Docker Job Trends in the North of England

Docker
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 24 88
Rank change year-on-year -99 +64 -33
Permanent jobs citing Docker 242 632 443
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.39% 9.11% 2.68%
As % of the System Software category 29.40% 58.25% 22.31%
Number of salaries quoted 157 204 367
10th Percentile £47,000 £47,725 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,688 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year - +18.45% -5.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,778 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,275 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,542 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.98% +10.71% -6.67%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 823 1,085 1,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.72% 15.64% 12.03%
Number of salaries quoted 623 591 1,705
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -9.57%
75th Percentile £60,750 £70,000 £57,854
90th Percentile £78,790 £93,778 £71,250
England median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% -9.09%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Docker job vacancy trend in the North of England

Docker
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Yorkshire -25 129 £75,000 +3.45% 34
North West -114 94 £70,000 -6.67% 60
North East -26 19 £70,000 +7.69% 20
Docker
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (3.72%) OpenStack
2 8 (3.31%) nginx
3 5 (2.07%) Drupal
3 5 (2.07%) WordPress
4 4 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.24%) JBoss
6 2 (0.83%) Apache
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 204 (84.30%) AWS
2 124 (51.24%) Serverless
3 87 (35.95%) Amazon S3
4 83 (34.30%) Amazon ECS
4 83 (34.30%) AWS CloudFormation
5 82 (33.88%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (33.47%) Azure
7 72 (29.75%) AWS Step Functions
8 62 (25.62%) GitHub
9 47 (19.42%) Amazon SQS
10 44 (18.18%) Amazon ECR
11 39 (16.12%) Apigee
12 36 (14.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (14.88%) GCP
13 33 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (10.33%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (8.68%) Datadog
16 20 (8.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 19 (7.85%) Amazon EventBridge
18 16 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.48%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.24%) Firewall
3 1 (0.41%) DHCP
3 1 (0.41%) DNS
3 1 (0.41%) LTE
3 1 (0.41%) Network Security
3 1 (0.41%) SAN
3 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.41%) VLAN
3 1 (0.41%) VPN
3 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (30.99%) DynamoDB
2 54 (22.31%) NoSQL
3 47 (19.42%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (11.57%) SQL Server
5 17 (7.02%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (7.02%) MongoDB
6 14 (5.79%) Relational Database
7 11 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (3.31%) MySQL
10 7 (2.89%) Redis
11 5 (2.07%) MariaDB
12 4 (1.65%) Neo4j
13 3 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.24%) Big Data
14 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.83%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.83%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 68 (28.10%) Jenkins
2 55 (22.73%) Git
3 50 (20.66%) GitLab
4 42 (17.36%) SonarQube
5 40 (16.53%) Cypress.io
6 39 (16.12%) Maven
7 10 (4.13%) Cucumber
8 8 (3.31%) JIRA
9 5 (2.07%) Selenium
10 4 (1.65%) JMeter
11 3 (1.24%) JUnit
11 3 (1.24%) Locust
12 2 (0.83%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.83%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.41%) Gatling
13 1 (0.41%) IntelliJ
13 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.41%) PHPUnit
13 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
General
1 54 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 15 (6.20%) Public Sector
3 10 (4.13%) Finance
4 9 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.89%) Retail
6 5 (2.07%) Games
6 5 (2.07%) Local Government
6 5 (2.07%) Police
7 3 (1.24%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.83%) Legal
8 2 (0.83%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 122 (50.41%) Developer
2 64 (26.45%) Java Developer
3 62 (25.62%) Senior
4 41 (16.94%) Lead
5 37 (15.29%) Software Engineer
6 24 (9.92%) AWS Developer
7 22 (9.09%) .NET Developer
7 22 (9.09%) Senior Developer
8 20 (8.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (6.61%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (5.79%) Python Developer
10 14 (5.79%) Senior Java Developer
11 12 (4.96%) Python Engineer
12 10 (4.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 9 (3.72%) Lead Developer
13 9 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (2.89%) Lead DevOps
14 7 (2.89%) Software Developer
14 7 (2.89%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (30.99%) Spring Boot
2 65 (26.86%) AngularJS
3 60 (24.79%) React
4 48 (19.83%) Spring
5 43 (17.77%) .NET
5 43 (17.77%) Gherkin
6 41 (16.94%) Node.js
7 40 (16.53%) Jest
8 30 (12.40%) Django
9 28 (11.57%) .NET Core
9 28 (11.57%) RESTful
10 26 (10.74%) Flask
11 25 (10.33%) FastAPI
12 24 (9.92%) CSS
12 24 (9.92%) HTML
13 22 (9.09%) Vue
14 20 (8.26%) REST
15 17 (7.02%) Elastic Stack
16 16 (6.61%) ASP.NET
17 15 (6.20%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.31%) Cloud Native
2 38 (15.70%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.96%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.31%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.89%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.24%) Life Science
8 3 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.24%) PKI
8 3 (1.24%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.83%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.83%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.83%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.41%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.41%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.44%) Linux
2 8 (3.31%) Unix
3 6 (2.48%) Windows
4 4 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.24%) Solaris
6 2 (0.83%) VMS
7 1 (0.41%) CentOS
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (80.99%) CI/CD
2 157 (64.88%) DevOps
3 123 (50.83%) Agile
4 92 (38.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (36.78%) Containerisation
6 70 (28.93%) Microservices
7 66 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (21.07%) Software Engineering
9 49 (20.25%) TDD
10 48 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (19.01%) Mentoring
12 42 (17.36%) Clean Code
13 40 (16.53%) Observability
14 39 (16.12%) Full-Stack Development
15 32 (13.22%) Event-Driven
16 31 (12.81%) SDLC
16 31 (12.81%) Secure Coding
17 27 (11.16%) Platform Engineering
18 26 (10.74%) Scrum
19 25 (10.33%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 103 (42.56%) Java
2 82 (33.88%) Python
3 76 (31.40%) SQL
4 75 (30.99%) TypeScript
5 54 (22.31%) JavaScript
6 52 (21.49%) Bash
7 39 (16.12%) Groovy
8 29 (11.98%) C#
9 20 (8.26%) Kotlin
10 11 (4.55%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.89%) PHP
12 5 (2.07%) C
13 4 (1.65%) Bicep
14 2 (0.83%) Delphi
14 2 (0.83%) Perl
14 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.41%) Go
15 1 (0.41%) R
15 1 (0.41%) Scala
15 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 47 (19.42%) AWS Certification
2 32 (13.22%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 22 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
3 22 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 20 (8.26%) AWS Certified Developer
5 8 (3.31%) Degree
6 7 (2.89%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.07%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.83%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.20%) QA
2 8 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 5 (2.07%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.65%) WCAG
5 3 (1.24%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.07%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.07%) vSphere
3 4 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.65%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.41%) Firmware
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 105 (43.39%) Kubernetes
1 105 (43.39%) Terraform
2 39 (16.12%) HP Fortify
3 26 (10.74%) Ansible
4 22 (9.09%) Grafana
5 13 (5.37%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.24%) Argo
6 3 (1.24%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (1.24%) Packer
6 3 (1.24%) Podman
7 2 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.83%) Kibana
7 2 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.41%) Control-M
8 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.41%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (5.37%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.72%) VMware
3 7 (2.89%) Google
4 5 (2.07%) HubSpot
5 4 (1.65%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.24%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.24%) IBM
6 3 (1.24%) Mirantis
6 3 (1.24%) Oracle
7 2 (0.83%) Pega
7 2 (0.83%) WSO2
8 1 (0.41%) Adobe
8 1 (0.41%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.41%) Fortinet