Docker Job Trends in Kent

Docker
South East > Kent

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 28 53
Rank change year-on-year -56 +25 +28
Permanent jobs citing Docker 2 55 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.20% 7.54% 2.00%
As % of the System Software category 1.89% 35.71% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £52,500
25th Percentile - £66,250 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile - £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile - - £68,750
South East median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +6.87%

All System Software Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 106 154 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 10.40% 21.12% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 65 31 59
10th Percentile £27,200 £23,500 £29,600
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -8.05%
75th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £56,700 £70,000 £67,500
South East median annual salary £37,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -34.78% +15.00% -

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Kent

Docker
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Docker

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Okta