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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 35 35
Rank change year-on-year -41 0 -10
Permanent jobs citing Docker 473 990 1,158
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.38% 6.42% 6.32%
As % of the System Software category 38.58% 46.07% 41.65%
Number of salaries quoted 307 551 987
10th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,125 £73,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% +18.75% -3.03%
75th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £131,250 £138,750 £116,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 1,226 2,149 2,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.76% 13.94% 15.17%
Number of salaries quoted 878 1,378 2,276
10th Percentile £31,675 £36,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,795 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £117,500 £109,375
England median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 -22 49 £80,000 -5.88% 87
South London -16 20 £62,600 +0.16% 28
West London -15 7 £82,500 +22.22% 26
East London -9 4 - - 31
North London -2 1 - - 1
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 30 (6.34%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.38%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.38%) Confluence
3 14 (2.96%) Apache
4 13 (2.75%) Appian
5 8 (1.69%) IIS
6 6 (1.27%) Tomcat
7 5 (1.06%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (1.06%) nginx
8 4 (0.85%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.63%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.42%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.21%) Camunda
11 1 (0.21%) CMS
11 1 (0.21%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.21%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.90%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.42%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.48%) Shopify
2 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.21%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 282 (59.62%) AWS
2 225 (47.57%) Azure
3 139 (29.39%) GCP
4 88 (18.60%) GitHub
5 69 (14.59%) Serverless
6 62 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
7 54 (11.42%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (8.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (7.19%) Amazon S3
10 33 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
10 33 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
11 31 (6.55%) Datadog
12 29 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (5.92%) Amazon EC2
14 26 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (3.81%) Azure AI
16 17 (3.59%) Cloud Run
16 17 (3.59%) SaaS
17 15 (3.17%) Azure AKS
17 15 (3.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.92%) Broadband
2 16 (3.38%) Firewall
3 12 (2.54%) VPN
4 10 (2.11%) DNS
5 8 (1.69%) Network Security
5 8 (1.69%) WAN
6 7 (1.48%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.85%) AMQP
7 4 (0.85%) VLAN
7 4 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.42%) MQTT
9 2 (0.42%) NAS
9 2 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.42%) RTMP
9 2 (0.42%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.42%) SSL
9 2 (0.42%) VSAN
9 2 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (18.82%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (11.84%) NoSQL
3 49 (10.36%) SQL Server
4 47 (9.94%) Relational Database
5 41 (8.67%) MongoDB
6 33 (6.98%) MySQL
7 26 (5.50%) RDBMS
8 21 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (4.23%) BigQuery
9 20 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (4.02%) Pinecone
11 18 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (2.75%) DB2
12 13 (2.75%) Redis
13 12 (2.54%) Data Lake
14 10 (2.11%) DynamoDB
15 9 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (1.90%) Power BI
16 6 (1.27%) Big Data
17 5 (1.06%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 116 (24.52%) Jenkins
2 67 (14.16%) Git
3 41 (8.67%) GitLab
4 32 (6.77%) TeamCity
5 28 (5.92%) JIRA
6 27 (5.71%) Bitbucket
7 26 (5.50%) MLflow
8 21 (4.44%) JMeter
9 19 (4.02%) Selenium
10 16 (3.38%) JUnit
11 15 (3.17%) Cucumber
12 14 (2.96%) Mockito
13 12 (2.54%) Jaeger
14 11 (2.33%) CircleCI
14 11 (2.33%) Vite
15 9 (1.90%) Cypress.io
16 6 (1.27%) Storybook
17 5 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
17 5 (1.06%) Postman
17 5 (1.06%) webpack
General
1 137 (28.96%) Social Skills
2 112 (23.68%) Finance
3 36 (7.61%) Banking
3 36 (7.61%) Public Sector
3 36 (7.61%) Telecoms
4 32 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.23%) Marketing
7 18 (3.81%) Law
8 14 (2.96%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.54%) Financial Institution
9 12 (2.54%) Front Office
9 12 (2.54%) Retail
10 10 (2.11%) Electronics
11 8 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.06%) Advertising
12 5 (1.06%) Legal
13 4 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (26.22%) Developer
2 97 (20.51%) Senior
3 66 (13.95%) Lead
4 51 (10.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 50 (10.57%) Software Engineer
6 38 (8.03%) Full-Stack Developer
7 37 (7.82%) Java Developer
8 31 (6.55%) Data Engineer
9 30 (6.34%) Cloud Engineer
10 26 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
10 26 (5.50%) Python Developer
11 25 (5.29%) Architect
12 24 (5.07%) Senior Developer
13 20 (4.23%) Java Engineer
14 19 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 19 (4.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 18 (3.81%) Lead Developer
16 17 (3.59%) Support Engineer
17 16 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 15 (3.17%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (17.76%) React
2 80 (16.91%) Kafka
3 75 (15.86%) REST
4 66 (13.95%) RESTful
5 57 (12.05%) Spring
6 53 (11.21%) Spring Boot
7 50 (10.57%) Node.js
8 45 (9.51%) .NET
8 45 (9.51%) HTML
9 44 (9.30%) Elastic Stack
10 42 (8.88%) FastAPI
11 36 (7.61%) Django
11 36 (7.61%) PyTorch
12 31 (6.55%) CSS
12 31 (6.55%) TensorFlow
13 30 (6.34%) Pandas
13 30 (6.34%) Web Services
14 29 (6.13%) scikit-learn
15 28 (5.92%) Akka
15 28 (5.92%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 87 (18.39%) Cloud Native
2 61 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (5.92%) AI Agents
4 18 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (3.38%) Algorithms
5 16 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (3.38%) Over-the-Top Content
5 16 (3.38%) Video\Live Streaming
6 15 (3.17%) Product Ownership
7 14 (2.96%) Low-Code
8 10 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.11%) Mobile App
8 10 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.48%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.27%) Blockchain
13 5 (1.06%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.06%) Web3
14 4 (0.85%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 89 (18.82%) Linux
2 41 (8.67%) Windows
3 28 (5.92%) Unix
4 19 (4.02%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.59%) Android
6 8 (1.69%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.48%) VMS
7 7 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.63%) SUSE
10 3 (0.63%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.21%) AIX
11 1 (0.21%) CentOS
11 1 (0.21%) Debian
11 1 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (66.81%) CI/CD
2 242 (51.16%) Containerisation
3 227 (47.99%) DevOps
4 178 (37.63%) Agile
5 168 (35.52%) Microservices
6 146 (30.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 142 (30.02%) AI
8 126 (26.64%) Software Engineering
9 102 (21.56%) Problem-Solving
10 96 (20.30%) Machine Learning
11 87 (18.39%) Test Automation
12 84 (17.76%) Full-Stack Development
13 79 (16.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 74 (15.64%) Mentoring
15 71 (15.01%) Analytics
16 70 (14.80%) Observability
17 60 (12.68%) High Availability
18 59 (12.47%) LLM
19 56 (11.84%) Data Pipeline
20 55 (11.63%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 266 (56.24%) Python
2 133 (28.12%) Java
3 121 (25.58%) SQL
4 99 (20.93%) JavaScript
5 69 (14.59%) Bash
6 58 (12.26%) TypeScript
7 55 (11.63%) C#
8 47 (9.94%) Go
9 37 (7.82%) PowerShell
10 21 (4.44%) Scala
10 21 (4.44%) Shell Script
11 19 (4.02%) PHP
12 14 (2.96%) Rust
13 13 (2.75%) Bicep
13 13 (2.75%) C++
14 6 (1.27%) C
15 5 (1.06%) R
16 4 (0.85%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 68 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 63 (13.32%) Degree
3 42 (8.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 34 (7.19%) AWS Certification
5 32 (6.77%) SC Cleared
6 24 (5.07%) DV Cleared
7 16 (3.38%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.33%) Master's Degree
9 10 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.06%) MCP
12 4 (0.85%) PhD
13 3 (0.63%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.42%) CCNP
14 2 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.92%) QA
2 24 (5.07%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.07%) GDPR
3 19 (4.02%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.85%) SLA
7 4 (0.85%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.63%) SEPA
9 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.42%) NIST
9 2 (0.42%) PSD2
10 1 (0.21%) Basel III
10 1 (0.21%) MiFID
10 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.42%) NFS
5 2 (0.42%) vSphere
6 1 (0.21%) iptables
6 1 (0.21%) KVM
Systems Management
1 364 (76.96%) Kubernetes
2 185 (39.11%) Terraform
3 74 (15.64%) Prometheus
4 73 (15.43%) Ansible
5 48 (10.15%) Grafana
6 33 (6.98%) Argo
7 14 (2.96%) Kibana
8 10 (2.11%) Kustomize
9 6 (1.27%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.27%) Puppet
10 4 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.63%) Istio
11 3 (0.63%) linkerd
11 3 (0.63%) Mesos
11 3 (0.63%) Rancher
12 2 (0.42%) AWS Copilot
12 2 (0.42%) logstash
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.21%) Nagios
13 1 (0.21%) Podman
Vendors
1 57 (12.05%) Microsoft
2 54 (11.42%) Google
3 31 (6.55%) Splunk
4 28 (5.92%) OpenAI
5 27 (5.71%) Databricks
6 20 (4.23%) Atlassian
7 17 (3.59%) Dynatrace
7 17 (3.59%) Oracle
7 17 (3.59%) VMware
8 15 (3.17%) SAP
9 14 (2.96%) Palo Alto
10 12 (2.54%) Red Hat
11 10 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (2.11%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.90%) Automation Anywhere
12 9 (1.90%) Foundry
12 9 (1.90%) UiPath
13 7 (1.48%) IBM
14 5 (1.06%) Ericsson
14 5 (1.06%) Nokia