 (4.05%) Electronics
5 2 (2.70%) Law
5 2 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (55.41%) Developer
2 31 (41.89%) Senior
3 18 (24.32%) Senior Developer
4 16 (21.62%) Python Developer
5 15 (20.27%) Software Engineer
6 14 (18.92%) .NET Developer
7 13 (17.57%) Senior Python Developer
8 10 (13.51%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (9.46%) Python Engineer
10 6 (8.11%) Python Software Engineer
10 6 (8.11%) Robotics Software Engineer
11 5 (6.76%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (6.76%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 5 (6.76%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
12 4 (5.41%) Software Developer
13 3 (4.05%) C++ Software Engineer
13 3 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
13 3 (4.05%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
13 3 (4.05%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (35.14%) RESTful
2 24 (32.43%) FastAPI
3 21 (28.38%) Kafka
3 21 (28.38%) RabbitMQ
4 18 (24.32%) .NET
4 18 (24.32%) OpenAPI
4 18 (24.32%) Swagger
5 16 (21.62%) CSS
5 16 (21.62%) HTML
6 14 (18.92%) .NET Core
6 14 (18.92%) ASP.NET
6 14 (18.92%) ASP.NET Core
7 11 (14.86%) Node.js
8 9 (12.16%) ML.NET
9 8 (10.81%) React
10 6 (8.11%) Flask
10 6 (8.11%) Terraform
11 5 (6.76%) .NET Framework
11 5 (6.76%) AngularJS
11 5 (6.76%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.38%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.46%) Robotics
3 6 (8.11%) Digital TV
4 5 (6.76%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.35%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.35%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.35%) Life Science
7 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.92%) Linux
2 6 (8.11%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.05%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.35%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.35%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (54.05%) CI/CD
2 28 (37.84%) Containerisation
3 27 (36.49%) Full-Stack Development
3 27 (36.49%) Software Engineering
4 22 (29.73%) Event-Driven
5 21 (28.38%) Agile
5 21 (28.38%) AI
6 20 (27.03%) Clean Code
6 20 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (27.03%) Validation
7 19 (25.68%) Machine Learning
7 19 (25.68%) Mentoring
8 18 (24.32%) Acceptance Criteria
8 18 (24.32%) API Design
8 18 (24.32%) Continuous Delivery
8 18 (24.32%) Roadmaps
9 13 (17.57%) DevOps
9 13 (17.57%) Microservices
9 13 (17.57%) Scrum
10 9 (12.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (50.00%) Python
2 28 (37.84%) SQL
3 21 (28.38%) C#
4 16 (21.62%) TypeScript
5 12 (16.22%) JavaScript
6 9 (12.16%) C++
7 5 (6.76%) Bash
7 5 (6.76%) Java
7 5 (6.76%) Ruby
8 3 (4.05%) PHP
8 3 (4.05%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.05%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.35%) C
9 1 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.35%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.35%) Rust
9 1 (1.35%) Scala
9 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (5.41%) Degree
2 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.35%) HND
2 1 (1.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.81%) QA
Systems Management
1 47 (63.51%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.70%) Grafana
2 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.35%) Ansible
3 1 (1.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.35%) Databricks
2 1 (1.35%) Google