Docker Job Trends in Leicester

Docker
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 30 23
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 +26
Permanent jobs citing Docker 4 2 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 1.21% 1.04% 8.25%
As % of the System Software category 28.57% 8.70% 32.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 24
10th Percentile £56,330 - £36,250
25th Percentile £62,225 £47,250 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £51,500 £54,750
Median % change year-on-year +30.58% -5.94% -35.59%
75th Percentile £69,313 £55,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £69,425 - £66,750
Leicestershire median annual salary £67,250 £51,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +30.58% -3.74% -37.06%

All System Software Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 14 23 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 4.23% 11.98% 25.09%
Number of salaries quoted 14 12 61
10th Percentile £41,450 - £33,750
25th Percentile £43,125 £25,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £25,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +76.47% -51.43% +25.00%
75th Percentile £56,938 £46,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £69,025 £59,575 £65,000
Leicestershire median annual salary £39,250 £28,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +37.72% -43.00% +25.00%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Leicester

Docker
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Docker

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 3 (75.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) npm
1 3 (75.00%) NuGet
1 3 (75.00%) SonarCloud
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (25.00%) Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) Node.js
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) YAML
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Django
3 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (25.00%) Flask
3 1 (25.00%) pytest
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) API Development
4 1 (25.00%) API Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Delphi
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle