Docker Job Trends in England

Docker
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 43 78
Rank change year-on-year -79 +35 -41
Permanent jobs citing Docker 1,257 2,175 2,784
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.56% 5.58% 3.31%
As % of the System Software category 29.96% 42.43% 26.13%
Number of salaries quoted 807 1,207 2,326
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,165 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% -5.41%
75th Percentile £86,250 £99,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -2.44%

All System Software Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,196 5,126 10,655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.20% 13.16% 12.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,003 3,544 8,743
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docker relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Docker job vacancy trend in England

Docker
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in England

Docker
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London -39 548 £82,500 -8.33% 267
North of England -97 239 £70,000 -3.45% 147
South East -66 186 £67,500 - 130
South West -31 146 £55,000 -23.60% 70
Yorkshire -28 124 £72,500 -1.61% 43
North West -128 94 £67,500 -10.00% 73
Midlands -108 67 £65,750 +9.58% 54
West Midlands -76 41 £65,000 -3.70% 28
East of England -67 31 £61,250 +6.52% 18
East Midlands -65 24 £67,500 +12.50% 26
North East -38 21 £55,000 -13.73% 32
Docker
UK

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 53 (4.22%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (2.31%) Apache
3 28 (2.23%) Confluence
4 26 (2.07%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.59%) IIS
5 20 (1.59%) OpenStack
6 17 (1.35%) nginx
7 16 (1.27%) Appian
8 13 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.80%) CMS
10 5 (0.40%) Drupal
10 5 (0.40%) WordPress
11 4 (0.32%) JBoss
11 4 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.32%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.24%) Camunda
12 3 (0.24%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.24%) SAS
13 2 (0.16%) Apache Qpid
Applications
1 7 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (0.40%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.24%) SPSS
5 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.64%) Shopify
2 2 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.080%) Endur
3 1 (0.080%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 810 (64.44%) AWS
2 554 (44.07%) Azure
3 332 (26.41%) GCP
4 247 (19.65%) Serverless
5 224 (17.82%) GitHub
6 172 (13.68%) Amazon S3
7 169 (13.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 158 (12.57%) AWS Lambda
9 135 (10.74%) Azure DevOps
10 128 (10.18%) GitHub Actions
11 122 (9.71%) Amazon ECS
12 99 (7.88%) Datadog
13 91 (7.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 82 (6.52%) AWS Step Functions
15 80 (6.36%) Amazon EC2
16 65 (5.17%) SaaS
17 61 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
17 61 (4.85%) Amazon SQS
18 57 (4.53%) Amazon ECR
19 50 (3.98%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 106 (8.43%) Broadband
2 47 (3.74%) Firewall
3 34 (2.70%) Network Security
4 27 (2.15%) DNS
5 25 (1.99%) VPN
6 13 (1.03%) DHCP
7 10 (0.80%) HTTP
7 10 (0.80%) SAN
7 10 (0.80%) TCP/IP
8 9 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
9 8 (0.64%) iSCSI
9 8 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
10 7 (0.56%) MQTT
10 7 (0.56%) VoIP
11 6 (0.48%) WAN
12 5 (0.40%) AMQP
12 5 (0.40%) IPv4
13 4 (0.32%) LTE
13 4 (0.32%) RTP
13 4 (0.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (14.56%) NoSQL
2 154 (12.25%) PostgreSQL
3 127 (10.10%) MongoDB
4 123 (9.79%) SQL Server
5 100 (7.96%) DynamoDB
6 87 (6.92%) Relational Database
7 71 (5.65%) Amazon RDS
8 68 (5.41%) MySQL
9 49 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
10 42 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
11 35 (2.78%) Redis
12 31 (2.47%) Pinecone
13 27 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
14 23 (1.83%) RDBMS
15 21 (1.67%) BigQuery
16 19 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
17 15 (1.19%) Data Lake
17 15 (1.19%) Neo4j
18 14 (1.11%) Power BI
19 11 (0.88%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 277 (22.04%) Jenkins
2 267 (21.24%) Git
3 192 (15.27%) GitLab
4 68 (5.41%) Cypress.io
5 62 (4.93%) JIRA
5 62 (4.93%) Maven
6 57 (4.53%) SonarQube
7 51 (4.06%) CircleCI
8 41 (3.26%) TeamCity
9 35 (2.78%) Bitbucket
9 35 (2.78%) MLflow
10 31 (2.47%) Selenium
11 28 (2.23%) JUnit
12 25 (1.99%) Cucumber
13 21 (1.67%) Jaeger
14 20 (1.59%) Vite
15 19 (1.51%) Mockito
16 17 (1.35%) JMeter
17 15 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
18 11 (0.88%) Postman
General
1 309 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 197 (15.67%) Finance
3 69 (5.49%) Public Sector
4 67 (5.33%) Banking
5 63 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (2.47%) Telecoms
8 24 (1.91%) Manufacturing
9 22 (1.75%) Aerospace
10 20 (1.59%) Automotive
10 20 (1.59%) Retail
11 19 (1.51%) Marketing
12 18 (1.43%) Law
13 17 (1.35%) Advertising
14 16 (1.27%) Electronics
15 15 (1.19%) Front Office
16 13 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.95%) Games
17 12 (0.95%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 371 (29.51%) Developer
2 288 (22.91%) Senior
3 166 (13.21%) Software Engineer
4 158 (12.57%) Lead
5 123 (9.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 117 (9.31%) Java Developer
7 85 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 77 (6.13%) Senior Developer
9 73 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
10 60 (4.77%) .NET Developer
11 57 (4.53%) Data Engineer
12 52 (4.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 52 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
13 49 (3.90%) Architect
14 47 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
15 44 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
16 43 (3.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 42 (3.34%) Java Engineer
17 42 (3.34%) Platform Engineer
17 42 (3.34%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (19.33%) React
2 171 (13.60%) Node.js
3 170 (13.52%) .NET
4 159 (12.65%) Spring Boot
5 148 (11.77%) Kafka
6 146 (11.61%) Spring
7 145 (11.54%) REST
8 143 (11.38%) AngularJS
9 138 (10.98%) RESTful
10 97 (7.72%) .NET Core
11 85 (6.76%) CSS
11 85 (6.76%) HTML
12 81 (6.44%) Elastic Stack
13 78 (6.21%) gRPC
14 67 (5.33%) OAuth
15 65 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
16 64 (5.09%) FastAPI
17 59 (4.69%) Django
18 58 (4.61%) ASP.NET
19 57 (4.53%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 220 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 171 (13.60%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (6.52%) Product Ownership
4 67 (5.33%) Over-the-Top Content
4 67 (5.33%) Video\Live Streaming
5 43 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.63%) AI Agents
7 28 (2.23%) Algorithms
7 28 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
8 27 (2.15%) Blockchain
9 22 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (1.75%) Management Information System
10 21 (1.67%) Web3
11 17 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
11 17 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.27%) Onboarding
12 16 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
13 15 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.19%) PKI
14 14 (1.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 263 (20.92%) Linux
2 95 (7.56%) Windows
3 36 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (2.63%) Unix
6 31 (2.47%) CentOS
7 27 (2.15%) Ubuntu
8 16 (1.27%) Android
9 12 (0.95%) VMS
10 11 (0.88%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.40%) Debian
11 5 (0.40%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.32%) Solaris
13 3 (0.24%) SUSE
13 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 868 (69.05%) CI/CD
2 651 (51.79%) Containerisation
3 638 (50.76%) DevOps
4 490 (38.98%) Agile
5 433 (34.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 404 (32.14%) Microservices
7 355 (28.24%) Software Engineering
8 282 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
9 260 (20.68%) AI
10 250 (19.89%) Full-Stack Development
11 231 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 214 (17.02%) Test Automation
13 208 (16.55%) Mentoring
14 194 (15.43%) Observability
15 183 (14.56%) Machine Learning
16 140 (11.14%) Scrum
17 139 (11.06%) Analytics
18 138 (10.98%) Clean Code
19 137 (10.90%) TDD
20 135 (10.74%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 578 (45.98%) Python
2 338 (26.89%) Java
3 295 (23.47%) SQL
4 249 (19.81%) JavaScript
5 240 (19.09%) Bash
6 214 (17.02%) TypeScript
7 185 (14.72%) C#
8 142 (11.30%) Go
9 123 (9.79%) PowerShell
10 83 (6.60%) Scala
11 54 (4.30%) Groovy
12 47 (3.74%) C++
13 45 (3.58%) PHP
14 34 (2.70%) Bicep
14 34 (2.70%) Kotlin
15 31 (2.47%) C
16 18 (1.43%) Rust
17 17 (1.35%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.88%) R
19 10 (0.80%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 211 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 133 (10.58%) Degree
3 118 (9.39%) SC Cleared
4 99 (7.88%) AWS Certification
5 67 (5.33%) DV Cleared
6 65 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (3.18%) Azure Certification
8 28 (2.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 25 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
10 21 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
11 20 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 13 (1.03%) ISTQB
13 13 (1.03%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.72%) RHCE
15 8 (0.64%) CCNA
15 8 (0.64%) RHCSA
16 7 (0.56%) CISSP
17 6 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (7.08%) QA
2 42 (3.34%) Data Quality
3 30 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 29 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.99%) GDPR
6 23 (1.83%) SOC 2
7 22 (1.75%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.03%) NIST
9 11 (0.88%) SLA
10 7 (0.56%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.56%) WCAG
11 6 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.32%) NCSC
13 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.080%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.080%) Basel III
14 1 (0.080%) MiFID
14 1 (0.080%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (4.46%) Active Directory
2 28 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.80%) vSphere
5 8 (0.64%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (0.64%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.48%) Firmware
6 6 (0.48%) KVM
7 5 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.40%) iptables
7 5 (0.40%) Squid
8 3 (0.24%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.16%) Samba
10 1 (0.080%) QEMU
10 1 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.080%) Xen
Systems Management
1 857 (68.18%) Kubernetes
2 490 (38.98%) Terraform
3 222 (17.66%) Ansible
4 156 (12.41%) Prometheus
5 148 (11.77%) Grafana
6 52 (4.14%) Argo
7 41 (3.26%) HP Fortify
8 30 (2.39%) Puppet
9 23 (1.83%) Podman
10 22 (1.75%) Nagios
11 21 (1.67%) Progress Chef
12 19 (1.51%) Kustomize
13 17 (1.35%) Kibana
14 13 (1.03%) Istio
15 12 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
15 12 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
16 9 (0.72%) Packer
16 9 (0.72%) ZABBIX
17 5 (0.40%) linkerd
17 5 (0.40%) Mesos
Vendors
1 140 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 107 (8.51%) Google
3 52 (4.14%) Red Hat
4 47 (3.74%) OpenAI
5 45 (3.58%) Splunk
5 45 (3.58%) Typelevel
6 39 (3.10%) VMware
7 32 (2.55%) Databricks
7 32 (2.55%) Oracle
8 27 (2.15%) Dynatrace
9 21 (1.67%) Atlassian
10 15 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
11 12 (0.95%) AppDynamics
11 12 (0.95%) Automation Anywhere
11 12 (0.95%) Confluent
11 12 (0.95%) UiPath
12 11 (0.88%) Fortinet
13 9 (0.72%) Dell
13 9 (0.72%) Salesforce
14 8 (0.64%) SAP