Docker Job Trends in the Midlands

Docker
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 103 96
Rank change year-on-year -59 -7 -19
Permanent jobs citing Docker 62 155 226
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.73% 2.58% 2.71%
As % of the System Software category 15.50% 23.45% 19.47%
Number of salaries quoted 45 92 197
10th Percentile £48,600 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,400 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £71,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £81,125 £86,485
England median annual salary £71,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.39% +10.71% -6.67%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 400 661 1,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.70% 11.00% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 314 367 1,009
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,925 £32,500 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £57,000 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,200 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +16.00% -9.09%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Docker job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Docker
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in the Midlands

Docker
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
West Midlands -23 42 £66,500 -4.05% 36
East Midlands -58 19 £63,250 +5.42% 21
Docker
England

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (9.68%) IIS
1 6 (9.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (6.45%) CMS
2 4 (6.45%) nginx
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.61%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (6.45%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (62.90%) AWS
2 26 (41.94%) Azure
3 12 (19.35%) GitHub
4 10 (16.13%) GCP
5 9 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (12.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (11.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (11.29%) NuGet
7 7 (11.29%) SonarCloud
8 6 (9.68%) npm
9 5 (8.06%) OpenShift
9 5 (8.06%) Serverless
10 4 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (6.45%) Amazon S3
10 4 (6.45%) PaaS
11 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (4.84%) dbt
11 3 (4.84%) Pulumi
11 3 (4.84%) SaaS
11 3 (4.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.61%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) NoSQL
1 9 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (11.29%) SQL Server
3 6 (9.68%) MySQL
4 5 (8.06%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (8.06%) Relational Database
5 4 (6.45%) Oracle Database
5 4 (6.45%) Redis
6 3 (4.84%) Delta Lake
6 3 (4.84%) TimescaleDB
7 2 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.61%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.61%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.61%) Looker
8 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.61%) Pentaho
8 1 (1.61%) Power BI
8 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (30.65%) Git
2 13 (20.97%) JUnit
3 12 (19.35%) Jenkins
4 10 (16.13%) Mockito
5 8 (12.90%) GitLab
5 8 (12.90%) Maven
6 5 (8.06%) Cucumber
7 4 (6.45%) Vite
8 3 (4.84%) Selenium
9 2 (3.23%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.61%) Jaeger
10 1 (1.61%) JIRA
10 1 (1.61%) JMeter
10 1 (1.61%) Locust
10 1 (1.61%) MLflow
10 1 (1.61%) Snyk
10 1 (1.61%) SpecFlow
10 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Finance
3 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.84%) Advertising
4 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.84%) Banking
4 3 (4.84%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.23%) Automotive
5 2 (3.23%) Retail
6 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (35.48%) Senior
2 17 (27.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (24.19%) Developer
4 10 (16.13%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (16.13%) Java Developer
4 10 (16.13%) Lead
5 9 (14.52%) Senior DevOps
5 9 (14.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 8 (12.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 8 (12.90%) Senior Developer
7 6 (9.68%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (9.68%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (8.06%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Lead DevOps
8 5 (8.06%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Product Owner
9 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Support
9 4 (6.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.81%) React
2 12 (19.35%) REST
3 10 (16.13%) Node.js
3 10 (16.13%) Spring
3 10 (16.13%) YAML
4 9 (14.52%) .NET
5 6 (9.68%) Django
6 5 (8.06%) CSS
6 5 (8.06%) HTML
6 5 (8.06%) Spring Boot
6 5 (8.06%) Vue
7 4 (6.45%) .NET Framework
7 4 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (6.45%) Flask
7 4 (6.45%) Laravel
7 4 (6.45%) LEMP Stack
7 4 (6.45%) Tailwind CSS
8 3 (4.84%) .NET Core
8 3 (4.84%) GraphQL
8 3 (4.84%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Product Ownership
2 7 (11.29%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.45%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.61%) Derivative
6 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.61%) PKI
6 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (46.77%) Linux
2 10 (16.13%) Windows
3 3 (4.84%) Unix
4 1 (1.61%) Android
4 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (70.97%) DevOps
2 39 (62.90%) CI/CD
3 31 (50.00%) Agile
4 24 (38.71%) Containerisation
4 24 (38.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (37.10%) Microservices
5 23 (37.10%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (22.58%) Test Automation
7 13 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (20.97%) TDD
8 12 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (17.74%) Decision-Making
9 11 (17.74%) Mentoring
9 11 (17.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (16.13%) Sprint Planning
11 9 (14.52%) High Availability
11 9 (14.52%) Product Backlog
11 9 (14.52%) Scrum
11 9 (14.52%) SDLC
12 8 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 26 (41.94%) Python
2 22 (35.48%) Bash
2 22 (35.48%) Java
3 17 (27.42%) JavaScript
3 17 (27.42%) SQL
4 9 (14.52%) TypeScript
5 8 (12.90%) PL/SQL
5 8 (12.90%) PowerShell
6 7 (11.29%) C#
6 7 (11.29%) Go
7 6 (9.68%) C
8 4 (6.45%) PHP
8 4 (6.45%) R
9 3 (4.84%) C++
9 3 (4.84%) Delphi
10 1 (1.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (33.87%) Security Cleared
2 17 (27.42%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.06%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.45%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.23%) Degree
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.61%) CISSP
7 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.13%) QA
2 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.61%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 51 (82.26%) Kubernetes
2 23 (37.10%) Terraform
3 10 (16.13%) Ansible
4 5 (8.06%) Grafana
5 3 (4.84%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.23%) Argo
6 2 (3.23%) Nagios
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (1.61%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 16 (25.81%) Oracle
2 6 (9.68%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (6.45%) Google
4 3 (4.84%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.23%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.61%) Denodo
6 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.61%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.61%) Talend