Docker Job Trends in London

Docker
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 46 61
Rank change year-on-year -48 +15 -27
Permanent jobs citing Docker 538 717 916
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.39% 5.77% 4.10%
As % of the System Software category 38.62% 45.44% 36.60%
Number of salaries quoted 332 453 691
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,938 £67,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - +5.86%
75th Percentile £103,750 £111,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £124,750 £127,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -6.67%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,393 1,578 2,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.20% 12.70% 11.20%
Number of salaries quoted 918 1,138 1,806
10th Percentile £35,175 £35,000 £34,625
25th Percentile £47,563 £44,307 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +2.94% +0.74%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% - -9.09%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Docker job vacancy trend in London

Docker
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in London over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in London

Docker
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Central London -26 59 £88,750 +10.94% 37
West London +5 27 £50,000 -21.26% 12
South London -32 13 £105,000 +27.27% 3
East London -4 5 - - 8
Docker
England

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 29 (5.39%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (4.28%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.60%) Apache
4 9 (1.67%) Confluence
5 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.56%) Camunda
7 2 (0.37%) Appian
8 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.19%) JBoss
8 1 (0.19%) Moodle
8 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.93%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.56%) SPSS
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 349 (64.87%) AWS
2 238 (44.24%) Azure
3 182 (33.83%) GCP
4 90 (16.73%) Serverless
5 72 (13.38%) GitHub
6 70 (13.01%) AWS CloudFormation
7 49 (9.11%) Amazon S3
8 47 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
10 42 (7.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (7.62%) Datadog
12 38 (7.06%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (6.88%) Amazon ECS
14 34 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
15 30 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
16 27 (5.02%) Azure AKS
17 25 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
18 24 (4.46%) Cloud Computing
19 23 (4.28%) GitHub Copilot
19 23 (4.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 54 (10.04%) Broadband
2 13 (2.42%) DNS
3 9 (1.67%) DHCP
4 7 (1.30%) Firewall
4 7 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (1.12%) HTTP
5 6 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.93%) VPN
7 4 (0.74%) 3GPP
7 4 (0.74%) GSM
7 4 (0.74%) IPv4
7 4 (0.74%) LTE
7 4 (0.74%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (0.74%) RANAP
7 4 (0.74%) SS7
7 4 (0.74%) SSH
7 4 (0.74%) UMTS
7 4 (0.74%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.19%) DMARC
8 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.27%) NoSQL
2 63 (11.71%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (10.78%) Relational Database
4 52 (9.67%) MongoDB
5 35 (6.51%) MySQL
6 32 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 26 (4.83%) Redis
8 22 (4.09%) DynamoDB
9 21 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (3.35%) SQL Server
11 17 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (2.42%) Power BI
13 12 (2.23%) Data Lake
14 10 (1.86%) BigQuery
14 10 (1.86%) Pinecone
15 9 (1.67%) Tableau
16 8 (1.49%) Delta Lake
17 6 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
17 6 (1.12%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 113 (21.00%) Jenkins
2 98 (18.22%) Git
3 79 (14.68%) GitLab
4 34 (6.32%) CircleCI
5 21 (3.90%) Claude Code
6 15 (2.79%) MLflow
7 11 (2.04%) JIRA
7 11 (2.04%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.86%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.86%) Maven
9 9 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (1.49%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.49%) Jaeger
11 7 (1.30%) Vite
12 6 (1.12%) JUnit
12 6 (1.12%) Storybook
13 5 (0.93%) JMeter
13 5 (0.93%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.74%) Mockito
14 4 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 174 (32.34%) Social Skills
2 131 (24.35%) Finance
3 59 (10.97%) Banking
4 32 (5.95%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.60%) Law
8 13 (2.42%) Aerospace
8 13 (2.42%) Front Office
9 12 (2.23%) Legal
9 12 (2.23%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (1.67%) Advertising
10 9 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.30%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.12%) Marketing
13 6 (1.12%) Retail
14 5 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.74%) Automotive
15 4 (0.74%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 137 (25.46%) Developer
2 125 (23.23%) Senior
3 60 (11.15%) Lead
4 54 (10.04%) Software Engineer
5 49 (9.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 38 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
6 38 (7.06%) Data Engineer
7 36 (6.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 33 (6.13%) Architect
8 33 (6.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 32 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
10 30 (5.58%) Java Engineer
11 25 (4.65%) Python Engineer
12 23 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
12 23 (4.28%) Scala Engineer
12 23 (4.28%) Senior Developer
13 22 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
14 21 (3.90%) Java Developer
14 21 (3.90%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (17.66%) Kafka
2 81 (15.06%) React
3 65 (12.08%) RESTful
4 58 (10.78%) Spring
5 52 (9.67%) .NET
5 52 (9.67%) gRPC
5 52 (9.67%) Spring Boot
6 50 (9.29%) Node.js
7 41 (7.62%) REST
8 34 (6.32%) JWT
9 32 (5.95%) RabbitMQ
10 31 (5.76%) AngularJS
11 30 (5.58%) FastAPI
12 29 (5.39%) Elastic Stack
12 29 (5.39%) LangChain
13 25 (4.65%) OAuth
14 21 (3.90%) JSON
15 20 (3.72%) Flask
16 18 (3.35%) LangGraph
16 18 (3.35%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 126 (23.42%) Cloud Native
2 84 (15.61%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (6.69%) Over-the-Top Content
3 36 (6.69%) Video\Live Streaming
4 28 (5.20%) AI Agents
5 22 (4.09%) Blockchain
6 20 (3.72%) Product Ownership
7 18 (3.35%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.35%) Web3
8 13 (2.42%) Data Centre
9 11 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.86%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.30%) PKI
14 6 (1.12%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (1.12%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 91 (16.91%) Linux
2 26 (4.83%) Windows
3 18 (3.35%) CentOS
4 15 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (2.60%) Windows Server
6 12 (2.23%) Unix
7 10 (1.86%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.56%) VMS
8 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (59.85%) CI/CD
2 292 (54.28%) Containerisation
3 232 (43.12%) DevOps
4 217 (40.33%) Microservices
5 199 (36.99%) Software Engineering
6 182 (33.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 170 (31.60%) Agile
8 146 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
9 145 (26.95%) AI
10 106 (19.70%) Full-Stack Development
10 106 (19.70%) Mentoring
11 85 (15.80%) Machine Learning
11 85 (15.80%) Observability
12 83 (15.43%) Clean Code
13 71 (13.20%) Event-Driven
14 70 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
15 66 (12.27%) Continuous Delivery
15 66 (12.27%) Platform Engineering
16 64 (11.90%) Test Automation
17 63 (11.71%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 289 (53.72%) Python
2 122 (22.68%) Java
3 109 (20.26%) SQL
4 84 (15.61%) Go
5 82 (15.24%) JavaScript
6 74 (13.75%) Bash
7 73 (13.57%) C#
8 64 (11.90%) TypeScript
9 42 (7.81%) Scala
10 29 (5.39%) PowerShell
11 16 (2.97%) Ruby
12 14 (2.60%) C++
13 12 (2.23%) Bicep
14 11 (2.04%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.30%) Rust
15 7 (1.30%) VBA
16 6 (1.12%) Google Apps Script
16 6 (1.12%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.56%) Groovy
17 3 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 47 (8.74%) Degree
3 44 (8.18%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.72%) AWS Certification
5 20 (3.72%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.49%) CISSP
8 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.12%) RHCE
10 5 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.93%) GIAC
10 5 (0.93%) ISACA
10 5 (0.93%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.93%) RHCSA
10 5 (0.93%) SANS
11 4 (0.74%) OSCP
11 4 (0.74%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.51%) QA
2 32 (5.95%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.60%) GDPR
4 11 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.86%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.67%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.12%) WCAG
8 5 (0.93%) NIST
9 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.37%) NCSC
10 2 (0.37%) PSD2
10 2 (0.37%) SEPA
11 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (3.35%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.12%) KVM
3 6 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.74%) Squid
4 4 (0.74%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.74%) vSphere
5 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 366 (68.03%) Kubernetes
2 196 (36.43%) Terraform
3 79 (14.68%) Prometheus
4 78 (14.50%) Ansible
5 70 (13.01%) Grafana
6 27 (5.02%) Argo
7 12 (2.23%) Istio
7 12 (2.23%) Nagios
8 10 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.67%) Packer
9 9 (1.67%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.67%) Puppet
10 7 (1.30%) Kibana
10 7 (1.30%) Podman
11 6 (1.12%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.93%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.56%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.56%) linkerd
Vendors
1 78 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 58 (10.78%) Google
3 36 (6.69%) Typelevel
4 25 (4.65%) Splunk
5 17 (3.16%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.79%) Databricks
6 15 (2.79%) OpenAI
7 14 (2.60%) VMware
8 11 (2.04%) Oracle
9 9 (1.67%) Confluent
10 8 (1.49%) Rapid7
11 6 (1.12%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.93%) Apple
12 5 (0.93%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.93%) Okta
13 4 (0.74%) New Relic
14 3 (0.56%) AppDynamics
14 3 (0.56%) Foundry
14 3 (0.56%) Mapbox
14 3 (0.56%) ServiceNow