Docker Job Trends in the North East

Docker
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 63 91
Rank change year-on-year +13 +28 -47
Permanent jobs citing Docker 90 9 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 3.00% 1.00% 0.54%
As % of the System Software category 50.28% 9.38% 6.11%
Number of salaries quoted 88 5 7
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,500 £47,550
25th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,258 £66,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,203 £71,958
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +6.62% -9.33%

All System Software Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 179 96 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 5.97% 10.62% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 155 53 98
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,300 £30,625
25th Percentile £41,250 £28,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £32,000 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -22.42% -13.47%
75th Percentile £68,750 £37,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £55,750 £59,675
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.34%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Docker job vacancy trend in the North East

Docker
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in the North East over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in the North East

Docker
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the North East region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Tyne and Wear +9 85 £65,000 +8.33% 24
Durham -6 4 £46,500 -32.98% 2
Docker
England

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 14 (15.56%) Apache Spark
2 13 (14.44%) Apache
2 13 (14.44%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (14.44%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.22%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 68 (75.56%) AWS
2 39 (43.33%) Azure
3 31 (34.44%) GitHub
4 28 (31.11%) Amazon S3
5 25 (27.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 25 (27.78%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (21.11%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (21.11%) Serverless
7 17 (18.89%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (17.78%) Amazon ECR
9 14 (15.56%) GitHub Copilot
10 13 (14.44%) Amazon EMR
11 11 (12.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (12.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (10.00%) GCP
13 9 (10.00%) Textract
14 8 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (4.44%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (1.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.11%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (18.89%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (18.89%) DynamoDB
3 14 (15.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (14.44%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (12.22%) MongoDB
6 9 (10.00%) SQL Server
7 7 (7.78%) GIS
8 6 (6.67%) Relational Database
9 5 (5.56%) Redis
10 3 (3.33%) Big Data
10 3 (3.33%) Data Lake
10 3 (3.33%) DocumentDB
10 3 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (2.22%) MySQL
11 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
12 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
12 1 (1.11%) Flink
Development Applications
1 28 (31.11%) Git
2 27 (30.00%) GitLab
3 13 (14.44%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (6.67%) SonarQube
4 6 (6.67%) TeamCity
5 4 (4.44%) JIRA
6 3 (3.33%) Artifactory
6 3 (3.33%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.33%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.22%) JMeter
8 1 (1.11%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.11%) Gatling
8 1 (1.11%) Locust
8 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
General
1 22 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 17 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (10.00%) Finance
6 7 (7.78%) Aerospace
7 6 (6.67%) Law
8 5 (5.56%) Manufacturing
9 4 (4.44%) Tech for Good
10 3 (3.33%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.11%) Games
11 1 (1.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (32.22%) Developer
2 14 (15.56%) .NET Developer
2 14 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (15.56%) Senior
3 9 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 9 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 8 (8.89%) Python Developer
5 7 (7.78%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (7.78%) Infrastructure Manager
5 7 (7.78%) Lead
5 7 (7.78%) Senior .NET Developer
6 6 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.56%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (30.00%) .NET
2 16 (17.78%) CSS
3 15 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 15 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
3 15 (16.67%) React
4 14 (15.56%) .NET Core
4 14 (15.56%) Node.js
5 12 (13.33%) Flask
5 12 (13.33%) PySpark
6 11 (12.22%) AngularJS
6 11 (12.22%) HTML
6 11 (12.22%) REST
7 9 (10.00%) Vue
8 7 (7.78%) Ajax
8 7 (7.78%) Jinja
8 7 (7.78%) jQuery
8 7 (7.78%) OpenLayers
8 7 (7.78%) SQLAlchemy
8 7 (7.78%) SubSonic
9 5 (5.56%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 27 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.22%) Renewable Energy
3 9 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 9 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (7.78%) Algorithms
5 6 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (4.44%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.22%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.22%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.33%) Linux
2 6 (6.67%) CentOS
2 6 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.44%) Windows
4 3 (3.33%) Debian
4 3 (3.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (68.89%) CI/CD
2 49 (54.44%) DevOps
3 43 (47.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (42.22%) Agile
5 37 (41.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 32 (35.56%) Containerisation
7 27 (30.00%) Microservices
8 23 (25.56%) Test Automation
9 20 (22.22%) Data Modelling
10 18 (20.00%) Mentoring
11 17 (18.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (18.89%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (16.67%) Coaching
13 14 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (15.56%) Data Engineering
13 14 (15.56%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (15.56%) Validation
14 13 (14.44%) Analytics
14 13 (14.44%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (45.56%) Python
2 32 (35.56%) SQL
3 29 (32.22%) TypeScript
4 23 (25.56%) C#
5 15 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 13 (14.44%) Bash
6 13 (14.44%) Java
7 6 (6.67%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.11%) C
Qualifications
1 23 (25.56%) Security Cleared
2 22 (24.44%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.78%) Degree
4 6 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.11%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.33%) QA
2 10 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.44%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.22%) WCAG
5 1 (1.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (3.33%) iptables
1 3 (3.33%) vSphere
2 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (57.78%) Kubernetes
2 42 (46.67%) Terraform
3 21 (23.33%) Ansible
4 12 (13.33%) Puppet
5 5 (5.56%) Grafana
6 3 (3.33%) Control-M
6 3 (3.33%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.11%) Fluentd
8 1 (1.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.44%) Dynatrace
2 4 (4.44%) VMware
3 3 (3.33%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.33%) Confluent
4 1 (1.11%) Databricks