Docker Job Trends in Merton

Docker
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merton requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +36
Permanent jobs citing Docker 6 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Merton 6.90% 4.88% 9.76%
As % of the System Software category 100.00% 40.00% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £81,250 £81,125 £53,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £84,688 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £93,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £102,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £105,375 -
South London median annual salary £76,250 £62,500 £81,500
% change year-on-year +22.00% -23.31% -1.21%

All System Software Skills
Merton

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 Merton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 6 5 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 6.90% 12.20% 24.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 9
10th Percentile £81,250 £41,500 £37,300
25th Percentile £85,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +75.93% -1.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £105,000 £86,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £99,000 £71,500
South London median annual salary £55,200 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.00% +21.95%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Docker job vacancy trend in Merton

Docker
Salary Trend in Merton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in Merton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in Merton over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in Merton

Docker
Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Merton region over the 6 months to 8 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
Wimbledon 0 2 £95,000 +1.33%
Docker
South London

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merton 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 2 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (66.67%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Scala Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Scala Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Kafka Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Scala Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Akka
2 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) RxJava
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Over-the-Top Content
1 4 (66.67%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (66.67%) Analytics
3 4 (66.67%) Data Analytics
3 4 (66.67%) Kanban
3 4 (66.67%) Open Source
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) BDD
4 2 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (33.33%) Fintech
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Scala
2 2 (33.33%) Java
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes