Docker Job Trends in Manchester

Docker
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 27 78
Rank change year-on-year -46 +51 -59
Permanent jobs citing Docker 154 189 113
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.00% 8.07% 2.93%
As % of the System Software category 43.50% 66.32% 41.39%
Number of salaries quoted 104 67 62
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,188 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £73,733
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £87,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%

All System Software Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 354 285 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.60% 12.17% 7.08%
Number of salaries quoted 253 158 144
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,125 £34,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% +15.00% -16.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,500 £80,375 £77,500
North West median annual salary £47,500 £53,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.63% +13.16% -13.64%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Manchester

Docker
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in Manchester

Docker
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Altrincham +4 9 £65,000 - 2
Stockport +2 8 £70,000 - 3
Wigan -5 1 - -
Docker
North West

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.95%) CMS
2 3 (1.95%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.95%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 88 (57.14%) AWS
2 48 (31.17%) Azure
3 35 (22.73%) GitHub
4 26 (16.88%) GCP
5 17 (11.04%) Serverless
6 14 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (7.14%) OpenShift
8 8 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (4.55%) dbt
9 7 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.60%) Google Compute Engine
11 4 (2.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.95%) Datadog
12 3 (1.95%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.95%) PaaS
12 3 (1.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) AMQP
1 1 (0.65%) DHCP
1 1 (0.65%) DNS
1 1 (0.65%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.04%) MongoDB
2 11 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 10 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.55%) BigQuery
5 5 (3.25%) Chroma
5 5 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.25%) Pinecone
5 5 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.60%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.95%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.30%) Redis
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.65%) MySQL
9 1 (0.65%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 46 (29.87%) Git
2 42 (27.27%) GitLab
3 35 (22.73%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.44%) JUnit
4 13 (8.44%) Spock
5 7 (4.55%) Maven
6 6 (3.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (3.25%) Cypress.io
7 5 (3.25%) JIRA
8 4 (2.60%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.60%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.60%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.60%) Vagrant
8 4 (2.60%) Vite
9 3 (1.95%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.95%) Postman
9 3 (1.95%) Selenium
9 3 (1.95%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.30%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.30%) Mocha
General
1 30 (19.48%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.29%) Finance
3 8 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.19%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 5 (3.25%) Retail
6 4 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.65%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 52 (33.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 48 (31.17%) Senior
3 29 (18.83%) Software Engineer
4 27 (17.53%) Developer
5 20 (12.99%) Principal Engineer
6 17 (11.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 15 (9.74%) Lead
8 14 (9.09%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 14 (9.09%) Senior Developer
9 13 (8.44%) Java Developer
10 12 (7.79%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (6.49%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (5.84%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (5.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 8 (5.19%) Lead DevOps
13 8 (5.19%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 7 (4.55%) Data Engineer
14 7 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
14 7 (4.55%) Python Engineer
14 7 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (56.49%) Terraform
2 58 (37.66%) Spring
3 42 (27.27%) React
3 42 (27.27%) Spring Boot
4 26 (16.88%) AngularJS
5 16 (10.39%) Node.js
6 13 (8.44%) .NET
6 13 (8.44%) FastAPI
7 12 (7.79%) REST
8 11 (7.14%) LangChain
8 11 (7.14%) Next.js
8 11 (7.14%) Vue
9 9 (5.84%) Kafka
9 9 (5.84%) RESTful
10 7 (4.55%) CrewAI
10 7 (4.55%) LangGraph
11 6 (3.90%) React Native
11 6 (3.90%) Ruby on Rails
12 5 (3.25%) Express.js
12 5 (3.25%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 38 (24.68%) Cloud Native
2 22 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.44%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.25%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.95%) Replication
5 3 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.95%) Social Media
6 2 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.30%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.65%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (16.23%) Linux
2 11 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.90%) CentOS
4 4 (2.60%) VMS
5 2 (1.30%) Unix
6 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.65%) Windows
6 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (88.31%) CI/CD
2 108 (70.13%) DevOps
3 79 (51.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (44.16%) Agile
5 63 (40.91%) Containerisation
6 59 (38.31%) Software Engineering
7 53 (34.42%) Microservices
8 52 (33.77%) AI
9 39 (25.32%) Mentoring
10 38 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (22.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (22.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 32 (20.78%) Test Automation
13 30 (19.48%) Observability
14 28 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
14 28 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (17.53%) Scrum
16 20 (12.99%) Collaborative Culture
16 20 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
17 19 (12.34%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 83 (53.90%) Python
2 75 (48.70%) Java
3 42 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 35 (22.73%) JavaScript
5 25 (16.23%) Bash
6 18 (11.69%) SQL
7 14 (9.09%) C#
8 11 (7.14%) Go
9 10 (6.49%) PowerShell
10 8 (5.19%) Groovy
11 6 (3.90%) Ruby
12 5 (3.25%) Kotlin
13 4 (2.60%) Rust
14 3 (1.95%) Bicep
14 3 (1.95%) C++
14 3 (1.95%) Scala
15 1 (0.65%) C
15 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.65%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 63 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 40 (25.97%) DV Cleared
3 25 (16.23%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.25%) Degree
5 4 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.55%) QA
2 3 (1.95%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (1.95%) Ceph
2 2 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 115 (74.68%) Kubernetes
2 54 (35.06%) Ansible
3 13 (8.44%) Prometheus
4 11 (7.14%) Grafana
5 8 (5.19%) Argo
6 7 (4.55%) Istio
6 7 (4.55%) Podman
6 7 (4.55%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.60%) linkerd
7 4 (2.60%) Packer
8 3 (1.95%) Check_MK
8 3 (1.95%) Puppet
8 3 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (14.29%) Splunk
2 13 (8.44%) AppDynamics
3 12 (7.79%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.84%) Google
5 8 (5.19%) OpenAI
6 7 (4.55%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.90%) Mistral
8 4 (2.60%) Thales
9 3 (1.95%) Dell
9 3 (1.95%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.30%) New Relic
10 2 (1.30%) YouTube
11 1 (0.65%) Databricks
11 1 (0.65%) Oracle
11 1 (0.65%) VMware