Docker Jobs in England

Docker
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 79 38
Rank change year-on-year +34 -41 -18
Permanent jobs citing Docker 2,653 2,834 5,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.35% 3.28% 6.74%
As % of the System Software category 45.07% 26.49% 43.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,181 2,289 3,576
10th Percentile £48,250 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,750 £53,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £98,750 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.10% +2.14%

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 5,886 10,700 13,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.87% 12.39% 15.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,543 8,654 9,285
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in England

Docker
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Docker in England.

Salary trend for Docker in England

Docker
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

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 18 May 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
North of England +81 998 £72,500 +20.83% 371
North West +80 885 £75,000 +15.38% 241
London +19 823 £90,000 +9.09% 1,084
South East -31 306 £67,500 - 516
Midlands +9 186 £60,000 - 135
South West +5 142 £71,991 +19.99% 162
East of England +45 123 £57,500 -8.00% 111
West Midlands +7 100 £67,500 +12.50% 88
Yorkshire +24 97 £74,870 +36.13% 102
East Midlands +14 84 £60,000 +4.35% 40
North East +15 16 £63,750 +6.25% 28
Docker
UK

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 172 (6.48%) Confluence
2 94 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
3 90 (3.39%) Apache Spark
4 80 (3.02%) Apache
5 27 (1.02%) nginx
6 24 (0.90%) Jupyter
7 14 (0.53%) JBoss
7 14 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
8 13 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.49%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.38%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.30%) CMS
10 8 (0.30%) SharePoint
11 6 (0.23%) IIS
11 6 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.19%) WordPress
13 4 (0.15%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.11%) Drupal
14 3 (0.11%) Mule
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (0.30%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.075%) Simulink
4 2 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.038%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 9 (0.34%) Magento
2 9 (0.34%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.075%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.038%) Endur
4 1 (0.038%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 1,361 (51.30%) AWS
2 874 (32.94%) Azure
3 454 (17.11%) GCP
4 269 (10.14%) Serverless
5 249 (9.39%) Pulumi
6 171 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
7 166 (6.26%) Amazon ECS
8 149 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
9 142 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 129 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
11 128 (4.82%) GitHub
12 121 (4.56%) Amazon EKS
13 112 (4.22%) SaaS
14 110 (4.15%) Amazon S3
15 96 (3.62%) OpenShift
16 91 (3.43%) dbt
17 79 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
18 61 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
19 47 (1.77%) Azure Service Bus
20 44 (1.66%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 672 (25.33%) VPN
2 438 (16.51%) DNS
3 264 (9.95%) Cisco IOS
4 223 (8.41%) Broadband
5 51 (1.92%) Firewall
6 34 (1.28%) Network Security
7 24 (0.90%) TCP/IP
8 21 (0.79%) DHCP
8 21 (0.79%) HTTP
8 21 (0.79%) Internet
9 18 (0.68%) SAN
10 14 (0.53%) NAS
11 11 (0.41%) SMTP
12 10 (0.38%) VLAN
13 9 (0.34%) SSL
14 8 (0.30%) MQTT
15 7 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
15 7 (0.26%) SSH
16 6 (0.23%) VSAN
17 5 (0.19%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 417 (15.72%) NoSQL
2 302 (11.38%) Relational Database
3 297 (11.19%) SQL Server
4 239 (9.01%) RDBMS
5 233 (8.78%) PostgreSQL
6 126 (4.75%) Elasticsearch
7 117 (4.41%) MongoDB
8 111 (4.18%) MySQL
9 88 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
10 70 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
11 67 (2.53%) Apache Arrow
11 67 (2.53%) Apache Iceberg
11 67 (2.53%) Apache Ignite
11 67 (2.53%) Dremio
12 54 (2.04%) Redis
13 52 (1.96%) Big Data
14 40 (1.51%) DynamoDB
15 27 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
16 23 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
17 22 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 353 (13.31%) Git
2 331 (12.48%) GitLab
3 301 (11.35%) JIRA
4 270 (10.18%) SonarQube
5 246 (9.27%) Sonatype Nexus
6 243 (9.16%) Selenium
7 239 (9.01%) Jenkins
8 237 (8.93%) Maven
9 220 (8.29%) Cucumber
10 215 (8.10%) Jaeger
11 214 (8.07%) Bitbucket
12 82 (3.09%) Artifactory
13 78 (2.94%) JUnit
14 59 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
15 47 (1.77%) Mockito
16 41 (1.55%) IntelliJ
16 41 (1.55%) Visual Studio
17 38 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
18 35 (1.32%) CircleCI
19 33 (1.24%) MSBuild
General
1 1,219 (45.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1,050 (39.58%) Finance
3 794 (29.93%) Analytical Skills
4 377 (14.21%) Social Skills
5 362 (13.64%) Banking
6 151 (5.69%) Retail
7 104 (3.92%) Public Sector
8 100 (3.77%) Front Office
9 98 (3.69%) Investment Banking
10 90 (3.39%) Corporate Banking
11 43 (1.62%) Marketing
12 34 (1.28%) Financial Institution
12 34 (1.28%) Manufacturing
13 23 (0.87%) Games
14 21 (0.79%) Law
15 20 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (0.75%) Telecoms
16 16 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (0.57%) Automotive
18 12 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 887 (33.43%) Developer
2 481 (18.13%) Software Developer
3 411 (15.49%) Software Engineer
4 405 (15.27%) Lead
5 353 (13.31%) Senior
6 299 (11.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 250 (9.42%) DevOps Engineer
8 232 (8.74%) Team Leader
9 132 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
9 132 (4.98%) Python Engineer
10 125 (4.71%) AWS DevOps
11 120 (4.52%) Architect
12 119 (4.49%) Data Engineer
13 118 (4.45%) Java Developer
14 116 (4.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 115 (4.33%) Senior Developer
16 103 (3.88%) Java Engineer
17 81 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
18 79 (2.98%) Senior Software Engineer
19 76 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 548 (20.66%) React
2 541 (20.39%) Elastic Stack
3 459 (17.30%) Kafka
4 383 (14.44%) Spring Boot
5 379 (14.29%) Spring
6 353 (13.31%) REST
7 337 (12.70%) HTML
8 329 (12.40%) CSS
9 288 (10.86%) .NET
10 260 (9.80%) RESTful
11 232 (8.74%) JPA
12 221 (8.33%) Redux
13 219 (8.25%) OpenTelemetry
14 186 (7.01%) Node.js
15 179 (6.75%) AngularJS
16 170 (6.41%) Hibernate
17 142 (5.35%) Jest
18 120 (4.52%) HTML5
19 115 (4.33%) CSS3
20 108 (4.07%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 731 (27.55%) Cyberattack
2 250 (9.42%) Product Ownership
3 203 (7.65%) Enterprise Software
4 117 (4.41%) Cloud Native
5 104 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
6 75 (2.83%) Algorithms
7 57 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 52 (1.96%) Public Cloud
9 37 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (0.94%) Private Cloud
11 22 (0.83%) Data Centre
11 22 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
12 20 (0.75%) IoT
13 19 (0.72%) Clustering
13 19 (0.72%) Reinsurance
14 18 (0.68%) Mobile App
15 16 (0.60%) Data Structures
15 16 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
15 16 (0.60%) Onboarding
16 14 (0.53%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1,204 (45.38%) Linux
2 721 (27.18%) Android
3 347 (13.08%) Windows
4 250 (9.42%) Unix
5 40 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 15 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.45%) VMS
9 10 (0.38%) CentOS
10 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
10 7 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.26%) Debian
11 6 (0.23%) SUSE
12 5 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.075%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.038%) Fedora
14 1 (0.038%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.038%) Solaris
14 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,499 (56.50%) Agile
2 1,476 (55.64%) DevOps
3 1,066 (40.18%) Containerisation
4 1,032 (38.90%) CI/CD
5 740 (27.89%) Mathematics
6 732 (27.59%) Software Engineering
7 722 (27.21%) Microservices
8 718 (27.06%) Line Management
9 594 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
10 567 (21.37%) Design Patterns
11 553 (20.84%) Mentoring
12 496 (18.70%) Infrastructure as Code
13 495 (18.66%) Performance Optimisation
14 494 (18.62%) Task Automation
15 485 (18.28%) OO
16 482 (18.17%) OOP
17 448 (16.89%) Android Development
18 403 (15.19%) Full-Stack Development
19 384 (14.47%) Platform Engineering
20 372 (14.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,588 (59.86%) Python
2 1,409 (53.11%) Java
3 856 (32.27%) JavaScript
4 809 (30.49%) Go
5 588 (22.16%) Bash
6 565 (21.30%) SQL
7 476 (17.94%) C++
8 365 (13.76%) PowerShell
9 308 (11.61%) TypeScript
10 232 (8.74%) C#
11 63 (2.37%) PHP
12 62 (2.34%) Rust
13 36 (1.36%) Bicep
14 32 (1.21%) Scala
14 32 (1.21%) Shell Script
15 26 (0.98%) Ruby
16 18 (0.68%) Groovy
16 18 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
17 17 (0.64%) Perl
18 14 (0.53%) C
Qualifications
1 677 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 535 (20.17%) DV Cleared
3 280 (10.55%) AWS Certification
4 222 (8.37%) Degree
5 138 (5.20%) SC Cleared
6 117 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (2.19%) Master's Degree
8 55 (2.07%) Azure Certification
9 42 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (1.06%) PhD
11 15 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (0.26%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
16 4 (0.15%) Linux+ Certification
16 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
17 3 (0.11%) CISM
17 3 (0.11%) OCP
17 3 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (9.88%) QA
2 117 (4.41%) Accessibility
3 75 (2.83%) GDPR
4 40 (1.51%) HIPAA
5 19 (0.72%) SLA
6 16 (0.60%) SOC 2
7 15 (0.57%) Data Quality
7 15 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.53%) NIST
9 9 (0.34%) NCSC
10 6 (0.23%) CDISC
11 5 (0.19%) WCAG
12 4 (0.15%) GMP
12 4 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.075%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.075%) MiFID
13 2 (0.075%) SEPA
14 1 (0.038%) EU AI Act
14 1 (0.038%) PMO
System Software
1 290 (10.93%) Hyper-V
2 279 (10.52%) vSphere
3 266 (10.03%) VMware NSX
4 51 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 49 (1.85%) Active Directory
6 38 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.23%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (0.23%) Postfix
9 6 (0.23%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.19%) NFS
11 4 (0.15%) DFS Replication
11 4 (0.15%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.15%) LXC
12 3 (0.11%) HDFS
13 2 (0.075%) KVM
14 1 (0.038%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,566 (59.03%) Kubernetes
2 1,134 (42.74%) Ansible
3 1,034 (38.97%) Terraform
4 314 (11.84%) Prometheus
5 236 (8.90%) Argo
6 219 (8.25%) Kustomize
7 92 (3.47%) Grafana
8 48 (1.81%) Puppet
9 43 (1.62%) Progress Chef
10 26 (0.98%) Istio
11 20 (0.75%) Kibana
11 20 (0.75%) Podman
12 15 (0.57%) Nagios
13 13 (0.49%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.45%) vMotion
15 10 (0.38%) AWS Copilot
15 10 (0.38%) Nessus
15 10 (0.38%) Packer
15 10 (0.38%) Proxmox
16 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 357 (13.46%) Google
2 301 (11.35%) Splunk
3 275 (10.37%) Cisco
4 270 (10.18%) Juniper
5 262 (9.88%) 3PAR
6 201 (7.58%) Solace
7 113 (4.26%) Microsoft
8 65 (2.45%) VMware
9 58 (2.19%) Databricks
10 37 (1.39%) Oracle
11 26 (0.98%) IBM
12 24 (0.90%) Red Hat
13 20 (0.75%) Dynatrace
14 19 (0.72%) New Relic
15 18 (0.68%) Citrix
16 17 (0.64%) Atlassian
17 16 (0.60%) SAP
18 13 (0.49%) HP
19 11 (0.41%) Adobe
20 10 (0.38%) Veeam