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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 55 76
Rank change year-on-year -18 +21 -24
Permanent jobs citing Docker 16 11 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 1.08% 1.50% 1.90%
As % of the System Software category 17.20% 14.10% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 12 4 26
10th Percentile - £37,875 £30,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,313 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £66,500 - £91,250
South East median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%

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 93 78 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 6.25% 10.64% 14.27%
Number of salaries quoted 74 66 191
10th Percentile £29,720 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £32,250 £29,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £33,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -17.50% -
75th Percentile £56,250 £39,688 £57,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £65,500 £67,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £49,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +17.35% +3.16% -3.06%

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
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in Kent over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in Kent

Docker
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Kent region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Swanley - 6 £52,500 - 1
Tunbridge Wells -3 4 £55,000 - 1
Chatham - 3 - -
Sheerness - 1 £75,000 -
Snodland - 1 - -
West Malling - 1 £32,500 - 2
Docker
South East

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 14 (87.50%) Azure
2 10 (62.50%) GitHub
3 9 (56.25%) GitHub Copilot
4 4 (25.00%) Azure AI
5 3 (18.75%) AWS
5 3 (18.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (18.75%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 9 (56.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (31.25%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JUnit
1 3 (18.75%) Mockito
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 5 (31.25%) Advertising
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
1 5 (31.25%) Games
2 4 (25.00%) Marketing
3 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) .NET Developer
1 9 (56.25%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) .NET
2 9 (56.25%) .NET Core
2 9 (56.25%) ASP.NET
2 9 (56.25%) ASP.NET Core
3 6 (37.50%) AngularJS
3 6 (37.50%) Vue
4 5 (31.25%) Blazor
4 5 (31.25%) CSS
4 5 (31.25%) HTML
4 5 (31.25%) Node.js
5 4 (25.00%) ML.NET
6 3 (18.75%) Hibernate
6 3 (18.75%) JPA
6 3 (18.75%) RESTful
6 3 (18.75%) Spring
6 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
6 3 (18.75%) Web Services
6 3 (18.75%) WireMock
7 2 (12.50%) LangChain
7 2 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
3 9 (56.25%) Microservices
4 7 (43.75%) AI
5 6 (37.50%) Machine Learning
6 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
7 4 (25.00%) Agile
7 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (25.00%) Crowdfunding
7 4 (25.00%) DevOps
8 3 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
8 3 (18.75%) Code Quality
8 3 (18.75%) Domain-Driven Design
8 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
8 3 (18.75%) LLM
8 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (18.75%) TDD
8 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
9 2 (12.50%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) SQL
2 10 (62.50%) C#
3 5 (31.25%) TypeScript
4 3 (18.75%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) Bash
5 2 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
1 2 (12.50%) HIPAA
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 16 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Google
3 4 (25.00%) Facebook
4 3 (18.75%) Salesforce